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09 Oct 09

UCLA campus in shock after student stabbed by classmate | L.A. NOW | Los Angeles Times

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"People are shocked that something like that would happen," UCLA biochemistry professor Sabeeha Merchant. "But because
we are at the un

04 Oct 09

Writing the Successful College Application Essay

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How you write your personal essay shows the admissions
committee why you are different from everybody else.

02 Oct 09

The Technium: 1,000 True Fans

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A creator, such as an artist, musician, photographer, craftsperson, performer, animator, designer, videomaker, or author - in other words, anyone producing works of art - needs to acquire only 1,000 True Fans to make a living.
To raise your sales out of the flatline of the long tail you need to connect with your True Fans directly.
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- A more important caution: Not every artist is cut out, or willing, to be a nurturer of fans. Many musicians just want to play music, or photographers just want to shoot, or painters paint, and they temperamentally don't want to deal with fans, especially True Fans. For these creatives, they need a mediator, a manager, a handler, an agent, a galleryist -- someone to manage their fans. Nonetheless, they can still aim for the same middle destination of 1,000 True Fans. They are just working in a duet.

31 Jul 09

Lego Star Wars 2 Cheats

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28 Jul 09

the reluctant leader: The Lost Art of Respect & Honor

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Respect is based on how a person performs.
Honor is based on a person’s position.

23 Jul 09

New home-appraisal rule brings turmoil to real estate industry - San Jose Mercury News

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The new rule, which took effect May 1, forbids brokers from hiring their own appraisers and requires intermediaries — called appraisal management companies — to choose them instead.

22 Jul 09

CNN.com - Breaking News, U.S., World, Weather, Entertainment & Video News

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gation told CNN late Tuesday. The safe is the second one belonging to Byrd and Melanie Billings of Beulah, Florida. The source said the suspe

TweakXP.com - Performance Tweaks

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Its all about your priorities
Speed up menu display
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- Speed up web browsing with OpenDNS
- Speed-up log-in tremendously!
- Turn off Indexing to speed up XP
- Users not interested in fancy windows and colors

21 Jul 09

Yahoo Plans to Unveil a Revamped Home Page - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com

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it wanted to provide something of a dashboard that offered its users a view not only into their favorite Yahoo content and services, but also into third-party applications and sites that they use frequently, like Facebook, eBay or Gmail.
the goal as making Yahoo into a “starting point” for users on the Web.
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- putting Yahoo at the “center point of people’s lives online.
- the most singular feature is how Yahoo integrates third-party applications and sites into its home page.
- a preview of that application, be it their Facebook page, the front page of The New York Times, or their Gmail in-box, pops up. That makes Yahoo.com an easy way for users to check in with their favorite services.
- brand advertisers want to buy context
- It is not clear how third-party publishers will react to having Yahoo sell ads next to their content, but Mr. Bhat said Yahoo had notified publishers and that it was a “win-win for everyone.
- the company was trying to walk a middle road between sites that broadcast a single home page to all their users — the old Yahoo.com or a newspaper home page — and services that allow users to customize their experience, like My Yahoo or iGoogle.
- people say they like a custom experience, but the number who bother to program their home page remains relatively low

20 Jul 09

SECPub: Sitemap for Development

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18 Jul 09

Facebook | Home

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eone else’s expense. There are three p

How to Get More Out of Your Home Network - Stepcase Lifehack

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home-wide backups simple
share household files and services
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- centralize your music collection
- operate computers on other rooms
- use as the central “hub” in my home network
- use it to store all my documents, media files, photos, and everything else.
- has the biggest hard drive in the house
- everything important is on one computer, I only have to backup from that computer.

Think Again: Asia's Rise - By Minxin Pei | Foreign Policy

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Only 10 percent of Japanese, 21 percent of South Koreans,
and 27 percent of Indonesians surveyed by the Chicago Council on Global
Affairs said they would be comfortable with China being the future
leader of Asia.

Think Again: Asia's Rise - By Minxin Pei | Foreign Policy

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Like beauty, a country's geopolitical influence is often in the eye of the beholder.
And given the cultural differences and history of intense rivalry among the region's
countries, Asia is unlikely to achieve any degree of regional political
unity and evolve into an EU-like entity in our lifetime. Henry Kissinger once famously asked, "Who do I call if I want to call Europe?" We can ask the same question about Asia.

Think Again: Asia's Rise - By Minxin Pei | Foreign Policy

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Asia is pouring money into higher education. But Asian universities will not become the world's leading centers of learning and research anytime soon.
The region's hierarchical culture, centralized
bureaucracy, weak private universities, and emphasis on rote learning
and test-taking will continue to hobble its efforts to clone the United
States' finest research institutions.
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- only 10 percent of Chinese engineers and 25 percent of Indian engineers as even "employable," compared with 81 percent of American engineers.

Think Again: Asia's Rise - By Minxin Pei | Foreign Policy

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It is tempting to say that Asia's
unique brand of capitalism, by seamlessly weaving together strategic
state intervention, corporate long-term thinking, and insuppressible
popular desire for material betterment, will outcompete either the greed-devastated U.S. model or the hidebound European variant.
there's little real evidence to suggest that their apparent dynamism comes from a mysteriously successful form of Asian capitalism.
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- Asian countries have to grow faster because they're starting from a much lower base.
- Asian capitalism does have three unique features
- First,
- Second
- Finally
- Most of them save because their governments provide inadequate
  social safety nets.

Think Again: Asia's Rise - By Minxin Pei | Foreign Policy

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the
region faces enormous demographic hurdles in the decades ahead. More
than 20 percent of Asians will be elderly by 2050.
Political instability could also throw Asia's economic locomotive off course.

Think Again: Asia's Rise - By Minxin Pei | Foreign Policy

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But it's a gross exaggeration to say that Asia will emerge as the world's predominant power player. At most, Asia's rise will lead to the arrival of a multi-polar world, not another unipolar one.
Asian countries are furiously upgrading their militaries,
but their combined military spending in 2008 was still only a third
that of the United States.
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- it is meaningless to talk about Asia as a single entity of power,
  now or in the future.
- Asian history is replete with examples of competition for power and
  even military conflict among its big players.
- Pax Americana was made possible not only by the
  overwhelming economic and military might of the United States but also
  by a set of visionary ideas: free trade, Wilsonian liberalism, and
  multilateral institutions.

16 Jul 09

Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Improve snippets with a meta description makeover

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Using identical or similar descriptions on every page of a site isn't very helpful when individual pages appear in the web results.
Create descriptions that accurately describe each specific page.
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- site-level descriptions
- page-level descriptions
- a great place to include structured data about the page
- product pages might have the key bits of information -- price, age, manufacturer -- scattered throughout a page, making it unlikely that a snippet will capture all of this information. Meta descriptions can bring all this data together.
- No duplication, more information, and everything is clearly tagged and separated.
- Good descriptions are human-readable and diverse
- make sure your descriptions are... descriptive.
- A little extra work on your meta descriptions can go a long way towards showing a relevant snippet in search results. That's likely to improve the quality and quantity of your user traffic.