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- Robert Scoble recently posted an entry, on why Silicon Valley happened where it did, and not in, say, Kansas. In a nutshell, Robert believes, that religion stifles invention, and that Kansas' relative location within the Bible Belt may have been the biggest factor. Personally, I don't know. I don't have the empiric data to prove or disprove his assumptions, but I do know one thing - when it comes to dogmatism, set-in-your-ways leadership, and being ousted for having some deviant ideals, the Silicon Valley isn't that different from Kansas. In Kansas, I might have to dispute my ideas with a bunch of people who truly believe, G-d created the world in seven days, and that's something to be considered. |
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- Robert Scoble recently posted an entry, on why Silicon Valley happened where it did, and not in, say, Kansas. In a nutshell, Robert believes, that religion stifles invention, and that Kansas' relative location within the Bible Belt may have been the biggest factor. Personally, I don't know. I don't have the empiric data to prove or disprove his assumptions, but I do know one thing - when it comes to dogmatism, set-in-your-ways leadership, and being ousted for having some deviant ideals, the Silicon Valley isn't that different from Kansas. In Kansas, I might have to dispute my ideas with a bunch of people who truly believe, G-d created the world in seven days, and that's something to be considered. |
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- NoahsLinuxArk2K3 writes "For those of you who may not be familiar with PCLinuxOS, it's a Linux distro derived from Mandrake Linux 9.2, developed by none other ... |
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- I've now upgraded to MT 2.65, and SixApart have released a new template to produce Atom Feeds. So this blog now has one!.... |
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- How Sick is Sick? - Last night in dreams compounded of equal parts fever and decongestants, I planned a series... |
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Eating wild (Dec 30 2003 01:57 GMT) - It was lunch hour at The First Village of Wild Food, and if anyone in the restaurant was worried that SARS might again be spreading in this city, they were not showing it. Huang Sheng |
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- Abknicken, beschleunigen, ausbremsen: Mit immer raffinierteren Methoden versuchen Physiker, Licht- und Schallwellen zu manipulieren. Dieses Jahr noch eine Spielerei, sollen die verbogenen Wellen schon bald für einen besseren Durchblick sorgen. ¬ |
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Ah, Yes (Dec 30 2003 01:56 GMT) - I never posted about pressies, of the Xmas variety that it. I have to admit, I was so sick on... |
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- From CNET: Briefly: Mailblocks CEO and WebTV founder dies. Cause of death unknown. |
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- OnStar Considered Harmful - “A few weeks ago Slashdot ran an article on the privacy issues in EzPass. Some of the comments referred to other things Big Brother could do with GPS in cars, and now the New York Times... |
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- (Review) Lileks comments on the reaction tothe Bush Administration sending aid to Iran to help with the aftermath of the earthquake. But the adminstration's aid effort is a surprise to certain domestic elements. I heard a network news feed on... |
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- A company developing security technology for electronic voting suffered an embarrassing hacker break-in that executives think was tied to the rancorous debate over the safety of casting ballots online.[Silicon Valley: Top of the Wires] Trust us. ...John |
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- Bowl Week Three: Monday 29-Dec-03: 417 21:00 michigan st + 3 nebraska Tuesday 30-Dec-03: 420 16: |
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- The 110-story north tower of the World Trade Center had just collapsed around Officer David Lim, trapping him in a dark and dusty stairwell saturated with jet fuel fumes, but his calls for help were calm. |
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- Der Verwaltungsgerichtshof hat die Rücknahme von drei Führerscheinentzügen wegen Cannabis entschieden. Personen, die wegen Cannabisverkaufs zu Geldstrafen verurteilt wurden, wurde der Fü |
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- A fire at Valero Refining Co.'s facility in Benicia has been officially declared "out," company officials said. |
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- The Santa Clara County Health Department today announced that three cases of bacterial meningitis have been reported in the last week. |
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- New research shows that Australian Michael Abney-Hastings is the rightful King of England. New evidence indicates that King Edward IV (who reigned from 1461 to 1483) was (probably) not the son of King Richard because in the entire period when... |
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- The New York Times pulls together a 14-story package of very short articles on the convergence of media and technology, showing how high-speed Internet access is disrupting the movie, music, telephone, computer and cable businesses. In Studios Fight Piracy With... [JD's New Media Musings] |
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- so sorry.. we have lost too...a cata horsea few hamstersa puppy |
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- Speaking as someone who was born on Twelfth Night (January 5), I'm here to tell you that Christmas isn't over yet. (The traditional end of the Christmas season is the feast of the Epiphany, January 6.) This seems as... |
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- (Review) Jon Henke wonders what kind of negative campaign ads you'd have to run to prevent this: Former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic, on trial before the UN war crimes tribunal at The Hague, was elected to the Serbian parliament today,... |
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- Police say it appears a man at a halfway house in downtown Philadelphia shot his girlfriend, then himself. |
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- In Texas, a police officer was dragged by a car he and his partner had stopped on the road. The driver was arrested in Alabama. |
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- Here is a question for you. Can you do the Donovan? NBC 10 viewers gave it a try. |
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- Reporters traditionally don't carry weapons, even in war zones. But as this article notes, this ain't your daddy's war, and journos are reacting accordingly. Two prominent topics covered are NY Times' armigerous Baghdad reporter Dexter |
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- Yep, it finally happened. It's been a secret here at AOG for several months now, but has finally come to fruition. I think a few people may have figured out what the secret was, so hopefully it isn't too much of a terrible disappointment. Now y... |
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- 2 Gotham theater chains go up to $10.25. Gotham cinema tickets have blasted past the $10 barrier as two area chains this week boosted the price of admission to $10.25 for adults and $6.75 for children. |
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- Look for continued amazing news from FotB in 2004 with coverage of new directions for the University of Iowa Center for the Book, Booke vs. eBook stuff and important timeless developments in the future of the codex structure. Also follow preparations for our 2005 exposition on Preservation of the Changing Book. |
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- Suspected separatists set off a remote-controlled bomb on a key highway in India-controlled Kashmir on Tuesday, blasting a bus carrying soldiers and four other vehicles and wounding 21 people, a military officer said. |
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- Pete Vere has a good article at both Envoy Encore and Catholic Light on Islam in Canada.... |
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- Do you like? Please say something in the comments. My wife hates it - but she never liked the brain... |
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- Wayne Hubert's Blog Business World is a great resource for ... well ... blog business, but I'm still laughing (and groaning) over Blog History: The Real Story.... |
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- Jesus, I've hit a new low, even for me... I parlayed a bitch's natural nurturing instincts into tail. HAW. I... |
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- "Fifty years ago, the modern movement to defend the principles of liberty, outlined in the United States Constitution, began. That... |
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- AFP via Yahoo! Dec 29 2003 7:34PM ET... |
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- ninemsn Dec 29 2003 7:35PM ET... |
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- (Tent Empire) jan 6th - narin goes back to pton 6th or morning of 7th - jann goes to san francisco 10th or 11th - jann attempts to drag lee or maybe her aunt sue to the FUNGUS FAIR (god bless the issue of sunset - the magazine of western living - that was lying around during the LAN party, which informed me of this fantastic affair. ... |
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