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The windows rattled for a few seconds and stopped.  About ten seconds later the windows rattled louder, the whole house shook, and the cats fled upstairs to hide under the bed.  This went on for what felt like a whole minute.  It was easily the strongest earthquake I have felt since the Loma Prieta earthquake [...]

Nicole Black, @nikiblack, is coining a new term for social media: Intermedia = interactive media, the next stage of the Internet, where the world interacts, interconnects, interfaces, interweaves, intervenes, and intersects. Intermedia is intergenerational. It’s the intermediate, or next step between what was and what will be. “Inter” means “put to rest,”—and intermedia is effectively [...]

It is easy to recognize, and mock, media hype and hysteria when you see it.  Harder to to resist the cry of hysteria when it is your child that is sick.  When the BurkeanSon’s temperature hit 102 early this week, I freely admit the media’s swine flu hysteria got to me. BurkeanSon is normally a [...]

The EIF (Entertainment Industry Foundation) has just annouced the “I Participate” initiative.  This is an effort by the Foundation to promote volunteerism in America by showing characters on many national TV shows volunteering for this and that. President Obama is noted for also promoting volunteerism.  And the report in the Chicago Tribune, EIF officials say [...]

Liberals are hypocrites.  It can’t be said enough.  It needs to be said everyday.  If you have a liberal friend in your life you should welcome them every morning by saying “good morning hypocrite.”  http://tinyurl.com/yl797fs