links for 2008-04-22
April 22nd, 2008 by timelady
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I love this man’s books (Round Ireland with a Fridge & Playing the Moldavians at Tennis are brilliant), & everything I have seen from him makes me hysterical. His response to people confusing him with some skateboarding type are particularly hysterical:)
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TwittEarth brings every Tweet for which it can find a geo-location to life on a screen-sized model of Earth, complete with snazzy lighting effects (dormant, from what we can gather). Each tweet is represented by a bite-sized graphical creature/avatar
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Oh, poor Eee PC 900. You haven’t even made it into most people’s hands, and already you’re getting dissected and inappropriately inspected. Lol. Reference to Alice’s Restaurant by Arlo Guthrie - much love!
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A wave of food-price inflation is moving through the world, leaving riots and shaken governments in its wake. For the first time in 30 years, food protests are erupting in many places at once.
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World cereal stocks are at an all-time low, food-aid programmes have run out of money and millions face starvation. Yet wealthy countries persist with plans to use grain for petrol.
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That anger is palpable across the globe. The food crisis is not only being felt among the poor but is also eroding the gains of the working and middle classes, sowing volatile levels of discontent and putting new pressures on fragile governments.
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[the movie] is a conspiracy-theory rant masquerading as investigative inquiry.Positing the theory of intelligent design as a valid scientific hypothesis, the film frames the refusal of “big science” to agree as nothing less than an assault on free spe
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The US space agency hopes to build moon bases that can house astronauts for stays of up to six months, with an intricate transportation and power system,
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Research has led to the discovery of the heaviest element yet known to science. The new element, Governmentium (Gv), has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons, and 198 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312. Funny!
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“Ok, so when you sing this, you need to also say in a loud whisper “Cool Cool Tux” in rhythm with the Stomp Stomp Clap… hehh hehhh… Ok I did this in fun, and it’s not meant to start any fist fights. Or worse. “
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In this context, a program such as the Windows Genuine Advantage is the last of your concerns. In fact, in excess of 20 Windows Vista features and services are hard at work collecting and transmitting your personal data to the Redmond company.
