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Guestblogger: Douglas Rushkoff!

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Meet our next guestblogger, Douglas Rushkoff. He has been our friend and inspiration for nearly two decades. Douglas has written with and about happy mutants since the great memetic shift of the 1980s. His books include Cyberia, Media Virus, Coercion, Playing the Future, Nothing Sacred, Get Back in the Box, ...
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Serialization of The Deal, Chapter 16

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My friend Joe Hutsko contacted with the intriguing offer to serialize his novel, The Deal, on Boing Boing. I jumped at the chance. I read The Deal when it first came out in 1999 and loved the thrilling story about a Apple-like company's undertaking to create an iPhone-like device. Here's a ...
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You want fries with that Wi-Fi? Not in Canada, you don’t

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Aside from Big Macs and fries, McDonald's customers in many other parts of the world have an additional menu item to choose from that Canadians do not - Wi-Fi internet access.
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Unusually hot temperatures slow plants’ carbon uptake, scientists find

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Tall grasses exposed to an unusually warm year of weather lose some of their ability to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere the following year, according to a U.S. study to be published Thursday.
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DreamHost Web Hosting Servers can be used for File Backup

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Most web hosting providers do not allow customers to use server space for storing file backups and there have been instances where personal files were deleted from the server without any warnings. See "Never Use a Web Server for Online Backup." Dreamhost, the company the hosts this site, was ...
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Build a Web Page Monitor with Google Docs and Track Changes Automatically

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RSS feeds have completely changed the way we consume information on the web. You no longer have to visit The New York Times or CNN every hour of the day to check news headlines because the feed reader is doing that for you behind the scenes. The only problem is ...
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Listening to Your Insticts

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I can't tell you how many times I have experienced regret for not listening to my instincts when it came to finalizing a sale. This weekend, I am experiencing regret yet again. I received a sale that was over the amount I'd like to just let pass without making contact ...
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Return Policy - Stick to it of Bend the Rules?

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I just had an experience yesterday that I'd like to share with you all. I'm sure that if you have a store, whether brick and mortar or e-commerce, you have dealt with the question of returns. I have had to several times in the past few years that I've been ...
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More Fan-Fred Questions than Answers

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The talk of the town on Wall Street is the Treasury bailout of Fannie and Freddie. The most important development is that all the bonds are now totally covered by the U.S. government. So stocks soared this morning by over 300 points, though the gain is only 160 as of ...
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What a Difference 50 Days Makes…

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Incredible Mac comeback. Veep choices do matter. Conventions do matter. Denver Dems a disaster. St. Paul Republicans an unbelievable success. Message matters. Convictions matter.
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