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Geek Pick Up Lines

June 10th, 2009 · No Comments

I’d like to be your derivative so I can lie tangent to your curves. By looking at you I can tell you’re 36-25-36, which by the way are all perfect squares. I would love to SQL your server… Just thinking about you turns my software into hardware! Can I ASCII you to play with my […]

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Getting Hacked in Facebook

June 2nd, 2009 · No Comments

A friend of mine recently had her account and computer hacked through a phishing attack on Facebook. I got a suspicious sounding message from her via facebook and yes, it was asking for username and password. Here’s an article that is recognizing the problem. https://redtape.msnbc.com/2009/06/my-entry.html

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Great Tweets

May 28th, 2009 · No Comments

If you don’t understand Twitter, you may not get this right now. One day you will, though. Twitter will be as common as email in the future. From the #Twialogues community. “That which does not kill us makes us twitter.” Friedrich Wilhelm Twietzsche “If the tweet fits… follow it.” “A minute without twitter feels like […]

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Can Google Calculate Which Employees are Most Likely To Leave?

May 19th, 2009 · No Comments

Concerned a brain drain could hurt its long-term ability to compete, Google Inc. is tackling the problem with its typical tool: an algorithm. The Internet search giant recently began crunching data from employee reviews and promotion and pay histories in a mathematical formula Google says can identify which of its 20,000 employees are most likely […]

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The Beautiful Hubble Telescope

May 12th, 2009 · No Comments

Courtesy of https://hubblesite.org.

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See the Headlines of Any Paper Around the World

March 27th, 2009 · No Comments

https://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/flash/

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Social Media March Madness

March 24th, 2009 · No Comments

Came across this here. And I completely agree. Click to see larger image.

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Dilbert Does Collections

February 11th, 2009 · No Comments

Love this….

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Stock Market Lesson

November 14th, 2008 · No Comments

Once upon a time, in a village, a man appeared and announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for $10 each. The villagers seeing that there were many monkeys around, went out to the forest, and started catching them. The man bought thousands at $10 and as supply started to diminish, the villagers […]

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Funny….

November 13th, 2008 · No Comments

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