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Facebook phishing scam snares company board member

Mon, 10 May 2010 12:39:00 -0400

Considering all the negative press lately about Facebook's security and privacy policies, this was not a good time for a phishing scam to wind up in the inboxes of investor Jim Breyer's Facebook friends.
Originally posted at The Social

Facebook phishing scam snares company board member

It's Spring - Time to Prevent Lyme Disease

Mon, 10 May 2010 12:36:46 -0400

When you're outside this spring and summer, prevent tick bites and reduce your risk of Lyme disease and other tick-borne disease by following these tips. Read more...

It's Spring - Time to Prevent Lyme Disease

Obama: iPod, iPad don't empower

Mon, 10 May 2010 12:32:33 -0400

In a commencement speech at Virginia's Hampton University, the president offers that gadgets turn information into a distraction. He also says he doesn't know how to use an iPod, iPad, Xbox, or PlayStation.

It's hard not to sympathize with his sentiment. Instant access to instantly concocted information does put additional pressure on everyone's critical faculties. Yet it also allows people better access to opposing points of view, to opportunities of verification, to asking their fellow humans for help and guidance.

Naturally, it's up to humans to choose to use gadgets that way. It's up to humans to want to be more empowered, more emancipated, more entertained by the notion of self- and world-betterment.

Originally posted at Technically Incorrect

Obama: iPod, iPad don't empower

Google Docs, a better way.

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 11:27:51 -0400

Asthma and COPD Inhalers That Contain Ozone-depleting CFCs to be Phased Out; Alternative Treatments Available

Thu, 22 Apr 2010 18:03:31 -0400

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced, in accordance with longstanding U.S. obligations under the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, seven metered-dose inhalers (MDI) used to treat asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) will be gradually removed from the U.S. marketplace. These inhalers contain ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), which are propellants that move medication out of the inhaler and into the lungs of patients. Alternative medications that do not contain CFCs are available. Read more...

Asthma and COPD Inhalers That Contain Ozone-depleting CFCs to be Phased Out; Alternative Treatments Available