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• Video: Use Y2K preparedness for 2012

  
  Life Without Faith — Authority: 132
  Hopefully, some of us will survive the calamity that will occur on December 12, 2012 . So perhaps we should go back and implement the great things we learned in preparation for the catastrophe of Y2K. A good starting point would be the information in this video: Remember: Don’t store your water in bleach ...
  8 hours ago

• Remember Y2K?

  
  Not a sheep — Authority: 149
  Farhad Manjoo at Slate does and so do I. Take a read of his interesting article, this passage might get you thinking: "After Y2K was over, American companies retained their taste for Indian programmers. "Outsourcing kept increasing well after the Y2K problem became a thing of the past," Mitra and Ranjan write. In ...
  1 day ago

• How Our Response to Y2K Reveals What Well Do About Global Warming and Swine Flu

  
  The Big Money — Authority: 714
  The United States came together and responded to the Y2K threat surprisingly well. Why isnt that happening in response to global warming? How did the people on Y2Ks front lines overcome these hurdles? They focused on the worst. "Were accelerating toward disaster," de Jager wrote in 1993. In his 1996 letter to ...
  1 day ago

• Apocalypse Then

  
  The Big Money — Authority: 714
  There was a lot of talk leading up to Y2K, but it seems that everyone has forgotten about it by now. Slate s Farhad Manjoo has set out to find out whether the hysteria was a good thing or just a big waste of time and money: How big a deal was Y2K? In the run-up to new century, the United States spent about $100 ...
  2 days ago

• Top 10 Reasons Why the World Wont End in 2012

  
  Heresy and Usurpation — Authority:
  Top 10 Reasons Why the World Wont End in 2012 : (via geezush)Rarely do 2012 theories tie in with...
  3 days ago

• Newsweek Launches ‘Decade In Rewind’ Website, Recaps Ten Years In 7 Minutes

  
  Mediaite — Authority: 806
  We’re less than two months from the end of the decade and up to now, the media has been suspiciously quiet about it. Maybe it’s going to be a surprise party, but it wouldn’t have been unreasonable to believe that the retrospective coverage would have been wall-to-wall for the entire second half of the year. ...
  5 days ago

• Y2K, The Decade that was… Part 1

  
  PassionforCinema.com — Authority: 143
  The last year, 2010 of this decade is about to take flight. And while we all at PFC and numerous other sites, blogs and boards dedicated towards the passion for cinema, are talking, discussing, trashing, uplifting, ditching, or fucking up movies and movie professionals and anything related to cinema, very few have had ...
  1 week ago

• Now That’s Funny: Christian Chirp

  
  Kevin D. Hendricks — Authority: 415
  If you haven’t heard about it yet, Christian Chirp is a new Christian alternative to Twitter. In and of itself, that’s funny. I’ll let you revel in it. Now go look at the site . It’s down right now because of a massive attack ( screenshot ). Must be the persecution of the last days. No seriously. ...
  1 week ago

• Biggest IT industry failures?

  
  Tony Collins's IT Projects Blog — Authority: 122
  ... according to Jack Wallen of TechRepublic . [I dont agree with all of them - there were 119 comments on the article at last count Windows Vista NeXT BeOS Cobalt Qube Y2K MP3 Richard Stallman WordPerfect IPv6 Mesh networks Full article
  1 week ago

• If Republicans Want To Win Big In 2010, They Must Scozzafavarize RINO’s

  
  Politics 24/7 — Authority: 475
      Regardless of whether third party candidate, conservative Doug Hoffman, wins the special election in New York’s 23 rd Congressional District on Tuesday or not, the fact that a district wide and nation wide backlash forced liberal Republican nominee Dede Scozzafava out of the race, was already a dramatic ...
  1 week ago

• Let’s Not Offend Hollywood’s Delicate Geniuses

  
  Big Hollywood — Authority: 813
  In 2006, while accepting the Academy Award for playing a husky, grizzled version of himself, George Clooney famously gushed, “…this Academy, this group of people gave Hattie McDaniel an Oscar in 1939 when blacks were still sitting in the backs of theaters. I’m proud to be a part of this Academy. I’m proud to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Mark Your Calendars: End of the World and Binary Armageddon

  
  Security Watch — Authority: 557
  Johannes Ullrich of SANS has collected some recent and upcoming catastrophe dates .There was Dec. 31st 1999, 23:59:59 GMT , the big one that didnt bang.There will be Jan. 10th, 2010, 10:10:00 GMT , now known as "Binary Armageddon Day." All those 10s in the date render as 1010011010, which is binary for ...
  2 weeks ago

• Vuzix Wrap 310 video eyewear ships out to virtual big-screen lov...

  
  Hobbies Fun & entertainment - fun-entertainment.marc8.com — Authority: 163
  Vuzixs $249.95 Wrap 310 is probably the least hideous / heinous of the video eyewear options on the market today, and while its still take a few bottles of Jack to get us to rock these with a smile, those who are just high on life can read more
  2 weeks ago

• Vuzix Wrap 310 video eyewear ships out to virtual big-screen lovers

  
  Family Learning Center — Authority: 161
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  2 weeks ago

• Snow Days and the Swine Flu.

  
  PrincipalsPage The Blog — Authority: 416
  Both of these are colossal pains in my… neck. When you think about it, they are quite similar (besides being a pain in my… fine we’ll stick with neck). Don’t believe me? Both give you the chance to stay in bed and watch the Price is Right (no offense Mr. Carey, but I miss Bob Barker). Granted one may ...
  3 weeks ago

• Find Out What Is – Gun Control is Not Crime Control

  
  Retirement — Authority: 135
  love A majority of my adult life I carried a gun as part of my job. I carried it 40 hours a week for about 20 years and many, many more hours off duty. I wore it so much I felt like I had a permanent growth on my hip. Today, I have a license to carry a gun, however I rarely do. Guns and ammunition are selling at ...
  3 weeks ago

• I Was Just Thinking

  
  Joe Cool's Blog — Authority: 121
  I cant believe that this year is almost gone, only two and a half months more and well be in 2010. Now close your eyes and tell me that it doesnt feel as if it was yesterday people were worried about Y2K and the end of the world, people stocking their pantries with food and buying lots of gallons of water because the ...
  4 weeks ago

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