Today is my birthday, and I decided to give you all a gift that few of you have been highly anticipating for a few months now. My most popular post on this site — probably by far — was last year’s Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2007 compilation. I spent about 3 days (and nights) ...

Before I list the albums that were published in 2008 that I preferred, I want to talk about a particular label that is just taking the US by the roots. There are plenty of labels that I’m currently enjoying (Audiotrauma being one), but I must profess adoration for: Vendetta Music. While there ...

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“Looks like someone moved the switch to ‘Fall’�, jokes the mom as she walks her son into the Basilica’s Youth Ministry. I’ve played the Minnesotan-discussing-the-weather role enough, and know it’s my job to agree good-naturedly. But I’m not staying in the school with mom and The Chat...

Genesis 3:1-13; Matthew 5:27-30 A few years back there was a media report going around about the rock singer Sting who, according to the report, claimed that he was a practitioner of an ancient eastern form of Tantric sex and could “make love for eight hours a night.� This was big news in the en...

June 14, 2ôô8 NAVIGATING THE FRINGE STREAM- LISTING A BIT TO THE LEFT... *NOT CURRENTLY AVAILABLE IN MYANMAR* “Minister Of Rants� is the most popular blog among guys who tried to join the Camp Fire Girls at age 9. If you've got a half hour or so and would like to contribute data to serious res...

From Aaron Riccio: Don't let the flimflam, vaudeville, exaggeration, or absurd plot shifts of The Honest-to-God True Story of the Atheist  fool you. Dan Trujillo's an incredibly sharp playwright, conflating the cures of the Church with those of a Viagra huckster ("It&#...

At the same time that emerging market PC shipments and internet usage have started catching up, the virtual goods space online has developed into <a href=”http://gigaom.com/2007/06/24/making-real-money-from-virtual-goods” mce_href=”http://gigaom.com/2007/06/24/making-real-money-...

I’ve got the Luke Ford Fan Blogger in my live cam chat tonight (then Eliot Stein joined us): CXXX:  so how long does luke actually sit on here at night? Wookie:  should pull out a belt for s**ts and giggles CXXX:  Luke, do you talk about porn much anymore? or is it all this God ...

It’s very hard to write your own resume because a resume is a macro view of your life, but you live your life at the micro level, obsessing about daily details that have no bearing on your resume. So I recommend to a lot of people that they hire someone to help them. After all, spending money on a...