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macbook air killer?

Gadget Review » Asus S101 Ultra Slim and Trim Laptop —– this looks pretty nifty to me.

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Towards Humane Technologies: Biotechnology, New Media and Ethics: Naomi Sunderland, Phil Graham, Peter Isaacs: Books

Towards Humane Technologies: Biotechnology, New Media and Ethics (Paperback) [From Amazon.com: Towards Humane Technologies: Biotechnology, New Media and Ethics: Naomi Sunderland, Phil Graham, Peter Isaacs: Books] What are the ethical and political implications when the very foundations of life -things of awe and spiritual significance – are translated into products accessible to few people? This […]

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Armored truck robber uses Craigslist to make getaway

Armored truck robber uses Craigslist to make getaway [From Armored truck robber uses Craigslist to make getaway | Top Stories | KING5.com | News for Seattle, Washington ] —- bank robbers…. they are class heroes aren’t they?

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Ab-normal Distribution

The Universe of Discourse : The Lake Wobegon Distribution is a tight little explanation using baseball that also maps well into the way i think of most of the blather about power laws and related seeming web 2.0 statistic, which is that if you really analyze what is going, you find out that really it […]

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dissertation

For a long time I was working on a dissertation looking at Open Source technologies. Today, I did not turn that dissertation in. That project has been shelved. Today I turned in the first draft of a dissertation on the Critical Political Economy of New Knowledge Technologies. I have a ton of research on Open […]

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RIP Hayden Carruth 1921-2008 | MetaFilter

RIP Hayden Carruth 1921-2008 [From RIP Hayden Carruth 1921-2008 | MetaFilter] ——- Sounds like a Gentleman that it would have been worth knowing. A sad day is this.

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bail-out be gone

I have to say, that if you vote for the bail-out, I am not voting for you anymore. This bail-out benefits the wealthy in the short term and supposedly supports the rest of us long term, but that’s a fiction. This is Enron 2.0. We can support the rest of use in the long term […]

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Request for Urgent Confidential Business Relationship

Dear American: I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business relationship with a transfer of funds of great magnitude. I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. My country has had crisis that has caused the need for large transfer of funds of 800 billion dollars US. If you […]

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History Hacker The Sound of Electricity » NYC Resistor » Electronics, Hacking, Classes, and Workspace.

History Hacker Friday September 26th 8PM and Midnight History Channel (Right before and right after the first presidential debate) [From The Sound of Electricity » NYC Resistor » Electronics, Hacking, Classes, and Workspace. ] —– This seems like it could be a good show, but alas i don’t have a tv.

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When’s an OER not an OER? « Learn Online

In my books, CC By is the only free license. [From When’s an OER not an OER? « Learn Online] — In my books…. CC is just another copyright regime. Public domain is the only free content. If you don’t put it into the public domain, all you are saying is ‘restricted’. CC just says, […]

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