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CrunchPad Federal Lawsuit Filed; Some Additional Thoughts. Thursday afternoon we filed a lawsuit against Fusion Garage in the Northern District of California Federal court. The causes of action include Fraud and Deceit, Misappropriation of Business Ideas, Breach of Fiduciary Duty, Unfair Competitition and Violations of the Lanham Act. The complaint is embedded below, or you can view it here. This was the first time I’ve ever filed a lawsuit, and it was certainly not the way I thought the whole CrunchPad project would end when I first wrote about the idea in July 2008. I believe the lawsuit (and attached exhibits) speaks for itself. A timeline is provided as well as supporting evidence from the Fusion Garage blog (now deleted) and emails between our companies. But I do have a few additional thoughts: We’ve shown through our posts (see The End Of The CrunchPad and CrunchPad Litigation Imminent) and that we’ve got nothing to hide. The lawsuit is below: Richworks. The artwork of the Martian landscape | Bad Astronomy | Discover.

It’s been a while since I’ve sung the praises of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s HiRISE camera, which takes incredibly hi-res images of the surface of Mars. Thanks to the HiRISE Twitter feed, I found this incredible picture: Can I get a Holy Haleakala! From the congregation? Wow. But what this picture so spectacular are the graceful blue-gray swirls arcing across the dunes. The important thing to note here is that the sand in the craters of Mars is actually dark grey in color, since it’s made of basalt. There’s more to see in the picture as well. When I look at pictures like this, I am smacked in the face with the cold, hard fact that Mars is a world.

And man oh man, does it produce beauty, awe, and wonder. My thanks to Dr. Review of TweetDeck LinkedIn Add | THE CHRIS VOSS SHOW. Puzzling Norwegian light spiral /update at Further: Strange Attr. UPDATE 3: OK, forget that last explanation, here’s the TRUTH from exopolitics.com: ‘… two researchers have independently posited that HAARP, a space-based weapon of mass destruction one of whose antenna fields is close to the site of the Norwegian spiral light …part of Project Blue Beam.

One of the alleged purposes of Project Blue Beam is the use of advanced electromagnetic imaging such as that produced by HAARP and exhibited in the Norway spiral light as a psychological mass conditioning device in aid of the implementation of a global corporate new world order.’ UPDATE 2: ‘Currently – it is believe this [sic] was caused by a Chinese Long March 2D vehicle launched earlier on the same day, from China, on a polar orbit.’

This information from the same people who bring us the following video explanation – clearly a disinformation source and not to be trusted. Further’s own reliable informants tell us that we are about to be invaded by the spiral beings from Uzumaki… Thanks Gnat Ward! Science news and science jobs from New Scientist. Some Biologists Find an Urge in Human Nature to Help - NYTimes.c. ClearView Writing - Freelance Writing, Website Management and SE. December 12th, 2009 · No Comments One of the most overlooked SEO tips in recent years can actually be a great way to increase organic traffic. You know whaty, I used it right there! Using strong, bold text is noticed by Google, even if it does not matter quite as much as it used to in the search engine rankings.

While highlighting key phrases will not increase organic traffric dramatically on its own, matching this SEO tip with a good overall SEO strategy could mean the difference between page 2 on Google and page one on Google, which could give you an amazing increase in traffic! Using bold or strong text can however be detrimental to your website, it should be used sparsely and preferably once per article, on the keyword which is most important. If you want to use the SEO tip on how to increase organic traffic simply take a look at how I used my keyphrase in this article. Try it yourself, you might be surprised at just how much it helps increase organic traffic to your website! Innovation: How your search queries can predict the future - tec. Innovation is our new column that highlights the latest emerging technological ideas and where they may lead. Real-time web search – which scours only the latest updates to services like Twitter – is currently generating quite a buzz because it can provide a glimpse of what people around the world are thinking or doing at any given moment.

Interest in this kind of search is so great that, according to recent leaks, Google is considering buying Twitter. The latest research from the internet search giant, though, suggests that real-time results could be even more powerful – they may reveal the future as well as the present. Google researchers Hyunyoung Choi and Hal Varian combined data from Google Trends on the popularity of different search terms with models used by economists to predict trends in areas such as travel and home sales. The result? Better forecasts in almost every case. Early warning It works because searches reveal something about people's intentions. Message to the future. ClearView Writing - Freelance Writing, Website Management and SE. Freelance Review .:. A design blog with advice, inspiration and. SEO Ghost Web Content Professional Writing - Bid on This Freelan. WRITING BIDS . com : BID ON FREELANCE WRITING PROJECTS and FREEL.

Science and Technology News, Science Articles | Discover Magazin. 30+ beautiful pictures of Snow Crystals « Richworks. Home > Inspiration, Photography > 30+ beautiful pictures of Snow Crystals Snowflakes and snow crystals are made of ice, and pretty much nothing more. A snow crystal, as the name implies, is a single crystal of ice. A snowflake is a more general term; it can mean an individual snow crystal, or a few snow crystals stuck together, or large agglomerations of snow crystals that form “puff-balls” that float down from the clouds.

Snowflakes are not frozen raindrops. Sometimes raindrops do freeze as they fall, but this is called sleet. Sleet particles don’t have any of the elaborate and symmetrical patterning found in snow crystals. Snow crystals form when water vapor condenses directly into ice, which happens in the clouds. Nature exhibits creativity in every direction we can imagine. I think thats enough Science for now. Like this: Like Loading... Andrius Kulikauskas. Andrius Kulikauskas is an experienced organizer of independent thinkers, social entrepreneurs and open content activists.

He's broad and deep as an investigator and thus able to engage and promote a wide variety of researchers. He's an active creative artist and appreciate the challenges of applying that creativity. In 1998, he founded Minciu Sodas , an online laboratory for serving and organizing independent thinkers around the world. They have more than 150 active and 3,000 supportive participants around the world. He has served about thirty clients as an organizer, researcher, programmer, producer, writer, narrator, translator and editor.

All of these projects have led to Public Domain content or open source software. . ↑ 14 Ways People Use Twitter. 1) Chit chat From personal experience, people will actually have near real time conversations about anything and everything on Twitter. It has the near immediacy that email lacks and yet it has that tempting wait until the other person replies. While we could all use instant messaging or Google Wave, let’s be honest, sometimes we actually like that slight delay in our conversation as it builds the anticipation. 2) Spamming It’s number two because it’s such a key aspect of Twitter. Whether it’s mistaken spam (unwanted and irrelevant messaging sent by error), misusing the trending topics, blatant follows and tweets to just get your attention or malicious activities hiding behind shorterned URLs, it’s all in there.

You can find, speak to and listen to what your customers are talking about and try to enhance your relationship with them. 4) Breaking news You can learn a lot about current affairs via Twitter. 5) Keeping abreast 6) Ego trips 7) Publicity 8) Tracking brand 9) Marketing campaigns.

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StrongMail: Online Marketing Solutions for Email and Social Medi. Creativeoverflow. Fix a Scratched CD. From Wired How-To Wiki Sometimes pulling out an old CD from your music archive reveals some discs haven't fared well in the passage of time. CDs are vulnerable to fingerprint smudges, a bit of dried syrup from the time you spilled that Coke in the car, perhaps even some scratches from the time that CD disappeared under the passenger's seat three years ago. If you've got some CDs that are well past their prime (and no, we don't mean that perfectly unblemished Spice Girls disc you've been hiding from your friends), fear not. There are ways to get that disc spinning again so you can transfer the music or data to a more respectable media, like MP3s.

The first thing to try with your potentially damaged CDs is a PC. This article is a wiki. Polish If you've got a disc that won't play, start with the simplest solution: give it a gentle, but thorough cleaning. Now that you've got all the surface blemishes off, give the CD another try. Repairing scratches Recreate In the Future. THE CHRIS VOSS SHOW. ASI Central. ESO.

Incredible VISTA of the cosmos | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazi. Astronomers with the European Southern Observatory have just revealed the first images from their new telescope called VISTA: the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy. If ever there was an appropriate name for a ‘scope, that’s it. Why? Here’s why: Oh baby. This image is of the Flame Nebula, a star forming gas cloud in Orion. Can you spot the famous Horsehead Nebula in this picture? That’s so many pixels you’d think they’d make an image you could zoom into.

Here’s another phenomenal picture. And yeah, this image is zoomable too. There’s also this very pretty shot of the Fornax galaxy cluster, a collection of galaxies 60 million light years away. Finally, let me leave you with this remarkable photo, showing the VISTA camera itself. It’s hard to believe that such a hulking camera can take such fine, detailed images, but that’s how these things work. Credits: Credit: ESO/J. Dec. 10, 1944: Web Visionary Passes Into Obscurity | This Day In. 1944: His dream of a global interlinked “web” of documents lying in ruins, information-science pioneer Paul Otlet dies. The Belgian bibliographer’s grand scheme to organize the world’s information made him the aspiring Google of his day, but his sprawling card catalog and decimal classification system proved woefully inadequate to the task. Some historians see in Otlet’s work a prototype of the World Wide Web and the hyperlink.

Although unsuccessful, it was one of the first known attempts to provide a framework for connecting all recorded culture by creating flexible links that could rapidly lead researchers from one document to another — and perhaps make audible the previously unheard echoes between them. Anticipating postmodern literary theory, Otlet posited that documents have meaning not as individual texts, but only in relationship to each other.

Midway into the project his funding was withdrawn, forcing him to scale back. Source: Various. Common Words That Kill Your Sales Process » E-MoneyMarketing. Common Words That Kill Your Sales Process For those who know me, in additional to my online marketing stuff, I’m also doing offline consulting and sales. This job requires me to meet a lot of people, prospects and customers offline. What I realized is that offline and online selling can be quite different. Because this time round, you get to meet someone face to face. Whether you can form a rapport and establish a mutual understand will depend a lot on what you do…AND SAY! It’s about saying the rights things…as well…as not saying the WRONG things!

Do you know you may be unwittingly saying words that may be sabotaging your sales prospects? Well…I certainly said such words before. And because of this, I’ve put in a superb article by Jacques Werth, the founder of High Probability Selling on this topic for your benefit. Read it. We live in a cynical world. You may not even realize that you are using these words and phrases in a way that negatively affects your communication and your business. Bill Zucker.com. LifeSnips. | s t r a n g e a t t r a c t o r | 25 Kickass Skydiving Pictures | Abduzeedo | Graphic Design Inspi.