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I remember the first time I used a videophone.  It was
1963, I was 10, and we were at the Bell Telephone pavillion at the New
York World’s Fair. I remember wondering how long it would take my
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Arthur Ashe Stadium in Queens, the 2003 US Open is inturrupted
by rain. What high-tech wizardry do they use to dry out the courts?
Embedded microwaves? Massive blow dryers? How about scores of teenagers
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Will Richardson is an educator and a blogger and enthusiastic proselytizer for Manila and RSS, both of which he loves. He has just written a “Manila Procedures Manual”which is avalable for free download on his site “Weblog-ed News”.
He especially likes turning on other teachers to the wonderful world of weblogs….
“I launched into my aggregation [...]

I have a pathological fear of the government, in all of its forms and manifestations. In this I feel profoundly American, as my cursory study of US History leads me to believe that our great country was founded by a bunch of paranoid reprobates whose main motivation was fear and loathing for the British [...]

VIENNA (Reuters) – Coughing hard at the first sign of a heart attack could a save patient’s life, a Polish doctor says.
Tadeusz Petelenz of the Cardiological Foundation in Katowice, Poland, said Tuesday the pumping action caused by vigorous coughing could push blood through the body and to the brain for valuable minutes while an ambulance [...]

A British company, Gibbs Technologies, has made a breakthrough
in amphibeous vehicles.  According to the company, the previsous
speed record for a street-legal amphibeous car was 6 knots in the water;
the The [...]

As the primaries heat up and the Dean juggernaut tries to avoid a minefield of potential gaffes, Dave Winer weighs in with some sound advice for the candidates vis

In an important confirmation of a principle that web designers have
been pitching for years, a study at the University of Washington shows
that advertisers that offer visitors interactive demonstrations on their
web sites [...]

Rockie Graham, left, and Dave Hart share a laugh moments
before taking their wedding vows Monday, Sept. 1, 2003, at the Tri-Town
Transfer station, a local dump, in Bethel, Maine. Last month the two
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For example: Al Franken, Tom Daschle, Jimmy Carter, Rosie
O’Donnell, gay people who talk about their sexual orientation, atheist
Scouts, peaceniks, both parties….
Some samples from an amusing
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