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NEW YORK — Unilever’s Omo detergent is adding an unusual ingredient to its two-pound detergent box in Brazil: a GPS device that allows its promotions agency Bullet to track shoppers and follow them to their front doors.

Starting next week, consumers who buy one of the GPS-implanted detergent boxes will be surprised at home, given a pocket video camera as a prize and invited to bring their families to enjoy a day of Unilever-sponsored outdoor fun. The promotion, called Try Something New With Omo, is in keeping with the brand’s international “Dirt is Good” positioning that encourages parents to let their kids have a good time even if they get dirty.

I can hear the conspiracy theorists already.

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The stealthy operations of an Indianapolis based political web design firm ran by a few IU students, and their D.C. connections.

Internet genius. Content warning.

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We’ve added links to 32 Tea Party web sites. They can be found on the right sidebar, about half way down under “Indiana Tea Party Web Sites,” and also at the top of the our site.

If we missed you, let us know and we will add your site.

We’d suggest visiting them we you have time.

Some people will get this, others won’t. If you have to ask any questions, just pretend you didn’t watch it.

We’ve installed Intense Debate. A large number of blogs are moving to this system and it allows several login options. Over time, it will also eliminate the need for constant moderation. It also has some nice features for those that comment.

We’d suggest getting an account, although it’s not a requirement. You can do so by going to their web site: http://intensedebate.com/.

I had a setting wrong. You can now post topics. Sorry for the trouble.

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As I talk to clients or visit them in their home or office it most often requires that I have access to passwords. One such person has a list neatly printed out sitting next to his keyboard. Now that my friends, is security.

Late this year both my Twitter and Facebook accounts had the passwords hacked. Other than a hundred or so SPAM messages sent on Twitter the damage was minimal. Imagine if it had been a bank account?

After that happened I decided to increase the security level of my passwords.

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Google’s Gmail system has been returning 502 server errors for quite a while, (about 30 minutes). In internet terms, quite a while is more than a few minutes. What’s a 502 error? It could mean one of the following:

“502: Bad Gateway”
“502 – Service Temporarily Overloaded”
“HTTP Error 502 – Bad Gateway”

My guess is a denial of service attack, but who knows. It’s been an issue on and off for several days. I had issues with YouTube earlier today, which is owned by Google. It seems to be working fine now, as is the Google search engine. Gmail is still not responding.