Author: buridan

Let it rain – And then I was eaten by a grue.

Let it rain – And then I was eaten by a grue.: >search for commas around subordinate clauses Surely you jest. >search for commas prefacing speech You spy a clutch of young semi-colons here, looking slightly confused. >get semi-colons You have the clutch of young semi-colons. >throw semi-colons in direction of my own writing I […]

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YouTube – Henry Rollins "America is under attack."

YouTube – Henry Rollins “America is under attack.”: —— Henry Rollins is against the forces of Net Neutrality and their related programs. he says ‘strike back with vengeance’ and I think that is part of the program… By using debt and overwork to get American’s minds out of social programs and centered on their own […]

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Librarian's Ultimate Guide to Search Engines

Librarian’s Ultimate Guide to Search Engines: Librarian’s Ultimate Guide to Search Engines is a helpful starting point for anyone – librarian, professor, or student – wanting to get a lot more out of web search. By Scott Hawksworth for DegreeTutor —— again this is very handy… for more than librarians.

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How To Choose CD/DVD Archival Media » Ad Terras Per Aspera

How To Choose CD/DVD Archival Media » Ad Terras Per Aspera: For comparison, DVD-R includes one profile, optimum power output based for that one profile only and uncalibrated towards what wavelength it is for, less precise laser power settings, and no other additional information. Typically, DVD-R burners have to already know how to burn a […]

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Open University Closes a Tradition

Open University Closes a Tradition: For more than 30 years, the university — which was quick to adopt TV as a means of reaching its hundreds of thousands of enrollees — has produced low-budget programs on subjects as varied as art history and particle physics. The institution has proven to be a remarkably prolific broadcaster, […]

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Symbolic Exchange and Death by Baudrillard

By being normalised, that is to say, by extending the logic of equivalences to everyone, society, socialized at last, excludes every antibody. It then creates, in the same movement, specific institutions to receive them, and so, throughout succesive centrueies, prisons, asylums, hospitals and schools have flourished, not to forget the factories, which also began to […]

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PistolWimp – Scary Mary

PistolWimp – Scary Mary: Scary Mary ——- i fail to see how this recut of mary poppins is scarier than the original. i mean think about mary poppins the original kids movie… that’s some scary social engineering.

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War On Want : Corporate accountability : Fashion Victims

War On Want : Corporate accountability : Fashion Victims: Workers in Bangladesh are regularly working 80 hours a week for just 5p an hour, in potential death trap factories, to produce cheap clothes for British consumers of Primark, Tesco and Asda’s ‘George’ range. The charity War on Want today issued these findings in a new […]

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Human Rights Day (10 December 2006)

Human Rights Day (10 December 2006): Human Rights Day (10 December 2006) 10 December 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which has become a universal standard for defending and promoting human rights. Every year on 10 December, Human Rights Day marks the adoption of the Universal Declaration. On […]

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African Foldaway House

African Foldaway House: Rajan Harinarain, a South African entrepreneur and inventor has come up with a temporary foldaway house for use in emergency situations complete with electrical wiring and fittings, doors and windows that can be erected by a small team in 5 minutes. The patented structure weighs less than a ton, collapses to under […]

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