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Shameless Self-Promotion
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The whining continues (Jan 17 2005 23:47 GMT) - If you didn't get enough of worthless boycotts from the Great American Gas-Out, you've got a new chance to pretend you're making a difference: Not One Damn Dime Day, a.k.a. Inauguration Day. |
GamingReport.com
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d20PublisherNews: Tsunami Relief Project (Jan 17 2005 23:47 GMT) - A group of gaming writers and artists from across the globe (the editor was in Sydney, Australia) put together Elemental, a d20 e-book to raise funds for tsunami relief work by www.oxfam.org. If you buy d20/D&D PDFs, check this one out next time you're shopping online. All money raised goes to Oxfam. |
Meerkat: An Open Wire Service
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The healing power of King in the time of Bush (Jan 17 2005 23:47 GMT) - While the battle over Martin Luther King's legacy continues with respect to same-sex marriage, the editorial board of the Dallas Morning News considers the civil rights icon in terms of America's bitter partisan divide under George W. Bush. King's legacy, proposes the paper, lies in the potential political healing power of the black church. |
Meerkat: An Open Wire Service
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Gnome 10 Sneak Peek (Jan 17 2005 23:47 GMT) - spectre_be writes "Davyd Madeley wrote a Sneak Peek at Gnome 2.10, scheduled for release on the March 9, 2005. Looks like the new release-policy is starting to pay of, as several existing utilities get enhancements and a couple of new ones are added. Also (finally) a mozilla-stylee type-ahead find has been implemented in Gnome's Open/Save dialog. Together with OpenOffice. |
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Paraguay nabs Brazilian crime boss (Jan 17 2005 23:46 GMT) - (US) A Brazilian criminal gang leader was arrested in Paraguay Monday with more than 220-pounds of cocaine.[$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(55%), $propaganda_theme1(55%), $propaganda_theme2(50%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(95%), $prohibition_agency(100%), $stimulant(100%), $cocaine(100%), $narcotic(100%), $various_drugs(95%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
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Dodd expresses optimism for US free trade pact with Andean nations (Jan 17 2005 23:46 GMT) - (US) The three Andean nations already enjoy tariff-free access to U.S. markets for hundreds of products, including asparagus, cut flowers and textiles, through a deal aimed at helping countries on the front line of the drug war. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(90%), $propaganda_theme3(50%), $propaganda_theme5(60%), $propaganda_theme6(90%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(90%), $various_drugs(90%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
Blogcritics
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Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Jan 17 2005 23:46 GMT) - Seven Brides for Seven Brothers is a pretty by the books MGM musical. It is based on a book entitled The Sobbin' Women which is in turn based on a Roman story titled The Rape of the Sabine Women. Which, like the title implies is about the kidnapping and rape of several young women who eventually come to 'love' their captors. How someone decided to make a musical out of this one wonders. |
Ponto Triplo
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Por falar em escalas... (Jan 17 2005 23:45 GMT) - ... no artigo Huygens Sends Images of Titan, da National Geographic News, pode ler-se: Titan is sitting up there perking away as kind of a planet-scale chemistry lab doing a lot of the stuff that was going on in the... |
Ponto Triplo
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Lab-on-a-chip (Jan 17 2005 23:45 GMT) - Conseguem imaginar um laboratório de QuÃmica do tamanho de um selo de correio? Talvez seja altura de repensar as nossas escalas...... |
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RSS Aggravation (Jan 17 2005 23:45 GMT) - [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] - Are feeds implied licenses, or can they alter express ones? I don't think there's an easy answer, but a court could be asked this question before long as businesses built on RSS continue to explore what they can and should be doing with the material they aggregate. Marty Schwimmer (Bloglines, no thanks), Dennis Kennedy (don't make me put ads in my feed), and Robert Scoble (people who live in full post houses shouldn't throw republication stones) have more. Mark Fletcher expands and contracts.... |
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