w0tev3r

Luck o'jay the Oirish

2011-09-06T21:44:00.003Z

Jay has found no less than five 4 leaf clovers eg. This pic.

11:11 daft

2011-09-06T21:44:00.001Z

these are the numbers that greeted me the other day when I switched on the ignition. Get this number all the time!

2010-09-13T10:43:00.001Z

enjoying some time out ;-)

2010-07-09T06:43:00.001Z

Operation overhaul: postponed due to adverse weather.

2010-07-01T16:40:00.001Z

Operation Overhaul: recreation time - some hot steamy stripping. No not THAT kind. Wallpaper stripping.... jeez!

Simple private real-time sharing and collaboration by drop.io

2010-06-29T22:36:00.001Z

excellent on the fly collaboration and free too including web conf, file sharing etc.

From: http://drop.io/

2010-06-25T22:00:00.001Z

Operation overhaul. 0900 Sat. Phase 2. i) Lightening Raid on B&Q ii) paint bomb garden fence

2010-06-25T21:53:00.001Z

Operation overhaul. Sit Rep. Think we are winning the battle against the weeds! Also reinforcements arrived today. (Jim next door came to plaster the new partition)

2010-06-25T10:19:00.001Z

Operation overhaul. Phase 1. Assault on jungle a.k.a the garden.

2010-06-25T10:16:00.001Z

Operation overhaul. Phase 1. Assault on jungle a.k.a the garden.

2010-01-07T22:50:00.001Z

ok it really is time I switched this thing off.....

2009-09-11T09:43:00.001Z

Sun is shining...everybody feel good now...la la

2009-09-02T05:34:00.001Z

Summer? more like bummer

2009-08-23T18:00:00.001Z

2009-08-20T08:56:00.001Z

is it Monday? It was the heaviest rain we have seen for a while, the car broke down, and Haley was late for her fist day at her new job.

2009-08-07T23:34:00.001Z

woot! just set up Wii to watch BBC iPlayer. Now we can watch what we want when we want on the big telly

2009-08-03T20:07:00.001Z

are we there yet?

2009-07-28T19:02:00.001Z

Phase 2 complete. Paint Coat no.1 of the Bathroom in effect people!
(lol Phase 1 was getting the darned paint tin open)

2009-07-27T08:58:00.001Z

*sigh* another typical Monday...urgh

2009-07-24T08:22:00.001Z

is it Saturday yet?

Announcing the 2009 Google Online Marketing Challenge winners

2009-07-24T00:38:00.001Z

This year we held the second Google Online Marketing Challenge — a global university competition, launched last year, that gives undergraduate and post-graduate students hands-on exposure to online marketing. Working with their professors, teams receive the equivalent of US$200 to spend on Google AdWords advertising, then work with a local business to devise an effective online marketing campaign. Teams are given three weeks to mastermind the strategy before submitting a campaign report to an international judging panel of professors.

This year's Challenge was bigger and better in every way — more teams, more students, more universities and a significant improvement in the quality of campaigns and reports. We're thrilled to report that 2,187 teams took part from across 57 countries, representing a 36% increase in participation from last year. The Challenge continues to develop as one of the world’s biggest university competitions.

We're excited today to announce the results. Our global winners come from Deakin University, Australia and were taught by Chia Yao Lee. The team of Andrew Kidd, Richard Blakely, Kevin Fung, Clinton Hinze, Katalin Kish and Howard Lien worked with a local kids play center, www.littletigrrs.com.au, to create a well-crafted campaign that highly impressed our judges.

Clockwise from top left: Richard Blakely, Chia Yao Lee (professor), Katalin Kish, Kevin Fung, Bardo Fraunholz (professor), Howard Lien, Andrew Kidd, Fiona and Mike (from Little Tigrrs), Clinton Hinze and Mick, The Big Hearted Tiger

Team spokesman Andrew Kidd gave us some insight into their winning campaign:

"After discussions with the business owners, we decided we needed to conduct three separate campaigns. One would promote the play center to customers outside a 10 kilometre geographic radius, another would attract more mothers' groups to the center, and the third one would attract more party and group event bookings. Visitors to their website more than doubled compared with the same period last year. We knew we had developed a strong campaign — but to win the global competition is outstanding."

The team and their professor are off to Mountain View, California for a tour of the Googleplex. To help in their ongoing studies, each team member will also receive an Apple MacBook Pro.

There were also three regional winners: for the Americas, the winning team comes from James Madison University in the U.S., while a team from the Warsaw School of Economics in Poland won for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. In the Asia Pacific region, the winners come from the International College of Management in Sydney, Australia. Here are more details about our winners.

We developed the Challenge to benefit everyone involved. We're delighted that thousands of small businesses around the world have seen their online presence improved in just three weeks. Professors tell us that the Challenge has allowed them to deliver a unique, practical teaching and learning exercise. For those students that took part, we hope they have developed some useful online marketing skills which they can use when they graduate and enter the workforce.

For anyone interested in competing in the 2010 Challenge, formal registrations will open later this year, but in the meantime you can register your interest.

Posted by Lee Hunter, Product Marketing Manager

Reference: http://c.notify.me/y32FBQ

Google Latitude on your iPhone

2009-07-23T22:28:00.001Z

Earlier this year we announced Google Latitude, a service that lets you and your friends share your locations with each other. You control who gets to see your location and where on the map you appear to others. Today, we're releasing Google Latitude for iPhone and iPod touch, available in the Safari browser.

Visit google.com/latitude from your device to start using Latitude. Add a bookmark to your home screen to quickly launch Latitude. Just open Latitude in Safari and tap the + icon > Add to Home Screen > Add. For more details, check out the Google Mobile Blog.

Posted by Marc Wilson, Software Engineer

Reference: http://ping.fm/gnOnT

2009-07-23T20:34:00.001Z

Never in the field of FarCry2 were so many pwned by so few.

It's a bird...it's a plane...it's iGoogle comics themes!

2009-07-23T16:28:00.001Z

We have always been excited to introduce design flair and whimsy to our user experience, especially on our homepage. Be it through our special holiday logos or special themes for our iGoogle users, we like to open up our homepage as a canvas for artists to express themselves and reach their fans and Google users around the world. Today, I'm particularly excited to announce the new comics themes for iGoogle, just in time for Comic-Con's 40th anniversary.

The themes showcase the amazingly diverse world of comics. Browse our gallery (www.google.com/comicsthemes) to choose from nostalgic comic strips like Peanuts, iconic heroes like Batman and Iron Man, or alternative comics greats like Dan Clowes, author of the graphic novel, "Ghost World." The dozens of themes represent talented artists from around the world including Rumiko Takahashi from Japan and Lewis Trondheim of France.

To offer his unique perspective as one of the world's most accomplished comics artists, I'm pleased to introduce guest author Jim Lee. In addition to being a recognized industry veteran, he also drew today's beautiful homepage logo incorporating some of DC Comics' most famous characters.

During his 20 year career, Jim has worked with DC and Marvel Comics, co-founded Image Comics and also WildStorm Comics – one of our iGoogle themes. His Batman, Superman, X-Men, Iron Man, Fantastic Four and WildC.A.T.s issues have sold millions of copies. Jim is a recipient of the Harvey Award, Golden Panel Award and is widely respected for his contributions as an artist, a creator and a publisher of comics.

An artist's POV by Jim Lee

Even as the world of comics evolves and embraces a new digital era, it doesn't change the universal, international appeal of the unique art form that is created through the simple marriage of word and picture. I'm excited to have been chosen to help launch this wonderful project. But I'm more elated, both as a professional and as a fan, that so many different types of comics have been chosen to be part of the iGoogle comics themes launch. From the mainstream superhero world of DC that I work in to the mainstays of the newspaper funnies from my childhood, to the Tokyopop manga titles I collect with my teenage daughters to the esoteric and more literary works of Dan Clowes and Gene Yang, two of my favorites; I think the breadth of choices available demonstrates the amazing diversity and the fundamental vitality of the stories comics can tell.

Posted by Marissa Mayer, Vice President of Search Products and User Experience, and Jim Lee, Comics Creator/Publisher

Reference: http://ping.fm/YZT9P

Digital activism on YouTube

2009-07-22T18:14:00.001Z

(This is the second of a series of posts from YouTube's news and politics blog, Citizentube. -Ed.)

Activism today isn't limited to picket lines and marches on the Mall — people have taken their movements to the web, and YouTube has become an important platform for exposure. Every day, people use YouTube to fight for causes, whether they're hunger-striking celebrities like Mia Farrow, or 9-year-olds trying to save the neighborhood kickball lot from destruction. On Citizentube, our YouTube blog that chronicles the way people use video to change the world, we've seen digital activists use YouTube in three basic ways: to shine a light on issues that need more exposure, to drive action around causes they care about, and to create connections between people and organizations that share their desire to make a difference.

Some of the most compelling videos we see are those that spotlight important issues that aren't being covered in the mainstream media. Witness, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to document human rights abuses around the world through video, offers an excellent example — this video from their YouTube channel chronicles the clashes between the Burmese military and rural ethnic minorities. Invisiblepeople.tv, a relative newcomer to YouTube, is taking a similar approach by tackling a more domestic issue: homelessness. This summer, the group is traveling across America to document the real, unedited stories of people living on the streets, in tent communes and in cars — and posting all of the footage to their YouTube channel. And of course we've seen protesters in Iran, China and elsewhere use YouTube to amplify their causes far beyond national borders.

Other individuals and nonprofits are using YouTube as a direct advocacy tool, experimenting with ways to drive action from their videos to a particular cause. And we're building new products to make it even easier for them to do this effectively. For example, in March, we launched a tool called "Call to Action," which allows nonprofit organizations to drive traffic from an in-video overlay to an off-site page where they can collect donations, signatures or email addresses. Shortly after launch, to commemorate World Water Day, we featured a video from charity:water on the YouTube homepage that used a call-to-action overlay to encourage YouTube users to donate money to build wells and provide clean, safe drinking water for those who don't have it. Through YouTube, charity:water was able to raise over $10,000 in one day — enough to build two brand-new wells in the Central African Republic and give over 150 people clean drinking water for 20 years.

Yet some of the most innovative uses of YouTube for digital activism are those that leverage the communities that exist on YouTube around particular causes. YouTube is inherently a social experience and many of our users are hungry to partner and collaborate with others who share their passions. Last December, popular YouTube users the Vlogbrothers launched the "Project for Awesome," a campaign which asked fellow budding change-makers to make videos about their favorite charities. Over 1,200 people joined the effort to promote their cause of choice. And just a few weeks ago, in partnership with President Obama's launch of serve.gov, we created "Video Volunteers", a new platform on YouTube which connects nonprofits that lack video resources with proven video-makers who want to use their skills to do good. There are already hundreds of posts from nonprofits seeking help on the Video Volunteers YouTube channel, so if you're interested in creating a video for an organization, head over to the channel now and find a cause you care about.

Activism is constantly evolving on YouTube, so we'll keep posting fresh accounts of how citizens and nonprofits are changing the world, one video at a time, on Citizentube.

Posted by Ramya Raghavan, YouTube Nonprofits & Activism

Reference: http://ping.fm/UdAzP

2009-07-22T08:00:00.001Z

back to wearing a jumper :-(

2009-07-21T16:00:00.001Z

am fabsolutely goosed! Combo of jetlag, late nights and all work

2009-07-21T08:11:00.001Z

today is the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. Some facts http://ping.fm/KLHsr

what have we done which was as cool in the last 40 years?

2009-07-20T15:35:00.001Z

Ultimate Monday after my holiday is now complete. I defo earned dinner tonigh!!

Explore the moon in Google Earth

2009-07-20T15:31:00.001Z

Posted by Anousheh Ansari, Trustee, X PRIZE Foundation, and first female private space explorer

[From time to time we invite guests to blog about initiatives of interest, and are very pleased to have Anousheh Ansari join us here. – Ed.]

Ever since I was a young girl, it has been a dream of mine to travel into space. In September of 2006, I was fortunate enough to make that dream a reality — I took off from the launch pad in Baikonur bound for the International Space Station and became the world's first private female space tourist. Since then, it's been my mission to help as many people as possible think ambitiously about ways to push the boundaries of exploration, both here on Earth and beyond. As a trustee of the X PRIZE Foundation, and the sponsor of the Ansari X PRIZE, I support Google's goal of opening up space through projects like the Google Lunar X PRIZE, which serve to educate the public about the global benefits of space exploration.

That's why I'm so excited about the release of Moon in Google Earth, which is launching today at the Newseum in Washington D.C. This tool will make it easier for millions of people to learn about space, our moon and some of the most significant and dazzling discoveries humanity has accomplished together. Moon in Google Earth enables you to explore lunar imagery as well as informational content about the Apollo landing sites, panoramic images shot by the Apollo astronauts, narrated tours and much more. I believe that this educational tool is a critical step into the future, a way to both develop the dreams of young people globally, and inspire new audacious goals.

With Google Earth, young explorers around the world can bounce around the galaxy in Sky, fly to Mars and now visit the moon from wherever they may be. To learn more watch the video below or visit the Lat Long Blog. Finally, outer space doesn't seem so far away anymore.

Reference: http://ping.fm/Imnzx

2009-07-20T07:09:00.001Z

Back @ work - and I only have one week to get Swine Flu reporting sorted out - great!

2009-07-19T10:10:00.001Z

Kind Regards,
Kester Fernando

2009-07-19T09:23:00.001Z

is it cinema or Eglinton Park? What will the weather do?

2009-07-19T00:47:00.001Z

shud really get my self 2 bed right?

Finally sold the MR2 (phew)

2009-07-18T23:59:00.001Z

http://ping.fm/rjrbh
Belgian guy who tunes and resells MR2s picked up with a trailer today!

2009-07-18T23:37:00.001Z

our villa in Fuerteventura

2009-07-18T21:56:00.001Z

oof my Facebook is now disabled by Facebook security. They call them cybercriminals (lol)

Exercising on my bike right now!

2008-11-22T08:14:00.001Z

It's been a while and that's cos it's been busy but it was time to mash it up a bit and I decided to blog by using my p990i PDA whilst I am on my exercise bike in the gym. Cool stuff - I love mobile internet.

Chilling at work!

2008-04-25T19:23:00.001Z

It's quiet at the Asia Tandoori takeaway tonight lol. Chance of a cut price discount laptop from Max one of the Muslims working here (cool). Hope so cos Aaron spilt juice on Jordan's lol and it died as power was on and water got under the keyboard! Note to self to check insurance cover out.

Golf scores

2007-08-20T17:50:00.001Z

result! my score increased from 129 to 118 at Barshaw park in a month. I think not bad for only having played 4 rounds of golf EVER :-)
check Wireless18.com (mint)

Golf round with p990i scorecard

2007-08-19T12:32:00.001Z

Just back from Barshaw Golf Course and scored my personal best of 118 :-D. But that is not the coolest thing. The old SE p990i was used to keep score and then loaded the scores to the web. Check out www.wireless18.com for the Java client for any midp 2.0 phone and a free account. Woot!

Test post from p990i mobile :-)

2007-08-19T00:01:00.001Z

This is me writing from my phone over a bluetooth connection to the net. So connected to net on phone for free. This conn is prob faster than WLAN and defo less flaky

SE P990i phone

2007-08-18T23:28:00.001Z

Bought my p990i in April and it completely rocks. I can do all of the following (as well as usual things phone, sms, camera, video, music)
VOIP calls, Remote desktop connections, IM chats, sync with Lotus Notes email, net access for my laptop, browse internet through Bluetooth, WLAN, or GPRS, Web radio streams, Web video streams, Sat Navigation, all Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail accounts, Play ogg files.

Test post from IM

2007-08-18T22:52:00.001Z

Well since sabifoo got axed boo hoo I have been looking for a sweet replacement and this may well be it
imified.com

2007-04-12T14:01:00.001Z

Building a Smarter To-Do List, Part II | 43 Folders

Why Am I Doing This Task?

This is important. When compiling a list of all the stuff that’s on your mind (and on your plate), it’s crucial to unpack how each task you accept or assign to yourself will support your projects, your roles, and the goals you’ve set for yourself. Before adding a new item, reflect on the value that each chunk of work brings to your world.

* Is this the best use of my time right now?

* Am I the best person to do this task?

* Is this something that must be done now? Why now?

* What happens if I don’t do this at all?

Awesome site dedicated to the Secret DVD

2007-04-02T14:02:00.001Z

Rubys Secret

Welcome to Rubys Secret, a site dedicated to 'The Secret'. I'm aiming
to improve the world by as many people as possible learning about the
secret. It is an amazing tool that when somebody utilises it in their
life, the results are unbelievably good.

How to Flickrs own photo slideshow in your blog

2007-04-01T23:54:00.001Z

This page shows how to use Flickr's OWN slideshow player in your blog। It is probably the coolest slideshow player for flickr photos.
These links also contain cool variants:
http://www.db798.com/pictobrowser/
http://www.lazyi.net/flickr-slideshow-html/

Web Music playlist generator

2007-03-23T16:50:00.001Z

Webjay wizard | web.forret.com

Webjay is the mother of music playlist generators: it allows you to create a playlist of MP3, RAM, WMA files, or can take any page, feed, playlist file and convert it to working playlists for RealPlayer, Windows Media Player, Winamp, Quicktime and even to XSPF for the Flash MusicPlayer. In the last case, you need to do a "double URLencoding" on URLs. ¿Qué ?

Embedded Web Chat/IMs

2007-03-23T15:04:00.001Z

The Six Biggest New Ideas In Chat

Embed Chat in Your Blog: Interact with Site Visitors in Real Time at Digital Inspiration

Gabbly

Gabbly is a chat service that allows you to
chat around any webpage. Its free to use on your personal page or
commercial webpage. Simply type gabbly.com/ in front of a webpages URL, you will be able to chat with anyone visiting the page at the same time! eg. gabbly.com/cnn.com

meebo me widget!

meebo me is designed for anyone with a home on the web. If you've got a web page where you'd like to communicate with your visitors, meebo me allows you to see the people who are visiting your web page and chat with them!

Plugoo (my favourite as unlike meebo me there is no need to authorise casual website users if you use GAIM IM instead of meebo me)

Plugoo enables you to chat directly from your Instant Messenger with
any visitor of your blog, personal webpage or e-sales site.
When you’re logged into your Instant Messenger (Windows Live Messenger,
Yahoo! Messenger, AIM, GoogleTalk, Jabber or ICQ), you can receive in
real time all the comments of your website visitors or any question they might
ask, and answer instantly!

Stickam: Broadcast Yourself Live From Your Own Web Page

Stickam is a unique communication and online collaboration widget that can be embedded into any web page. It allows you to publish audio and video clips, images, as well as to interact in real-time with other people on your website via text chat and video conferencing.

Street wars urban games

2007-03-23T08:12:00.001Z

StreetWars: A 3 week long, 24/7, watergun assassination tournament - NYC, Vancouver, Vienna, San Francisco

definitely check the video

HotStockMarket.com

2007-03-21T15:16:00.001Z

Very cool browser hosted FPS !

2007-03-21T14:00:00.001Z

http://www.rasterwerks.com/game/phosphor/beta1.asp

feels Quake 2 ish but on Quake 3 engine

Travian online RTS

2007-03-21T07:43:00.001Z

Travian is a browser game featuring a world with thousands of other
real players. One begins the game acting as a chief of a tiny village. » To the tutorial

Players in total:	90470
Active players:	71334
Players online:	3558

Whole box of SW tricks

2006-08-10T11:15:00.000Z

The Generator Blog
This has so many cool resources for generating stuff with software it's ridiculous

Meatrix

2006-08-08T11:42:00.000Z

The Meatrix

Sabifoo Blog your IMs

2006-08-02T13:43:00.000Z

Sabifoo :: Instant Possibility

Escaping the Matrix

2006-07-30T10:04:00.000Z

Fed up? Well here's how we the people can change the world
http://escapingthematrix.org/red_pill.html

Find names, addresses and phone numbers

2006-07-28T12:28:00.000Z

B4USearch.com
Great UK site allowing you to find people for FREE
"Free People Finder & Free Business Finder. Use Our Business Finder & People Finder for free. Try our Free Postcode Finder & Address Locator for free the Postcode finder works by using the Royal Mail PAF file. Get Free Directory Enquiries and Free Electoral Roll searches. Search over 13 million residential Directory Enquiries and 37 million Electoral Roll listings for free. The people finder service scours the electoral roll database, directory enquiries database, postcode finder database, people finder database and business finder database."

Utterly HUGE airsoft event

2006-07-26T09:39:00.000Z

YouTube - airsoft

This has to be the coolest Airsoft event I have ever seen. If you like airsoft or paintball check this out.

FYI UK large airsoft event organiser
Urban Assault - The ultimate Airsoft experience

Terminator v Jesus

2006-07-17T09:42:00.000Z

2xfun.de - Terminator vs. Jesus

new FPS/RTS Field Ops

2006-07-07T09:33:00.000Z

Field Ops Hands-On - PC News at GameSpot

Newsgroups

2006-07-06T21:57:00.000Z

Slyck's Guide to The Newsgroups - Newsgroups

Ithaca - New York HOUR system of exchange

2006-06-22T21:27:00.000Z

Transaction Net: 'The Internet & the Future of Money'

Paul Glover, who created the Ithaca, New York, HOUR system, describes it this way: '...the Ithaca HOUR is Ithaca's $10.00 bill, because ten dollars per hour is the average of wages/salaries in Tompkins County. These HOUR notes, in four denominations, buy plumbing, carpentry, electrical work, roofing, nursing, chiropractic, child care, car and bike repair, food, eyeglasses, firewood, gifts, and thousands of other goods and services. Our credit union accepts them for mortgage and loan fees. People pay rent with HOURS. The best restaurants in town take them, as do movie theaters, bowling alleys, two large locally-owned grocery stores, and thirty farmer's market vendors.'

Remember who you are and what you came here to do

2006-06-21T10:53:00.000Z

Telepathy Seminar

What is my purpose in doing this? As I said before: I have an interest in making sure that people on this planet and the planet itself survive. And that is my only interest in it really. I'm just interested that there is a new type of civilization on this planet which can survive, feed all the people here, freely exchange ideas, freely go into communication with each other, freely exchange products and services, have a stable currency, things like that, that are - shall we say - the basics of a civilization.

Alternative Tech *****

2006-06-21T10:38:00.000Z

http://bob-dratch.org/index.html#home

Resource for Wisdom

2006-06-13T09:15:00.000Z

Pearls Of Wisdom : Inspirational Wisdom Quotes and Sayings for Personal and Spiritual Growth.

Gumtree.com

2006-06-13T06:50:00.000Z

http://glasgow.gumtree.com/glasgow/glasgow-free-stuff_779_1.html

freecycle.com

2006-06-13T06:49:00.000Z

http://www.freecycle.org/

Quite simply an excellent way to get and give stuff for FREE. Sign up to the local yahoo groups in your area and start FREE CYCLING!

Sacred Temples and their purpose

2006-06-03T01:28:00.000Z

Flower of Life - The Golden Mean Spiral and The Merkaba - Article by Ronald L. Holt -

Simply put, the people, the land, and the temples are revitalized and reharmonized by the presence of Great Spirit through the simple act of praying together in a united fashion at sacred intervals just before spirit begins to wane in the land, the ethers, and inside of themselves.

Golden Mean & Ancient Temples

2006-06-03T01:15:00.000Z

Flower of Life - The Golden Mean Spiral and The Merkaba - Article by Ronald L. Holt -

Earth's Chakras

2006-06-03T00:10:00.000Z

Royal Priest Research - Featuring the Work of Lyssa Royal

Cool web tools

2006-05-19T08:42:00.000Z

Protolize.org - Essential web tools in one place

Group conciousness clears polluted lake

2006-05-18T16:36:00.002Z

Hado.net - Hado in Action

Crystal Healing

2006-05-18T16:36:00.001Z

About.com: http://members.aol.com/SovSpec/healpage.htm

Future

2006-05-18T16:36:00.000Z

Geneva Declaration on the Future of the World Intellectual Property Organization

Cool footage of a playful fox

2006-05-16T10:43:00.000Z

Fox on Trampoline - Google Video

Marie Curie Kilimanjaro Trek

2006-05-15T09:13:00.000Z

Kilimanjaro Trek

David Icke

2006-05-14T18:48:00.000Z

David Icke Website - Home

Myth of the American Dream

2006-05-12T06:46:00.000Z

The Meritocracy Myth

"According to the ideology of the American Dream, America is the land of limitless opportunity in which individuals can go as far as their own merit takes them. According to this ideology, you get out of the system what you put into it. Getting ahead is ostensibly based on individual merit, which is generally viewed as a combination of factors including innate abilities, working hard, having the right attitude, and having high moral character and integrity. Americans not only tend to think that is how the system should work, but most Americans also think that is how the system does work (Huber and Form 1973, Kluegel and Smith 1986, Ladd 1994).

In our book The Meritocracy Myth (Rowman & Littlefield, 2004), we challenge the validity of these commonly held assertions, by arguing that there is a gap between how people think the system works and how the system actually does work. We refer to this gap as “the meritocracy myth,” or the myth that the system distributes resources—especially wealth and income—according to the merit of individuals."

Books Self Publishing

2006-05-12T01:44:00.000Z

Lulu.com - Self Publishing - Free

2006-05-12T01:08:00.000Z

Internet Archive
This is a well cool archive of the internet as was in the past. Lost a favorite page? Check here :-)

2006-05-11T09:27:00.000Z

ITSAWONDERFULINTERNET.COM
This is funny and cool at the same time. You will end up agreeing and remembering why the interent rocks!!

2006-05-11T06:25:00.000Z

Thomas More - extract from Utopia which hits home

"Though to speak plainly my real sentiments, I must freely own
that as long as there is any property, and while money is the
standard of all other things, I cannot think that a nation can be
governed either justly or happily: not justly, because the best
things will fall to the share of the worst men; nor happily,
because all things will be divided among a few (and even these are
not in all respects happy), the rest being left to be absolutely
miserable."

Heavy eh? This is what we got right now so why notm instead try a local exchange trading scheme (LETs): http://bkgfernando.googlepages.com/localexchangetradingsystem-lets

2006-05-10T10:42:00.000Z

I think a cool description of shaman's

"What
distinguishes a payé [shaman] from others is that he is an
intellectual...He is a humanist, in the sense that he is interested in the
'pagan' antiquities of his own cultural tradition: in myths of origin, in
archaeological sites, in long forgotten place names, and in stories of
legendary migrations."
http://www.ayahuasca-shamanism.co.uk/Huachuma-Journeys.htm

2006-05-05T13:20:00.000Z

Get OpenOffice forget MS Office

Take a Test Drive - Keep the Car!

Microsoft offers you a "test drive" so that you can see what Microsoft Office 2007 might look like when it finally goes on sale.

The OpenOffice.org Community invites you to go one better - download a fully-functional, legal copy of the OpenOffice.org 2 office suite today for a test drive. If you like it, use it free for as long as you like. We say it's the ultimate no-strings-attached test drive - if you enjoy the test drive, keep the car!

Like Microsoft Office, OpenOffice.org 2 is a complete office suite, with a word processor, spreadsheet, presentations, drawing, and database.
Like Microsoft Office, OpenOffice.org 2 will happily use all your existing office files in MS-Word, MS-Excel, and MS-Powerpoint format
Unlike Microsoft Office, OpenOffice.org 2 is free of charge to use for any purpose: domestic, educational, government, commercial
Unlike Microsoft Office, you don't have to worry that you may be taken to court to prove you have a valid licence
Unlike Microsoft Office, OpenOffice.org 2 includes valuable extra features, such as the ability to create pdf files
Unlike changing to Microsoft Office 2007, changing to OpenOffice.org 2 does not require you to learn how to use your software all over again. Indeed, reports have shown migration to OpenOffice.org 2 is 90% cheaper than migrating to Microsoft Office 2007.