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Articles from March 2007
Saturday, March 31, 2007
Digg Censors The Dead Hand Over Climate Change!
2428 Views :: 1 Comments :: :: Politics, Internet, Environment, Breaking News, Jason G. Williscroft
Digg has banned thedeadhand.com after only a few days in the directory and submitting a grand total of 20 posts, ostensibly for Terms of Use violations. We smell a rat!
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Friday, March 30, 2007
Big Brass Ones
396 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Funny, USNA, Jason G. Williscroft

Some people are born to greatness, and some hunt it down on foot, kill it bare-handed, and cook it up over a slow fire with lots of gravy. This guy will make a GREAT naval officer!

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Friday, March 30, 2007
Affiliate Arbitrage: Naughty or Nice?
340 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Internet, Commerce, Jason G. Williscroft
An e-mail exchange with search guru Kevin Lee inspired an economic analysis of a practice that scares the hell out of merchants with affiliate programs. My conclusion? Embrace your fear!
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Friday, March 30, 2007
Man In Unfortunate Saw-Mill Penis Incident
304 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Funny, Breaking News, Jason G. Williscroft

A man has been taken to hospital in Australia after his penis and groin got caught in the machinery at a saw mill. Submitted for your imaginative enjoyment, with particular appreciation for the bunny picture.

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Thursday, March 29, 2007
Unintended Consequences
308 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Funny

An ordinary bowling ball. An workaday sedan. A plywood ramp, and an empty road. Youth.

Now that's a recipe for disaster.

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Thursday, March 29, 2007
Charlotte L. Winters, Last Surviving Female WWI Veteran, dies
703 Views :: 2 Comments :: :: Military, History, Collette Lynner
Charlotte Winters was the first of her kind, and the last of her kind. Earlier this week, at age 109, 90 years after being in the first group of women to enlist in the Navy, Charlotte passed on with the additional distinction of being the last surviving woman veteran of World War I. But there's more to her story.
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Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Oil spikes $5 on Mideast rumors
417 Views :: 2 Comments ::
CNN Money reports that afterhours trading on US Oil futures jumped 12% on rumors of new incidents with Iran. The White House doesn't know what we're worried about.
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Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Iraq Police Avert New Chemical Attack
393 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Military, Terrorism, Breaking News, Jason G. Williscroft
Police have detained a man as he was trying to detonate a truck rigged with two tons of explosives and several thousands liters of chlorine in western Iraq. This is becoming something more than a trend.
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Monday, March 26, 2007
CIMA and William Blair & Company Semiannual Interactive Marketing Survey Results
401 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Internet, Commerce, Jason G. Williscroft

William Blair & Company, in collaboration with the Chicago Interactive Marketing Association (CIMA), published the third edition of a semiannual interactive marketing survey that the partnership uses to take the pulse of the industry and relay its practitioners’ expectations for future performance and trends.  The survey targets the more than 600 members of CIMA and includes responses from more than 100 members.

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Sunday, March 25, 2007
Kill Knut!
677 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Funny, Environment, Breaking News, Jason G. Williscroft

A 15-week old polar bear rescued from abandonment by the Berlin Zoo isn't out of the woods yet. Animal rights groups say the bear cub—already beloved by Berliners—should be killed rather than raised in captivity.

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Saturday, March 24, 2007
New Resource: Easy Lynx Installation
408 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Internet, Commerce, Jason G. Williscroft, SysAdmin

Lynx is an indispensable tool that lets a user see through the eyes of a search engine spider. Installing & configuring it can be tough, though, so we pre-configured a special installation for Windows users.

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Saturday, March 24, 2007
Getting to Zero
318 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Internet, Commerce

Before Organic Search Marketing, there's Search Engine Optimization. Before SEO, there's Search Engine Accessibility. Find out how search spiders see your site, and learn what to do when they can't.

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Friday, March 23, 2007
The Negative Case for Usability Optimization
302 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Internet, Commerce, Jason G. Williscroft

Does Usability Optimization have value in the marketplace? Ask the one entity in the American economy not subject to market forces.

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Friday, March 23, 2007
Usability Optimization: The Hardware Store Model
289 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Internet, Commerce, Jason G. Williscroft

Big words for a simple concept: we examine Usability Optimization within the context of a bricks-and-mortar hardware store. 

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Friday, March 23, 2007
Iran Ups The Ante
459 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Military, Terrorism, Breaking News
Iranian Navy captures fifteen British Royal Navy sailors at gunpoint in Iraqi territorial waters.
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Wednesday, March 21, 2007
By Duty Bound: Survival and Redemption in a Time of War, by Brig. Gen. (CA, Ret.) Ezell Ware, Jr., and Joel Engel
673 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Military, Jason G. Williscroft, Books, Reviews
By Duty Bound is an inspiring story of accomplishment and survival, by one of the first black men in American history to wear a general's star.
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Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Introducing the Apple iRack
524 Views :: 4 Comments :: :: Politics, Funny, Collette Lynner
Today's belly laugh comes to you courtesy of a naughty MadTV fan. Catch it before YouTube has to pull it down...
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Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Double Take
466 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Media, Funny, Economics, Jason G. Williscroft
Getting up early in the morning makes for a healthy wealthy wise guy. Or does it?
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Saturday, March 17, 2007
Massive Recall of Canned Dog and Cat Food
807 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Breaking News
North America's major manufacturer of "wet" pet food packaged in cans and foil pouches has issued a recall of products manufactured between Dec 3, 2006 and March 6, 2007. Other distributors follow suit. Get the full story, and check your pet food against this list of recalled brands.
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Saturday, March 17, 2007
Like You Needed Another Reason...
484 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Media, Funny, Jason G. Williscroft
... to hate Frenchmen!
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Saturday, March 17, 2007
Terrorists Resort to Chemical Weapons in Iraq
533 Views :: 2 Comments :: :: Military, Media, Politics, Terrorism, Breaking News, Jason G. Williscroft
Terrorists in Iraq's Anbar Province kill at least six, injure 350 on March 17 in fourth poisonous gas attack of the year.
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Friday, March 16, 2007
NAPS Now a 2-Year Program?
520 Views :: 1 Comments :: :: USNA, Jason G. Williscroft
Is NAPS now a 2-year program, or did one more newspaper reporter not bother to check his facts?
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Thursday, March 15, 2007
Lauren Stone Show
938 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Chicken Little, Robert G. Williscroft, Interviews, Transcripts

Discussed global warming and its ramifications. Looked at exceptions to the "predictions" from Gore and friends.

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Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Samson Audio Q1U Dynamic USB Microphone
717 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Media, Internet, Jason G. Williscroft, Reviews

The great products are the ones that just work. Samson's Q1U microphone is one of those. No mess. No fuss. Just performance.

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Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Why I Love Being An Engineer
434 Views :: 1 Comments :: :: Funny, Engineering, Jason G. Williscroft
Two words: Engineering School. I wish I could go back. I'd give these guys a run for their money.
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Monday, March 12, 2007
Death to Non-Believers!
536 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Politics, Terrorism, Environment, Breaking News, Robert G. Williscroft
This article appeared in the Sunday Telegraph.co.uk on March 11, 2007. It speaks for itself.
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Wednesday, March 07, 2007
They say things are big in Texas, but...
540 Views :: 1 Comments :: :: Robert G. Williscroft
Sometimes it's big, sometimes it's really big, and sometimes...well read the article...
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Tuesday, March 06, 2007
New ProfitRank.com Officially Launched
413 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Internet, Commerce, Breaking News, Jason G. Williscroft, DotNetNuke

After several months in development, the new ProfitRank.com is now live and firing on all cylinders.

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Monday, March 05, 2007
Lauren Stone Show
793 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Chicken Little, Robert G. Williscroft, Interviews, Transcripts

Lauren Stone host. Discussed Nuclear terrorism, Three-Mile Island, Chernobyl, nuclear power in general.

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Monday, March 05, 2007
Welcome Home, And Thanks
591 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Military, Media, Jason G. Williscroft
An amazing video shows what a group of Texans are doing to ensure that our returning troops know their sacrifices are appreciated. Fair warning: get a box of Kleenex.
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Thursday, March 01, 2007
Righteous Fury
489 Views :: 5 Comments :: :: Media, Politics, Breaking News, Jason G. Williscroft

Regrettably, the bastard lived. Making molehills out of mountains, and the reverse.

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