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1. | BBC - Radio 3 - Beethoven Experience - downloads
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| | ....BBC Radio 3 is playing every single note of Ludwig van Beethoven during this week, and will also make all 9 of his symphonies available for download. I think this is pretty damn awesome, and the product of far greater vision (and okay, public funding) than that which motivates the Best Classical Hits In The World...Ever! .... | 
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2. | washingtonpost.com
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| | ....Poll Finds Dimmer View of Iraq War
52% Say U.S. Has Not Become Safer
By Dana Milbank and Claudia Deane
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3. | Articulatory Loop - Read, Repeat, Remember
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| | ....In the proud tradition of those Orwellian British posters touting London's surveillance cams, this this Articulatory Loop post shows a poster on the D.C. MARC commuter train:
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4. | FlickrBlog
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| | ....W00t! Flikr Shwag!
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5. | Move over Rambo, you're cramping new man's style - Yahoo! News
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| | ....UPDATE: Hmm... on the other hand, perhaps I'm not being unmanly... I'm just being modern! :).... |
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6. | Apple to Use Intel Microprocessors Beginning in 2006
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| | .... comes the demo!10:33am PDT - "As a matter of fact, this system I’ve been using here..." the keynote's been running on a P4 3.6GHz all morning"Isn't that funny? Here's a webcast of the Keynote from and here's Apple's official announcement.
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7. | Inside Tornadoes Multimedia @ National Geographic Magazine
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| | ....Video shot from inside a tornado is pretty amazing..... |
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8. | In S.F., Dean calls GOP 'a white Christian party'
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| | ....Howard Dean has continued to express his true self: an unrepentant, belligerent, name-calling, divisive racist. The most recent attack was earlier this week in San Francisco:.... |
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9. | Apple - QuickTime - WWDC 2005
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| | .... challenges, but they're mostly marketing and mind-share challenges and they've got Steve Jobs pitching for them!If you have any doubts about it all, relaxe and watch Steve Jobs' keynote address -- then I'm pretty sure you'll get it! Apple WWDC Keynote Address, June 6, 2005
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10. | Bush Aide Softened Greenhouse Gas Links to Global Warming - New York Times
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| | ....UPDATE: Read the New York Time article here..... |
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11. | BBC NEWS | Technology | Chinese gamer sentenced to life
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| | ....Part 2: Chinese gamer sentenced to life.... |
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12. | A Serendipitous Intention » Blog Archive » Dating an Apple Developer
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| | ....I came across a post with advice about dating a developer from Matt Mullinweg’s blog. Granted it’s very particular to her situation, but in general it’s a good read..... |
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13. | Yale grades portray Kerry as a lackluster student - The Boston Globe - Boston.com - Washington - News
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| | ....Despite stumbling quite mightily while I was a frosh at U-Mich, your Uncle Grambo still managed to get better grades than John Kerry did during the same time period of his stint at Yale. What kind of almost president .... |
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14. | SF Gate: Multimedia (movie)
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His latest comments remind me of an emphatic four year old trying to tell me the moon is made of cheese, and the sky is really green..... |
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15. | SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Technology -- Snap judgments
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| | ....The clerk said the photos looked like a professional had taken them, Helmick said. And no matter how much Helmick protested that she, an amateur, had snapped the shots of her son, she said the clerk wouldn’t budge. [Full Story].... |
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16. | Bloglines
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| | ....Bloglines announced in a press release today that they have over half a billion blog posts stored in their database:.... |
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17. | Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Revealed: how oil giant influenced Bush
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I don't think the Bush adminsitration needed a lot of convincing not to sign the Kyoto global warming treaty. But this is the lede in a piece just out from The Guardian: "President's George Bush's decision not to sign the United States up to the Kyoto global warming treaty was partly a result .... |
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18. | minutes
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| | .... decide it?The Downing Street Memo reported that in a July 23, 2002 meeting between Prime Minister Blair and his war cabinet, attendees of the meeting discussed the fact that Presiden Bush had already made up his mind to attack Iraq. According to the minutes of the meeting:"There was a perceptible shift in attitude. Military action was now seen as inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action."Yet, .... |
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19. | BBC NEWS | Business | $80bn Google takes top media spot
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| | .... disparate media controlled by one gianormous corporation has led, I believe, to a poorly-informed American public. That's an argument for another time.
However, even if you accept my initial assertions, it's difficult for me to then conclude that Google is worth more than Time-Warner. Google is worth 80-billion-with-a-"b" dollars? Really?.... |
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20. | Picking up the pieces: John Siracusa mourns the Power PC : Page 1
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| | ....Two articles have been posted recently that do a much better job than I can in explaining my feelings on this. The first is by John Siracusa from ArsTechnica, entitled Mourning the PowerPC. The second is from John Gruber at DaringFireball.net (from whom I stole the whole white-on-grey design). Siracusa discusses why he cares about .... |
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21. | The "Star Wars" Worlds: More Science Than Fiction?
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| | .... on everything extraterrestrial: Bruce Betts, a planetary scientist at the Planetary Society in Pasadena, California, and Seth Shostak, a senior astronomer at the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute in Mountain View, California.
Read more @ NationalGeographic.com
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22. | Daring Fireball: Bombs Away
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| | ....John Gruber writes another excellent Fireball to wrap up the Apple announcement from Monday. While the entire post is well worth the read, this is my favorite part:.... |
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23. | New York Daily News - Home - Stowaway's body parts rain down
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| | ....Today's "stowaway tries to find America but discovers Darwin instead" story brought to you by the New York Daily News:
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24. | OpinionJournal - Extra
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| | ....The original WSJ column by Debra Burlingame is here..... |
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25. | Japan unveils "robot suit" that enhances human power - Yahoo! News
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| | ....Japan unveils "robot suit" that enhances human power [Yahoo].... |
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26. | CNN.com - Suspect in killings had chain saw at U.S. border - Jun 8, 2005
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| | ....But he looks like such a nice, sane, young boy..... |
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27. | Anne Bancroft (I)
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| | ....For more information on Bancroft’s life and career, click here..... |
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28. | washingtonpost.com
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| | ....Reminders
Bu$hco Justice Dept sides with tobacco industry:
After eight months of courtroom argument, Justice Department lawyers abruptly upset a landmark civil racketeering case against the tobacco .... |
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29. | PostSecret
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| | ....“You are invited to anonymously contribute your secrets to PostSecret. Each secret can be a regret, hope, funny experience, unseen kindness, fantasy, belief, fear, betrayal, erotic desire, feeling, confession, or childhood humiliation. Reveal anything - as long as .... |
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30. | Operating System Sucks-Rules-O-Meter
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| | ....I've previously posted about the trademark implications of gripe sites. I recently came upon a website with a "meter" that shows which websites have "sucks" sites and which ones have "rules" sites. It even has a nifty bar chart..... |
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31. | Vader on Wheel of Fortune (refresh)
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| | ....Vader on Wheel of Fortune.... |
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32. | Google Maps
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| | ....[Previous 'Hoodwinked finalists: FLATenD, The Nightie Drawer, TRUMPO, 20-Something. Illustrations by Jonathan Van Gieson with thanks to Google Maps.].... |
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33. | washingtonpost.com
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| | ....Plus: another lifetime pulpit appointment, thanks to the increasingly questionable "Gang of 14" compromise..... |
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34. | Michelle Malkin: JIHADI ARRESTS IN LODI
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| | ....Michelle Malkin: JIHADI ARRESTS IN LODI — Very big story out of Lodi, Calif., this morning: "Federal agents searched the homes of two...
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35. | BuzzMachine... by Jeff Jarvis
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| | ....Jeff is outraged!
Reynolds points to "sensible liberal" Jeff, again..... |
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36. | So much worse than Watergate - - MSNBC.com
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| | ....Eric Alterman, “Lowest approval ratings in 75 polls” (June 7, 2005) MSNBC..... |
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37. | Coming in out of the cold: Cold fusion, for real | csmonitor.com
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I read the following article at the Christian Science Monitor: Coming in out of the cold: Cold fusion, for realBasically it talks about another method of successfully producing cold fusion (i.e. nuclear fusion at "low" temperatures); .... |
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38. | Celebrities Playing Table Tennis
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| | ....A collection of celebrities playing table tennis (via the Morning News).... |
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39. | Skype - Free Internet telephony that just works
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| | .... Arieanna noted in her recent Get Real article I put my foot down yesterday. The e-mail traffic was getting a little more than insane. So now we're (Arieanna and I) using our Socialtext wiki and now, we're becoming heavy Basecamp users, too. Skype as always been a key part of our communications mix..... |
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40. | Apple - iTunes
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I'm wondering if there is a way to better organize your iTunes' play lists. I have all these podcast and music play lists cluttering up the sidebar (source panel) making it hard to find the one I'm looking for one. I guess this is a hazard when you subscribe .... |
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