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A few days ago was when I first heard that Web Junk 2.0 on VH1, in an episode titled “Animals & Other Crap”, had a segment featuring my first school board commercial. Here’s the clip, which includes some pretty hilarious commentary by Web Junk 2.0 host Aries Spears (I was literally in the floor laughing while watching and listening to his witty remarks) …

Speaking of the school board ad, Tom Finnigan at The Heritage Foundation had some really nice things to say about it on the foundation’s blog two days ago…

The ad has been featured on VH1’s Web Junk 2.0 and in The New York Times, Raleigh News & Observer, and The Charlotte Observer. Knight deserves kudos for promoting a fiscally conservative message to a diverse audience in a novel and entertaining way. Judging by the almost 60,000 views and overwhelmingly positive comments, it’s possible that Knight

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A few months ago I heard about an intriguing new website called Polar Rose. It’s creators have billed it as a search engine for images… and images of people in particular. Polar Rose is built around facial recognition software that, theoretically, you’ll be able to input the picture of a person you know and it will scan for every occurrence of that person’s face in photos throughout the Internet.

So I’ve been keeping an eye out for Polar Rose to debut its service, which was supposed to have been sometime in the first quarter of 2007. We’re now headed into the second quarter. There also hasn’t been anything new added to the Polar Rose website since about mid-January. I’ve heard that they were originally going for a December 2006 roll-out. According to one source it might happen this month or in May.

I hope they get on the ball ...

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