ISSHO Kikaku, is a Japan-based, non-profit, non-governmental organization established in 1992. The organization aims to monitor issues related to human diversity, language, culture and coexistence worldwide, and strives to facilitate a greater recognition and understanding of these issues, both in the East Asian region and worldwide. (note: ISSHO = Together; KIKAKU = Project) [Weblog Kitchen] 
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"Pentagon develops world's scariest machine gun" [Daypop Top 40] 
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10 things to celebrate / Why I'm an anti-anti-American [Daypop Top 40] 
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Dear Sir: Your Credit Card Number Has Been Owned. An anonymous reader submits: "California has become the first state in the nation to require companies victimized by malicious computer attacks to disclose ... [Slashdot] 
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Kalifornisches Gesetz zur Meldung von Angriffen auf IT-Systeme in Kraft [heise online news] 
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Only in America -. Distinguished British historian Eric Hobsbawm writes, "Our problem is ...that the U.S. empire does not know what it wants to do or can do with its power, or its limits. It merely insists that those who are not with it are against it. That is the problem of living at the apex of the 'American Century.'" Chronicle of Higher Education [Follow Me Here...] 
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Library of Alexandria Internet Bookmobile. The Internet Archive's Ashley Rindsberg is in Alexandria, Egypt, setting up a print-on-demand system based on the Internet Bookmobile. Check out his progress at his Egypt blog. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service: O'Reilly Network Weblogs] 
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Celtic Found to Have Ancient Roots. An ancient bronze tablet suggests that the Celtic speakers arrived in England and Ireland much earlier than the usual estimated date of 600 BC. By Nicholas Wade. [New York Times: Science] 
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Alexi Sayle. "Americans have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator', we say 'lift'...they say 'President', we say 'stupid psychopathic git'...." [Quotes of the Day] 
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Interdependent Thoughts in Dutch and German.

Ton starts Dutch/German bilingual version of his blog. This makes me happy because only recently I thought that it would be nice for me to read some Dutch blogs to improve my Dutch. Any other suggestions of blogs in Dutch about KM/learning are welcome.

This thinking was inspired by two posts about blogs and language learning by Steffanie.

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Michelangelo masterpiece goes online:. "The Vatican is expanding its rather dry website - the 50 million visitors a month may be enthralled by the section headed Vatican Secret Archives, but will find it is still 'under construction' after eight years - to include virtual tours of the Sistine Chapel and many of the miles of galleries containing treasures from all over the world." Guardian/UK [Follow Me Here...] 
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