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...only one who thinks Google is The Matrix? It's true! Google gives us the most wonderful free stuff--search, e-mail, productivity apps--and all we have to do in return is let it suck our souls...
...Google gets to read my e-mail and many of my work documents. It knows more about me than my blessed wife does. And I'm fine with that, since--so far, anyway--it uses the data benignly, mainly to try to sell me stuff. (Good luck with that.) I am happy to be one of the millions of batteries that power Google. The more it feeds on us, the more it gives us, creating a bountiful world where manna rains from the cloud computers...
...assumed I became one of the 200 most popular people on twitter due to my Dorothy Parker-level quipping. Stuff like "Every Bastille Day I think the same sad thought: "I have never stormed anything" and "World music makes me not want to travel." But it turns out that Twitter provides a suggestion list of people to follow when you sign up, and they put me on the list. Due, no doubt, to my Dorothy-Parker level quipping. Unless I'm on some suggestion list VCs provide internet companies with when they sign up for investment money...
Though slurry doesn't look particularly eco-friendly, aerial firefighting is not environmentally harmful, Upton says - though planes avoid dumps near lakes, streams and other waterways (in especially sensitive areas, tankers drop plain water instead). The Forest Service also advises against allowing pets to swallow the stuff, as with other fertilizers. Still, the retardant poses another, less-publicized hazard, Upton says: to fashion. She's been on the ground as a rain of colored fertilizer falls from the sky: "I've had plenty of pink t-shirts...
...Seng China Enterprises Index is probably a more realistic reflection of expectations about the direction of China's economy. It advanced only 45.8% from January to July this year. The sell-off in Shanghai trimmed that gain to 35.6% as of Aug. 31 - a strong gain, but hardly the stuff of bubbles...