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Seth Godin gave this presentation at TED. I saw it on a good friend’s blog and found it worthy of sharing. Enjoy

Back in March, a bunch of us computer dorks were at a conference in Las Vegas. One of the guys from our office had given us a USB thumbdrive to...

Tomorrow marks the return to the Yankees lineup of Alex Rodriguez. I remember talking to a fellow Yankees fan a few years ago when they signed A-Rod. I said at...

About 2 years ago, I was in New York at my niece’s graduation and happened to be in Sam’s Warehouse club with my parents. I wandered by a bin full...

About a year ago I had lunch with Henry Kaestner of Bandwidth.com about micro finance in developing countries. As a part of that lunch, I shared with Henry my ideas...

I ran across this article on ESPN today about a house subcommittee that is now involved in the BCS and the never-ending debate about BCS vs. playoffs. I came up...

We have the beginnings of a pandemic with this swine flu thing. Joe Biden got on the air this morning and said he would advise his family to stay home,...

Two article headlines in my iGoogle news ticker today caught my attention, not because of their content, but because of what seemed to be a direct contradiction by the current...

I was trolling the news sites tonight and happened upon this article from Reuters wherein the animal rights folks are upset because the Obamas decided to get their new pooch,...

I went to hear a lecture tonight on the campus of NC State given by Dr. William Easterly. Dr. Easterly is renown for his stance, overly simplified by me, that...

If I heard this phrase once in the last 3 days, I heard it 100 times. Everyone from Mariah Carey to people on the mall before the Inauguration kept saying...

I attended a meeting a couple weeks ago where Tom Davis spoke. Tom is one of the founders of Childrens HopeChest, an organization that is dedicated to helping the growing...

Not just a famous musical composition by G.F. Handel, these two countries have been linked together since the early days of civilization. Egypt in recent days has tried to inject...

“World Champions. World f—-ing champions!” This is how Chase Utley, a member of the Philadelphia Phillies began his time at the mic today at the parade in Philly. You have...

I generally am an optimist when it comes to America. I think this is the best place on Earth to live. However, sometimes I can’t believe how far we have...

I ran across a blog entry today by Barbra Streisand wherein she posits that John McCain must think women are stupid if he thinks that just putting a woman on...

I am in the middle of reading a fascinating book that has been out for some time. The title is Carnage and Culture authored by Victor Hanson. I started reading...