On Responsibility: Chief Arvol Looking Horse

August 20, 2007

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Each of us is put here in this time and this place to personally decide the future of humankind. Did you think you were put here for something less? ~~~Chief Arvol Looking Horse~~~ via Seismic Twitch :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::

Henry David Thoreau on blogging

August 17, 2007

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How vain it is to sit down to write, when you have not yet stood up to live. Henry David Thoreau from BaredFeetandTeeth :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::

blogsurfing: light on my feet

August 16, 2007

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I encourage you to check out this compelling weight-loss blog. You have got to respect her attitude, her honesty, and her commitment. With a specific goal, a positive, proactive attitude, tracking tools (like, say, a blog!) and access to health professonals, she is doing everything right to lay the groundwork for lifelong success. And she’s […]

no comment? think again!

August 14, 2007

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cross-posted from raincoaster and as if you need another reason to click around and comment. Haven’t I always told you that’s what the blogosphere is all about? I didn’t? Humph, I will just go leave a comment on your blog about it then! Well, after losing 2000 places on Technorati recently because apparently nothing I […]

thinking your way to freedom

August 14, 2007

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Does introspection equal independence? It’s an intriguing thought, especially attractive to those of us who like to think. This very interesting blog post at Strive to Live suggests that without pausing to understand our situations, we will never get ourselves out of them, because we will not be able to see the path.   “The […]

myfoodphone: phoneblogging your diet for free

August 13, 2007

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Now this is interesting to those of us with cellcams and a habit of photographing our food. Sprint, the phone company, has come up with MyFoodPhone, a service where you essentially photoblog your meals from your phone and a nutritional advisor checks them out once every two weeks and gives you feedback on your choices. […]

how cheap is life?

August 10, 2007

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To murderer Geraldine Beasley of 2500 block of Victory Parkway, even the phantom of an imaginary quarter she might give away was worth more to her than the life of 44 year old Donald Francis. He asked her for a quarter. She shot him dead. Donald Francis, who police believe was homeless, stood outside a […]

why goodness matters: words from mom

August 9, 2007

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Here’s a warm and wise blog post from Living, Loving, Learning. We’re just excerpting them here, so be sure to click over to their site and read all of these inspiring quotations. Mom is always saving things for me, newspapers, magazine articles, and books are almost always stacked up at her door waiting for me. […]

Blogging for Beginners: August 18-25th

August 7, 2007

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Just a quick note to let everyone know that raincoaster media (ie me!) will be giving the popular course Bloggging for Beginners again. This will be split into two half-day sessions, a week apart, to give students time to work with their blogs and develop specific questions and fluency. Let’s face it: we were all […]

what’s your AQ?

August 3, 2007

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Here’s another interesting online quiz, this one a little more detailed than most, which examines your tendency towards or away from Asperger’s syndrome. As always, a self-administered internet quiz is no substitute for examination by a competent professional, so think of this as a primitive tool applied to a complex problem instead of taking it […]

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stay hungry. stay foolish

August 2, 2007

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Universities rightly get a lot of crap for handing out honorary degrees to celebrities (Tom Selleck, anyone?) just to ramp up the glam factor of their graduation ceremonies so that the no-name honorary degree-getters will feel inspired to donate millions. But every now and again a celebrity comes up with something that’s pure gold. They’re […]