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scattered thoughts

I am not a scientologist.
Let’s begin there.
I have never given money to the Church of Scientology, nor do I intend to.
I can believe that a second-rate science fiction writer with a checkered past could come up with something useful. L. Ron Hubbard was plainly a smart man. I can imagine a 1950’s engineering [...]

In response to a thread on Facebook about privacy stemming from this interesting presentation that I can’t be arsed to watch the whole way through, I wrote this:
There is no big brother, and never will be. Thanks to openness and the internet, our culture has dodged that bullet. All we have are a thousand little [...]

Another friend asked me what I know I about search engine optimization, particularly hiring a company to do that sort of work for her.
Do you know anything about this? I need my website to come up at the top of the heap. Can you direct me to someone competent who understands SEO/Spiders/Metatags/etc. Let [...]

People ask me to explain things to them sometimes, and so I do. My friend Felicity asked:
So i’ve been researching North Korea lately, and trying to learn stuff. I never really did understand communism…i mean i understand the idea of it…but it just seems really complex. So i’ve always been kind of [...]

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Is Apple poised to launch the iPhone on their own branded MVNO? Or is Disney going to buy iTunes?