Very funny web site http://www.keeplookingbusy.com offers you an interface that looks like a Word and keeps out nosy people who are trying to trace what you are doing or browsing while online. You can Shop on Amazon, Search for deals on eBay, and Browse News No one can see what are you really doing.Don’t let your boss or coworkers sneak up behind you and see you shopping or browsing news. Try KeepLookingBusy.com Web Surfing at Work Makes You More Productive

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How to surve the web at work and avoid wandering eyes

PUBLIC INFORMATION — When a small rural court system holds back spending information sought by a small local newspaper, the response may be meek—unless the newspaper is the Sacramento Valley Mirror.  Here’s the type-lashing Editor-Publisher Tim Crews (a member of the Californians Aware board of directors) is giving the Glenn County Superior Court this week, reacting to records made available to the Valley Mirror to settle a public information lawsuit.Why is the superior court hiding info, preva

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Editorial Lambastes Court for Redacted Records

When most people hear the word motorcycle, they think of a Harley Davidson, one of the most popular American motorcycle manufacturers in the world. Even celebrities like Elvis Presley, Bill Clinton, Brad Pitt, and Jay Leno have owned them, so these highway riding machines have come to represent the epitome of cool. But did you know that most motorcycles create up to 14 times more smog-forming pollutants per mile than new passenger cars

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Can you go green on a motorcycle?

LCD waste from electronics is the fastest growing waste stream from Europe. One way to cut down on LCDs heading to the landfill: Turn them into medication. It sounds like something out of a sci-fi flick, but researchers at the University of York have discovered that waste from old LCD TVs can be recycled for medical purposes.

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Will Your Next Prescription Drug Be Made Out of Recycled LCD Screens?

photo credit: kalandrakas The following guest post is by Aditya Mahesh, founder of AMBeat.com , a complete resource for entrepreneurs complete with advice articles, start-up profiles, interviews, news analysis, and more. Take a minute to think about the ways you recommend products to friends and family. You are brutally honest and want to make sure that they are happy with any recommend product they purchase

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The Differences Between Marketing to Friends and Strangers

Google Accounts on Twitter twitter.com/Google – our central account twitter.com/Blogger – for Blogger fans twitter.com/GoogleCalendar – user tips & updates twitter.com/GoogleImages – news, tips, tricks on our visual image search twitter.com/GoogleNews – latest headlines via Google News twitter.com/GoogleReader – from our feed reader team twitter.com/iGoogle – news & notes from Google’s personalized homepage twitter.com/GoogleStudents – news of interest to

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Google and Other Search Engine Accounts on Twitter

I was an Economist subscriber for many years but eventually dropped the magazine because I got tired of toting the paper version around. So when I saw the announcement that it was available on the Kindle I jumped at the chance to subscribe. Now I just turn my Kindle wireless on every Monday morning and I have a new issue of the magazine delivered.

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The Economist on the Kindle – works like a charm

Honda’s just pulled the wraps off its CR-Z car, and announced it’s due to go into mass production with a launch date of February 2010. It’s an interesting competitor to the Prius and the Volt, and looks sweeter than either. Not much is known about the absolute technical specs of the CR-Z, which stands for the very anime-style name Compact Renaissance Zero.

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Honda’s CR-Z: A Hybrid Car to Get Excited About

A new study by Cornell researchers shows that traditional (old-media) news outlets lead the blogosphere by 2.5 hours when it comes to breaking news. It’s a sign that the old guard should chill out about blogs and how they’re destroying the news world. The Cornell research took an innovative new approach to studying the news cycle

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Old Media Still Powerful: Blogs Follow News Outlets 2.5 Hours Later

Here is part of the press release from Bowker . You can find more details at the Bowker site : Bowker (a provider of bibliographic information management solutions, announced the beta release of Books In Print 2.0 (BIP 2.0), an enhanced version of the company’s flagship book discovery and collection development platform, Books in-Print. The official global market release of BIP 2.0 is scheduled for early 4Q 2009

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Bowker announces Books in Print 2.0

  I wish the Stanza  e-reader for the iPhone hadn’t ended up at Amazon, given the Jeff Bezo’s current fondness for DRM, proprietary formats and other devilish things. That said, I wish the Lecycle crew luck just the same. Here’s an Amazon news release on Stanza’s first birthday —on its amazing journey

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‘Two million users as 12 million book downloads later: Stanza turns 1’

Did you ever join a network marketing company before the advent of the  internet became known as a means of doing business? Do you still have nightmares of the difficulties you experienced when trying to make a sale or build a team? Remember how you were taught that to make a sale you first needed to approach your family and friends and sell the products to them, or have parties in order to make the sales

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Have You Considered Using the Internet for a Network Marketing Business?

7/1/2009 BBB warning against Twitter money-making schemes follows: Read the fine print or risk getting burned with Twitter work-at-home offers Through Tweets, e-mail and Web sites, job hunters are being told that they can make lots of money from the comfort of home using Twitter. The Better Business Bureau of the Southland warns that the large print for such offers may promise big returns but the fine print can cost them every month. BBB of the Southland serves Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties in California

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BBB Warns Against Twitter Money-Making Schemes

From the Star Telegram: The final B-36 Peacemaker off the assembly line in west Fort Worth hadn’t been seen in public since an overland trip from Fort Worth to Tucson, Ariz., in 2005. Now the 10-engine, nuclear-capable Cold War bomber has been rolled out at the Pima Air & Space Museum after exhaustive restoration. Nice picture of the refurbished aircraft in the article

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‘City of Fort Worth’ debuts at Pima

digg_url = ‘http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/chris-dannen/techwatch/10-mac-apps-make-windows-users-drool’; digg_skin = ‘compact’; Used to be that Windows users could admit the Mac was easy to use–they just complained there wasn’t any software for the platform. Apple knew their weakness, too, so they endeavored to turn their developer tools into the envy of the industry.

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Ten Mac Apps That Make Windows Users Drool

Credit: woodsy@stock.xchang It’s another gorgeous summer Sunday morning here and I’m enjoying my morning coffee out on the patio and sifting through the newspaper to see what’s up and what’s new in the coffee world. Over at Mike’s coffee blog , there’s a lot of talk about the coffee wars, for which he provides frequent updates. Well, up in New York, the coffee wars have a new entrant – new to New York, if not to the coffee world

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Sunday Morning Coffee and the News

From E-Ink-Info.com , a Chinese company called Peking University Founder has duplicated the exterior, at least, of the Kindle 2: They say they will release it by the end of 2009, in Japan, for around 210$ (the kindle is available for 299$. . It includes a cellular connection (they say it needs a SIM card) to download new books, and will use their own ‘Apabi’ ebook software. The screen is ‘about’ 6″, not sure what kind of display yet

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Kindle rip-off from China

TechCrunch is reporting that self-published author Boyd Morrison, who uploaded book, The Ark, to the Kindle store, has contracted for a two book deal with S&S and will be published in hardcover in 2010. According to a post on KindleBoards foreign rights to the books have also been acquired for over 75 countries. Morrison is quoted by KindleBoards: “Thanks so much for everyone who has been so enthusiastic about my novels

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Self-published Kindle author gets contract with Simon & Schuster

SEOUL, South Korea — A North Korean army lab of hackers was ordered to “destroy” South Korean communications networks — evidence the isolated regime was behind cyberattacks that paralyzed South Korean and American Web sites — news reports said Saturday, citing an intelligence briefing.

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Report pins cyberattacks on N. Korean army – Navy News, news from Iraq – Navy Times (Navy Times)

“What sets this declaration apart from the other Hamburg declarations out there, or from the various Geneva declarations or Berlin declarations, is that this one is intended to give the publishers’ favorite solution to the news-stealing problem, the Automated Content Access Protocol , the force of law.” – Ars Technica .

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European newspaper publishers: Let’s use ACAP protocol to limit search engines and aggregators