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One of the myriad projects gestating under the wing of
the inexhaustible Sooz, of recent front-page
fame, is a workgroup to
describe, explore and promote the concept of "Citizen
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Most Shared Shows: Number of files shared during the week ending Jan.
16. Source: Big Champagne
The New York Times has a timely article about the increasing popularity
of recording, swapping and downloading TV shows. Apparently, this activity
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It
has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all
the others that have been tried. Winston Churchill said that, supposedly,
although you never can tell in this […]
A
Slovak man trapped in his car under an avalanche freed himself by drinking
60 bottles of beer and urinating on the snow to melt it.
Rescue teams found Richard Kral drunk and staggering along a […]
Indonesians look on as a Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force hovercraft
lands on a beach in Banda Aceh, Indonesia Thursday Jan. 27, 2005. Two
Japanese military hovercrafts landed in tsunami-shattered Aceh on Thursday,
bringing a […]
Once again the Dowbrigade
is on the cutting edge of haute couteur. For years our sons have
chided us as we drove them to traveling soccer games or stalked supermarket
aisles in our always-fashionable […]
NEW
YORK (Reuters) - Porn star Jenna Jameson is now hawking her "moan
tones."
For $2.50 fans of the ubiquitous porno queen can choose from a variety
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The
Boston Globe weighed in yesterday (yes, our "real" job
is starting to interfere with our blogging) with their own article on
the science behind Harvard President Lawrence Summers’ comments on women
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The increasing centralization of media outlets in the
United States is nowhere more apparent than in the traditional powerhouse
of
American Journalism, the daily newspapers. Whereas most major cities
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Academia
is all atwitter over the provocative comments by Harvard President Lawrence
Summers who merely suggested that
innate differences between the sexes might be one factor deserving of
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 - The Pentagon has created battlefield intelligence
units that for the first time have been assigned to work directly with
Special Operations forces on secret counterterrorism […]
The Boston
Globe today has an interesting article on the kid who wrote
most of Firefox, the open-source browser that is starting to chip away
at IE’s monopolistic dominance of the number […]