How to be a quite good bird photographer

I’ve been very fortunate in the four years I’ve been blogging to have received a fair few comments congratulating me on the photographs I’ve taken. I’m very grateful of course, but I have to say that given the opportunities I get from travelling the world with my airline job I’d be a poor photographer indeed if I hadn’t managed to capture the odd [more...]

Date: 2007-11-15 10:00:19
Blog: 10,000 Birds — Birding,...

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Lingam Tape - all three members of Haidar Panel unanimous in separately recommending Royal Commission of Inquiry?

Lingam Tape - all three members of Haidar Panel unanimous in separately recommending Royal Commission of Inquiry? ... had one common recommendation – to establish a Royal Commission of Inquiry. If this is true ... Minister. Then the questions are the terms of reference and composition of the Royal Commission [more...]

Date: 2007-11-14 06:29:35
Blog: Lim Kit Siang ...

Fringe Benefits: Flight, Volume One

Flight: Volume One Flight: Volume One Published by Image $19 ... s a common fantasy that we earthbound creatures have. How many times have you been stuck in rush hour [more...]

Date: 2007-11-13 04:02:02
Blog: Blog@Newsarama...

Art and Elitism: A Form of Pattern Recognition

Can you tell a dog from a cat by just looking at photographs? I am sure you can – even a four-year-old can. You can do it even when some dog breeds may have lot more in common to a cat than other kinds of dogs. Take a pekingese, for example. Compare [more...]

Date: 2007-11-14 07:00:04
Blog: Britannica Blog...

Integrate or die - BBC news leads the way

Integrate or die - BBC news leads the way Roy Greenslade / Analysis 09:50am Every media company is trying to come to terms with multi-platform journalism. The theory may be understandable, if a little frightening, but the practice is something else. How can it work [more...]

Date: 2007-11-13 09:50:45
Blog: Greenslade | Guardian U...

Blinded By The Hate

Blinded By The Hate Published by Gaius under Civilization, Politics Peter Berkowitz, writing in the Opinion Journal, points out that blind hatred of George Bush is not a good plan for going through life. Berkowitz, a fellow at the Hoover Institute and a professor at George Mason University School of Law, [more...]

Date: 2007-11-14 13:47:04
Blog: Blue Crab Boulevard...

Racist talk about education

Racist talk about education Posted on November 12, 2007 by Bookworm In a debate about lagging Hispanic and Black achievement scores, ... - was what the low-scorers had in common. And it changed everything. O’Connell now believes that widespread ... . Framing the problem in terms of “race” not “culture,” is a disastrous way to get your message across [more...]

Date: 2007-11-12 22:15:10
Blog: Bookworm Room...

Radical Thoughts, Real Community

Sunday night, my church shared a Thanksgiving feast together. And while some may believe Lutherans have cornered the market on potluck dinners, my Pentecostal church did a fine job. So I went off my diet for a day. Sometimes you have to savor the moment with friends [more...]

Date: 2007-11-13 04:01:57
Blog: Cerulean Sanctum...

State of Georgia turns to God

Out of answers and out of water, the Governor of Georgia, ... shrugged off in the Bible Belt, where turning to the heavens for help is common and sometimes even [more...]

Date: 2007-11-13 19:36:23
Blog: CommonSenseAmerica - I...

Such A Difference...

Perhaps you've noted the journaistic catfight that broke out this week between Paul Krugman, David Brooks and (oy veh!) ... serious economic turbulence, and in need of some common-sense solutions to a whole series of policy [more...]

Date: 2007-11-15 04:30:14
Blog: Dennis The Peasant...

A Dam Building in 1953, Godard

I have always been very fond of this film Godard made when working as a labourer on a dam project, he filmed the work ... comfortable with that idea either. I've never actually thought about a movie-maker in those terms ... as Godard...and Godards sountracks have much in common [more...]

Date: 2007-11-13 00:57:01
Blog: The Gnostic World of Ca...

Groupthink Vs Market Think

In his book, The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, ... . Another colorful term used to describe it is decision by committee. These terms do not, by any means [more...]

Date: 2007-11-13 08:49:04
Blog: you've been HAACKED ...

Six Steps for Reinvigorating America

Q&A with:Rosabeth Moss KanterPublished:November 13, 2007Author: ... into antagonistic ideological camps instead of finding common ground upon which to build [more...]

Date: 2007-11-13 15:47:17
Blog: HBS Working Knowledge...

Call of Duty 4 Simply Couldn’t Wait

Just under two weeks ago, I wrote about having to budget my gaming time and outlined the titles I’m currently playing and those that will take a ... up there with the leading games in terms of graphics capabilities - level of detail, lighting, etc. The only area [more...]

Date: 2007-11-12 21:56:37
Blog: Matt Brett...

World community's complacency will embolden Israel to continue to violate human rights with impunity

Source: United Nations General Assembly Date: 12 Nov 2007 Palestine's observer warns Fourth Committee that world community's complacency will embolden Israel to continue to violate human rights with impunity As Report of Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Taken Up, Israel's Speaker Says Text Is Replete with Duplication, [more...]

Date: 2007-11-13 18:20:11
Blog: CRIMES AND CORRUPTION O...

ID thieves' new hangout: file-sharing software

Josephine made about $37,000 in 2004, but thanks to itemized deductions, she only paid taxes on $26,000. The Midwestern bookkeeper ended up getting a $1,000 refund, which was deposited into her account at a local credit union. She never intended for the whole world to know this [more...]

Date: 2007-11-13 10:00:00
Blog: The Red Tape Chronicles...

White House Press Briefing by Dana Perino 11/14/07 VIDEO PODCAST

Press Briefing by Dana Perino, FULL STREAMING VIDEO, PODCAST OF THIS ARTICLE White House Conference Center Briefing Room, Dana M. Perino Biography, 12:43 P.M. EDT.MS. PERINO: Hello. I have two announcements [more...]

Date: 2007-11-15 01:16:59
Blog: Republican National Con...

Subversive lifestyles

Homosexuals are often praised with creativity, but the undisciplined custom-breaking artists many of whom are homosexuals didn’t create much ... be for a reason that every major religion condemned homosexuality. Homosexuality, in statistical terms [more...]

Date: 2007-11-13 07:57:14
Blog: A Machiavellian Perspec...

Revealed: Wikia (Wikipedia-Model) search bought "Grub" crawler for $50K

A while back, Wikia search, ... -like model (i.e. free labor from the public), acquired the "Grub" crawler. In terms of following ... and the issuance of 217,000 shares of LookSmart common stock valued at $0.7 million. Hat tip to Gary [more...]

Date: 2007-11-12 20:59:40
Blog: Infothought...

Halitosis - Science To The Rescue

Halitosis - Science To The Rescue Tuesday 13 November 2007 @ 5:44 pm Halitosis, also known as plain old bad breath, ... that they suffer from it. Sometimes it takes an embarrassing social episode to come to terms about having bad [more...]

Date: 2007-11-13 17:36:16
Blog: http://theworldsbesthom...

The Importance of Keywording Your Photos

Over the course of the past few years I've become increasingly aware of the importance of keywording. By keywording I mean the act of using software to add identification words i.e. keywords ... I spent hours and hours and hours tagging my photos with descriptive keywords on Flickr [more...]

Date: 2007-11-13 21:55:34
Blog: Thomas Hawk's Digital C...

A disturbing conversation with Fred Thompson

Saturday afternoon as I was driving to church, my cell phone rang ... , in retrospect, that it wasn't clear whether Thompson was simply stating in principle the common [more...]

Date: 2007-11-12 20:05:08
Blog: watersblogged!...

Freeing Legal Code

A cool development from Public Resource: WASHINGTON, D.C. / SEBASTOPOL, CA—November 14, 2007—Public.Resource.Org and Fastcase, Inc ... star” markers, as well as add summaries, classifications, keywords, alternate numbering systems [more...]

Date: 2007-11-14 22:20:11
Blog: Wendy’s Blog: Legal Tag...

Guest Blogger: Concerns about Impartiality and Access to Evidence Arise at Military Commission Hearing

by Devon Chaffee, an attorney with Human Rights First, who is monitoring trials at Guantanamo Bay (written on November 9) ... for life terms for precisely this reason – to insulate them from undue political influence [more...]

Date: 2007-11-13 21:23:20
Blog: American Constitution S...

Things I have learned from contest judging

I don’t judge writing contests any longer. I don’t have time, or the inclination. I much prefer talking writing in general terms or even getting specific at times here on the blog ... named Eli. Mick isn’t too far out there, and Harry is as common as it gets. Ezra, not so much. Jack [more...]

Date: 2007-11-14 17:46:53
Blog: Alison Kent - Blah Blog...

JOHN HAGEE DENIES THAT CHRIST (means MESSIAH) JESUS IS THE...MESSIAH!

Then the high priest stood up and said to Jesus, “Are you not going to answer? What is this testimony that these men are bringing against you? ... adjustment to make. Until then, let’s work in common cause for the State of Israel to help them secure [more...]

Date: 2007-11-13 22:26:58
Blog: Apprising Ministries...

Access Cheap Loans Online

Access Cheap Loans Online Posted on November 14, 2007 Filed Under The Yard | Leave a Comment The current loan market is flooded with several offers from mainstream banks which would have otherwise ordinarily have ignored the common man ... leverage they have been given in terms of being able to take out secured loans. A secured loan is a loan [more...]

Date: 2007-11-14 14:15:19
Blog: Blackyard Technologies...

Guide to Your Dog's Symptoms: Your Pet Can't Speak, But Its Symptoms Can! by Michael S. Garvey,

THE EXPERTS REVEAL HOW TO INTERPRET AND UNDERSTAND YOUR DOG'S SYMPTOMS AND WHAT STEPS TO TAKE TO ENSURE ITS HEALTH ... their pets' bodies and health based on signs and symptoms of disease, and in determining the most common ... charts to the 150 most common symptoms -- Training and behavior issues, such as housebreaking [more...]

Date: 2007-11-12 22:15:12
Blog: Bunches of Specials...

Politifact: Truth-o-Meter

Politifact: Truth-o-Meter A new TV ad by Mitt Romney recites a common Republican criticism of Sen. Hillary Clinton. She "hasn't run a corner store ... Policy Masthead Terms & Conditions [more...]

Date: 2007-11-13 08:10:17
Blog: CQ Politics - Home Page...

ebizQ Podcast: The Inside Scoop on IBM-Cognos

Listen to or download the entire 9:50 podcast below: Download file Editor's note: Last week's acquisition of Cognos by IBM continues to fuel discussion about consolidation in the Business Intelligence marketplace, and the large enterprise IT providers now all have a major BI tool in their stack [more...]

Date: 2007-11-14 22:26:15
Blog: Elizabeth Book's Busine...

Facts on Income Tax Payers

I found this article from Kiplinger's fascinating. It's on taxes and who pays what ... , but still, it puts you in the top 10% -- not bad. (And, by the way, being a millionaire, while more common, also puts you among the elite in terms of net worth.) 3. The bottom 50% only earn 13% of the total [more...]

Date: 2007-11-13 19:01:49
Blog: Free Money Finance...

Measuring Visitor Engagement: Tools + Tips

"Engagement" in the web analytics world is about as emotionally-charged a word as it might be with someone you've ... visitor behaves in terms of your site's goals. What is the ultimate purpose of your site? Content [more...]

Date: 2007-11-14 20:20:37
Blog: Future Now's GrokDotCom...

What The Heck Is A MupSys Error?

Mup.sys is a system file with an important role in computer networks ... this phrase refers to how a network of computers using the same operating system uses a common language ... this mean in terms of how the Multiple UNC Provider system works? When a program on a networked computer [more...]

Date: 2007-11-13 13:46:15
Blog: GIO’s WeBlog...

6 Apps To Browse Web Productively

The idea of this post is to go through a bunch of tools that add to your browsing experience. Nothing extra ordinary but a handful of simple useful apps that solve common web problems: slow ... - A quick way to add to your web speed. In simple terms, OpenDNS allows you to speed-up domain [more...]

Date: 2007-11-15 01:28:24
Blog: MakeUseOf.com | Cool We...

Attention Profiling: APML Beginner's Guide

Attention profiling is quite possibly the next wave of smarter, more relevant web browsing ... your attention profile - the sites you visit, the search terms that interest you most, the content you most [more...]

Date: 2007-11-14 10:48:42
Blog: Independent Publishing ...

Music in dreams

From a footnote on p282 of Oliver Sacks Musicophilia: There have been very few systematic studies of music in dreams, though one such ... for years that things like the ability to name objects or remember words was influenced by the how common ... learnt, with earlier words being more robust in terms of being more easily processed or accessed [more...]

Date: 2007-11-13 11:52:15
Blog: Mind Hacks...

Molleindustria, videogame rules as a political medium.

Italy has a strong political tradition, having also generated various related creative movements wisely mixing politics and art (like free radio in the seventies, [more...]

Date: 2007-11-14 11:30:17
Blog: Neural.it :: new media ...

Compete Search Analytics - My Review

Compete.com, a competitive intelligence tool in the family of Quantcast and HitWise, recently launched a new search analytics tool ... of thousands of keywords that brought users to a site, cost 10 credits ($20). How To Use Compete Search ... a particular basket of keywords, you can determine how much of the share of traffic from those [more...]

Date: 2007-11-15 05:58:18
Blog: Search Marketing Gurus ...

52 Books, 52 Weeks: The Top Ten

Over the past year (starting in November 2006), I read a personal finance book each week and wrote a lengthy review of each one, ... of them compare to this one in terms of really making [more...]

Date: 2007-11-13 18:30:44
Blog: The Simple Dollar...

Beijing and the Great Wall - Beijing, China

Jump to the full entry & travel map Beijing, China Beijing turned out to be a really nice surprise for us ... it all has to do with the Summer Olympics Beijing is hosting next year - after all, they did move all the smoke [more...]

Date: 2007-11-15 05:30:08
Blog: Travel Blogs | Travel J...

Bardia National Park - Thakurdwara, Bardia, Nepal

Jump to the full entry & travel map Thakurdwara, Bardia, Nepal BARDIA NATIONAL PARK : This Wildlife Safari could change your life, for those with a love a wildlife sanctuary and dramatic scenery & traditional village living, country side, clean air and a simple life, this beautiful Bardia is the perfect destination [more...]

Date: 2007-11-14 10:47:07
Blog: Travel Blogs | Travel J...

Racist Talk About Education

Racist Talk About Education By Bookworm at Bookworm Room November 12, 2007 at 6:04 pm in Education Watch, ... -scorers had in common. And it changed everything. O’Connell now believes that widespread cultural ... the problem in terms of “race” not “culture,” is a disastrous way to get your message across, because [more...]

Date: 2007-11-13 00:04:21
Blog: Webloggin - News and Co...

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