Today I received an email from Lewisville-based Terri Kirby Erickson inviting me to read one of her poems, Queen Anne’s Lace, which was published in the Christian Science Monitor. I’m no connoisseur of poetry but I liked it, and it befuddled me just as most poetry that doesn’t begin with "Roses are red" tends to do.  She has a collection titled Thread Count available at Amazon.com among other places.

• Refuting Those Fighting The ‘Do Not Track’ List
  Do not track list info.
  (tags: privacy)
• FTC Pledges Not to Drop Any Numbers From Do Not Call Registry, Pending Final Congressional or Agency Action on
  FTC is not dropping numbers from Do Not Call registry? Sounds like that’s the case IF congress makes the registry permanent.
  (tags: privacy)
• RGE – The bloodbath in credit and financial markets will continue and sharply worsen
  Article about the liquidity crunch. I’m taking that on face value since I don’t really know what half of the acronyms mean. ABCP and related SIV sectors? Sounds like the clap to me.
  (tags: finance)
• Collateralized debt obligation – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  CDOs explained.
  (tags: finance)
• Asset-backed security – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  ABS explained.
  (tags: finance)
• Cool Tool: Apples to Apples
  This card game would drive the accountants in my family nuts. Here’s the description:
  There are two types of cards: nouns (red) and adjectives (green). Each player is given a small stack of nouns. The game begins when one player (the judge) draws an adj
  (tags: games)
• It’s all in a Name: 4 Hour Work Week » The Bivings Report
  Using Google adwords as a focus group.
  (tags: marketing research)
• The Guardian Wants a Tag Editor » The Bivings Report
  Good explanation of tagging and folksonomy.
  (tags: web2.0)
• Business Innovation Factory – Home
  Interesting business innovation site. Looking at BIF-3 for ideas.
  (tags: businessintelligence events)

• Primary Intelligence Blog: Intelligence for Business » Blog Archive » Star Trek, Competitive Intelligence and Analytics
  (tags: competitiveintelligence)
• Rocketinfo
  RocketInfo’s reseller program
  (tags: competitiveintelligence search web2.0)
• Chaos Projects » The SpyPhone – and remote recording
  Creating a “Spy Phone” set up with standard cell phones
  (tags: coolstuff)
• Brand Killer Robots: Corporate Intelligence Spys:: Should we be looking Beyond the Obvious?
  Counter intelligence in corporations.
  (tags: competitiveintelligence)
• Popular Science Blog – Bug Labs debuts DIY Gadget-Building Kit
  DIY heaven. Modular hardware so people can “hack” the machines in addition to software.
  (tags: diy)
• loose wire blog: Soccer 2.0
  Crowd sourcing an Israeli soccer team’s strategy. Fans monitor the game online and suggest starting line-ups, tactics and the like.
  (tags: sports web2.0)
• Google’s OpenSocial: Take That, Facebook!
  Google’s reply to facebook.
  (tags: web2.0)
• ProQuo Gives Consumers New Power Over Marketers
  Article about ProQuo, which is a kind of “do not mail” opt-out registry for direct mail similar to the “do not call” list geared to telemarketing.
  (tags: marketing privacy)

• As Beaches Erode, So Do Solutions – New York Times
  NY Times article about beach erosion from OBX to Charleston. Isle of Palms mentioned.
  (tags: travel)
• glumbert – Xtreme Mormons
  Guy “pitches” movie about extreme BMX missionaries doing their thing in Sin City.
  (tags: funny)
• glumbert – Mirror Mirror On the Wall
  Best gag I’ve seen in a while. Mirror that doesn’t show reflection freaks some people out when they can see the reflection of an actress in on the gag but not their own.
  (tags: funny)
• Repairing the Healthcare System: Birth Of An Entrepreneur: Brad Feld
  The birth of one of the blogging world’s preeminent entrepreneurs as told by his father.
  (tags: entrepreneurship)

• Miro vs. Joost – Head to Head Comparison
  Online video players Miro and Joost compared.
  (tags: video)
• Picture Hook Springs – Lee Valley Tools
  Cool way to keep your pictures hanging straight. Found via bookofjoe.
  (tags: tools homeimprovement)
• Flat Bag Holder – Lee Valley Tools
  This trash bag holder keeps you from having to the bag around a door knob in places like your garage. Also found via bookofjoe.
  (tags: tools homeimprovement)
• Library’s clever answer to network filtering – Boing Boing
  Library offers filtered and unfiltered internet access.
  (tags: library)
• Conference on Corporate Applications of Prediction/Information Markets
  Event focused on prediction markets.
  (tags: competitiveintelligence)

• The Troublemaker: Fec is a fool.
  Ben tags Fec.
  (tags: blogs greensboro)
• Rube Goldberg – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Rube Goldberg explained.
  (tags: science)
• Competitive Intelligence on a Shoestring | LLRX.com
  CI on a shoestring presentation. Source is legal profession pub.
  (tags: competitiveintelligence)
• The Kick Is Up and It’s … A Career Killer – New York Times
  NFL kickers.
  (tags: sports)
• What’s wrong with Sports Illustrated? – By Josh Levin – Slate Magazine
  Chronicling the demise of Sports Illustrated.
  (tags: sports)
• Turdpolisher: MAD SHADY AND THE TWO LIVE FOOLS
  Turdpolisher’s another TV photog who can write. Add him to the reader.
  (tags: blogs)
• Iraqi Dam Seen In Danger of Deadly Collapse – washingtonpost.com
  If the Mosul Dam has a catastrophic failure the resulting flood could kill 500,000 people. Army Corps of Engineers, the same people who overestimated New Orleans’ capabilities, think Mosul Dam is most dangerous in the world. That’s not good.
  (tags: iraq)

• Networked Journalism Summit » Blog Archive » Jennifer Carroll – Gannett
  Gannett’s recent local news moves.
  (tags: newspaperevolution)
• NewAssignment.Net | an experiment in open-source reporting
  Future in news reporting?
  (tags: newspapers media)
• Networked Journalism Summit » Blog Archive » Derek Willis – Database Journalism at Washingtonpost.com
  Database journalism.
  (tags: media newspaperevolution)
• studies.png (image)
  Funny take on college majors
  (tags: humor)
• indexed: College majors in the US.
  Funny take on college majors home page.
  (tags: humor)
• Acid Test » In the event of an anaconda attack …
  Nightmare waiting to happen
  (tags: weird)
• FireShot :: Firefox Add-ons
  Firefox screen capture add-on. Apparently allows you to edit screenshots in the browser. WIll try.
  (tags: firefox firefoxextensions)
• Final Cut Producer » Blog Archive » ConvergeSouth Film Festival… Online
  ConvergeSouth Film Festival entries posted.
  (tags: convergesouth film)

• PassingNotes.com » How the Social Internet simplifies Source Identification
  Social internet search and aggregate sites.
  (tags: web2.0)
• Centralized Competitive Intelligence Functions in Large Corporations ~ Jens Thieme Weblog
  SCIP 2007 Euro Summit speaker Jens Thieme writes about some feedback re. his speech.
  (tags: competitiveintelligence)
• Viewfinder BLUES: A Tale of Two Mediums
  TV vs. Newspaper from a TV photogs perspective.
  (tags: media)

• Bye-bye, democracy (Metro Times Detroit)
  Gannett bashing and worry for newspapers in general.
  (tags: media newspapers)
• How the virtual local community responds to ConvergeSouth – LUX.ET.UMBRA
  ConvergeSouth. Darkmoon’s real motivation for the annual Greensboro blogfest.
  (tags: blogbusiness)

• Japanese women could be “safer” at night by wearing vending-machine disguises – Boing Boing
  Japanese women encouraged to disguise themselves as vending machines to avoid street predators.
  (tags: weird)
• Viewfinder BLUES: ConvergeSouth: The Buzz That Was
  Damnit, damnit, damnit. Lenslinger’s write-up of ConvergeSouth makes me regret missing it even more. Maybe next year.
  (tags: blogs)
• Linguality | Home
  Product lets you read French books without a dictionary.
  (tags: book)