How to be a quite good bird photographer

I’ve been very fortunate in the four years I’ve been blogging to have received a fair few comments congratulating me on the photographs I’ve taken. I’m very grateful of course, but I have to say that given the opportunities I get from travelling the world with my airline job I’d be a poor photographer indeed if I hadn’t managed to capture the odd [more...]

Date: 2007-11-15 10:00:19
Blog: 10,000 Birds — Birding,...

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Virginia Adds a “Glocal” Edge to 100-Mile Thanksgiving

NOVEMBER 16, 2007 - Last year professor Tim Beatley of the University of Virginia invited his students to share a 100-Mile Thanksgiving - he even made bread out of acorn flour for the occasion. This year, he has decided to add a “glocal” component to the festivities [more...]

Date: 2007-11-16 18:43:09
Blog: 100 Mile Diet: Local Ea...

More Holiday Campaign Strategies

Can you believe Thanksgiving is next week already? It's really sneaking up on us this year…and it's important to remember to spend some time preparing your PPC campaigns for Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and the days that follow – in between shopping for turkey (or soy turkey!), green bean casserole, and stuffing fixins [more...]

Date: 2007-11-16 00:24:44
Blog: adCenter Blog...

AFTAH Responds to Wikisposure on Nelson Garcia: Putting Politics above their Mission of Protecting Children

 LaBarbera asks: why so many boy victims of pedophilia?  Nelson Garcia, "boy lover" and deceitful critic of AFTAH. The anti-pedophilia (yet pro-homosexuality) website Wikisposure redirected our link to their page exposing Garcia's past [more...]

Date: 2007-11-17 19:32:42
Blog: Americans for Truth » ...

11/16: Not Dead Yet

In a 6/28 post titled "After McCain" we wrote: "Is there a single issue, outside of Iraq, that conservatives agree and identify McCain with? Short of a dramatic 180 degree turn on progress in Iraq, what series of events could possibly end in a McCain candidacy? [more...]

Date: 2007-11-15 20:08:14
Blog: The Hotline's Blogomete...

How to Avoid Extinction

How much impact does your daily activity have on the environment? ... in June of this year and their mission is to “Enable any climate campaign to use a common standard ... have on the environment in terms of the amount of green house gases produced, measured in units of carbon dioxide [more...]

Date: 2007-11-16 06:05:57
Blog: ProgrammableWeb - Mashu...

And The Answer Is…

The answer is “we don’t know.” The question is “what did you guys decide in your discussion yesterday about the future of email?” But we learned a lot and hypothesized even more. Of course, being blogger types, we’ll share and also hope you can add to the discussion. Is email dead? [more...]

Date: 2007-11-16 19:50:37
Blog: Fractals of Change...

Using the TradeRadar software -- thoughts after one year

It has been one whole year since I started writing this blog and trying to document both my opinions on the markets and my experiences using the TradeRadar software. In terms of writing on topics of interest related to stocks, ETFs ... for a recovery to overcome my common sense. This is why I have adopted the practice of setting [more...]

Date: 2007-11-17 14:02:01
Blog: Trade Radar - Stock Mar...

Biggest invasion since 1066?

Biggest invasion since 1066? Posted on November 15, 2007 by Bookworm There are only two dates in British history that one needs to remember according to the authors of the wonderful 1066 & All That: A Memorable History Of England, Comprising All The Parts You Can Remember, Including 103 Good Things, 5 Bad Kings And 2 Genuine Dates [more...]

Date: 2007-11-16 05:19:10
Blog: Bookworm Room...

Changing Times LinkBlogging

Slush Pile Follies Slave Labor Editor-in-Chief Jennifer de Guzman lists how to get stuck in the slush pile ... ) and Rex Libris. The other series are Disney-licensed comics. You should think of projects in terms ... Secrets= Disaster, a common ailment of his work that he only recently shook off. Fair analysis? My first [more...]

Date: 2007-11-15 13:15:09
Blog: Comics Worth Reading...

A Review Of Saucer by Stepehn Coonts

-By Frederick Meekins In most science fiction stories, extraterrestrial technology is unveiled to the world when it is piloted to earth by proverbial little green men or bug eyed monsters. However, in Saucer, Stephen Coonts presents a scenario where man’s initial exposure to a civilization from beyond the earth does not occur overhead but rather [more...]

Date: 2007-11-16 16:10:31
Blog: Publius’ Forum...

What is This Supposed to Tell Us?

I must be missing something, becasue I don't get the point of this. This is Greg Mankiw: Inequality Everywhere You Look, by Greg Mankiw: ... track the U.S. distribution at other common break points, e.g. 90-10 and 99-1, rather than [more...]

Date: 2007-11-17 19:25:00
Blog: Economist's View...

Sudden Loss of Page Rank - How to Protect Yours

Last night I got home from work logged into my PC and checked HomeBizBlogger.com; why I checked it I’m not sure as I was online all day at work ... to make money as well and selling reviews, text link ads are a very common method. No wait [more...]

Date: 2007-11-16 12:49:45
Blog: Home Business Blog how ...

On Fairness

Thought for the day: “Fairness" is often described in terms of equality of outcomes ... at the start of a fascinating essay which he introduces thus: A wide range of common intuitions about “fairness” cannot ... be easily understood in terms of desires for relatively equal outcomes [more...]

Date: 2007-11-15 22:46:00
Blog: India Uncut - published...

High Tech Bullying

Ten per cent of high school students said they have been harassed through emails, websites or blogs, ... and emailing capabilities. Common methods include emailing pictures showing victims’ genitals ... the latest technology. “In terms of technology, email filtering systems are effective,” said Motohiro [more...]

Date: 2007-11-16 09:02:10
Blog: Japundit — Japan - A wh...

Common Mistakes in Setting Salary for Church Staff

Dan Reiland writes, "In my first full time job out of seminary, as a pastor in a local church, I made an annual salary of $18,000 ... . In this first part of the series, let’s start with: “Common mistakes in salary setting” Lack [more...]

Date: 2007-11-15 13:05:10
Blog: MondayMorningInsight.co...

Rice Kisses Lobby's A**

Transcript of Rice speech to the General Assembly of United Jewish Communities 11/13/2007 --- "I want to affirm my own personal commitment to Israel's security, and I want you to know how honored I am to serve a president for whom the enduring U.S. commitment to Israel's security is unquestionable and unshakable. (Applause.) [more...]

Date: 2007-11-16 16:23:40
Blog: CRIMES AND CORRUPTION O...

Private Practice - Episode 7

Title: In Which Sam Gets Taken for a Ride (Sorry for the delay in this week’s review; I was under the weather last night and went to bed early.) An enjoyable episode of Private Practice with mostly good medicine. The theme this week was sex — as well as the common result of sex: pregnancy. The show also suggested that the only way [more...]

Date: 2007-11-16 03:24:11
Blog: Polite Dissent: comics,...

Anti-Mormon calls in Iowa

Anti-Mormon calls in Iowa Posted by Jim Addison Published: Nov 16, 07 02:33 AM Somebody is "push-polling" in Iowa, ... them "common criticisms of Mormonism." * * * * * UPDATE II: AP's Phil Elliott has a story [more...]

Date: 2007-11-16 07:33:20
Blog: Wizbang Politics...

Debit-card purchasers penalized for PIN use

Heidi Hansen, a U.S. Bank customer for nearly 10 years, had never seen anything like it ... : easy money. First, let me explain the terms. "Debit or credit" is a misleading question. While [more...]

Date: 2007-11-16 11:00:00
Blog: The Red Tape Chronicles...

Halitosis - Placing You at Risk

Halitosis - Placing You at Risk Thursday 15 November 2007 @ 6:38 pm Are you the type of person that the bad breath germs just adore? There are many risk factors for halitosis—that’s bad breath in lay terms— ... breath that may affect some individuals more than others. Although it is less common, there is also [more...]

Date: 2007-11-15 18:36:13
Blog: Health, Disease, Preven...

We Wish You a Wii for Christmas

Since Nintendo's hit console launched, the wee, white Wii has been in short supply ... , and we've got a colorful box to prove it. We merged common search terms for the Nintendo Wii [more...]

Date: 2007-11-15 19:34:11
Blog: Yahoo! Buzz Index...

Nationalism and patriotism

I suppose essays like this one, called Patriots, Not Haters, ... mean. I've been doing more than the usual amount of pondering what terms like nationalist ... on the meaning of these various terms, it seems. The following passage starts out promisingly, expressing [more...]

Date: 2007-11-16 09:42:25
Blog: Vanishing American...

Unite on the right?

Yesterday I posted about 'recognizing enemies,' in the context of the partisan politics of the right ... European conservatism (Ali) the fact is that all share a common platform. At all costs, Islamism must ... they recognized that they all had much more in common with each other than that of the enemy [more...]

Date: 2007-11-16 05:45:24
Blog: Vanishing American...

Anthrax, Al Qaeda and Ali Al-Timimi

When the man speaking is the one with white hair, red tie and suspenders and is a man of few words — and especially when he’s the one with access to all the classified information and the bagful of toys — gather around and listen to what he has to say. He’s making note of who is naughty or nice [more...]

Date: 2007-11-15 19:24:15
Blog: Blogger News Network ...

The next moon shot--we need it now

The Next Moon Shot We need it now By Peter Kenney Where is the next moon shot when we need it? A nation swelled with pride, some might say disbelief, when a new president declared that the United States would land a man on the moon and return him home safely by the end of a decade [more...]

Date: 2007-11-16 18:16:08
Blog: CapeCodToday Blog Chowd...

FoE2: Advertising and Convergence Culture

The second panel of the day was on Advertising and Convergence Culture. Speakers included Mike Rubenstein of the Barbarian Group, Baba Shetty of Hill/Holliday, Tina Wells of Buzz Marketing Group, Faris Yakob from Naked Communications, and Bill Fox of Fidelity Investments [more...]

Date: 2007-11-17 19:33:27
Blog: MIT Convergence Culture...

FoE2: Metrics & Measurement

The second panel at FOE2 is focused on metrics and audience measurement. Sam Ford is moderating, and participating in the panel are: Bruce Leichtman (Leichtman Research Group) Stacey Lynn Schulman (Turner Broadcasting) Maury Giles (GSD&M Idea City) Jim Nail (TMS Media Intelligence/Cymfony) [more...]

Date: 2007-11-16 18:59:56
Blog: MIT Convergence Culture...

FOE2: Mobile Media

The first panel at FOE2 is focused on mobile media. Participating in the panel are: Marc Davis (Yahoo) Bob Schukai (Turner Broadcasting) ... syndication, and all the new alternative platforms that are coming. In terms of mobile we are def [more...]

Date: 2007-11-16 18:13:58
Blog: MIT Convergence Culture...

Process Modeling and Simulation

A Case for Simulation Companies practicing Lean Six Sigma without process modeling and simulation techniques need to consider what these practices can provide in terms of risk-analysis and decision-making (such as cost estimating, scheduling ... : The most common reasons companies restrict the use of process modeling and simulations involve cost [more...]

Date: 2007-11-17 23:35:01
Blog: ERE Blog Network - ERE....

Online, NBA And NHL Are Neck And Neck

One of the more common complaints that NHL fans have made since the lockout has concerned the continued bashing the sport has been suffering at ... in terms of popularity? Remember, these are Web stats, so you can't factor out our friends [more...]

Date: 2007-11-15 18:05:40
Blog: Off Wing Opinion...

RJ Eskow: Alan Dershowitz Supports Torture

Alan Dershowitz has written a post that first attacks Larisa Alexandrovna for suggesting he's pro-torture, and then goes on to accuse the Huffington Post of censorship. Regarding Ms. Alexandrovan, he apparently feels it's "name-calling" - and worse - to state what appears to be obvious: Although Mr [more...]

Date: 2007-11-17 19:17:10
Blog: Breaking News and Opini...

Luxottica Group and Oakley complete merger

Luxottica Group S.p.A.(NYSE: LUX; MTA: LUX), a global leader in eyewear, and Oakley, Inc. (NYSE: OO) ... chapter in our history.” In accordance with the terms of the June 2007 merger agreement, Oakley’s outstanding shares of common stock have been converted [more...]

Date: 2007-11-16 11:21:35
Blog: India Press Release fro...

Reflections on the brain of an idiot

I've just discovered that the Journal of Anatomy and Physiology have all their past issues freely available online all the way back to 1867 ... , and has been replaced by seemingly more appropriate terms. There is a long history of this process ... countries. In America, 'mentally retarded' is a common description in medicine, but in Europe [more...]

Date: 2007-11-16 19:44:52
Blog: Mind Hacks...

Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium

If You Want to Say Yes, Say Yes. If You Want to Say No, Say No. Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium / Dustin Rowles I developed a little crush on Zach Helm ("the new Charlie Kaufmann") after watching his screenwriting debut, Stranger than Fiction, last year, and after seeing Mr [more...]

Date: 2007-11-16 20:45:50
Blog: Pajiba - Scathing Revie...

Is Trademark the New Copyright?

I want to be clear before I begin that this article is not an attack on open source, copyleft or any of the products listed. Rather, it is an exploration of the role trademark will play in the future of copyleft and intellectual property in general. What do the following have in common: Ubuntu, Firefox, OpenOffice.org [more...]

Date: 2007-11-15 19:55:55
Blog: PlagiarismToday...

Reclaiming Religion

Two women were burnt alive in Mayurbhanj, a tribal district in the eastern state of Orissa, ... common in the Indian subcontinent and with several examples even to be found amongst the Indian [more...]

Date: 2007-11-16 14:24:17
Blog: RHRealityCheck.org | In...

THE UNIVERSE OF IPOD CONTESTS: A SUMMARY AND CASE FOR OURS

Data obtained November 13, 2007 It seems obvious to most people that iPods are a ubiquitous part of culture. But for folks like myself who also look after a website, the notion of an iPod contest is just as pervasive. A good indicator of this is to simply google a few pertinent terms. In fact, when I did [more...]

Date: 2007-11-16 08:00:51
Blog: The Science Creative Qu...

FCC's 70% Cable Proposal is 100% Unwarranted

Despite steadily increasing video competition and consumer programming choices, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) [more...]

Date: 2007-11-15 16:11:08
Blog: The Technology Liberati...

Review: Getting a Life

Each Friday, The Simple Dollar reviews a personal finance book. I’ve been looking forward to reading this book for a while. Getting a Life is a pseudo-sequel to Your Money or Your Life, which I absolutely loved and have referred to countless times on The Simple Dollar [more...]

Date: 2007-11-16 16:00:44
Blog: The Simple Dollar...

Kolkata - Missive 2 - Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Jump to the full entry & travel map Kolkata, West Bengal, India Kolkata Journal - Missive 2 November 10-11, 2007 Diwali, the Festival of Lights, ends today with the immersion of the Goddess Kali in the Ganges. The last 4 nights have been loud, with firecrackers sounding from 5-11 pm each night [more...]

Date: 2007-11-17 15:09:40
Blog: Travel Blogs | Travel J...

Muslims to Christians: Come Home to Baghdad

House passed on Weds, was rejected in the Senate today, making this 41 failed attempts to surrender in Iraq. Also rejected was the motion to get the funds needed to our troops for munitions, food and other things needed by our troops, in a time of war [more...]

Date: 2007-11-16 16:17:29
Blog: Wake up America...

Gmail Storage going up to 6GB in January 2008

News that Gmail Storage is Increasing in January 2008 "...But wait: Google not only increased their storage limit to 6 GB (by January 2008) ... common concern among new Google Mail users. People are quite uncomfortable with the "threading ... to, but the clear advantages in terms of recall, speed, and coherence are something I can prove [more...]

Date: 2007-11-17 18:00:45
Blog: WebMetricsGuru - Web an...

Pakistan: The Battle Against Oppression

I received this a few minutes ago from a journalist correspondent and friend in Pakistan, Qaiser Felix ... their complete five years time because it is not a common practice in the six decades old history [more...]

Date: 2007-11-15 16:53:08
Blog: Western Resistance...

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