Larry Flynt is asking congress to help with a porn industry Bailout. While he may be asking more to make a point than because he really thinks he will get a bailout. Every industry is lining up to get money, but only Larry and the porn industry can promise to put there mouths where the [...]
There was a lot of news recently about if Powerset should sell, or play David and Goliath with Google. I vote sell. The concept is good, but they are more of an Ask competitor than a Google competitor, and we know how well Ask is doing. So let’s Play. Question one, which I posed a [...]
Why are bills so mismatched, HR2764 Just signed in to law has something for everyone. Get the troops out of Iraq, relocate the words "In God We Trust" on this years 6 state quarters, and a pay raise for federal employees. >>>> From George W. Bush <<<<<< Today, I signed into law H.R. 2764, legislation [...]
Getting found is not only about having the right stuff on your page, but also having the right people to link to you. So if you want to really boost your own page rank you need to get one of these guys to link to you. Good luck, with very few exceptions these sites don’t [...]
Francis Bellamy (1855 – 1931), a Baptist minister, wrote the original Pledge in August 1892. He was a Christian Socialist. Francis and his cousin Edward share credit for the ideals laid down in the Original Pledge of Allegiance, which didn’t mention God despite being written by a minister, nor did it mention "the Flag of [...]
David Pescovitz: Threatened by modernization and Chinese imperialism, Tibetan folk music is sadly vanishing into the dustbin of global culture. In an effort to preserve the traditional tunes, students at Qinghai Normal University are making digital field recordings of traditional Tibetan music for online archiving. In many ways, the the Tibetan Endangered Music Project (TEMP) [...]
David Pescovitz: Threatened by modernization and Chinese imperialism, Tibetan folk music is sadly vanishing into the dustbin of global culture. In an effort to preserve the traditional tunes, students at Qinghai Normal University are making digital field recordings of traditional Tibetan music for online archiving. In many ways, the the Tibetan Endangered Music Project (TEMP) [...]