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Topic: Miscellaneous |
1:06 pm EST, Jan 2, 2005 |
very cool resource Internet Archive |
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Wired News: Warning: Blogs Can Be Infectious |
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Topic: Miscellaneous |
3:21 pm EST, Mar 5, 2004 |
] The most-read webloggers aren't necessarily the ones with ] the most original ideas, say researchers at ] Hewlett-Packard Labs. ] ] Using newly developed techniques for graphing the flow of ] information between blogs, the researchers have ] discovered that authors of popular blog sites regularly ] borrow topics from lesser-known bloggers -- and they ] often do so without attribution. ] These findings are important to ] sociologists who are interested in learning how ideas ] grow from isolated topics into full-blown epidemics that ] "infect" large populations. Such an understanding is also ] important to marketers, who hope to be able to pitch ] products and ideas directly to the mos Wired News: Warning: Blogs Can Be Infectious |
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Save Hubble Resolution Introduced in House |
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Topic: Miscellaneous |
2:28 pm EST, Mar 5, 2004 |
] A Colorado congressman and seven colleagues introduced a ] resolution in the U.S. House of Representatives March 3 ] urging NASA to establish an independent panel of experts ] to review its recent decision to forgo any further ] servicing of the Hubble Space Telescope. Save Hubble Resolution Introduced in House |
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Topic: Miscellaneous |
1:30 pm EST, Mar 5, 2004 |
inignoct wrote: ] ryan is the supernicety wrote: ] ] LA Times: ] ] ] ] I am a high school teacher and the daughter of ] ] Holocaust survivors. Monday morning, Period 1, a student, ] ] age 17, comes into my room. She asks me if I had seen the ] ] film "The Passion." ] ] ] ] I answer, "No." ] ] ] ] She continues, "It was so sad. I cried so much. I ] ] hate the Jews." ] ] ] ] Very, very sadly, that tells the whole story, Mr. ] ] Gibson. ] ] ] ] Anna Paikow ] ] Los Angeles ] ] *sigh* ] ] [ And i'll bet that fool calls hereself a christian too. Hint ] for the high-school chick -- Jesus wasn't so much into hate... ] if you want to hate people, you lose the right to call ] yourself a follower of Christ. End of Story. -k] You're right. But she's just a kid. And kids do stupid things. Hell knows I did. The point is that someday, maybe she'll become enlightened. It was this teacher's chance to impart some of that enlightenment at that moment. Tactfully. Wisely. With compassion. RE: Eschaton |
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George W Bush or Emperor Palpatine? |
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Topic: Miscellaneous |
3:26 pm EST, Feb 15, 2004 |
QUOTES FROM EITHER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES GEORGE W. BUSH OR SENATOR/CHANCELLOR/ EMPEROR PALPATINE FROM THE STAR WARS MOVIES George W Bush or Emperor Palpatine? |
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