Archive for August 2006
Colloidal Silver … Thanks AndI!
Posted by: duckandgather on: August 16, 2006
On one of my blog postings from May, AndI recommended that we “[c]onsider Colloidal Silver to protect yourself from H5N1.” Given that the commenters on my site seem to be intelligent and insightful types, I figured this was a worthy topic to investigate. I finally got the time to do so last week.
Short of is [...]
The Brand Underground
Posted by: duckandgather on: August 16, 2006
A couple of weeks back, the New York Times magazine ran a story called “The Brand Underground.” To me, this article is the follow-on to the magazine’s article back in 2004 on the word-of-mouth marketing phenomenon. Reading this current article, I experienced the same feeling of horror and revulsion that I experienced reading the earlier [...]
The Power of Nightmares … Thanks Sean!
Posted by: duckandgather on: August 16, 2006
I just posted a podcast about “colloidal silver”. I found it to be a fascinating topic. Commenter AndI turned me on to it.
So I figured I’d go check out the blog of another regular commenter on this site — Sean LeBlanc. Sean’s blog is A Study in Sparseness.
Today, Sean posted a comment on a BBC [...]
Comment to AndI
Posted by: duckandgather on: August 11, 2006
(I tried to post this as a comment on AndI’s site — but I couldn’t do so without joining MySpace.)
AndI has a really interesting take on this British “terror” bust of yesterday. He presents a well-reasoned argument that this whole episode is fake, and was staged by reactionaries trying to frighten us about “Islamofascism”.
I’d say [...]
Crude Filter
Posted by: duckandgather on: August 11, 2006
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Due to all the spam comments I’m getting, I’ve set my WordPress options to hold in the moderation queue any comment that contains so much as one link. That sucks because the folks who tend to comment on this blog — Sean LeBlanc, And I, and Tom Brown, to name a few — tend to [...]
Chemotherapy Doesn’t Work
Posted by: duckandgather on: August 11, 2006
I figured I’d join the other gazillion bloggers and give my two cents about the British arrests yesterday in that spectacular “terrorist” plot involving incendiary liquids. I thought some discussion here might be interesting because this event may well prove to serve as a political crossroads in the U.S., Britain, and the world generally. My [...]
Finding the Joy in Operations
Posted by: duckandgather on: August 8, 2006
I ended the last blog entry by posing a challenge to myself: “I need to find the joy in operations”. Well, you know me. I’m always up for a challenge. Count me in.
Here’s what I think is going on: As I have podcasted, I believe I am of the Eight type according to [...]
What I Learned During My Summer of Unemployment
Posted by: duckandgather on: August 8, 2006
Podcast #85 goes into what I did over the past three months while I was, coventionally speaking, unemployed. Now it’s time to look into what I learned during this period. In short, what I learned — or, at least, what was really stamped home to me — is that I am relatively accomplished at projects, [...]
Podcast-o-rama
Posted by: duckandgather on: August 7, 2006
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I’ve finally gotten around to cleaning out my backlog of podcasts. As podcast #85 explains, since my Summer of unemployment began on May 6, I’ve been doing heavy manual labor pretty much all day every day. But now that this period has come to an end, it’s time to get back to this blog, among [...]
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