A while back, I read somebody's blog entry proposing the idea of "AdFeeds" as an alternative to putting ads into existing newsfeeds. The idea is to generate feeds with nothing in them but ads on some focused topic, and use those to generate revenue to support free feeds. If people want to try that, more...
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The other day, as I pulled into a tech company parking lot, I saw one of those Hummers that the ostentatious are buying as status symbols these days. It looked ridiculous. A few weeks ago I saw one at a stoplight. It looked ridiculous too.

The Hummers like these that one sees around town have...
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A friend of mine, a teacher at a special-needs school, and her roommate are taking a stab at illiteracy by organizing a program to collect 15,000 books for a school in the Ethiopian village or Kersa Ilala. They've found someone to pay the shipping, but need a lot of books. I get the impression that...
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Today, video showing the gruesomely beheading of an American was posted on an al-Quaeda-linked website. The nominal justification for the murder was the abuses of prisoners in the Abu Ghraib prison. Once again, terrorists have ceded the moral high ground by committing acts even worse than those they criticize other for.

The pathetic nature of...
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Yesterday, Israel assassinated one of the top leaders of Hamas. Hamas has promised to retaliate. If they do, Israel will probably retaliate. Then Hamas will retaliate, etc. ad nauseum. While I can't say that I think Israel has handled the situation with the Palestinians as well as they could have, the indiscriminate killing killings perpetrated...
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The current state of pornography on the internet

There is no reliable way for a website to be sure that they are not delivering content to someone to whom it is illegal to send it. Simply saying "you must be over 18 to access this site" is in no way a form of control lik...
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TV producers love to "push the envelope", and as a result, the moral quality of television programming has gone way down in my lifetime. There's not much outside of the News Hour with Jim Lehrer that isn't offensive these days. The "Hootergate" incident during the Super Bowl, if it was intentional (which wouldn't surprise the...
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I read an article today, 'Killer Culture': A call to the churches, that talked about the corporate influence of the media in our culture. It's ironic that a lot of the people who are so vocal in their condemnation of corporate influence in politics (which I'm not condoning--just making a point) have been totally snowed...
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Reading the tech news today, I just couldn't help but post something here to point out that I despise Microsoft and whoever it was in the government that decided they were going to be allowed to continue with business as usual after going through so much trouble with the anti-trust lawsuit. I also suspect that...
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