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The Internet Is Too Smart » The WVb:
I remember first accessing the internet. If you wanted to know something you’d hit up a chatroom via one of the crappy browser chatrooms or IRC. Doing this you’d meet a ton of people. You’d break the ice by them helping you with your problem, or you helping [...]

As some people know, I have been dealing with a health issue involving a colleague at work and have not had the time I normally would have in the evenings to write blog posts.
Yesterday however, I ended up writing a very lengthy comment in response to Will Taft’s blog post Why Obama Might Be Our [...]

Phil’s Proof » Everything that’s wrong with Facebook:

Suddenly, when all your friends have been reduced to teensy avatars, canned quotations, and endless ‘favourites’ lists, they don’t seem quite as special as you may have once remembered them.
I really liked this quote from a blog post on the problems with the big social networking [...]

I rarely do this, but since today is the first day of Banned Books Week and I just don’t have the time to write about it, I am going to link off to Alan’s post on the subject.  He wrote Free People Read Freely yesterday.   I’ve read 9 of the 10 books he lists in [...]

UPDATE: Six hours later I decided to remove it.  Too many spam posts showing up there.
After noticing it on exquizzme, I decided to give the BlogRush widget a try.  That’s it on the right above the Library Stuff booknails.  It is supposed to only do targeted links so I will be keeping an eye on [...]

Just One Sheep: Coffee Conversations Part II:
Talking To My Son About Consent My son was starting to get interested in girls. We’d already had the talks about the birds and the bees. We had also had talks about the objectification of women, pornography, love, respect, and equality. But I had missed something.
The [...]

The Blogosphere is Flat Too: Q&A with Ogilvy PR Worldwide’s Digital Strategist for China, Michael Darragh:
At least according to Technorati, in its April State of the Live Web report, the language with the most frequent blog posts in Japanese, with 37%, followed by English with 36% and then Chinese at 8%.
If I had to guess [...]

I came across a post from yesterday on the Gay BiPolar Guy blog about the whole messy business surrounding Senator Craig of Idaho.  He says:
GAY BIPOLAR GUY:
The second point worthy of discussion is the act that Sen. Craig was accused of. He was caught in a men’s bathroom trying to solicit sex from another man. [...]

From: What was God Thinking:  Richard Gere urges Olympics boycott
Richard Gere urges Olympics boycott Actor Richard Gere chases a fugitive Bosnian war criminal in his latest movie role, but in real life the devout Buddhist is pursuing China on human rights abuses and says a boycott of the Beijing Olympics could help. Gere, chairman of [...]