June 2011
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Life can be hilariously cruel !: Major... →
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Major International Leaders Plead for the US and the World to Get Smart and Stop the War on Drugs By Molly O’Toole, AlterNet Posted on June 4, 2011, Printed on June 4, 2011 …
May 2011
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Amazon.com Now Selling More Kindle Books Than... →
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Amazon began selling hardcover and paperback books in July 1995. Twelve years later in November 2007, Amazon introduced the revolutionary Kindle and began selling Kindle books. By July 2010, Kindle book sales had surpassed hardcover book sales, and six months later, Kindle books overtook paperback books to become the most popular format on Amazon.com. Today, less than four years...
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Put some clothes on
sneapy:
Wow wow wow.
Why is there so much about sex on my dashboard?
Seriously, please save that stuff for when you’re having a private conversation with your friends, or half naked pictures of yourself for your partner.
Posting that stuff to strangers on the internet really isn’t wise.
Just saying.
I really don’t understand why our culture is so obsessed with broadcasting sex. Save it...
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April 2011
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Syrians Under Siege →
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Across Syria, checkpoints in protest areas have been set up to search people for mobile phone pictures and footage of the violence. Telephone and Internet networks have been cut, and few people have been able to leave or contact the outside world. There are reports of government snipers firing on pedestrians, and residents no longer dare leave their homes. Foreign journalists, who in...
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APE IN A CAPE: Dear Modern Feminism →
gailsimone:
Holy crap, what is going on?
I’m so frustrated with this cause that I dearly believe in. Instead of reaching for tolerance and high ideals, the intellectual wing of feminism seems mired in ego, short-sightedness and celebrity snark.
Instead of being a philosophical haven for both the poet and…
February 2010
9 posts
YouTube gives up on original 'Rickroll'
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roomthily:
In what’s either the saddest or most fantastic news of the week, the YouTube video for Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up” has been deemed a copyright violation.
Yes, that means the cheesy ’80s pop video with tens of millions of views—the center of the “Rickrolling” Internet phenomenon—is no more.
via CNET News
sad day
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It's all gone a bit British Telecom, ie out of...
I am not many miles from the exchange. I can get almost 5 gig on a good day, but mostly it’s about 3-4, and less..
Don’t talk to me about packet loss though, well to be more transparent and less techy - don’t talk to me on Skype or packet loss will mean video and VOIP voice over the internet protocol will be hit and miss and often impossible - much to the amusement of my German...
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It's A Bird! It's A Plane! It's Chris Nolan! He'll... →
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Nikki Finke and Mike Fleming write:
Warner Bros is trying to ready its DC Comics stalwart Superman to soar again on the Big Screen, and the studio has turned to Chris Nolan to mentor development of the movie. Our insiders say that the brains behind rebooted Batman has been asked to play a “godfather” role and ensure The Man Of Steel gets off the ground after a 3 1/2-year hiatus....
Old Sniper
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Old Sniper
It was a simple question 84-year old Ted Gundy put to the guys at Shooting USA’s Impossible Shots: “How is it possible for snipers today to hit targets from such long ranges?” From most of us, it would have been a gee-whiz kind of question, the kind that gets a polite “thanks for watching, snipers use….” kind of form letter response. But Ted Gundy wasn’t just another...
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Can the Euro Survive?
Twenty years ago, at the height of the last recession, Britain faced many of the same problems of unemployment and spiralling Government debt, that we do today. Yet there was one vital difference: there was precisely nothing that the British government could do about all this because of our membership of the Exchange Rate Mechanism. Yet at this time the Conservative Government, the Labour Party,...
Aircruise: giant hydrogen airships could herald a...
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January 2010
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Dinosaurs Unleashed on Oxford Street, London, an...
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