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Freeware Assisting the Invisible Hand

By On December 9, 2010 · 1 Comment

I am just amazed sometimes at the innovations being made in the freeware software industry. The WordPress platform this site operates on was provided as a free download. It continues to be available for millions of people (including myself) who would have had neither the expertise nor resources to develop such a complex software.

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Another Executed Man’s Guilt in Doubt

By On November 18, 2010 · 1 Comment

New DNA evidence has put in doubt the guilt of a man executed in 2000. A single strand of hair was used to corroborate testimony by Claude Jones’ supposed accomplices in the 1989 trial of a liquor store robbery and murder.

Barry Scheck, co-founder of the renowned Innocence Project, said the new evidence does not [...]

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Google Voice, a Work in Progress

By On March 19, 2010 · 1 Comment

Google Voice is a service that unifies a user’s different phones numbers into a central number. There is a lot more to it, inlcuding automatically transcribing voicemails.

This is a transcription I just recieved.

Spoke to you. I’m going to talk about them. Hey Justin, This is a chance. Bye bye. That’s about it [...]

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Odds and Enders for March 4

By On March 4, 2009 · Leave a Comment

~ On the president’s entrepreneurship spending:

Contrary to popular myth, startup companies do not generate many new jobs, and actually create net job losses after their first year. Findings from the Bureau of Labor Statistics support this fact. For example, in 1998 there were 152,668 people employed by new startups in the leisure and [...]

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