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Not Always Right | Funny & Stupid Customer Quotes » The Featherweight Watchers Program This has to be made up there is no other explanation. (tags: humor stupid darwinadwards) Social Networking on Intranets (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox) "Perhaps more than any other corporate intranet innovation, social software technologies are exposing the holes in corporate communication and […]

StumbleUpon WebToolbar – Taking a Stand on Twitter's Auto-DM Policy #endautodm | Stay N Alive "I’m getting sick of the auto-dms. Chris Brogan is sick. Sean Percival is sick. Robert Scoble is sick. Jeremiah Owyang is sick. The list goes on and on, and we’re not the only ones. Starting today I’m taking a stand." […]

RSS Subscribers or Twitter Followers: Which Are Worth More? "As it stands, Twitter followers are at a significant disadvantage over RSS subscribers, because the former are less engaged than the latter. This isn’t to say Twitter accounts can’t be highly influential, just that they require a lot more skill on the part of the author […]

BBC NEWS | UK | Quakers 'to allow gay marriages' "One of the UK's oldest Christian denominations – the Quakers – looks set to extend marriage services to same-sex couples at their yearly meeting later. The church has already held religious blessings for same-sex couples who have had a civil partnership ceremony." (tags: quaker religion […]

Senate Panel Endorses Sotomayor in 13-6 Vote – NYTimes.com "The committee’s vote was 13 to 6, with Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina the only Republican joining the panel’s 12 Democrats in voting for the nomination. The action cleared the way for a Senate floor vote next week for Judge Sotomayor, who would be the […]

BBC NEWS | Health | Audio slideshow: Anatomical entertainment "Intricate wax models of humans – and their internal organs – helped educate medical students during the 19th Century. But they also offered the general public an unusual afternoon's entertainment." Very cool slideshow. (tags: science history medicine anatomy health) Longer Life for the Space Station Is […]

Verizon Wireless seeks U.S. court judgment on ads | Technology | Reuters "Verizon Wireless, a joint venture of Verizon and Vodafone Group PLC, asked a U.S. court for a judgment that its advertising claims to be "America's Most Reliable 3G Network" were truthful, which rival AT&T called "misleading" on Monday." Oh fun. (tags: verizon mobile […]

Op-Ed Columnist – An Incoherent Truth – NYTimes.com "One interpretation, then, is that the Blue Dogs are basically following in Mr. Tauzin’s footsteps: if their position is incoherent, it’s because they’re nothing but corporate tools, defending special interests. And as the Center for Responsive Politics pointed out in a recent report, drug and insurance companies […]

John Dvorak's Second Opinion: Is the party over for behemoth Microsoft? – MarketWatch "Try to remember all the crazy directions Microsoft has gone in over the past few years. Note the dizzy remarks by Chief Executive Steve Ballmer, who recently insisted that online advertising would soon account for the majority of Microsoft's income. This is […]

Programmer Competency Matrix The competenance of a programmer. (tags: programming development programmer software coding interview education career) George Fox University – Student Essay – What My Faith in God Looks Like – NYTimes.com "The game generally started with a question, cycled through my beliefs, and ended with “because. . . .” Soon it was ending […]