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This is an awesome story. Meet the tireless entrepreneur who squatted at AOL | Bootstrap – CNET News. But unlike most people working at AOL’s Palo Alto, Calif., campus who were surely still hours from showing up at the sprawling complex, Simons was already there. He’d been living there for two months, hiding out at night on couches, eating the company’s food, and exercising and showering in its gym. And now, with an angry security guard bellowing at him, it was all over.

Rachel from Velveteen Rabbi got me to write a piece for this important website.  My name is islamoyankee | My Name Is Me. I lived through 9/11. My Muslim identification became more important. I read an article about the two things the French fear/hate: Americans and Muslims. The author of the article coined the term “islamoyankee.” I appropriated it to describe me as being a proud New Yorker and committed Muslim.

App designed by a friend of mine. Good fun, and cheap too. Mood-Tuner for iPad on the iTunes App Store. Mood-Tuner is a mindfulness tool that helps you build emotional fitness. Think of it like a life-coach/ guru/ therapist in-your-pocket. It is a set of easy, pick-me-up practices that you can do anytime, anywhere. Using special questions to redirect your inner dialog, Mood-Tuner helps you shift from stuck to inspired; from "blah" to "awesome!".  Mood-Tuner was born out of a desire to create a stress-free way to implement the lessons from personal development and wisdom traditions into our real lives.…