Is WikiLeaks Just Another Fog Bank? It seems like there’s been a major focus on leaks and whistleblowers in the year of 2011. After watching the disturbing video called Collateral Murder, one could surely be taken aback, even nauseated maybe. Some things we see in the news leaves us thinking. There’s the WikiLeaks issue, a mysterious […]

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Heidi, das schielende Opossum Meet Heidi, the possum with the weird looking eyes. Heidi is one of Germany’s animal stars. Heidi is proof that to be successful all you gotta do is get the Facebook crowd behind you. That’s the power of social media. The last count on Facebook was 326,261. Sensational. If you happen to […]

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Buyer Beware: The Big Sale  The 1920’s and 1930’s brought us commercial radio. We later found ourselves watching images on a screen. Magic from signals. It wasn’t perfect but we were addicted as if it were a drug. The amygdala responded with sensory overload. The Gutenberg press passed along greatness centuries ago, but there were lies on […]

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Sung-bong Choi Stuns The World With His Singing The video starts out with an ordinary guy getting ready to be on the stage. He says “I’m 22 years old and my name is Sung-bong Choi. I’ve been lived in very different circumstances.” Okay, the soft music’s playing and there’s the feeling that this could be […]

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Governor Cuomo Says New York Has A Spending Problem Up to 9800 workers in New York state could see layoffs starting as soon as June 15th, 2011. Labor concessions are not yet finished, so the number could be less than that. Governor Andrew Cuomo hopes to save the state $450 million with budget cuts. The […]

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Unicorns Fly. Congress Stops Corporate Welfare. Right. DIALOGUE — May 12, 2011 Sen. Rockefeller: How much profit on a barrel of oil do you have to make to not be needful, of these subsidies that we think you don’t need, but you say your life depends on? At some point you know, you wouldn’t need […]

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Endeavour Docked At ISS Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli took this stunning photo of the shuttle Endeavour as he left the ISS in the Soyuz. The first ever of a shuttle docked with the International Space Station. An awesome photo. More at NASA.  Here’s Nespoli @ Flickr. Newly released portraits show the International Space Station together with the […]

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Social Media Trends Here is some interesting analysis given by NetProspex. The initial report was published in 2010, but it is probably still very relevant. Some cities are more social media savvy than others. The west coast is more social media savvy than the east coast. The midwest is the least social media savvy. California […]

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Cantando el pedido en McAuto Here is a popular clip from Spain with a fast-food order from Spanish singer Xuso Jones. Jones has posted a number of covers on his channel, many of which have found a mid-level audience — his Jay Sean cover has been seen over 100,000 times. But this latest practical joke […]

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German Bean Sprouts Could Be The Source A current CDC report warns U.S. travelers that are traveling to Germany of an organism causing an outbreak — E. coli O104:H4, producing Shiga toxin. Many people have been hospitalized, several requiring intensive care, and some people have died. It is reported over 20 people have died. Most […]

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