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Let us do the undoable
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Eva Savage, mother of Marine Jeremiah Savage who was killed in Iraq, was featured in Farenheit 9/11. Unfortnately, Moore forgot to make sure it was ok to use her son’s name and likeness in the movie. This is her response.…
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Once again, bloggers make crappy journalists
See, when a real newspaper (or station) like CNN or the New York Times or The Washington Post do a story, they fact check. Facts are these really difficult things to get for many bloggers because they have an agenda.…
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Never Coming to a Theatre Near You
This book sounds like a great reference for movies, movies that don’t suck. Glad to see that Ronin made the list; I love that movie. Link
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Submission, by Theo Van Gogh
Submission, by Theo Van Gogh Theo Van Gogh (who was related to the artist of the same name) was brutally murdered on the streets of Amsterdam by an Islamic fascist for daring to make an eleven-minute film about the oppression…
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Poor Dan Gilmor
Dan Gilmor, author, Journalist (that with a capital J, mind you), and Blogger (also with a capital) has a problem. Actually he has many problems, but this particular one is a commenter he’s acquired in recent months, a troll. Granted,…
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Ohio Election Data Analysis
The original poster on this kuro5hin article starts out trying to cast doubt on the Ohio numbers from the election. Fine, nothing new there. But, someone who actually knows how to crunch numbers pipes in in the comments section with…
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And dumbass time continues
So, apparently if you own a NBA team, you no longer get to have an opinion. Mark Cuban, owner of the Mavricks, Benefactor, and blogger, has been fined by the NBA for this entry in his personnal blog. (He has…
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And now, for something pretty damn funny
From El Reg: Trippi isn’t the only one to blame. All the blogging believers are at fault. Even if Jesus set up a blogging cafe in the center of Rockport, Texas and extolled the virtues of a woman’s right to…
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SUPERcomputing
Alice and Bill have an article today about some of the upcoming supercomputers. But the big news is IBM’s prototype Blue Gene/L, being developed for the Livermore Labs. It currently runs at 70.72 teraflops –but they’re still tweaking it. When…
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Why the semantic web is a pipe dream
This article on Metacrap is a quick and dirty reasoning about why this renewed talk about the “Semantic web” is a load of, well, metacrap. It’s a business, people, and all they want to do is sell you something. If…