Atom Feed from Searchles Thu Aug 21 09:12:20 -0400 2008 en-us diane_court Thu Aug 21 10:06:12 -0400 2008 With a new social approach to advertising, Facebook hopes to present marketers with unique and coveted advertising opportunities, but there's a real risk that Facebook users, who already pretty much ignore ads, will not take kindly to passively shilling with their feeds. diane_court Thu Aug 21 09:54:01 -0400 2008 Fan outrage is boiling online over the delayed release of the next installment in the Harry Potter film franchise. diane_court Thu Aug 21 08:31:04 -0400 2008 Gambo Wed Aug 20 21:53:14 -0400 2008 maybelline Wed Aug 20 16:30:58 -0400 2008 maybelline Wed Aug 20 16:16:36 -0400 2008 Hyundai Motor Co expects to release its first hybrid in the U.S. market as early as 2010, featuring cutting-edge lithium-ion battery technology, an executive said on Wednesday. maybelline Wed Aug 20 15:31:59 -0400 2008 This year's primary season, spanning six months, proved that online buzz and activity can translate to offline, on-the-ground results. Indeed, the web has been crucial to how Obama raises money, communicates his message and, most important, recruits, energizes and turns out his supporters. His online operation is the envy of strategists in both parties, redefining the role that an online team can play within a campaign. dumbfounder Wed Aug 20 11:25:59 -0400 2008 Makes Google StreetView look weak by comparison. Kimberley McKee Wed Aug 20 11:14:56 -0400 2008 oh creative people paulh Wed Aug 20 09:27:43 -0400 2008 Majic Wed Aug 20 02:41:55 -0400 2008 natalia Tue Aug 19 21:36:11 -0400 2008 BAHRAMERAD Tue Aug 19 21:32:50 -0400 2008 After 10,000 plus years of safe, effective, affordable botanical medicine, the federal governments of various countries have decided that enough is enough. With the "encouragement" of the white collar criminals in the pharmaceutical industry, the white collar criminals in government are drafting new laws to "protect" the Canadian public from herbs and food supplements. Herbs will be put in the same class and regulated the same way as pharmaceutical products. Estimates are this will result in 70% of currently available natural health products removed from the market. And your backyard garden? You may not be permitted to grow herbs for medicinal use any more. Too dangerous without government regulation to protect you, don't you know. Impossible you say? DuPont and others succeeded in turning a plant that provided an essential industrial raw material - hemp - into an outlaw in order to eliminate it as competition for its own products. The drug companies can do it to mint and camomile too. diane_court Tue Aug 19 17:28:12 -0400 2008 NATO declared Tuesday that it cannot have normal relations with Russia while its troops occupy large parts of Georgia, but alliance foreign ministers failed to terminate any cooperative programs. Kimberley McKee Tue Aug 19 12:12:20 -0400 2008 Is it possible to be too smart? Maybe. History is full of insane geniuses, humans who mentally put the pedal to the metal--and sometimes through the floor. Kimberley McKee Tue Aug 19 12:03:43 -0400 2008 Buzz, Yahoo’s Digg-like effort to leverage reader gestures and third party content in determining the most popular news, removes it’s barriers to entry tonight. maybelline Tue Aug 19 11:15:11 -0400 2008 maybelline Tue Aug 19 11:15:09 -0400 2008 first video from Susan's 'video of the day' post below. thought i'd post here with a channel. paul1e999 Tue Aug 19 05:58:08 -0400 2008 ... the chicken and burgers will. Go vegan. If PETA gets its way, this could be one ad covering the U.S.-Mexico border fence. BAHRAMERAD Tue Aug 19 01:44:39 -0400 2008 unbending - At last i get around to putting up some new music - here is the track i have recorded with the unbending trees, called overture. it will be released on strange feeling as a digital single on 29th september, and the album "chemically happy (is the new sad)" will be out on october 6th, and you really can't be without it. no, seriously, you can't. meanwhile, progress on my new album consists of me having had dinner with ewan pearson! hurrah! we did manage to at least have a conversation about the next bit of recording, which will happen in the autumn, and by then things will be really taking shape. and also this week i am meeting up with jens lekman, to do something or other. there will be a guitar, and a mic, and jens with his laptop, and who knows what may come of it. a number one single possibly. or an obscure b-side. you don't really have b-sides nowadays do you. pity really, they were always our best tracks.