All those topics that i wish i had time to pursue more earnestly.

Idealware: Candid Reviews of Nonprofit Software:
Idealware provides candid Consumer-Reports-style reviews and articles about software of interest to nonprofits, centralized into a website. Through product comparisons, recommendations, case studies, and software news, Idealware allows nonprofits to make the software decisions that will help them be more effective.

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This is a great idea…. Lets just hope they keep their biases transparent which has been the bane of many review site.

Scaremongers dub RFID passports as potential bomb trigger:
There’s nothing much special about RFID in this regard, other than some security “experts” trying to cash in on the hysteria. Check the video after the break, and judge for yourself whether or not RFID is going to be the hip-cool new detonation system of the decade. We’re thinking no.
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i’m thinking that if i wanted to kill someone and i knew that they had a unique radio id on them at all times that would respond within 6 meters… it might be very useful. RFID could be used to trigger bombs, just like using a credit card swipe through at a bank could be used to trigger a bomb to target a single person.

Toxic Molly Doll.:
This has got to be one of the weirdest dolls out there – Toxic Molly from the Living Dead Dolls series 9 by Mezco Toys. The box even has a little poem:

With all the pollutants
that she sucked in
Toxic Molly gave herself a vow
She would continue to breathe
in the life that she loved
But not even her gasmask
can save her now

Project Rooftop:
For years you’ve known this day would come. You’ve seen revamps try and fail. You have waited for a chance to show the brilliant merger of fashion and iconography that you’ve hidden away in your sketchbook.
You redesigned Batman. Or Supergirl, or Iron-Man, or Green Lantern. You took a character you love and made them look fresh and new, using practicality, design, color, and above all, with respect for the artists who’ve come before you and respect for the character they’ve molded over decades. Here is your chance to show the world.
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everyone needs a new hero… here are some revisions of some old ones.

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it might be a little harsh.

Energy Fiend » Death by Caffeine:
Death by Caffeine
How much of your favorite caffeinated drink would it take to kill you? Take this quick test and find out:

Rising college fees will cost us in time – Yahoo! News:
• Many students work, sometimes multiple jobs, thereby losing much of the texture of the college experience.
Despite these well-documented struggles, tuition and fees keep rising.

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i worked up to 4 jobs, working is good, it adds texture to the college experience.

and fees keep rising because costs keep rising, and states and the fed are not keeping up with costs. it is much like ’stamps’ the cost to send mail goes up because the cost to run the post office increases. faculty get raises, inflation raises the cost of equipment, etc. all contribute to increased fees, as do.. and this will surprise some people. when more students that go to university or college, the cost generally increase, not decrease… because we have to build more buildings and provide more services.

Monopoly Debit Card.:

Still playing with Monopoly money? That’s so, 2005. Now, you can play Monopoly with debit cards:

Game makers Parker have phased out the standard multi-coloured cash in a new version.

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this is just so wrong…..

The One Man Advertising Campaign: 10 Reasons Gay Marriage is Wrong:
10 Reasons Gay Marriage is Wrong

01. Being gay is not natural…..

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oh… that’s just the start of a concept. this really is worth reading.

The CIA Cruelty Authorization Act of 2006:
There have been several reports in recent days about drafts of the Bush Administration’s proposed amendments to the War Crimes Act. Now, Slate has published a version of those amendments that reportedly was “sent to Congress” last week. I’m informed that this proposal was, at most, shared with a few Republicans on the Hill, and that it is not the final version. Assuming, however, that this amendment is fairly close to what we will eventually see from the Administration, it is, indeed, a very big deal—but not quite for the reasons that have thus far been stressed in most accounts.

Currently, the federal War Crimes Act provides for criminal sanctions (up to life imprisonment, or even death in extreme cases) for all violations of Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions.

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I really hope that the congress does not pass this. the recognition of war crimes and the debasement of humanity that is called torture is wrong, even if it does save tens of thousands of lives, because in the end, when you torture someone, and the nation is complicit, people realize their complicity and eventually come to terms with their own horror and the death of their own humanity.