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Archive for December, 2010

Humorous Video Comment on Social Networking.

by @ Sunday, December 5th, 2010. Tags: , , ,
Filed under Humor

My Favorite Tweets (a Social Network Song) A social network song for Facebook and Twitter addicts. Conceived and created by World Wide Wadio (with apologies to Rodgers and Hammerstein). Keynote animation by Dave Fey Design. Apologies to The Sound of Music See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/ho53

Wpg Free Press – No quick fix for overcrowding in Seven Oaks division #winnipeg

Perhaps the Seven Oaks School Division and superintendent Brian O’Leary could use some of the money they made when they developed The Swinford Property a few years back. You could read more about it on a blog of mine from 2005 at: http://manitobataxpayer.drbobscomputeremporium.net/archives/date/2005/05 I’m sorry if the blog doesn’t read very well as it rather [...]

FlightAware Releases Facebook App! #tech

by @ Saturday, December 4th, 2010. Tags: ,
Filed under Technology

I am not a big FaceBook fan nor do I do much air travel but this looks interesting: Want to share your travel plans or the whereabouts of your plane on Facebook automatically? Add FlightAware’s new Facebook App and you can setup automatic wall postings from FlightAware so your Facebook friends can track you as [...]

Electronic Pickpocket – Is your Credit Card Vulnerable?

by @ Friday, December 3rd, 2010. Filed under Technology

This is frightening! See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/hgfw

HowStuffWorks – Who Said It: Gates or Jobs? #quiz

by @ Friday, December 3rd, 2010. Tags: , , , , ,
Filed under Technology

Something to do on a “Lazy Friday Afternoon” Amplify’d from www.howstuffworks.com Who Said It: Gates or Jobs? Bill Gates and Steve Jobs have been battling each other for computer supremacy for about 25 years now. As far as we can see, neither has anything very nice to say about the other or his products. But [...]

Scientific American – For the Good of the Gut: Can Parasitic Worms Treat Autoimmune Diseases? #health

by @ Friday, December 3rd, 2010. Tags: , , , , , ,
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I remember seeing something like this in an episode of the TV Series “House” now it seems it is not so unbelievable. I guess (perhaps not in this case) it’s true that “Nothing is Useless – at worst, it can be used as A Bad Example”. Amplify’d from www.scientificamerican.com For the Good of the Gut: [...]

WikiLeaks founder calls for Flanagan charge #canada

by @ Friday, December 3rd, 2010. Tags: , ,
Filed under Technology

Earlier in the day I posted about Shocker – Harper advisor calls for assassination of Wikileaks director. Now it seems WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says a former senior adviser to Prime Minister Stephen Harper should be charged with incitement to commit murder for calling for Assange’s assassination. Read more: CBC News See this Amp at [...]

Perhaps #TimHortons should look at making a more #eco friendly hot cup shield? also: http://goo.gl/xaTz6

by @ Friday, December 3rd, 2010. Tags: , , , ,
Filed under Technology

How many of these end up in landfills and how many actually get recycled? I tweeted @greenmanitoba with this tweet: @greenmanitoba Perhaps #TimHortons should look at making a more #eco friendly cup shield? and http://goo.gl/xaTz6 http://amplify.com/u/gx3c To which I haven’t yet received a twitter reply but I did get this eMail from a representative of [...]

Shocker – Harper advisor calls for assassination of Wikileaks director. #canada

by @ Friday, December 3rd, 2010. Filed under Technology

Rather extreme don’t you think? In a shockingly flippant comment to a Canadian television news anchor Evan Solomon of the CBC News Network on live TV, Tom Flanagan, a senior advisor and strategist to the Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper today called for the assassination of Wikileaks director Julian Assange . It is believed to [...]

There’s a new tool that online marketers, brand managers and social media experts should be aware of!

by @ Thursday, December 2nd, 2010. Tags: , , , ,
Filed under Technology

This could be HUGE for disseminating the twitter “Fire Hose”! Amplify’d from www.readwriteweb.com Research.ly Debuts Real-Time Social Search Platform, Plus 3 Years of Twitter’s Archive By Sarah Perez / December 2, 2010 8:20 AM / 1 Comments Share0diggsdigg There’s a new tool that online marketers, brand managers and social media experts should be aware of: [...]

Animals of YouTube sing “Deck the Halls” #xmas

by @ Thursday, December 2nd, 2010. Tags: , ,
Filed under Technology

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to ALL See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/h6aw

Proposed Legislation Would Widen Impaired Driving Sanctions #manitoba

by @ Thursday, December 2nd, 2010. Tags: , , , , ,
Filed under Technology

I DO NOT totally agree with the DUI criteria currently being use as there is no consideration given to Experience and/or Age at the time of the testing. Similar to Alzheimer’s Disease, Alcohol tends to impair short term memory which would mean it would effect those with less experience a lot more then those with [...]

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