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Alyssa Bereznak: A Study in Why Nerds Should be Publicly Humiliated

by Leland Flynn

I’d like to preface this rant by saying that I wish the target of said rant no physical ill will. But I do hope that she is publicly shamed for her immature view of others, her poor taste in subject matter, and her sheer lack of integrity.
 
I was skimming though my Twitter stream and happened to see a retweet from Veronica Belmont (@Veronica) by Felicia Day (@feliciaday) about a Gizmodo article that had them both rather incensed. I went ahead and clicked through to see what had them both so very up in arms and what I found was a piece of yellow journalism if indeed this could be called journalism at all. It seemed less fitting for Gizmodo and more appropriate for some muck-raking gossip blog.

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Review: How I Quit Smoking with Green Smoke Electronic Cigarettes

October 27, 2010
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As I’m writing this post, I’m celebrating the 2nd month of my new healthy lifestyle. I had been a smoker for about 8 years, and I smoked an average of 20 cigarettes per day. The longest I was able to quit smoking was less than 48 hours, which means I was never able to not [...]

Mishaal Al Gergawi Wins My iPad!!!

May 25, 2010

Ok folks, I’ve been a little slow in getting this out, but before I leave on my weeklong trek to the Indy 500 I wanted to get the announcement out about the iPad contest winner! Congrats to Mishaal Al Gergawi from Dubai! He lives in a place I would very much like to visit one [...]

Stop Skype From Auto Adjusting Microphone Volume on Mac (Disable Auto Gain Control – ACG)

May 18, 2010

When we are recording Wealth Nation, we often conduct interviews via Skype. Of course, we’ve got a fairly sophisticated microphone setup going on, and I get everything tweaked just the way I want it before getting on the call. But then, in the middle of recording a show Skype decides to start changing microphone volume [...]