tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-128067772024-03-07T14:45:22.028-08:00Devans Cosmoshttp://twitter.com/devans00Devans00http://www.blogger.com/profile/00079172462536319738noreply@blogger.comBlogger155125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12806777.post-61474918045152486812010-12-31T17:43:00.000-08:002010-12-31T22:58:29.317-08:00Culo Evans 1997-2010 - That's All Folks<span style="font-family:lucida grande;">I met Culo, then known as Jack, at the old Humane Society Silicon Valley in Santa Clara, CA, summer 1997.</span><br /><p style="font-family: lucida grande; text-align: center;"><img src="http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h276/devans00/Culo_2010/Culo_December_5_1997.jpg" /><br /></p><p style="text-align: center; font-family: lucida grande;"> December 5, 1997, almost 1 year<br /></p><br /><table style="font-family: lucida grande;" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><br /><tbody><tr><br /><td><img src="http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h276/devans00/Culo_2010/Culo_3_102303.jpg" height="225" width="300" /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">October 23, 2003, age 6</div></td><br /><td><img src="http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h276/devans00/Culo_2010/Culo_LastDay_4_123110.jpg" height="225" width="300" /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">December 31, 2010, age 13</div></td><br /></tr><br /></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">For the last 13 years, I've had to factor in the health and well being of my dog Culo into almost every decision made about my life. Everything from fabrics of clothing to furniture placement to work locations to vacations. Today, that lifestyle came to an end. My roommate, companion and walking buddy died at 9:30 am at </span><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://www.mapc.vetsuite.com/">Murphy Avenue Pet Clinic</a><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"> in Sunnyvale. The euthanasia (</span><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://www.thepetcenter.com/article.aspx?id=3375"><span style="font-style: italic;">Euthanasia... What To Expect by DrTJDunnJr</span></a><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">) administered by Dr. Karen Lee (Dr. Ken Stewart, Culo's usual vet was out) was very quick and humane. I was in the room when the shots were given.</span><br /><p style="font-family: lucida grande;"><br /></p><div style="text-align: center; font-family: lucida grande;"><img src="http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h276/devans00/Culo_2010/PostSecret_VetStay_091309.jpg" /><br /></div><p style="text-align: center; font-family: lucida grande;"><a href="http://www.postsecret.com/">Post Secret 9-13-9</a><br /></p><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">I'm very sad and a little at loose ends now that Culo is gone. For instance, 6 pm used to be his dinner time. As I'm writing this, it's 6:15 pm but it doesn't mean anything special any more. I keep expecting to see him peeking at me around corners or nudging the back of my legs so I'll pet him. I still find myself watching where I step even though there's no little 25 pound dog I may smoosh. The mornings in the bathroom will be different since Culo will no longer put his paws on my lap to get petted. Or stick his nose into the shower steam to see what's going on.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">Culo's last illness was an aggressive cancerous tumor in his nasal cavity.</span><br /><p style="font-family: lucida grande;"><br /><img src="http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h276/devans00/Culo_2010/dognasalcavity_121610.jpg" /><br /></p><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><table style="font-family: lucida grande;" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><br /><tbody><tr><br /> <td><img src="http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h276/devans00/Culo_2010/Culo_Nasal_Cancer_Tumor_solid_122110.jpg" height="263" width="300" /></td><br /> <td><img src="http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h276/devans00/Culo_2010/Culo_Nasal_Cancer_Tumor_bone-crumbs_122110.jpg" height="269" width="300" /></td><br /></tr><br /></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">Cancer in the sense of body cells that turn on the host and gradually destroy formerly healthy material.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">The trouble started out as sneezes and weird wet sounds in his chest and throat area. By the end, the tumor almost totally blocked his breathing. Instead of switching to mouth breathing, sometimes Culo's whole body would shake in the effort to get air through his nose. To me, it sounded like a duck quacking. He would only pant with his mouth as a last resort. On the last day, he'd figured out a kind of perpetual throaty growl as a way to breath through his mouth. Poor boy was working way to hard at existing. The bloody globs he was exhaling all over the house didn't help. Some patches look like scatter diagrams.</span><br /><br /><p style="text-align: center; font-family: lucida grande;"> <img src="http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h276/devans00/Culo_2010/Red_Scatter_rb321f2_123110.jpg" height="408" width="500" /><br /></p><br /><br /><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">The cancer also caused the bone in the front part of his head to crumble. In the last week, his face area noticeably lost its former shape and structure. The bump between his eyes became bigger and reader.. Plus a pinched nerve made his left eye bulge and forced his third eyelid to stick in the up position.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center; font-family: lucida grande;"><img src="http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h276/devans00/Culo_2010/Culo_LastDay_3_123110.jpg" height="669" width="500" /><br /></div><p style="font-family: lucida grande; text-align: center;">Bones in face shifted.<br /></p><div style="text-align: center; font-family: lucida grande;"><img src="http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h276/devans00/Culo_2010/Culo_FrontYard_122410.jpg" height="319" width="500" /><br />3rd Eye Lid Stuck<br /></div><br /><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">Even though I miss Culo, I'm so happy he's not in pain and discomfort anymore.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">When I get his cremation ashes back in January, I plan to turn them into a gem such as </span><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://www.pet-gems.com/">Pet-Gems</a><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"> or </span><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://www.lifegem.com/">LifeGem</a><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">. That way, I can have him with me without it being creepy like taxidermy or an urn filled with dusty ashes.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">It looks like my vet donates used pet supplies to</span><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://www.petsinneed.org/"> Pets In Need</a><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"> Redwood City. Perhaps they'll take Culo's old stuff?</span><br /><div style="width: 480px; text-align: center; font-family: lucida grande;"><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" src="http://w66.photobucket.com/pbwidget.swf?pbwurl=http%3A%2F%2Fw66.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fh276%2Fdevans00%2FCulo_2010%2Fd0db8d67.pbw" height="360" width="480"></embed><a href="http://photobucket.com/slideshows" target="_blank"><img src="http://pic.photobucket.com/slideshows/btn.gif" style="float: left; border-width: 0pt;" /></a><a href="http://s66.photobucket.com/albums/h276/devans00/Culo_2010/?action=view&current=d0db8d67.pbw" target="_blank"><img src="http://pic.photobucket.com/slideshows/btn_viewallimages.gif" style="float: left; border-width: 0pt;" /></a></div>Devans00http://www.blogger.com/profile/00079172462536319738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12806777.post-8374782115279916422010-02-19T21:41:00.000-08:002010-02-19T22:27:43.637-08:00Sustainability Specialist Thomas Loxley Rosenberg Guest Speaker 2-19-10<span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >I made the following post at the <a href="http://sites.google.com/site/csixcloudcomp/home/announcements/sustainabilityspecialistthomasloxleyrosenbergguestspeaker2-19-10">CSix Cloud Computing Announcement Page</a>. I'm copying here in case people don't see it there. Be sure to check out the </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-family: lucida grande; color: rgb(102, 51, 51);" href="http://sites.google.com/site/csixcloudcomp/">Cloud SIG main website</a></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > and </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-family: lucida grande; color: rgb(102, 51, 51);" href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cloud-Computing-SIG/131781254989">Facebook page</a></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > too.</span><br /><br /><hr style="font-family:lucida grande;"><br /><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">Energy, Climate Change & Environmental Sustainability Specialist </span><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/thomasloxleyrosenberg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Thomas Loxley Rosenberg </a><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">presented the following slides to the CSix Cloud Computing SIG during our regular Friday meeting 2-19-10.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(7, 55, 99);font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;" ><b>Environmental Sustainability and Cloud Computing</b></span><br /><br /><i style="font-family: lucida grande;">Agenda</i><br /><ul style="font-family: lucida grande;"><li>What is environmental sustainability?</li><li>The business case for environmental sustainability</li><li>Sustainability and IT</li><li>Sustainability and Cloud Computing</li></ul><br /><div style="display: block; text-align: center; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; font-family: lucida grande;"><a href="http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B9My07GTVKHaMmFiZDBhNWQtNmY3Ni00MjgzLWEzM2EtNzgyZDFiNTUzZTRi&hl=en" imageanchor="1" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i808.photobucket.com/albums/zz10/CSixCloudCompAdm/TLRosenberg_Sustainability/TLR_Cloud_Sustainability_021910.jpg" border="0" height="282" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center; font-family: lucida grande;"><a href="http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B9My07GTVKHaMmFiZDBhNWQtNmY3Ni00MjgzLWEzM2EtNzgyZDFiNTUzZTRi&hl=en" target="_blank">View and download presentation here</a>.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">The <a href="http://sites.google.com/site/csixcloudcomp/home/meeting_notes/fridaymeeting-2010-02-19">meeting notes</a> taken by Taff contain some useful information discussed during the presentation.<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://sites.google.com/site/csixcloudcomp/member_content/biographies/debra_evans">Debra Evans</a> comments on event<br /> <ul><li>I met Thomas during a <a href="http://pinkslipmixers.com/calendar/event/2010/1/12/149944" rel="nofollow">PinkSlipMixers.com event at B4Twelve Ultra Lounge in Palo Alto CA</a>. I didn't see <a href="http://www.google.com/support/jobs/bin/static.py?page=why-ca-mv.html&loc_id=1116&dep_id=1173&topic=111" target="_blank">Google</a> or <a href="http://www.teslamotors.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Tesla Motors</a> as promised, but I did meet someone interesting.</li><li>We did the typical networking routine of introducing ourselves and talk about what we did or are interested in.<br /> </li><li>I knew Thomas' area of expertise would be a good compliment to the Cloud Computing SIG<br /> </li><li>Luckily, Thomas agreed to give an exciting and informative talk on Environmental Sustainability and Cloud Computing<br /> </li><li>Even though Social Media and other Cloud based companies are considered green and environmentally friendly, that common wisdom isn't necessarily true<br /> <ul><li>Most IT hardware, upon which the Web depends, is not easily recyclable. In fact, some elements are toxic to humans.<br /> </li><li>Data centers that online companies, such as <a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=info&gid=293658483533" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Facebook</a>, rely on coal power plants to run the servers.</li> </ul> </li><li>Holistically managing the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eco-efficiency" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">eco-efficiency</a> (energy consumption, emissions) of ICT (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_and_communication_technologies" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">information<br /> and communication technologies</a>), can reduce at least 15% of greenhouse gases produced by non IT sources.<br /> </li><li>Discussed how the <a href="https://www.clumeq.ca/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">CLUMEQ Supercomputing Center</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convection" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">convective air</a> cooled data center, in collaboration with <a href="http://www.sun.com/featured-articles/2009-1128/feature/index.jsp" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sun</a>, has rethought the whole concept of managing server farms.</li></ul><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://bit.ly/9uSCtZ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img alt="cloud,sustainability,datacenter,silo,sun,clumeq" src="http://i808.photobucket.com/albums/zz10/CSixCloudCompAdm/TLRosenberg_Sustainability/Sun_CLUMEQ_datacenter_silo_021910.jpg" border="0" height="200" width="144" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><span style=";font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:78%;" ><i>An innovative, energy-efficient cooling enclosure leveraging a 3-level cylindrical floor plan with up to 1.5 megawatts of cooling capacity and space to host up to 56 standard-sized racks. Free cooling conditions the air inside the silo by using cooler outside ambient air, along with a system of water filled pipes and coils, drizzle humidifiers and very high-efficiency fans.</i></span><br /></div><br /><hr width="100%" style="font-size:85%;"><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Photos from Old Saratoga Post Office Cloud Computing SIG Meeting </span><br /><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://s808.photobucket.com/albums/zz10/CSixCloudCompAdm/TLRosenberg_Sustainability/?action=view&current=TLR_Sustainability_Photo_1_021910.jpg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img alt="Thomas L. Rosenberg, Taff Dirks, Julie McDaniel" src="http://i808.photobucket.com/albums/zz10/CSixCloudCompAdm/TLRosenberg_Sustainability/TLR_Sustainability_Photo_1_021910.jpg" border="0" height="225" width="300" /></a></p>Thomas L. Rosenberg, Taff Dirks, Julie McDaniel Setting up presentation laptop & projector<br /><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://s808.photobucket.com/albums/zz10/CSixCloudCompAdm/TLRosenberg_Sustainability/?action=view&current=TLR_Sustainability_Photo_2_021910.jpg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img alt="Thomas Loxley Rosenberg, Opening Presentation Slide" src="http://i808.photobucket.com/albums/zz10/CSixCloudCompAdm/TLRosenberg_Sustainability/TLR_Sustainability_Photo_2_021910.jpg" border="0" height="225" width="300" /></a></p>Thomas Loxley Rosenberg, Opening Presentation Slide<br /><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://s808.photobucket.com/albums/zz10/CSixCloudCompAdm/TLRosenberg_Sustainability/?action=view&current=TLR_Sustainability_Photo_3_021910.jpg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img alt="Thomas Loxley Rosenberg, What is Environmental Sustainability?" src="http://i808.photobucket.com/albums/zz10/CSixCloudCompAdm/TLRosenberg_Sustainability/TLR_Sustainability_Photo_3_021910.jpg" border="0" height="225" width="300" /></a></p>Thomas Loxley Rosenberg, What is Environmental Sustainability?<br /><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://s808.photobucket.com/albums/zz10/CSixCloudCompAdm/TLRosenberg_Sustainability/?action=view&current=TLR_Sustainability_Photo_4_021910.jpg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img alt="Mo Aidi, Thomas L. Rosenberg, Speaking to SIG Members after Presentation" src="http://i808.photobucket.com/albums/zz10/CSixCloudCompAdm/TLRosenberg_Sustainability/TLR_Sustainability_Photo_4_021910.jpg" border="0" height="482" width="300" /></a></p>Mo Aidi, Thomas L. Rosenberg, Speaking to SIG Members after Presentation<br /><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://s808.photobucket.com/albums/zz10/CSixCloudCompAdm/TLRosenberg_Sustainability/?action=view&current=TLR_Sustainability_Photo_5_021910.jpg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img alt="Sherwin Deng, Taff Dirks, Thomas L. Rosenberg, Ed Leung, Speaking to SIG Members after Presentation" src="http://i808.photobucket.com/albums/zz10/CSixCloudCompAdm/TLRosenberg_Sustainability/TLR_Sustainability_Photo_5_021910.jpg" border="0" height="400" width="300" /></a></p>Sherwin Deng, Taff Dirks, Thomas L. Rosenberg, Ed Leung, Speaking to SIG Members after Presentation<br /><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://s808.photobucket.com/albums/zz10/CSixCloudCompAdm/TLRosenberg_Sustainability/?action=view&current=TLR_Sustainability_Photo_6_021910.jpg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img alt="Sherwin Deng, Taff Dirks, Thomas L. Rosenberg, Ed Leung, Speaking to SIG Members after Presentation" src="http://i808.photobucket.com/albums/zz10/CSixCloudCompAdm/TLRosenberg_Sustainability/TLR_Sustainability_Photo_6_021910.jpg" border="0" height="400" width="300" /></a></p>Sherwin Deng, Taff Dirks, Thomas L. Rosenberg, Ed Leung, Speaking to SIG Members after Presentation<br /><br /><p> </p><br /></div><br /></div></div>Devans00http://www.blogger.com/profile/00079172462536319738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12806777.post-76700340331208305672010-02-11T23:39:00.000-08:002010-02-13T13:49:44.520-08:00Cloud Computing meets Smarter Planet Initiative<span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);font-family:verdana;" >I made the following post at the <a href="http://csixcloudcomp.blogspot.com/2010/02/">CSix Cloud Computing SIG blog</a>. I'm copying here in case people don't see it there. Be sure to check out the </span><a style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(102, 51, 51);" href="http://sites.google.com/site/csixcloudcomp/">Cloud SIG main website</a><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);font-family:verdana;" > and </span><a style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(102, 51, 51);" href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cloud-Computing-SIG/131781254989">Facebook page</a><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);font-family:verdana;" > too.</span><br /><br /><hr /><br /><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">Earlier this week, I attended an </span><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://twitter.com/IEEEComputerSoc">IEEE</a><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"> Cloud Computing meets IBM's Smarter Planet Initiative event put on by the </span><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/computer/cspage.php?page=talkdetail&talkid=64">Santa Clara Valley Chapter Computer Society</a><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">. The speaker, </span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-size:85%;">Lennart Frantzell, PhD of the <a href="http://twitter.com/ibmsanmateo">IBM Innovation Center, San Mateo</a>, has the goal of pushing technology until computers replace mankind.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="font-family:lucida grande;"><a href="http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h276/devans00/IEEE_IBM_Cloud_1_5benefits_020910.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h276/devans00/IEEE_IBM_Cloud_1_5benefits_020910.jpg" alt="Cloud Computing Adds Value in Specific Ways" border="1" width="400" height="262" /></a></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:lucida grande;" class="text_exposed_show" >Cloud Computing Adds Value in Specific Ways</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">The core of Cloud Computing made up of</span><br /><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">- virtual machines</span><br /><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">- high capacity broadband</span><br /><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"> - open source SW</span><br /><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"> - smartphones</span><br /><span class="text_exposed_show" style="font-family:lucida grande;">- app stores such as <a href="http://aws.amazon.com/">Amazon Web Services (AWS)</a></span><br /></div><span class="text_exposed_show" style="font-family:lucida grande;"><br /></span><span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="font-family:lucida grande;"> <div style="text-align: left;">I liked how Lennart Frantzell tied in current trends of smartphones and social networking to the growth of cloud computing. Without demand for more bandwidth and vendor neutral infrastructure by web users, the challenge of cloud computing activity may have stayed in the enterprise domain. S<span><span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-size:85%;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="font-family:lucida grande;">ocial networking is driving the growth of cloud computing.</span></span></span></span></span></div> </span></span><br /><span class="text_exposed_show" style="font-family:lucida grande;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="font-family:lucida grande;"><a href="http://s66.photobucket.com/albums/h276/devans00/?action=view&current=IEEE_IBM_Cloud_1_web_020910.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h276/devans00/IEEE_IBM_Cloud_1_web_020910.jpg" alt="Cloud Computing Globalization and Globally Available Resources" border="1" width="400" height="262" /></a></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:lucida grande;" class="text_exposed_show" >Cloud Computing Globalization and Globally Available Resources</span><br /></div><span class="text_exposed_show" style="font-family:lucida grande;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="font-family:lucida grande;">Frantzell explained how <a href="http://www-304.ibm.com/isv/spc/sanmateo.htm">IBM Innovation Centers</a> play a role in expanding the global digital infrastructure. A behind the scenes innovator in converting the world from analog to digital. The demo of one hospital based Cloud Computing implementation looked a lot like Big Brother. Wearable tracking systems allow computers to determine how well a doctor sticks to a predetermined checklist. Medical practitioners are at risk for being beeped at for failing to wash their hands long enough. The level of remote monitoring gave me shivers. Other remote management, like reading energy meters, are less intrusive.</span><br /></div><span class="text_exposed_show" style="font-family:lucida grande;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="font-family:lucida grande;">Lennart Frantzell also discussed the differences between private clouds, public clouds and hybrid clouds and how they interact.</span> Hybrid and public clouds can act as storage or computing capacity backup or fail over. Hybrid and public clouds give enterprises the flexibility to have an internal private cloud as well immediate ability to absorb short term spike in need.<br /></div><span class="text_exposed_show" style="font-family:lucida grande;"><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="font-family:lucida grande;"><a href="http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h276/devans00/IEEE_IBM_Cloud_1_3types_020910.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h276/devans00/IEEE_IBM_Cloud_1_3types_020910.jpg" alt="Three co-existing Cloud Computing delivery models " border="1" width="400" height="262" /></a></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:lucida grande;" class="text_exposed_show" >Three co-existing Cloud Computing delivery models</span><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br />Post by <a href="http://twitter.com/devans00">devans00</a><br /></div>________________________________________<br />________________________________________<br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Abstract of Talk</span><br /><br />As the world becomes more and more global, integrated and "flat", it is also facing an array of problems: a financial crisis, climate disruption, energy geopolitics, food supply hazards etc. This is coinciding with technological innovations such as the following developments that can assist in resolving these problems:<br /><br />The world is becoming instrumented. There are a billion transistors per human, each one costing one ten millionth of a cent.<br /><br />Cloud computing and mobile computing are changing how software is deployed and used throughout the world.<span><span><span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-size:85%;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="font-family:lucida grande;"><br /><br />IBM presentations of their cloud computing offerings available on <a href="http://www.ibm.com/ibm/cloud/">cloud homepage</a>.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><br />All things are becoming intelligent. Algorithms and powerful systems turn those mountains of data into decisions and actions that can make the world work better. Smarter.<br /><br />As the world's leading globally integrated IT company, IBM is attempting to use modern IT technology to tackle many of the world's problems. In this presentation, Lennart Frantzell will talk about IBM's global smarter planet initiative in its quest to make the world a smarter place.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">About the Speaker</span><br />Lennart Frantzell, PhD, is a technical consultant at the IBM Innovation Center, San Mateo. He works with IBM Business Partners and startup companies in the IBM smarter planet initiative. The IBM Innovation Centers is a world-wide network of IBM business partner centers that provide business- and technical support to help companies get started and deploy applications in the IBM smarter planet space.<br /><br />Lennart Frantzell has expertise in Cloud Computing, IBM Industry Frameworks, IBM Tivoli systems management, WebSphere and other IBM middleware products. He has worked in artificial intelligence, object-oriented programming and computer games.<br /><br /></div><br /></div></span></div></span></span>Devans00http://www.blogger.com/profile/00079172462536319738noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12806777.post-2708579341625702522010-01-15T15:22:00.000-08:002010-01-15T16:46:03.350-08:00Silicon Valley Organizing Relief Efforts for Haiti<a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://www.mercurynews.com/valley/ci_14201260?nclick_check=1">Silicon Valley groups, individuals organizing relief efforts for Haiti | San Jose Mercury News</a><br /><br /><div style="font-family: lucida grande;" id="articleByline" class="articleByline"><p class="bylinejb"><a class="articleByline" href="mailto:mgomez@mercurynews.com?subject=San%20Jose%20Mercury%20News:%20Silicon%20Valley%20groups,%20individuals%20organizing%20relief%20efforts%20for%20Haiti">By Mark Gomez<br /></a></p><p class="bylineaffiliation"><a href="mailto:mgomez@mercurynews.com">mgomez@mercurynews.com</a></p></div><!--date--><div style="font-family: lucida grande;" id="articleDate" class="articleDate">Posted: 01/15/2010 02:31:39 PM PST</div><!--secondary date--><div style="font-family: lucida grande;" id="articleDate" class="articleSecondaryDate">Updated: 01/15/2010 02:59:22 PM PST</div><br /><span fd_id="default" type="end" id="default" style="font-family:lucida grande;"></span><span fd_id="default" type="start" id="default" style="font-family:lucida grande;"></span><div style="font-family: lucida grande;" class="articlePositionHeader"><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" id="soundslider" height="533" width="620"> <param name="movie" value="http://extras.mercurynews.com/slideshows/news/2010/01/haiti0115/soundslider.swf?size=1&format=xml"> <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"> <param name="quality" value="high"> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"> <param name="menu" value="false"> <param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"> <embed src="http://extras.mercurynews.com/slideshows/news/2010/01/haiti0115/soundslider.swf?size=1&format=xml" quality="high" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" menu="false" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="533" width="620"></embed></object> <!-- Start Omniture Tag --><div id="omniture" style="display: none;"><script language="JavaScript"> <!-- var slideShowName = "Survivors found, unrest and more dead"; /* You may give each page an identifying name, server, and channel on the next lines. */ s.pageName="Soundslides: " + slideShowName; s.channel="Home"; s.prop1="Home"; s.prop2="Home / News"; s.prop3="Home / News / Soundslides / "; s.prop4="Home / News / Soundslides / " + slideShowName; /* E-commerce Variables */ s.eVar4=s.pageName; /************* DO NOT ALTER ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE ! **************/ //var s_code=s.t();if(s_code)document.write(s_code)//--> </script> <!-- End Omniture Tag --> <script type="text/javascript"> var slideNum = 1; function ss_track(slideshow_image, image_number, image_name, image_caption, path_to_assets){ s.pageName="Soundslides: " + slideShowName + " Image " + image_number; if (slideNum > 1) { void(s.t()); slideNum = slideNum + 1; var framesPerAd = 5; if(image_number/framesPerAd == Math.round(image_number/framesPerAd)){ frames['adframe'].location.href = "_files/index.html"; } } else { slideNum = slideNum + 1; } } </script></div></div><span fd_id="default" type="end" id="default" style="font-family:lucida grande;"></span><div class="articleViewerGroup" id="articleViewerGroup" style="border: 0px none ; font-family: lucida grande;"><script language="JavaScript"> var requestedWidth = 0; </script><span class="articleEmbeddedViewerBox"></span><span fd_id="default" type="start" id="default"></span><div class="articlePosition1"><div class="packagesGrpBox" style="width: 200px; height: auto;"><div class="packagesHeader">Video</div> <div class="packagesBox"><ul><li class="packageItem"><a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_14180289" target="blank" style="width: 184px;">Video from the Haiti quake aftermath</a></li></ul></div></div> <div class="packagesGrpBox" style="width: 200px; height: auto;"><div class="packagesHeader">How to help</div> <div class="packagesBox"><ul><li class="packageItem"><a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_14181191" target="blank" style="width: 184px;">Links to charity organizations contributing to Haiti relief</a></li></ul></div></div> <div class="packagesGrpBox" style="width: 200px; height: auto;"><div class="packagesHeader">Special Section</div> <div class="packagesBox"><ul><li class="packageItem"><a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/california-earthquakes" target="blank" style="width: 184px;">Earthquake Center: Map, more</a></li></ul></div></div> <div class="packagesGrpBox" style="width: 200px; height: auto;"><div class="packagesHeader">Have your say!</div> <div class="packagesBox"><ul><li class="packageTitle">Vote and comment:</li><li class="packageItem"><a href="http://forums.mercurynews.com/poll/if-a-large-earthquake-were-to-hit-tomorrow-how-ready-would-you-be" style="width: 184px;">How prepared are you for a large earthquake?</a></li></ul></div></div></div><span fd_id="default" type="end" id="default"></span></div><script language="JavaScript"> if(requestedWidth > 0){ document.getElementById('articleViewerGroup').style.width = requestedWidth + "px"; document.getElementById('articleViewerGroup').style.margin = "0px 0px 10px 10px"; } </script><span fd_id="default" type="start" id="default" style="font-family:lucida grande;"></span><p style="font-family: lucida grande;" class="bodytext">Donations for the relief effort in Haiti have been pouring in from throughout Silicon Valley as children, adults and companies have responded to the devastating earthquake that struck near the capital of Port-Au-Prince.</p><p style="font-family: lucida grande;">From the latest innovation of text donations to the old fashioned writing a check, valley residents have already pledged tens of thousands of dollars to help the stricken country.</p><p style="font-family: lucida grande;">"The money is coming in so fast," said Cynthia Shaw, spokeswoman for the American Red Cross Silicon Valley Chapter. "Locally, people have been very generous. Some companies are offering matching donations. The big thing we've noticed is the text to donate phenomenon."</p><p style="font-family: lucida grande;">Silicon Valley residents have taken advantage of an effortless donation process that allows them to make a $10 donation to the American Red Cross by texting "Haiti" to 90999. The money is automatically added to their cell phone bills. As of Friday morning, Californians had donated about $1.5 million by texting their donations, Shaw said.</p><p style="font-family: lucida grande;">The American Red Cross has committed $10 million for immediate relief efforts in Haiti.</p><p style="font-family: lucida grande;">The Silicon Valley Community Foundation's Haiti Earthquake Relief Fund is matching up to $100,000 in donations from donors, corporations and the community. The organization met its first $50,000 match in 24 hours, with the matching funds provided by the Irene S. Scully Fund. The second $50,000 matching program, announced Friday, was provided by the Lieve </p><div style="width: 336px;" class="articleEmbeddedAdBox"><hr class="articleAdRule"><div class="articleAdHeader">Advertisement</div><div class="adElement" id="adPosBox" align="center"><script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript"> yld_mgr.place_ad_here("adPosBox"); </script></div><hr class="articleAdRule"></div><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">Roelandt Foundation. Donations will be sent to organizations working to provide critical assistance in Haiti, according to the Silicon Valley foundation.</span><p style="font-family: lucida grande;">"We're seeing the generosity of our community from all quarters," said Emmett Carson, CEO and president of the community foundation, adding that donations have been received from corporations, individual donors, kids and adults.</p><p style="font-family: lucida grande;">Other Silicon Valley companies, including Yahoo, have created matching donation programs for employees.</p><p style="font-family: lucida grande;">Some Bay Area residents have created their own personal giving pages to help raise money. Sheila Dowd of San Jose, who along with Cat Lincoln and Stefania Pomponi Butler operate Clever Girls Collective, a social media consulting group, wanted to make a small contribution. Because the women often have weekly online events, such as watching "Project Runway" and tweeting about who should be voted out, they used the opportunity to raise money online.</p><p style="font-family: lucida grande;">The women set up a giving page through <a href="http://firstgiving.com/">firstgiving.com</a> and promised to match $250 in donations. They got the word out to family and friends through Twitter and Facebook.</p><p style="font-family: lucida grande;">"Money is tight, but what do know how to do is organize people online," Dowd said. "We were watching Project Runway and at the same time make it socially conscious. We encouraged all of our folks to give money."</p><p style="font-family: lucida grande;">By Friday afternoon, the women had raised $620 and planned take advantage of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation's matching donation program.</p><p style="font-family: lucida grande;">The Stanford University School of Medicine, the Department of Medicine and Stanford Hospital & Clinics have offered a $25,000 matching program to the medical center community. Those funds will support patient care at Hopital Albert Schweitzer in Port-au-Prince, which withstood the Tuesday quake and is functioning as a major treatment center for mass casualties. It remains one of the few institutions providing care for the many thousands of individuals injured in the calamity, according to a Stanford press release.</p><p style="font-family: lucida grande;">The San Jose Giants will be donating $1,000 to the relief efforts. </p><p style="font-family: lucida grande;">Plastic Jungle, a Mountain-View based company, is allowing people to turn gift cards into cash donations for the American Red Cross Santa Barbara County Chapter. </p><p style="font-family: lucida grande;">Not all of the Bay Area's earthquake relief efforts are donation-driven.</p><p style="font-family: lucida grande;">At MedShare's 32,000-square foot distribution center in San Leandro, a 40-foot container filled with requested medical supplies was scheduled to ship to Haiti on Friday, sponsored by Rotary International. The supplies were donated by 20 Northern California hospitals. </p><p style="font-family: lucida grande;">The FBI is warning people to be wary of online scammers who are seeking donations through unsolicted e-mail requests. </p><p style="font-family: lucida grande;" class="taglinejb">Contact Mark Gomez at 408-920-5869.</p><div style="font-family: lucida grande;" class="printinfobox"><p class="infoboxhead">How to donate<br /></p><p class="bodytext">To make a $10 donation to the American Red Cross, text "Haiti" to 90999 and the money will automatically be added to your cell phone bill. Donations can be made online <a href="http://www.siliconvalley-redcross.org/">www.siliconvalley-redcross.org</a> or over the phone, 1-877-727-6771.</p><p class="bodytext"><br />To make a donation through the Silicon Valley Community Foundation"s matching funds program, go to <a href="http://www.siliconvalleycf.org/">www.siliconvalleycf.org</a> and click on Donate Now or call 650-450-5444. Checks also can be mailed to Silicon Valley Community Foundation, 2440 West El Camino Real, Suite 300, Mountain View, CA, 94040, attn: "Haiti Earthquake Relief Fund."</p><p class="bodytext"><br />To donate or learn more about MedShare"s relief efforts in Haiti visit the Web site at <a href="http://www.medshare.org/">www.medshare.org</a>.<br />To turn a gift card into a donation to the American Red Cross, visit <a href="http://sbredcross.givezooks.com/campaigns/aid-for-haiti">sbredcross.givezooks.com/campaigns/aid-for-haiti</a></p><p class="bodytext"><a href="http://sbredcross.givezooks.com/campaigns/aid-for-haiti">______________________________________________________________________</a></p><p class="bodytext"><a href="http://sbredcross.givezooks.com/campaigns/aid-for-haiti">______________________________________________________________________<br /></a></p><p style="font-weight: bold;" class="bodytext">On Twitter</p><p class="bodytext">Media outlets that have staff in Haiti. Reporting and hopefully helping. Sometimes the mainstream media gets on my nerves. But in times like this, they have the resources and connections to get in there and make things happen.<br /></p><p class="bodytext"><a href="http://twitter.com/CNN/haiti-boots-on-ground">http://twitter.com/CNN/haiti-boots-on-ground</a></p><p class="bodytext"><a href="http://twitter.com/nytimes/haiti-earthquake">http://twitter.com/nytimes/haiti-earthquake</a><br /></p><p class="bodytext"><br /></p><p style="font-weight: bold;" class="bodytext">Wyclef Jean and Family</p><p class="bodytext">I donated via <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Yele-Haiti/65449875347">text message</a> to Wyclef Jean's <a href="http://www.yele.org/">YELE organization</a>, <span title="processed" class="status-body"><span class="entry-content">text “yele” to 501501 to donate $5 to the <a href="http://twitter.com/YELEHAITI">Yéle Haiti Earthquake Fund</a>.</span></span> Not only has Wyclef been a champion for Haiti for years, his uncle, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Joseph">Raymond Joseph</a>, is Haitian ambassador to the United States.<br /></p><p class="bodytext">Mr. Joseph was the gentleman who elegantly slammed religious charlatan Pat Robertson who said Haiti made a deal with the devil. Mr. Joseph responded on <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/14/pat-robertson-haiti-react_n_423038.html">The Rachel Maddow Show</a> to Robertson's extreme hatefulness and ignorance with dignity and high self worth.</p><p class="bodytext"> </p><p>WATCH:</p> <p><object id="msnbc4c6bea" height="346" width="592"><param name="movie" value="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32545640" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0"><param name="FlashVars" value="launch=34851879&width=592&height=346"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="wmode" value="opaque"><embed name="msnbc4c6bea" src="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32545640" flashvars="launch=34851879&width=592&height=346" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" wmode="opaque" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" height="346" width="592"></embed></object></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; font-size: 11px; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); margin-top: 5px; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; text-align: center; width: 592px;">Visit msnbc.com for <a style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(153, 153, 153) ! important; text-decoration: none ! important; font-weight: normal ! important; height: 13px; color: rgb(87, 153, 219) ! important;" href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/">breaking news</a>, <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032507" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(153, 153, 153) ! important; text-decoration: none ! important; font-weight: normal ! important; height: 13px; color: rgb(87, 153, 219) ! important;">world news</a>, and <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032072" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(153, 153, 153) ! important; text-decoration: none ! important; font-weight: normal ! important; height: 13px; color: rgb(87, 153, 219) ! important;">news about the economy</a></p> <p>Rachel Maddow called Robertson "the unintended consequence of the First Amendment."</p> <p>WATCH:</p> <p><object id="msnbccfb81" height="346" width="592"><param name="movie" value="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32545640" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0"><param name="FlashVars" value="launch=34851702&width=592&height=346"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="wmode" value="opaque"><embed name="msnbccfb81" src="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32545640" flashvars="launch=34851702&width=592&height=346" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" wmode="opaque" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" height="346" width="592"></embed></object></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; font-size: 11px; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); margin-top: 5px; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; text-align: center; width: 592px;">Visit msnbc.com for <a style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(153, 153, 153) ! important; text-decoration: none ! important; font-weight: normal ! important; height: 13px; color: rgb(87, 153, 219) ! important;" href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/">breaking news</a>, <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032507" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(153, 153, 153) ! important; text-decoration: none ! important; font-weight: normal ! important; height: 13px; color: rgb(87, 153, 219) ! important;">world news</a>, and <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032072" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(153, 153, 153) ! important; text-decoration: none ! important; font-weight: normal ! important; height: 13px; color: rgb(87, 153, 219) ! important;">news about the economy</a></p> <p class="bodytext"> Besides a <a href="http://www.facebook.com/redcross">Red Cross</a> or <a href="http://www.facebook.com/msf.english">Doctors without Borders</a>, he has the most credibility in sincerely wanting to help.</p></div>Devans00http://www.blogger.com/profile/00079172462536319738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12806777.post-17307398662489509922009-11-11T13:16:00.000-08:002009-11-11T13:40:23.460-08:00Stalking Horse is a Spoiler<span style="font-family: lucida grande;">I didn't know there was an official name for a </span><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoiler_effect">political spoiler</a><span style="font-family: lucida grande;"> until today. You know, the candidate that is similar to another, more popular candidate of one of the major parties. Usually the spoiler only differs in a hand full of points from the main party candidates. In all cases, the spoiler is always, without exception, running for ego driven, self-aggrandizement purposes. Otherwise, they'd focus on getting their "team member" elected and work with the major candidate's administration to get their points of views worked on from within the system.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: lucida grande;">The bad thing (at least when it's your party) about the spoiler is that they drain away enough votes from their ideological peer to allow the opposition party to win. Think </span><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_nader">Ralph Nader</a><span style="font-family: lucida grande;">'s affect on </span><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_gore">Al Gore</a><span style="font-family: lucida grande;">'s chances for </span><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore_presidential_campaign,_2000">United States president</a><span style="font-family: lucida grande;"> in 2000.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: lucida grande;">Thanks to </span><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://twitter.com/awad">Anu Garg</a><span style="font-family: lucida grande;">'s </span><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://wordsmith.org/">Wordsmith.org</a><span style="font-family: lucida grande;"> </span><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://wordsmith.org/words/today.html">A Word A Day email</a><span style="font-family: lucida grande;">, now I know the official word for political spoiler.</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153); font-weight: bold; font-family: lucida grande;font-size:130%;" ><a href="http://wordsmith.org/words/stalking_horse.html">Stalking Horse 1</a></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: lucida grande;">MEANING: noun: </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: lucida grande;">1. Something used to mask the true purpose. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: lucida grande;">2. A candidate put forward in an election to draw votes from another or to conceal another's potential candidacy. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: lucida grande;">ETYMOLOGY: After the former practice of bird hunters of hiding behind a horse (or a decoy) until he had reached within close range of prey. </span><br /><span style="font-family: lucida grande;">This week's theme: words about government, politics, and elections. </span><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold; font-family: lucida grande;font-size:130%;" ><a href="http://wordsmith.org/words/stalking-horse.html">Stalking Horse 2</a></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: lucida grande;">1. Something used to cover one's true purpose; a decoy. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: lucida grande;">2. A sham candidate put forward to conceal the candidacy of another or to divide the opposition. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: lucida grande;">3. A horse trained to conceal the hunter while stalking. A canvas screen made in the figure of a horse, used for similar concealment. </span>Devans00http://www.blogger.com/profile/00079172462536319738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12806777.post-54632768469667490982009-11-09T23:23:00.000-08:002009-11-10T00:06:46.260-08:00Culo in Bing Beanie<span style="font-family:lucida grande;">Earlier today, I went to the </span><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://www.lunch20.com/">Lunch 2.0</a><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"> at </span><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://www.bing.com/">Bing</a><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">! Celebrating 6 month launch with </span><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://www.twitter.com/">Twitter</a><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"> at </span><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://www.powerset.com/">Powerset</a><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">’s office in </span><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=San+Francisco+CA&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=San+Francisco,+CA&gl=us&ei=lBb5Soe7EI3IsAPvsPjHCQ&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=image&resnum=1&ved=0CAwQ8gEwAA">San Francisco CA</a><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">.</span><br /><br /><p face="lucida grande"><a href="http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h276/devans00/Blog/IMG_2303.jpg"><img src="http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h276/devans00/Blog/IMG_2303.jpg" alt="Hallway Leading to Powerset" border="0" height="375" width="500" /></a></p><span style=";font-family:lucida grande;font-size:85%;" >Hallway Leading to Powerset on Brannen Street in San Francisco</span><br /><br /><p face="lucida grande"><a href="http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h276/devans00/Blog/IMG_2307.jpg"><img src="http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h276/devans00/Blog/IMG_2307.jpg" alt="Bing provided lunch" border="0" height="375" width="500" /></a></p><span style=";font-family:lucida grande;font-size:85%;" >For lunch I had green salad with balsamic vinaigrette, grapeful fruit salad, macaroni and cheese, Medateranian chicken sandwich with Kerns peach nectar drink. Thanks for the grub, Bing.</span><br /><p style="font-family: lucida grande;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: lucida grande;">The most fun part of the event was dressing Culo in the swag beanie and taking some thuggish photos. So menacing, so cute. </p><p style="font-family: lucida grande;"><a href="http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h276/devans00/Blog/Old_G_Culo_1_110909.jpg"><img src="http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h276/devans00/Blog/Old_G_Culo_1_110909.jpg" alt="Culo in Bing Beanie Looking to Left" border="0" height="510" width="500" /></a></p><span style=";font-family:lucida grande;font-size:85%;" >Culo in Bing Beanie Looking to Left</span><br /><br /><p style="font-family: lucida grande;"><a href="http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h276/devans00/Blog/Old_G_Culo_2_110909.jpg"><img src="http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h276/devans00/Blog/Old_G_Culo_2_110909.jpg" alt="Culo in Bing Beanie Looking to Right" border="0" height="400" width="500" /></a></p><span style=";font-family:lucida grande;font-size:85%;" >Culo in Bing Beanie Looking to Right</span><br /><br /><p style="font-family: lucida grande;"><a href="http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h276/devans00/Blog/Old_G_Culo_3_110909.jpg"><img src="http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h276/devans00/Blog/Old_G_Culo_3_110909.jpg" alt="Culo in Bing Beanie Looking For Escape Route" border="0" height="608" width="500" /></a></p><span style=";font-family:lucida grande;font-size:85%;" >Culo in Bing Beanie Looking For Escape Route</span><br /><br /><p style="font-family: lucida grande;"><a href="http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h276/devans00/Blog/Old_G_Culo_4_110909.jpg"><img src="http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h276/devans00/Blog/Old_G_Culo_4_110909.jpg" alt="Culo in Bing Beanie Looking Like a Wise Old Man" border="0" height="630" width="500" /></a></p><p style="font-family: lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Culo in Bing Beanie Looking Like a Wise Old Man. Eye booger and all.<br /></span></p><br /><p style="font-family: lucida grande;"><a href="http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h276/devans00/Blog/Old_G_Culo_5_110909.jpg"><img src="http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h276/devans00/Blog/Old_G_Culo_5_110909.jpg" alt="Culo Mean Mugging in Bing Beanie. Looking Through with Whole Experience" border="0" height="490" width="500" /></a></p><p style="font-family: lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Culo Mean Mugging in Bing Beanie. Looking Through with Whole Experience</span></p>Devans00http://www.blogger.com/profile/00079172462536319738noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12806777.post-48202066512250033602009-10-25T15:09:00.000-07:002009-10-25T15:33:36.252-07:00Climate Shill at Mother Jones<div class="content" align="center"><br /><img class="imagecache imagecache-cover_image_Kthxbai_White" title="" alt="" src="http://climatecover.motherjones.com/sites/climatecover.motherjones.com/files/imagecache/cover_image_Kthxbai_White/mj/cover_images/Culo_stare_sm.jpg" width="300" height="394" /><br /><a href="http://climatecover.motherjones.com/node/4361">Culo</a><br /></div><p><br /><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">In December, world leaders will meet in Copenhagen to hash out a climate treaty that will shape our planet for generations to come. Our special climate issue features four different children on the cover to dramatize the point that we're gambling with their future. ~ Mother Jones</span><br /><br /><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,102,0);font-family:lucida grande;font-size:130%;" ><strong>MoJo's Next Top Cover Models</strong></span></p><p style="FONT-FAMILY: lucida grande">Wed October 21, 2009 3:09 PM PST </p><p style="FONT-FAMILY: lucida grande">World leaders are about to start negotiating what's likely our last best chance to avert catastrophic climate change—a global treaty to bring down carbon emissions. The stakes are huge, and yet so far it's politics as usual, and conventional wisdom has it that there won't be a deal. </p><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">Want to remind your politicians (and your friends) that this is not about special interests, but the future of all of us? And also have a whole lot of fun? Try our </span><a style="FONT-FAMILY: lucida grande" href="http://www.motherjones.com/climate-cover">interactive application</a><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"> where you can create a personalized cover of </span><i style="FONT-FAMILY: lucida grande">Mother Jones</i><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">' </span><a style="FONT-FAMILY: lucida grande" href="http://www.motherjones.com/special-reports/2009/11/climate-countdown">special issue on climate</a><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">. In less than 24 hours, </span><i style="FONT-FAMILY: lucida grande">Mother Jones</i><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"> readers have made close to a thousand covers. </span><a style="FONT-FAMILY: lucida grande" href="http://www.motherjones.com/climate-cover-gallery">Here are some</a><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">:</span><br /></div><p align="center"><br /><br /><img class="imagecache imagecache-cover_image_Dog_Black" title="" alt="" src="http://climatecover.motherjones.com/sites/climatecover.motherjones.com/files/imagecache/cover_image_Dog_Black/mj/cover_images/pumpkin.jpg" width="450" height="591" /><br /><a href="http://climatecover.motherjones.com/node/4011">Jack</a><br /><br /></p><div class="content"><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><img class="imagecache imagecache-cover_image_water_Black" title="" alt="" src="http://climatecover.motherjones.com/sites/climatecover.motherjones.com/files/imagecache/cover_image_water_Black/mj/cover_images/globalwarming.jpg" width="450" height="591" /><br /><a href="http://climatecover.motherjones.com/node/1111">Polar Bear</a><br /><br /><img class="imagecache imagecache-cover_image_breath_Black" title="" alt="" src="http://climatecover.motherjones.com/sites/climatecover.motherjones.com/files/imagecache/cover_image_breath_Black/mj/cover_images/puppies_0.jpg" width="450" height="591" /><br /><a href="http://climatecover.motherjones.com/node/1766">Daisy and Mimi</a><br /><br /><img class="imagecache imagecache-cover_image_breath_Black" title="" alt="" src="http://climatecover.motherjones.com/sites/climatecover.motherjones.com/files/imagecache/cover_image_breath_Black/mj/cover_images/_MG_4414.jpg" width="450" height="591" /><br /><a href="http://climatecover.motherjones.com/node/1886">Frosty, Thawing</a><br /><br /></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" class="content"><img class="imagecache imagecache-cover_image_Kthxbai_Black" title="" alt="" src="http://climatecover.motherjones.com/sites/climatecover.motherjones.com/files/imagecache/cover_image_Kthxbai_Black/mj/cover_images/AF3.jpg" width="450" height="591" /><br /><a href="http://climatecover.motherjones.com/node/781">Arnold Flowers</a><br /><br /></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><br /></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" class="content"><img class="imagecache imagecache-cover_image_christmas_Black" title="" alt="" src="http://climatecover.motherjones.com/sites/climatecover.motherjones.com/files/imagecache/cover_image_christmas_Black/mj/cover_images/Copy2%20of%20AprJul09%20208.jpg" width="450" height="591" /><br /><a href="http://climatecover.motherjones.com/node/3306">Susu Bereman </a><br /></div><br /></div><p align="center"><br /></p>Devans00http://www.blogger.com/profile/00079172462536319738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12806777.post-49836656114109270092009-10-24T22:01:00.000-07:002009-10-24T22:55:57.779-07:00Cloud Computing and The Weirdest Clouds that You’ll Ever See<span style="font-family: lucida grande;">Since I've been working on the CSix Cloud Computing SIG website the past two weeks, I have clouds on the brain. Although the clouds in the sky don't have much to do with</span><br /><blockquote style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: lucida grande;"><span style="font-style: italic;">topics relating to educational, networking and career transformation opportunities in Cloud Computing, virtualization, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, Software Frameworks and Web services areas.</span></blockquote><br /><span style="font-family: lucida grande;">I still like looking at them.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: lucida grande;">I loved this article on </span><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/10/the-weirdest-clouds-that-youll-ever-see/">The Weirdest Clouds that You’ll Ever See</a><span style="font-family: lucida grande;"> on Webdesigner Depot. So many very amazing pictures of clouds.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: lucida grande;" class="ads-block"></span> <p style="text-align: center; font-family: lucida grande;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Roll-cloud.JPG"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://netdna.webdesignerdepot.com/uploads/clouds/1.jpg" alt="" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-family: lucida grande;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rolling-thunder-cloud.jpg"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://netdna.webdesignerdepot.com/uploads/clouds/2.jpg" alt="" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-family: lucida grande;"><a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/Shelf_cloud_pano_oct07_ver4.jpg"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://netdna.webdesignerdepot.com/uploads/clouds/3.jpg" alt="" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-family: lucida grande;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/homer4k/2515240710/sizes/l/"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://netdna.webdesignerdepot.com/uploads/clouds/4.jpg" alt="" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-family: lucida grande;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sis/2334592796/sizes/l/"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://netdna.webdesignerdepot.com/uploads/clouds/5.jpg" alt="" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-family: lucida grande;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/spellingwitch/3665010431/sizes/o/"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://netdna.webdesignerdepot.com/uploads/clouds/6.jpg" alt="" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-family: lucida grande;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bobotron/271655472/sizes/o/"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://netdna.webdesignerdepot.com/uploads/clouds/7.jpg" alt="" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-family: lucida grande;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/29222485@N06/2726862116/sizes/l/"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://netdna.webdesignerdepot.com/uploads/clouds/8.jpg" alt="" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-family: lucida grande;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/arnarbi/757820106/sizes/l/"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://netdna.webdesignerdepot.com/uploads/clouds/9.jpg" alt="" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-family: lucida grande;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gmp1993/2582409056/sizes/o/"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://netdna.webdesignerdepot.com/uploads/clouds/10.jpg" alt="" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-family: lucida grande;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/justinwoods/3386884506/sizes/l/"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://netdna.webdesignerdepot.com/uploads/clouds/11.jpg" alt="" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-family: lucida grande;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ian_sinclair/2174370115/sizes/l/"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://netdna.webdesignerdepot.com/uploads/clouds/12.jpg" alt="" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-family: lucida grande;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/brucedene/1695721141/sizes/o/"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://netdna.webdesignerdepot.com/uploads/clouds/13.jpg" alt="" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-family: lucida grande;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/digiart2001/3664214404/sizes/l/"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://netdna.webdesignerdepot.com/uploads/clouds/14.jpg" alt="" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-family: lucida grande;"><a href="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/clouds/3/"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://netdna.webdesignerdepot.com/uploads/clouds/15.jpg" alt="" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-family: lucida grande;"><a href="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/clouds/5/"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://netdna.webdesignerdepot.com/uploads/clouds/16.jpg" alt="" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-family: lucida grande;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pantsonsteven/2687150025/sizes/l/"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://netdna.webdesignerdepot.com/uploads/clouds/17.jpg" alt="" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-family: lucida grande;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/fishball/10579315/sizes/l/"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://netdna.webdesignerdepot.com/uploads/clouds/18.jpg" alt="" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-family: lucida grande;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/st_sch1973/1065943804/sizes/l/"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://netdna.webdesignerdepot.com/uploads/clouds/19.jpg" alt="" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-family: lucida grande;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/achim_sunshine/293277874/sizes/o/"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://netdna.webdesignerdepot.com/uploads/clouds/20.jpg" alt="" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-family: lucida grande;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jfaahaygood/367862605/sizes/l/"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://netdna.webdesignerdepot.com/uploads/clouds/21.jpg" alt="" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-family: lucida grande;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/damianromero/3533175946/sizes/l/"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://netdna.webdesignerdepot.com/uploads/clouds/22.jpg" alt="" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-family: lucida grande;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sidereal/1716956846/sizes/l/"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://netdna.webdesignerdepot.com/uploads/clouds/23.jpg" alt="" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-family: lucida grande;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tim_k/1505078266/sizes/l/"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://netdna.webdesignerdepot.com/uploads/clouds/24.jpg" alt="" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-family: lucida grande;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/keepitsurreal/2585224918/sizes/l/"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://netdna.webdesignerdepot.com/uploads/clouds/25.jpg" alt="" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-family: lucida grande;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/19779889@N00/3058850575/sizes/l/"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://netdna.webdesignerdepot.com/uploads/clouds/26.jpg" alt="" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-family: lucida grande;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/schristia/2515723313/sizes/l/"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://netdna.webdesignerdepot.com/uploads/clouds/27.jpg" alt="" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-family: lucida grande;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jooliree/1358844311/sizes/l/"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://netdna.webdesignerdepot.com/uploads/clouds/28.jpg" alt="" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-family: lucida grande;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dcmh21/929350467/sizes/o/"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://netdna.webdesignerdepot.com/uploads/clouds/29.jpg" alt="" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-family: lucida grande;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/o_g_rasheed/3598668763/sizes/l/"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://netdna.webdesignerdepot.com/uploads/clouds/30.jpg" alt="" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-family: lucida grande;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bill_d/3823256685/sizes/l/"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://netdna.webdesignerdepot.com/uploads/clouds/31.jpg" alt="" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-family: lucida grande;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lightdark/2234807063/sizes/o/"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://netdna.webdesignerdepot.com/uploads/clouds/32.jpg" alt="" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-family: lucida grande;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/reverend_smarm/478046592/sizes/l/"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://netdna.webdesignerdepot.com/uploads/clouds/33.jpg" alt="" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-family: lucida grande;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/26455718@N03/3718280251/sizes/l/"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://netdna.webdesignerdepot.com/uploads/clouds/34.jpg" alt="" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-family: lucida grande;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/andrewparadise/3362678672/sizes/o/"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://netdna.webdesignerdepot.com/uploads/clouds/35b.jpg" alt="" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-family: lucida grande;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/37049331@N00/1392052192/"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://netdna.webdesignerdepot.com/uploads/clouds/36.jpg" alt="" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-family: lucida grande;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jgpics/68333250/"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://netdna.webdesignerdepot.com/uploads/clouds/37.jpg" alt="" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-family: lucida grande;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/siggabv/634511321/sizes/l/"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://netdna.webdesignerdepot.com/uploads/clouds/38.jpg" alt="" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-family: lucida grande;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/24271795@N04/2775489190/sizes/o/"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://netdna.webdesignerdepot.com/uploads/clouds/39.jpg" alt="" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-family: lucida grande;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/landoni/3843814543/sizes/l/"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://netdna.webdesignerdepot.com/uploads/clouds/40b.jpg" alt="" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-family: lucida grande;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/starlisa/1898480209/"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://netdna.webdesignerdepot.com/uploads/clouds/41.jpg" alt="" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-family: lucida grande;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/costap/481820047/sizes/o/"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://netdna.webdesignerdepot.com/uploads/clouds/42.jpg" alt="" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-family: lucida grande;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dcartiersr/3856494423/sizes/l/"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://netdna.webdesignerdepot.com/uploads/clouds/43.jpg" alt="" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-family: lucida grande;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/61608826@N00/1143103965/sizes/l/"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://netdna.webdesignerdepot.com/uploads/clouds/44.jpg" alt="" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-family: lucida grande;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/marialuisa/90962141/"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://netdna.webdesignerdepot.com/uploads/clouds/45.jpg" alt="" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-family: lucida grande;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40396973@N00/2748248093/sizes/l/"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://netdna.webdesignerdepot.com/uploads/clouds/46.jpg" alt="" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-family: lucida grande;"><a href="vbhttp://archive.coasttocoastam.com/gen/page2754.html?theme=light"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://netdna.webdesignerdepot.com/uploads/clouds/47.jpg" alt="" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-family: lucida grande;"><a href="http://media.photobucket.com/image/weird%20clouds/Sissaintexas/weirdestcloudseverseen.jpg"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://netdna.webdesignerdepot.com/uploads/clouds/48.jpg" alt="" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-family: lucida grande;"><a href="http://atomikaztex.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/mammatus-storm-clouds_san-antonio1.jpg"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://netdna.webdesignerdepot.com/uploads/clouds/49.jpg" alt="" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-family: lucida grande;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mekin/273983359/sizes/l/"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://netdna.webdesignerdepot.com/uploads/clouds/50.jpg" alt="" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-family: lucida grande;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pierpy67/241434690/sizes/o/"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://netdna.webdesignerdepot.com/uploads/clouds/51.jpg" alt="" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-family: lucida grande;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mike9alive/1004198774/sizes/l/"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://netdna.webdesignerdepot.com/uploads/clouds/52.jpg" alt="" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-family: lucida grande;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lsydney/2209154898/sizes/l/"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://netdna.webdesignerdepot.com/uploads/clouds/53.jpg" alt="" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-family: lucida grande;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://netdna.webdesignerdepot.com/uploads/clouds/54.jpg" alt="" /></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-family: lucida grande;"><a href="http://magazine.gritfx.com/morning-glory/"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://netdna.webdesignerdepot.com/uploads/clouds/56.jpg" alt="" height="408" width="615" /></a></p>Devans00http://www.blogger.com/profile/00079172462536319738noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12806777.post-54870144711242111642009-09-27T14:29:00.001-07:002009-09-27T17:13:37.084-07:00Pooch Hotel Sunnyvale Grand Opening<div style="font-family: lucida grande;">Yesterday, Culo and I had fun at the <a href="http://www.poochhotel.com/">Pooch Hotel Grand Opening</a>. We had a tour of the 30,000-square-foot facility, talked to a pet psychic and got to sample some restaurants and other products and services.<br /><br />The prices are comparable to other local doggy daycares in the area, so I'll definitely check them out next time I have the need. Plus <a href="http://twitter.com/poochhotel">Pooch Hotel</a> has other cool stuff like scented floors, aromatherapy, massages and other spa (spaw) services. One thing on the list of services that was unique. Limousine service will pick up within <a href="http://www.househunt.com/real-estate/map-santa-clara.htm">Santa Clara County</a>, homes and businesses. Although the land and underwater treadmill and swim sessions may be rare too.<br /><br /><blockquote style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0); font-style: italic;">Located at 180 North Wolfe Road @ Central Expressway in Sunnyvale (only 5 minutes from the San Jose Airport), Pooch Hotel is set to redefine pet boarding options forever, with unparalleled amenities, an environmentally friendly mindset and a level of quality and care never before seen in the South Bay Area. Custom-made hotel suites, all within an eco-friendly facility make the Pooch Hotel a canine’s first choice. With All Day Play, our 8-hour daycare with 15,000 square feet of play space, and the Pooch Hotel Club with a customized exercise pool, underwater and land treadmill and dietary programs, guests are sure to remain fit and cared for throughout their stay. For the pampered pooch, the SPAW™, with aromatherapy bathing, paw-dicures, fur coloring, poochberry facials and tooth brushing, create a quality stay for all guests and delivery. </blockquote><br /><br /><img style="width: 0px; height: 0px; visibility: hidden;" src="http://counters.gigya.com/wildfire/IMP/CXNID=2000002.0NXC/bHQ9MTI1NDA4Njg2MDE*MyZwdD*xMjU*MDg2OTQ3NjY5JnA9Mzg2MzYxJmQ9Jm49YmxvZ2dlciZnPTEmbz1mZjE1ZmZmMjNiZTk*MzdjYWVhNGU4NGM5ZmM*YjUzYiZvZj*w.gif" border="0" height="0" width="0" /> </div><br /><div style="font-family: lucida grande;"><br /><div style="text-align: center; width: 640px;"><br /><div align="center"><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://w66.photobucket.com/pbwidget.swf?pbwurl=" wmode="transparent" height="480" width="640"></embed></div><a href="http://photobucket.com/slideshows" target="_blank"><img style="border-width: 0pt; float: left;" src="http://pic.photobucket.com/slideshows/btn.gif" /></a><a href="http://s66.photobucket.com/albums/h276/devans00/Misc_2009/Pooch_Hotel_092609/?action=view&current=f9ca0629.pbw" target="_blank"><img style="border-width: 0pt; float: left;" src="http://pic.photobucket.com/slideshows/btn_viewallimages.gif" /></a></div></div><br /><div style="font-family: lucida grande;" align="left"><br /><br />Some services available to sample:</div><br /><ul style="font-family: lucida grande;"><br /><li> Psychic Counselor, Wellness Guidance, Spirit Communication, Life Issue Resolution, Pet Communication: Dani Brown, <a href="mailto:in2itvinsight@aol.com">in2itvinsight@aol.com</a></li><br /><li><a href="http://www.destinospa.net/">Destino Spa</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palo_Alto,_California">Palo Alto</a> on hand to give pooch parents and their pooches massages. </li><br /><li>Fresh strawberries and marshmallows with chocolate sauce from <a href="http://www.lafondue.com/">La Fondue</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saratoga,_California">Saratoga</a>. </li><br /><li><a href="http://www.pinkiesnailsalons.com/">Pinkies Nail Salon</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Altos,_California">Los Altos</a>, human manicures and pawdicures. </li><br /><li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_velvet_cake">Red velvet</a> and chocolate mini cupcakes from <a href="http://www.jenscakes.com/">Jen's Cakes</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Jose,_California">San Jose</a>. </li><br /><li>All proceeds from silent auction donated to the <a href="http://www.hssv.org/">Humane Society Silicon Valley</a>, HSSV and <a href="http://www.petsunlimited.org/">Pets Unlimited</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco">San Francisco</a>.</li><br /></ul><br />Surya the orangutan and Roscoe the hound dog <a href="http://bit.ly/vdLrh">video from National Geographic</a>, 9-22-9.<br /><br /><object height="405" width="660"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/d79ArrL8VRg&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6&border=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/d79ArrL8VRg&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="405" width="660"></embed></object><br /><br />I love this video so much.<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://s66.photobucket.com/albums/h276/devans00/Misc_2009/?action=view&current=Surya_Roscoe_Friends_092609.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h276/devans00/Misc_2009/Surya_Roscoe_Friends_092609.jpg" alt="Surya the orangutan and Roscoe the hound dog" border="0" /></a></div>Devans00http://www.blogger.com/profile/00079172462536319738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12806777.post-22863694006942651482009-09-22T16:11:00.000-07:002009-09-22T19:36:40.008-07:00Chip Somodevilla Chimp Senator Joe Wilson<p><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><b>Chimp</b> </span><br /></span></p><p align="center"><a href="http://blog.francis.vachon.net/blog/_archives/2005/11/15/1406332.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><img border="0" alt="Photo by Kevin Hill" src="http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h276/devans00/Blog/Chimp_Kevin_Hill_092209.jpg" /></span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://blog.francis.vachon.net/blog/_archives/2005/11/15/1406332.html">Photo by Kevin Hill</a></span><br /></span></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;">To review an image on the LCD screen of a digital camera after taking a photograph. In common usage among press photographers. The act was dubbed chimping after photographers were caught making monkey-like noises when they reviewed a good shot in their cameras.<br /></span></p><br /><p><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"><i>1. The photographer chimped his double-play shots from the first base photo position. </i></span></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><i>2. The photographer was caught chimping on the sideline after a play and missed the interception shot.</i> </span></span></p><br /><p align="right"><a href="http://chimp.urbanup.com/1581279"><i><span style="font-family:verdana;">Urban Dictionary</span></i></a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span></p></blockquote><br /><p align="center"><a href="http://anakbrunei.org/2008/08/20/chimpers-chimping-part-1" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><img border="0" alt="Photo by Anak Brunei" src="http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h276/devans00/Blog/Chimp_Anak_Brunei_092209.jpg" /></span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://anakbrunei.org/2008/08/20/chimpers-chimping-part-1">Photo by Anak Brunei</a></span></span></p><br /><p align="center"><span style="font-family:verdana;"></span></p><span style="font-family:verdana;"><hr width="50%"><br /></span><p></p><p align="left"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></p><p align="center"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/_autumn_leaf/478452393/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><img border="0" alt="Autumn Leaf" src="http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h276/devans00/Blog/Chimp_Autumn_Leaf_092209.jpg" /></span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/_autumn_leaf/478452393/">Photo by Autumn Leaf</a></span><br /></span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-family:verdana;"></span></p><span style="font-family:verdana;"><hr width="50%"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family:verdana;">Picturing someone squinting at their camera while making monkey noises is hilarious. Common anywhere people are checking out the digital image just taken.<br /></span></p><p align="center"><a href="http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_486c1c56010007pa.htm" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><img border="0" alt="Photo by David Guan" src="http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h276/devans00/Blog/Chimp_David_Guan_092209.jpg" /></span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_486c1c56010007pa.htm">Photo by David Guan</a></span></span></p><br /><p><span style="font-family:verdana;">I found out about the unusual definition of </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimping" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:verdana;">chimping</span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> while reading </span><a href="http://www.1854.eu/2009/09/behind_the_picture_you_lie_say.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Behind the Picture: You Lie, says Joe Wilson</span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> online at </span><a href="http://www.bjp-online.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:verdana;">1854 The British Journal of Photography</span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;">. Photographer </span><a href="http://bit.ly/uqeWM" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Chip Somodevilla</span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> describes how he captured one of the first newswire images of </span><a href="http://twitter.com/CongJoeWilson" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Representative<br />Joe Wilson</span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> (</span><a href="http://www.joewilson.house.gov/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:verdana;">R - SC</span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;">) </span><a href="http://bit.ly/ZpdYQ" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:verdana;">shrieking "You lie!"</span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> at </span><a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/topic/politics/government/barack-obama-PEPLT007408.topic" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:verdana;">President Brarack Obama</span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> during his speech to a joint session of the </span><a href="http://www.congress.org/congressorg/home/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:verdana;">US Congress</span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> in the </span><a href="http://www.house.gov/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:verdana;">House of Representatives</span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> on September 9th.</span></p><p align="center"><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;"><object width="500" height="405"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/UkJ7XYinc_A&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6&border=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/UkJ7XYinc_A&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="500" height="405"></embed></object><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family:verdana;">Not only was Congressman Wilson's behavior a </span><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090910/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_health_care_heckling" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:verdana;">breach of decorum</span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> for how a representative of the American people is supposed to behave, even </span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/15/wilsons-wife-i-said-joe-w_n_287077.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:verdana;">his wife Roxanne thinks he's a nut</span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /><br /></span><p align="center"><a href="http://www.1854.eu/2009/09/behind_the_picture_you_lie_say.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><img border="0" alt="Photo by Chip Somodevilla" src="http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h276/devans00/Blog/Chip_Somodevilla_Joe_Wilson_092209.jpg" /></span></a><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;"><a href="http://www.1854.eu/2009/09/behind_the_picture_you_lie_say.html">Photo by Chip Somodevilla</a></span><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></p><span style="font-family:verdana;">Sadly, even though Wilson was </span><a href="http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/09/does-joe-wilsons-you-lie-charge-stand-up.php" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family:verdana;">in fact wrong</span></b></a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> and was formally </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/16/us/politics/16wilson.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:verdana;">rebuked by his peers in the House of Representatives</span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;">, plenty of mental midgets and know nothing Republican numbnuts herald him as a </span><a href="http://getbigideas.blogspot.com/2009/09/joe-wilson-sc-hero-of-week.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:verdana;">hero and role model</span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;">. Thanks to former far right wing insiders like </span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/frank-schaeffer" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Frank Schaeffer</span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;">, we know that facts are irrelevant to certain segments of society, </span><a href="http://frank-schaeffer.blogspot.com/2009/09/912-marchers-and-far-right-subversives.html" target="_blank"><i><span style="font-family:verdana;">The 9/12 Marchers and the Far Right Subversives</span></i></a><span style="font-family:verdana;">. It still bugs. </span><p></p>Devans00http://www.blogger.com/profile/00079172462536319738noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12806777.post-38442894418050836482009-09-17T17:44:00.000-07:002009-09-17T22:58:06.379-07:00Imma let you finish & NetflixBehind Scenes<span style="font-family:lucida grande;">My version of the Imma let You Finish graphic you can make at </span><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://kanyelicio.us/">Kanyelicious</a><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">. Like </span><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://bit.ly/1qUPI1">President Obama</a><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">, I think </span><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://bit.ly/lqw1c">Kanye West was a jackass</a><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"> for taking away Taylor Swift's glory when she won Best Female Video award at the MTV VMAs. So many people are angry at Kanye for his self absorbed jerkiness, the </span><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/">Urban Dictionary</a><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"> now has a definition for </span><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://imma-let-you-finish.urbanup.com/4239048">Imma Let You Finish</a><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">. Last I checked 3887 people had voted up the word.</span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h276/devans00/Blog/Kanye_Devans_Cosmos_091709.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h276/devans00/Blog/Kanye_Devans_Cosmos_091709.jpg" alt="Kanye Devans Cosmos" border="0" height="350" width="500" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://kanyelicio.us/">Kanyelicious</a></span><br /></div><br /><br /><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">It's beside the point if I like </span><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mVEGfH4s5g">Beyonce's Single Ladies video</a><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"> better or not, MTV decided to give Taylor Swift the award. Plus, is Kanye the only one who takes the award show seriously? Before high school, I had figured out that the "best" doesn't always win on those shows. Award shows tend to be public stroke sessions for the entertainment industry whether music, TV, movies or sports.</span><br /><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"><br />Today, one of my </span><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://twitter.com/">Twitter</a><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"> </span><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://mashable.com/2008/11/15/twitterspeak/">Tweeps</a><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"> sent around a link about </span><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://www.netflix.com/">Netflix</a><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"> operations. <a href="http://www.uniquescoop.com/">Daily Entertainment in a Unique Way</a> posted a bunch of pictures of the </span><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://www.uniquescoop.com/2009/08/behind-scenes-at-netflix.html">Netflix employees and pictures of returned movies</a><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"> in a huge warehouse. </span><br /><br /><br /><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_8SG7VFDHTK_jmApnsiH1_-vU5ak5-MuNE83KQ63ky3HerTHo-9tEzZ8TgRYGsW1u3koJCiY6oXJgR8jRIxyXN2v0fx4GG-rnpne04_V9FjYAK3QWeVJaOxzIN5OVJv0wW81Z/s400/12.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 285px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_8SG7VFDHTK_jmApnsiH1_-vU5ak5-MuNE83KQ63ky3HerTHo-9tEzZ8TgRYGsW1u3koJCiY6oXJgR8jRIxyXN2v0fx4GG-rnpne04_V9FjYAK3QWeVJaOxzIN5OVJv0wW81Z/s400/12.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">My favorite part is the calisthenics exercise breaks. I know my butt aches after sitting so long, so I could appreciate that job perk. I'm so addicted to </span><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://www.netflix.com/">Netflix</a><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">, I can't image my life without it. </span><br /><br /><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://twitter.com/">Twitter</a><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"> is slowly becoming like that too. </span><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://tweetdeck.com/">TweetDeck</a><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"> on the desktop<br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"><a href="http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h276/devans00/Blog/TweetDeck_Snap_091709.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h276/devans00/Blog/TweetDeck_Snap_091709.jpg" alt="TweetDeck on Desktop" border="0" height="400" width="500" /></a></span><br /></div><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"><br /><br />and </span><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://echofon.com/">Echofon</a><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"> iPhone app<br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"><a href="http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h276/devans00/Blog/Echofon_Snap_091709.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h276/devans00/Blog/Echofon_Snap_091709.jpg" alt="Echofon iPhone app" border="0" /></a></span><br /></div><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"><br />are my lifeblood to know what's going on. I've slowly but surely built a decent list of interesting people and organizations to follow. I get current event news before it shows up on media websites and I'm entertained 24/7.</span>Devans00http://www.blogger.com/profile/00079172462536319738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12806777.post-50240706766283274632009-08-18T15:51:00.000-07:002009-08-18T16:06:04.832-07:00Facebook Name Analyzer<span style="font-family: lucida grande;">Fun </span><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://apps.facebook.com/name-analyzer?_fb_fromhash=1e70424f3f03c09c43a3ea189a0aff50">name analyzer on Facebook</a><span style="font-family: lucida grande;">. Sometimes the quizzes or analysis on the social networking site are lame, but this one is pretty fun. I can live with these results.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center; font-family: lucida grande;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP0NDzM66cUcXPANhgg__hQ98ik2dvRgSZ-BBZNzaslayPQX2mQXt6jnJi1JA-gH3kr7jX74LOoYeBduc6pnCyvI9sl_zs1T6TMYAgQjJcd78xnVLbDkicG0sSq7OwYpcfwsy_/s1600-h/Facebook_Name_Debra_Analyzer_081809.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 322px; height: 79px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP0NDzM66cUcXPANhgg__hQ98ik2dvRgSZ-BBZNzaslayPQX2mQXt6jnJi1JA-gH3kr7jX74LOoYeBduc6pnCyvI9sl_zs1T6TMYAgQjJcd78xnVLbDkicG0sSq7OwYpcfwsy_/s400/Facebook_Name_Debra_Analyzer_081809.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371443652060393714" border="0" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center; font-family: lucida grande;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjidx9JuW-F6OlPmEdtq481oyX5n0ibrf6bqxp4dgn5pEShF1cf7ABKK8geBngP0dnbwzgs6KXXqQyjbi948Zz6nhMlWPAYxMoAgY-ENGPbJhWvgaoKCBx2tiJpfr3Vof2biACh/s1600-h/Facebook_Name_Devans_Analyzer_081809.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 385px; height: 80px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjidx9JuW-F6OlPmEdtq481oyX5n0ibrf6bqxp4dgn5pEShF1cf7ABKK8geBngP0dnbwzgs6KXXqQyjbi948Zz6nhMlWPAYxMoAgY-ENGPbJhWvgaoKCBx2tiJpfr3Vof2biACh/s400/Facebook_Name_Devans_Analyzer_081809.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371443812039729506" border="0" /></a></div>Devans00http://www.blogger.com/profile/00079172462536319738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12806777.post-84523737789676094482009-08-11T16:06:00.000-07:002009-08-11T16:25:38.861-07:00Cacography - Bad Writing - Spelling<a style="font-family: lucida grande;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h276/devans00/Blog/typewriter_bad_writing.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 500px; height: 645px;" src="http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h276/devans00/Blog/typewriter_bad_writing.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">I love this word because I'm a bad speller. Who knew such a perfect word existed?</span><br /><br /><blockquote style="font-family: lucida grande;"><h3> cacography </h3> <p> </p><div style="color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-weight: bold; font-size: 13px;">PRONUNCIATION:</div> (kuh-KOG-ruh-fee) <a id="a0td6" href="http://wordsmith.org/words/cacography.mp3"><img id="img0a3" src="http://wordsmith.org/words/images/sound-icon.png" alt="" align="middle" border="0" height="24" width="32" /></a> <p> </p><div style="color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-weight: bold; font-size: 13px;">MEANING:</div> <i>noun:</i><br /> 1. Bad handwriting.<br /> 2. Incorrect spelling.<br /><br /><div style="color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-weight: bold; font-size: 13px;">ETYMOLOGY:</div> From caco- (bad), from Greek kakos (bad) + -graphy (writing). Caco is ultimately from the Indo-European root kakka-/kaka- (to defecate) which also gave us poppycock, cacophony, and <a id="a0td7" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cucking_stool">cucking stool</a>. Opposites of today's word are calligraphy (beautiful handwriting) and orthography (correct spelling). A related word is <a id="a0td8" href="http://wordsmith.org/words/cacology.html">cacology</a>.<br /><br /><div style="color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-weight: bold; font-size: 13px;">USAGE:</div> "Before I could think of quitting, my boss enlightened me on the virtues of my handwriting, which was sheer cacography: 'Your writing is in direct competition with the Harappan script that still had the hope of being deciphered in the distant future.'"<br /> Vikram Kumar; Positions Very Vacant; The Hindustan Times (New Delhi, India); Apr 15, 2008.<br /><br /> "They [Nerds Inc.] have taken advantage of cacography in a novel way. ... They registered more than 90 of the most probable misspellings of popular Web addresses afforded by the QWERTY keyboard, for processing by typo.net."<br /><br /> Thomas W. Holcomb Jr.; Nerds Inc. Turns Typos Into On-Line Advertising; The New York Times; Jun 2, 1997.<br /><br /><a href="http://wordsmith.org/words/cacography.html"><span style="font-style: italic;">A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg</span></a><br /></blockquote><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center; font-family: lucida grande;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h276/devans00/Blog/ordure_keyboard.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 194px;" src="http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h276/devans00/Blog/ordure_keyboard.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></div>Devans00http://www.blogger.com/profile/00079172462536319738noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12806777.post-55777282660515936172009-07-23T09:09:00.000-07:002009-07-23T09:27:44.797-07:00If Media Were Any Good | The Smirking Chimp<a style="font-family: lucida grande;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/22926"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 526px; height: 100px;" src="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/themes/chimpy/images/900.jpg" alt="Smirking Chimp website logo" border="0" /></a><blockquote style="font-family: lucida grande;"><h2 style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/22926">If Media Were Any Good</a></h2><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);">by </span><a style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);" href="http://www.davidswanson.org/"><span style="font-style: italic;">David Swanson</span></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);"> | July 22, 2009 - 8:51am</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);">A week ago, I published a report on 1,200 photos of U.S. torture that I have examined but the public at large has not seen. I talked about the photos on a few progressive radio shows. I received calls from some advocacy groups that have been trying for years to get hold of these photos. But I received not one single inquiry from the corporate media. Even most good blogs ignored this story despite a handful of prominent blogs promoting it. This started me thinking and fantasizing: <span style="font-weight: bold;">what would the world look like if we had major media outlets that were worth more than a warm bucket of spit</span>?</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);">Imagine if the media monopolies were busted, a diversity of private outlets were free to compete, and public media were developed, including free substantive air time for election campaigns. Imagine media outlets with democratic accountability. Imagine media outlets that judged a story important if the majority of the public said so, and not if those in power said so.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);">The majority of the public favors single-payer healthcare. Corporate media outlets are crammed with endless, often pointless, stories about healthcare that never mention single-payer. On Friday a House committee passed an amendment to allow states to create single-payer healthcare systems, and have you heard about that from a single corporate media outlet? Another amendment now up for a vote would create single-payer at the national level. Heard that one mentioned? Our existing media outlets (whose lead blogs follow more than bloggers admit to themselves) decide what's important based on the preferences of a small number of powerful people. And the fact that these preferences almost always differ wildly from majority opinion does not lead to any rethinking of the acceptability of this approach in a democratic republic.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);">The same treatment is accorded other people around the world by the U.S. media. Over in Iraq (remember that place?) an important deadline is approaching in the treaty that Bush and Maliki made, and which Bush misleadingly called a status of forces agreement in order to not call it a treaty. The U.S. Senate never consented to this treaty, was never asked to, and never demanded the right. But the Iraqi Parliament, which represented a public whose media -- even in the midst of a living hell -- better informed it of the treaty's terms than ours did, approved the treaty. But the parliament approved the treaty only on the condition that the Iraqi people be able to vote it up or down in a vote to be held no later than July 2009. Heard anything about this lately? Check your calendar, and then check your newspaper. What gives? If you could bring slaughtered native Americans back to life they could tell you the violations of their treaties were not heavily covered in the white man's press. The June deadline to withdraw from Iraqi cities was met in part by redrawing boundaries. Can you imagine the outrage if a foreign force did such a thing while occupying the United States? Some actions are deemed outrageous and others unworthy of extensive discussion. Some articles are written with that obnoxious air of "objectivity" while other articles are not written.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);">A democratic communications system that worked for the people rather than those in power, advertisers, and corporate partners would identify politicians by party and state but also by amount of money accepted from the corporations relevant to the issue under consideration. All the endless articles and chatter about healthcare would look different with the dollar figures inserted. A democratic media outlet would forego fluff and filler to engage in useful functions such as tracking whether elected officials fulfill their campaign promises, something I've done here and the St Petersburg Times has done here.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);">Democratic (small d) media would be very different from Democratic or Republican or Bipartisan media. It would treat laws as mandatory, not subject to the whims of those in power. It would treat enforcement of laws against those in power as more important than their enforcement against everyone else. Such media would not cover resistance to a war without noting that the war was (if it was) illegal. Such media would not cover the prosecution of low-level soldiers for crimes they were ordered to commit, without investigating their superiors and asking why they had not been prosecuted. Such media would not quote nonsensical statements by those in power about possibly investigating whether crimes had been committed without noting (when it existed) the publicly available evidence that in fact crimes had almost certainly been committed. And if a former vice president appeared on a democratic show and brazenly confessed to felonies, the producers would invite the attorney general to view the tape on the air and respond to it.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);"><a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/22926">If Media Were Any Good | The Smirking Chimp</a>: "Imagine media outlets with democratic accountability. Imagine media outlets that judged a story important if the majority of the public said so, and not if those in power said so."</span><br /></blockquote><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">The points in this article are so undeniable. David Swanson mentions two things that always get my goat. The fact that:</span><br /></span><ul style="font-family:lucida grande;"><li><span style="font-size:130%;">Lower level people are always taking the hit for higher level authorities who are in fact more guilty.</span></li><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><li><span style="font-size:130%;">Politicians brazenly admit to crimes and nothing happens to them. Or they pretend that something that did in fact happen, never did. Either by bald face lying or the sin of omission.</span></li></ul><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">If only there were real, blind justice in the world....</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">Even better would be bulldog journalists to hold some feet to the fire until the truth and accountability will out.</span></span>Devans00http://www.blogger.com/profile/00079172462536319738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12806777.post-41125341149644853972009-06-29T18:10:00.000-07:002009-06-29T19:17:15.878-07:00Iran June 2009 Election Uprising Graphic Novel<span style="font-family:lucida grande;">Free </span><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://www.spreadpersepolis.com/">downloadable political graphic novel</a><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">, Persepolis 2.0: Iran's Post-Election Uprising: Hopes & Fears Revealed. All images repurposed from </span><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Persepolis-Marjane-Satrapi/dp/0375714839/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_2">Marjane Satrapi's novel Persepolis</a><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">. <br /><iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=devanscosmos-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=0375714839&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="width: 120px; height: 240px; display: none;" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe> <br />Good memoir and peek into upper middle class Iranian culture, by the way.<br /><br />Although images were created for Iran's 1979 Revolution, they apply to the aftermath of the June 2009 Iranian Election.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center; font-family: lucida grande;"><a href="http://www.spreadpersepolis.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h276/devans00/Blog/Persepolis_20_IranElection_Cover_06.jpg" alt="Cover of Novel" border="0" width="500" height="457" /></a><br /></div><br /><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">Since the Revolution in 1979, Iranians have coped with an increasingly repressive regime. Attempts for greater social and political freedoms have resulted in brutal crackdowns by the hardline government. The ensuing apathy and significant boycott of the 2005 presidential elections led to the election of the ultraconservative mayor of Tehran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">Four years later Iran has become increasingly alienated and its people more polarized than ever before. The campaign of former Prime Minister Mir Hussein Moussavi galvanized voters hoping for change, especially among the youth – two thirds of Iran’s population is younger than 32. On June 12th 85% of eligible voters cast their ballots and what happened next changed Iran forever.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center; font-family: lucida grande;"><a href="http://www.spreadpersepolis.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h276/devans00/Blog/Persepolis_20_IranElection_Neda_062.jpg" alt="iran election neda protest history political" border="0" width="500" height="449" /></a><br /></div><br /><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">Put together by two artists, spreadpersepolis@gmail.com. </span><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://twitter.com/jonvanparys/status/2343462790">Shanghai-based, Iranian-born and Belgian-bred Payman</a><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"> and Sina.</span>Devans00http://www.blogger.com/profile/00079172462536319738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12806777.post-61170046994290264832009-06-19T07:37:00.000-07:002009-06-20T01:13:25.483-07:00Iran Protester, I Ran for My Life - Jamileh<div style="text-align: center;font-family:lucida grande;"><a href="http://helpiranelection.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h276/devans00/Blog/Culo_Iran_Green_061809.jpg" alt="Twitter iranelection Support Green Avatar" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://helpiranelection.com/"><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >Show support for democracy and free speech in Iran by making your Twitter icon green.</span></a><br /><br /></div><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">Below is the story of a young woman </span><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Iranian_election_protests">protester</a><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"> of the Friday, June 12, Iran Election. Apparently, the powers-that-be expected the population to buy that </span><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iUyMnsTPIBzrzCJ48FGXyFzksezwD98RBOM80">39.2 million handwritten paper ballots</a><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"> in a country </span><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Iran">over half a million square miles</a><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"> could be tallied up in less than half a day.</span><br /><blockquote style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);">How do you count almost 40 million handwritten paper ballots in a matter of hours and declare a winner? That's a key question in Iran's disputed presidential election.</span><p><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);">International polling experts and Iran analysts said the speed of the vote count, coupled with a lack of detailed election data normally released by officials, was fueling suspicion around President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's landslide victory.</span><br /></p></blockquote><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"> Weirdly enough, some </span><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Iran">Iranians</a><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"> weren't buying it and have </span><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Iranian_election_protests">taken to the streets in protest</a><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"> ever since the "official results" were announced.<br /><br /></span><div face="lucida grande" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://tehranlive.org/2009/06/14/iranian-protest-election-results-2/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h276/devans00/Blog/iranian_protest_election_results_wo.jpg" alt="Iranian Woman Protester 6-13-9" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: center; font-style: italic; font-family: lucida grande;"><a href="http://tehranlive.org/2009/06/14/iranian-protest-election-results-2/"><span style="font-size:85%;">Iranian Woman Protester 6-13-9<br /></span></a></div><br /><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">As with many social movements, the largest protester segment are students. It's not a bad thing since these are the folks with the time and energy to kick things off. When I marched against the Gulf War in the early 1990s, students and career activists made up the majority of protesters too.<br /><br />As I mentioned in my <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/13/iran-demonstrations-viole_n_215189.html">Huffington Post</a> comment:<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">The Iranian uprising reminds us that government or the state only have authority by the permission of the people. If the citizens think the trust has been broken because of vote or election fraud, it's their right to remind those in charge how tenuous their power really is. The Mahmoud Ahmadinejad regime can bust heads, shot and stab protesters all they want. It's up to the marchers and protesters who'll ultimately decide when they are satisfied, when it's over and when things will get back to normal.</span><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">Since I have no DirecTV service right now, I've been obsessively tracking the tweets from the street on </span><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://iran.twazzup.com/">Twazzup</a><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"> and </span><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=&ands=&phrase=&ors=iranelection%2C+iran%2C+gr88%2C+tehran%2C+change_for_iran%2C+iranriggedelect&nots=&tag=&lang=en&from=&to=&ref=&near=&within=15&units=mi&since=&until=&rpp=50">Twitter</a><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">. Clicking on the links has given me the chance to see some </span><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mousavi1388/sets/72157619592664479/show/with/3621715877/">amazing pictures</a><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">, </span><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/13/iran-demonstrations-viole_n_215189.html?page=238&show_comment_id=25773785#comment_25773785">great articles</a><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"> and </span><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wywaK9OytCQ">moving</a><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"> </span><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXYvpJg_3OM">videos.</a><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"> <span style="font-style: italic;">Iranian Green Revolution: <a href="http://greenrevolutioniran.blogspot.com/">Latest Eyewitness Reports on Iran Election Fallout</a></span> blog is full of videos compiled from YouTube. My favorite may be the one where a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv7vy-zhAHc">young woman literally kicks</a> a man (10 seconds) in uniform who is harassing and beating people whith his baton. The woman got beat too but at least she got her licks in. Her resistance in the face of political repression is very brave.<br /><br />The biggest negative about American support on </span><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://www.twitter.com/">Twitter</a><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"> is when people pass on obvious disinformation in a misguided attempt to help. If you see a tweet that is the opposite of 95% of other tweets, such as "</span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:lucida grande;" >march for Tuesday canceled, stay home</span><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">", then don't pass it on. The status quo party has many hackers on payroll to spread </span><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty_and_doubt">fear, uncertainty and doubt, FUD</a><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">I've been a big technology fan my whole life but the democratization of communication that allows regular Iranians get their stories out to other regular people around the world, without any filters, makes me appreciate the Internet even more. The </span><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS3QOtbW4m0">revolution may not be televised</a> but it will be Social Networked. Going forward, there will be no such thing as a media blackout. That's a good thing.<br /><br /><br /><br /><object style="font-family: lucida grande;" width="660" height="405"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/BS3QOtbW4m0&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6&border=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/BS3QOtbW4m0&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="873" height="525"></embed></object><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">Finally, on to the story....</span><br /><hr style="font-family: lucida grande;"><br /><blockquote style="font-style: italic; font-family: lucida grande; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);">Jamileh, a 25-year-old woman from Iran, describes her experience taking part in demonstrations against the recent election result that saw current president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad defeat opposition hopeful Mir Hossein Mousavi amid accusations of vote-rigging. Parisa describes how she returned home from a protest march, only to be disturbed by police who then arrested her brother.</blockquote><br /><br /><div face="lucida grande" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://s66.photobucket.com/albums/h276/devans00/Blog/?action=view&current=Iran_Jamileh_061909.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h276/devans00/Blog/Iran_Jamileh_061909.jpg" alt="Iran Protester, I Ran for My Life - Jamileh" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div face="lucida grande" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://www.guardianweekly.co.uk/?page=editorial&id=1129&catID=1"><span style="font-style: italic;">The story of Jamileh</span></a><br /></span></div><br /><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">Friday June 19th 2009 by journalist </span><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://rajennair.com/">Rajen Nair</a><br /><br /><blockquote style="font-style: italic; font-family: lucida grande; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);">I live in the city of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isfahan_Province">Esfahan in Iran</a>, a <a href="http://www.bamjam.net/Iran/Esfahan.html">tourist place</a> for worshippers of all major religions in the world. It has famous shrines such as the Friday Mosque, as well as Christian churches and Zoroastrian temples. The people here are peace-loving and deeply religious, but after the election result on June 12, the atmosphere here has become tense and scary.<br /><br />For the past five days the city has seen huge demonstrations held by supporters of opposition candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi – and why not. Like millions of my fellow Iranians I had huge expectations from the outcome of this election. During the campaign the young electorate rallied their support towards Mousavi and, like many Iranians, I was expecting him to win the election. When the result came out, showing that Ahmadinejad had won by two thirds, I was in a state of shock and disbelief.<br /><br />I voted for Mr Mousavi because I feel he is an enlightened person. I see him as a reformist who could help free our society from the dictatorship of Ahmadinejad. I must confess that women enjoy no freedom under Islamic Iran. The clergy expect us always to be covered with a Burqa and to wear gloves. They never allow us to mingle freely with boys. During wedding ceremonies, women are seated separately from the men.<br /><br />I felt cheated when rumours spread that Ahmadinejad had won by rigging the election. Ask any youngster in the street and she or he would say that this election was rigged. I am very angry and so are young people of my generation. I can see this anger in people spreading everywhere and it is not just limited to cities.<br /><br />I am glad that <a href="http://www.breakingtweets.com/2009/06/16/featured-twitpic-protest-in-esfehan-iran/">people are coming out in the streets demonstrating openly against Ahmadinejad's government without any fear</a>. But I am saddened by the turn of events. One student belonging to Esfahan University lost his life in the demonstration. Innocent lives have been lost and Allah only knows how many more are going to get killed.<br /><br />I took part in a demonstration and found that the protestors were generally peaceful. I noticed that it was the police guards that were unnecessarily provoking the protestors by wielding batons and using tear gas. So the demonstration sometimes turned violent though no fault of the protestors, but the police arrest protestors claiming rioting.<br /><br />The recent events are extremely stressful and worrying for me. People are angry and I don’t think the government would be able to suppress this uprising. People are talking of a new revolution which will lead us to freedom and democracy. Every day people pour out into the streets in their thousands, to march and protest. At night people come out of their buildings onto their rooftops and shout: “Allahu Akbar.”<br /><br />Our demand is that we do not want a partial recount, but a full recount of the election result to get to the truth. Life is normal no more . Ordinary citizens are scared to venture out into the street. Most shops pull down their shutters by 6pm, fearing violence between the demonstrators and police.<br /><br />Yesterday evening I joined a demonstration at Hatim Nizar street, responding to the call given by our leader Mousavi to hold peaceful protests and march in memory of eight people killed. Most people wore black as we marched the streets silently, the majority of them were young boys and girls. After we walked a few yards I heard some commotion.<br /><br />Suddenly people began running all over the place. There was confusion and panic. I could see people falling over each other. Baton-wielding police were charging us. I ran for my life using the opposite lanes and managed to reach home safely at night.<br /><br />At around midnight I was rudely woken from my sleep. I heard the bell ringing repeatedly and banging on the door. No sooner had I opened the door than a few guards barged inside my flat, pushing me aside. They began questioning my 18-year-old brother and I.<br /><br />They wanted to know whether we were supporters of Mousavi and had taken part in the rally. I lied and said we were not supporters of any political party, but they kept on pressing and were becoming rude and threatening. They refused to believe us. Then they arrested my brother and dragged him all the way down the street to the waiting police van. I kept pleading with them that my brother was innocent and to let him go.<br /><br />My aged parents began wailing and neighbours gathered at our place. I had tears in my eyes, fearing what would happen to my brother.<br /><br />Today, in the early hours of the morning, I visited the local police station. They say that my brother will not be freed until the investigation is over. Until then, I remain worried and fearful for his life. I pray to Allah that my brother is safe and will return back soon.</blockquote>Devans00http://www.blogger.com/profile/00079172462536319738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12806777.post-16869557489748949532009-06-16T20:23:00.000-07:002009-06-16T21:18:30.798-07:00Helpful Twitter Job Search Links<p style="font-family: lucida grande;">Social Networking sites like <a href="http://twitter.com/devans00" target="_blank"><img src="http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h276/devans00/Blog/Twitter_Bird_Logo_061609.jpg" alt="Twitter Devans00" align="middle" border="0" width="100" height="66" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/devans00" target="_blank">Twitter</a> and <a href="http://www.facebook.com/debra.evans" target="_blank"><img src="http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h276/devans00/Blog/Facebook_logo_061609.jpg" alt="Facebook" align="middle" border="0" width="100" height="37" /></a> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/debra.evans" target="_blank">Facebook</a> can be used for things other than goofing around and wasting time. Although taking stupid quizzes, checking out videos and other links are still fun.<br /></p><p style="font-family: lucida grande;">If you are looking for web application or software development project management work like me or any job really, here are a few sites to help you look for work on the <a href="http://twitter.com/devans00" target="_blank">Twitter</a> platform. </p><ul style="font-family: lucida grande;"><br /> <li>WorkDigital: <a href="http://www.twitterjobsearch.com/" target="_blank">http://www.twitterjobsearch.com/ </a></li><br /> <li>Jobzing: <a href="http://www.jobzing.com/job-sites/job-search-engines.html" target="_blank">http://www.jobzing.com/job-sites/job-search-engines.html</a> </li><br /> <li>How to: Find a Job on Twitter: <a href="http://mashable.com/2009/03/13/twitter-jobs/" target="_blank">http://mashable.com/2009/03/13/twitter-jobs/ </a></li><br /> <li>How to Use Social Media in Your Job Search: <a href="http://jobsearch.about.com/od/networking/a/socialmedia.htm" target="_blank">http://jobsearch.about.com/od/networking/a/socialmedia.htm</a></li><br /> <li>Five Best Ways to Use Twitter for Your Job Search: <a href="http://www.thewisejobsearch.com/2009/05/five-best-ways-to-use-twitter-for-your.html" target="_blank">http://www.thewisejobsearch.com/2009/05/five-best-ways-to-use-twitter-for-your.html</a> </li></ul><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">If you need help getting established on social networking sites and setting up a strategy for building your online brand, </span><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://innerarchitect.com/" target="_blank">Inner Architect</a><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"> may be able to help. </span><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://twitter.com/susanhanshaw" target="_blank">Susan Hanshaw</a><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"> and </span><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://twitter.com/deansguide" target="_blank">Dean Guadagni</a><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"> gave an excellent presentation, </span><i style="font-family: lucida grande;">Using Social Media to Enhance the Project Management Experience</i><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">, at </span><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://www.pmisv.org/" target="_blank">PMI Silicon Valley</a><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"> last night. Great tips on how to get a lot out of existing sites like </span><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://www.twazzup.com/" target="_blank">Twazzup</a><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">. </span>Devans00http://www.blogger.com/profile/00079172462536319738noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12806777.post-71498261309006854732009-06-14T17:11:00.001-07:002009-06-14T17:11:06.844-07:00Wheel of Marketing Misfortune<div style="text-align: left; padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7855449@N02/2780457082/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3163/2780457082_85192c7df5.jpg" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" alt="" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7855449@N02/2780457082/">Wheel of Marketing Misfortune</a>, originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/7855449@N02/">David Armano</a>.</span></div><p>This wheel is so true. I don't think they are all so bad.<br /><br />Flashturbation and Death by Big Idea are the biggest poxes on the web right now.</p>Devans00http://www.blogger.com/profile/00079172462536319738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12806777.post-45455860961185300312009-06-04T16:02:00.000-07:002009-06-04T16:04:21.780-07:00Twitter Mosaic 6-4-9<span style="font-family: lucida grande;">I love the Twitter mosaic. I haven't done one in a while so it's about time.</span><br /><br /><p style="font-family: lucida grande;"><a href="http://twitter.com/Wordie"><img title="Wordie" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/22893962/Picture_1_normal.png" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/jaygarmon"><img title="Jay Garmon" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/65453644/headshot_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/ESimms1221"><img title="ESimms1221" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/54736961/Me__red_shirt_and_sun_hat_normal.JPG" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/LeliaKate"><img title="lelia" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/60740230/Small_black_and_white_normal.gif" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/mercnews"><img title="MercNews" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/136227959/mdot2_normal_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/cnnbrk"><img title="CNN Breaking News" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/67263363/icon.cnnbrk_normal.png" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/cnn"><img title="CNN.com" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/67228129/icon.cnn_normal.png" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/mashable"><img title="Pete Cashmore" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/58439629/petepassport_normal.PNG" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/woot"><img title="woot.com" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/199275977/www3-touch-icon_normal.png" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/WholeFoods"><img title="Whole Foods Market" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/61940803/wfm_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/pandora_radio"><img title="Pandora Radio" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/100850838/Lucia-Twitter_1_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/wootblabber"><img title="woot.com blabber" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/152781000/Thermor_BIOS_Wireless_Weather_Station_For_PCo7tThumbnail_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/women2"><img title="Women 2.0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/185743588/win_a_meeting_with_mm_normal.png" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/BarackObama"><img title="Barack Obama" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/219314140/obama_4color_omark_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/iPhone"><img title="iPhone" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/52788067/2195426275_4b1cb3e073_m_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/byroncrawford"><img title="Byron Crawford" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/41887522/bol_1_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/TwitPic"><img title="TwitPic" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/50582482/twitpic-icon_normal.gif" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/twittervision"><img title="Dave Troy" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/25404262/twittervision_logo_normal.png" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/HappyAbout"><img title="Mitchell Levy" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/66501714/mitchell.levy04b.big_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/ATTmusic"><img title="ATTmusic" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/71301077/attlogo_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/TechCrunch"><img title="Michael Arrington" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/115466107/techcrunch_bigger_normal.png" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/larrymagid"><img title="Larry Magid" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/29251882/larrynew_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/dangillmor"><img title="Dan Gillmor" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/22521212/danmug1_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/ricksanchezcnn"><img title="Rick Sanchez" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/57393047/sanchezrick_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/svwb"><img title="SV Web Builder" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/52125093/SVWBOfficialLogoTwitter_Squ_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/lunch20"><img title="Lunch 2.0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/24675462/watermelon_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/sv_code_camp"><img title="sv_code_camp" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/212411568/svcc-square-09_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/LATimestot"><img title="Top of the Ticket" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/53419883/AndrewMalcolm_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/current"><img title="mario@current.com SF" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/118819720/current_squares_normal.png" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/BaskinRobbins"><img title="BaskinRobbins" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/232028777/n8779632721_506440_815_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/loud3r"><img title="loud3r" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/51167132/logo_normal.png" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/wordspy"><img title="Word Spy" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/223352307/wordspy-avatar2_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/mobileslate"><img title="Eric Chan" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/52157177/eric-thumb_normal.gif" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/SDForum"><img title="SDForum" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/53666273/sdforum_logo-small_normal.PNG" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/anildash"><img title="Anil Dash" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/193893033/anil-merlinpic-square_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/siliconlolz"><img title="siliconlolz" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/62810678/siliconlolz_normal.png" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/americablog"><img title="AMERICAblog" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/60292670/flag_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/disinfo"><img title="Disinformation" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/54375031/322640384_l_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/urbandaily"><img title="urbandaily" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/57604674/27405700_N03_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/NotTinaFey"><img title="Not TinaFey" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/54016018/bigmac_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/questlove"><img title="Questo of The Roots" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/60476801/72113657_2_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/susanbeebe"><img title="Susan Beebe" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/126942367/Copy_of_SusanBeebe_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/leticiamalphett"><img title="leticiamalphett" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/66311534/img_4544_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/typaldos"><img title="typaldos" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/111494913/bunnyandmecropped_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/bigcolsf"><img title="bigcolsf" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/61453313/oorwullie_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/squidlist"><img title="The Squid List" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/31938792/squid-list-avatar_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/TMZonline"><img title="TMZonline" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/60192590/0917_tmz_twitter_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/lyecies"><img title="Laura Yecies" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/195724857/backup_178_crop_laura_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/djbackside"><img title="DJ BackSide" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/59026623/djbstwitterlogo_normal.gif" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/mediamyway"><img title="i.TV" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/58323915/Mark_Capture_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/pcrampton"><img title="pcrampton" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/74046399/me-3_normal.JPG" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/wasitova"><img title="Silvana Wasitova" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/63836463/ArcDeTriomph-Messenger_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/Cellfire"><img title="Cellfire" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/68329154/CF_Flame_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/amazondeals"><img title="Amazon.com Deals" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/68908343/Gold_Box_plain_normal.PNG" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/heyitsfree"><img title="Hey, It's Free!" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/62342381/125-non-animated_normal.gif" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/TheInDecider"><img title="TheInDecider" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/127271985/twitter_indecision_logo2_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/dailykibble"><img title="dailykibble" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/69028149/dailykibble_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/tavissmiley"><img title="Tavis Smiley " src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/129551058/tavissmiley2_twitter_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/obamainaugural"><img title="Obama Inauguration" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/68316201/obamabiden_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/extraordinaries"><img title="The Extraordinaries" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/70312954/logosmall_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/technopodge"><img title="Radi Shourbaji" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/63982457/Radi_Shourbaji__square1c__normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/inauguration"><img title="inauguration" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/71561687/obama_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/twrivia"><img title="twrivia" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/70491275/ac-happy_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/postsecret"><img title="PostSecret" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/72374264/twitter_logo_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/Alphacat1"><img title="Iman Crosson" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/71336729/Iman_3_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/territrain"><img title="Terri Train" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/79771922/Terri_Train_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/algore"><img title="Al Gore" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/63792815/133537152_115x115_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/Mrs_O"><img title="Mrs O" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/72619516/Twitter_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/BlackWomen"><img title="BlackWomenConnect" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/72661381/bwc_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/startupers"><img title="StartUpers!" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/88533475/joe_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/eOfficeNet"><img title="eOffice News" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/120778872/eOffice_normal.JPG" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/whatshewore"><img title="What Michelle Wore" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/71851706/what_michelle_wore_eye_icon_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/stephfenton"><img title="Stephanie Fenton" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/69142001/StephCamera_wb_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/jfouts"><img title="Janet Fouts" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/119109634/jheadshot09_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/ahndymac"><img title="Andrew Mackenzie" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/65865488/ahndy_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/maddow"><img title="Rachel Maddow MSNBC" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/59437078/icon-200x200_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/kathygriffin"><img title="Kathy Griffin" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/22343142/kg-icon_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/BWEtv"><img title="BestWeekEver.tv" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/74815512/bwetv_new_logo_cropped_normal.png" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/joelmchale"><img title="Joel McHale" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/53234793/s1_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/nearbytweets"><img title="nearbytweets.com" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/75370548/NBYT-avatar_noname_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/twestivalsf"><img title="Twestival SF" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/74810606/twestivalSFLOGO_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/twestival"><img title="Twestival" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/70071991/twest_normal.gif" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/SF_Weekly"><img title="Janine Kahn" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/110785095/sf-weekly_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/lancearmstrong"><img title="Lance Armstrong" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/76724592/DPP_0063_PR_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/ghincapie"><img title="ghincapie" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/67547922/Photo_49_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/librarythingtim"><img title="Tim Spalding" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/28678742/458590.htm_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/LThing"><img title="LibraryThing" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/73270722/photo_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/Barbara_Boxer"><img title="Barbara_Boxer" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/211887969/BOXER_twitter_crop_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/levisagedavril"><img title="April" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/146523688/April_napa_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/anitaborg_org"><img title="BJ Wishinsky" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/193635749/wikilogo_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/icandybot"><img title="iCandy Team" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/235642391/icandy-twitter-icon_normal.png" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/margaretcho"><img title="Margaret Cho" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/187577086/cho_normal.gif" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/withfries2"><img title="Frank Chen" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/112488720/scaled.2009_2-14-09_BFAM_tahoe_172_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/jamois"><img title="Jamey Graham" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/65003288/jamey-face_normal.png" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/ChrisSims"><img title="Chris Sims" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/111975927/ChrisSimsHeadShotApril2008_256x316_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/RichMironov"><img title="Rich Mironov" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/71972626/Mironov-small_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/imusicmash"><img title="Al" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/66963920/Picture_1_normal.png" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/edbuckingham"><img title="edbuckingham" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/97420130/me_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/firefox"><img title="Firefox" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/144149468/firefox_normal.png" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/twitscoop"><img title="twitscoop" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/56136524/73x73Logo_normal.gif" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/wootsellout"><img title="sellout.woot.com" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/203379030/sellout3-touch-icon_normal.png" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/TonyAlba_Pizza"><img title="Tony and Alba Pizza" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/183649487/tonyalba11_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/TourneyComish"><img title="TourneyComish" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/51977787/37dkpb_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/ryankuder"><img title="Ryan Kuder" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/63343709/Headshot_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/awordaday"><img title="A Word a Day" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/31204262/word_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/thewordoftheday"><img title="Word of the Day" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/60862533/w_normal.png" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/awordinthehand"><img title="A Word in the Hand" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/92307416/dictionary_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/Webware"><img title="Webware" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/18732952/webware-badge_normal.png" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/SmartBears"><img title="Smart Bear Software" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/66226945/twitter-feedicon_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/huffingtonpost"><img title="HuffingtonPost.com" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/109047210/HuffTwitter_normal.png" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/monitter"><img title="monitter" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/57524870/monitter_twitter_normal.gif" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/dogster"><img title="Dogster" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/60915146/dogster_dog_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/sonyapaz"><img title="Sonya Paz" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/86519734/art_sassygirl_red1_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/aipmm"><img title="AIPMM Events" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/72338372/n667292068_259462_3378_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/Pixorial"><img title="Pixorial, Inc." src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/87140871/logo-sqr_normal.gif" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/Kiva"><img title="Kiva.org" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/73644194/build-kiva_normal.png" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/BAGnewsNotes"><img title="Michael Shaw" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/88088471/headshot-dnc-80w_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/SmirkingChimp"><img title="Smirking Chimp" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/88498127/businesschimp_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/onebrick"><img title="One Brick" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/74068373/Picture_1_normal.png" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/imdb"><img title="imdb" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/79474013/apple-touch-icon_normal.png" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/ColbertReport"><img title="Colbert Report Clips" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/56419824/ColbertPic_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/The_Daily_Show"><img title="The Daily Show" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/56672912/JonStewart_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/theresepadilla"><img title="Therese" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/72298358/n667292068_1567516_2681_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/AprFoolsDay"><img title="April Fools Day" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/104160994/april-fool_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/StephenAtHome"><img title="Stephen" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/179057752/Picture_normal.png" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/technologizer"><img title="technologizer" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/63793671/t-logo_normal.png" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/harrymccracken"><img title="Harry McCracken" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/55222648/twitterharry_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/pbreit"><img title="Patrick Breitenbach" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/18885942/pb_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/njection"><img title="Njection" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/128873149/2008-09-30_093950_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/CompAweMU"><img title="Mychal Utecht" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/107500939/bike_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/womensleadershp"><img title="Women's Leadership" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/106571912/wlc_logo_normal.jpeg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/hillharper"><img title="Hill Harper" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/57300011/96598_D0560b_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/allhiphopcom"><img title="allhiphopcom" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/58534892/AHHlogotwitter_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/illseed"><img title="illseed" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/60011357/illseed_seanbell_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/Jo_Miller"><img title="Jo Miller" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/82528257/Jo-Miller-headshot-sml_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/rlux"><img title="Rachel Luxemburg" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/211936183/rl_speaking_at_panel_small_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/vlauria"><img title="Vinnie Lauria" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/248656573/vinnie_me_smile_camping_edge_profile-1-2_normal.png" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/thingfo"><img title="thingfo" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/64527133/derrangedcat_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/THE_REAL_SHAQ"><img title="THE_REAL_SHAQ" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/75257283/Shaq_avatar_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/ryanlrussell"><img title="ryanlrussell" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/57209251/Photo_2_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/steampunktrunk"><img title="amy neumann" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/74511435/135_normal.JPG" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/steamcrow"><img title="steamcrow" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/87882737/steam_crow_icon_normal.png" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/LibbyBulloff"><img title="Libby Bulloff" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/64821042/icon_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/steamcon"><img title="Steamcon" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/71447270/15276065_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/thinkgeek"><img title="thinkgeek" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/231923605/timmy_transparent_twitter3_normal.png" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/digg_technews"><img title="Digg Technology News" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/66781588/digg-3_normal.png" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/digg_politics"><img title="Digg Politics" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/66782542/digg-7_normal.png" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/bust_magazine"><img title="BUST magazine" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/238299385/kathy_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/ShamelessMag"><img title="ShamelessMag" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/62561065/summer2004_cover_thumb_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/seasonothebitch"><img title="Sarah Jaffe" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/116711927/amouth_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/DeePhunk"><img title="Dee Phunk (Derreck)" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/206482210/Untitled-2_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/snoopdogg"><img title="Snoop Dogg" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/248513514/Blazed_2009_Final_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/Bye_Buscemi"><img title="is now @fakebuscemi" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/126538920/tn2_steve_buscemi_4_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/robcorddry"><img title="rob corddry" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/106136906/obamacon_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/FAIZONLOVE"><img title="FAIZON LOVE" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/227636044/4393_83686119481_604719481_1774352_3585036_n_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/BitchMagazine"><img title="BitchMagazine" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/64381362/BitchShieldTote_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/andersoncooper"><img title="Anderson Cooper" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/67244783/icon.andersoncooper_normal.png" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/netflix"><img title="Netflix" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/76375582/Netflix_API2_57x57_normal.png" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/cklouis"><img title="Louis C.K." src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/83692801/00630007_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/azizansari"><img title="Aziz Ansari" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/216308487/6_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/alyankovic"><img title="Al Yankovic" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/246073324/IL2_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/BrentSpiner"><img title="Brent Spiner" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/71321299/images_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/HalSparks"><img title="Hal Sparks" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/230853180/015_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/pennjillette"><img title="Penn Jillette" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/116696639/_MG_0660_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/twitter"><img title="Twitter" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/75075164/twitter_bird_profile_normal.png" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/FirstPooch"><img title="First Pooch" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/73085446/FirstPoochLogo_1in_72dpi_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/NerdApproved"><img title="Sean Fallon" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/69968050/apple-touch-icon_normal.png" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/sujamthe"><img title="Sudha Jamthe" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/58143564/sudha_pic_from_tie_1999_normal.gif" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/mgris"><img title="Mike Grishaver" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/102161859/mike-G-headshot_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/ucsc"><img title="UC Santa Cruz" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/61691119/fiat-slug-300_normal.png" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/ucsc_news"><img title="UCSC News&Events" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/82099544/news_events_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/Oprah"><img title="Oprah Winfrey" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/140867957/oprah3_32I8049_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/kinggayle"><img title="Gayle King" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/141191199/gayle-twitter-3_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/themostmag"><img title="Vibe Mag's Offspring" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/209300206/The_Most_exclamation_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/S_C_"><img title="Mr. Carter" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/65181174/55388201makavelliott197111222008114812AM_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/souljaboytellem"><img title="soυLjαвoу" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/214120703/twitter_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/fabuloustoccara"><img title="Toccara Jones" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/144399335/toccaraaaaaa_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/smoothbeats"><img title="Smoothbeats.com" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/93471758/sblogo-twitter_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/PerezHilton"><img title="Perez Hilton" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/216118806/86878477_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/Mark_Wahlberg"><img title="Mark Wahlberg" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/89465545/Mark_Wahlberg_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/officialkathyg"><img title="Kathy Griffin" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/79454902/Photo_8_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/Lysted"><img title="Lysted" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/211642475/twitter_normal.PNG" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/DonnieWahlberg"><img title="Donnie Wahlberg" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/227368252/get-attachment.aspx_normal.jpeg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/WilliamShatner"><img title="William Shatner" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/55873869/myspacecamera_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/nprpolitics"><img title="NPR Politics" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/25968922/npr50_normal.gif" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/msmagazine"><img title="Ms. Magazine" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/55847077/ms_sq_normal.gif" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/missfree"><img title="Free" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/93902832/free1_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/warrengeezy"><img title="WARREN GRIFFIN" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/217889671/IMG_0040_normal.JPG" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/mosdef"><img title="Mos Def" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/52572553/mos_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/Timbaland"><img title="Timbaland" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/24134712/317x317_timbaland_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/common"><img title="Common" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/63598404/common_twitter_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/mr49south"><img title="charlie murphy" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/142068279/cmr_rock_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/iemarcom"><img title="Irene Economou" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/228791057/5_16_2009_normal.JPG" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/SteampunkRings"><img title="Artist on Etsy " src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/124244212/500500_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/geekpadshow"><img title="Geek Pad" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/98944908/napolean_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/eckartwalther"><img title="Eckart Walther" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/53367711/ew_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/tradevibes"><img title="TradeVibes" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/57481120/tradevibes_logo_normal.png" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/KattPackAllDay"><img title="Katt Williams" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/97201836/KattWilliams07_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/radar"><img title="O'Reilly Radar" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/55297199/iphone_icon_radar_normal.png" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/flamebrain"><img title="Flamebrain" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/72916021/FirestormAvatar_100x100_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/crowdscience"><img title="Crowd Science" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/60854178/threecircles-500x500_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/matisyahu"><img title="Matisyahu" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/238211693/twittermatis_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/billmaher"><img title="Bill Maher" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/202202223/bill_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/johnm"><img title="John Martin" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/30452012/orange-profile-image_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/SFPolitics"><img title="The Listener" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/103911019/burningman_normal.png" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/nicechucknice"><img title="Chuck Nice" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/109721670/ChuckObama2_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/sidereel"><img title="SideReel" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/89308002/stwitter_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/bastardmachine"><img title="The Bastard Machine" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/80461747/album-goodman150x150_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/JJ_Abrams"><img title="JJ_Abrams" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/26774322/th-JJAbrams_Cohen_13315978_400_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/CDCemergency"><img title="CDC Emergency" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/73788616/2-BlueTMLogo_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/RedCross"><img title="American Red Cross" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/120242004/FinalTwitter_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/SV_RedCross"><img title="ARC Silicon Valley" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/83441802/ERVatTech_web_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/sfearthquakes"><img title="Bay Area Earthquakes" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/25470832/Picture_1_normal.png" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/nbcbayareacom"><img title="nbcbayarea.com" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/132485373/logo_nbc_bay_area_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/SantanaRow"><img title="Santana Row" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/112086049/ShoppingImage-Twitter_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/YelpSV"><img title="Yelp Silicon Valley" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/223838614/twitter_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/abc7newsBayArea"><img title="abc7newsBayArea" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/71173190/twitter_logo_graphic_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/USAgov"><img title="USA.gov" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/52561878/usa_twitter_normal.gif" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/librarycongress"><img title="Library of Congress" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/73327072/logo_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/NellisAFB"><img title="Nellis AFB Nevada" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/82074289/nellis2_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/WhiteHouse_Blog"><img title="White House Blog" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/73326429/ishot-5_normal.png" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/bestdowntown"><img title="santa cruz" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/129047117/fotka_ctvrtina_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/AngelaCastro"><img title="AngelaCastro" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/117917061/Angela_Castro_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/DaveG253"><img title="Dave Garrett" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/130556142/dave_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/Seal"><img title="Seal" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/62576113/Seal_Soul_Cover_Layered1_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/TVWithoutPity"><img title="TVWithoutPity" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/74198025/twop_logo_01_75x75_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/ThatKevinSmith"><img title="KevinSmith" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/107762152/twitter_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/JayMewes"><img title="Jason Mewes" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/140450168/photo.php_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/JimNorton"><img title="Jim Norton" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/96182716/Photo_34_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/Jon_Favreau"><img title="Jon Favreau" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/96632283/Xmaschix_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/michaelianblack"><img title="Michael Ian Black" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/228902082/IMG_1839_normal.JPG" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/levarburton"><img title="LeVar Burton" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/238224180/levar_5_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/mrxtothaz"><img title="XZIBIT" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/70541662/l_38ef9bc4cb0fcc4f0e459ad6d13b66b1_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/headredhead"><img title="headredhead" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/141746724/jabbothumb_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/frandrescher"><img title="Fran Drescher" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/70954672/Front_women_tee_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/HarveyLevinTMZ"><img title="Harvey Levin " src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/188507733/harvey_twitter_normal.JPG" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/hanfordlemoore"><img title="Hanford Lemoore" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/53678448/n501005295_2841038_9930_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/woofmutt"><img title="woofmutt" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/96565199/srscomp_normal.JPG" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/whitehouse"><img title="The White House" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/188655678/Picture_5_normal.png" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/BobHerbert"><img title="Bob Herbert" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/70501218/ts-herbert-190_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/MaureenDowd"><img title="Maureen Dowd" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/64193118/dowd-ts-1902_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/nytimeskrugman"><img title="Paul Krugman" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/62968942/twitter_thumbnail.nyt_normal.png" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/loldogs"><img title="I Has a Hotdog" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/72657266/pug0507_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/Joan_Rivers"><img title="Joan Rivers" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/82416925/Joan_4715_Twitter_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/OMAROSA"><img title="OMAROSA" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/81769280/omarosa-200x300_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/TichinaArnold"><img title="Tichina Arnold" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/106297089/21awv39_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/terrycrews"><img title="terrycrews" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/88083768/007NOR_Terry_Crews_001_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/foodie415"><img title="Peter Taylor" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/84912859/L1080705_1__normal.JPG" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/KELLY__ROWLAND"><img title="KELENDRIA ROWLAND" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/138365601/IMG_0590_2_normal.JPG" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/MsTeenaMarie"><img title="Teena Marie" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/120560486/photo_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/SamuelJackson"><img title="Samuel L. Jackson" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/72318172/samuel-l-jackson-1-freedomland_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/AdrianneCurry"><img title="Adrianne Curry" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/216704867/4a0e1692bcaf1_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/SherriEShepherd"><img title="Sherri Shepherd" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/215594722/snl_wrap1_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/serenajwilliams"><img title="Serena Williams" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/110299259/serenawilliams1_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/sherylunderwood"><img title="Sheryl Underwood" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/188481613/Twitter_Pic_5_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/harryallen"><img title="harryallen" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/60951076/IMG_1350_edit_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/formerlyCwalken"><img title="Christopher Kutcher" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/141058771/clusterWalkenAvatar_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/John_Lithgow"><img title="John_Lithgow" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/65027812/headshot_2_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/MMFlint"><img title="Michael Moore" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/191567923/610x-7_copy_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/Count_Down"><img title="CountDown" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/56670677/KeithOlbermann_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/thesoup"><img title="The Soup Blog" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/154608630/EOL_SoupBlog_Thumb_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/CNETNews"><img title="CNET News.com" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/60663811/redball-new_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/LennyKravitz"><img title="Lenny Kravitz" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/142599865/lenny_thumbnail_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/mrdannyglover"><img title="Danny Glover" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/141959261/danny_glover_hat_head_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/FrankMaresca"><img title="Frank Maresca" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/137059587/Frank_666_normal.JPG" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/saaphyri"><img title="Saaphyri Windsor" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/141222751/Saaphyri_and_I_normal.bmp" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/TIFFANYPOLLARD"><img title="tiffany pollard" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/142229517/comp_ok_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/itfromiluvmoney"><img title="kwame it" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/105443525/it_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/MacyGraysLife"><img title="Macy Gray" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/140401911/S01_012b_w_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/danzingdonny"><img title="Donyelle Jones " src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/147807401/donyelle_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/sisterpatterson"><img title="Sister Patterson" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/94598044/1188997510sisterpattersongood_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/CaitlinLynn"><img title="Caitlin Lynn" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/94181892/cait_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/RyanMatsuflex"><img title="Ryan Matsunaga" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/221714782/matsu4_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/wheresgeorge"><img title="Where's George?" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/109896045/alexa_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/davepeck"><img title="Dave Peck" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/209278233/davethin_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/TheWomensMuseum"><img title="The Women's Museum" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/61141566/twitter_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/MSFTProject"><img title="MSFT Project" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/149999503/doug_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/bonjourcrepe"><img title="Bonjour Crepe Co." src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/184076584/header_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/BeckyBuckwild"><img title="Becky Buckwild" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/89323546/Blackhair_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/PUSHA_T"><img title="CLIPSE" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/116950425/LOGO_JPG-1_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/theclipse"><img title="The Clipse" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/113253526/clipse1_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/ev"><img title="Evan Williams" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/66154838/ev-sky_bigger_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/fsowin"><img title="Frank" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/234931688/Frank_CarmelMissionRanch-707_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/MantaCom"><img title="Manta.com" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/76289409/mantalogo1_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/thebrianposehn"><img title="Brian Posehn" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/202878226/sallyandI_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/aishatyler"><img title="aishatyler" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/71857545/croppedmicatom_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/HuffPostComedy"><img title="HuffPostComedy" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/137881693/Picture_2_normal.png" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/attell"><img title="Dave Attell" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/27147492/10295430_l_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/Astro_Mike"><img title="Mike Massimino" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/117435037/massimino-thumbnail_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/JoseGSilva"><img title="Jose G Silva" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/144905938/josilva_corrected_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/ariannahuff"><img title="Arianna Huffington" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/125785227/n690525583_4260656_2886_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/InsultComicDog"><img title="InsultComicDog" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/73614014/InsultComicBiitch2_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/techwebblog"><img title="Tech News" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/207789670/tweetsteps_th_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/outcyde"><img title="Ash Sud" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/53427865/ashco_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/KendraWilkinson"><img title="Kendra Wilkinson" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/218188750/KendraTwitter3_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/svnewtech"><img title="SV NewTech Meetup" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/247100792/svnt-1_normal.png" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/job_searching"><img title="Job Searching" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/74394673/job_normal.png" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/digitalsista"><img title="Shireen" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/134176830/mesnipped_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/alligator1971"><img title="Alligator Records" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/212262422/AlligatorLogoSmall_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/KickAssGadgets"><img title="KickAss Gadgets" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/104107420/Green_Laser_Pointer_Pen_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/daver230"><img title="daver230" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/53177601/visa2a_small_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/LinkedIn"><img title="LinkedIn" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/53810493/linkedin_normal.png" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/SFoodie"><img title="SFoodie" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/61568991/sfwfs_normal.jpg" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a></p><br /><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://sxoop.com/twitter/">Get your twitter mosaic here.</a>Devans00http://www.blogger.com/profile/00079172462536319738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12806777.post-33344255937293507862009-05-25T22:52:00.000-07:002009-05-26T00:52:18.383-07:00Checked out New Mary Avenue Bridge<span style="font-family: lucida grande;font-family:lucida grande;" >After months of watching the span go up over 280, I finally biked over to the new Mary Avenue Bridge between Sunnyvale and Cupertino over I-280 on Sunday morning, May 24, 2009. You access the bridge in Sunnyvale from the intersection of West Homestead Road & Mary Avenue or from Meteor Drive in Cupertino, CA. It's an uphill ride all the way there, so I knew it'd be slow going. Happily, that means the ride back was downhill. Which was nice. Since it was still early in the day, I went to the Mountain View Farmers market later in the morning.</span><br /><br /><br /><div style="width: 480px; text-align: right; font-family: lucida grande;"><embed src="http://static.photobucket.com/flash/rss_slideshow.swf?rssFeed=http%3A%2F%2Ffeed66.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fh276%2Fdevans00%2FMisc_2009%2FMary_Ave_Bridge_052409%2Ffeed.rss" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="360" width="480"></embed><a href="http://photobucket.com/redirect/album?showShareLB=1" target="_blank"><img src="http://pic.photobucket.com/share/icons/embed/btn_geturs.gif" style="border: medium none ;" /></a><a href="http://s66.photobucket.com/albums/h276/devans00/Misc_2009/Mary_Ave_Bridge_052409/" target="_blank"><img src="http://pic.photobucket.com/share/icons/embed/btn_viewall.gif" style="border: medium none ;" /></a></div><br /><br /><span style="font-family: lucida grande;">Some information about the bridge.</span><br /><br /><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_12256132">Roadshow: New Bicycle Bridge over I-280 is Striking Span</a><span style="font-family: lucida grande;"> - </span><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://www.mercurynews.com/">San Jose Mercury News</a><br /><blockquote style="font-family: lucida grande;">Silicon Valley has a brand new landmark, one that promises to attract the attention of anyone motoring down Interstate 280 through Cupertino and Sunnyvale. The Mary Avenue pedestrian and bicycle bridge opens today, and while the large, white span held up by 44 cables is striking during the day, you should check it out at night. That's when it will really glow, with lights illuminating the 90-foot-tall, 325-foot-long structure that crosses 11 freeway lanes. Think mini-Bay Bridge.<br /><br />...its construction is a case of the car culture losing to bicyclists, joggers and walkers in an era when the car was king and the region was on a massive freeway-building binge.<br /><br /><span id="mn_Global"><span id="mn_Article">The cost was high. At $15 million, it's believed to be the most expensive span of its type in the South Bay. Sunnyvale opened two pedestrian bridges along Borregas Avenue over highways 101 and 237 last week for about the same price for both.</span></span><br /><br />Studies indicate that 265,000 people will use the bridge each year, 175,000 of them cyclists. And best of all, 35,000 of those will be commuters opting to leave their cars, vans and SUVs in the garage.<br /><br />By <a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/mrroadshow">Gary Richards</a>, 4-30-9, mrroadshow @ mercurynews.com or 408-920-5335.<br /></blockquote><br /><br /><br /><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_12345237">Bold Design on Mary Avenue Bridge between Sunnyvale and Cupertino is Turning Both Heads and Wheels</a><span style="font-family: lucida grande;"> - </span><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://www.mercurynews.com/">San Jose Mercury News</a><br /><blockquote style="font-family: lucida grande;">The bicycle-pedestrian bridge that almost didn't happen opened April 30 in Cupertino and was immediately hailed as both an iconic Silicon Valley structure and a bold statement about alternative transportation. The $14.8 million Mary Avenue Bicycle Footbridge, a white, steel cable-stay bridge spanning Interstate 280, connects the cities of Cupertino and Sunnyvale. It gives travelers a shorter route between De Anza College, Homestead High School, the Oaks Shopping Center and other destinations currently separated by the 11-lane highway.<br /><br />The opening celebration brought together two cities, Caltrans, the Valley Transportation Authority, architects, engineers, residents and bicyclists. All of them played a role in taking the bridge from a pie-in-the-sky notion to a steel-engineered reality, even when it looked as if the project was doomed.<br /><br />The plan all along was to create a striking bridge. All involved with the project knew building another overcrossing would work just as well. However, they wanted to make a statement with this bridge.<br /><br />"Now that our bridge is open, other cities will see our bridge and be wowed by the design and not see bicycle and pedestrian architecture the same way we did 20 years ago," said Sandoval. "We can create a flair of beauty and functionality." Will Kempton, director of Caltrans, compared the bridge to the Sundial Bridge that spans the Sacramento River in Redding.<br /><br />Bridge Facts<br /><br />Cost: $14.8 million with 80 percent coming from VTA Measure A funds and outside grants. The city of Cupertino was the other major financial contributor and the city of Sunnyvale provided funds for the project.<br />Specifications: Span is approximately 440 feet long and 16.3 feet wide with 44 pre-cast concrete deck panels. The bridge has no center support. There are 44 German-engineered locked coil cable supports. Towers are 90 feet high and weigh approximately 57,000 pounds.<br />A feasibility study projected 265,000 people a year to use the bridge, 175,000 of them cyclists.<br /><br />Construction: Work began Jan. 24, 2008 after nine years of planning. A topping off ceremony was held in November 2007.<br /><br />Construction injuries: 0.<br /><br />Landscaping: About12 acres of landscaping, native trees and bicycle trails with a public art plaza on the Meteor Drive entrance. The art by Tom Aidala features quails on boulders and a perched red-shouldered hawk.<br /><br />By Matt Wilson, <a href="http://www.svcn.com/cupertino_courier/">Cupertino Courier</a>, 5-11-9<br /></blockquote>Devans00http://www.blogger.com/profile/00079172462536319738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12806777.post-1053226001320659932009-05-24T10:07:00.000-07:002009-05-25T22:26:09.944-07:00Manufactured Outrage<span style="font-family:lucida grande;">I love today's word of the day at Urban Dictionary. This has been happening so much lately, I'm glad someone coined a word for it. The evening news programs are the masters, but other media outlets are just as bad.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center; font-family: lucida grande;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Manufactured%20Outrage"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 259px; height: 81px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOfwT4_t1KEaQgdNPzxXG6pQ1a0f4LfhKuuYPCB3Efb_anW9DWR-5VOQl0T7acleLUrs9ZX8c45tBKFmvKgKMUGBSQe2HhuSMDCnF2vHDS5oaOtjNVeopdgqJLy0jkc4q0HHDO/s400/Urban_Dictionary_logo.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5339996004540934418" border="0" /></a></div><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Manufactured%20Outrage"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 102); font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><br />Manufactured Outrage</span></a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 102);font-family:lucida grande;font-size:130%;" >A falsified righteous outrage at things that are basically unimportant and meaningless, frequently employed by politicians, political activists, or the media. Politicians and talking heads use it to garner support for their causes, to claim the moral high ground and to tar their opponents; the media often just uses it in a cynical bid to increase ratings.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:lucida grande;" >Manufactured outrages of note include Nipplegate, the Monica Lewinski scandal, the 2009 tea partys, backmasked satanic lyrics, lapel pin controversies...</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:lucida grande;" >Just about any time you hear any politician, activist, or radio show host getting outraged about anything, really. The louder and angrier they get, the harder they're working at manufacturing it.<br /><br />by Aquillion2 May 20, 2009<br /><br />_____________________________________<br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 102);font-family:lucida grande;font-size:130%;" >An invention of the <a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=MSM">mainstream media, aka MSM</a>, intended to drum up outrage at a statement or situation. The key characteristics of manufactured outrage are: prior to the media's intervention, the vast majority of the general population had never heard of the statement or had never found the statement or situation to be objectionable in any way.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:lucida grande;" >by Ellsworth Dec 18, 2006</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:lucida grande;" ><br /></span>Devans00http://www.blogger.com/profile/00079172462536319738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12806777.post-87763581255341639022009-05-06T12:14:00.001-07:002009-05-06T12:14:57.440-07:00President Obama's Deadweight Problem<div > Very clever animated cartoon. The reality is more like the GOP tugging on the rope while trying to pry President Obama's hands off the cliff. </div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><tr><td valign="top"><!-- BEGIN_CLIP_CONTENT ID:171A2A25-8E41-42B5-995D-8685D92AAF68:1 CLIPMARKS.COM --><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/171A2A25-8E41-42B5-995D-8685D92AAF68/" title="go to this clipmark"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_icon/c0bb7659-e95a-4022-bcf2-a08b0e7b8b6d/171A2A25-8E41-42B5-995D-8685D92AAF68/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.cnn.com/POLITICS/analysis/toons/2009/03/24/mitchell/" href="http://www.cnn.com/POLITICS/analysis/toons/2009/03/24/mitchell/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.cnn.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cnn.com/POLITICS/analysis/toons/2009/03/24/mitchell/"><H1>Deadweight</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cnn.com/POLITICS/analysis/toons/2009/03/24/mitchell/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.cnn.com/img/5FBA427D-3FB0-4B49-BCF5-B4585F107549" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cnn.com/POLITICS/analysis/toons/2009/03/24/mitchell/"><B>Bill Mitchell</B></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/171A2A25-8E41-42B5-995D-8685D92AAF68/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table> Devans00http://www.blogger.com/profile/00079172462536319738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12806777.post-69675319564597189852009-04-06T10:02:00.001-07:002009-04-13T21:39:54.945-07:00Devans00 Twitter Mosaic<span style="font-family:lucida grande;">Here are the folks I follow on </span><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://twitter.com/">Twitter</a><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">. A colorful bunch of technologists, funny people, hip hoppers, dog people, politics, women suff, words and other assorted geeks. The main criteria for folks I follow, don't </span><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://tweet.urbanup.com/2929573">Tweet</a><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"> so much everyone else gets scrolled off the main page when I go to the </span><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://twitter.com/">Twitter</a><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"> site. Nothing is more annoying than to have a screen full of verbal rubbish from only one fool. Unless, of course, a poster is </span><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/live_blog">live blogging</a><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"> an event. That's OK because it's only temporary.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">More proof there's infinite ways to waste time and learn stuff on the </span><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interweb">interweb</a><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"> </span><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes">tubes</a><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">.</span><br /><br /><p><a href="http://twitter.com/womensleadershp"><img title="Women's Leadership" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/106571912/wlc_logo_normal.jpeg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/hillharper"><img title="hillharper" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/57300011/96598_D0560b_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/allhiphopcom"><img title="allhiphopcom" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/58534892/AHHlogotwitter_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/THE_REAL_SHAQ"><img title="THE_REAL_SHAQ" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/75257283/Shaq_avatar_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/The_Daily_Show"><img title="The Daily Show" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/56672912/JonStewart_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/Wordie"><img title="Wordie" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/22893962/Picture_1_normal.png" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/technologizer"><img title="technologizer" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/63793671/t-logo_normal.png" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/jaygarmon"><img title="Jay Garmon" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/65453644/headshot_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/ESimms1221"><img title="ESimms1221" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/54736961/Me__red_shirt_and_sun_hat_normal.JPG" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/LeliaKate"><img title="lelia" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/60740230/Small_black_and_white_normal.gif" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/mercnews"><img title="MercNews" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/55014346/mdot2_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/mashable"><img title="Pete Cashmore" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/58439629/petepassport_normal.PNG" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/woot"><img title="woot.com" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/119110038/twitterProfilePhoto_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/WholeFoods"><img title="Whole Foods Market" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/61940803/wfm_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/pandora_radio"><img title="Pandora Radio" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/100850838/Lucia-Twitter_1_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/wootblabber"><img title="woot.com blabber" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/128396293/Keyring_Breathalyzer___2_PackdouThumbnail_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/women2"><img title="Women 2.0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/86655637/twitter_image_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/BarackObama"><img title="Barack Obama" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/25901972/iconbg_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/iPhone"><img title="iPhone" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/52788067/2195426275_4b1cb3e073_m_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/byroncrawford"><img title="Byron Crawford" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/41887522/bol_1_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/TwitPic"><img title="TwitPic" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/50582482/twitpic-icon_normal.gif" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/twittervision"><img title="Dave Troy" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/25404262/twittervision_logo_normal.png" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/HappyAbout"><img title="Mitchell Levy" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/66501714/mitchell.levy04b.big_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/ATTmusic"><img title="ATTmusic" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/71301077/attlogo_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/TechCrunch"><img title="Michael Arrington" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/115466107/techcrunch_bigger_normal.png" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/larrymagid"><img title="Larry Magid" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/29251882/larrynew_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/dangillmor"><img title="Dan Gillmor" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/22521212/danmug1_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/ricksanchezcnn"><img title="Rick Sanchez" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/57393047/sanchezrick_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/svwb"><img title="SV Web Builder" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/52125093/SVWBOfficialLogoTwitter_Squ_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/lunch20"><img title="Lunch 2.0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/24675462/watermelon_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/sv_code_camp"><img title="sv_code_camp" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/62283661/sv-code-camp-2008_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/LATimestot"><img title="Top of the Ticket" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/53419883/AndrewMalcolm_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/current"><img title="mario at current" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/118819720/current_squares_normal.png" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/BaskinRobbins"><img title="BaskinRobbins" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/53547474/BRlogo1RGB08_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/loud3r"><img title="loud3r" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/51167132/logo_normal.png" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/wordspy"><img title="Word Spy" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/55097497/eye4_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/mobileslate"><img title="Eric Chan" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/52157177/eric-thumb_normal.gif" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/SDForum"><img title="SDForum" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/53666273/sdforum_logo-small_normal.PNG" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/anildash"><img title="Anil Dash" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/117913643/anil-dash-90px_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/siliconlolz"><img title="siliconlolz" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/62810678/siliconlolz_normal.png" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/americablog"><img title="AMERICAblog" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/60292670/flag_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/disinfo"><img title="Disinformation" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/54375031/322640384_l_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/urbandaily"><img title="urbandaily" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/57604674/27405700_N03_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/TinaFey"><img title="TinaFey" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/54016018/bigmac_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/questlove"><img title="Questo of The Roots" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/60476801/72113657_2_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/susanbeebe"><img title="Susan Beebe" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/126942367/Copy_of_SusanBeebe_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/leticiamalphett"><img title="leticiamalphett" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/66311534/img_4544_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/typaldos"><img title="typaldos" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/111494913/bunnyandmecropped_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/bigcolsf"><img title="bigcolsf" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/61453313/oorwullie_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/squidlist"><img title="The Squid List" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/31938792/squid-list-avatar_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/TMZonline"><img title="TMZonline" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/60192590/0917_tmz_twitter_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/djbackside"><img title="DJ BackSide" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/59026623/djbstwitterlogo_normal.gif" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/mediamyway"><img title="i.TV" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/58323915/Mark_Capture_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/pcrampton"><img title="pcrampton" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/74046399/me-3_normal.JPG" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/wasitova"><img title="Silvana Wasitova" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/63836463/ArcDeTriomph-Messenger_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/Cellfire"><img title="Cellfire" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/68329154/CF_Flame_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/amazondeals"><img title="Amazon.com Deals" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/68908343/Gold_Box_plain_normal.PNG" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/heyitsfree"><img title="Hey, It's Free!" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/62342381/125-non-animated_normal.gif" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/TheInDecider"><img title="TheInDecider" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/127271985/twitter_indecision_logo2_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/dailykibble"><img title="dailykibble" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/69028149/dailykibble_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/tavissmiley"><img title="Tavis Smiley " src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/39725122/tavissmiley_twitter_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/obamainaugural"><img title="Obama Inauguration" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/68316201/obamabiden_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/extraordinaries"><img title="The Extraordinaries" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/70312954/logosmall_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/technopodge"><img title="Radi Shourbaji" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/63982457/Radi_Shourbaji__square1c__normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/inauguration"><img title="inauguration" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/71561687/obama_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/twrivia"><img title="twrivia" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/70491275/ac-happy_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/postsecret"><img title="PostSecret" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/72374264/twitter_logo_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/Alphacat1"><img title="Alphacat1" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/71336729/Iman_3_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/cnn"><img title="CNN.com" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/67228129/icon.cnn_normal.png" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/territrain"><img title="Terri Train" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/79771922/Terri_Train_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/algore"><img title="Al Gore" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/63792815/133537152_115x115_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/Mrs_O"><img title="Mrs O" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/72619516/Twitter_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/BlackWomen"><img title="BlackWomenConnect" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/72661381/bwc_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/startupers"><img title="StartUpers!" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/88533475/joe_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/eOfficeNet"><img title="eOffice News" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/120778872/eOffice_normal.JPG" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/whatshewore"><img title="What Michelle Wore" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/71851706/what_michelle_wore_eye_icon_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/stephfenton"><img title="Stephanie Fenton" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/69142001/StephCamera_wb_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/jfouts"><img title="Janet Fouts" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/119109634/jheadshot09_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/ahndymac"><img title="Andrew Macke n z i e" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/65865488/ahndy_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/maddow"><img title="Rachel Maddow MSNBC" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/59437078/icon-200x200_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/kathygriffin"><img title="Kathy Griffin" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/22343142/kg-icon_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/BWEtv"><img title="BestWeekEver.tv" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/74815512/bwetv_new_logo_cropped_normal.png" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/joelmchale"><img title="Joel McHale" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/53234793/s1_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/nearbytweets"><img title="nearbytweets.com" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/75370548/NBYT-avatar_noname_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/twestivalsf"><img title="Twestival SF" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/74810606/twestivalSFLOGO_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/twestival"><img title="Twestival" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/70071991/twest_normal.gif" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/SF_Weekly"><img title="San Francisco Weekly" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/110785095/sf-weekly_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/lancearmstrong"><img title="Lance Armstrong" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/76724592/DPP_0063_PR_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/ghincapie"><img title="ghincapie" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/67547922/Photo_49_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/librarythingtim"><img title="Tim Spalding" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/28678742/458590.htm_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/LThing"><img title="LibraryThing" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/73270722/photo_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/Barbara_Boxer"><img title="Barbara_Boxer" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/58689698/bb_headshot_normal.JPG" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/levisagedavril"><img title="April" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/63936075/April_Metro1_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/anitaborg_org"><img title="BJ Wishinsky" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/83011426/ABIWT_CMYK_sq_normal.JPG" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/icandybot"><img title="iCandy Team" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/72999749/icandybot-twitter_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/margaretcho"><img title="Margaret Cho" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/60095617/cho128_tristram_kenton_london_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/withfries2"><img title="Frank Chen" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/112488720/scaled.2009_2-14-09_BFAM_tahoe_172_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/jamois"><img title="Jamey Graham" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/65003288/jamey-face_normal.png" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/ChrisSims"><img title="Chris Sims" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/111975927/ChrisSimsHeadShotApril2008_256x316_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/RichMironov"><img title="Rich Mironov" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/71972626/Mironov-small_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/imusicmash"><img title="Al" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/66963920/Picture_1_normal.png" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/edbuckingham"><img title="edbuckingham" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/97420130/me_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/mozillafirefox"><img title="Firefox" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/29562702/Picture_1_normal.png" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/twitscoop"><img title="twitscoop" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/56136524/73x73Logo_normal.gif" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/wootsellout"><img title="sellout.woot.com" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/129001407/Polaroid_i1035_10MP_Digital_Camera_with_3__LCD_qvzThumbnail_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/TonyAlba_Pizza"><img title="Tony and Alba Pizza" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/117937152/peacepizzapubjpg_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/TourneyComish"><img title="TourneyComish" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/51977787/37dkpb_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/ryankuder"><img title="Ryan Kuder" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/63343709/Headshot_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/awordaday"><img title="A Word a Day" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/31204262/word_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/thewordoftheday"><img title="Word of the Day" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/60862533/w_normal.png" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/awordinthehand"><img title="A Word in the Hand" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/92307416/dictionary_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/Webware"><img title="Webware" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/18732952/webware-badge_normal.png" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/SmartBears"><img title="Smart Bear Software" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/66226945/twitter-feedicon_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/huffingtonpost"><img title="HuffingtonPost.com" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/109047210/HuffTwitter_normal.png" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/monitter"><img title="monitter" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/57524870/monitter_twitter_normal.gif" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/dogster"><img title="Dogster" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/60915146/dogster_dog_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/sonyapaz"><img title="Sonya Paz" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/86519734/art_sassygirl_red1_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/aipmm"><img title="AIPMM Events" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/72338372/n667292068_259462_3378_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/Pixorial"><img title="Pixorial, Inc." src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/87140871/logo-sqr_normal.gif" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/kivacs"><img title="Kiva" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/73644194/build-kiva_normal.png" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/BAGnewsNotes"><img title="Michael Shaw" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/88088471/headshot-dnc-80w_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/SmirkingChimp"><img title="Smirking Chimp" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/88498127/businesschimp_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/onebrick"><img title="One Brick" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/74068373/Picture_1_normal.png" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/imdb"><img title="imdb" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/79474013/apple-touch-icon_normal.png" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/ColbertReport"><img title="Colbert Report Clips" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/56419824/ColbertPic_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/cnnbrk"><img title="CNN Breaking News" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/67263363/icon.cnnbrk_normal.png" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/theresepadilla"><img title="Therese" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/72298358/n667292068_1567516_2681_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/AprFoolsDay"><img title="April Fools Day" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/104160994/april-fool_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/StephenAtHome"><img title="Stephen" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/82800318/telescoped_normal.png" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/harrymccracken"><img title="Harry McCracken" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/55222648/twitterharry_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/pbreit"><img title="Patrick Breitenbach" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/18885942/pb_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/njection"><img title="Njection" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/128873149/2008-09-30_093950_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/CompAweMU"><img title="Mychal Utecht" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/107500939/bike_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/illseed"><img title="illseed" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/60011357/illseed_seanbell_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/Jo_Miller"><img title="Jo Miller" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/82528257/Jo-Miller-headshot-sml_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/rlux"><img title="Rachel Luxemburg" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/72206140/icon_summer_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/vlauria"><img title="Vinnie Lauria" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/127338528/twitter-pro_normal.png" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/thingfo"><img title="thingfo" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/64527133/derrangedcat_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/ryanlrussell"><img title="ryanlrussell" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/57209251/Photo_2_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/steampunktrunk"><img title="amy neumann" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/74511435/135_normal.JPG" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/steamcrow"><img title="steamcrow" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/87882737/steam_crow_icon_normal.png" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/LibbyBulloff"><img title="Libby Bulloff" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/64821042/icon_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/steamcon"><img title="Steamcon" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/71447270/15276065_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/inventrix"><img title="The Inventrix" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/82391795/twit_normal.png" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/thinkgeek"><img title="thinkgeek" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/96579118/timmy_transparent_twitter3_normal.png" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/Steampunksp"><img title="Steampunksp" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/108784854/templogo_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/hauntedtearoom"><img title="P Marie Paris" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/80564652/n595574648_700452_4835_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/digg_technews"><img title="Digg Technology News" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/66781588/digg-3_normal.png" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/digg_politics"><img title="Digg Politics" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/66782542/digg-7_normal.png" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/bust_magazine"><img title="BUST magazine" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/125551952/lili.cover_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/ShamelessMag"><img title="ShamelessMag" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/62561065/summer2004_cover_thumb_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/seasonothebitch"><img title="Sarah Jaffe" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/116711927/amouth_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/DeePhunk"><img title="Dee Phunk (Derreck)" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/119324342/newtwit_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/snoopdogg"><img title="Snoop Dogg" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/110978550/VSCN0481_face0_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/Steve_Buscemi"><img title="Steve Buscemi" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/126538920/tn2_steve_buscemi_4_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/robcorddry"><img title="rob corddry" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/106136906/obamacon_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/FAIZONLOVE"><img title="FAIZON LOVE" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/104870967/faizoninthenight3-19-09-157_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/BitchMagazine"><img title="BitchMagazine" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/64381362/BitchShieldTote_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/andersoncooper"><img title="Anderson Cooper" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/67244783/icon.andersoncooper_normal.png" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><a href="http://twitter.com/netflix"><img title="Netflix" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/76375582/Netflix_API2_57x57_normal.png" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></a><img onclick="exclude(this,'22027186');" title="Louis C.K. [Click to delete]" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/83692801/00630007_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /><img onclick="exclude(this,'6480682');" title="Aziz Ansari [Click to delete]" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/94258655/Aziz08_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /><img onclick="exclude(this,'22461427');" title="Al Yankovic [Click to delete]" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/85628254/SOL_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /><img onclick="exclude(this,'19029137');" title="Brent Spiner [Click to delete]" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/71321299/images_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /><img onclick="exclude(this,'17833574');" title="Hal Sparks [Click to delete]" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/66809235/DSCF0277_normal.JPG" border="0" height="48" width="48" /><img onclick="exclude(this,'14749383');" title="Penn Jillette [Click to delete]" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/116696639/_MG_0660_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /><img onclick="exclude(this,'783214');" title="Twitter [Click to delete]" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/75075164/twitter_bird_profile_normal.png" border="0" height="48" width="48" /><img onclick="exclude(this,'19293310');" title="First Pooch [Click to delete]" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/73085446/FirstPoochLogo_1in_72dpi_normal.jpg" border="0" height="48" width="48" /><img onclick="exclude(this,'18710601');" title="Sean Fallon [Click to delete]" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/69968050/apple-touch-icon_normal.png" border="0" height="48" width="48" /><img onclick="exclude(this,'1401991');" title="sujamthe [Click to delete]" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/58143564/sudha_pic_from_tie_1999_normal.gif" border="0" height="48" width="48" /></p><br /><br /><br /><p><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">Unfortunately, Sxoop Mosaic doesn't dynamically update like my other medallions and widgets. So this truly is a snapshot of the folks I follow.</span></p><p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><a href="http://sxoop.com/twitter/">Get your twitter mosaic here.</a></p>Devans00http://www.blogger.com/profile/00079172462536319738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12806777.post-64877601680063515332009-03-21T21:36:00.000-07:002009-03-21T22:13:36.025-07:00Hedge Funds and the Global Economic Meltdown<span style="font-family: lucida grande;">This <a href="http://vimeo.com/3722293">short video</a> breaks down one of the fundamental causes of the most recent economic meltdown. The gist of video message is that a small, predatory group of rich guys, also known as the </span><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligarchy">oligarchy</a><span style="font-family: lucida grande;">, played the stock market system to make themselves bucket loads of money. The fact that the worlds' economies are spiraling down the toilet bowl is just an unfortunate side effect as far as these </span><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire">vampires</a><span style="font-family: lucida grande;"> are concerned. They got their money. <br /><br />Some will claim that short sellers and naked short sellers (hedge fund manipulating stock prices by flooding the market with phantom stock) don't set out to destroy companies but I don't believe it. I'm generous enough to chalk the first company destroyed as a side effect up to an "oops, did we do that?" mistake. But the destruction of companies after that were definitely deliberate and planned. So much for counting on the market to do the right thing.<br /><br />Despite what you may think about the invasion of privacy it was for </span><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/21/activists-protest-bonuses_n_177669.html">protesters to go to the private homes</a><span style="font-family: lucida grande;"> of AIG bonus recievers, you can definitely understand the impulse after seeing videos like this one.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: lucida grande;">Since I'm not in the financial industry, I can't vouch for every detail mentioned in the video. But I can appreciate how </span><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://antisocialmedia.net/">Mr. Bagley</a><span style="font-family: lucida grande;"> took the time to try to break down the complex problem to a digestible level. I notice on many finance industry insider sites, those in the know spend a lot of time scoffing and looking down their noses rather than adding any productive information to the conversation.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: lucida grande;">___________________________________________</span><br /><object style="font-family: lucida grande;" height="375" width="500"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=3722293&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=ff9933&fullscreen=1"><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=3722293&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=ff9933&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" height="375" width="500"></embed></object><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:130%;" ><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://vimeo.com/3722293">Hedge Funds and the Global Economic Meltdown</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> from </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://vimeo.com/user1447996">Judd Bagley</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> on </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a><span style="font-family: verdana;">.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Short selling hedge funds lit the spark that led to the global economic meltdown. Now they want to help craft the laws Congress will pass to fix our broken regulatory system. That's insane.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: lucida grande;">____________________________________________</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: lucida grande;">A couple of sites mentioned:</span><br /><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://businessjive.com/">http://businessjive.com/</a><br /> <a style="font-family: lucida grande;" href="http://www.deepcapture.com/">http://www.deepcapture.com/</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: lucida grande;">A good comment about the video:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: lucida grande;">Gregory Kohs: Very, very alarming stuff. It really sickens me that our small church struggles without a Sunday schoolhouse for our rapidly-expanding youth services programs, but these crooks can pull a few fast ones and walk off with their billions. </span>Devans00http://www.blogger.com/profile/00079172462536319738noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12806777.post-83519466662669052762009-03-20T10:19:00.001-07:002009-03-20T10:19:58.866-07:00Best Week Ever - Baby Oragutans in the Hospital<div > I’m going to explode from the cuteness of these photos. Especially the one where the baby oragutan is biting the crib railing. I used to do that! </div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><tr><td valign="top"><!-- BEGIN_CLIP_CONTENT ID:D303C383-20B6-4EDC-B15C-CF195F1B3868:1 CLIPMARKS.COM --><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/D303C383-20B6-4EDC-B15C-CF195F1B3868/" title="go to this clipmark"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_icon/f9fe0371-3431-4307-8997-644a7dec61cc/D303C383-20B6-4EDC-B15C-CF195F1B3868/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.bestweekever.tv/2009/03/20/e-mail-this-to-your-mom-orangutan-hospies/" href="http://www.bestweekever.tv/2009/03/20/e-mail-this-to-your-mom-orangutan-hospies/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.bestweekever.tv</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bestweekever.tv/2009/03/20/e-mail-this-to-your-mom-orangutan-hospies/"><DIV class="post_title"><br /> <A title="Permanent Link to E-MAIL THIS TO YOUR MOM: Orangutan Hospies" rel="bookmark" href="http://www.bestweekever.tv/2009/03/20/e-mail-this-to-your-mom-orangutan-hospies/"><br /> E-MAIL THIS TO YOUR MOM: Orangutan Hospies </A><br /><SPAN>By <STRONG><br /> <A title="View all posts by Michelle Collins" href="http://www.bestweekever.tv/author/MichelleC"><br /> Michelle Collins </A></STRONG></SPAN><br /> </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bestweekever.tv/2009/03/20/e-mail-this-to-your-mom-orangutan-hospies/"><P>Some people argue that man and ape are distant cousins. The following photos of baby oragutans should prove otherwise. You know why?</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bestweekever.tv/2009/03/20/e-mail-this-to-your-mom-orangutan-hospies/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.bestweekever.tv/img/2726B042-B1A6-4122-9E7B-774015664DBB" alt="BABY ORANGUTAN 1.jpg" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bestweekever.tv/2009/03/20/e-mail-this-to-your-mom-orangutan-hospies/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.bestweekever.tv/img/624ABFDB-1624-4CB5-92BF-2E8890E4E504" alt="BABY ORANGUTAN 2.jpg" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bestweekever.tv/2009/03/20/e-mail-this-to-your-mom-orangutan-hospies/"><P>Above, two baby orangutans jus chillin’ at the Infant Care Unit on Orangutan Island. The center houses 23 baby orangutans who have been abused or rejected by their mother. You know which mother would never reject these guys? This mother. Because if the following animal ever miraculously came outta me, I would swaddle it and coddle it and probably crush it on accident due to my overwhelming affection for it:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bestweekever.tv/2009/03/20/e-mail-this-to-your-mom-orangutan-hospies/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.bestweekever.tv/img/61E6CB8F-2B45-45E2-8D9A-1E3142AC5945" alt="BABY ORANGUTAN 3.jpg" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bestweekever.tv/2009/03/20/e-mail-this-to-your-mom-orangutan-hospies/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.bestweekever.tv/img/DFF93CEF-1F52-4E77-BFD9-D26D27648F96" alt="BABY ORANGUTAN 4.jpg" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bestweekever.tv/2009/03/20/e-mail-this-to-your-mom-orangutan-hospies/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.bestweekever.tv/img/A009E883-BCF9-4A68-B01C-260FF2E827EC" alt="BABY ORANGUTAN 5.jpg" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D303C383-20B6-4EDC-B15C-CF195F1B3868/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table> Devans00http://www.blogger.com/profile/00079172462536319738noreply@blogger.com0