About 90% of this relationship is procrastination.

7 Business Lessons from the Garden

Seeded on Mon Oct 12, 2009 8:50 PM EDT (Traveling Forever)

Business lessons from the Garden.

business, gardening, entrepreneurship, philosophy

Basho and the Dirty Shed - Dealing with Difficult Situations

Seeded on Sat Oct 10, 2009 9:38 PM EDT (Traveling Forever)

Dealing with difficult situations the Zen way.

health, zen, buddhism, basho, haiku

How to Lose Friends and Influence Nobody

Thu May 3, 2007 12:18 PM EDT

I admit it – I pissed off everyone at Newsvine on purpose. Why? To prove a point. As a writer, it's not my job to make you like me. I am not here to network. Quite the opposite, I'm here to make enemies.

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odd-news, mpaa, writing, legal-battles, liberals, enemies, war, ideas, battle

The Number that Newsvine Censored

Wed May 2, 2007 11:10 AM EDT

Yesterday I wrote a quick column explaining how DRM in HD-DVD's had been compromised. I posted a number which may possibly have been illegal. Within a few hours, the article was censored. This is a huge blow to the quality and trust level of Newsvine.

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technology, censorship, newsvine, mpaa, legal-threats, bad, democrakey

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Donald Rumsfeld and Aspartame

Seeded on Fri Apr 20, 2007 11:06 PM EDT (newswithviews.com)

Aspartame is an additive found in diet soft drinks and over 5,000 foods, drugs and medicine. It was approved in 1983 for use in carbonated beverages. However, there may be more sour than sweet when it comes to aspartame.

health, aspartame, poisoned-world, taste-that-kills, philip-morris, environmental-protection-agencys

Contaminated pet food safer than your ham sandwich

Fri Apr 20, 2007 2:31 PM EDT

If you've ever sat down to eat a hot dog, had someone make a face and then ask you: "Do you know what's in that?!" Pay attention. Pretty soon, they'll be able to ask you that about your ham sandwich too.

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health, food-safety, contamination, globalization, agriculture, small-farms, fda, imports, slow-foods, ham-sandwich

DemocraKey.com - Defeat Internet Censorship

Seeded on Wed Apr 18, 2007 2:33 PM EDT (democrakey.com)

Software to fight back against big brother. Best of all, it's free and open source.

technology, open-source, tor-encrypt, big-brother, college

When work stops making sense

Tue Apr 17, 2007 2:42 PM EDT

There are 40 million Americans making bellow poverty level wages. In the UK, 1/5th of all young people are NEETS (neither in education, employed, or training). They do nothing. The UK's youth brings up a good point - Why work when it makes no sense?

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politics, citizen-journalism, unemployment, neet, corporate-interest, welfare-state, united-states, uk, global-economy, wage-slave

The High Cost of Selling the American Dream

Wed Apr 11, 2007 7:55 PM EDT

Hip hop is dead.

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odd-news, hip-hop, dreams, culture, aspirations, rap, crack, gangs, black-culture

The Richard Dawkins Delusion

Wed Apr 11, 2007 12:47 PM EDT

Richard Dawkins wants to sell you a religion. He won't call it that; instead say he's only promoting rationality and science over dreams and fairy tales.

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science, atheism, pseudoscience, truth, understanding, philosophy

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Be Here Now

Seeded on Tue Jan 2, 2007 5:57 PM EST (Traveling Forever Blog)

religion, philosophy

Why (and How!) to Keep a Journal - For Life

Seeded on Fri Dec 8, 2006 12:37 PM EST (Traveling Forever Blog)

Writing problems out is the quickest way to get them solved. Only most of us don't write nearly enough, and instead keep having the same circular conversations in our heads. Keeping a daily journal solves this problem. And then some.

education, journal, success, ideas, problem-solving