life | Kris Smith has read these articles about "life" | www.croncast.comThis is the keyword feed for "life" from my read items in Google Reader. If you would like to search or subscribe to category/keyword rss feeds for items that I have shared with Google Reader visit http://www.croncast.com/c4_reading.php"Anonymous" Takes Scientology Protest to the Streets- February 12, 2008 This past Sunday members of the group "Anonymous" that has been running an attack on the church of Scientology took their battle from the tubes of the internet to the pavement of real life, staging a protest outside the central Phoenix Church of Scientology. "The protesters said they gathered Sunday in lieu of the birthday of Lisa McPherson, a Scientologist once cared for by church staffers. Her 1995 death sparked media attention and a civil wrongful death suit against a branch of the Church of.http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/233408753/article.pl ADM To Introduce Podcast Advertising Standards & Guidelines- February 6, 2008 The Association of Downloadable Media's (ADM) Susan Bratton has announced that the organization will present its Advertising and Sponsorship Standards and Guidelines for Traffic Measurement at the upcoming ad:tech Expo, being held in San Francisco, April 15-17. The ADM will present the latest numbers in podcastingvidcasting and downloadable media, case studies of successful programs, new ad units around which our industry can standardize and guidelines for audience traffic measurement. Bratton.http://www.podcastingnews.com/2008/02/06/podcast-advertising-standards/ Is Your Client a Certified Orifice- February 6, 2008 Bob Sutton continues to fight the good fight against certified orifices. He started by literally writing the book about it. This time, he's created a test for you to determine if you have the client from hell. Click here to take the ACHE (Ass Client from Hell Exam). Luckily, he provides a path out of this predicament. The point is: Life is too short to deal with orifices. Of course, it could be you that's the orifice. Click here to determine if that's the case. Incidentally, he just wrote a.http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2008/02/is-your-client.html The Past-Due Loan Problem at American Express- February 5, 2008 Right now the Dow Jones Industrial Average is down 86.16 points, and American Express is down $1.51 per share. Given that the DJIA divisor is 0.123017848, that means American Express is responsible for 12.27 points of the Dow's 86-point fall, or something over 14%. But why is American Express doing so badly, and dragging down the Dow so much The proximate cause seems to be a downgrade by UBS analyst Eric Wasserstrom, who's worried about credit losses. I can confirm that these might well be a...http://feeds.portfolio.com/~r/portfolio/marketmovers/~3/229094193/the-past-due-loan-proble... Sun-Times: Logitech Harmony One Remote- February 4, 2008 This column was originally published in the Sun-Times on January 31, 2008. I had no idea how badly my home entertainment system here in the living room had gotten out of hand until a recent afternoon when I picked up the requisite basket of remotes and issued the usual sequence of baffling commands. But instead of the big screen showing the opening scenes of last night's Survivorman, it started to display page after page of decrypted attack orders for Nazi submarines. I checked the huge...http://ihnatko.com/index.php/2008/02/04/sun-times-logitech-harmony-one-remote/ Major Minor&39;s Majestic March: Wii Game from PaRappa Team- February 1, 2008 GameLife has a first look at "Major Minor's Majestic March," an upcoming Wii game from the developers and artist behind the classic Playstation game, PaRappa the Rapper. The un-ironic art is wonderful and GameLife has more examples.Players will use the baton to keep tempo, recruit new band members, and snag special items in an effort to create the most impressive parade ever seen. You'll be able to add up to 15 different instruments to the procession, and will be judged on how well your...http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/gadgets/~3/227255007/major-minors-majesti.html End of Life- February 1, 2008 As my son Cole, who is three years old, explains it, nothing lives forever except for vampire robots, a particular obsession of his. While I can't speak to vampire robots, when it comes to computer and networking equipment there typically is a finite life span after which vendors don't usually provide much, if any, support. It's not that the old stuff suddenly goes bad, it's that we're supposed to buy new, whether we want to -- or even need to -- or not. They call it EOL -- End of Life --...http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2008/pulpit_20080131_004102.html |