http://www.davemenninger.com/blog imports my feeds from elsewhere Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:15:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Dear anyone who is reading this "blog", The posts on this site have all been imported from my Google Reader Shared Items feed.  All of the content was written by others and then highlighted by me via Google Reader.  I've always felt that that relationship to the content was not very ... http://www.davemenninger.com/blog/?p=1520 The somewhat depressing and controversial possibility of a newspaper bailout turned into a stone-cold reality in the past few months as politicians, including Sen. John Kerry, Sen. Ben Cardin and President Obama, have hinted at giving the newspaper industry a life vest to save a sinking industry. Kerry, in ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/W4cmj1yBhPE/ Michael Roman, the chicken expert at Gorman Heritage Farm, has started a new group for folks in the Greater Cincinnati area who are interested in backyard chickens for city dwellers, suburbanites, and those in small towns.  If you have chickens in your backyard, or would like to, join us!  The group ... http://cincinnatilocavore.blogspot.com/2009/05/new-backyard-chicken-keeping-group.html The 1.0 release of the Skirmish Wars: Advance Tactics print ‘n’ play wargame (a wargame heavily inspired by the popular Nintendo DS game of similar name). So while I strongly encourage you to check out this excellent gem (and a big thanks to the three authors!), now seems like a ... http://www.purplepawn.com/2009/05/print-n-play-gaming-shabby-chic-gaming/ selling the packaging without the music; also, NPR's streaming the album [via]  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8053471.stm I received the call again yesterday, as I have once a month for the last year. My auto warranty was expiring, it said, and I should press 1 to speak with a "warranty specialist" about extending ... http://feeds.arstechnica.com/~r/arstechnica/index/~3/7ZOUNQ-_03A/ftc-nukes-extended-warranty-robocallers-from-orbit.ars The Friends of Findlay Market is offering their Spring Forum, Findlay Market: Growing Green which will discuss Findlay Market’s environmental initiatives, successes and plans for the future. The evening’s presenters include: Milton Dohoney, City Manager , Welcome Remarks; ... http://cincinnatilocavore.blogspot.com/2009/05/growing-green-spring-forum-at-findlay.html Us Now, the groundbreaking documentary is about the power of mass collaboration, the internet and its potential impact on society, is available for viewing free online for a limited time at  http://www.joiningthedocs.tv. Directed by Ivo Gormley, the film explores how the web is changing the many ways in which we can ... http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/index.php/2009/05/14/us-now-documentary-available-free-online/ This past Monday, Seicer and I were downtown checking out the construction progress of the new Queen City Square tower......and the progress on The Banks: Coming North off of Walnut St. we noticed the surface entrances to the Riverfront Transit Center. Some of the benches and metallic facade around the ... http://queencitydiscovery.blogspot.com/2009/05/cincinnatis-other-abandoned-subway.html In the tradition of Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal," EFF board member and Princeton Computer Science Prof. Ed Felten has written an essay in response to the recently passed "3 strikes" legislation in France: Yesterday the French parliament adopted a proposal to create a "three-strikes" system that would kick people ... http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/05/3-strikes-modest-pro