A Keeper of Secrets Now Opens Up About Iraq's Dead
A former Iraqi intelligence officer, Sabi al-Hamed, made a career of keeping quiet. Now he wants to talk, and it is the dead he talks about. By Neela Banerjee. [New York Times: International] 
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No bones about it
the kid in the orange shirt has no bones. [Windows Media, 3.7mb] [MetaFilter] 
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Internet Explorer's market share now 95.4%
Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) now has a record market share of 95.4%, according to the most recent report by Web analytics firm OneStat.com. IE 6.0 has 66.3% of the market, with 14.5% for IE 5.5 and 12.7% for IE 5.0. "Mozilla is in fourth place with 1.6% of the market, but the total market share for browsers based on Mozilla technology is about 4.1%. The alternative browsers -- Opera Software's Opera and Apple's Safari -- barely register on the chart, with 0.6 and 0.25% of the market, respectively" reports WinInfo. The OneStat press release is here. [onlineblog.com] 
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Astronomers Chart the Unseen Between the Stars
Once restricted to looking at the pearly lights of stars, astronomers increasingly look for what they cannot see in the darkness between the stars. By Dennis Overbye. [New York Times: Science] 
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The End of Time
"Julian Barbour, a theoretical physicist, has worked on foundational issues in physics for 35 years. He is responsible for a radical notion of "time capsules which explain how the powerful impression of the passage of time can arise in a timeless world"... Cosmologist Lee Smolin notes that Barbour has presented 'the most interesting and provocative new idea about time to be proposed in many years. If true, it will change the way we see reality. Barbour is one of the few people who is truly both a scientist and a philosopher.'" The Edge [Follow Me Here...] 
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Iraqis Log On to Voice Chat
And I thought I was really starting to like instant messaging.... "If the government knew what I was doing, I am sure they would kill me, because they would think I was a spy," says Al-Sharqi.
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Zilstra's Multilingual Blog Chataqua
While this Heavenly City is on pilgrimage on earth, it calls out all peoples and so collects a society of aliens, speaking all languages. [Blogalization Community] 
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Travel Blogs - a smorgasboard of selections
My friend Chris Cloud over at CloudTravel has a great travel blog.  He also has a great post about other travel blogs that he finds interesting. [Ernie the Attorney] 
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Slashdot on Microsoft's Forgotten Mistakes
seattlenerd writes "In light of all of the hype about how much cash Microsoft is sitting on, it's good to be reminded that they do fail. A lot. This piece in Seattle Weekly points out some of the many failures ... [Slashdot] 
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