Why is Yahoo! backing away from RSS? :: It’s weird. They are expanding their personal finance section coverage but no RSS feeds. I am out of step with this one. I never use MSN for anything but I have started following some of their personal finance columnists because they do offer RSS feeds. Wikipedia unveils [...]
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Joi Ito on how to use Linked In for introductions Speaking of Linked In, Guy Kawasaki’s Linked In profile gets an extreme makeover John Robb on the “surge” :: Of course, the failure of these periodic efforts may be due to an inability to revisit a key assumption upon which the present US effort is based: [...]
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Steve Taylor is doing emerging church postcards for 2006. If you want to be involved in this, click on the link. Iraq’s Biggest Failing: There Is No Iraq Wendy’s review of the office Christmas Party and an endorsement of Super Ron. Where is my fork because it needs to be stuck in the Denver Broncos. [...]
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Disparity growing between rich and the richer in baseball again The Me Church :: Where it is all about you Gates says U.S. not winning war in Iraq and they went to war with Iraq without enough troops. Madden Football is making teenagers more knowledgeable about football then their coaches Jeff Garcia’s comeback has begun [...]
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Warren Buffett on class warfare :: “There’s class warfare, all right,” Mr. Buffett said, “but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.” Seth Godin hits on topic that companies are not perfect, no matter what the hype. Church media does the same to large churches. Tony Jones responds to Brett [...]
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Why Robert Gates is a good choice for Defence Secretary :: A category of Rumsfeld’s largest blunders Does Google care about Blogger? via The FRWY.ca is no more. Details here Three options for the United States in Iraq Memo to Bosses: 101 Ways to Prevent Your Employees From Hating You. How to build a PC [...]
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Dan Hughes photos from the 2006 Emergent Gathering PC Magazine reviews Six Apart’s new blogging tool Vox and they like it. Scot McKnight on what is the emerging church Church of the Exiles Flickr Group Spencer Burke and the church’s “Bankers Hours” NHL94.com :: Online version of what may be the greatest video game of all [...]
Torture
I think the decisions of the last couple of weeks could come back and haunt the United States for generations. The New York Times sees it this way Here’s what happens when this irresponsible Congress railroads a profoundly important bill to serve the mindless politics of a midterm election: The Bush administration uses Republicans’ fear [...]
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Podcasts from the Clinton Global Initiative will be online soon but you can subscribe now. The best and worst paying jobs :: Casino workers are among the lowest paid workers? That explains why people are flocking for Las Vegas for casino jobs… U.S. Army stretched to the limit :: “I think, arguably, it’s the worst [...]
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It’s easy being green. Notre Dame green that is. Being Saskatchewan Roughrider green isn’t so easy. The Floyd Landis spin machine in action :: There is something so tragic at play here. Either professional blood doping is so corrupt or atheletes are so stupid. I am better on atheletes being stupid combined with trainers who have [...]
Not so pro-life
I was chatting with Becky about abortion rights and this came up. Does anyone else see the disconnect between being against abortion but for capital punishment and also against programs that help the poor (who are most likely to have an abortion)? I was reading recently that former Clinton aide Paul Begala who is personally opposed [...]
Foreign Affairs
A couple of years ago I watched Crossfire on CNN with Sandy Berger and Lawrence Eagleburger on it. I can’t remember what they were talking about although I assume it was Iraq but what struck me was how incredibly complicated foreign policy was and how big the consequences were when you really messed it up [...]
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Reporting from Iraq has become one of journalism’s most difficult and dangerous jobs. Foreign Policy spoke recently with Rod Nordland, who served as Newsweek’s Baghdad bureau chief for two years, about the challenge of getting out of the Green Zone to get the scoop. There are nannies out there getting 100K a year Western Union [...]
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Environmental disaster in Iraq :: An environmental disaster is brewing in the heartland of Iraq’s northern Sunni-led insurgency, where Iraqi officials say that in a desperate move to dispose of millions of barrels of an oil refinery byproduct called “black oil,” the government pumped it into open mountain valleys and leaky reservoirs next to the [...]
