Over the weekend I installed the Zemanta plugin for WordPress. I read about the Zemanta “content suggestion engine” on Weblog Tools Collection and TechCrunch.
I really like Zemanta. Oringinally it was made as a browser plugin, and I believe it was released recently to work with some common blogging engines, like WordPress, Movable Type, and Blogger.
What [...]
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Since I moved to Lawrence, I’d been looking for a new bank. Well, not new. I’m keeping my old bank account, but they don’t have branches in Kansas, so I wanted something local. A place to deposit my paycheck and other odds and ends. After a little advice, I decided on Capital [...]
Check out Seth Godin’s email checklist before you hit send.
The University of Georgia’s independent, student-run newspaper is threatening students. Today they ran an open letter to parents saying they would again post mug shots on the front page of students charged with alcohol related violations before classes start. Maybe a good response to this would be a student boycott of the Red and Black.
The Smoking Gun has the indictment of 48-year old Henry T. Nicholas III, the co-founder of Broadcom, a company that makes broadband circuits. He is worth over $2 billion and was indicted for having and distributing controlled substances.
As his indictment shows, if you’re going to get busted for dope, why not go out in style. [...]
The Orlando Sentinel pretty well describes how the Southeastern Conference could take over the Bowl Championship Series and the NCAA.
This would be the tag on my graduation gown, courtesy of the UGA Bookstore. I went to try it on tonight and noticed it was a little short. Apparently someone mistook 6′1″ on my order form for 5′7″.
Police car runs over kid’s foot, kid kicks police car, kid charged with damaging government property. Idiocy.