SpreedNews Review

By David W. Boles on November 18, 2008 9:17 AM | 16 Comments
SpreedNews is the fast way get updated on the world spinning around you.  SpreedNews is a news aggregator with a twist:  You read your news super fast.  You don't need Evelyn Wood when you have SpreedNews.

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Celebrating Puja in Kolkata

By Kathakali Chatterjee on November 13, 2008 9:15 AM | 25 Comments

Kathakali Chatterjee wrote this article.

I witnessed "Durgapuja" aka "Puja" in Kolkata last October straight after 4 years. Puja, for those who are not familiar with the term, is the biggest Hindu festival of Eastern part of India, Kolkata being the center of attraction. As an absolute non-religious person, Puja was never really of any significance but even a die-hard atheist like me couldn't really deny the effect of nostalgia and memory it used to bring along.

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Grinning Pepsi Logos and the Wrinkled Penis Bottle

By David W. Boles on November 6, 2008 8:25 AM | 24 Comments
We believe in branding. Your logo, your namespace, and your textual perception is everything online, and it is the only thing that matters when you are a popular company propagating your brand.  We were horrified to learn Pepsi recently changed their semiotic logo and bottle in favor of a strange, smiling, grinning, yawning set of variations on the Obama-like red-white-and-blue theme.  Here is the old, favorite Pepsi Logo we all know and love:

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An American Election

By David W. Boles on November 4, 2008 4:04 AM | 24 Comments
If you live in the United States, and if you are registered to vote -- we urge you to stand in line all day if you have to, and cast a vote for Barack Obama -- to win back what was lost.

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Avoiding Mob Approval

By David W. Boles on October 30, 2008 10:07 AM | 10 Comments
Can we resist the mob mentality? Seneca, the great Roman thinker, warned us in his life and from his death, that we must resist the measure of the mainstream.

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No Idea is Forever

By David W. Boles on October 28, 2008 8:46 AM | 16 Comments
We know a promise only lives as long as the one making the promise, and today we must confess that no idea is forever. 

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The Loving LaLa Review

By David W. Boles on October 23, 2008 9:59 AM | 12 Comments
Do you LaLa?  If not, you have no idea what you're missing!  Forget iTunes.  Cancel Rhapsody.  Delete your Pandora and Last.fm accounts.  From now on, your everything and your always lives in LaLa.com.

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Saluting the Muslim American Solider

By David W. Boles on October 21, 2008 10:00 AM | 10 Comments
Colin Powell appeared on Meet the Press on Sunday and he made an eloquent defense for Barack Obama as president while resoundingly defeating the cruel, and unfounded, attacks by the radical right wing that Obama is as Muslim when he is not; but, Powell argued, what if Obama were a Muslim?  What difference would it make?  What difference should it make?  Then General Powell mentioned an arresting image he saw in the New Yorker showing Elsheba Khan resting her head on the grave of her dead Muslim American son, Specialist Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan. Powell told us Special Khan fought for America and his sacrifice was no less than that of any Christian.

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No Regrets Except for One

By David W. Boles on October 16, 2008 8:29 AM | 14 Comments
I do not believe in regret.  We live our lives.  We make decisions.  We must live with the decisions we make because we cannot travel back in time to make amends for bad behavior or mulligan immoral responses to moral conditions.

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Nipping the Dead Weight

By David W. Boles on October 14, 2008 9:06 AM | 8 Comments
How do you get rid of the rotten worker without reams of documentation and yearning?  Is there a quick and safe way to nip the dead weight from drowning your company?

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