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- Many progressive Americans sense that we are at a watershed moment in our relationship to the mainstream media. Progressive media outlets themselves feel that they, too, may be at a turning point. The media reform movement, spearheaded by Bob McChesney and others, aroused only marginal passion several years ago but it took off like a rocket in 2003 as a result of unprecedented FCC ... PR Watch Has Its Eyes Open |
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- From the Apple Link Dump department: Apple has released an iTunes Link Maker to enable anyone to easily create HTML links to individual songs albums or artists. They've got some fancy code to detect the presence of iTunes on the system, but I'd rather just provide a link for you to download iTunes, and then the links will work for everybody. If only they would provide a way to link directly to the "Just Added" page, I'd be truly happy. Oh yeah, you can right-click on most links within the iTMS and get the URL as well, even for Audiobooks and authors. |
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Brilliant! (Oct 17 2003 21:59 GMT) - Mark-Steffen Göwecke's Polaroid photography is such a brilliant concept, I weep not to have thought of it myself:All began in 1996 in Bretany, France: On a beach I photographed with a the SX-70 a polaroid showing sand and stones. Again the resulting picture was photographed with the Polaroid-camera. The distances in space and time became greater. |
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- Stark texten wie ein Profi. Kurz, klar, kreativ und verkaufsstark |
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- Fa 'asaw rasula rabbihim fa akhadhahum akhdhatan rabiyatan And they disobeyed the messenger of their Lord so He took them with a severe punishment The following is an excerpt of commentary on this ayah, from Tafsir Ibn Kathir: They were all of the same type, they all denied the Messenger of Allah who was sent to them |
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- Officials in Maryland are trying to "control the size of the herds", and sadly they're not talking about Sport Utility Vehicles, they're talking about deer, and sadlier still, they've decided that the most efficient way to deal with this problem is to allow bowhunting, because it's so efficient. 11 deer have been killed so far, and 3 others have been wounded but "unrecovered". The "deer hunting project director" points out that woundings happen in gun-based hunting as well, as if that makes it all better. At least I can finally use the pictures that Dave Noisy sent in a while back... (While no non-human animals are harmed in the photos, you might not want to view them within an hour of a meal. |
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- Ayse Uskul's PhD research could lead to more effective health messages in a multicultural society... |
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- Internationally renowned mezzo soprano Kimberly Barber presents a free workshop for singers... |
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- Police are investigating it as a possible hate crime... |
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- From cherry tomatoes to leeks, the garden yielded a cornucopia to be proud of... |
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- Perhaps it’s surprising that most Democratic candidates are now speaking out on media ownership and deregulation of the public airwaves. It may be less surprising that most of their positions became known only after a grassroots campaign highlighted the public’s discontent with the FCC vote last June to further deregulate the media. Either way, after decades of regulation rollbacks, ownership concentration and commercialism of news, issues that progressives have been... |
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- Here's a shout-out to our near-namesakes at veen.com, the home of Jeffrey and Leslie Veen. Jeffrey is a longtime UI consultant, web expert, and writer. Even though I've read some of his work over the years, I didn't make the connection that we've probably |
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- Check out the US shop@home portal at LEGO, which sports the new holiday catalogue for 2003. It has a nifty interactive feature and plenty of Star Wars items - including a re-released TIE Fighter (though LEGO has mistakenly pictured a Darth Vader TIE Fighter). |
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Job News (Oct 17 2003 21:57 GMT) - I have not one but two phone calls to make this afternoon (yes, I'll get to them) about my employment,... |
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- Caracals Animal control officers in Prince William County, Maryland have captured a caracal that had confronted a German Shepherd. The dog probably had no clue what the heck this thing was. Its a rather unusual-looking cat. Caracals are native to South. |
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- ChevronTexaco Corp. will spend 275 million dollars to curb air pollution and settle charges it violated the US Clean Air Act, federal prosecutors and ... - Wiccan Web |
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- Douglas Rushkoff for TheFeature.com compares the factors motivating US and UK teenagers to replace their handsets. The main reason in... |
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- Okay, this is really cool: Monkeys with brain implants were... |
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- Joe Lieberman missed today’s vote on the $87 billion package... |
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- Four more GIs died today in Iraq, pushing the total... |
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- It’s sometimes useful to think about politics and public policy... |
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- For two years we’ve been hearing that the “War on... |
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- Greenberg Quinlan Rosner has polled (PDF) three of the first... |
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- Thanks to Billmon for weaving some of these threads together.On... |
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- Frankly, for years now I've been fairly annoyed at the attitude I get from many of my colleagues from mainstream media. These are the journalists, editors, and publishers who blithely dismiss online or independent journalism as inherently lacking in credibility. Not only is that belief inaccurate and counterproductive, it's shortsighted. I'd like to call to your attention a fabulous posting in one of my very favorite Weblogs, Phil Wolff's A Klog Apart. Check out the Oct. |
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Lame (Oct 17 2003 21:56 GMT) - Microsoft's response to yesterday's unveiling of iTunes for Windows, along with access to the iTunes Music Store: "Unless Apple decides... |
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- The Globe and Mail's list of author readings/events across the country, October 15-29.... |
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- SuSE has released a LiveCD of SuSE Linux 9.0. Thanks Mark. |
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- This article covers some of the architectural challenges posed by Web Services, examines how to use (and not to use) Web Services, and defines the best practices in applying Web Services for solving tough architectural problems, such as cross-language or cross-system integration. |
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- Vom heutigen Freitag an können Interessierte ihre Veranstaltung in den offiziellen Kalender des "Jahres der Technik 2004" eintragen. Dazu sind... |
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- Nokia has finally made an official statement on the tales of numerous explosions that have been spreading around the internet. The company advises customers to stay away from aftermarket batteries. There have been unconfirmed reports that Nokia uses crypography in... |
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- Firebird ... 95 comments so far |
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- From $16 billion in stock to $100 million... ... 18 comments so far |
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- California trials power-line broadband ... 19 comments so far |
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- FCC opens door for new wireless tech ... 22 comments so far |
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- Why Does the Bush Administration Lie All the Time?. And here is Condi Rice lying just for the hell of it: Through the Looking Glass: Condi Rice said, in May, 2002: I don't think anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center, take another one and slam it into the Pentagon; |
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- In June I spoke with somebody at Apple regarding making our new CD nouveaumatic available on iTunes before we would release it in September. I thought getting the new album on iTunes would be pretty easy, especially since the iTunes store already sells many of my albums and more are to follow since I agreed to make the music from my Higher Octave CDs available as well. I was sent an application form for independent record labels, which I filled out and returned more than three months ago. I have emailed a couple of contacts at Apple several times and have yet to find out about the status of the application. Needless to say I am disappointed by the way iTunes is handling this matter and I have no idea when, if ever nouveaumatic will be available on iTunes. |
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- Apparently I'm a baseball fan who hates baseball. This is analogous to being a political junkie who hates politics, something... |
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- For all the panda lovers in the house: This photograph by Michael Pullin of Austin won third place, adult division, at the National Zoo's 2003 Giant Panda Photography Contest. Bon weekend, y'all.... |
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- Is it possible to use the comments feature in a "Story"? If so how? |
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- A state appeals court refused Friday to stop the recall election of a Democratic state senator who angered some constituents when he sided with Republicans on a vote. |
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- I’ve been afraid to breathe a word, terrified that I would jinx it by uttering even a syllable about this. Every vacillation in the political winds gave me pause, made me question the rationality of writing this fact. |
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- The Smoking Gun offers up a copy of an editorial that was composed and printed before the end of the... |
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