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The 3rd Carnival of Homeschooling |
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| Topic: Education |
2:03 am EST, Jan 31, 2006 |
There's just so much here! I had to set this as my homepage for a while! Basically a blog carnival is a select of recent
posts from blogs about a given theme. This third Carnival
of Homeschooling has posts from various bloggers who have
recently written about homeschooling.
If you've never looked at a blog carnival, go
check this out, you may enjoy it. The 3rd Carnival of Homeschooling |
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| Topic: Internet Civil Liberties |
2:01 am EST, Jan 31, 2006 |
Chinese Google filter only works if you can spell
Very cool. :) For future reference... |
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Great REAL old book site - Mozart, DiVinci |
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9:04 pm EST, Jan 30, 2006 |
Not only this a really nice thing to do - putting all these wonderful (EXPENSIVE & RARE) very influential books online, but the shockwave presentation is wonderful. Great REAL old book site - Mozart, DiVinci |
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Politicians call for better phone record privacy | CNET News.com |
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| Topic: Politics and Law |
9:02 pm EST, Jan 29, 2006 |
This is an update to an earlier story about Locatecell. In response to disclosures about phone records being sold on the Internet, politicians want federal regulators to verify that the biggest service providers are adequately protecting their customers' information. Locatecell.com was offline Thursday, its site replaced with a message from GoDaddy.com asking the site's owner to call the domain registrar. Meanwhile, Celltolls.com had a note on its site saying that it was not currently accepting queries regarding Cingular Wireless phone numbers.
Occasionally, Congress works? I thought it was funny how many congressman acted so fast to get on this - clearly a sign they REALLY wanted to protect THEIR OWN phone records! Politicians call for better phone record privacy | CNET News.com |
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Interesting article on Abramoff |
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9:01 pm EST, Jan 29, 2006 |
Interesting background on Abramoff, and a neat piece of trivia about that fetching black hat. Interesting article on Abramoff |
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Super Bendy Woman - Amazing contortionist video |
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3:22 pm EST, Jan 29, 2006 |
I don't really know what topic to put this under - but I've never seen anything like this woman! I think she might be related to elastigirl or something. Super Bendy Woman - Amazing contortionist video |
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Hamas, Fatah battle over election results - Yahoo! News |
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12:55 am EST, Jan 29, 2006 |
The United States said it will review funding to the aid-dependent Palestinians if Hamas enters government and Israel suggested it might suspend customs revenue transfers, adding economic uncertainty to the political upheaval.
That's right, we're all for democracy! As long as people we like win anyway... Hamas, Fatah battle over election results - Yahoo! News |
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IceCube - A South Pole Experiment to Prove String Theory |
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12:54 am EST, Jan 29, 2006 |
IceCube, a telescope under construction at the South Pole, will peer through the earth to open a new window onto the universe. Like its predecessor, AMANDA, IceCube will search for neutrinos from the most violent astrophysical sources: events like exploding stars, gamma ray bursts, and cataclysmic phenomena involving black holes and neutrino stars. The IceCube telescope is a powerful tool to search for dark matter, and could reveal the new physical processes accosciated with the enigmatic origin of the highest energy particles in nature. IceCube - A South Pole Experiment to Prove String Theory |
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Bush wants Google search data |
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6:33 am EST, Jan 20, 2006 |
The Bush administration on Wednesday asked a federal judge to order Google to turn over a broad range of material from its closely guarded databases. The move is part of a government effort to revive an Internet child protection law struck down two years ago by the U.S. Supreme Court. The law was meant to punish online pornography sites that make their content accessible to minors. The government contends it needs the Google data to determine how often pornography shows up in online searches. In court papers filed in U.S. District Court in San Jose, Justice Department lawyers revealed that Google has refused to comply with a subpoena issued last year for the records, which include a request for 1 million random Web addresses and records of all Google searches from any one-week period.
Let the fireworks begin. Bush wants Google search data |
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DoJ sues Google for failing to turn over records! |
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6:32 am EST, Jan 20, 2006 |
an. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Google Inc., the most-used Internet search engine, was sued by the Justice Department after it refused to turn over information that may help the government monitor sexually explicit material on the Web. The Justice Department said it asked for all Google queries for a week and for 1 million Internet addresses in the company's database. According to the lawsuit, other search engines have complied with similar requests, ``and have not reported that they encountered any difficulty or burden in doing so.''
They did what now! How many of you want anything you have ever typed into Google to be in the government's hands? How many of you are pissed that other search engines just said "Here!" That pisses me off. DoJ sues Google for failing to turn over records! |
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