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Image by Getty Images via Daylife As we all know, plastic bags in general, and plastic grocery bags in particular are the bane of modern life. The plastic bag has become so common that its hard to imagine life without it. Other parts of the world have even more problems with them than we do, because [...]

Last February I wrote a post titled Capitalisms Death. Looking back and rereading it now nothing has really changed. In fact, things have gotten more extreme and more obvious as the presidency of Barack Obama unfolds. In some ways it seems like he is really trying to make some basic changes in the way things [...]

This years Thirty Day Challenge started on the first of August. If you make money online you should really take part in it. This is day twelve of the challenge, but you can sign up any time and go through the lessons at your own pace. If you took part in a previous Thirty Day Challenge [...]

This post could have gone in the money mill category because it has to do with internet marketing, but because its about software I decided to put it in the technology section instead. Last summer when I was taking part in the thirty-day challenge, Ed Dale and friends intorduced us to Market Samurai. Anyone taking part [...]

Problematic Chinese products are in the news again. This time its cheap drywall that was used in a lot of houses in the US since Katrina. I first heard about this on CNN yesterday. Apparently the drywall is giving off sulphur emissions. This gypsum is not intensely processed or purified in the manufacturing process, so it [...]

Sudoku tips on the internet  are a dime a dozen. The problem is finding good sudoku tips that will really tell you how to solve a sudoku. There are lots of internet sudoku sites. You can find sudoku grids, sudoku rules, printable sudoku puzzles. There are even online sudoku solvers. With all this noise there is [...]

Image via Wikipedia Today, Skype announced the release of a new iphone app that will let users make calls whenever they have access to a wireless network. This begins to fulfill the promise of a truly agile mobile phone. This was one of the most anticipated features of the iphone and it was talked about long before [...]

So far, I really like it. The story is coming along well. Eliza is great as Echo. Probably I would describe myself as interested. That means I try not to miss it, but I’m not yet in love with it the way I was with Buffy the Vampire Slayer. My biggest regret is that I knew [...]

There has been a major new development in submarine technology. Hawkes Ocean Technologies has developed deep flying submarine technology. The flying submarines resemble airplanes more than submarines. They have wings, tails, all the control surfaces a machine needs to fly in a fluid medium. Best of all, these are not toys or prototypes and they are [...]

Much to my chagrin I have become something of a cellphone junkie. If you’ve been reading this blog for any length of time you know that Iused to regard them with disdain. Now I don’t know what I’d do without my crackberry. So where can you find good deals on cellphones and accessories? One resource, of [...]