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News Article here Basically, the webmaster world is all in a buzz over this 10 million dollar challange to get a poker website ranking number one using only 'white hat' techniques. There is a lot of grey area between white hat and black hat, lots of grey...it will be interesting to see how this plays out. If you have any interest, read any SEO forum, it is THE topic of the moment. Intertwined with this is the story of how the guy taking the challange, Rand F. had bought a SuperBowl ad to propose to his girlfriend. He was later deneyed the opportunity. (Target even agreed to pay for it at one point, it was later revealed) He ran the video, My Super Proposal, later on her favorite TV show instead and had a camera hidden and recording to catch her reaction ...pretty good, and nationally watched 'reality video'. Notice that it has almost 400 thousand views. All of this buzz resulted in a LOT of PR for him and his business !! Great ploy.

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When we were building our original little lagoon DAC-ART house I happened to run across some really inexpensive Pottery Barn catalog return light fixtures in Memphis. The simple sconces had missing glass shades and that was fine w/ me as I preferred them sans-shades. I got a whole big black trash bag full for $ 2.99 each. A couple of them had socket or wiring problems, but I had extras, so that was no big deal. I doubt if I will ever run up on such a super bargain in lighting fixtures again. Occasionally I glance at eBay to see if I can find any source for a whole bunch of sconces for Phase II of this house for cheap. I often see cool antique sconces but it is usually just one, two or occasionally four. A couple days ago, I found that a guy in FL who runs an eBay selling drop-off shop has bought a whole bunch of discontinued fixtures that were pretty high-end originally. He has about 100 of this pretty plain sconce and 90 of some solid brass exterior fixtures that I like. The exterio

MIT neuroengineers' pulsing light silences overactive neurons, could lead to non-surgical treatment for epilepsy, Parkinson's Scientists at the MIT Media Lab have invented a way to reversibly silence brain cells using pulses of yellow light. Some epilepsy patients have implanted electrodes that periodically give their brains an electric jolt, acting as a defibrillator to shut down overactive neurons. This new research opens up the possibility of an optical implant that could do the same thing, using light instead of electricity. Read Article

Nowhere in Africa original title:Nirgendwo in Afrika We saw a really good Netflix movie this weekend. It won an Oscar a couple years back for best foreign language film. Lasts 2 1/2 hours, but since you are at home, you can have an intermission. "Shortly before World War II, a Jewish couple and their young daughter emigrate to Kenya from Germany to escape the Nazis. Not all members of the family are happy with this drastic change -- but going home isn't an option. Ultimately, they must all come to terms with a new life in a new continent. Director Caroline Link's epic drama won the 2002 Oscar for best foreign film." It was in mostly German, and Dave speaks German, so that was kinda neat for him.

I am going digital camera comparison crazy. I bought a HP camera to replace my trusty R707 and I bought a model that was just a few digits up higher on the HP R series ....and everything is perfect...except...it doesn't have a viewfinder ! That means that you have to look at the LCD screen for every shot, something I am totally not used to. And, in beach-bright sunlight, it is hard to see. The camera uses the same SD cards that I have a stack of, same rechargable HP batteries, same great features as my R707 and similar functionality. But I want a viewfinder. It not only saves battery life, it is a whole lot easier to see when zooming in and out and outside. And I am sooooo used to having one. The new one I got has 5 x optical zoom, so I was all thrilled about that, but no viewfinder. Dave is interested in buying my pocket sized new camera from me if I get a different model, so I am doing research.......whoa....who knew there were so many different models on the market. Fast start-

Christoper Pridgen, my bro Stephen's oldest son, and his girlfriend , Courtney of Hattiesburg came down this past weekend. Since Miller's condo was empty I was able to let them stay there. Chris is graduating this May from Mississippi State. His degree is construction management. Not sure that is the exact name, but similar. Courtney is going to Barcelona, Spain for a semester. (She is gonna love that...I promise) We had good, sunny weather for the weekend and I am so glad for their sakes. On Sat night we all went over to Mary & Jerry Nasello's house and cooked pizza and watched Borat. Jerry and Mary are WAY into making ho-made pizza and have this sourdough starter and 4 bread machines so they can have the dough all risen and ready to be rolled out on these huge wooden paddles. They have hot tiles in the oven all heated and ready so after everyone makes whatever kind of pizza they want, the pizza can be slid off the paddle onto the hot tiles to cook in the ovens. Dave a

I did this long post last night and then when I went to publish it, there was a Blogger glitch and text, photos, etc...all went away. Anyway--today is sooooo sunny and pretty, that I want to go get the rest of the anti-fire ant granules (doesnt that sound better than POISON) today and put it out with the spreader. I have on a swim suit so I can begin to get a little sun and then I can put the spreader thing in the mini-storage till next year. I will go back and re-do weekend photos, etc...later.

Tacky Jacks on a Sunday afternoon in Orange Beach, Alabama. Lisa singing and on guitar and Dave playing harmonica. March 18th, 2007. For more info about Orange Beach, visit, http://www.orange-beach-alabama.net

for irregular posts. I just seem to always be so busy. And since I want to be able to do this Phase II house addition, I am pretty focused on the earning money part of my life right now. Another thing is that since Heather works for me every day now, I am more mindful than ever of all the projects I have going on, and getting my part ready for her to do her part. Tonight is ZZ Top at our new outdoor amplitheater. It is a 'rain or shine' event...and rain is predicted...luckily I won a huge umbrella from Vision Bank the other day, so it may come in handy. Temp is in the 70's, so that is perfect for outdoor concert. Opening act is Robert Fortune Band. Rockers for sure. Last weekend I went w/ Dave to a fund raiser fish fry on Pcola Beach. He took photos as he does the newsletter for the organization. I took a few too. I didnt realize that those would be my last normal looking photos w/ my tough little HPR707. Later that day or maybe the next, it started taking photos that look

Professional wrestlers will soon be fighting for space on tiny mobile phone screens thanks to Cingular Wireless. The top U.S. mobile service provider, owned by AT&T Inc , plans to announce an agreement with World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. Thursday to sell everything from ringtones with famous wrestlers' voices to graphics and videos, including weekly matches and the annual spring tournament. Hopefully Roller Derby will soon follow. Read More

From WIRED: Adobe working at new technology to detect if a photo has been manipulated. The company hopes to develop a plug-in that will detect if a photo has been changed at all since it was taken. According to Farid, this is possible because cameras don't record all the pixels needed for a color image, but instead estimate some colors through a process known as color reconstruction, or demosaicing. A camera's demosaicing process creates connections between pixels, and "when an image is re-touched, it is likely that these correlations will be destroyed. As such, the presence or lack of these correlations can be used to authenticate an image, or expose it as a forgery," Farid writes in an explanation (.pdf) of the technology he is developing. See some famous examples of photo published in 'history' and the press that were manipulated. Look at photos and click 'return to story' to read the ...err story.

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Metal Barrel Revolving on Pipe Adds to Playground Thrills ( Popular Mechanics , Oct, 1924) Hung lengthwise through the center on a horizontal pipe, a revolving metal barrel has proved a popular addition to the playground equipment of a park in Pasadena, Calif. Attempting to stand erect on the barrel requires almost acrobatic skill. I'll bet it does.

Becky G. sent me this bit of fascinating history: After having dug to a depth of 10 meters last year, Scottish scientists found traces of copper wire dating back 100 years and came to the conclusion that their ancestors already had a telephone network more than 100 years ago. Not to be outdone by the Scots, in the weeks that followed, British scientists dug to a depth of 20 meters, and shortly after headlines in the UK newspapers read: "British archaeologists have found traces of 200 year old copper wire and have concluded that their ancestors already had an advanced high-tech communications network a hundred years earlier than the Scots." One week later, "The Advertiser", a Lafayette, Louisiana, newspaper, reported the following: "After digging as deep as 30 meters in cane fields near New Iberia , Gaston Boudreaux, a self taught archeologist, reported that he found absolutely nothing. Gaston has, therefore, concluded that ... 300 years ago Cajuns were a

Wheels of soccer balls. Sorta clever, but you'd have to ck air pressure many times over instead of just once per tire. Man on Soccer Bike

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