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Precious Time for Democrats
via RealClearPolitics - Articles by (author unknown) on May 11, 2008
WASHINGTON -- Three days after last Tuesday's primaries seemingly tilted the Democratic presidential nomination decisively toward Barack Obama, the surprising fact was that almost half the party's senators had not announced a choice between him and Hillary Clinton. Twenty-one of the 49 Democratic senators were publicly silent as the last six primaries approached. Those senators, along...
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Salena Zito: Clinton-Obama or Obama-Clinton? Not So Much
via TownHall Latest columns by info@townhall.com (Salena Zito) on May 11, 2008
On a hot summer night in July 1980, an unorthodox idea floated around the halls of the Republican National Convention in Detroit.Started by the party's "Howard Baker wing," the buzz suggested it would be a good...
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Rode por aí com uma “geek scooter”
via TechGuru Brazil by (author unknown) on May 11, 2008
... de 8 polegadas, webcam, GPS, celular PVR, sintonizador de TV e rádio e até mesmo uma inusitada conexão para que você plugue um violão elétrico no computador. Em outras palavras, trata-se do “bólido” que todo nerd gostaria de ter. Como se trata de um protótipo, a “geek scooter” não está à venda. Para saber mais informações sobre o projeto, acesse o site Thought Lab.
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Border Fence To Put US Business in the Mexican Side
via Neatorama by Alex on May 11, 2008
Golfers who want to play on the Fort Brown Golf Course near the US-Mexico border in Brownsville, Texas will soon need a passport. That’s because the Department of Homeland Security, in an attempt to build a more or less straight fence, decided to put the US golf courseon the Mexican side of the border fence!Imagine being a United States citizen having business … a business in the United...
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Criatividade é isso: Videoclip usando o desktop do OS X
via Meio Bit - Notícias, Dicas, Internet, Informática, Tecnologia, Download by Carlos Cardoso on May 11, 2008
Computadores são ferramentas maravilhosas, mas são apenas ferramentas. Dependem da imaginação de quem as usa. E imaginação não falta a Dennis Liu, videomaker que criou o clipe abaixo. A música também ajuda, é a "Again and Again", da dupla, digo, duo (dupla é coisa de sertanejo) Bird and the Bee, formada por Greg Kurstin e Inara George.O clipe não é feito COM o computador, mas NO...
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The Farmer and the Nomad
via Milking The GNU by milkingTheGNU on May 07, 2008
About 10,000 years ago, settlers in the Fertile Crescent and in China started developing tools that would allow the birth of agriculture. During the following few 1,000 years, those new born farmers started to go West, colonizing adjacent territories and finally all Western Europe. Recent genetic studies like that of...
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Ken Connor: It May Be 2008 at Home, But in the Academy It's 1984
via TownHall Latest columns by info@townhall.com (Ken Connor) on May 11, 2008
Freedom of speech and inquiry have long been cherished principles in America. They are especially important in the world of academia where they have been viewed as the basis of "academic freedom." For years scholars...
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Skittles Wrapper Prom Dress
via CRAFT Magazine by (author unknown) on May 11, 2008
Shared by SharonG i love skittles, but this is fuckin' insane. :-OPatch Work Alice decided to be different and made herself a prom dress made from Skittles wrappers.Alice writes:Well I was invited to prom yet again this year and felt like doing something a little out of the box. I'm very interested by all the unconventional materials people sew with (I believe it was the garbage bags...
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RSSMeme ‘OverHauled’, Releases API
via Mashable! by Paul Glazowski on May 11, 2008
... in seeking links to stories whose contextual languages they can understand and which are aggregated as shared items in Google Reader. And today we hear from the creator of RSSmeme, Benjamin Golub, that the service has received yet more backend attention in the past few days.According to Golub, the framework of RSSmeme has been “completely overhauled,” a process which has resulted in the...
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Viewzi Takes Visual Search To Another Level
via ReadWriteWeb by Corvida on May 11, 2008
Visualization tools are slowly making a way for themselves on the web. We have given you an extensive list of some of the best visualizations tools including visual search engines. However, there is one visual search engine that is making a name and breaking the mold: Viewzi.Viewzi is a visual search engine that has been under wraps since October 2007. According to Profy.com, the Viewzi search...
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