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*"I says Well you can't see me. She says Why what's the matter, Jack? What have I did that you should be sore at me? I says I guess you know all right. You called me a busher. She says Why I didn't do not... - Peter Schiff on the U.S. debt ceiling. There’s a more important ceiling staring the U.S. govt in the face than the one they’re trying to fake right now, he reckons: a lending ceiling… Content is copyrig...
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*(Illustration of Burl Cain by Jack Unruh, Mother Jones)* Mother Jones writer James Ridgeway has written a new article about his recent visit to Angola Prison and his many failed attempts to interview Wa... - posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago
*What do bust-enhanced model Katie Price (aka Jordan) and martial-arts guy and sort-of actor Alex Reid -- Britain's, er, former sweethearts -- have to do with the culture clash between "serious" and "tablo... - posted by Alison at Creekside - 3 hours ago
Alykhan Velshi's wee blog *Ethical Oil,* named after Ezra's book*,* has relaunched today with an expensive new look and some spiffy ethical oil pop-up campaign ads to greet you when you enter the site. Y... - posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 4 hours ago*Experiments with Nanothermite* *by Kevin Ryan Foreign Policy Journal Published: July 25, 2011* "Scientific evidence for thermitic materials at the World Trade Center is discussed, and an experiment in pr...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 5 hours agoI am so shocked and saddened that Marc Parent, whose twitter account @mparent77772 was a great and unique source of information and news, died from cancer on March 28, 2011 at the age of 59. Legacy.com: P...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 5 hours agoBBC has picked up the Sarah Payne alleged phone hack story and is running it as main item on Ten News. Peston centre stage to help further put the boot into NI. Meanwhile those Piers Morgan/Mirror Group al...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoHey everyone, just letting you all know John's new Youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/PatrioticTruther Be sure to subscribe, and pass the word on in your own Youtube channels and websites! -- M...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoAbout a dozen concerned members of a neighborhood group came to the Wells Fargo Branch at Story Rd. and King Rd. in San Jose Wednesday carrying trash bags instead of money sacks. Protesters left the was...
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Just 17% of Likely U.S. Voters now say the country is heading in the right direction, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey taken the week ending Sunday, July 24. That finding is t... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago
A federal wildlife biologist whose observation in 2004 of presumably drowned polar bears in the Arctic helped to galvanize the global warming movement has been placed on administrative leave and is being i... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago
Rep. David Wu could be eligible for pension and benefits worth more than $1 million in his lifetime, according to an analysis by the National Taxpayers Union. Wu, D-Ore., first elected in 1998, announced ... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago
A tropical storm warning has been issued across the Texas coast early Thursday. Tropical Storm Don is violently blasting its way into the central Gulf of Mexico and forecasters are telling those in the pat... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago
Hundreds of rioters in a southern Chinese city battled with police into the early hours of Wednesday morning after a disabled fruit vendor died while being beaten by Chinese officials on the street in broa... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago
Hip replacements, cataract surgery and tonsil removal are among operations now being rationed in a bid to save the NHS money. Two-thirds of health trusts in England are rationing treatments for "non-urgen... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago
At least one U.S. military serviceman has been arrested after raising concerns over another alleged plot to attack Fort Hood, Fox News has learned exclusively. Pvt. Nasser Jason Abdo, an AWOL soldier from... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago
A senior commander of Iran's revolutionary guards, who is subject to comprehensive international sanctions, has been nominated as the country's oil minister, a position that currently includes the presiden... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoGlobal markets continued to send the signal to US senators that the political standoff over the country’s debt ceiling is hurting, while disappointing earnings in Europe added to the gloom. Stocks on Wall...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoWhile Washington dithers and brings the country to the brink of another economic collapse, the American people are pretty cranky about jobs and the economy. And neither party is free of their wrath. It rea...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThe new International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde has said that Washington must speedily resolve a political stalemate over raising the debt ceiling and the euro zone should “quickly” implement i...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThe British economy barely grew between April and June. As industrial output shrank, GDP expanded by just 0.2 percent from the first three months of the year. That took the annual growth rate to 0.7 percen...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoSeven Philippine marines were killed and 21 others were wounded Thursday by a rebel group linked to al-Qaeda during an attempted raid of their jungle camp. The early morning battle was some of the fierces...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoSerious flaws in a signalling system caused a fatal collision on China's high-speed rail network, officials say. Thirty-nine people died when a train ran into the back of another which had stalled on a vi...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoAn exceptional wildfire in northern Alaska in 2007 put as much carbon into the air as the entire Arctic tundra absorbs in a year, scientists say. The Anaktuvuk River fire burned across more than 1,000 sq k...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoUS oil giant Exxon Mobil has reported a rise in quarterly profits on the back of higher oil prices. The company said that net profit rose to $10.7bn (£6.6bn) for the three months to June, up 41% from the ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoMedical experts are calling for global action to tackle the viruses that cause the liver disease hepatitis. The first worldwide estimates in drug users show 10 million have hepatitis C while 1.3 million h...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThe BBC says one of its reporters has died in an insurgent attack in Afghanistan that killed at least 19 people. The broadcaster said that Ahmad Omid Khpolwak was killed in Thursday's suicide attack in th...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 6 hours agoI love simple pictures but sometimes a simple addition of a prop can make a picture so much more fun. Here are some of my favorites. 1. Hats. They can completely change a photo. I have sweet crochet hats f...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoHouse Republicans delayed a vote Thursday on Speaker John Boehner's plan to raise the nation's debt ceiling while enacting sweeping cuts in government spending, indicating a rift within the GOP could und...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (U.S. Says "Huh?") - 6 hours ago(Sign Located at Guilford Courthouse at Revolutionary War Battleground - Greensboro, NC)Statecraft. It's almost a term from a different world. Or is it just a long-ago discarded concept that's not necessary ...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 7 hours agoSome dogs were domesticated by 33,000 or more years ago, but the Ice Age disrupted the process.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Puerto Rico Region at a depth of 23 km ( 14.3 miles), the quake hit at 20:34:45 UTC Thursday 28th July 2011. The epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) Northwest of Aguadilla, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck offshore Maule, Chile at a depth of 26.1 km ( 16.2 miles), the quake hit at 19:50:19 UTC Thursday 28th July 2011. The epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) WNW of Cauquenes, ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 7 hours agoThe dark face of America's religions fanaticism is finally coming into the light of day. To get a look at America's own Taliban, check out this article from *al Jazeera.* Also check here and here. *Un...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours agoCharles Ferguson's latest film, *Inside Job*, was probably last year's most important movie. I don't think it ever made it on the level of *Toy Story 3*, which grossed $415,004,880, or *Iron Man 2*, whic...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 7 hours agoThis time the target was Sara Payne whose 8-year old daughter was murdered by a repeat sex offender in 2000. Scotland Yard has now added Mrs. Payne to their list of probable phone hacking victims. Murdo...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 7 hours agoThe Norway massacre has pushed the European Union and the organization's police arm, Europol, into action against right wing extremists. *this week both European Union interior ministers and the European l...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 8 hours agoIt's a common retort used whenever Israel comes in for criticism. Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East. That, somehow, seems to entitle the Israeli government to a more lenient or favourable ...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 8 hours agoI heard an interview with author Scott Carney on the Leonard Lopate show this afternoon. For a species who will stoop so low as to kidnap and imprison their fellow brethren to steal their blood, day afte...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 8 hours ago*My Maserati does one-eighty-five I lost my license, now I don't drive I have a limo, ride in the back I lock the doors in case I'm attacked* - Joe Walsh, "Life's Been Good" Tea Bagger congressman Joe Wals...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThese are the breathtaking images which capture the hidden depths of the world's biggest cave passage, which still has left cavers still searching for its end. Hidden in the depths of the Vietnamese jungl...
- posted by Lilith eZine at Lilith News - 9 hours agoCANADA - Two weeks before the October 25th election in Toronto soon-to-be-Mayor Rob Ford promised “I will assure you that services will not be cut, guaranteed." Ford promised to find $525.6 million in und...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 9 hours ago[image: Fukushima school relocation, 18 April 2011. School children from an evacuation zone around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant have begun a new term at a school outside the zone. The people...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 9 hours ago[image: Sometime over the weekend of 23-24 July 2011, thousands of fish died in three rivers in western Prince Edward Island, the largest kill in decades. Erin Moore / CBC] July 27 (CBC News) – Fish kil...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 9 hours ago"Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced, and today we think this more than ever and are just as wrong as all previous ages that thought so. How often have we not seen the tru...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoVast swathes of the U.S. countryside are emptying and communities becoming ghost towns as rural America now only accounts for just 16 per cent of the population. The 2010 census results suggest that by 20...
- posted by Jessica Marshall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 10 hours agoA vine beckons bat pollinators by emitting a strong acoustic echo that helps the bats find their nectar.
- posted by John D. Cox at Discovery News - Top Stories - 10 hours agoA new study of ocean sediments indicates West Antarctica as well as Greenland must have contributed to oceans that were 15 to 20 feet higher than their current levels.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 10 hours agoA strange-looking impact crater has been spotted by NASA's current lunar satellite.
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 10 hours ago* Malta and Gozo. * "The most expansive intelligence services in the world are under the control of the Order of the Knights of Malta." (Vatican Assassins and the Norway Massacre Connection. / *aangirfan...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 10 hours ago*Survivors. * "This is a fascinating video of Norway victims after the horrible massacre. "Watch their facial expressions. What do you see?" *Study of Honesty: Norway Victims* "The Hindu-supremacist Hi...
- posted by Jessica Marshall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoThe magma represents a remnant of the composition of early Earth -- before the crust separated from the mantle as Earth cooled.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoFor the first time, an asteroid sharing Earth's orbit around the sun has been detected.
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 11 hours ago[image: White House urges compromise] A Republican deficit reduction plan headed to a lock vote in Congress on Thursday and the White House urged divided lawmakers to clinch a compromise agreement to head...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours agoToday Raúl Grijalva, a tireless champion on behalf of America's hard-pressed working families and an old and trusted friend of Blue America's-- our only endorsed candidate with a dedicated Act Blue Page--...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 11 hours agoAn excellent op-ed in today's *New York Times.* *What is striking on the current American scene ...is the extent to which people see certain political and economic positions as required by their religio...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 12 hours ago*By Susan Lindauer, former U.S. Asset covering Libya and Iraq at the United Nations during the Lockerbie negotiations* For European bankers, it's a war for Libya's Gold. For oil corporations, it's a war ...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 12 hours agoDraft 2012 Louisiana Coastal Master Plan goes public: will it be real or wizardry? ~LaCoastPost ~Also~ Mark Schleifstein reports Bunnatine “Bunny” Greenhouse’s long whistleblower fight with Uncle Sam is o...
- posted by Robin Horbury at Biased BBC - 12 hours agoThe BBC has been giving acres of space today to that nice Vince Cable in his quest to get rid of red tape. Of course, as usual, he has uttered not a peep about the biggest source of the deluge - the EU, an...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 12 hours ago[image: Pine beetle damage in the Mt Fraser forest. High-elevation white bark pine trees that usually have life spans longer than 1,000 years are being killed at a frightening pace by a little beetle tha...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 12 hours agoPhotos by Brenda Norrell Indigenous Environmental Network's Protecting Mother Earth Gathering began Thursday morning on the land of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nations in New Town, North Dakota. In...
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 12 hours agoTwo recent close encounters with sharks offer a great sense of how massive these animals are.
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 13 hours agoSource: CEUFO (La Pampa, Argentina) Date: 07.28.11 Argentina: Mysterious Mutilations Continue By Quique Mario, CEUFO Animal mutilations remind us of the strange events that rocked the province...
- posted by Katherine Noyes at Discovery News - Top Stories - 13 hours agoDisappointed by the performance of your latest folded effort? Fear not: This new kit will juice it up in a jiffy.
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 13 hours agoAs Canada's combat mission in Kandahar ended, Canadian commanders were busy patting themselves on the back and proclaiming the Taliban insurgency in that province "flattened" due to their efforts. Of cour...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 13 hours agoIt's another of those never-ending "once in a century" stories. The heaviest rainfall in a century has triggered devastating floods and landslides in the Seoul area of South Korea. The quirky bit is th...
- posted by Scott Tharler at Discovery News - Top Stories - 13 hours agoThis small dongle greatly extends the bass, treble and/or surround of audio from your iPad, iPhone or iPod.
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 13 hours agoResearchers use inkjet printers to print a simple antenna that can harvest stray electromagnetic energy.
- posted by Rob Pegoraro at Discovery News - Top Stories - 15 hours agoAfter a month, Google Plus has 20 million users, but it's a mistake to think it will knock off Facebook or Twitter.
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 15 hours agoThe electric vehicle charger could get your car completely off the coal- and natural gas-powered grid.
- posted by Katherine Noyes at Discovery News - Top Stories - 15 hours agoWhy keep your hobbies separate when you can enjoy both at once?
- posted by Amy Enchelmeyer at Discovery News - Top Stories - 15 hours agoBirds living in hotter areas have evolved bigger beaks -- to help keep them cool, research finds.
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 15 hours agoSomething no one should forget about. Fukushima. I haven't noticed a mention of Fukushima on the tv news or seen a word in print in the national press. As I mentioned with Syria yesterday, not being in the ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago*Election pamphlet from a Republican primary battle* This week at a Virginia fundraiser, Romney revealed that the 3 top contenders on his VP short list are 2 extreme right-wing governors-- Bob McDonnell o...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (U.S. Says "Huh?") - 16 hours ago(Jobs Are Jolly Good Fun At Starbucks!) If you think the 'thugs are joking about closing down the government to get their way, you haven't been paying attention lately. And you really should be. Think D...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 17 hours agoYou can see the whole music video here (click on "play again") or make your own message (you might need google chrome) - it's kind of cool! Actually the video of how they made the video might be even bett...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 17 hours ago*CLICK LINK BELOW TO LISTEN:* LISTEN NOW Sacred Fire begins IEN Gathering /Photo Brenda Norrell*LIVE NOW* *Welcome to the 16th Protecting Mother Earth Gathering* *Water, Energy, Climate and the Importance o...
- posted by BAL at WPB/NYC and Anything Else - 17 hours agoRoad to Grand Isle (a documentary film) - Drew Landry from Road to Grand Isle on Vimeo.
- posted by BAL at WPB/NYC and Anything Else - 17 hours agoBP Big Polluter, Non Violent Direct Action Protest BP Unified Command Center in New Orleans Thursday, August 4, 2011 2:00PM
- *Looking down on a woman* in photography is what makes or breaks a good portrait. That is my opinion and I mean from the vantage point of the photographer! A natural fact is that many men are 'a head' tal...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 18 hours ago*Scientific misconduct almost certainly demonstrable* You may have forgotten about it but one of the early stimuli that energized the recent wave of hysteria about the so-called "global warming" was a c...
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 19 hours agoPollutants banned from use and imprisoned in the Arctic ice are finding freedom again as the ice melts.
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 19 hours agoNo, I'm not talking about one of pouting and posing Rihanna's hits but rather this curious tale the BBC has put out this morning that some children are going to nursery school *without knowing what their n...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 20 hours agoThose wicked Tea Party folks. Thank goodness for Mark Mardell's exposure of their fiscal simple-mindedness here. You see they seem to believe that Government should not spend what it does not have and wer...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 20 hours agoOh no, it's just too awful to contemplate. Public sector workers are going to discover just how much extra they are going to have to pay into their pensions in order to sustain that gilt-edged advantage th...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 20 hours ago*Marine Le Pen * Israel and the USA are worried about certain right-wing parties in Europe, parties which oppose the New World Order. Some of these right wing parties oppose the European Union, support bo...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 20 hours agoVintage morning on the BBC. Is it REALLY necessary for immigrants coming to England to learn English? Give THIS interview a whirl if you dare. It concerns Rashida Chapti, who has lived here for six years ...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 20 hours ago*Website for this image** * On 27 July 2011, we learn of the *Norway attacker's Varanasi connection** * Anders Breivik, or his double, has been photographed wearing combat badges, made in Varanasi, in Indi...
- posted by Robin Horbury at Biased BBC - 21 hours agoThere are 2,000 electric cars on the road. They have a range of less than 90 miles - half that if you need to put the heater on - and they cost around £28,000, almost four times a petrol equivalent. They h...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 23 hours agoModel wearing material made from milk. Photo courtesy: YouTube via screengrab Milk is the raw material for a new fabric created by 28-year-old German biologist Ande Domaske, who has created a string of de...
- posted by veritas6464 at VERITAS 6464 - 23 hours agoBlonde Goy lone-gunman?Blonde Goy lone-gunman? The following videos are not the best quality, however, they contain credible information... If the yiddish khazars that currently occupy Palestine i...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*In 20-plus seasons (1907-27), the great Walter Johnson had a 417-279 record (that's a .599 winning percentage), second in wins only to Cy Young's 511 (and still no. 1 in shutouts, with 110), racking up 35...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Relative distribution of emitted radioactive particles from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, 27 July 2011 - 30 July 2011. www.dwd.de] By arevamirpal::laprimavera 27 July 2011 Afraid ...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 1 day ago*IMAGINE A ‘PARTY X’ that was actually committed to opposing statism ,and to advocating for free enterprise. Imagine such a party had a cabinet committing to rolling back the state, and an environment mi...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Large January Minimum Temperatures, 1981–2010, compared to 1971–2000. Map by NOAA] By Michon Scott, based on The New Climate Normals by Jennifer Freeman July 6, 2011 In July 2011, NOAA’s Nationa...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: The Larsen B ice shelf began disintegrating around Jan. 31, 2002. Its eventual collapse into the Weddell Sea remains the largest in a series of Larsen ice shelf losses in recent decades, and a te...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Monthly ratio of daily high temperature records vs low ones set in the U.S. for June 2010 through July 23, 2011. Capital Climate / data from NOAA] By Joe Romm 27 Jul 2011 One way to tell if a...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*"There was a shooting at a political camp, which sounds a little like, you know, the Hitler Youth. I mean, who does a camp for kids that's all about politics? Disturbing."* *-- Glenn Beck, on his radio s...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 1 day agoTough crowd to please: *Poll: 52 percent approve of God’s job performance *By John Blake, CNN (CNN) – If you think voters are in cranky mood over politics, a new poll suggests that some of the dissatisfa...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day agoPresident Obama, like President Bush, President Clinton, and Poppy Bush, is a political mercenary for private, international banks and the treasonous oligarchy that owns the Federal Reserve Bank. Read Was...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day agoImpudent Strumpet: If home is too crowded or noisy or uncomfortable or abusive or non-existent,having somewhere else to go - a perfectly respectable place to go and to be (compare the connotations of spend...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day agoExcellent analysis from Torontoist: It is far too soon to tell whether the long, dense sequence of anger-inspiring comments, falsehoods, and dubious policy decisions Rob and Doug Ford have been responsibl...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoThe fundamentalist fiend is at it again. Science to Steve Harper is the noonday sun to a vampire. This time it was a federal fisheries expert muzzled by Harp's political commissars in the Privy Council...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 1 day agoThe Edmonton Journal and Calgary Herald have released polling information on the Alberta PC and Alberta Liberal leadership races, giving us valuable information about who is winning...*among people who wil...
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoHundreds of thousands of fragments of ancient papyri have been put online in a bid to crowd source translations.
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThis isn't the first time the McDonald's tried to cut the calorie count of kids' meals and probably won't be the last.
- posted by Geezer Power at GEEZERPOWER - 1 day agoTruthout Tuesday 26 July 2011 by: Chris Hedges, Truthdig | Op-Ed The gravest threat we face from terrorism, as the killings in Norway by Anders Behring Breivik underscore, comes not from the Islamic wor...
- posted by Katherine Noyes at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoFinally, a fun way to get the incriminating evidence you need.
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoCaltech researchers created a neural network consisting of four artificial neurons made from DNA strands.
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoAlthough the attorneys of right-wing terrorist Anders Breivik are claiming their client is insane (see video below), MSNBC's in-house Nazi claims he was right... no, not just right-wing, *correct*. He may...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Dead white pine trees. White pines are one species that's under assault by the DuPont weedkiller, Imprelis. bobistraveling Flickr/CC / treehugger.com] By Brian Merchant 11 July 2011 Brooklyn, N...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day agoDoug Ford: "Why do we need another little library in the middle of nowhere that no one uses?" Library users: "We want our votes back." *The Star* is devoting some serious real estate to Fords vs. TPL. I h...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day agoI passed the page test! I think it was a bit easier than I was led to believe. On the phone, I was told the test had to be completed in six minutes. But before the actual test, I was told I had "up to 10 ...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago*Indigenous Peoples arrive from the Americas for Protecting Mother Earth Conference* By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com NEW TOWN, N. D. -- Indigenous Peoples from the Amer...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 1 day agoHow about this blast from the past? Fox "News" quoting Dick "deficits don't matter" Cheney about his rosy economic forecast less than two years before it blew up. This is how Fox decided to celebrate M...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoEnvironmental activist Tim DeChristopher has been sentenced to two years in prison. His crime? He attended a government auction where he bid on oil and gas leases to derail what was a manifestly illegal sa...
You can do some amazing things with Blogger
July 28, 2011 — permalinkGuest post by David Kutcher
Editor’s note: We invited David Kutcher, an innovative web developer from Northampton MA, to write a guest blog post to share how he uses Blogger to create robust, beautiful and easy to use websites for his clients.
Hi, my name is David Kutcher. I own Confluent Forms LLC, a graphic design and custom web-based software development firm in Northampton, MA. We specialize in creating gorgeous and engaging websites with custom content management systems. As curious as it made sound, we’ve found that Blogger can be a great platform for web development when a custom CMS isn’t needed. Blogger provides a ton of functionality and design freedom for our clients, and not just for blogs!
You’re probably thinking: “what? using blog software for a website?”. I know - it sounds a bit unconventional, but it’s true.
I think that most users do not realize the value and flexibility that Blogger offers, including free hosting, complete customization, personalized domain options, WYSIWYG editor and more. Because Blogger is a Google product, you can also easily integrate with other Google services such as: Google Analytics, Google Docs, AdSense, Picasa and more. All of this is available free of charge while providing a simple, easy authoring environment for the small business owner.
As a web development firm, Blogger provides us with a different value proposition. When we pitch a Blogger-based solution to a client we can provide services at a lower price point while still maintaining full creative freedom. I don’t need to set up a paid hosting account for my client, worry about security patches or upgrades, or be concerned about system uptime and availability. Finally, I can easily transfer ownership and management of the site to my client, or, continue to keep us both as co-administrators.
It can be hard to envision a platform’s potential from a list of features so here are a few examples of what we’ve achieved with Blogger.
- 360 Hilton St. Louis at the Ballpark
- Pinch Gallery
- Renew Pilates Studio
- Impish
- Ode Boutique
- Elbow Room Coffee Company
I hope the examples above have opened your eyes to some of the possibilities of what you can do with your Blogger site, or maybe encourage you to give Blogger a try for your website solution. A longer, more in-depth version of this post is available on our blog. My company is lucky to have an exceptionally talented designer that isn’t afraid to push us, but even if you don’t have the ability to create an entirely new site template, perhaps this will encourage you to explore the underlying code of your site and to customize some of the small details to match your vision for your site.
Happy designing and coding!
David
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