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We can do better, we can wear suncreen that doesn't poison us, we can pay attention to climate change (and quit using "global warming"), listen to music and revere beauty, set our own priorities. My link-love for the week.

Google Priority Inbox Soothes Email-Overload Stress
What do you think? Do you want Google setting your priorities for you? They do a pretty good job with spam, how about setting my calendar for me too?

5 Ways to Make a Database For Your Customers
What if you look at database building as a service you provided for your customers? Now, in some cases that might be a good service offering as a profit center, but I’m talking about providing a service that simply allows you to differentiate your business by adding value in ways that your competitors aren’t even thinking about.

The 2010 Guide To Safe Sunscreen
A reference for finding out product toxicity. [Who knew? I didn't.]

The first step is to start Jason Z.
Start making something. If you want to learn web design, make a website. Want to be an entreprenuer and start a busines selling web based products? Make an app. Maybe you don’t have the skills yet, but why worry about that? You probably don’t even know what skills you need.

Scoreloop Launches Android App for Social Discovery and Cross-Promotions
Scoreloop, an innovative gaming platform that allows publishers to easily add social components to their games, has made the move into Android.  The application allows users to manage their friends, social network connections and get news about popular games within their social network.

3 Ways To Stop Being A Control Freak
1) You Don’t Have To Have All The Answers; 2) Don’t Dictate Decisions; 3. Allow Conversation to Flow

Climate Change Is Worse Than We Thought
The challenge of climate change and its warrior activists have asked many things of us — changing to energy-efficient lightbulbs, biking to work, flying less, turning off the lights more often, and more — but even with the most severe treatment for the global threat, a new report from the Proceedings from the National Acadmey of Sciences of the United States of America says that repairing the damage will prove extremely difficult and non-cost-effective.

Resort Combines Facebook Places, Gowalla, Nike+ for Social Media Skiing
Wow, Geo-location for when you are skiing out-of-bounds. This I might consider.

The Inevitable Demise Of The 'Social Media Strategist'
But I object to being introduced as a "social media strategist." Social media should really be viewed as an integrated part of the holistic strategy for a brand, not its own independent realm. This means understanding your customer and their needs, understanding your brand positioning and benefits, and finding the intersection where these two overlap.

When Patents Are Patently Absurd
Last week wired.com reported Paul Allen Files Patent Lawsuits Against Entire Web … Except Microsoft. Allen, Bill Gates’ original partner in Microsoft, and an extremely wealthy man, is suing nearly everybody who is anybody on the internet (“Google, Apple, Yahoo, Netflix, Facebook, AOL and eBay, among others”) because he has the patent.

The Wilderness Downtown (beauty and music)
An interactive, Web-based music video collaboration between the director–he's also worked on video projects for Barack Obama, U2, and Nike among others–Google, and the indie-rock darlings. Their latest, urbanist tinged album, The Suburbs, is a love letter to our idealized childhood abodes that often literally or figuratively crumble as we age. See for yourself with this interactive experiment: It uses Google Street View maps to quasi-personalize the video, which features a hooded man running through deserted lanes.

Hell Freezes Over: AutoCAD Returns to Mac
After an 18-year absence, AutoCAD is finally coming back to Mac OS X. Autodesk, the company that makes the CAD program that has become he defacto industry standard, last released a native Mac version of its flagship product in 1992.

Triumph of the Heart (via @jonl)
LOVE, COMPASSION, and peace—these words are at the heart of spiritual endeavors. Although we intuitively resonate with their meaning and value, for most of us, the challenge is how to embody what we know: how to transform these words into a vibrant life practice.

This is how I feel about buying apps (humor from The Oatmeal – cartoons)

Who is Jeff Emmerson? And What's Gritty Memoir?
From the author himself, "have to say that it takes true courage to write an honest
Memoir/Autobiography. It really does. Nothing made up, no fiction…Just REAL life."

@jmacofearth
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