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Ghertner said the decision was not made for environmental reasons; rather, company officials "made the decision strictly on sales."

"It just wasn't a good fit for us," she said. "It didn't turn out to be an item that our customers were looking for."

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It turns out that this isn't all that aberrant among the Red Diaper Baby Experience. Eric Olin Wright is an analytical Marxist who raised his kids on extemporaneous Marxist fairy-tales, and recorded them for posterity. They are hilarious. Unfortunately, they're presented as crapware Windows Media streams as opposed to downloadable files, so I can't load them on my iPod, but listening to these brought a real nostalgic smile to my face.

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L. minutissimus is a unique social parasite in that it lives entirely within the colonies of other ant species. But unlike parasitic slave-maker ants, which raid and virtually destroy the colonies of unsuspecting hosts, L. minutissimus appears to move in and live amiably with its host. Such organisms are called inquilines.

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Why not? After all, using TinyURL-like services rips all the semantics out of the URLs you send around, gives a third-party a way of spying on which URLs you're loading, and invites man-in-the-middle attacks by interposing an untrusted party between you and the server you want to talk to. Oh, and if the tiny-izer service tanks, your bookmarks all go blooie.

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Speaking to German magazine TV Spielfilm, Hasselhoff said in 1989, the year the wall fell, he had helped reunite the country by singing his song 'Looking for Freedom' among millions of German fans at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin...."I find it a bit sad that there is no photo of me hanging on the walls in the Berlin Museum at Check-Point Charlie.

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(Thanks, Sparky!)

"Cut the crap, bring Greg back", "We Love Greg", "Hutton Take a Hike, Bring Back Greg Dyke" screamed out hastily prepared banners. Some clutched blown-up full colour pictures of the man himself.

Jessica Powell, who works in casting, said: "He cared about the little people, that's why we came out."

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The most effective step that you can take to help protect yourself from malicious hyperlinks is not to click them. Rather, type the URL of your intended destination in the address bar yourself. By manually typing the URL in the address bar, you can verify the information that Internet Explorer uses to access the destination Web site. To do so, type the URL in the Address bar, and then press ENTER.

Or, you could, you know, just Download Moz.

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Warren G. Harding once gambled and lost a box of priceless White House china during a poker game.

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Thus an example passage in the book has a Dtektive (detective) asking the villain: "6 j t'aspRge d'O 2 kologne histoar 2 partaG le odeurs ke tu me fe subir?"

Which, once expanded and translated, would come across as "What if I spray you with cologne so you can share the smells you make me suffer?"

Other sentences showcase the French equivalents of terms along the same lines as English Internet equivalents that have given rise to "LOL" (for Laugh Out Loud), D8 (for date), OMG (for Oh My God) and OvR8d (for overrated).

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It's a good thing my parents don't know anything about computers, because I'm sure they would be really angry if they knew what I did. I have to say that I'm happy - I can keep on using XP.

The board is a Biostar Micro ATX, with a 2200 Athlon XP with an Adaptec 29160 SCSI controller and two 36 GB Atlas 10K V hard drives. I am stuck using the onboard video because there is no AGP slot. I had no money for a SATA controller and quite honestly, I swear by SCSI (the G5 comes with SATA drives).

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Here's a lovely collection of Muppet origami HOW-TOs, with some Star Wars stuff and misc thrown in for good measure. Again, some irony: all of these bits of origami use famous trademarks without permission from the mark-holders, but the author of the page says, "just please don't distribute them without asking first!" Begging the question: did s/he get permission before making the origami up in the first place?

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(Thanks, Caines!)

# Warranties will now be a matter of choice for the licensor. See Section 5a.
# The attribution clause will include a link-back requirement simliar to the one previously discussed here. Licensees will only be required to link back to licensors if (1) it's reasonably practical to do so; (2) the licensor actually specifies a URI; (3) that URI actually points to license information about the work. See Section 4d.
# The Share Alike provision will be more flexible. The provision will allow licensees to license resulting derivative works under Creative Commons licenses that feature the same license restrictions/permissions, including future and iCommons versions of the same license. The Share Alike provision will also be clearer about what happens when different kinds of Share Alike content is mixed together (e.g., How to license a collage made from an SA photograph combined with an NC-SA photograph). See Section 4b.

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Neel isn't just a Gore associate. He was head of the United States Telecom Association, probably the single most retrograde Washington lobbying organization around -- the mouthpiece for the local phone monopolies that have worked so hard to thwart serious competition in telecommunications. In other words, Neel is as inside-the-beltway as you can get. Now he's running an "outsider's" campaign. Sure thing.

Trippi was far from perfect as an operative. But under his guidance, Dean emerged in the first place as a credible candidate. And Trippi, via Dean's candidacy, was a catalyst who helped change the rules of national campaigning in ways that will reverberate through politics until they've been absorbed by everyone in the political game. The Net helped make Dean, and it was Trippi who grasped what was happening early on and convinced Dean to take advantage of it. Of course, the true revolutionaries here have been the Dean supporters who understood the power they could bring from the edges and apply to the center. They will not go away, however much the political establishment may want them to.

But as Slacktivist points out, there are factual matters that are actually, verifiably true, and couching them in someone else's words transforms them from facts into suppositions. This is most damaging in the political arena, where news-organs are reporting on the fact of Bush's deficit spending as though it were a Democrat talking-point, as opposed to a verifiable number:

Over the next 10 years, cumulative deficits are likely to add almost $2.4 trillion to the national debt, the CBO estimate said.

The forecast comes as Democrats campaigning to run against President Bush charge that he has turned a surplus into a deficit.

The key here is "Democrats ... charge." After the first two sentences, this is a rather strange attribution. During President Bush's tenure, the surplus has, in fact, been turned into a deficit. Despeignes seems uncomfortable simply stating fiscal statistics relating to the incumbent administration when those facts may seem unflattering. So, to avoid any appearance of bias, the reporter attributes any unflattering facts to the "charges" of the president's political opponents.

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Why not? After all, using TinyURL-like services rips all the semantics out of the URLs you send around, gives a third-party a way of spying on which URLs you're loading, and invites man-in-the-middle attacks by interposing an untrusted party between you and the server you want to talk to. Oh, and if the tiny-izer service tanks, your bookmarks all go blooie.

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I do not want anyone to put these animations up on another website, journal, etc. Normal ones are strenuous enough to do, but these were done with my very heartblood in hours of tedious puzzling. Please respect the work I have put into them

In other words: "Having created these ingenious-yet-incredibly-infringing videos by ignorning the rightsholders to the LotR footage, I now demand that you treat my own creative endeavor as utterly sacrosanct."

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Susannah Breslin has a brilliant new fiction short on Nerve.com: "The First Time She Died While Having Sex." Link

[T]hey may have eliminated the candidate most likely to defeat George Bush, whose adventures at home and abroad are likely to make for another four years of riveting television. Or have they? Howard Dean has hardly retired from the race, even though he will be running uphill from here. And it may be that the traditional media have done us a favor by beating some of the smug snot-nose out of us. One of problems with the groups that form on the Internet (...) is that they often end up being self-reifying fields of ideological homogeneity. We create our own ideological ghettos which seem much larger to us than they are.

Moreover, while many of us are convinced that the Internet is a powerful environment for organizing belief, it is also a great cacophony against which even the diminished voice of broadcast retains a kind of clarity. I believe I have just seen demonstrated the power of that signal. Can we create one of our own that is heard as clearly by the public in general? That remains to be seen. Now, at least, we know what we're up against.

Of course, there remains the possibility that the big media didn't beat Howard Dean in Iowa and New Hampshire at all. It may simply be that the new media failed to win it. We may have been too glued to our monitors to remember that while elections get won by money - 12 out of 13 races in the last Congressional elections were won by the candidate who spent the most - they are also won by people on the ground. Regardless of who wins the Democratic nomination, we will have to work very hard, in dreary, traditional ways, to get him elected.

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When the reporter approached Marc, the party's nonleader who was described by others on the car as both a chef and hacker, Marc asked to see proof of employment. He looked disdainfully when handed a New York Times business card, refusing to take it. Marc then declined to speak further.

After about half an hour, the party took a general turn for the worse when two transit police officers boarded the last car in Berkeley.

It was there, with everyone required to assemble on the platform, that Romance the clown joined the reporter on the party's island of misfits. The police were threatening her with a citation for boisterous behavior. More than a few commuters simply wanted to read a book after a long week at work, the officers explained, suggesting that she just shut up. But Romance did not, for the longest of times. Most of the geeks scattered as she endeavored to remain in character, even when her rubber chicken slipped from her belt and an officer ordered, "Don't drop your chicken, ma'am."

Link: "Last Car. Geek Party. Spread the Word."

Brassieres made from yarmulkes, in limited editions (and limited cup-sizes).

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(Thanks, Seth!)