github = good design

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It’s nice that a site dedicated to social coding can have such an appealing interface. It’s minimalistic, but still catchy due to smooth lines and subtle graidents. Great job github!

github

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List of e-mail marketing services

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This list is a good start if you’re looking for some email marketing tools.

Web based services for e-mail marketing, listservs, newsletters, publications

Constant Contact (constantcontact):

60 day trial, up to 100 contacts, no credit card needed
http://www.constantcontact.com

iContact

60 day trial
www.icontact.com

Mail Chimp (mailchimp)

Free up to 2000 subscribers
http://www.mailchimp.com
http://www.mailchimp.com/pricing/

BoldCode

Free 30 day Trial
http://ignitebusiness.boldcode.com/ignitebusiness-pricing

Vertical Response

30 day free trial. Used to be free for low quantities. Still free for non-profits w/ low volume.
http://www.verticalresponse.com/pricing/

StreamSend

30 day trial with 200 e-mail limit
http://www.streamsend.com/features_price.htm

My Emma (myemma)

Test drive option, but looks difficult to sign up for
http://myemma.com/email-marketing-pricing/

Campaign Monitor (campaignmonitor)

“Sign up for free” – no notes about free usage
http://www.campaignmonitor.com/pricing/

Get Response

No free option
http://www.getresponse.com/pricing

Jango Mail

Free 200 emails per month
https://www.jangomail.com/pricing.asp

Peer 360

No free options, this is an expensive but very high grade commercial service
http://www.peer360.com/

SendGrid

No free option
http://sendgrid.com/pricing.html

Amazon SES

http://aws.amazon.com/ses/pricing/

RatePoint

30 day trial with 550 contacts *farily new to the market
http://www.ratepoint.com/pricing.html

Campaigner

Free Trial *also farily new to the market
http://www.campaigner.com/pricing.aspx

Desktop Software

E-Campaign (ecampaign)

PC Compatible only. Trial available. Retails for $100-$300
http://www.lmhsoft.com/ecamp/

Direct Mail (directmail)

Mac only. A very nice program.
http://ethreesoftware.com/directmail/

Know of More?

Please leave a note in the comments! :)

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Network Solutions re-brands

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network

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check it out

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webcam

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Just got my Google Wave Developer Invite

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google_wave

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The Rod of Asclepius and The Caduceus

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The Rod of Asclepius has traditionally been the symbol for healing and medicine. However, over time the Caduceus has been confused with the Rod of Asclepius and mistakenly used to represent medicine.

“A 1992 survey of American health organizations found that 62% of professional associations used the rod of Asclepius, whereas in commercial organizations, 76% used the caduceus.”Graphically, the Caduceus makes is a more elaborate symbol and would be more fun to use in a logo, however, it’s origins are not related to medicine or healing.

The caduceus is sometimes used as a symbol for medicine or physicians (instead of the rod of Asclepius) even though the symbol has no connection with Hippocrates and any association with healing arts is something of a stretch. Its singularly inappropriate connotations of theft, commerce, deception and death have provided fodder for academic humor.

 The rod of Asclepius (sometimes also spelled Asklepios or Aesculapius), also known as the asklepian,[1] is an ancient symbol associated with astrology, the Greek god Asclepius and with healing. It consists of a serpent entwined around a staff. The name of the symbol derives from its early and widespread association with Asclepius, the son of Apollo, who was a practitioner of medicine in ancient Greek mythology. His attributes, the snake and the staff, sometimes depicted separately in antiquity, are combined in this symbol.[2] The Rod of Asclepius also represents the constellation Ophiuchus (or Ophiuchus Serpentarius), the thirteenth sign of the sidereal zodiac.

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The caduceus is typically depicted as a short herald’s staff entwined by two serpents in the form of a double helix, and sometimes is surmounted by wings. This staff first was borne by Iris, the messenger of Hera. It also was called the wand of Hermes when he superseded Iris in much later myths.

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Examples

medical_symbols

Guess which one our National Government is using?

“Everyone’s searching for Barack Obama’s health care logo online right now after Rush Limbaugh mentioned how a right-wing blog thinks it looks like something from Nazi Germany.” – From buzzfeed.com via jameskurtz

obama_caduceus

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w3schools new logo

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So I know it’s really suppose to be a rendeition of the w and 3, but with the low height of the W and the curvy, 3 with the spine chopped off, it looks more like a butt and an ear – especially in their faviconear_butt

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Zoobilee Zoo

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who remembers this?
clipped from www.skooldays.com

http://www.skooldays.com/images/sa1734.jpg
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Commonly Craved Foods in the United States

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[citation needed]
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Blackballing

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clipped from en.wikipedia.org

Blackballing was a rejection technique used in elections to membership of a gentlemen’s club (as well as similarly organised institutions such as Freemasonry and fraternities). The principle of such a club was that it was self-perpetuating; i.e., new members could only be elected by existing members. This was to ensure that new members were congenial to the old members, which helped to preserve the ethos (and exclusivity) of the club. The term is also used as a synonym to blacklist.
The favoured method of election was by the ballot box, which was a wooden box into which those participating in the election placed a small ball or ballot. A white ball signified support; a black ball signified opposition. The box was usually designed so that observers could not see how the voter was voting; it was all done under cover of the box, or of a combination of a cloth and the box itself.
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