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Smart New Uses for Old Technology: SSID to Broadcast a Message
SSID_Messaging If you want to know what’s going to happen next with a technology perhaps the smartest way to predict the future is to ask your kids – or someone else’s… It’s amazing what you might learn. The other night, … Continue reading
Posted in New Uses for Old Technology
Tagged Cool, Discoveries, Exploits, Fun, GenerationD, SSID, Technology, WiFi
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Cellphones in Timbuktu
It’s easy to think of people from the underdeveloped world as quite different from ourselves. After all, there’s little to convince us otherwise. National Geographic Specials, video clips on the Nightly News, photos in every major newspaper – all depicting … Continue reading
Posted in Humanity, mobile, Pearltrees, Third World
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Pearltrees: A Great New Tool for Bloggers and Journalists
Recently, I’ve been working with a new tool that I think anyone that uses the web regularly is really going to appreciate: Pearltrees. The company – which is based in France – has been developing this tool for a few … Continue reading
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[Most] Companies Don’t Get Social Media
As someone that actively works in social media I’ve become progressively more convinced that the majority of companies don’t have a clue about social media or the importance it can play in the way a company presents itself. Granted, there … Continue reading
Rules is Rules…
Good news: It was a normal day in  Sharon  Springs, Kansas when a Union Pacific crew boarded a loaded coal train for the 234 miles trek to Salina . The Bad news: Just a few miles into the … Continue reading
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Some Dark Poetry
Vengeance is My Name I’m dark and I’m dirty, I’m hungry and alone The concrete’s hard beneath my back The cold wind chills my bones I wasn’t always like this I didn’t call this sidewalk home I had a wife … Continue reading
Verizon “Zings” Customers for $1.99 – Claims it Didn’t Mean To
The AP and Wireless Week are reporting that Verizon customers in Cleveland are complaining of being billed $1.99 by V erizon for Data Services that they didn’t use. The problem, originally received attention by the Cleveland Plains Dealer, a local … Continue reading
Posted in big brother, Blog Power, carriers, Personal, Political
Tagged at&t, Bleed the People, Corporate Greed, Fight Club, Government Failure, Kleptocracy, Rip-off, Sprint, Theft, Verizon, Zinger
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Here’s a Great List of Free Open Source Software for Mac
You may have seen this list already, but I hadn’t come across it before just now and it was good enough I thought it was worth sharing in case anyone besides me had somehow missed this before. Enjoy.
Posted in Apple, Free Stuff, Mac Software, Open Source
Tagged abiword, adium, audacity, bean, burn, colloquy, cyberduck, Firefox, formulate pro, free software, gimp, handbrake, inkscribe, ipoddisk, juice, kismac, Mac Software, mplayer, open office, open source software, q emulator, quicksilver, rssowl, scribe, seashore, solarseek, the unarchiver, thunderbird, transmission, tunnelblick, vidalia, vienna, vlc
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District 9 Opens Today: here’s a “pre” preview
Neill Blomkamp who previously directed Halo and Peter Jackson of Lord of the Rings fame are behind the massively promoted new movie District Nine which opens today nationwide. I’m assuming most readers of this blog are Sci-fi fans who plan … Continue reading
Posted in Personal, Ufology, Video
Tagged Add new tag, alien, Alive in Joberg, Blomkamp, District 9, Films, Movies, Peter Jackson, Sci-Fi, UFO
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Listening 101 Should be a Required Course for All Physicians
Recently I’ve noticed something with physicians and it has begun to bother me a lot. They don’t seem to listen to their patients anymore. Granted, it is possible that I’ve just been unlucky with the doctors I have seen recently … Continue reading
Posted in Personal
Tagged bad medicine, Doctors Dont Listen, malpractice, Medical Nightmares
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