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Vindication
Friday, February 27th, 2009
“Rather than being frowned upon, doodling should be actively encouraged in meetings because it improves our ability to pay attention, a British psychologist claims. [...] ‘In everyday life, doodling may be something we do because it helps to keep us on track with a boring task, rather than being an unnecessary distraction that we should [...]
Enhancing my brand: Let me show you my stimulus package
Thursday, February 26th, 2009
I don’t own an iPhone but boy howdy do I wish I had one now. Check it out: “Hillbilly PickUp: Do you have a hard time talking to the ladies? Lack the courage to flirt with girls? Too lazy to open your mouth? Don’t worry, let Hillbilly Zeek do all the talking for you. Hillbilly [...]
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Saturday, February 14th, 2009
ABC’s Diane Sawyer reports on Appalachian poverty Indeed. I watched this last night. It could have been worse. A small group of us were doing the play-by-play at Twitter so there was a lot of this sort of commentary: jagosaurus: If Sawyer mispronounces Appalachia, she is dead to me. BlueRidgeblog: This is horrible. I don’t [...]
Becoming separate
Friday, February 13th, 2009
“Neanderthals and modern humans can trace their ancestry back to a hominid population that lived about 706,000 years ago, said James Noonan of the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute and colleagues. Based on these dates, the two groups were on their way to becoming separate species long before anatomically modern humans appeared on [...]