Infolinks under the gun.

May19
2012 1 Comment Written by V-Tek

We’ve recommended Infolinks for nearly 3 years for clients who have found that Infolinks enhanced the site earnings so long as Google didn’t object to using them. This was not always the case, in fact, most often Infolinks knocks about a third off of the AdSense CTR, costing more than users end up earning with Infolinks’ dismal CPCs. However, on some sites we were supporting Infolinks.

About a month ago Infolinks contacted us, concerned because we had cut their traffic. We had actually removed their ad code altogether because we had just gotten too many warnings from Google and they always were sites that combined Google and Infolinks ads.

When they asked, we let them know that another client had been warned by Google and that we were trying to protect them from further problems. When they seemed surprised, and assured us that couldn’t be the case, we went ahead and exposed a few sites to Infolinks again.

Then, after about a month Infolinks sends us their own warning, only instead of leaving it a warning, within a few hours the terminated our corporate advertising account claiming: “fraudulent activity”. We’ve seen clients get this treatment from Google, but Infolinks? Maximum of $.50 CPM Infolinks? Wow. Anyway, to fully appreciate this obscenity of mistreatment we must post the emails in order, dated, and verbatim… Starting with them coming to us for advertising:

7/24/2008:

Hello,

I am interested in in-text inventory on your site.  Please let me know with
whom I should speak.

Thanks,

Sarah Medvinsky
Account Manager
Infolinks, Inc.

T 212-201-7481
F 212-419-0975
E sarahm@infolinks.com
W www.infolinks.com

8/13/2008

Hello, 

I am interested in In-Text inventory on your site. I would like to offer you
a deal that will increase your revenue. 

Please let me know with whom I should speak. 

Thanks,

Sarah Medvinsky
Account Manager
Infolinks, Inc.

T 212-201-7481
F 212-419-0975
E sarahm@infolinks.com
W www.infolinks.com

2/2/2009

Hello,

My name is Sarah, and I am interested in In-Text inventory on EXACT SAME SITE THAT ENDED OUR RELATIONSHIP. I would like to offer you a deal that will increase your revenue.

Please let me know with whom I should speak.

Sincerely,

Sarah Medvinsky
Account Manager
Infolinks, Inc.

T 212-201-7481
F 212-419-0975
E sarahm@infolinks.com
W www.infolinks.com

2/2/2009

Okay, I'm interested. Kontera has been doing pretty good. What are you offering?
-VeraciTek

2/3/2009

Hi Ryan,

Thanks for getting back to me. Basically, I would like to replace Kontera’s
in-text ads on SAME SITE with our product, Infolinks, and pay you
more.  We can pay you the highest revenue share – 80%, which guarantees you
a higher CPM for in-text ads.  

Publishers that switched from Kontera to Infolinks report that Infolinks
generates 20%-40% higher revenue.

Would you like to give it a try? 

Thanks,
Sarah

2/4/2009

OK

8/25/2009

Hi,

How are you? I see that you haven’t yet integrated Infolinks In-text Ads onto SAME SITE AGAIN. 

Can I help you get started?

Sarah M.
Account Manager
Infolinks, Inc.
T 212-201-7481
F 212-419-0975
E sarahm@infolinks.com
W www.infolinks.com

9/7/2009

Hi Sarah,

We began to integrate and discovered that your site does site specific scripts. Google and Kontera let me use the same scripts for all of our sites so when the application started asking about some specific site I realized it wouldn't work for us. For lots of reasons we have to maintain different domains for the different subject matter and use ad servers that make that easy.

Considering your consistent follow up I sure would like to try infolinks.

-VTek

9/7/2009

Hi,

When you initially sign up, we’ll provide you with one script, and then if you’d like to add more domains, we’ll give you a separate one for each. This is done in order to track the earnings of each website individually, but all will remain under the same account. It also enables us to manually optimize the ads for each website individually.

Can you tell me why you prefer not to use separate scripts?

-Sarah

9/7/2009

yes, because our sites run from a proprietary CMS that has an ad-serving and tracking module built in as well as a performance caching system. The ad-code can be automatically adjusted based on domain, but we've had lots of trouble with ad providers that want unique codes other than the domain name itself. Also having to get the code for each domain has caused us problem with different authors getting confused with where it goes. It was built to use with Adsense and YPN, but a lot of our sites get bombarded with foreign traffic, like THE ONE THEY WANTED, so we monetize them with Kontera, SearchFeed, Azoogle.

 

-VTek

9/13/2009

Thanks for writing in.

Sarah is away right now and asked me to get back to you.

You may use the Infolinks code on all of your sites, please be aware that you will not be able to use the separate website reporting feature in doing so.

Should you have any questions related to your Infolinks account, please do not hesitate to contact me anytime.

Have a lovely day.

Jamie M.
Account Executive
Infolinks.com

For more information about Infolinks and how it works, please visit our FAQs.

… 3 YEARS PASS and in a period of about 3 weeks clients receive multiple examples like this:

Sent: Tue, Mar 27, 2012 3:31 am
Subject: Google AdSense: You have 3 working days to make changes to your site

This message was sent from a notification-only email address that does not accept incoming email. Please do not reply to this message.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------> > Hello,
> >
> > During a recent review of your account we found that you are currently
> > displaying Google ads in a manner that is not compliant with our program
> > policies

We finally decide to stop Infolinks because it is the only common thread between the domains getting this error. Then…

4/7/2012

Hello,

I'm contacting you because I was reviewing the recent reports in your Infolinks account, and it appears that your account has experienced a drop in traffic and revenues. I have tried contacting you before, however I have not received any response.

You are a very valuable Publisher to us and I'd be happy if you would continue to be a part of our Infolinks community. Please let me know what I can do in order for you to be completely satisfied with using Infolinks on your websites.

Sincerely,
Danielle D.
Account Relations
support@infolinks.com
www.infolinks.com

This is a follow up to a similar previous email that we ignored at the time because we were still investigating. However, we’ve always been impressed with Infolinks’ follow up so:

4/7/2012

Hi There,

 

Thanks for the message. We appreciate your service, but it seems to work best when we limit the amount of traffic we publish your ads on. Last month we did a trial of closer to 20k hits per day, about 3x what we're showing you on now, but our earnings really didn't go up very much. So we're tweaking things, we currently have turned the target back up to between 10k and 15k hits but it sometimes takes a few days to propagate. We'd like to double the hits we publish Infolinks on, but we just don't see doubled revenue. While we know you are flexible, AdSense and a few others we use don't allow putting both on the same page. AdSense threatens us fairly regularly, even when we alternate ads on certain sites.

Now is where things get interesting:

On 4/7/2012 10:10 AM, Infolinks Support Team wrote:

You are a very valuable Publisher to us and I'd be happy if you would continue to be a part of our Infolinks community. Please let me know what I can do in order for you to be completely satisfied with using Infolinks on your websites.

5/10/2012:

We noticed that you are using the Infolinks code on DOMAIN, which has not been registered to your Infolinks account.

5/11/2012:

Hello, we have had permission since 2009 to use our AdCode on all of our sites per Sarah and Jaime (see emails attached)...

NO RESPONSE...

5/17/2012:

Hello,

 

We found that you have added the Infolinks code to websites that were not approved by our QA team. Adding the Infolinks code to unapproved websites is against our Terms of Service. Accordingly, your account is hereby suspended until further notice and any pending credit is revoked.

 

We ask that you please remove the Infolinks code from your websites as soon as possible, if you have not done so already.

 

We wish you the best of luck in your future endeavors.

 

Sincerely
Infolinks Support Team

 

support@infolinks.com
www.infolinks.com

No, no, you can't dump us, we dumped you ALREADY!

These folks seem to think they have magically become Google sometime between April, and May of this year. However, their CPMs never moved, and my earlier statements still stand. Give them more than 15k hits per day, even 30k hits, and your revenues may actually go down! So something is up. Perhaps like SearchFeed, we're about to see another underdog bite the dust. It's sad really, especially the obvious mistreatment of our account after 3 years and 30,000,000 hits, they were always so proactive and responsive.

Our account now reads: "because your website was restricted due to fraudulent activity." This is absurd, the only fraud here is Infolinks, who convinced us to give them more traffic, and then banned, cancelled, rejected, or whatever else you want to call it our account.

Epic fail Infolinks... So blog partners here's the challenge. We will double your revenue take if you win the SERP stats for a rewrite of the details above. Summarize, make cartoons, or elaborate. Josh will give you a 1 day turn around on any weekday questions. As always our post does count and if we win, we win. We know you're better at promoting your content than we are. That's why we love you.

Posted in Bad Tech - Tagged bad cpc, bad cpm, bad service, banned, fraud, infolinks, sucks

Patents and Copyrights

May17
2012 2 Comments Written by V-Tek

This has been a popular topic in the past, and since we love hate mail, and since I happen to be reading “The Fatal Conceit” by Hayek, I thought I’d bring up the issue yet again.

Perhaps you remember the article January about SOPA where we posted this great video:

When I stumbled on this great quote from Hayek’s book, I was inspired to repeat this again, perhaps better articulated. Our copyright and patent laws are an affront to social evolution:

“The difference between these and other kinds of property rights is this: while ownership of material goods guides the user of scarce means to their most important uses, in the case of immaterial goods such as literary productions and technological inventions the ability to produce them is also limited, yet once they have come into existence, they can be indefinitely multiplied and can be made scarce only by law in order to create an inducement to produce such ideas. Yet it is not obvious that such forced scarcity is the most effective way to stimulate the human creative process. I doubt whether there exists a single great work of literature which we would not possess had the author been unable to obtain an exclusive copyright for it; it seems to me that the case for copyright must rest almost entirely on the circumstance that such exceedingly useful works as encyclopaedias, dictionaries, textbooks and other works of reference could not be produced if, once they existed, they could freely be reproduced.

Similarly, recurrent re-examinations of the problem have not demonstrated that the obtainability of patents of invention actually enhances the flow of new technical knowledge rather than leading to wasteful concentration of research on problems whose solution in the near future can be foreseen and where, in consequence of the law, anyone who hits upon a solution a moment before the next gains the right to its exclusive use for a prolonged period.“

It would be hard to say it any better than this brilliant economist, but I’d like to reword that last bit based on my experience: The kind of anti-competitive behavior associated with copyrights and patents lead to a WASTE of time and resources creating an imaginary race to be the first to claim rights to the next invention. Individuals and corporations alike buy their lottery ticket by funding teams that work concurrently to other teams at other companies on the exact same concepts. WASTEFUL of resources, and WASTEFUL of life. Perhaps nowhere is this more blatant than in the realm of medicine. This WASTE turns all business into another high stakes gamble. A horse race to be exact. It has the exact opposite effect that was intended. In fact the “horses” will steal any concept that isn’t nailed down in their charge for the claim of originality. In the end there is less originality rather than more.

Time and again we meet another “entrepreneur” wanting to chase a new concept that a dozen other chaps are already chasing. No capitalist in their right minds would do this if it weren’t for the possibility of beating the others out for the patent. Worse yet, then convincing the world of the value of their patent, up to and including bribing the FDA. What a mess.

Being a software engineer may be enough to make me wise to the fact that we cannot engineer society. Most importantly we cannot allow Sony to engineer society. When they do it they fight for the right to record cable shows on their VCRs and then fight against the right to copy their shows to MP3 … they fight for their profit. If we let them, they will. Stop social engineering. One less Transformers movie won’t hurt anyone. In fact, maybe the guy about to discover the cure for cancer will be in the lab instead of watching another DVD.

Posted in Future Tech, Innovation - Tagged copyright, fatal conceit, hayek, patent, socialism, waste

2 Issues

Apr10
2012 1 Comment Written by V-Tek

2 issues have come to our attention:

Firstly, complaints about valid comments not being released. This site receives hundreds of spam comments per day, and thankfully only a few make it through our filters. Of those hundreds, there are dozens that are entered manually and get queued for moderation. We have honestly just been too busy to weed through and had often opted to just wipe them out. If you have been a victim of this, please accept our sincere apologies and realize it is nothing personal.

Secondly, the number of compromise attempts of our site has risen since our private client blog got mentioned in a publication. The content in the REDACTED article is the only content we authorized release of, and the only content that will be released. Feel free to continue to probe our site, you’ll not get far. In fact, your visits to several of our honeypot areas are helping us build yet another product. In other words, give it up 91.217.178.220 et al. We know you’re there, we just don’t really care enough to block you.

-Josh

Posted in Bad Tech, Uncategorized - Tagged comments, hackers, spammers

Windows Easy Transfer My Arse!

Mar01
2012 3 Comments Written by V-Tek

Leave it to Microsoft to take what should have been an easy task, call it “easy” and then proceed to make their wizard lead you straight to a mess.

The problem is, that while the “Easy Transfer” wizard claims that you are copying “an account” what you’re really just doing is copying files. That may seem obvious, but get this. If you setup up the new machine, and that machine has 2 users, and you log in as user A assuming that this “account transfer” is “smart” as “wizards” always pretend to be… so you initiate a transfer of user B… Guess what!??!! You will, very stupidly be stuck with a bunch of files copied into user A’s profile. No new user.

**EDIT: Turns out I was the stupid one. I failed to read the sentence on the first wizard page carefully. It clearly states that going to the advanced tab is necessary to accomplish precisely what I wanted… After clearing out 19000+ files from the wrong user profile I have learned to slow down and read. Something I’ve had to tell other users so many times. I can whine that it didn’t have the “sense” to warn me when it discovered gigs of files already existing in the destination account, but that would be too much to ask. CLICK ADVANCED… I REPEAT CLICK ADVANCED…. I’m not sure that I’d hide that setting under advanced, but CLICK IT! …

So take heed of my warning here (which, after you realize the ass you made of yourself by assuming that easy really meant “easy” you’ll discover exists all over the web) … create the user that you are copying. Windows is not planning on doing it for you, despite their claim that you are copying a “user account”. They just do a dumb file copy.

In fact, after reading a few other nightmares be sure, they will be copying junk you don’t want. From what I can tell, even junk you unchecked. It may well be better to skip the “easy transfer” and do things the “hard” way. As for me, this is going to be a big old pain in the butt. I have to figure out how to remove all of these files that are now intermingled with my other user’s files. Thankfully I have fairly current backups. Let’s hope system restore does it… (I’m not holding my breath on that one).

Posted in Bad Tech - Tagged easy transfer, hate dumb programs, microsoft sucks, my arse

SOPA?

Jan19
2012 6 Comments Written by V-Tek

SOPA Censorship

Please click the image on the right and submit the petition!

I am writing to you as a voter in your district. I urge you to vote “no” on cloture for S. 968, the PROTECT IP Act, on Jan. 24th. The PROTECT IP Act is dangerous, ineffective, and short-sighted. It does not deserve floor consideration. I urge my representative to vote “no” on SOPA, the corresponding House bill.

Over coming days you’ll be hearing from the many businesses, advocacy organizations, and ordinary Americans who oppose this legislation because of the myriad ways in which it will stifle free speech and innovation. We hope you’ll take our concerns to heart and oppose this legislation by voting “no” on cloture.

While we’re at it, what do you think about this?

Posted in Bad Tech, Future Tech, Innovation - Tagged censorship, copyright, license, sensorship, sopa

Are you a Monoglot?

Nov30
2011 2 Comments Written by V-Tek

Technology is like a religion for some. If it ain’t in their language it must “suck”. We may be able to thank headhunters and job descriptions for this unnecessary level of specialization. Jobs often come with a laundry list of specific required skills and those specific skills are either the result of a monoglot project leader or the preference of the previous developer. Either way requiring 15 years of .NET programming experience is a sure way to weed out some great prospective brain power. (as well as any honest candidates in this case since .NET hasn’t been around that long)

We often steer folks away from .NET implementations for the simple reason that compiled languages add an unnecessary layer of complexity to the production process & have caused a nightmare for maintainers. I personally love writing C# but can’t recommend it for a web site. Not when interpreted languages are so powerful and often perform better than the .NET VM.

However the title of “sucks” is reserved for a handful of technologies whose developers knew exactly what they were doing. Making products purposely limited to control the user base does suck in the tyrannical, Godwin’s law, way. That’s all I’ll say about that for now.

However, if you are a polyglot you may be a dying breed. Unless you’re careful that work you’re doing now will be the only work you ever learn to do. The more specific your experiences are the less adaptable your solutions will be. Then one day you’ll say, without any embarrassment: “I don’t know how to do that.” … If you are a real technologist that sentence had better be followed by: “ … but I’ll figure out how.” … if it is not, you are probably a monoglot, and you may well find yourself cursed with the ungraceful miasma of obsolete skills. Perhaps your employer will “keep” you because of your obsolete skills, but you’ll be stuck, and it will suck. You’ll rot in your office chair anxious for the day you can retire.

Polyglots like us have the gigantic benefit of never becoming obsolete, we are edge cutters, we aren’t afraid of new stuff, we assimilate new technologies like Cheerios. Polyglots are cool, and we may make a hobby of antagonizing the Monoglots (or “fanboys”) but our license is our knowledge. We can rip on the things we know, it’s what the “fanboys” don’t know that make them entertaining.

If you are a monoglot, stop it. Stop it now! Then you’ll get the joke.

Posted in Future Tech, Good Tech, Innovation - Tagged .NET, c#, fanboys, monoglot, perl, PHP, polyglot, python, Rails, retirement, ruby

Has Science Died?

Nov01
2011 3 Comments Written by V-Tek

“The present boastfulness of the expounders and the gullibility of the listeners alike violate that critical spirit which is supposedly the hallmark of science.” —Jacques Barzun, Science: the glorious entertainment

Being an avid, albeit amateur, physics aficionado, I watched with great interest as the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded. I read the summary findings, which were actually somewhat disappointing. I read the conclusions, and the new theories. In the end I shook my head in disbelief, yet another mythical beast of Greek proportions has been added to our skyline. Among the “black holes” and “dark matter” now there is “dark energy” and I am forced to ask the question: has science died?

If I thought you’d watch a 70 minute lecture I might refer you to this: http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer?pagename=reg_ls_physics, but nowadays folks are much too busy for that. Even our posts here have grown too long to garner the attention we used to see on these topics. We have a headline culture that responds to headline length thoughts.

Given the above, let me give you the simple version. The team that won the Nobel Prize identified that a super-nova remnant is not just moving away, but actually is accelerating away. The reason this is newsworthy is that no accepted model allows for acceleration to occur. Acceleration requires the application of force, and therefore these scientists were obliged to invent a reason for the observed behavior. The reason? “Dark energy”… They won the prize because they kept everyone in business, they were team players.

Realize, despite what you see on “Star Trek” or hear on the most recent episodes of “The Big Bang Theory” black holes and dark matter are only theoretical entities meant to explain unexpected behavior. Hence the term “dark energy” is the logical cause of the unexpected acceleration that has been measured. I’ll leave the question-ability of their results to folks like Wal : http://www.holoscience.com/news.php?article=8qx7sc1r … What I will do here is point out that these fantasies that pass for science nowadays would make Socrates giggle.

Has science died? Well, I hope not. Practical folks that actually produce working technology are continuing to improve them. That is science too. However, we do need a new breed of theoretical philosophy if we hope to make any major leaps in our understanding of nature around us. If you make stuff that works, please take a minute to think about what the AS or the Nobel Committee has done for us lately. They reward rank & file instead of results. Investigate the alternative theories like Wal’s “EU” and question EVERYTHING!

I hope you’ll take time to watch the Harriman lecture above and really grab the concepts he presents. There is a crisis and it affects us all, limits us all, and could kill us all. It’s no wonder that climate science is so unconvincing.

Posted in Bad Tech, Future Tech, Innovation - Tagged bad science, bad tech, black holes, dark energy, dark matter, nobel prize, physics

iSad? The passing of Steve Jobs.

Oct08
2011 9 Comments Written by V-Tek

Steve Jobs passed away this week. It was surprisingly difficult to come to grips with our feelings on this matter. We do not hide the fact that we are not Apple fans, however there were admirable qualities to Steve Jobs that we cannot deny. We broke our thoughts down to a few main characteristics of the man and his legacy:

1. Trend Setter
2. Business Sense
3. Clever

As we discussed these virtues, we worked through the second layer, what about these virtues made us dislike what Steve Jobs stood for, and the answer was simple, we did not like that the list above was not what those sold out to Apple would list, they would list something like:

1. Innovator
2. Visionary
3. Leader

This is the disparity. In fact in the wake of his passing we have seen claims that he invented everything from tablet computers to mp3 players. We have seen friends lament as though a dear friend has just passed away. We have seen hero worship in the highest form, and most of that goes back to the list of characteristics that he managed to convince those fans were true. That is why we (and others like us) cringe at the praise. It was deception, and many were happy to have the wool pulled over their eyes. Macs are trendy, true, but there is very little in the way of innovation to be found. From mice to touch screens to GUIs, none of these are inventions of Apple, they are assimilations.

So let’s recognize him for his incredible talent, but be honest about what his talent was. He was a fashion designer for gadgets. In a world notoriously lacking aesthetic savvy this turtleneck clad “Coco Chanel” convinced his customers to spend more for a label. It’s brilliant, and it is what fashion has been about for more than a century. My mom can tell you that her Windows computer “just works” … but she does not love Windows the way Apple users love their little Apple stickers. Steve Jobs masterfully created a brand that was loved by many, and that is a talent in itself.

We doubt that the PC vs. Mac war will end soon. The people who get things done on computers will usually admit that both tools will do the job. The most savvy can do more with PCs because their PCs have better specs than any Mac. We do not mind if you want a stylish Mac on your desk, they are prettier than any PC we’re aware of. What we mind is when we hear nonsense about security and reliability come up. When someone makes the generalization “it’s better”… The fact is not only are they not better, but they are worse in many ways. “It just works” another farce. Anyone with significant computer experience can list as many (if not more) ways that a Mac does NOT work, than a PC. My computing amateur friend put it quite nicely when he said: “I know I’ll pay more for less, and that you can do more with a PC than with a Mac, but I like these, they’re really nice.” … That’s what I call an informed decision. Steve Jobs was an artist, as any good fashion designer should be, he was a genius, but not in technology, in style. He deserves respect, but for the right reasons.

As for all of the disinformation and OTT hero worship I’ll leave you with this article: http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/3318250.html

We voiced months ago our opinion that for many a cult of personality has formed. Cohen (in his article above) does a good job describing our feelings on the matter. Now in his passing quotes are popping up like religious proverbs. Some are wrongly attributed, and others are so uncharacteristic of his actual life that they appear to also be incorrect. There is a real possibility that some spiritual icon is forming around this. I highly suggest a look at Cohen’s article and resisting any urge you have to bring about the, as Cohen says: “beatification of the blessed Jobs of Silicon Valley”.

Posted in Future Tech, Good Tech, Innovation - Tagged Apple, future, imourn, iPhone, isad, Microsoft, Steve Jobs

Foldit!

Sep20
2011 3 Comments Written by V-Tek

This ingenious idea has now delivered and it is still BETA!

Foldit is much like Mahjong or even Solitaire in that it presents as a puzzle game, albeit in 3D! … However, the rules of the game are as near a match to the rules of biology, chemistry & physics as a computer can muster. The objective of each puzzle is to organize a molecule in the most efficient way possible. Just like any puzzle game, it seems a bit complex at first but once you get a feel for it it really is pretty fun.

So now is the brilliant part. Within these levels of known structures this brilliant game (supported by the Center for Game Science at the the University of Washington) injects unknown structures with the hopes that they could be solved in the same fashion.

Guess what, they did! In about 10 days! The researchers really thought this was a long-shot but the results are astounding.

So perhaps the most interesting point of this brilliant exercise is what the peanut gallery has to say. Perhaps ironically, since gamers solved the puzzle, the peanut gallery becomes the academics who didn’t. Obviously the researchers themselves were elated. The academic world is not entirely devoid of humility. However, there is plenty of vitriol to be found from those who do lack humility.

“The gamer just got lucky, that’s all there is to it.” – Post from message board.

I suspect that the Center for Game Science at UofW will be taking exception to that claim. It reminds me of the many stories about Albert Einstein, not being able to speak until he was 4, not being able to tie his shoes even into his teens… Perhaps they are fables, but perhaps it stands to reason that intelligence just comes in a variety of forms and those fascinated with solving a puzzle are not especially interested in memorizing the solution. A trait that is vastly undervalued on the academic track. It may shake their doctorate, post-graduate, world, but maybe they are not quite as elite as they’ve come to believe.

Whatever the case, I hope we hear a lot more about this. I’ve always believed that the most practical among us are those who are trying to take the next step, and almost always the most practical among us are the ones responsible for us taking the next step. There are those who dream and fantasize about 100 years down the road. Usually borrowing ideas from George Lucas. However, 100 years later we’re shaking our heads thinking how silly those ideas were. They overreach, they become “idea people” with no grasp and little skill in reality. Somehow they often stand in the spotlight, making predictions that are absurd at best, while the doers are doing. A shout out to the doers of the world. Some of us know that the doers ARE the idea people. The doers are the ones whose ideas must match up with reality. Doers have vision, and even fantasies, but they manage to actually produce like these gamers did. This is a tribute to you, doer.

Posted in Innovation - Tagged aids, crowd sourcing, doer, folding, foldit, gaming science, monomeric, practical, protease, protein, retroviral, science, theoretical

Remembering 9/11

Sep11
2011 5 Comments Written by V-Tek

This morning Barack Obama quoted Psalm 46 verbatim. No interpretation, no opinion, just the words of the Bible:

¹ God is our refuge and strength,
   an ever-present help in trouble.
² Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way
   and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea,
³ though its waters roar and foam
   and the mountains quake with their surging.

⁴ There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God,
   the holy place where the Most High dwells.
⁵ God is within her, she will not fall;
   God will help her at break of day.
⁶ Nations are in uproar, kingdoms fall;
   he lifts his voice, the earth melts.

⁷ The LORD Almighty is with us;
the God of Jacob is our fortress.

⁸ Come and see what the LORD has done,
   the desolations he has brought on the earth.
⁹ He makes wars cease
   to the ends of the earth.
He breaks the bow and shatters the spear;
   he burns the shields^[d] with fire.
¹⁰ He says, “Be still, and know that I am God;
   I will be exalted among the nations,
   I will be exalted in the earth.”

Thank you Mr. President for bringing pure hope and comfort today. We will never forget 9/11 and what it means. When our nation is blessed we will be hated by evil people. Just as Israel was blessed by God, so has America been. Just as the evil have hated Israel so have they hated America. Yet we continue to be blessed.

As verse 2 above mentions, those evil people have tried to make us fear, but we will not fear. We also should not allow this to make us evil, or lead us to become self-absorbed. As the Canadian journalist Gordon Sinclair proclaimed nearly 40 years ago (speaking of events beginning even 60 years prior) may we continue to be “the most generous and possibly the least-appreciated people in all the earth.”
(http://www.tysknews.com/Depts/Our_Culture/americans.htm)

God Bless America!

Posted in Uncategorized - Tagged 911, god bless america, new york, september 11, usa

Infolinks under the gun.

Patents and Copyrights

2 Issues

Windows Easy Transfer My Arse!

SOPA?

Are you a Monoglot?

Has Science Died?

iSad? The passing of Steve Jobs.

Foldit!

Remembering 9/11

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