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Monthly Archives: April 2007

Talkin’ ‘Bout My Demographic

Microsoft has an ad tool for discovering demographics around a keyword search query. Interesting.
Here

California Migration (LA Times)

Cool (Flash) map of Californians coming and going from the LA Times.
Here

Database Meltdown

Apologies. Something really weird happened and I had to reinstall Wordpress. Not sure but I think that means any links from Google, and even your user passwords might have been broken. Fortunately there’s a sweet Export function, so I was able to keep our posts anyway.
I’m still working on getting things back to normal
Thanks for [...]

Impeaching Cheney First

BREAKING: Today, April 24, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) introduced three Articles of Impeachment against Dick Cheney.

George Bush [...]

another reason to keep one’s name off the ‘Net!

LSD as Therapy? Write about It, Get Barred from US
BC psychotherapist denied entry after border guard googled his work.
View full article and comments here http://thetyee.ca/News/2007/04/23/Feldmar/

By Linda Solomon
Published: April 23, 2007
TheTyee.ca
Andrew Feldmar, a well-known Vancouver psychotherapist, rolled up to the Blaine border crossing last summer as he had hundreds of times in his career. At 66, [...]

Why Aren’t There Any Millionaire’s in Russia? I thought everyone got 1000 shares of RussPetrol?!

Moscow’s suburb for billionaires
By Rupert Wingfield-Hayes
BBC News, Moscow
Most people in Britain are now familiar with the scruffy, boyish and invariably unshaven features of Roman Abramovich, owner of Chelsea football club, and Russia’s most famous billionaire.
This week we learned that Mr Abramovich is one of a growing list of hyper-rich Russians.
According to Forbes magazine Russia now [...]

Summer of Love +40 years PBS Mon. PM

Turn on, Tune in, Drop Often!
The Year of the Hippie
In the mid-1960s, young people who embraced a non-traditional lifestyle began moving into the Haight neighborhood of San Francisco. As had earlier groups like Beatniks and Hipsters, they rejected mainstream society, but their taste for rock music and wild colors was new. Some tagged this group [...]

Sinister New “internet” Perps Conspiring a New Panopticon

Federally Funded Boffins Want To Scrap The Internet
Seeking further funding from Congress for “clean slate” projects
by Steve Watson

Global Research, April 18, 2007

Infowars.net

Researchers funded by the federal government want to shut down the internet and start over, citing the fact that at the moment there are loopholes in the system whereby users cannot be [...]

A New Visual

Hey check out this map from http://tools.google.com/gapminder/
Play the Income per capita and the infirtility rate timelines.  Incredible.
Did I say I felt a tsunami coming? 
 

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