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Editor's note: TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to "Ideas worth spreading," which it makes available through talks posted on its website. Julian Treasure, the author of "Sound Business," is chairman of UK-based audio branding specialist The Sound Agency and an international speaker on sound's effects on people, on business and on society ( Read more... )

By Michael D. Lemonick Wednesday, Sep. 29, 2010 ( Read more... )

CNN) -- On Monday, The New York Times reported that President Obama will seek sweeping laws enabling law enforcement to more easily eavesdrop on the internet. Technologies are changing, the administration argues, and modern digital systems aren't as easy to monitor as traditional telephones ( Read more... )

Since I don't really use this journal for anything else anymore, I'm going to start posting articles I find interesting. I've thought about doing it for a while now. I just read this article and I liked it because it is articulating something which I realized quite a few years ago. Women face a worldwide battle against oppression. Nor is it limited ( Read more... )

So, I've been having a lot of trouble with LJ for the last few months. I've put up with it, because frankly I haven't been using it, and few friends are posting. But I've got pop ups every time I log in, and logging in is suddenly difficult. The log in boxes seem to be having trouble taking keystrokes. I'm thinking about dropping it.

I have decided I am going to start watching TV again; not real TV, TV taped off my DVR, so I can fast forward through the commercials. I am forever ruined for regular TV viewing. But I'm really enjoying not having to download everything I want to watch now, with all its associated risks. Having just had my computer go in no less than 3 times, it's ( Read more... )

As for the animals, the original hauler, who got my service by being so quick to get back to me, is, not surprisingly, not so quick to get back to me with a refund. Although they have promised it, and two different people have told me it is being processed, the refund has not yet appeared on my statement. The first person told me on the 17th the ( Read more... )

So I have another mess to clean up, regarding a pair of boots. You'll love this..I bought these boots on a trip to France in December 05. My mother paid for them as a birthday present, telling me they were the best brand in the world - Mephisto. Well, so they were and I wore them constantly, but the hard walking in Edinburgh, which wears down all ( Read more... )