June 20, 2006
Catholic Carnival - Corpus Christi Edition
Here's this week's Catholic Carnival, a weekly roundup of self-submitted posts from Catholic bloggers.
Reflections
Harrison Ayre at Witness to Hope presents Reflections on the Problem of Evil. "The Problem of Evil is one of the greatest problems that have ever plagued theologians and philosophers. How do we reconcile evil with a Good and Loving God?"
Audrey Yii at My Journey presents Being Too 'Salty'. "Jesus said Christians are called to be salts of the world. But how 'salty' should we be? This post is about my personal experience when I've added too much 'salt'."
Tom Reagan presents Maturing in a View of Jesus Through the Rosary. This is Part II in Tom's 3-part series Maturing in a View of Jesus, a View of Mary, and a View of Ourselves Through the Rosary. Part I is about maturing in a view of Mary, and Part III will be about maturing in a view of ourselves.
Elena LaVictoire at My Domestic Church presents A Teachable Spirit. "I post a lot about the difficulties of the Titus 2 responsibility and how it is difficult to live out that command. It is my opinion, that a great deal of that comes from an unteachable spirit in many young women today. I came across two examples of this in blogs by first time moms this week. "
Jay at Living Catholicism presents A Penitent Blogger presents Dark Accusations and Hard Questions, a reflection on our need to be diligent as servants of a just and merciful God"
The Feast of Corpus Christi
Leo Wong at Diary of a City Parishioner presents The Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ with thoughts on the Real Presence.
Kevin Miller at HMS Blog presents The Sum of All Sacrifices, a reflection on the Mass readings for Corpus Christi, focusing on what sort of sacrifice the Eucharist is.
Father's Day
Christine at Ramblings of a GOP Soccer Mom presents National Review Roundup on Dads discussing how important fathers are.
Other Uncategorized Stuff
Herbery Ely at HerbEly presents Book Review: Just War, Lasting Peace: What Christian Traditions can Teach Us. This book is the result of a one-day invitational forum on the applicability of the Just War tradition to the modern world. Herb recommends the book but wishes that it had given more background on 1) the decline of war over the past twenty five years; 2) von Clausewitz's famous dictum about war being the continuation of politics; and 3) the context of turning the other cheek. He provides links to additional resources.
Rob at Crusader of Justice presents Summer Reading List on eight books with a Catholic theme to them that he really enjoyer many of them from his first year at Franciscan.
BarbaraSzyskiewicz at SFO Mom presents An Open Letter to Woman's Day Magazineon why one Catholic mom cannot, in good conscience, continue to
subscribe to this mainstream magazine.
Humor
cehwiedel at Kicking Over My Traces presents Bill Mauldin Collection
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February 8, 2006
Christian Carnival CVIII
Welcome to this week's Christian Carnival CVIII, a weekly roundup of self-submitted blog posts from Christian Bloggers. Sorry for the lateness of getting this posted but having just returned from vacation, I've fallen somewhat behind. Posts are in the uncreative order of receipt.
Here's this weeks entries:
Martin LaBar of Sun and Shield presents Dick Fischer on taking Gensis literally, pointing to an on-line article by Dick Fischer, wherein he argues, with quite a bit of evidence, that most or all of the claims of Young-Earth Creationism are contradicted by scripture.
John Howell of Braing Cramps for God presents Natural Law: Its Source and Discernment.
Miss O'Hara at Miss O'Hara presents Numb.
Kim C at Life in a shoe: a peek into the methods and madness of one mother of 7 presents Abortion in America. Good news from the other side: it's becoming harder and harder to get an abortion.
FMF at Free Money Finance presents The Tithe is for Today. Talks about why tithing is a New Testament principle.
John Luke at Blogcorner Preacher presents
The Random Yak, for the Random Maniyak at Random Yak presents A Song of Wandering, but Not Alone
David Taylor of Disciple's Journal presents On missions: What about the persecuted church?. While the nations rage about . . cartoons . . I provide a brief profile of Christian Freedom International as one example of ministry to believers in some of the toughest areas of the world to be a Christian.
Ed of Attention Span presents A Hint of the Eternal. What does it mean that God is eternal? How can we as finite humans wrap our minds around that concept? At Attention Span, rev-ed sees "A Hint of the Eternal" in a spring by the side of the road.
Laura Curtis of Pursuing Holiness presents Here we go again.... Christians will protest the “crucifixin’s” segment of Will and Grace furiously if the American Family Association has anything to say about it. And that is our right. However, before we act on this, let’s take a moment to think. Christians will protest the “crucifixin’s” segment of Will and Grace furiously if the American Family Association has anything to say about it. And that is our right. However, before we act on this, let’s take a moment to think.
Will Hinton of Dignan's 75 Year Plan presents End of the Spear Controversy. "The casting of Allen does present ironies if not outright dilemmas. Saint himself said so, but has continued to offer Allen support (see below). But how far do these culture warriors want to take this? Because the logical conclusion of this approach leaves you in a cultural hermetic bubble, without any relationship to those of differing beliefs and practices. This isn't about surrendering to PC ideologies. It's about loving our neighbors and not confusing "in the world" with "of the world."
Rev. Trudy Mackay of The God Blog presents How do we walk in love?. "Today it is impossible to keep track of the people you affect. Through our blogs, Rev. Trudy and I communicate with thousands of people every day. We can’t know how our words sit with them. Some take courage and inspiration; others might disagree. Even if you don’t have a blog, the simple act of going to town and walking in a store puts you in a situation beyond your own control. You are seldom seen as you see yourself. There is nothing you can do about this without the Lord’s help."
John Hollandsworth of Light Along the Journey presents Neo's Choices in the Matrix. John draws out some parallels between the choices that Neo makes in the famous film with the choices that all of us are faced with in our walk with God.
Matthew Jones of Random Acts of Verbiage presents Judges 19. A look at an extremely difficult Biblical passage. Where is the good news?
Richard Anderson of dokeo kago grapho soi kratistos theopilos presents The Fruits of the Theology of Matthew. Richard discusses the significance of Matthew using the word "fruits" six times in his gospel including three times in the Parable of the Wicked Tenants.
Adam Graham at Adam's Blog presents Poem: Our Father. Adam at Adam's Blog begins a series of poetic meditations on the Lord's Prayer with "Our Father."
Michael Meyer of Chasing the Wind presents Trusting in God's Promises. Half-hearted Christians never learn to conquer the giants in their lives. Trust in the Lord to receive His promise.
Kim at Mother-Lode presents There is More. How do we reconcile our longings and disappointments with Christian contentment? Kim maintains that it is neither a Candide-like insistance that we live "in the best of all possible worlds" nor a Buddhist-friendly denial that anything matters.
Lennie of CrossBlogging presents Tolerance and Compassion in Islam. The last few days have provided some interesting events. The incidents in particular are the Cartoon in a Danish Newspaper and the Painting of Bin Laden portrayed as Christ. The first has outraged Muslims. They are rampaging in the Middle East attacking and threatening Westerners. The cartoonist have now gone into hiding after threats on their lives. Contrast this to reaction by Christians offended by the Bin Laden as Christ painting. The Christians have been speaking out and sending emails. They are not out rioting and threatening to kill the artist.
Jerry of Truth be Told presents Brockback, Jacked Up, and Screwed Up.
deputyheadmistress at The Common Room presents The Mission Field
Richard Crout of Give Your All 4 God presents Important Lessons from the Pinewood Derby.
Phil Dillon of Another Man's Meat presents The Luigig Cascioli Case - Prooof for the Existence of Fools. This post is the ongoing case in Italy where a priest was sued and has to prove Jesus did exist.
A Penitent Blogger presents Commandments of Men. A reflection on how our Lord's denunciation of the Pharisees might also apply to us.
Jeremy Pierce at Parableman presents Neither Male nor Female, Jew nor Greek. This post responds to an argument that Paul's statement that there is no male or female, Jew or Greek, slave or free cannot be used to argue against racial segregation if it is interpreted in a way that allows gender role distinctions.
Kim Bloomer of Sharing Spirit presents All We Need is Love on how love is not about feelings but about action.
Rev Bill presents Pro Bono. Rev. Bill gives us some words from Bono of U2 -- and a link to the speech Bono made at the National Prayer Breakfast.
Terry Hull of Terra Extraneus presents Why I am No Longer a Fundamentalist Christian. "When I was a teenage believer, I knew I was a fundamentalist Christian. I believed the fundamental doctrines of historic Christianity. I still believe those things today. However, today I am no longer a fundamentalist. Today I know that the term "fundamentalist" comes with a lot of cultural and emotional baggage, including a lot that I vigorously reject.
Louie of The Marshian Chronicles presents Some Truth About Accountability. The first of three articles on the importance of accountability in ministry, the reasons so many avoid it, and why it's a pain in the butt!
CWV warrior of Christianity is Jewish presents Here a Year. cwv warrior talks about being a voice in the wilderness after one year of blogging for God.
Kathleen Dalton of Vegetable Soup presents Minor Prophets... Major Prophets... Ordinary Men. Here you will see some practical ways many people (and these are all people I know personally) have tried to fulfill their calling to be like the prophets of old…risking reputations, jobs, family acceptance, even safety…for the privilege of sharing their part of the picture of Jesus for all the world to see.
Alex of Jordan's View presents What was the Point at "The End of the Spear"? Like others in the blogosphere, Jordan was critical of the filmmaker's decision to cast a homosexual activist, but sees the film's greatest flaw to be its muted gospel presentation, which sadly results in a film that does not fulfill its potential either as an evangelistic tool or as an artistic statement
Mark Olson at Pseudo-Polymath presents Considering Worship and Prayer Again. "I'm a tyro when it comes to prayer as evidenced by my carnival entry a few weeks ago. Anyhow, I take another stab at it and solicit suggestions."
Derek Gilbert of P.I.D. Radio presents The Long War. American evangelicals need to step back and take a hard, critical look at this Republican administration we've elected. While we in no way support some of the key moral issues promoted by Democrats, Christian conservatives must wake up to the fact that President Bush is using a war that will never end to justify broad government powers our forefathers fought a war to escape.
Jeff the Baptist presents A Record of Prayer. To all the world this is a boring blue memo pad. You can get five of them for a few dollars at any supermarket or drug store. Yet inside is something precious. Every page is contains prayer requests...
All Kinds of Time presents The Doubters' Commission. A closer look at who Christ was commissioning in the Great Commission.
...in the outer... presents Will the Church Survive?. Thoughts on the feared repercussion of the Italian litigation against Rev Enrico Righi that might lead to an adverse result to the church brought about by an appeal to the EU Court.
Donna-Jean of Liberty and Lily writes of the death of a long-time friend in her tribute, "At Home".
View From the Pew presents Study of Mark: Mark 8:27-31. 'I've been doing a study of Mark (for an unfortunately long time!) and this is the latest installment on one of my favorite passages in the Gospel -- "Who do you say that I am?"'
That's it for this week. Next week will be hosted at Pursuing Holiness. God bless!
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January 18, 2006
Christian Carnival Posted
It's up featuring a post from yours truly...
Archconservatives unite!
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November 9, 2005
Carnival of the Vanities #164
Here it is, the 164th edition of the Carnival of the Vanities, a collection of user-submitted blog posts from around the web. First submitted is first posted with the posts I think are best at the top. Some are repeat submissions from the Carnival of the Capitalists on Monday. Go figure. Misc. Comments interspersed in italics because I can. Enjoy!.
Editor's Choices
Want to be in the Deck-O-Bloggers? They're Taking nominations.
The MaryHunter at TMH's Bacon Bits presents A Little Partisanship Never Hurt, Right?
Ferdinand T. Cat at Conservative Cat presents Paris Burning for All the Wrong Reasons
Barak at IRIS presents IRIS Exposes 2 Anti-Israel New York Times Falsehoods. This post was picked up directly by Powerline and many others, and indirectly by Andrew Sullivan.
Nick Queen presents Who is Fiddling While Paris Burns? Another Look at France and the Parisian Riots
Nov 3rd.
FMF at Free Money Finance presents Investing Made Easy. A simple guide to investing for the beginner.
Steve Pavlina at Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog presents Million Dollar Experiment
David Porter at Pacesetter Mortgage Blog presents Will Home Equity Prevent the Retirement Dreams of Baby Boomers?
Demosthenes presents Why isn't Joe Wilson Being Proesecuted for Lying to Congress? In light of the recent indictment of Scooter Libby, the
pregnant pause concerning Joe Wilson is becoming unbearable: when will Joe Wilson be proscecuted for lying to Congress? The Senate Intelligence Committee found - on a bipartisan basis - the Joe Wilson's assertions to them were false. Why the double standard about prosecutions? How about Libby could just claim whistleblower protections for exposing the unethical deal of his wife getting him a junket?
J. Fielek at Quibbles-n-Bits presents The Last Bus . 514 Words, G-Rated, an homage to a great person.
Nov. 4th
Sammler at The Stone City presents Tomorrow, and Tomorrow. The empty space between political and scientific prognostication.
CALL at The Clog Almanac presents Hey Mr. Bush Pilot. "Nose down, level the wings, accelerate." Edgy advice on how to recover from a stall, whether you're a pilot or the president, or both.
David Porter at Pacesetter Mortgage Blog presents How to handle a complaint with a Mortgage Lender or Mortgage Broker
Jon P at Dodgeblogium presents Time to Lighten Up
Mike at L&N Line presents TV So Far. "This is my blogmate Chris' review of TV this season. Some people might enjoy his reviews of all the shows. I hope so. Also see all of our movie reviews, if you'd like."
Doug Mataconis at Below The Beltway presents Let's Treat It Like A War . Much has been written about the report in yesterday's Washington Post about the CIA holding captured members of Al Qaeda in "secret prisons" in various Asian and Eastern European countries. Though nobody knows for sure what goes on at these prisons, the implications are clear; Al Qaeda captives are being subjected to various forms of psychological torture in an effort to extract information. This is one of the things that intelligence officers do during wartime, so it should be no surprise at all that it is happening now.
Barry Welford at The Other Bloke's Blog presents Before-Internet and After-Internet - the millennium changes. Many things have changed tumultuously with the Internet, not least marketing. One sign is that Google may be the fourth biggest US media company in advertising revenues next year ahead of NBC Universal and Time Warner. It's tough for CEOs to stay on top of all this.
Ironman at Political Calculations presents Coming Soon to a Gym Near You. Ironman at Political Calculations looks at some truly space-age exercise equipment that might find a place in your local gym.
Jane Dough at Boston Gal's Open Wallet presents Wow - I guess I struck a cord with that last post... as a follow-up to her post on how much do I need for retirement.
Nov. 5th
Dan Melson at Searchlight Crusade presents Tax Treatment of Annuity Withdrawals
Nov. 6th
Jack Cluth at The People's Republic of Seabrook presents And the knucKKKle-dragging troglodytes shall always be among us. When is denying a group it's liberty and dignity acceptable? Texas' Proposition 2 is not the answer.
Elisa Camahort at The Browster Blog presents The Search Conundrum: Information Glut or Insular, Limited Perspective New search tools aim to address informaiton overload, but most do so by limiting your sources. Not the ideal approach.
Don Surber at Don Surber presents A Country Not Worth Defending . I point out the problem with military recruiting is they are not allowed to recruit all youths, just us rural Southern hicks. Ask not what you can do for your country but what your country can do for you.
Suzi Chen at Special Fried Rice presents Telemarketing. Telemarketing from the other side of the phone - what a bad job will do to your soul.
Interested-Participant presents Wild Pussies Squeeze Statehouse Rats. For well over a century, Ohio's elected lawmakers have lived in uncompromised harmony with buck-toothed, omnivorous, and disease-carrying rats. And this isn't true outside Ohio? :)
David St Lawrence at Ripples: post-corporate adventures presents Cool Hunting in C'ville. "Cool" is the wonderfully outrageous activity of using technology for purposes the designers never intended. It arouses our interest so strongly that we emulate it or tell others about it, and thereby start a trend.
Kevin Baker at The Smallest Minority presents Tough History Coming. His take on Peggy Noonan's dystopic op-ed, "A Separate Peace" from last week.
Nov. 7th
Oddybobo at Bobo Blogger presents Flashback of childhood memories.
Marge at DubiousProfundity.com presents Creation
Elie at Elie's Expositions presents Anguished Composure. Part 4 of my series about the loss of his son Aaron.
Wayne Hurlbert at Blog Business World presents Off Topic Searches: Low Return Visitors.
Buckley F. Williams at The Nose On Your Face presents Bird Flu Nails France: Chickens, Cartoon Characters Hardest Hit
Bussorah Merchant at Wicked Thoughts presents Deeper Thoughts. Wicked Thoughts has some deeper thoughts on the Demon Wal-Mart.
John Ray at Dissecting Leftism presents Racial Preference As An Extension Of Kin Preference. John Ray has a brief discussion of a recent academic paper showing racial preference to be related to kin preference.
Ferdinand T. Cat at Conservative Cat presents France Losing Control, Newsweek Stuck on Stupid
Nov. 8th
Big Picture Guy at Big Picture, Small Office presents We Sail in Paper Boats. It’s budget time in the Small Office. There’s a lot of sandbagging going on, but apparently little conviction and no commitment. At least not if you read the body language of Winken, Blinken and Nod.
Elisson at Blog d'Elisson presents Coinage (A Nerdic Rant). A post in which Elisson gripes about the mostly dismal state of our nation's Circulating Coinage.
Adam at Sophistpundit presents Take them out, YOU KNOW THE REASON DAMMIT. Debate with one anti-war commentor; Dr. Zen, one-time host of a controversial installment of COTV. Remember what they say about arguing on the Internet?
Nick Schweitzer at The World According to Nick presents The Sands of Time
Mensa Barbie at Mensa Barbie Welcomes You presents Preservation Theory . Perfect etchings demonstrate a carbon theory. (Nature's ability to secure survival.) Also, catch a Panoramic view of Evolution Lake and the Sipapu Natural bridge (in this post.)
Matt Johnston at Going to the Mat presents Myths and Misconceptions About H.R. 1606 . A bill to make political blogging less regulated dies in the House, but it not nearly as bad as the boogeymen of the reform community would have you think. Say that after you get subpoenaed by the FEC. ;)
Tom Bowler at Libertarian Leanings presents What exactly hath Fitzgerald wrought?. As an unintended consequence of the Fitzgerald's indictment of Scooter Libby, the press may find itself on trial. Will we finally find out Novak's source?
Funk Soul Bruhva at Western Resistance presents Why There Is No Islam Without The Hadiths
Charlie Quidnunc at Rip & Read Blogger Podcast presents Rip & Read #153. Get the blogosphere in your ear with Charlie Quidnunc at the Rip & Read Blogger podcast. This week he covers: #1 Smearing Wilson, #2 The Leaking Culture
Watcher at Watcher of Weasels presents Frog Flambée. Something is a little sour about taking too many shots at France over this (and I'm by no means a France fan). Sure, it took them about 2 weeks to impose a curfew but it isn't like this kind of thing can't happen (and hasn't happened) here.
It Should Be Noted presents Your Move, France.
There we go, that's the carnival. Next week it's at The Examining Room. (insert doctor joke here).
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November 7, 2005
Carnival of the Capitalists - 11/7/05
Welcome to this week's Carnival of the Capitalists. This edition has NOT been brought to you by Insight Broadband who's crappy cable modem was off and on all night last night. That being said, sorry for being late. Here it is...
Economics
Owen at The Sharpener presents Brand value - for whom? on the efficiency case for taxing brands and corporate advertising.
Big Picture Guy at Big Picture, Small Office presents We Sail in Paper Boats. He take you sailing through the budgeting process in the Small Office, a painful, drawn-out exercise that always begins with everyone trying to play it safe.
Michael Cale of Financial Methods presents I-Bonds Yield Higher Than Treasuries. With a current yield of more than 6.5%, inflation-protected US Savings Bonds (I-Bonds) have a higher yield than Money Markets, CDs, and US Treasuries. The rate is adjustable, so it may not last. But with short term rates returning to normal and a Fed that is diligent on inflation, cash is no longer trash.
2¢ Worth presents Climbing an Elongating Tail. The Long Tail, The Big Moo, Million Dollar Home Page and Viral marketing rolled together. Examining the progress of the Million Dollar Homepage as a Long Tail business with viral marketing pushing it up the Tail. A quote from the Big Moo triggered off this observation piece.
Steven Towns of The Japan Stock Blog presents Further Discussion on Jesper Koll's "Japan is Back, For Real This Time".
LC of Latent Capital presents Too Much Entrepreneurship. Imagine that entrepreneurship is just another class of investment, so too much enthusiasm for it can bring down its returns.
Mick Weinstein of The Consumer Electronics Stock Blog presents Dell Warns On 3Q05 - Reactions and Implications (DELL).
David Jackson of The Internet Stock Blog presents Priceline Discusses Its European Travel Business (PLCN 3Q05 Conf Call Quotes).
Mark of SportsBiz presents Olympic Sponsorship: What's It Worth?. Discussion of the value of the becoming an official Olympic sponsor and whether "halo" marketing really has the desired effect of increasing sales.
Harvey Multani of Fiscal Times presents Despair on the role despair plays in investing.
Barry Welford at The Other Bloke's Blog presents Before-Internet and After-Internet - the millennium changes
Michael H. of Chocolate and Gold Coins presents Entrepreneurs Needed. Sometimes a market waits a generation for an entrepreneur to create a new product. Pumpkin carving kits weren't there in my childhood but they could have been.
Ferdinand T. Cat at Conservative Cat presents The Curse of Inventory Profits
Tom McMahon at Tom McMahon presents Baby Bells
David Porter at Pacesetter Mortgage Blog presents Will Home Equity Prevent the Retirement Dreams of Baby Boomers?
Henry Stern, LUTCF at InsureBlog presents On the Case... Steve Case casts his eyes on healthcare solutions.
Abnormal Returns presents Emerging markets hoopla. Emerging market equities have performed well in 2005 and have received a fair amount of good press. One common reason given for this outperformance is their higher economic growth in the emerging markets. However, academic research has shown that higher economic growth does not necessarily lead to higher equity returns.
Mastiff at Critical Mastiff presents Comparative Advantage in a Changing World. To maintain our economic preeminence in the face of rising competitors, we need to change our regulatory environment and education methods to cultivate small businesses and creativity.
Josh Cohen at Multiple Mentality presents The Future of Media: Not now, but soon!. A series of three posts that combines market forces and technological changes into a look at the future of media, including news and on-demand television. Part 2 and Part 3.
Advice
Never work alone presents Caught in the middle of wanting everything on setting goals and resolving the conflict between getting every customer and keeping every customer.
JLP of AllThingsFinancial presents Start Planning Your Taxes Now saying that Now is the time to start planning your taxes for next year. JLP's post will help get you started.
George of Fast Pitch Financials presents 30 Days to Becoming a Better Investor - Day 5 (Economic Mental Models). It is important to develop a good set of mental models for evaluating various business scenarios. George at Fat Pitch Financials points to some excellent resources to help you develop your basic knowledge of economics.
Wayne Hurlbert of Blog Business World presents
Articles: Trading Your Way To The Top.
Joe Kristan of Roth & Company Tax Updates presents IME to Harvest the Fall Tax Deductions. By mid-November, most taxpayers can have a pretty good idea what their income will be, and we still have six weeks or so to do something about it. Where to start? Think AMT and charity.
Adrian Savage of Slow Leadership presents Dealing with Distractions. Since instantaneous contact is now expected, so are instant answers. Not only do people interrupt you on a whim, they want an answer or an opinion on the spot. This may be the new norm for the media, who have people available to "analyze" an event or a speech before the echoes have died away, but does it make sense for leaders who take their job seriously?
Deputyheadmistress at The Common Room presents Selling Books: Getting to the Post Office
Jim Logan of JSLogan presents Another Business Lesson From One Of My Kids - Daddy's Little Girl On Training Customers. Things you do out of the norm often become expected. When you stop giving, you encounter the danger of ending something that wasn’t supposed to be a norm in the first place. Your generosity became your trap.
Ankesh Kothari of Marketing eYe presents How to Spark Sales in a Slump. The story of a person who sold 47 unsold boxer puppies during a market slump for big bux (and how you can use his ideas to increase your sales).
Jack Yoest presents Doing Business in a Values Vacuum
David Porter at Pacesetter Mortgage Blog presents How to handle a complaint with a Mortgage Lender or Mortgage Broker
David Danies of Business & Technology Reinvention presents Value Creation Principles. 10 simple value creation principles to help companies grow.
Les Jones presents Google AdSense Click Fraud and how to prevent it.
Skip Angel of Random Thoughts from a CTO presents Do you have passion for what you do?. Do you or your co-workers seem lifeless, and only go to work to pick up a paycheck? If so, chances are that you have lost (or perhaps never found) your passion. This post explores what passion is and what you need to do to find it (again).
Michael Pollock of Small Business Branding presents Are Passion and Profit Mutually Exclusive?. The are two schools of thought when it comes to the idea of monetizing your blog. One says that blogs are about passion rather than profit. The other school says blogs represent a premier business model that marries the two. Be careful which philosophy you adopt for yourself.
Jeff Cornwall of The Entrepreneurial Mind presents To Partner, or Not to Partner?. Entrepreneurs often approach the issue of entering into a business partnership much too casually. This post explores the "Why?", "What?", "How?", and "Who?" issues for building a new venture team.
Jane Dough of Boston Gal's Open Wallet asks "I need HOW MUCH for retirement?" It may not be as bad as her crystal ball is telling her...
FMF at Free Money Finance presents Tough Financial Choices, Part 1: Investing versus Paying Off Debt. Start of a series that compares and contrasts two competing financial choices.
Lucy MacDonald at R.E.A.L. Marketing presents Niche Marketing: The Little Black Dress Example.
Triple Pundit presents Going Green in Business Without Scaring Off the Customer. One of the problems with "green marketing" is that, ironically, appearing "too green" can scare away a sizable segment of the market. Beauty Engineered Forever is a brand of safe, effective
cleaning products that manages to send a pro-environmental message without being heavy handed, or looking like a bunch of hippies.
Rosanna at The Virtual Assistant Connection presents Building Your Professional Network
The Consumer
Mike Pechar of Interested Participant pesents recalled Consumer Products. Without any fanfare, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) recently announced a record number of product recalls for the fiscal year 2005. In protecting the public from unreasonable risks of serious injury or death from consumer products that cost the nation more than $700 billion annually, the CPSC recalled 397 products in 2005.
Dan Melson at Searchlight Crusade presents The Ultimate Consumer Horror Story
Barry Ritholtz of The Big Picture presents
DRM Crippled CD: A bizarre tale in 4 parts.
Steven Silvers of Scatterbox presents Wal-Mart uses political campaign tactics to win consumers. Or not.. Concerned that increasingly well-organized critics are ruining its chances with middle-income shoppers, Wal-Mart has created a “rapid response public relations” war room lead by Ronald Regan spinmiester Michael Dever and staffed by political campaign veterans from both parties. But consumers aren’t voters. And the typically aggressive, discredit-the-opposition political strategies being used by Wal-Mart’s new PR war room may in fact be contrary to what is still a consumer marketing agenda.
Ironman of Political Calculations presents Boarding Ahead of the Rest. Ironman at Political Calculations spotlights an entrepreneur who has found a market in helping Southwest Airlines' passengers score the carrier's coveted 'A' boarding passes.
Yvonne DiVita of Lip-sticking presents Jane Wears Herself Out. Jane talks about being a girl...and how the customer is always right still works.
Politics
Warren Meyer of Coyote Blog presents Politicians and Prioritization. If managers at corporations prioritized spending like politicians, they would be fired.
Mike Landfair of Mover Mike presents What is the Gulf Opportunity Zone Act, H.R. 4155?. "The Family Research Council (FRC) is opposed to tax breaks to the gaming industry to help them get back on their feet after the damage of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita."
Brandon Berg of Catallarchy presents At Least Take off Your Nobel Prize When You Say That. Brandon Berg of Catallarchy asks Joseph Stiglitz to at least take off his Nobel Prize when criticizing the strawman of "perfect market economist".
James Hamilton of Econbrowser presents Oil Company Profits. Why aren't the big oil companies reinvesting their huge profits?
Steve Conover of The Skeptical Optimist presents Fill in the blank: "Tax cuts for the ______.". Like Pavlov's dog, we've been successfully trained by our politicians how to fill in that blank. But we have chosen the wrong word for completing that phrase.
Ogre at Ogre's Politics and Views presents Byron Dorgan: A Translation. An exposure of one who truly hates capitalism.
Warren Meyer of Coyote Blog presents Libertarians Adrift. Republicans officially cast aside the libertarian wing of the party. Post includes a refresher on why its impossible for the government to be "positive but not overbearing", as David Brooks describes the new Republican goal.
Misc.
David Foster of Photon Courier presents A *Real* Cowboy Capitalist. Can childhood experiences on a cattle ranch contribute to the development of a successful CEO?
Douglas Sorocco of Rething(IP) presents Blackballed - You Are the Brand. Do your people get you blackballed? Our people are our "brand" - I know what branding message I want to be sending, and it isn't what we saw on that flight. Are your employees/associates/team members getting you blackballed?
Adrian Savage of The Coyote Within presents To Dream... The Impossible Dream. It’s entirely possible to hold on to two sets of values simultaneously that cancel each other out. That’s why people can dream and still find it acceptable to take no action.
Clyde Smith of ProHipHop presents The Source Continues its Downward Spiral. Clyde Smith puts recent news of lawsuits against the hip hop magazine The Source in the context of an ongoing series of disasters at this major music publication.
cehwiedel at Kicking Over My Traces presents Last Quarter Website Review
Elisa Camahort at Worker Bees Blog presents High-risk Corporate Blogging-gettng a message out that your customers may not want to hear. A company considers banding together with its competitors to blog truth to power. Could it work? Or would they all go down in flames together?
neelakantan of interim thoughts... presents Is your plate heaped?. A short post on the visual effect of plenty used while serving customers.
Mark A. Rayner at The Skwib presents The Gruntwerx Paradigm. Corporate censorship goes public and Gunter goes postal.
Steve Pavlina at Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog presents Million Dollar Experiment
Phil Hunt at The Sharpener presents Kiva: where microcredit meets P2P on suggesting improvements to the world’s first peer-to-peer, distributed microloan website.
That's it. Next week will be at The Entreprenurial Mind
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November 6, 2005
Carnival of the Capitalists - Coming Soon
Expect it posted later tonight, I have some studying to do for a final tomorrow, but will take a break studying to get this up. Maybe 9pm ish central.
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September 22, 2005
Second Edition of the Carnival of Life
Sorry for the late post on this one, yesterday was a very hectic day for me. This is the second edition of the Carnival of Life. Because of light contributions last week, we skipped and added those posts into this week. We still need hosts for upcoming weeks, and need many more posts to go with the carnival. Keep getting the word out!
Future Hosts:
September 28th - Stem Cell Extremist
October 3rd - Pro-Life Blogs
October 24th - The Revolution
Here are the last two weeks of entries.
Jay at Stop The ACLU presents ACLU Loses In Parental Consent For Abortion Case. The ACLU chalks up a rare lose against common sense laws that say parents really are the parents of their children.
DeputyHeadmistress at The Common Room presents Messages in Movies
DeputyHeadmistress also submits The Gift of Unplanned Blessings:
"We are the recipients of many unplanned blessings, and children are not the least of them.
In this post I want to tell you about two special "unplanned" additions to our family who were adopted. We had three children, had just had a miscarriage, the headmaster was enlisted in the AF, and I was a sahm (this means very little money). We weren't seeking adoption at all, but we heard of two little girls who needed a home together, and we just couldn't come up with a good reason to say no."
Cross Blogging asks Will Abortions Become Obsolete? with new medical technologies that make traditional conception "obsolete". (As an aside, to clear up some misconceptions. Galileo was not persecuted because of his science. Many others before and after him came to the same conclusions. His science, while sloppy (tides don't prove the earth revolves around the sun) didn't get him into trouble. His big mouth and attitude problem (things which I do have expertise in) got him into trouble. It's one thing to advocate ideas, it's another to start cramming them down the Pope's mouth in medieval Europe.)
This Carnival is Ubercarnival listed.
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September 13, 2005
Carnival of Liberty, Carnival of the Capitalists, and Carnival of Life
The Carnival of Liberty is up here
You can find the Carnival of the Capitalists here.
And contribute to the Carnival of Life that will be up tomorrow.
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Bonfire of the Vanities #115
Welcome to the 115th edition of the Bonfire of the Vanities, a collect of the blogosphere's most foul smelling posts. Today's edition would have been brought to you by one of my favorite drinks, the Irish Pipe Bomb, but none of the recipes I found have you lighting the shot glass on fire (if you have such a recipe send it to me) and searching for "Irish Pipe Bomb" on the web has now landed me on the No Fly List. Instead, today's Bonfire is brought to you by the letters B and S and the number 0.
The upcoming bonfire stops are as follows:
Week 116 (Sept 20) - File It Under (url: http://www.fileitunder.com)
Week 117 (Sept 27) - The Zero Boss (url: http://www.thezeroboss.com/)
Week 118 (Oct 4) - Available
If you're interested in hosting an upcoming edition of the Bonfire
let Kevin at Wizbang! know via e-mail.
Mr. Satire at satire.myblogsite.com/blog presents Celine Dion Gives Passes To Hurricane Katrina's Poor Victims To Touch Pricey Things In Her Mansion. This is what celebrities get when they start speaking as if they know how to handle the real world. Their expertise is in pretending.
Jack Cluth at The People's Republic of Seabrook presents Can I get that to go? And is that fresh donkey urine?? Think twice before getting Chinese…
Mark A. Rayner at The Skwib presents Epidemiologists Searching for Deadly Noodle Vector? He says: "More coverage of the Pastafarian schism, this time with a sideswipe at silly CDC programs." Me? Don't look at me, I just light the bonfire on fire.
FMF at Free Money Finance presents Scooters: The Perfect Second Car? How many ways can one talk about the cost of gas without actually talking about the cost of gas?
Don Surber at Don Surber presents The Next Chief Justice?. He got preempted in his post on a possible Chief Justice Thomas by Bush nominated Roberts instead.
Two Dogs at Mean Ol' Meany presents A Big Shout Out to basil for causing his to show up in google searches for "Jamie Lynn Spears Naked". Who's Jamie Spears?
Wunderkraut was busy trolling for venison recipies and putting up pictures of a deer he killed because it was a slow news day. And you choose this???
Beth over at Bamapachyderm asks who could she not submit something from a stupid quiz. She designed her own hell but does not include telemarketers… what were you thinking?
Practical Penumbra overslept, so she's spending her time beautifying instead of blogging. I encourage all members of the Alliance of Free Blogs to help Susie get her priorities straight.
The Jawa Report brings us news that a company has released an X-Ray CCD camera capable of seeing through clothing. Jawa will never be able to look at Carrie Fisher the same again.
The Gray Tie sends in YABC (Yet Another Blog Carnival) with Shadows and Carnivals. She even thought she was late in submitted the post, but was really 12 hours early.
Pirate's Cove brings us pictures of a bunch of drunks passing out and a cat that's hitting the sauce. It's a good thing he didn't send in his cannibal joke instead.
Harvey at Bad Example presents SOMETIMES, YOU JUST HAVE TO ANYWAY. Some people can bring up erectile dysfunction in any topic of conversation.
Sean Gleeson at Sean Gleeson presents Huffing what? Sean is in despair because he doesn't get enough HuffPo kooks commenting on his site. I recommend creating accounts on the DU and DailyKos and then pretending to be one of them and insult your own posts… you'll get kooks that way. Or perhaps suggest that Israel wasn't to blame for 9/11, that worked for me too.
Andrew Ian Dodge at GoD: blog presents Single Morphs... " While several members of the band work dutifully on the mixing of the band's new EP...what am I doing? Er heading to Stringfellows with a babe on my arm to quaff champers."
Want to see the worst football pick ever? Check out 7 Deadly Sins. Hey, Sinner? Want to join my fantasy football league?
This Blog is Full of Crap brings you previews Palestianian reality TV as more proof that the reality TV thing has gone WAY too far. In fact, if I could, I'd burn all of it in the Bonfire too.
The MaryHunter at TMH's Bacon Bits presents What IS Social Justice?. It's all fine and good, but we're you going to define social justice at some point?
Brian J. Noogle brings you a book review on The World's Best Dirty Jokes. He bought the 1976 book at the YMCA in 2005 as part of a fundraiser. Go figure.
Elisson at Blog d'Elisson presents Lost: A 100-Word Story that should be pithy, but came off like the kind of "pithy" that's pronounced with a lisp.
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September 12, 2005
Bonfire of the Vanities - Tomorrow
I'm hosting the Bonfire of the Vanities tomorrow, get your entries in at (bonfire -at- wizbangblog.com) or use the Carnival Submission engine over at Conservative Cat.
Sorry for no posting lately, but trying to get a not-for-profit application package in to the IRS so I can get my charity running finally. Hopefully I'll have some interesting things to say once I'm done.
Also, the IRS sucks. But you knew that already.
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September 7, 2005
First Carnival of Life is up!
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August 15, 2005
Carnival of the Capitalists is Up
The Carnival of the Capitalists is up... see my post on the economic risks of giving home loans to illegal immigrants.
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June 8, 2005
Carnival of the Capitalists is Also Up
GalaTime has it at:
http://www.galatime.com/archives/2005/06/carnival_of_the.html
Next week's edition will be at Byrne's MarketView:
http://marketview.blogspot.com/
So I'm late...
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Carnival of the Vanities is Up
Is up at The Conservative Edge; http://www.conservativeedge.
com/default.aspx?id=readarticle&AID=111
Thanks to Brian for hosting this week. Next week's Carnival is due to
land at Mr Snitch, submission guidelines are here
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May 31, 2005
Bonfire of the Vanities #100
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Welcome to the 100th edition of the Bonfire of the Vanities, a festival of the blogosphere's worst posts of the last week. What's in the quotes after the submission is user-submitted comments. If there are no quotes, they didn't give me a comment so I get to mock them instead. :) The next stops are:
Week 101 (June 7) - Benedict
Week 102 (June 14) - Basil's Blog
Week 103 (June 21) - It'sAPundit
"If your post sucks and you know it send it in,
If your post sucks and you know it send it in,
If your post sucks and you know it and you'd really like to delete it, if your post sucks and you know it send it in.
(Sung to the tune of a kids song that I can't remember right now).
Here we go:
Thanks for trying, but military overspending jokes died with the cold war.
Charlie Quidnunc at Rip & Read Blogger Podcast presents Rip & Read #116 - 2005-05-31 "Get your blogosphere in your ear with Charlie Quidnunc's Rip & Read Blogger Podcast. Today he covers: The French "Non", Bush's Presser: "Absurd", and Unholy Alliance."
Two Dogs at Mean Ol' Meany presents Mean Ol' Meany's Treatise on Religion "Satire so subtle that no one gets it."
basil at basil's blog presents I'll Take Those Links! "In a blatantly transparent attempt to get more links, I tried to take advantage of many bloggers desire to not link to certain sites. This post offered instructions on how a blogger could offer their readers link access to a site without actually linking to that site. They'd link to me, and I'd redirect via JavaScript to the destination site. That way, even though the destination site got a hit, they didn't get a link. Does it work? Yes. Do people use it? No. Am I hoping such a lame plan might get extra exposure through a Carnival posting. Well, duh!"
Kelly Pearson at Time to Lean presents Nurse Kelly's answer to the low-carb craze "This is a picture of all the crap on the top of my fridge. Can't get more lame than that. I felt an itch to take pictures of stuff and I was hungry for a samich, so off I went to make a samich, camera-in-hand."
Gnotalex at Dodgeblogium presents Positive NO "Would you trust this guy with anything?"
Jody at Steal the Bandwagon presents Ugh, Dork Blogs Here "Excuse: All my posts had been so good, I didn't want all the other bloggers to feel bad, so I posted this... yeah, do you buy that? ;)"
Ferdinand T. Cat at Conservative Cat presents CSI Schaumburg Episode 18, "Wet T-Shirts" "I thought this was really funny, but apparently I was alone. Maybe people were so sad from the filibuster deal that they weren't very receptive to humor."
Jack Cluth at The People's Republic of Seabrook presents There is something horribly amiss when a nation is obsessed with an 18-year-old's breasts, no? "Does this make me a bad person? Why, yes...yes, it does...."
Beth at My Vast Right Wing Conspiracy presents Be Here Tuesday "Submitted due to its obvious coyness... ;-)"
Janette Stripling at Common Sense Runs Wild presents I Can Quit Any Time I Like. Don't ever trust tech support, Janette.
Mustang 23 at Assumption of Command presents Star Wars Bootlegged "Last week I was a dork about Star Wars, but this week I actully get to see it, but my only source is a bootlegged copy."
Will Franklin at WILLisms.com presents Congratulations To All The Graduates Of The Class Of 2005. "My little sister graduated on Saturday, but didn't think the post was all that funny."
Elisson at Blog d'Elisson presents WHAT KIND OF GUY "Elisson attempts a visual pun of sorts, but fails miserably when nobody gets the joke. Crap."
Kevin at Technogypsy presents Audie's work "If you are going to plug an artist, it helps if you are sure their
site is up. Duh."
a4g at Point Five presents Contest: Guess What Paris Hilton Smells Like! This post smells like all sorts of a bad idea. :)
Interested-Participant brings usDrug Dogs Taught to Detect Talcum. "Someone had switched the test package of cocaine with talcum powder at the beginning of the three month drug dog training program and nobody noticed. Consequently, seven police drug-sniffing dogs became proficient at finding talcum powder." Sounds like these dogs would be perfect for the TSA and about as good at keeping planes secure. :)
Multiple Mentality brings us multiple posts from multiple mentalities. Automated Voice Systems by Yoshi. "Yoshi laments the way automated voice-activated telephone systems are somehow programmed to be even MORE annoying than they used to be." Well, if they stop giving the customer what they want, maybe they'll stop calling. :)
and
Basic Courtesy by Jewboy. "Jewboy gets his bitch on about the way people behave. He starts with cellphones and goes from there." I hate cellphones too, not as much as my pager though.
RightWingNutHouse has praise for the New York Times?? Bartender, cut this man off.
Spirit Fingers is Sifting through the cutting room floor. "A glimpse of Bai Ling's scenes which George Lucas ended up deleting from the final version."
Practical Penumbra blames Harvey for yet another meme. Me, I blame France. :)
Pirate's Cove wonder's is it wrong to torment the Huffington Post for hotlinking... You may think it's evil, but rebuking the hotlinker is a work of fisking. (Let's see who paid attention in Sunday school)
The American Princess wonders who drinks a $20 martini. Well what did you expect you'd find when reading HuffPo?
Classical Values brings us Carrying the Culture War to Far? "(Prosthetic penis in the highway as a proxy for the culture war.)" I'm not even going to touch this one.
Thank you all... I'll be here all week. Tip your webhosts.
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May 26, 2005
Carnival of the Vanities Up / Bonfire of the Vanities Hosted Here
The 140th Carnival of the Vanities is up at Alarming News.
I will be hosting #100 of the Bonfire of the Vanities on June 1st, looking forward to the entries when they come.
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May 18, 2005
COTV #139 Up
Check it out. Here.
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May 11, 2005
COTV #138 Up
The Carnival of the Vanities #138 is up.
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May 10, 2005
BOTV #100
I'll be hosting Bonfire of the Vanities #100...
I probably should do something special for the 100th... send ideas. :)
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April 27, 2005
Carnival of the Vanities #136 - Blogger Refugee Edition
Welcome to the #136 Edition of the Carnival of the Vanities. This weeks edition is brought to you by your local coffeehouse, because nothing says misanthropy better than a local coffee house (particularly if it only brews fair-trade coffee). Next week will be hosted at Fresh Politics. If you'd like to join the COTV mailing list, send an e-mail to cotvanities-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.
To being the show, we'll start with a piece of trivia from Radio Yerevan because while I should be working on fixing the medical malpractice system in 18 to 20 pages, I'd rather delve into obscure jokes from Armenian radio.
* Q: Why is the symbol of the Republicans in the US an elephant, but that of the Democrats an ass?
* A: Because no ass can symbolize two political parties at the same time.
Blogging and fisking The MSM
The Conservative Edge takes great exception to the Executive Editor of the WashPost claiming newspapers own the news.
The World According to Nick writes in as long as the conclusion is good about the tendency of news agencies, government agencies, and others to report the conclusion without actually providing any proof or sources.
Blog Business World writes about how Not for Profits can profit from blogs
Galen's Log writes in on the downside of the obesity blitz that turned out not to be so bad. Moral of the story is better rethink that gastric bypass surgery.
TFS Magnum brings us more in the biased partisan media objective journlists treatment of Sandra Froman while being honored as ABC News Person of the weak. Only the MSM will get in digs on the NRA while honoring her for being elected as president.
CorruptionPolitics
From the Loonatic Left comments on Activist Judges acting less like judges and more like independent legislatures.
Chad Hamilton at PlaidBerry has declared emancipation from the echo chamber to encourage others to step out of their comfort zone to listen and engage other ideologies. A sincere good luck to you.
The Moderate Voice writes in that the Republicans may have the votes to nuke the filibuster
Wicked Thoughts brings us how a father converts his daughter from liberalism to libertarianism
Dissecting Leftism brings us a Roundup on the Left of the past being Righter than it is today as well as other leftist tomfoolery.
Technogypsy brings us the latest on stupid gun laws in Texas.
One of the few things that can bring people together regardless of political affiliation is mutual contempt for the TSA. The Idiom gives us another reason, profiling penguins.
You Big Mouth, You shows us that 2.7 million jobs has been gained since Bush has been President
War and Wishes of a Happy Abu Ghraib Day
Rightwing Nuthouse hails the recent report clearing top brass of criminal responsibility for Abu Ghraib.
The Tomo Report writes in about the recently downed helicopter in Iraq and the face of evil with the videos of the shooting
Tales from Other Countries Who Wish They Were the United States
Watcher of Weasels discusses the ongoing conflict over Taiwan and France surrendering coming down on the side of China.
Boxing Alcibiades brings more on China with the recent anti-communist rally which included one million public renunciations of communist party membership.
I'd rather be picking on France, but apparently most people would rather pick on China. The Glittering Eye has a series of significant challanges and problems for China's banking system
Riding Sun shows us that Japan is paying the Kyoto price after realizing that "saving the world" comes with a pricetag.
Interested-Participant has found out that it is apparently ok to look at porn at work because the courts say you can't fire people for porn on the job. (Insert witty innuendo here).
Humor
The Smallest Minority writes in with It's a Cartoon Meme! with recent comics supporting defensive handgun use.
Generic Confusion shows us why spring is here with his humorous lists of signs.
Koranteng's Toli brings us a list of proverbial zingers
Who's Your Pater?
(Ok, I stole that from the Daily Show, lay off me).Wordlab writes in with Stations of the Cross on the naming of a train station after the late Pope John Paul II. Faithful will wait to see if his intercession will cause the trains to run on time.
Discriminations writes in on the Left Wing Holy Rollers that don't seek to pit Democrats against believers as much as it pits one groups of Christians against another.
Blog d'Elisson writes on some Passover memories
At Better Living, Mark Daniels seeks to make the case for ultimate truth
The Nose On Your Face speculated that Pope Benedict and Lute Olsen are really the same person.
Medicine, Science, and Faith Healing
Classical Values gives us another example of when science lies millions die with the fake science of DDT
Dr. Andy brings together a 4-part analysis by the AMA suggesting being overweight was not as big of a crisis as it was made out to be.
Carpe Bonum writes on some interesting findings on Leukemia out of the UK.
ShrinkWrapped brings us the latest on science's quest for the unconscious mind
Blogborygmi writes in abuot the death of Todd Krampitz, who went outside the organ donation system to get a liver
Gidgets, Gadgets, and Other Things To Waste Money on
BPWrap believes the acquisition of MacroMedia by Adobe will leave a company that just grows bigger, not better.
Musings of Brian J. Noogle ponders an updgrade to his PDA
Wirtual Scratchpad brings us an interesting Blackberry tidbit. Did you know typing on those small keys can give you tendonitis?
The Bailiwick writes in with what's playing on the iPod
Men, Women, and Other Biped Issues
The Cliffs of Insanity brings us thoughts on how sex and society makes it difficult for men to be responsible fathers.
Willisms brings us a new perspective on the gender gap showing Republicans have less of a woman problem but Democrats certainly do have a man problem.
Do women want more feminine men? Taken in Hand has the answer.
Multiple Mentality takes a critical look at bogus feminine hygeine commercials
Annals of Animals
The World According to Pete brings us what would be the online diary of a cat if cats could blog
RoguePundit writes in with Horse Meat on the continuing difficulty the US has with managing wild horses.
This Blog is Full of Crap asks cats about the latest JibJab video, Matzah. I agree, no joke is complete without poking fun at the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion.
Skrool
Coyote Blog brings us stories of pirate raiding of the student government at NC State
Teens Tell the Truth points out that school vouchers are good for all
Et Tu Bloge writes in that nurture, not nature is what determines success of minorities in school.
The Big Picture writes in with Saudi Funding of US Universities and ponders why they don't invest some of that money in their own educational system.
Entertainment and Music
Reflections in D Minor presents a lifetime as a Star Trek fan
The SmartCop writes on Cameron Diaz and Draw Barrymore finding tripping over human bodies seductive.
The Conservative Cat shows us how the most deceptive phrase in the English language is "Based on a True Story" before movies begin.
The People's Republic of Seabrook ponders the dangers in legislating decency with Once We Start Down This Road, There's No Turning Back
Growing Old Disgracefully discusses his weekend spent in the recording studio.
INCITE brings us the latest in poker blogging in manipulating your opponent to dance your tune. (Apparently you CAN dance to the theme song from Jeopardy).
Grabbag
Oh-Dark Thirty is Throwing a comment party as the owner is shipping out for the Army.
The Neo-Neocon brings us an essay on spring, New York, the World Trade Center, and the Statue of Liberty
The Zero Boss celebrates his 200,000th visitor and ponders tellins his publisher to cram it. I say down with "the Man" (but then again, I've only made $12 with my blog in 4 months).
Truth is stranger than fiction, and the Skwib uses this in his tale of Exploding Fairy tales, frankenfoods, and German Toads
Baboon Pirates talks about his 19th Year Reunion on the 40th Anniversary of the High School he graduated from.
True Ancestor writes in about having to be on the road during Passover and away from his family
Richard Lawrence Cohen writes in with an autobiographical sketch about his teenage years where the course of his life could have going in one direction or another in Sliding Door Moments - The Dead on the Corner
Ligical Meme writes in with a discussion between him and another on the enduring influence of Thomas Kuhn
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The Carnival's Next Stops:
May 4th - Fresh Politics
May 11th - Cynical Nation
May 18th - Commonwealth Conservative
May 25th - Alarming News
June 1st - Blog Business World
June 8th - The Conservative Edge
June 15th - Mister Snitch
June 22nd - This Blog Is Full Of Crap
June 29th - SophistPundit
July 6th - Conservative Friends
July 13th - Wallo World
July 20th - New World Man
July 27th - Pratie Place
August 3rd - Riding Sun
August 10th - Generic Confusion
August 17th - Willisms
August 24th - Analysis & Wit
August 31st - Incite
September 7th - Sorta Pundit
September 14th - Silflay Hraka - The Three Year Anniversary
September 21st - the skwib
December 21st - Ravenwood's Universe
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April 25, 2005
31 Posts and Climbing for COTV #136
I have 31 so far and the frequency has picked up... if you want in, submit by midnight tomorrow. Guidelines are here
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April 20, 2005
COTV #136 Hosted Here - Guidelines
With the posting of COTV #135 here is the guidelines for #136 which I'm hosting.
Apparently #134 has caused quite the poop storm about what a host is or is not supposed to do. The only thing bloggers like more (myself included) than sniping public figures for saying dumb, wrong, or both, things, is carping at other bloggers. :) So in the spirit of misanthropy, a feeling which almost every blogger shares regardless of political affiliation, here are the posting guidelines for the next COTV.
- Send me the URL, Title, Permalink.
- Send me a post summary
- Deadline is Midnight on the 27th. I.e. 12:00 am on the 27th, a minute after 11:59 pm on the 26th. I may post after that, I may wait til the morning. If you are late, you are probably out of luck, but I may be generous.
- Send me email at : jcb.blog (at) gmail.com
- Your e-mail should have COTV #136 in the title
Format? I haven't decided, but I'll take suggestions.
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April 13, 2005
COTV #134 is Up
He mentioned my post on filibusters. They could wind up Teddy Kennedy, they'd just have to make sure there was no Chivas in the podium before he got there though...
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