The greatest glory of a free-born people is to transmit that freedom to their children. -William Havard

Some people live an entire lifetime and wonder if they ever made a difference in the world. The Marines don't have that problem - President Ronald Reagan

John Basilone recipient of the Medal of Honor, Navy Cross & Purple Heart.

Basilone is not just the exit to San Onfre or where to get dropped when surfing middles...

@GoogleWave turns one & new wave announcements by Lars Rasmussen from Google IO 2010.

Animated footage of the "top kill" procedure which BP will perform later today at the Deepwater Horizon site in an effort to stop the gusher.

Allowing BP to handle the Oil Leak disaster makes about as much sense as awarding the building contract to rebuild the Twin Towers to Al Qaeda...

Change your fuel to CNG, Change the world.

How you can help end our nations quest for more oil and all that entails?

Buycott British Petroleum with a Honda Civic GX!

A buycott is the opposite of a boycott;

Who do you plan to reward?

What companies do you see blazing that trail away from our dependance on oil?

Thirty years ago today, I was 14, I had played every video game since pong for quarters, (pinball before that) and along came pac man. My friends and I spent countless hours trying to master the patterns that would get us to the next level, one by one finguring out the code for yet another quarter...

I have spent more on Pac Man than I have ever spent on google, yet today, they give me free games right from their home page http://www.google.com

I wish I woulda saved all them quarters...

@antonymd explains what these weird little crossword-like logos mean, and more importantly, why this matters for marketers...

How do you do? You gentlemen, of course, know how to push a product. That essentially is your job. My presence here is for much the same purpose, simply to push a product, to acquaint you with an entertainment product which we hope and which we rather expect will make your product-pushing that much easier. - ROD SERLING

What you’ll see talked about here is a space called Conversational Media. We think it’s a rather special kind of place. Essentially, people watched television to get entertained, and the keynote of Conversational Media is Connection, the thing we're concerned with, the thing we're aiming for, the thing we're working toward is connection with a dose of infotainment. @RTGit

A quick overview of the history and highlights surrounding @YouTube 's first five years.

Check out the new @Youtube Five Year Channel

Did the Birds stopped tweeting?

Has your @Feedburner feed stopped pushing out to @Twitter? Here is your fix...

Simply re-add your twitter account and go through the auth process again with twitter. Yes, just add the twitter account again from the socialize page and press "Save".

This is an issue where OAuth tokens expire between Google and Twitter. Reading this has been fixed but the fix is not in production yet...

Space Shuttle Atlantis final trip into space before retirement,

on board, a chunk from Isaac Newton's apple tree...

Inet rule to newbies, never share anything that you would not want to share with your mother.

Welcome to the neighborhood.

Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. @Ferris_Bueller_

The internet moves even faster, how do I keep up with it all? Google Reader.

I start my day with Reader on my iPhone, 1st stop, scan trending topics feeds, next scan friends shared items, then the blogs that I have subscriptions for, lastly mark all as read.

If I do not make it thru my list, due to time constraints or whatever, I still mark all as read.

Conversational media is a stream, you dive in, you swim around, you get back out, rinse and repeat.

My take on why Seth Godin has a surfing fetish?

"Surfers, a chaotic, opt in, self regulating group of passionate people, with an experiential focus. - @DarinRMcClure

A Mother's Prayer

I pray you'll be my eyes
And watch her where she goes
And help her to be wise
Help me to let go

Every mother's prayer
Every child knows
Lead her to a place
Guide her with your grace
To a place where she'll be safe

I pray she finds your light
And holds it in her heart
As darkness falls each night
Remind her where you are

Every mother's prayer
Every child knows
Need to find a place
Guide her with your grace
Give her faith so she'll be safe

Lead her to a place
Guide her with your grace
To a place where she'll be safe

Social Media Revolution with updated stats, this is a must watch vid for anyone in business today.

Do you get it? Watch the video. Figure it out.

Visit http://www.NGVsNow.com to learn how you can create a cleaner, safer and more prosperous America through natural gas vehicles.

Are you going to the Alternative Fuel & Vehicle Conference Expo in Las Vegas? We are! Follow @NGVsNow and they'll keep you up to date on the day's happenings.

Gabriela of Gabriela's Kitchen has the WCFoodies over for a tamale-making party for Cinco de Mayo.

http://media.twitter.com/blackbird-pie/

@Twitter launchs embedable tweets, so in much the same way you would embed any other snipit of rich media into your website. now you will be able to do it with tweets, as noted in the video below on how to embed a @youtube video.

Cheap Thrills for #MusicMonday.

Don't you just hate it when you embed a Youtube video, and when you view the page via your iPhone you get the stupid this is a flash embed block thingy? Me too, here is the fix.

1) the vid has to be available for mobile devices

if it's your vid this is easy to check, edit your video and make sure it is available for syndication.

2) make sure that "Enable privacy-enhanced mode" is Un-checked when you generate your embed.

Once you have done these two things, your youtube embeded videos will be ready to go for viewing via your iPhone.

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It is possible that there are shamanic family lines - Terence McKenna