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Showing posts with label current affairs and issues. Show all posts

Saturday, August 30, 2008

Things That Do Not Make Sense, College, Denmark, Good Tech Habits, Prayers and a Hamas Conversion

13 Things That Do Not Make Sense

Avoid the Highway to Hell With SafeRoadMaps.org
from Wired Blog Network

For Most People, College Is a Waste of Time
from WSJ

There's Something About Denmark
from BusinessWeek Two recent studies found Danes to be the world's happiest people. The new reputation along with media attention have led to a national discussion

Tallest Skyscraper in the World Almost Completed, Defies Belief
from GizModo

42 Essential Flickr Abandonments Groups Dedicated to Abandoned Places, Properties and Buildings
WebUrbanist

20 Tech Habits to Improve Your Life
PC World A few new habits can make the difference between staying on task, finding what you need, and getting things done--or having a tech meltdown.

Ten Prayers God Says Yes To
"Ten Prayers God Always Says Yes To" is the result of author Anthony DeStefano's journey through scripture to find those prayers that God always answers, and promises to always say yes to. Not sometimes. Not maybe. But all of the time.

Mosab Hassan Yousef, son of Hamas leader, becomes a Christian
from Telegraph.co.uk
The son of one of the most revered leaders of the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas has renounced his religion to move to America and become an evangelical Christian.

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Southwest, the NT, Banking and Lending, ChristianBlog, the Olympics and Aging

Southwest's 7 secrets for success . . . The airline stays profitable by keeping things simple
from MSNBC

Scholars will piece together oldest copy of New Testament online
USAToday

Stoooopid .... why the Google generation isn’t as smart as it thinks
The digital age is destroying us by ruining our ability to concentrate
TimesOnline

How To Demolish A Skyscraper One Floor At A Time
Freshome

Banking On Demand Destruction
How can you make good news out of bad news? The answer is demand destruction.
Forbes

The Government Did It
There has been no free market in housing or finance. Government has long exercised massive control over the housing and financial markets--including its creation of Fannie Mae (nyse: FNM - news - people ) and Freddie Mac (nyse: FRE - news - people ) (which have now amassed $5 trillion in liabilities)--leading to many of the problems being blamed on the free market today.
Forbes

Killing Jobs to Save the Climate?
European emission permits are getting so pricey, German companies are threatening to leave the country. Thousands of jobs could be lost:
BusinessWeek

ChristianBlog.com
ChristianBlog.Com is devoted to providing an easy to use Christian Blog, and be a gathering place, for Christians from around the world!

Tor.Com
Tor.com: a blog, a social network, a zine -- totally clueful big publishing website
BoingBoing

NBC Bejing 2008
the Comprehensive Site

How Our Bodies Age (And What You Can Do About It)
WashingtonPost.com

Sunday, June 15, 2008

Farming, Popcorn Economics, Pork and Ning

U.S. tobacco farming is bigger than ever
from MSNBC Overseas demand offsets end of price supports, fewer domestic smokers

U.S. tobacco farming is bigger than ever
from MSNBC Overseas demand offsets end of price supports, fewer domestic smokers

Rising costs lead farmers to go high tech
from USAToday

Popcorn and Other Pricing Puzzles
BusinessWeek

Friend Connect, Open Social, Ning, and the web
BlogPmarca.com and Mark Andreessen

Friday, January 25, 2008

Boredom, Getting Stuff Done, Life, Senior, Soap and Capitalism

6 Effective Ways to Combat Boredom!
WHY is the vast majority of content which becomes “popular” on social networking platforms (like Digg, Stumble and Propeller) inherently negative, fear-inducing and purpose-less in nature?

7 Powerful Steps to Overcoming Resistance and Actually Getting Stuff Done
from ZenHabits

London's French Foreign Legion Shuns Sarkozy Plea to Come Home
from Bloomberg.com

CCM Magazine transitions to online-only format
Nashville Business Journal

Custom-Building a Life
BusinessWeek . . .Jeff Weinstein's burger joint has taken off, but he has struggled to balance life and the job. Then he hit on a work-in-progress solution.

More employers seek out seniors
MSNBC Growing list of companies see benefits of hiring people 50 and up

Steve Blank's Secret History of Silicon Valley
Now it's getting fun...
Massive fraud by a rogue trader at Societe Generale SA has led to a €4.9 billion ($7.16 billion) [loss]...
both from Mark Andreessen's blog BLOG.PHARMA.com

Why Some People Are Happier Than Others
from BeliefNet

P&G: Using the Past to Invent the Future
in BusinessWeek: In this excerpt from Roger Martin's new book, he discusses how P&G's A.G. Lafley balanced experience

from BoingBoing: Mathematics of waiting for the bus

CBS Adds On-Demand Music To Last.fm
from Forbes.com

Gates misses the point on 'creative capitalism'
from cdnet

BusinessWeek Tech: Let Us Serve You
Web services are now so cheap and plentiful you may never buy software again

Monday, November 19, 2007

More Stuff: Robbers, Coal, Joel, Prayer, Blind Beggar, Concrete and Sara Groves

The New Robber Barons
A New Era?

Female Absenteeism
More Than Just About Day Care?

Godly Men Shouldn't Be Weenies
God wants men to be courageous and fierce, says John Eldredge, author of "Wild at Heart." The bestselling book sees the men's movement through a Christian lens, urging men to overcome the stereotype of Jesus as a "bearded Mr. Rogers."

Joel Osteen Inspires Millions
Business leaders can learn a lot from the popular evangelist's uplifting style. Accentuating the hopeful empowers people to take action.

Give Clean Coal a Chance

Rustic Dish is Thrify and Satisfying
As In Bread Pudding

Make Your Home Prayer Friendly

CEO of City Hall
Captain of Chicago

When I Became a Christian
from the BlindBeggar

Incredible Feats of Concrete?!?!
Innovations in methods and ingredients have made possible lightweight bridges, color-changing buildings, and furniture created from this efficient material

Web Gets Blue Around the Collar
MyBlueCollar.com, an online extension of the popular Blue Collar Comedy brand, launches with short video contributions from Jeff Foxworthy, Bill Engvall and Larry the Cable Guy. More than 100 videos, from them and others, are expected within a few weeks.

Social Networking with the Elite
A new crop of social networks aim to keep out the riff-raff by demanding credentials at the virtual door.

Sara Groves has No 1 Christian album on iTunes
from a former teacher in Rosemount MN

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Job Perks and Future, MySpace and FaceBoork and Skype, Warming and Twine

Job perks galore for twentysomethings
from MSNBC Employers scramble to hire Gen Y talent as baby boomers head out door

Jobs For The Future
Forbes.com

MySpace Says: Skype Me
MySpace and Skype are teaming up to create the world’s largest online voice network. MySpace members will be able to make Internet phone calls using Skype’s telephony network and MySpace’s instant message program. From Forbes.com

How can you predict global warming if you can't predict rain?
Some say climate change is part of a complex natural cycle – so complex, in fact, that it can't be forecast. Are current climate models reliable? CSMonitor.com

What MySpace-Facebook Rivalry?
Talk of a brewing showdown between the two social networks masks fundamental distinctions between the sites' leadership, culture, and ability to make a buck . . . from BusinessWeek

Twine Launches A Smarter Way To Organize Your Online Life
from TechCrunch