Phil Butler Unplugged

I like the New York Times! After a year or more of searching at stories to present to readers the NYT’s is always at or near the top of the list for great news or at least ideas. Since going to a free online version, one of the world’s most informative and cutting edge newspapers [...]

My good friends at Me.dium just released Me.dium Neighborhoods yesterday. This great new feature allows users to see what is HOT in specific interest areas on the Web. I have had a great relationship with the fantastic folks there in Colorado since the release of their award winning social browsing innovation. Me.dium’s latest feature essentially [...]

Well, one cannot delve deep into the primordial mystery of eternity one day without digressing into wacky goofiness in an effort to balance the chakra I guess. So, today I ran across perhaps the stupidest collection of holiday gifts ever collected. Stupid.com has a list of the most stupid for this season’s holiday shoppers. If [...]

I love images, Don’t you? I was looking for some news to share with you and began scrolling through images from 2007 when I found one that really struck me. The back story on the image is about a polar bear cub named Knut who was born at the Berlin zoo in 2006. The little [...]

Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere reached record levels in 2006 according to a report released by the WMO . According to the news the levels of the main “heat trapping” gas that contributes to global warming reached concentrations higher than ever recorded. The WMO said the levels reached 387.2 parts per million, which [...]