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- Who Dat Motherf**kers

Here, I can wash that out of your mind with this (don't blame me for ruining your sanity though.) The really scary thing is I found this as an actual book that someone paid money to print, in a book store. It reminds me of the joke from Lewis Black about what causes aneurysms.

Say what? So if I created a device that emitted a smell so nasty it made you wretch you'd be okay with me waving it around you while you were trying to enjoy a meal, walk down the street, or sit on a park bench? Because hey after all you "assume the risk" of every moron around you doing something disgusting when you venture outside of your home right? Sounds to me like "the rest of us" is quickly becoming a minority and you don't like being one of them.

I'm all for personal freedom so long as it doesn't impinge too greatly on others. I don't blast my music, I don't let my dog poop on other people's lawns, and I try to be considerate of others. Cigarette smoke, frankly, makes me ill. If a person in the car ahead of me at a light is smoking I can often smell it and it can make me gag. When smokers come in from outside and share an elevator with me I'm forced to get off at the next floor because the stench is overpowering. I'm not alone in this, other coworkers have expressed similar issues. Sorry smokers but your habit effects others and there are finally enough of us speaking up about it to make some changes, it's not going to stop.

I used to live with smokers, my parents and grandparents all smoked. The film covered everything and every car ride was misery as I was forced to endure the smoke. I used to work in an environment where smoking was allowed in offices and I repaired the computers. I had to empty the keyboards of ashes, I had to clean the gunk off of the screens - inside and out, and I had to clean the crap from inside the boxes. The offices were often just nasty to be around, it was like a film covered everything. Like it or not smoking DOES cause damage to computers. In my experience the damage usually wasn't so bad it couldn't be fixed. No worse than dog or cat hair except that you can't use canned air to remove it. I recently inherited some clocks from my Grandfather, my Uncle smoked around them for a few years. When I wiped them down the brown gunk was disgusting. I had to clean and oil them inside to get them running again, these were mechanical clocks with little to no airflow inside of them and yet they were filthy. The evidence is pretty overwhelming really - smoking damages everything around it.

As much as I detest the effects surrounding smoking I'm not sure I support Apple's not fixing these computers. I guess I'd have to see just how bad these computers looked inside and it would have helped if Apple had made this a known policy. I CAN understand why they might want to have such a policy but before they begin instituting it they need to be a little more open about it. IF they had done that then sure, I can understand them rejecting claims like this if upon popping open a computer they found it contaminated with tar and crap...

Some interesting reading http://www.squidoo.com/cigarette-smoke-computer-damage and http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=176542 If you do some Googling on cigarette smoke damage you will find thread after thread of evidence of smoke damaging computers, guitars, stereo speakers, and on and on. Close enough to evil for you?

This is an obvious campaign from the pro-mosquito lobby.

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You might want to consider making a PMV, or Process Map Visual, for the process required.

Where I work, workers are mostly mobile, so we have a central location at appropriate workstations with large posters of the PMV, then in training we have 8.5x11 copies laminated.

Maybe in your case you could supply a small copy for each workstation?

        http://www.squidoo.com/visualprocessmapping

We have a global network of humanity, yet our government structures are still based on ancient geographical distinctions. In order to govern the net (and to coin another useless buzzword) we need Government 2.0.

Web 2.0 is about collaboration, not leadership. Have a look at the Metaovernment project for real Web 2.0 Government.

Or look at this list of Government 2.0 projects.

Well, the simple answer is that we are not a theology and not all people are religious.

The more complex answer is that a flag isn't an idol and respect for it isn't worship. And no, this isn't some issue specific to the US or anything that is recent in history. It has roots established well back into biblical times and Even Moses used flags. Here is something about the biblical use of flags.

The second commandment which is what you were referring to, The link you presented was the verse number not the commandment so I think you might be a little confused on them in the first place, uses the term Idol as a way to represent GOD and to worship him. It doesn't mean that no idols as we understand the definition today to mean. It is a statement about representing a god, gods or the GOD and the worship of those images. The commandment says to not make anything of your understanding of the world in depiction of the lord and not to worship anything anyone does.

The flag isn't an image of the lord or anything within it. It is a symbol of the life of the country and as I pointed out before, it used in various ways even in biblical times by key players of the bible. The respect and tradition given to the flag isn't worship either, it is respect. Nowhere in the bible does it forbid the showing of respect or symbolism when it isn't referencing a god.

Now for a little importance on why respect for the flag is important. Historically, the most humiliating thing a victor or conqueror could do is to make someone strike their own flag. It was the ultimate admission of defeat in which someone was forced to kill the symbol of life for their own country. The flag of a country represents the living nation within the country and is therefor a rallying point for soldiers, a sign for safe haven and protection to those seeking shelter under it (shelter being figurative in which someone obtains the protection of the country it represents) and is used to symbolize affection for the country or distress. Affection is often considered patriotism for love of country.

The flag is still important today because it dictates certain things like ships Flying a flag of a certain country gain the protections of that country, if Pirates or privateers or other nations damage that ship, it's people, or it's cargo, it can expect the nation of the flag to protect them and recourse will ensue. This isn't as important as it was in the past but it was typically grounds to consider certain actions as acts of war. When the country was first founded, we had problems with the ottoman empire pirating our ships and enslaving it's crew and passengers and they would do this in British, french or American waters with no regard for territory and so on. The Brits and the French pays for protection but couldn't offer that protection to other countries. Thomas Jefferson took it upon himself when he became president to create out first standing navy and he created the division of marines and took the ottoman empire to task over this. Of course we prevailed and hence the marines anthem, from the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli.

Anyways, the flag is still important as it still symbolizes the life of a living country. What has changed is more or less the education of people and their adherence to tradition. But if you have doubts about the symbolism, just look at people of other nations who understand these ideals and customs and burn the flags of other countries (typically the US's) when they are displeased with them.

Cyworld...

If they look at CyWorld:

http://us.cyworld.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyworld
http://www.squidoo.com/cyworld

Or, for those of you who can speak Hankuk, or have Korean ID/work authorization, you can set up an account and check out the Korea-focused CyWorld

www.cyworld.co.kr

Google might decide they could "animate" the data search. Make it interactive. If you say, search on ships, then instead of you wading through links, they'd present you with icons or images of several eras or types of ships, and then you click on them, as if going through an Easter-egg hunt. Meta tags would associate the era-based icons to the likely data you're searching for. A sort of connect-the-dots approach could make searching more fun, less stressful, and remove some of the element of "zombie/opportunistic/"I-feel-lucky" types of mad-dash searching.

Users could set up their "library" or "den" and search from there. Google could come up with an analog to CyWorld's "Acorns"... Maybe "poppy seeds"...

Why try (and almost always fail) to influence the bozos/morons/assholes in office? Why not move to Government 2.0 and actually fix things?

Google Blog Search makes it easy for me to track a phrase of something I'm interested in - like Autism Speaks, or a Dragon*Con, or even my own name, and I use that regularly to keep track of people who I can direct to my stuff or who might cause me problems later.

A simple search set up for them with "Comcast" in the search term could have pulled this up.

All it shows is that Comcast is looking out for PR blunders in the making and responding to them. They shouldn't let them happen in the first place, of course, but at least give them credit for being smart.

Google Blog Search makes it easy for me to track a phrase of something I'm interested in - like Autism Speaks, or a Dragon*Con, or even my own name, and I use that regularly to keep track of people who I can direct to my stuff or who might cause me problems later.

A simple search set up for them with "Comcast" in the search term could have pulled this up.

All it shows is that Comcast is looking out for PR blunders in the making and responding to them. They shouldn't let them happen in the first place, of course, but at least give them credit for being smart.

What you are saying is absolutely the way things are going. Modern web development frameworks are trying to move all of the data processing away from the data (e.g. Ruby On Rails), and then use the database as dumb storage.

If you use a database purely as dumb storage, MySQL is probably faster, but I think that if one considers overall performance of an application, it depends more on how you code around the I/O bottlenecks (e.g. stored procedures versus application servers or ORMs).

Personally, I have found that using an in-memory SQLite database instead of home-brewed data structures allows me to quickly code up complex data structures and then manipulate them with 4-line SQL statements instead of 1 page functions. Check out http://www.squidoo.com/sqlitehammer#module7016183 for an example.

SQLite is a cool program in its own way being an embedded SQL engine makes it useful.

It is sad that almost a whole generation of developers will have to relearn basic data theory simply because they don't make an effort to learn about real databases.

What you are saying is absolutely the way things are going. Modern web development frameworks are trying to move all of the data processing away from the data (e.g. Ruby On Rails), and then use the database as dumb storage. If you use a database purely as dumb storage, MySQL is probably faster, but I think that if one considers overall performance of an application, it depends more on how you code around the I/O bottlenecks (e.g. stored procedures versus application servers or ORMs). Personally, I have found that using an in-memory SQLite database instead of home-brewed data structures allows me to quickly code up complex data structures and then manipulate them with 4-line SQL statements instead of 1 page functions. Check out http://www.squidoo.com/sqlitehammer#module7016183 for an example.

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You might be closer to reality than you think.

Check out this site
http://www.squidoo.com/cheap-electric-car

It says cost of electricity for 1250 miles EV drive is less than 20$.

Starbucks charges $40 per month for WiFi. So let us say if they drop charge for Wifi (since most other people offer it free) and offer $40 unlimited charging for one car on account, still they can make profit.

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The frustration inspired me to create a squidoo lens where I can complain about my experience with this stupid XBox 360 red ring of death problem.

http://www.squidoo.com/Xbox-360-Red-Ring-Problems/

Should we all simply expect any and all new Microsoft products to break?

I think all of these content-generating sites have some form of revenue-sharing..

HuPages: http://hubpages.com/
Squidoo: http://www.squidoo.com/
Gather: http://www.gather.com/

I got my Wii last year *before* New Year's Eve so it worked for me :)

PS I didn't have to wait in a long line or get up crazy early.

I just posted something about this on Squidoo too... It seems like the news media is ignoring this right now... It's making me wonder if it's a hoax or something pretty serious... Here's my blog on it: http://www.squidoo.com/perumeteor

Rove resigning should set up red flags across the democratic landscape! Now free to do the dirty work , away from the glare of the laser like spotlight. He's in his element now. A darkened room, probably filled with candles and pentagrams. Be afraid, be very afraid! http://www.squidoo.com/double_speak/

8:10am EST King of Prussia, Pa We got here bright and early (6:45am) to wait for the highly anticipated release of the Apple iPhone. There were a couple of people in line already so we are officially #5, #6, #7. Check back for updates, pictures, and watch the video on our YouTube chanel http://www.youtube.com/liquidvitamins the pictures now and updates during the day at: http://www.squidoo.com/iphon There are about 30 people behind us right.

Well, I think that this is a nice way for users to control what they want to see. If they dont like what they see, they will report it. So no need to get to think so much about it or organise public protests? It is the public which will be reporting the persons and they could just not report anything if they wanted to. What would be the use of public protests? Thats just my 2 cents worth. bye, faraz. author of Who Loves Money

I joined LibraryThing recently, and it was interesting to see that they've included the option to link to your profile on many other social network sites - Myspace, LJ, Blogger ... and Slashdot. I set up a squidoo as well, and they pull out the RSS for my blog and display summaries.

I guess all this has a logical conclusion, where someone sets up a meta-site that pulls together all your online profiles into one 'ME' page. When they do that, it'll be quite something. Imagine all your Myspace friends without the Myspace baggage ...

jump on the Space Elevator bandwagon. C'mon Nasa get back into being pioneers and not just an employment agency for PHd's!

Rats, I blew it when I tried to post the link.

1. Executive Summary (your elevator pitch, no more than 3 paragraphs)
2. Investor Relations (What you want from other people)
3. Description of Business (about 1 page)
4. Sustainable Competitve Advantage (The only thing anyone will read other than the executive summary)
5. Description of Competition (a full page is about right)
6. A list of competitors with a the strengths and weaknesses of each in about a paragraph per.
7. A timeline for what you want to do and when
8. SWOT chart (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats)
9. Financials (make up some numbers and use them to make excel graphs)

The thing that gets most people is the financials. Obviously there is no way to know so you just have to make something up that seems reasonable. This isn't cheating or being unethical, it's the only way to do it and it is expected of you. Some people feel bad about this anyway. Don't.

Also, here is my Squidoo Lens on the subject if it helps. It is mostly just a recommended reading list. That being said, there really are fifteen or twenty Do Not Pass Go, Do Not Collect 200 dollar books. Everyone agrees on this, but of course they will all give you a slightly different list of what these books are.

That being said, you won't get any money from a VC until you have partners and a board of directors. The first step is to go around and talk to as many people as are willing to listen. Once you have told fifty or so people your idea and gotten all the feedback you can handle (mostly people telling you how stupid you are), then circle back and ask those people to advise you, be on your board, or invest. Most of them will offer without you having to ask if you are talking to the right people, i.e. people who have experience as serial entrepreneurs. Also before you can get VC funding you will probably need to show traction. The correct order of doing things is 1) Sell the product 2) Design the product 3) build the product. It's counterintuitive, but so is the idea of dropping out of college to make more money. :-)

(Palo Alto, CA. - DEVELOPING) The Buttes Foundation, a non-for-profit organization dedicated to empowering tomorrow through trolling today, announced victory over the Flock browser and the piddling company behind it. The announcement took place during a packed session at the Scientology center in Mountain View. Very important Buttes operative rolloffle said he found the air deliciously clear of thetans and other impediments in the pursuit of a good troll.

"Quite simply, Flock sucks," opined Buttes spokesman Khaled to an appreciative audience. "But not only does it suck; it is also a failure", he added to nods of agreement. On the wall was a complicated graph showing blogging activity regarding the dead-on-arrival "Social Browser". Khaled pointed to a sharp color change in the second quadrant which corresponded with the introduction of the Go Flock Yourself weblog, which has been detailing the worthlessness of Flock, its authors, and its fans since shortly after the introduction of the ill-fated application.

"As you can see here," said Khaled, "blogging activity about Flock turned decidedly negative after we began to expose its shortcomings". He then added "we also got Scoble to comment on our blog", pausing a minute before saying "lol". Shouts of "roflmao" and "you da man" erupted spontaneously from the crowd.

Rolloffle took over at that point, elaborating on the negative attention Flock has received, and finishing with Buttes's mea culpa, the eradication of the giant Flock advertisement from wordpress.com's front page. While the administrators of WordPress have not returned requests for comment at this time, it can only be assumed that the Go Flock Yourself blog (proudly featured on the front page since shortly after its inception) has made association with Flock a costly and embarrassing proposition.

During a busy Q&A session, the brainchild behind Go Flock Yourself, a diminutive Canadian who goes by the name "Screaming Eagle USA", offerred to clarify the role of the popular weblog now that Flock has officially failed. "Go Flock Yourself is designed to empower the sarcastic and trollish masses of the internet to drop a big, steaming turd all over Web 2.0 and all of its extravagances." Screaming Eagle displayed a slide of recent posts about say-so, yellowikis, and Squidoo, demonstrating a pattern of hard-hitting journalism that leaves no worthless, dollar-stuffed startup with its "perpetual beta" web application untouched. "Our victory over Flock will allow us to leverage all of our core competencies, maximizing ROI across skill domains, in order to architect the synergistic folksonomies that will empower the anti-Web 2.0 revolution."

About Buttes:
The Buttes Foundation is a group of trolls and ne'erdowells that has successfully terrorized the Something Awful forums through its internet terrorist offshoot Team Barry. In recent years, Buttes has expanded the reach of its deadly ruyn-rays to the world's telephone networks and now the blogosphere. More information on Buttes is available at Encyclopedia Dramatica.

About Flock:
Flock is an amateurish fork of Firefox which adds various extensions of marginal utility that integrate unaffiliated services (del.icio.us, flickr, etc.) directly into the browsing experience. Flock also includes a substandard blogging tool which even its most diehard users have had a hard time adopting. Flock is currently burning through approximately $1 million of venture capital, after which point it will promptly fold after failing to b

Not to accuse programmers of being lazy, but it's easier to implement "save" functionality than it is to implement "complete undo/redo" functionality. You need the latter if you don't have the former.

Note that saving a change history along with the document itself can be problematic for various reasons, from the simple fact that you're bloating the file to the fact that you may expose information inadvertently if anyone care to look at the change history. As many Microsoft Word users have discovered to their chagrin.

Eric
My Squidoo page

(Palo Alto, CA. - DEVELOPING) The Buttes Foundation, a non-for-profit organization dedicated to empowering tomorrow through trolling today, announced victory over the Flock browser and the piddling company behind it. The announcement took place during a packed session at the Scientology center in Mountain View. Very important Buttes operative rolloffle said he found the air deliciously clear of thetans and other impediments in the pursuit of a good troll.

"Quite simply, Flock sucks," opined Buttes spokesman Khaled to an appreciative audience. "But not only does it suck; it is also a failure", he added to nods of agreement. On the wall was a complicated graph showing blogging activity regarding the dead-on-arrival "Social Browser". Khaled pointed to a sharp color change in the second quadrant which corresponded with the introduction of the Go Flock Yourself weblog, which has been detailing the worthlessness of Flock, its authors, and its fans since shortly after the introduction of the ill-fated application.

"As you can see here," said Khaled, "blogging activity about Flock turned decidedly negative after we began to expose its shortcomings". He then added "we also got Scoble to comment on our blog", pausing a minute before saying "lol". Shouts of "roflmao" and "you da man" erupted spontaneously from the crowd.

Rolloffle took over at that point, elaborating on the negative attention Flock has received, and finishing with Buttes's mea culpa, the eradication of the giant Flock advertisement from wordpress.com's front page. While the administrators of WordPress have not returned requests for comment at this time, it can only be assumed that the Go Flock Yourself blog (proudly featured on the front page since shortly after its inception) has made association with Flock a costly and embarrassing proposition.

During a busy Q&A session, the brainchild behind Go Flock Yourself, a diminutive Canadian who goes by the name "Screaming Eagle USA", offerred to clarify the role of the popular weblog now that Flock has officially failed. "Go Flock Yourself is designed to empower the sarcastic and trollish masses of the internet to drop a big, steaming turd all over Web 2.0 and all of its extravagances." Screaming Eagle displayed a slide of recent posts about say-so, yellowikis, Squidoo, demonstrating a pattern of hard-hitting journalism that leaves no worthless, dollar-stuffed startup with its "perpetual beta" web application untouched. "Our victory over Flock will allow us to leverage all of our core competencies, maximizing ROI across skill domains, in order to architect the synergistic folksonomies that will empower the anti-Web 2.0 revolution."

About Buttes:
The Buttes Foundation is a group of trolls and ne'erdowells that has successfully terrorized the Something Awful forums through its internet terrorist offshoot Team Barry. In recent years, Buttes has expanded the reach of its deadly ruyn-rays to the world's telephone networks and now the blogosphere. More information on Buttes is available at Encyclopedia Dramatica

About Flock:
Flock is an amateurish fork of Firefox which adds various extensions of marginal utility that integrate unaffiliated services (del.icio.us, flickr, etc.) directly into the browsing experience. Flock also includes a substandard blogging tool which even its most diehard users have had a hard time adopting. Flock is currently burning through approximately $1 million of venture capital, after which point it will promptly fold after failing to be at