Dowbrigade

Armed only with a powerbook and some fine pipe tobacco,
Ben Hammersley is a journalist, a writer, and an errant developer of
semantic web technology. He is about to give all us armchair bloggers
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Dancers perform the opera "Liu
Sanjie" along
the Lijiang River in Yangshuo near Guilin, in China’s Guangxi Zhuangzu
Autonomous Region. The 100 million yuan ($12 million) musical
of traditional Chinese folk songs [...]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — State Supreme Court justices
overruled Chief Justice Roy Moore on Thursday and directed that his Ten
Commandments monument be removed from its public site in the Alabama
Judicial Building.
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Lying in my hammock, slung between a tree and a telephone pole in a
corner of our tiny backyard, I find myself thinking about the utility
of pets, between futile slaps at the persistently pesky mosquitoes. Speaking of skeeters, I
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Office Space
An ingenious little time waster with just two rules: collect
all the missing folders and avoid supervisors.
from
Disarea.com

Aug. 20 (Bloomberg) — Don Johnson, star of U.S. television show “Miami
Vice,” may sue Germany’s Finance Ministry after news that customs officers
found $8 billion when they [...]

The war against downladed music goes on.  On one front, the proposed
Author, Consumer and Computer Owner Protection and Security Act is working
its way through Congress and if you care about this sort of thing you
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