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- Yesterday the Washington Post carried this article detailing efforts to study and preserve the USS Arizona, a war memorial and the grave of more than 1100 sailors. It's estimated the wreck still holds some 500,000 gallons of fuel oil in its remaining bunkers, and scientists want to find out if they can determine when these structures will be in danger of collapsing, and what (if anything) can be done to prevent it. The research should also help in preservation efforts of other shipwrecks all over the world. |
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- A New Jersey mom is creating an innovative present for her son and his unit. What's inside the box? Silly string: |
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- It would be difficult to find a better career than employment as a GlaxoSmithKline attorney, especially if job security is a top priority. Not a year goes by when the company is not doling out millions of dollars to defend against charges involving corporate misconduct of one kind or another. |
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- GAP.com - 20% Off $100. GET 20% OFF PURCHASES OF $100 OR MORE. This weekend only. Only online. |
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- Can't wait until January for Apple's cancer-curing mobile communicator? PC Mag has a guide to hack your Moto SLVR into something that's about half as good. The steps involve removing the iTunes 100-song limit, installing a microSD card for more storage, adding a new browser, an Apple-ish skin, and swapping off the faceplate. Sure, this is pretty ghetto and will only fool the most luddite of friends, but it's definitely better than a stock SLVR. – |
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- Can anyone tell me how to open the case to get to the insides? Have taken out the screws I see, but can not find more? Any hidden ones? |
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- View from the site of the Neolithic Forest |
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- You're on fireThere's no salvationFrom this madness, this desireLike a star explosionYou hit us with your secret poisonBaby, please don't stopWe're in such a dark needFill us up, make us bleedRaise your voice to the skyAnd make us fly so dangerously highFlying on borrowed wings Like angels drunken on wineLoving each moment Of this feverish dream of mineI help but wonder if we' |
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- Sue Gunawardena-Vaughn, director of Amnesty International USA's Program to Abolish the Death Penalty, issued the following statement in response to the Department of Justice's release of its report on the death penalty in 2005: |
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- Welcome to This Is Good, a new recommendation column for SFist about things that are good. If something is good, we'll tell you. Simple as that. * http://AlertSF. |
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- Click on link to see in High Res NASA Mars Sun Rise |
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- The Maryland Lottery has hired Trahan, Burden & Charles to create advertising over the next seven months on behalf of the state agency. |
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- Hi Leutz, Habe folgendes Problem: habe endlich mal nach langer Zeit auf mein Lappi (Compaq) das SP2 von XP draufgespielt. Allerdings geht bei mir nach dem Hochfahren gar nix mehr bzw. er fährt nicht mal komplett hoch! : |
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- Disny Chanel. Sources of disny chanel information from the web. |
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- Seymour Papert with the children. Quebec City, 2003. Stephen Downes photo. Seymour Papert has been gravely injured in an accident in Vietnam. The thoughts and prayers of a world are with him tonight. |
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- Coverage of discussions - including a face-to-face between Blackboard lawyer Matthew Small and the Software Freedom LawCenter's Eben Mogen - of the Blackboard patent at the Sixth Sakai Conference. taking place in Atlanta. Some great back and forth. More coverage, including The Patent Jungle, Attention Must be Paid and Eban Moglen on Life in the Jungle. [Link] [Tags: |
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- It's not nearly enough - only two in five who need it get fed - but it's headed in the right direction. There will be some who say that giving out free breakfasts won't guarantee improvements in test scores. Of course not - but you won't get improvements in test scores unless your students are properly fed. More on this, with links, from NSBA. [Link] [Tags: |
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- I liked this article, but I liked it better near the beginning when I thought Kathy Sierra was making a different point. She begins by looking at Twitter - "A global community of friends and strangers answering one simple question: What are you doing?" - and draws the 'Twitter Curve', mapping the adoption of various technologies with the frequency of interruption. So far so good, but this then wanders into a hackneyed discussion of how interruptions make it hard to get into the flow of things, which we've read a million times before. |
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- Nice list (and for every one of them I could imagine the outline of a plot for a Star Trek episode). Though I suppose Tom Haskins's examples are better. I wonder whether he deliberately created the double meaning in his title - to 'come about' as in 'to occur', and to 'come about' as in sailing, meaning to change directions when tacking against the wind. [Link] [Tags: ] [Comment] |
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- "Academic types are going to go nuts over this," writes the author. Here's why: "We use farms of powerful computers and algorithms at the Swivel data centers to transform a lonely grid of numbers and letters into hundreds - sometimes thousands - of graphs that can be explored and compared with any other public data in Swivel." This could open some very interesting possibilities - but we have to keep in mind, people aren't lining up to view data sets the way they're lining up to view videos. [Link] [Tags: |
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- Dave Warlick offers some thoughts on evaluating websites. Of course readers may recall my observations on the subject last year in Principles for Evaluating Websites. [Link] [Tags: ] [Comment] |
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- Oddly named new portal for online learning. Craig Graham writes, "The site features blog aggregation, product ratings and reviews, a discussion forum , and a social networking component - targeted to e-learning professionals." While I applaud the effort, I have to ask whether we need another e-learning portal. Which, of course, raises the question, what do we need? [Link] [Tags: |
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- Businesses in the Asia-Pacific region will have the domain as an alternative to country domains such as ".jp." |
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- I'll try to make this entry interesting though, it'll be the highlight of my weekend no doubt. So, what to do...what to do...Yesterday sucked, it was an off day, a downer. Today is too. |
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- San Francisco's a lovely city, but it would be even nicer if someone did something about this damn zombie issue. Seriously, it's getting to be a real problem. We have no problem with legions of undead who want to swing that way in the privacy of their own homes, but when they insist on peddling their brain-eating smut out in public -- where the children can see! -- tolerating them is just political correctness gone too far. That is why we must urge you in the strongest possible terms NOT to convene on Yerba Buena Gardens (y'know, the Metreon's grassy backyard) at 2: |
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- US $9.99 (0 Bid) End Date: Friday Dec-08-2006 9:00:00 PSTBid now | Add to watch list Wholesale 10pcs Murano Glass Necklaces/Pendants - WJ027 US $9. |
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- US $0.59 (0 Bid) End Date: Friday Dec-08-2006 10:00:00 PSTBid now | Add to watch list |
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- US $9.79 End Date: Friday Dec-08-2006 9:18:15 PSTBuy It Now for only: |
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- I saw the recent posting on the LEAPS Jobfile for a Police Officer at the UMASS Med School. I have a few quick questions, if anyone can help it would be appriciated. Do they carry? What kind of action do they get? thanks |
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- I've been checking it out recently - they have really excellent programming, I have to say. It's educational without being boring. I think I'm enjoying the My War Diary show the most - I like that the soldiers themselves are making and submitting the content for it. Feels more real. Anybody else... |
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- Brokerage sees a six-month lull in the metals market. |
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- 350 UFO Photographs Dug at Digg.com do you believe? More… |
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- Aufstiegsaspirant TSG Hoffenheim kam in der Regionalliga Süd nicht über ein 2:2 (1:1)-Remis gegen Bayern München II hinaus. Damit steht Tabellenführer SV Wehen als Wintermeister fest. |
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- NEW YORK (Dow Jones/AP) — Time Warner Inc.’s cable subsidiary has filed a false-advertising lawsuit against DirecTV Inc. over its ads for the NFL Network and its high-definition television service. |
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- Die Aufstiegsplätze in der Regionalliga Nord rücken für den FC St. Pauli in immer weitere Ferne. Am 20. Spieltag kamen die Hamburger am Millerntor nur zu einem 1:1 (1: |
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- I’m not sure exactly what it is about Sunny Lane that makes me crazy. Maybe it’s that she kinda has a big ass. Pretty much everyone who knows me also knows I can’ |
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