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Real-Life Jurassic Park

Scientists recover soft tissues from a fossilized thighbone of a T. Rex.
Apparently, it is still too early to tell if they will be able to recover any DNA information, but one must wonder if the prospects of cloning as laid out in the book would be viable.

Newspaper Web Sites and Required Registrations

The Omaha World Herald went to registration system this past weekend. My thoughts on the matter are:
1. I recognize the inherit reasons behind media companies instituting such policies, but most of the time the decisions are usually made from a faulty point of view that implementing user registration will give them a new profit center […]

Round-up of some recent links

Time has been tight the last week with the road trip this past weekend. In an effort to get caught back up, here’s a few links which have caught my eye recently on the web-tools front.
ProBlogger.net
Always looking for ways monetize my domain names, I ran across Darren’s site from the Digital Point Forums. Which […]

Microsoft Will also enter the Text Ad Space

According to the FT, Microsoft will be announcing Search-Linked Ads on Wednesday.
Combined with the rumors of Yahoo’s pending announcement on a rival to Google’s AdSense com, the marketplace for contextual advertising appears to be heating up.
I’ll try and keep up with any announcements on Wednesday, but with a busy schedule the rest of the week, […]

The Irish Car Bomb

Every year about this time, my site starts to pick up steam with search engine traffic peaking on St. Patricks Day. The reason is a a little section of the site I started a long time ago called Special Sauce, which is nothing more than a little drink recipe collection that I had always planned […]

Yahoo to introduce a comptetitor to Google’s Adsense

Yahoo is getting close to a release: Register for more information.
From CNet:
Now Yahoo plans to launch its own advertising option for small publishers, a source familiar with the plan said. Like Google’s service, Yahoo’s self-serve product will display text ads deemed relevant to the content of specific Web pages. Advertisers pay only when a reader […]