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Virginia is Not for Adulterers
via Observer.com - All Articles by Azi Paybarah on May 07, 2008
An unserious footnote to the story of Vito Fossella's mistress and love child: technically speaking, in her home state of Virginia, adultery is still a crime.Out of curiosity, I asked a spokesman for the Alexandria Police Department, where Fossella was arrested for D.U.I. last week, about the law, and he said off the top of his head that it sounded correct but declined to speak further about...
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Darth Vader Department: RIAA still keen on DRM—plus Washington’s newest copyright outrage
via machine poetics aggregator by (author unknown) on May 08, 2008
Q. What do the RIAA techies have in common with so many Washington bureaucrats?A. Job preservation is Job Number One. The head of RIAA’s tech unit “made a list of the 22 ways to sell music, and 20 of them still require DRM.” Q. So what else are the RIAA and the rest of Washington doing to shaft the consumer?A. Aggravating Cyber Prohibition, of course—or at least trying to, via a new...
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table of contents book
via swissmiss by swissmiss on May 07, 2008
The Contents book is now a Flickr group. Submit your favorite Table of Contents here. (via designobserver)
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Prediction Markets in the Classroom: Inkling Markets
via Midas Oracle .ORG by Koleman Strumpf on May 08, 2008
While prediction markets have been in the spotlight this year, they are still unfamiliar to many folks. As one small step towards improving their visibility, along with my colleague James Lemieux I ran a prediction market at the University of Kansas School of Business. The markets ran for three and a half months and almost all traders were undergraduate business majors (you can see the very end...
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The Yellow Page
via Momisodes by (author unknown) on May 08, 2008
Shared by Linda Have your kleenex ready...Submitted for AngelGal’s Realm’s Mother’s Day Contest: Favorite Memory of MomMy mother is the typical Asian mom. Growing up there were no hugs, kisses, or “I love you’s”. They just didn’t exist. They were never part of her world growing up in rural China. With only bare necessities to live, and little to resources in a tiny village, I’m...
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Narae Recorder Mini
via OhGizmo! by Andrew Liszewski on May 08, 2008
By Andrew LiszewskiIf you’re in the business where you have to record the occasional interview, why spend your money on a dedicated digital audio recorder when there’s a good chance you’ll already have a laptop computer with you. The Narae Recorder Mini is a compact microphone that simply connects to the mic-in jack on your notebook, and is capable of recording sounds up to 32 feet away....
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Mochilas para notebook BuiltNY
via FayerWayer by tricky on May 08, 2008
Lo que ven en la foto no es un chaleco antibalas de última generación, si no una novedosa mochila para notebook fabricada por BuiltNY. Sin duda, el escoger un buen bolso o mochila para el notebook es todo un tema, y esta pinta como buena opción.Está fabricado en neoprén liviano y en la espalda lleva malla que respira. Su materialidad le permite ajustarse a distintos tamaños de notebook y es...
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Online Sales Tax Update
via Shop.org Blog by Maureen Riehl, VP, Government and Industry Relations, NRF on May 08, 2008
... National Retail Federation, supports would reimburse all retailers for the cost of collection.Background and HistoryUnder a 1992 U.S. Supreme Court ruling, merchants cannot be required to collect sales tax from a customer in another state unless the retailer has a “physical presence” in the customer’s state, usually defined as a store, office or warehouse. With more than 7,600 state and...
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not another 8 ways post. « Levite Chronicles
via TwitLinks by chrisbrogan on May 08, 2008
When I drive, I think. When I drive at the end of a confusing day, my thinking takes on a peculiar, stream-of-something tone. Such was the case yesterday when I tweeted , “Among the how-to books, are there any whether-to books?” I was inspired by yet another how-to book on the seat of the car, just checked out of the library at the recommendation of a friend.
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The Evolving Web of Future Wealth [Edit This]
via Scientific American - Technology & Innovation by (author unknown) on May 08, 2008
Editor's Note: Stuart Kauffman has a well-earned reputation as a scientific provocateur, albeit one with the weight of data and wisdom on his side. Kauffman, a complexity researcher and biologist of the University of Calgary and the Santa Fe Institute, has argued, for example, that self-organization--the propensity for systems to become more complex without outside guidance--was just as...
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