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John Tyler is a 19 year old college student at Ohio University majoring in Integrated Social Studies (education) and minoring in Political Science. Loves writing and enjoys sipping a cup of vanilla chai over a political discussion or two. Avid baseball fan

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Computers & Technology > Computer Buying Tips Choosing between MacBook Air and a PC laptop: 1 of 7
Apple has done it again: first the Mac, then the iPod, 2007 brought the introduction of the iPhone and now we're looking at the MacBook Air. Steve Jobs, in his infinite wealth of marketing genius continues to find one way after another to appeal to the consumer base as the stylish alternative to the PC world, and style sells.... More..
Religion & Spirituality > Religious Speculations & Criticisms Feeling out of place: Judgment that discourages churchgoing: 1 of 5
While sitting with my fiance at the local nail business thinking about all the other things I would rather be doing then inhaling the intoxicating fumes from a roomful of middle-aged women's nail chemicals. I started to notice the abundance of crosses on women's necklaces. The only necklaces that did not display the Christian... More..
Computers & Technology > Website Reviews Web site reviews: MySpace.com: 8 of 33
The Fox-owned website Myspace.com is a website that just about everyone has heard about at one time or another. Unless the person has been in a coma, or has managed to remain completely unexposed to the internet in the last two years when the website really picked up, they know what "a place for friends" means. However, popul... More..
Computers & Technology > Operating Systems Reasons to downgrade from Windows Vista to XP: 3 of 12
Windows Vista is the Windows ME of 2008. There are many new, fun, and professional features it brings to the table that XP could only dream of. Visually if you have a computer capable of handling its massive requirements of memory, Vista is gorgeous and feels slick to use. However, Vista is nothing more then a test run of a f... More..
Computers & Technology > Internet Tips Tips for creating hot MySpace layouts: 2 of 4
The key to a "hot" MySpace profile begins with one word: sophistication. Too many times users blog down their personal profiles with scattered JPEG images, eight different music players (all playing at once), twelve unrelated unorganized flash animations, three free games that they miscopied the source code on and a backgroun... More..
Computers & Technology > Software & Web Development Sun buys MySQL: Open source the wave of the future?: 1 of 2
Recently Sun, founded in 1982, acquired MySQL; in a deal that signifies the impact open-source software can and has had on the PC community. Sun, the California headquartered corporation, is home to over 34,000 employees and boasts a powerful reputation of supporting open-source software. The $1 billion dollar acquisition of ... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Presidential Elections 2008 "Experience" is a political code word: 1 of 2
If there is one thing Washington needs it isn't more experience. The harping criticism of this year's presidential election is "inexperience" in Washington. With a 12-20% congressional approval rating and a Presidential approval rating not much higher it is blatantly clear where experience has gotten us. Experience in its pu... More..
Politics, News & Issues > News Industry How the media is going out of control: 10 of 15
Misreported Media, "Sex" and Things OTHER than "Sex".Fox News recently did a report on Mass Effect, a popular holiday title this most recent Christmas for the Xbox 360. Their report was driven from an article by a widely unknown reporter from TownHall.com by the name of Kevin McCullough, who claimed that Mass Effect was a sex... More..