Get Annie back to her owner

My Aunt writes from Florida:

I know the heartache of losing a pet. My Aussie was 9 when she died and this dog is 8 and the man had her since a puppy. The article spells it all out. I am also contacting the local talk show to see about starting a legal fund for him. An organization has already offered the people who adopted the dog $1,000 but they won’t accept the money in exchange for Annie’s return. We need to write letters to help Chuck get his 8 year old Australian Shepard back. She got spooked while he was feeding horses. Chuck looked for her and made a report to animal control but his dog was adopted out to new owners, and they refuse to give her back.

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2010 August 25

@ 7:29 pm | Permalink | Topic All,Change the World,Help . .

Iceland poised to provide true freedom to journalists

Edited to add: Julian Assange, one of the engineers of Iceland’s new freedom of speech protection laws, was arrested for rape today but released after police decided the report against him lacked merit.

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2010 August 20

@ 11:36 pm | Permalink | Topic All,Find the Truth,Gov't & Trade

Macbook i5 and i7 run too hot?

I asked an ebay seller for his thoughts about the last generation core duo Macbook Pros and the newer i5s (15″) and i7s (17″), “I’d stay away from the newer MPB models until Apple solves the heating issue . . . previous models (of the Macbook Pro), such as the 2.8 Ghz MBP run barely warm to the touch and will last a lot longer because of that.”

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2010 August 5

@ 1:08 am | Permalink | Topic All,Digital Life

Immediate benefits of health care reform

So many people are asking what the benefits are of recent health care reforms, and there’s a lot of frustration because so much help is needed right now, but the changes aren’t all that exciting – for this year. I share feelings many have that urgent help is needed NOW but it helps to remember that every journey of 1000 miles begins with a single step, and the current changes add up to way more than that. Along with the health care changes, the final bills provided changes to aid for college students too. Let’s take a look at some of the health care changes that do kick in this year:

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2010 July 30

@ 4:22 pm | Permalink | Topic All,Gov't & Trade

$35 tablet computer changes everything

The idea that everything costs a lot of money has been a constant in the United States for way too long. Only this concept would account for very boring hamburgers costing about $4.00 at today’s fast food restaurants – an amount of money that people in quite a few countries work all day to earn. Hidden costs are built into so many of the items sold in the States and for some reason, America is willing to pay them.

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2010 July 25

@ 6:06 pm | Permalink | Topic All,Digital Life

Facts need wider acceptance

Have you ever introduced a group of people to information new to them and found your audience going to sleep on you? I’ve noticed that when introducing people to facts which challenge their assumptions about “how things work”, or simply an overabundance of data which is completely outside of what they’ve been accustomed to experience or think about, they my audience may nod right off to sleep on me.

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2010 July 12

@ 10:20 am | Permalink | Topic All,Find the Truth

Gulf oil spill changes ecology consciousness

Phil Greenspun always shares germane and interesting observations in his public writing. Here’s a doozy . . (more…)

2010 June 21

@ 2:34 am | Permalink | Topic All

Danger not equal to crisis+opportunity

Chinese language professor Victor H. Mair at U Penn writes,

“There is a widespread public misperception, particularly among the New Age sector, that the Chinese word for “crisis” is composed of elements that signify “danger” and “opportunity.” . . . A whole industry of pundits and therapists has grown up around this one grossly inaccurate statement. A casual search of the Web turns up more than a million references to this spurious proverb. . . This catchy expression (Crisis = Danger + Opportunity) has rapidly become nearly as ubiquitous as The Tao of Pooh and Sun Zi’s Art of War for the Board / Bed / Bath / Whichever Room.”

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2010 June 8

@ 8:51 am | Permalink | Topic All

AIDS Walk in memory of my brother

My cousin Jill Judson has a team in AIDS Walk Boston on June 6 2010 in honor of my brother Jared, who died of AIDS. If you are able, please support Jill with a donation. Visit the team page for more information or visit “JILLElizabeth Judson directly to make your donation via the internet or by mail.

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2010 May 27

@ 10:25 pm | Permalink | Topic All,Help . .

DA investigates Gizmodo guy over iPhone

Oops. Seems like Gizmodo Editor Jason Chen is in plenty hot water for publishing details about Apple’s new 4G iPhone before the official company release date. It seems that an Apple employee took the phone with him to a bar, left it behind, and Gizmodo bought it for between $5 and $10,000 dollars from the person who found it. Apparently, that’s not a good thing to do in California.

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2010 April 27

@ 9:00 am | Permalink | Topic All
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