This is awesome. I've put off signing up for anything new with Telus for the last few months hoping that this day would come. Curious to see what the big three do in response.
- Kenton
SocialNetGate helps small businesses leverage social media to promote their products and services cost effectively. The service acts as an agent for the small business in making the optimal use of the social media websites by using best practices adopted by large businesses. -
- bcultral
SocialNetGate helps small businesses leverage social media to promote their products and services cost effectively. The service acts as an agent for the small business in making the optimal use of the social media websites by using best practices adopted by large businesses.
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We have designed our civilization based on science and technology and at the same time ... The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. .... They will fear the loss of power. We will hear much about treason and disloyalty. ...... The choice is with us still, but the civilization now in jeopardy is all humanity. As the ancient myth makers knew, we are children equally of the earth and the sky. In our tenure of this planet we've accumulated dangerous evolutionary baggage — propensities for aggression and ritual, submission to leaders, hostility to outsiders — all of which puts our survival in some doubt. But we've also acquired compassion for others, love for our children and desire to learn from history and experience, and a great soaring passionate intelligence — the clear tools for our continued survival and prosperity. Which aspects of our nature will prevail is uncertain, particularly when our visions and prospects are bound to one small part of the small...
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"Print adverts need to get a message across with a single image and without the recourse of interactivity that we find today on the Internet. As interactive media expands, attention spans are getting shorter and shorter every day. For any company trying to get their product or service out in print format, the task is ever more challenging and difficult. Humorous ads remain one of the few effective ways to engage an audience in a very saturated advertising market. This is an area where the audience is far more receptive and still willing to pay attention. In this post, we’ve gathered 40 hilarious and really creative ads for your enjoyment…"
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
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"I have frequently found myself getting stuck in a project and losing all motivation due to repetitve tasks such as creating a looping background or styling a basic CSS menu that actually works. These mini-projects seem simple, but they always tend to go wrong. Thankfully there were a lot of designers who felt all of our pain, so they all posted some useful tools for us to exploit."
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
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"With its sharp angles and its glass walls shimmering in the sunlight it looks like a piece of modern art. But this innovative design is actually a blueprint for the city of the future - a giant glass pyramid that could house up to one million people. The development, named the 'Ziggurat', will be self sufficient and carbon neutral with power being supplied by wind turbines. No cars will be allowed inside the 2.3 square kilometre building, with residents being whisked around by a monorail network which operates both horizontally and vertically."
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"Millions of Americans are politically informed, smart, active and angry. They see many wrongs in our political and government system. They are fed up with politics as usual, meaning corrosive corruption of politicians by corporate and other special interests. They see little good in either the Democrat or Republican parties. And they almost always share a common bond: They love and honor the US Constitution, even though they may see some flaws in it. Yet they are also constitutional hypocrites. Why do I say this? Because Americans are overwhelmingly ignorant or misinformed about the constitutional paths for amending the Constitution. Too many, in fact, seem to miss the profoundly important point that the Founders and Framers knew that they had not created a perfect document and blueprint for the US. That is why they placed two specific paths for amending the Constitution. But very few Americans know that only one of these amendment mechanisms has been used in the entire history of...
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"A prize-winning quantum physicist says a spiritual reality is veiled from us, and science offers a glimpse behind that veil. So how do scientists investigating the fundamental nature of the universe assess any role of God"
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"The diversity of the universe has been increasing since the beginning of time. In its very first seconds the universe contained only quarks, which began to assemble into a variety of sub-atomic particles within minutes. By the end of the first hour, the universe contained dozens of types of particles but only two elements, hydrogen and helium. Over the next 300 million years drifting hydrogen and helium atoms found each other and their micro-gravities bound them together into masses of growing nebula that eventually collapsed into fiery stars. Star fusion built up the hydrogen and helium with additional particles until they emerged as dozens of new heavier elements, and so the diversity of the chemical universe increased. Eventually some "metallic" stars exploded into supernova spewing their heavy elements into space, to be swept up again over millions of years into new stars. In a kind of pumping action, these second and third round star-furnaces added yet more neutrons to metallic...
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"Earth is currently passing through a stream of debris from Halley's Comet, lighting up the night sky with the "fireworks" of the annual Orionids meteor shower."
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tonight tonight tonight, thanks for the reminder, :)
- chaz2b
An Astronomer's Astronomer: Kepler's Revolutionary Achievements in 1609 Rival Galileo's. In a page from Kepler's Astronomia Nova, the astronomer works through the theretofore unexplained orbit of Mars.
Four hundred years ago this year, two events marked what scientists and historians today regard as the birth of modern astronomy. The first of them, the beginning of Galileo's telescopic observations, has been immortalized by playwrights and authors and widely publicized as the cornerstone anniversary for the International Year of Astronomy. Through his looking glass, the Italian astronomer saw the mountains and valleys of the moon, the satellites of Jupiter, and sunspots—observations that would play a huge role in discrediting the prevailing, church-endorsed view of an Earth-centered cosmos.
- Fossil Huntress
The second event is not as well known, but is arguably equally important. It was the publication of Johannes Kepler's Astronomia Nova (The New Astronomy) in 1609, a treatise in which the German astronomer introduced the first two of his laws describing planetary motion.
- Fossil Huntress
"After the success of 2009’s British Design Classics, 2010 opens with a look at the classic art of the album cover. For decades the album sleeve has been the canvas for some of the most imaginative graphic artists in the world. This stamp issue salutes this unique art form and celebrates some of the greatest examples, used by UK artists. This band of designers and photographers have not only reflected the visual styles of many musical cultures, but have also defined and created them, too. The stamp issue explores some of the most potent graphic images of modern times, many of which have provided a visual soundtrack to people’s lives. Many of the most significant graphic designers of the last 40 years are represented by this selection of ten iconic album covers."
- T. Brent, technopeasant
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