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Not So Happy Pot Ending (May 05 2005 13:47 GMT) - Just what everyone needs: Some pot-bust-and-police-bribe humor! The NY Post reports that two police officers busted 20 year old Marco Germosen for smoking pot outside of Happy Ending on Broome Street around 6AM. Then at the station house, Germosen "tried to bribe the cops, offering them $600 to cut him loose." At the station house! |
Digital Photography Blog
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Olympus C-500 Zoom Review - PhotographyBLOG (May 05 2005 13:47 GMT) - PhotographyBLOG reviews the Olympus C-500 Zoom and writes - 'The Olympus C-500 Zoom is an easy-to-use, well-made entry level digital camera that ultimately is difficult to get too excited about. With the exception of the Manual exposure mode, which gives... |
Modern Tribalist
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Anti-slavery activist jailed in Niger (May 05 2005 13:47 GMT) - BBC News:An anti-slavery human rights activist in Niger has been jailed for attempted fraud six days after his arrest. Ilguilas Weila and five others are accused of trying to falsely elicit money from foreign donors. The charges relate to a ceremony to free 7,000 slaves, cancelled at the last minute in March by the government who maintain slavery does not exist. London-based Anti-Slavery International has urged the authorities to release Mr Weila and his colleagues immediately. |
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Make anamorphic DVDs with iDVD5 and Final Cut source (May 05 2005 13:47 GMT) - If you've ever tried to get iDVD 5 to burn an anamorphic DVD from a widescreen source other than iMovieHD, you know it doesn't work. If you import the movie into iDVD, the app will treat it as a 4:3 movie instead of a 16:9, m... |
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Russia unbeaten in hockey championships (May 05 2005 13:46 GMT) - (US) Belarus was without forward Tsimafei Filin, who was suspended for the rest of the tournament after failing a drug test. [$drug_related(50%), $drugwar_propaganda(60%), $propaganda_theme2(50%), $propaganda_theme3(60%), $illegal_drugs(50%), $drugs(90%), $various_drugs(90%), $various_illegal_drugs(50%)] |
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Arizona court comes down on profiling (May 05 2005 13:46 GMT) - (US) But a Yavapai County Superior Court judge rejected the expert opinion, saying racial profiling is not a defense to the drug charges. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(60%), $propaganda_theme1(60%), $propaganda_theme2(50%), $propaganda_theme3(50%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(90%), $various_drugs(90%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
Meerkat: An Open Wire Service
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Thirteen (May 05 2005 13:46 GMT) - My husband and I separated the year my daughter turned 13. She was deliciously wise and fun, but I knew I couldn't slip into "us girls." She needed a mother. |
Meerkat: An Open Wire Service
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The human monster (May 05 2005 13:46 GMT) - The best biography yet of Joseph Stalin traces his life from abused child to murderous dictator -- and forces us to ask whether he could have taken a different path. |
Meerkat: An Open Wire Service
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Entangling alliances (May 05 2005 13:46 GMT) - The man running a "national coalition" pushing the nuclear option is the former aide to Bill Frist who resigned after accessing Democratic strategy memos on Bush's judges. |
Meerkat: An Open Wire Service
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State of Spyware Report (Q1 2005). (May 05 2005 13:46 GMT) - State of Spyware Report (Q1 2005). This in-depth report details the scope of the spyware problem as... identified by Webroot Softwares recent Corporate SpyAudit and Consumer... SpyAudit scans, performed on over 35,300 business PCs and over a... million home PCs, respectively. |
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Open Letter to Howard Dean, by Dennis Kucinich (May 05 2005 13:46 GMT) - Dear Chairman Dean, Speaking before an ACLU crowd last week in Minnesota, the home state of Paul Wellstone, you were quoted as saying, "Now that we're there [in Iraq], we're there and we can't get out.... I hope the President is incredibly successful with his policy now." Did these words really come from the same man who claimed to represent the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party, and who had recently campaigned on the antiwar theme? |
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