Google joins the Al Gore movement in hypocricy

The official Google blog dropped a few links to some of the posts on another one of its blogs, pointing out the companies interest in “climate change” issues and advocacy.

Filed under: Google, Politics

Matt Cutts discusses ALT image tags

Something we should all be doing…
Obviously, Google likes it when we use image ALT tags, and here Matt Cutts appears suggesting it will help make your site much more search engine friendly.

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Is Scratchback a form of link selling?

The RSS feeds this morning have been somewhat lacking in excitement. I’m about 60% through them all and the first post to catch my eye is a post over at impNERD. The post is about a new blogger widget called ScratchBack.
ScratchBack is an online “tipping” system. It allows you, the publisher, to accept tips and [...]

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World of Windows 1995

It’s amazing that 12 years have passed since World of Windows 1995. It’s also hard to believe that I was 16 years old when the OS went live. Back then Windows 95 was considered the future.
Just for weekend kicks, I managed to dig up some old pics. The first one is the graphic created by [...]

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Global Warming skipped Chicago this year

Last night I over heard a conversation between two people who have lived here in Chicago for quite some time. It was mentioned that December is usually a “tame” month, with the more serious winter weather kicking in around late January. But this hasn’t been the case in 2007.
I moved to Chicago on November 1st, [...]

Filed under: Chicago

What happened to ShoeMoney.com?

Am I just seeing things, or is Shoemoney.com (as of 7:02 PM Central on December 15) completely out of wack?

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Soften the vibe at the office

Every once in a while I stumble across something that I just can’t get out of my mind. The latest addition to the long list of brain stickiness is called the Soft Wall.

Filed under: Random Coolness

ScribeFire blends surfing and blogging

Ever come across something of interest that you feel is worth blogging, but have to ask “do I really want to go log in and get this posted up?”
I certainly have. In fact, it happened today. I came across a post about Matt Cutts and his comments on subdomains vs. subdirectories that I knew would [...]

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