Network Rules for Radicals.... I have been cooking ideas of how to mashup the Rules for Radicals and network-centric advocacy for a few years. The puzzle lies in front of us "the rules" are scattered on one side of the desk and papers the "network attributes and components" are on the laptop sitting...

SPACE.com: The Mystery Behind Real Flying Saucers Could today’s widespread belief that flying saucers are extraterrestrial spaceships be the result of an unintentional, civilian conspiracy? One that created real flying saucers in order to achieve its end? Now, historian Jack Hagerty and I may ...

Twice… I had to shovel to bring my trash to the curb this morning, and I had to shovel to bring it back after the snow fall this evening. And I will probably need to shovel tomorrow morning to do a touch up. I have the impression that I can’t be efficient during winter. The little one wa...

In response to my post about ways to save money, a reader wrote about going to a beauty school. That the price can't be beat and the students really want to do a good job and work really hard. She was right!  I went to a local beauty school to get a body wave. I could not handle my straigh...

Google Trends and US Department of Agriculture Results are compared in these images. They are different. I was reading up on trend analysis and the predictive power of Google to "see" trends before the official government agencies. (Google Flu) I started to think about what other things people might...

Nominations are now open for the most woefully misbegotten left leaning plan in the entire political blogosphere - and I nominate the genius who came up with the "Keep Kathy Shaidle off the airwaves" plan.   If someone knows who that is please drop their blog URL in the comments or send me an e...

I have been having a hard time dealing with some things lately. Lord knows I have prayed and prayed but I still don't know what to do or what to say. I will try not to go into too much detail, but one problem I have is that I feel, and my kids feel, like they are treated differently than other kids ...

I'm really tired about the way people react whenever someone here tries to put to light something crooked, a company misbehavior and such. Even though an organisation is obviously lying and screwing up their customers, if you have the nerve to complain about it, other customers will tell you to shut...

Just as there are “winners� in the private economy ( financial network news, repo companies, grocery chains (more eating at home), collection agencies, craigslist, certified mail companies (deliver bills and foreclosure notices) etc. There will be nonprofits and advocacy groups whose services an...

A tous mes amis français, je vous conseille de ne pas commander de ces deux site internet (même compagnie, deux noms, déjà, c'est louche). Je suis en train de me battre pour me faire rembourser, car ils m'ont envoyé 2 articles flous sur 5!!! Ils ne veulent pas me rembourser sans que je renvoie ...