• Skip buzzwords for clear and concise communication | IT Consultant | TechRepublic.com
  Maximize face-time information interchange by employing enterprise vocabulary best practices
  Tags: techrepublic consulting
• A simple email filter: getlessmail | IT Security | TechRepublic.com
  Chad weighs in on this filter, which seems to be getting some Twitter-traction, too.
  Tags: getlessmail techrepublic security
• Typo in AdWords Ad – Webvertization (and Adsense)
  yu can sed txt msgs so much fastr if you lev out letrs
  Tags: randymorin adsense spelling
• [base] Revision 207513
  "Bomb. James Bomb."
  Tags: freebsd

• Home Depot – So funny! – iBLOGthere4iM
  So true — I wish I hadn't just slid into a new category a couple of months ago.
  Tags: randymorin humor aging homedepot
• Edge: 36 ARGUMENTS FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD —  By Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
  Masterful. Long, but well worth the read.
  Thanks, Erich.
  Tags: religion psychology philosophy god atheism rationality
• Indexed » Blog Archive » The Persistence of Memory.
  What comes next, the Internet?
  Tags: jessicahagy information

• Competing motives for an IT consulting engagement | IT Consultant | TechRepublic.com
  Spend more money, or hire someone who's never around?
  Tags: techrepublic consulting
• Intellectually Violent Blogging – The RSS Blog
  Randy lays the BRA on IVB.
  Tags: acronym randymorin blogging
• U.S. National Debt Clock : Real Time
  The most depressing way to watch the clock.
  Thanks, head lemur.
  Tags: economy politics debt taxes budget debtclock

• Get a quick personal history lesson about Chip Camden
  It's a lot quicker than The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
  Tags: techrepublic interview
• An unthinking programmer’s guide to the new C++ • The Register
  Via the Code Project.
  Tags: c++ programming standards
• RSS is Dead? Give me a Break.
  "That is not dead which can eternal lie."
  Tags: rss randymorin

• Lunascape5 releases beta version of multi-engine browser
  For when a single-engine webcraft just won't do the job.
  Tags: lunascape browsers geeksaresexy gecko webkit javascript performance acid3
• Bring your own examples
  All three lines I strive to erase.
  Tags: jessicahagy humor
• Blaming the Previous Guy
  Presuming, of course, that you were allotted the time to fix it.
  Tags: randymorin programming responsibility

• xkcd – A Webcomic – Faust 2.0
  Well, there goes the market for the Eternal Feminine
  Tags: eula xkcd faust mephistopheles comic devil licensing
• Feedburner Becomes Google Feeds
  Resistance is futile
  Tags: google feedburner rss randymorin
• Techdirt: Halliburton Tries To Patent Form Of Patent Trolling
  This is a joke, whether Halliburton means it that way or not.
  Thanks, Paul.
  Tags: halliburton patents trolls techdirt
• The Obdurate Kestrel
  Just don't.
  Tags: ruby programming raganwald
• Jay Fields’ Thoughts: Ruby: Alias method alternative
  There's always more than one way to skin a cat in Ruby, but some ways are cleaner than others.
  Thanks, Reg.
  Tags: programming ruby metaprogramming monkeypatching

• CallerComplaints.com
  I get at least a couple every day, but now I can fight back.
  Thanks, Doug.
  Tags: callercomplaints complaint telemarketers donotcall tools marketing privacy lifehacks telephone
• Customer Service
  I hate to say I told you so about selling SendMeRSS (nee R|Mail) to NBC, but I told you so.
  Tags: randymorin rmail sendmerss nbc suckage service
• Songs of the Cardinal
  In Ruby, of course.
  Tags: ruby combinators homoiconic programming
• Quote Details: Ernest Hemingway: Always do sober what… – The …
  Unexpected parallel between drunkenness and blogging
  Tags: hemingway alcohol

• Putting Up with Shit
  Randy takes the power of hyper-connectedness to a whole new level
  Tags: communication connectedness honesty blogging randymorin
• Technology and Testosterone
  Too much testosterone can cause brain damage, after all.
  Tags: technology testosterone philfactor
• Wim van Eck’s legacy
  I just like how "Van Eck Phreaking" sounds.
  Tags: phreaking vaneck apotheon techrepublic security eavesdropping
• University researchers developing cancer-fighting beer
  … and on Saturday night they're hosting a dorm-wide prevention clinic.
  (via the Code Project)
  Tags: beer research cancer resveratrol

• New Synchronisation Idea Overlooked By Microsoft Live team
  They didn’t synchronize their synchronizers
  (tags: microsoft synchronization)
• President Bush regrets his legacy as man who wanted war – Times Online
  A little late for a mea culpa, but right on time for the Republicans.
  (tags: bush politics war iraq legacy)
• GOOG CEO says “Don’t Be evil” is misunderstood | Tom Foremski: IMHO | ZDNet.com
  They really meant, “Don’t be Evil Knievel”.
  (tags: google evil)
• John Rollen Martin
  Strict disciplinarian, amazing teacher of music theory and practice, leader of the band, and a friend I haven’t seen in decades.
  (tags: obituaries johnrmartin music)
• Simple2Chat.com
  No frills, web-based chat — no client software required. Thanks, Randy.
  (tags: chat randymorin simple2chat)
• ‘Party chat’ brain filter discovered – being-human – 10 June 2008 – New Scientist
  They’ve found the part that filters out extraneous noises such as “Get lost, loser!”
  Thanks, Paul.
  (tags: language neuroscience)
• Page 123, fifth sentence | Velcro City Tourist Board
  Paul didn’t disappoint me with his response to the Book Sentence meme: some science fiction and some science fact (or at least, speculation)
  (tags: scifi meme books)
• AP Files 7 DMCA Takedowns Against Drudge Retort | Workbench
  If linking to a post while providing quoting a portion legally constitutes “hot news’ misappropriation”, then we bloggers are screwed. I fully expect Rogers to win this one.
  (tags: legal copyright dmca ap drudgeretort)

Riding on the face of our planet, circling a star on the edge of our galaxy hurtling through space — can’t we just stop and get directions?

That’s my response to Mark Dykeman’s latest meme, in which you send a message to the world in 150 characters or less. Link to Mark’s post (and this one, too, I hope), and tag ten people.

Let’s see — 10 laconic individuals that have something to say and who weren’t tagged already: Chad, Joseph, Cooper, Teeni, Robert, Assaf, Morgetron, Randy, Stu, and Tish. Your responses don’t have to be as serious as mine.