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From Willamette Week: Can the Yellow and Green MAX trains running on 5th and 6th avenues (in Portland) control traffic lights? I don’t believe I’ve ever seen one have to halt, other than at a designated stop. —JR Trtek Oswald acted alone, the Masons are a social club, and th... [More]

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From Mashable:   Last August we featured a post with more than 230 online apps for running your business. Since there are hundreds of new apps coming on the market every year, we figured it was time for an update. This year we came up with more than 270 additional apps. Some are completely ne... [More]

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But rather than trust us or anyone else, we surveyed 167 professionals – including business owners, executive managers, marketers and sales people – who are involved in or familiar with their organization's marketing process. We asked them where they spend their marketing dollars, what marketing channels are important to them and where their leads are coming from. [More]

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From Freakonomics: GOOD produced this sharp info-graphic on murder rates worldwide. One interesting trend it doesn’t show: countries with lower murder rates tend to have higher rates of suicide. Take Japan, which has one of the lowest murder rates in the world — just 0.5 per 100,000 peo... [More]

He wondered if he was in for a Jim Cramer-type beatdown. But it turns out that Jon Stewart gave SuperFreakonomics a thumping endorsement.

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The U.S. economy grew in the third quarter for the first time in a year, beating market expectations, as consumer spending and new home-building rebounded, signaling the end of the worst recession in 70 years. [More]

A diet of burgers, chips, sausages and cake will programme your brain into craving even more foods that are high in sugar, salt and fat, according to new research. [More]

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Pumpkin carving has certainly evolved into a competitive American pastime, so get ready to scared out of your gourd this Halloween. [More]

From The Huffington Post: This may be our most controversial slideshow ever. We left off black licorice despite protestations, we kept gum drops on regardless of the pleas to abstain. Well now we need you to vote, and if enough of you express hatred for a specific "treat" we may add it to the list.... [More]

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From FREAKONOMICS: By Ian Ayres David Segal had a wonderful piece in The Times on Sunday pointing out a missing market in theft protection. “Tracking down cellphones is not rocket science.” Corporations like Amazon and Sirius won’t help owners recover their lost gadgets, l... [More]

Jeff Cole is in charge over at www.pr101.biz. He puts this blog out every Monday morning. I like what he has to say regarding public relations. He's worked as a reporter for 25 years in Illinois, New York, Detroit and Milwaukee. He now helps clients with marketing communications. Check this guy and his blog out! [More]

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It appears as if GeoCities is down for the count. Yahoo announced recently that all GeoCities pages will be shutting down on October 26, 2009. I haven't looked at or thought about GeoCities in a very, very long time but there was a time when I would patiently wait on a 13.6 baud rate internet connection from two Compaqs networked on Mike's porch. This was back in maybe 1997 or so and we would have nightly planning sessions with Bob Nevans on how to effectively both share a dial-up, networked computer situation. Nevertheless, once we connected we would sign into the GeoCities account and constantly work on our Absolute Music DJ Service webpage. I wish we had visuals to reference. It was a sweet site.

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That’s all nice and fine, but what about all those little gems programs that work great, but don’t get all the headlines? In this article, I will try my best to mention as many small name freeware programs as I can that can help make you more productive! [More]