Monthly Archives: March 2006

Addicted to MySpace? Help is only a click away…

Do you find yourself checking MySpace several hundred times a day? Do you neglect the other important things in life? How many bulletins did you post in the last hour? Is MySpace open in another window right now? If so, then you may have a problem. Here’s how to wean yourself off of MySpace so that you can resume living offline… Continue reading

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Gay conversion specialists get their C&D put where they’d consider inappropriate

Exodus International is a group who puts up billboards and utilizes other marketing attempts to provide individuals with the strength, support and guidance to turn a gay straight. Okay, like a dog can become a cat. In the age old debate of whether or not it’s a choice, decision or something that is genetically programmed within us – our orientation that is. Well, I think that a company who’s life’s crusade is to straighten out the fabulous and grand is just retarded. How about supporting people – as a whole, no matter their life orientation. Continue reading

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Region Codes – Another way to be stopped from watching import DVDs

Regional DVDs aren’t much of an issue for a majority of Americans who never really travel, buy international films from around the globe, or speak Spanish. Sad thing is, for those who are impacted, it’s kinda crazy. US DVDs, pretty much by default, have English and French. No Spanish. Continue reading

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How to Pick a Good Domain Name

Using keywords in your domain name is a great first step when it comes to search engine optimization in general. For example, say you run an ecommerce web site that sells used books about web design. When people use a search engine to find your web site, they will be using keywords such as “used books” and “web design”. These are the keywords you want in your domain name. Continue reading

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International Space Station welcomes the First Brazilian

Lt Col Marcos Pontes has become the first Brazilian to go into space after a successful launch aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket from Baykonur. He will spend nine days on the International Space Station while a Russian and a US … Continue reading

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confluence \KON-floo-uhn(t)s\ [Word of the Day]

It’s the combination of these various factors, then — their historical confluence, if you will — that must be held responsible for the rapid erosion of the church’s authority over sexual matters since the Second Vatican Council. Continue reading

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Forms and Publications

Tax time, filing season, Form 1040 and Instructions – It’s TAX TIME – so Uncle Sam has new tax forms this year, so download them for FREE from our conveniently assembled resource. This year I hope to help you more … Continue reading

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‘UFO’ mystery still haunts some in Washtenaw County Michigan

UFOs have become commonplace. Perhaps that is part of the reason for SciFi, to ‘warm us’ to the whole aliens amongst us concept. I don’t think it will be too bad. I mean, have you been to Grand Central Station? Well, in 1966, forty years ago, for a brief but interesting time, Washtenaw County became the flying saucer capital of the Midwest. Continue reading

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Blu-Ray and HD-DVD Battle out the Latest Electronic Format Match

Hollywood and electronics makers have aligned themselves behind two warring formats called Blu-ray, led by Sony (6758.T), and HD DVD, championed by Toshiba. Just as the crossroads in the VHS/BETA and DVD- and DVD+ formats; here are are again with two “better than the other” formats. Continue reading

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Warming could push sea levels up six meters by 2100

Coastal areas under threat? Meltdown emminent? According to scientists warning in two new studies, polar ice sheets are melting faster than expected and could push sea levels up as much as six meters by 2100. Continue reading

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