Author: Andy Wibbels
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Steve Rubel Might Be a Deity: Turn Gmail Into Your Personal Nerve Center
Behold friends the amazingness: I have started using Gmail as much more than an email host. With its gobs of storage, speed and tremendous search/tagging capabilities, you can transform it into a personal nerve center that’s available from any computer or mobile device. When you tap into this power and combine Gmail with some other […]
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Oscar Clips Pulled from YouTube: The Academy Is Clueless
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has had all clips of the Oscars telecast pulled from YouTube: Now Variety gives us more insight into the takedown, saying that the Academy wanted “to help manage the value of our telecast and our brand.â€? So where can you view authorized Oscars clips? They want viewers […]
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Anti-RIAA Manifesto
Gadgeteers at Gizmodo are announcing a boycott of the recording industry for the month of March and have launched a manifesto for their grievances. Clippings: The goal of the RIAA’s lawsuits is to make people so afraid of being sued that they will stop downloading music. However, in their lawsuits they circumvent the law and […]
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Music Industry Waking Up to Crisis
Well that only took a decade: “We’re running out of time,” Ted Cohen, managing director of music consulting firm TAG Strategic, told the roughly 200 attendees. “We need to get money flowing from consumers and get them used to paying for music again.” As Mr. Burns would say: Excellent!
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US Honeybees Disappearing From Colonies
In 24 states throughout the country, beekeepers have gone through similar shocks as their bees have been disappearing inexplicably at an alarming rate, threatening not only their livelihoods but also the production of numerous crops, including California almonds, one of the nation’s most profitable. The sudden mysterious losses are highlighting the critical link that honeybees […]
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Baby Dies of Heart Attack, Comes Back to Life 30 Minutes Later
Yes way: A baby boy who was pronounced dead after a heart attack came back to life 30 minutes later as he lay in his grieving parents’ arms. Medical staff at Leeds General Infirmary had tried in vain to resuscitate two-week-old Woody Lander. He was handed over to parents Jon and Karen Lander so they […]
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Good Morning Nevada! Good Morning Kootenay!
Hidey-ho to all the nice folks listening to Beau and Mix 96.7 in northeast Nevada as well as fans of Wayne and Jayne on KBS in Kootenay Canada. The goods on The Secret Movie 30 Day Challenge are right here.
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No Holds Barred
(last Friday, via instant messenger) Andrea: do you know what you want at all? i mean aside from ‘easy, quick and lots of money?’ Andy: the gabrillion dollar question Andrea: mmhmm Andy: I’d love to be abel to use all this tech for social change. yadda Andrea: you know. there is something there. totally. i’d […]
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OpenCongress Helps Track US Congress Legislation
OpenCongress brings together official government information with news and blog coverage to give you the real story behind what’s happening in Congress. Small groups of political insiders and lobbyists know what’s really going on in Congress. Now, everyone can be an insider. OpenCongress is a free, open-source, non-profit, and non-partisan web resource with a mission […]
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Shocker: US College Students Self-Centered, Narcissistic Assholes
Johnny can’t read or write. But he sure does feel good about himself: Twenge and her colleagues, in findings to be presented at a workshop Tuesday in San Diego on the generation gap, examined the responses of 16,475 college students nationwide who completed an evaluation called the Narcissistic Personality Inventory between 1982 and 2006. The […]