It's Happening: Humans on Mars by 2020

This video from Fora.TV discusses a bet. Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, says that humans will be on Mars by 2020. He may just be the person who makes it happen. If not, he expects someone to pick it up and make it happen. 11 more years. Can it happen?

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5 Recession Proof Careers for the Next Decade

In a downsizing economy, the best return on investment for your career may be to focus on your current job. Still, preparing for your next job or next career can be a wise move. In uncertain times, pursuing your dream job may take the back seat to pursuing a career that is in demand.

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Recession Positive: It really IS the best time to buy a car

With an economic crisis looming over a failing industry, the catchphrase "Now's the best time to buy a new car", for once, might be the absolute truth.

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2008: Proof Positive that We Need College Football Playoffs

Every year, the debate rages over whether or not to have a playoff system that enhances or replaces the current Bowl Championship Series. This year more than any other is proof of how badly we need one. After 10 years of hit-or-miss BCS National Championships, the time has come for a change.

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Protest: Utah's Auction of 100k Public Acres for Oil and Gas

A coalition of conservation groups has just filed a formal protest opposing the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) decision to auction off 100,000 acres of public lands for oil and gas leasing and development.

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Protest: Utah's Auction of 100k Public Acres for Oil and Gas

A coalition of conservation groups has just filed a formal protest opposing the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) decision to auction off 100,000 acres of public lands for oil and gas leasing and development.

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Volcanoes in Pictures

From Uberly, this story shows us the awesome beauty and terrible wonder of volcanoes. They are ever so destructive, but the pictures in this story lend more towards the idea of beauty and grace.

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Earth's Most Extreme Conditions

This compilation from MediaCaffeine takes a look at the most amazing physical conditions that have been recorded on Earth.

From the hottest places to the coldest, the strongest winds to the longest bolts of lightning, this gives a visual and written description of the most extreme the world has to offer.

Extreme Weather Conditions

Pictures of 5 Strange World Record Holders

One of the things that really freaks people out is when they see other people who have strange attributes. Super long hair, extraordinarily long tongues, 25 digits - all weird stuff that freak people out. This story picks out 5 of the strangest people you will ever see. They have something in common - they are all world record holders for their particular traits.

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Atomic Computer Memory

This one did not hit the front page, but it sure looked like it would. With 70 diggs in the first couple of hours and a headline that appealed to a good portion of the Digg crowd, I was already counting it as a victory.

Somewhere along the line around 120 Diggs it just disappeared. Buried. Mysteriously. Oh well. It happens.

It's an interested story, though, as it details a recent breakthrough in science that is nothing short of brilliant - storing computer data in the nucleus of an atom.

Atomic Computer Memory at the Nucleus digg story

Rick Astley WILL be Performing, One Way or Another

With over 300 Diggs and nearly 400 comments, the popularity of Rick Astley and his Rickrolling phenomenon cannot be overstated. He is the definition of an Internet meme beyond any that the world has ever seen or ever will again. What makes this story so special is that... well, we'll get to the special part later.

For now, suffice to say that Rick is most likely going to perform at the awards ceremony on November 6th, at least according to a good source.

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Stephen Hawking Discusses His Disability

This one is a touching piece written by Stephen Hawking a few years ago and posted to his site. It's amazing how he is able to keep a sense of humor through his personal struggles with his disability.

It was submitted to Digg and Reddit and made it to the front page of Digg with over 1200 diggs and 74 comments.

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Car Dealer SEO Video that I made

For those who don't know, by profession I am Executive Director of Marketing for TK Carsites. We use clean and accepted methods to help our clients move up in the search engines.

Below, you will find a video that I made a while back that talks about Car Dealer SEO. Feel free to take a look at it, have a chuckle, eat some popcorn, and let me know what you think.

Wishes "Funner" was a word. It's so useful. Cute to say when you're 4. Not cute to say when you're old but act 4.

Tomatoes: After $500 million in losses, the FDA appears wrong

Please check out this story:



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It is likely that, after huge losses, the FDA may have been wrong about declaring tomatoes as the source of the current salmonella outbreak.



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THANKS!

oboy

Was Oil the real "WMD" that put us in Iraq?

http://ping.fm/lONqN - Great story that I found on NowPublic.

Testing Ping.FM on Blogging

This is the first test of the http://ping.fm blog posting feature for my blogs. If this pops up on Plurk or Twitter or anything, please disregard as ignorance.

Don't Leave: ‘Iron Man’ Scene After the End Credits

A quick warning -- there is a bonus scene after the credits in Iron Man. FYI. The full story from Geeks of Doom is linked below.

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Newspapers - Adapt or Die

Some of my best times in youth were spent sitting down in a lawn chair with a cup of coffee in the day or a beer at night reading a good newspaper or one of the old school magazines like the Atlantic Monthly or The Newyorker.

I haven't read anything from a paper publication in forever, unless it's online, of course. Still, it saddens me that we are seeing these venerable old rags failing. They need to adapt. They need to take their great writing and figure out how to expose them to the world of the Internet. Simply putting up a website is just not enough anymore.Thanks for listening for my rant.

JD Rucker - oboy

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We are paying $4 per gallon. What is Exxon doing?

Making money. Simple. I know there are those who will say it isn't their fault, that they're the beneficiary of Cheney or Iraq or whoever, but when you look at a 30% profit gain for a company that is already the most profitable in the universe at a time when people are making drastic changes in their lives to cope, I just can't feel that Exxon is exempt from any blame.

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