07:48 Using brain scans to find psychopaths. Slate Magazine
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Channel Image07:07 Cory's undergrad course - just a few spots left! Boing Boing
Cory Doctorow: Just a few spots remain in my USC undergrad course, called "Pwned: Is everyone on this campus a copyright criminal?" The course runs for one semester only, starting in January 2007, and runs Tuesdays frm 3:30-6:30.
It's a rare peek behind the scenes at DRM standards bodies, Congress, activist coalitions, hacker groups and all the other players who are shaping the future of every discipline, from engineering to international development, art to economics.
It's a COMM499 course and open to all students, regardless of your major. The main class assignment is to work through Wikipedia entries on subjects we cover in the class, in groups, identifying weak areas in the Wikipedia sections and improving them, then defending those improvements in the message-boards for the Wikipedia entries.
Every garden has a snake: computers aren't just tools for empowering their owners. They're also tools for stripping users of agency, for controlling us individually and en masse.
It starts with "Digital Rights Management" -- the anti-copying measures that computers employ to frustrate their owners desires.
These technologies literally attack their owners, treating them as menaces to be thwarted through force majeure, deceit, and cunning. Incredibly, DRM gets special protection under the law, a blanket prohibition on breaking DRM or helping others to do so, even if you have the right to access the work the DRM is walling off.
But DRM's just the tip of the iceberg.
Every digital act includes an act of copying, and that means that copyright governs every relationship in the digital realm. Take a conversation to email and it's not just culture, it's copyright -- every volley is bound by the rules set out to govern the interactions between large publishing entities.
Playing a song for a buddy with your stereo is lawful.
Stream that song to your buddy's PC and you could be facing expulsion and criminal prosecution.
Every interaction on the Web is now larded over with "agreements" -- terms of service, acceptable use policies, licenses -- that no one reads or negotiates. These non-negotiable terms strip you of your rights the minute you click your mouse.
Transactions that would be a traditional purchase in meatspace are complex "license agreements" in cyberspace. As mere licensors, we are as feudal serfs to a lord -- ownership is conferred only on those who are lucky enough to be setting the terms. Our real property interests are secondary to their "intellectual property" claims.
When the computer, the network, publishing platforms, and property can all be magicked away with the Intellectual Property wand, we're all of us pwned, 0wnz0red, punkd. Our tools are turned against us, the law is tipped away from our favor.
Link to course catalog, Link to draft syllabus
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Channel Image07:04 Scherezade meets every fable of every land - comic Boing Boing
Cory Doctorow: Bill Willingham's Fables is one of the select, wonderful group of long-running graphic novels that I follow religiously. The premise is that all the mythical creatures of our fables have been chased from their homeworlds by the Adversary, a shadowy figure who sends an army of goblin warriors before him to rape and plunder. The Fables have settled on our world, in New York, back in the days when it was New Amsterdam, and they have lived there ever since, hidden in plain sight.
A new volume in the series, 1001 Nights of Snowfall, has just been published. It is set outside of the main action of the series, with Snow White visiting Scheherezade's Sultan to beg his help in rallying the Arabian fables to fight the Adversary, who even now marches on their worlds.
The Sultan imprisons and threatens to kill Snow White, but she charms him with her life's story -- a retelling of the Snow White myth from the dankest, filthiest Grimm rendition, mixed with enough vivid detail to curl your hair.
The Sultan spares her life, but promises to kill her the next night if she doesn't have another story. So the next night she tells the origin stories of two more of the Fables whom we've met through the long-running series, and then again the next night, and the next.
I love origins-of comics, Peter Parker and his radioactive spider and all that.
But this is absolutely the cleverest frame for an origins story I've ever read, capturing (as all the Fables storylines do) the true feeling of old legends and the odd dissonance of imagining them unfolding today.
The wonder of Fables is the treat that comes from the mixing of all the fables together, the great mythic 16-car collision. Willingham wrings genuinely original stories out of these old, old characters.
Of course, he's just the latest steward of their storylines, in a centuries-old tradition of storytelling that has every generation reimagining its heroes and villains, fools and tricksters. It's the path that goes from Pygmalion to My Fair Lady to Trading Places.
1001 Nights of Snowfall mixes the artistic styles of several guest illustrators, each a loving tribute to the subject and each different from the ones that preceded it.
This is a handsome hardcover gift-book, and it was certainly part of my Christmas present to myself.
Link, Link to all Fables collections
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Channel Image07:02 C-SPAN caller bashes Carter as 'racist, bigot, anti-Semite' RawStory.com Headlines
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By Helen Thomas, Hearst Newspapers
Washington - With Iraq falling apart, it's getting lonely at the top for President Bush.
His hawkish neo-con advisers are deserting him.
He had to fire Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. The Democrats have won control of Congress. U.
S. allies are angry at his Iraq policies.
And even Henry Kissinger - one of Bush's foreign policy advisers and a key architect of the Vietnam debacle - has decided Iraq is a can't-win situation.
He earlier had told Bush, "The only exit strategy is victory."
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Daniel Craig bears no bitterness towards critics who doubted his ability to play 007.
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Australia and NZ should work towards a full union, or at least a single currency, a parliamentary committee says.
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Channel Image07:00 Madame Butterfly The Sydney Morning Herald News Headlines
Schipper upstages Lenton to claim mantle.
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Marc Fleury.
.. discussed a variety of subjects including increasing the Red Hat investment in JBoss R D, evolving the JBoss code base and governance model, hiring, technology, and the Red Hat 'cuddly penguin' growing some teeth.
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Channel Image07:00 Linux DevCenter: When Linux Runs Out of Memory Linux Today
Perhaps you rarely face it, but once you do, you surely know what's wrong: lack of free memory, or Out of Memory...
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A friend asked me a question yesterday that I couldn't answer, so I did some research to see if I could find one.
The question was: In the Novell-Microsoft deal, what happens at the end of the 5-year term...
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By Edmund L. Andres, New York Times
Honolulu - During a 22-year career, Bobby L.
Maxwell routinely won accolades and awards as one of the Interior Department's best auditors in the nation's oil patch, snaring promotions that eventually had him supervising a staff of 120 people.
He and his team scrutinized the books of major oil producers that collectively pumped billions of dollars worth of oil and gas every year from land and coastal waters owned by the public. Along the way, the auditors recovered hundreds of millions of dollars from companies that shortchanged the government on royalties.
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Click here to bookmark this link.Channel Image06:58 University of Toronto releases censor-busting app Boing Boing
Cory Doctorow: The University of Toronto's Citizen Lab has just release Psiphon, a censorship-defeating program. Like EFF's Tor, Psiphon uses ordinary users' computers as re-routers for Web requests, bouncing requests for blocked and censored material to computers outside the censorwall.
The code for psiphon is announced as being released under the GPL, the most common and preferred open/free license, but I couldn't find a source repository. The download page says that the code is licensed under the "psiphon code license (GPL)," which makes no sense to me. It also contains a lengthy "agreement" that you have to enter into to get at the download that seems a little off-kilter for GPL'ed code.
They just launched -- maybe they'll clarify this soon (or take down the notice that this is all under GPL).
What is psiphon?
psiphon is a censorship circumvention solution that allows users to access blocked sites in countries where the Internet is censored.
psiphon turns a regular home computer into a personal, encrypted server capable of retrieving and displaying web pages anywhere
What are psiphonodes, psiphonode administrators and psiphonites??
A psiphonode is a psiphon server that is operated by an administrator residing in an uncensored country (this is an integration of 'psiphon' and 'Node').
The psiphonode administrator is responsible for creating and managing user accounts and running the psiphon server. A psiphonite is a psiphon user, residing within a jurisdiction that blocks arbitrary web sites, and utilizes a psiphonode residing in an uncensored jurisdiction.
How does psiphon work?
psiphon acts as a "web proxy" for authenticated psiphonites, retrieving requested web pages and displaying them in a user's browser. psiphon uses a secure, encrypted connection to receive web requests from the psiphonite to the psiphonode who then transports the results back to the psiphonite. There is no connection between the psiphonite and the requested website, as psiphon transparently proxies the request through the psiphonode's computer allowing the psiphonite to browse blocked websites seamlessly.
Link (Thanks to everyone who suggested this link!)
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Women and men will play back-to-back state Twenty20 matches next month in an experiment Karen Rolton hopes could soon be extended to international matches.
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Twenty20 cricket continues in its groundbreaking way - and the latest development could be good news for the women's game.
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Channel Image06:58 Ponting prepared to chase Cricinfo cricket news
Ricky Ponting says Australia will chase a target if life is breathed into the remainder of the second Test. Despite trailing by 239 runs entering the fourth day, Ponting indicated the team would not be afraid to attack on a batsman's pitch, but he felt the main hope of setting up an outside chance of victory would rely on their progress in the opening session.
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Channel Image06:58 Ponting leads Australian fightback Cricinfo cricket news
Ricky Ponting etched another notch in the history books by becoming the most prolific Australian century-maker of all time, but even his latest magnum opus - an emphatic 142 from 245 balls, most of which came in a 192-run stand for the third wicket with Michael Hussey - wasn't enough to deny England the honours on a compelling and hard-fought third day at Adelaide.
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Stuart MacGill has announced he will stop playing one-dayers for New South Wales to give fellow spinners Nathan Hauritz and Jason Krejza a chance to make it to Australia's side for next year's World Cup.
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A "confused" Brett Lee has been fined 25% of his match fee for over-appealing when he was convinced Steve Bucknor had given Kevin Pietersen out caught behind.
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Channel Image06:58 Kasprowicz returns after back injury Cricinfo cricket news
Michael Kasprowicz will today make his comeback from a back injury that has kept him out of the game for eight months. Kasprowicz will line up for University in Brisbane club cricket as he works his way towards full fitness.
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Channel Image06:58 Fletcher calms Flintoff injury concern Cricinfo cricket news
Duncan Fletcher has allayed fears about the fitness of England's captain, Andrew Flintoff, who bowled just four overs on the fourth morning at Adelaide before playing no further role in England's attack. Flintoff was off the field when Australia were finally bowled out for 513 shortly after tea, but Fletcher insisted the break from action was purely precautionary.
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Channel Image06:58 Drugs chief attacks 'disappointing' Warne ban Cricinfo cricket news
Shane Warne is in the headlines for the wrong reasons with the publication of a book by Dick Pound, the head of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA),.
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Matthew Hoggard produced the finest performance of the game with a sweaty seven-wicket collection as the second Test drifted towards a draw.
Michael Clarke's 124 saved Australia from a fifth day of stress while Hoggard's tireless work on a pitch borrowed from the nearby airport runway allowed England to take a 38-run advantage.
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Michael Di Venuto has steered Tasmania to a comfortable victory over South Australia after the Redbacks posted a tame 8 for 185 from their 50 overs.
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Duncan Fletcher believes that England's maverick strike bowler, Steve Harmison, has turned a corner in the second Test after his wayward display last week.
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Channel Image06:58 Bushrangers claim victory in final over Cricinfo cricket news
A career-best 90 from Shaun Marsh was not enough to set up a win for Western Australia as Victoria's batsmen all contributed to their side's last-over victory.
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John Buchanan's quotes at the end of the second day at Adelaide.
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Darren Lehmann has told of his desire to coach England, less than a week after his Yorkshire team-mate Darren Gough said Lehmann was the man for the job.
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Channel Image06:57 Officials Expect No Big Changes, No Matter What Panel Advises AfterDowningStreet.org - Impeach Bush and Cheney Now!
By Robin Wright, Washington Post
With the Iraq Study Group report due on Wednesday, the Bush administration has notified allies that it will not budge on certain aspects of Iraq policy, whatever recommendations are put forth by the independent panel of 10 prominent Republicans and Democrats.
At a private briefing for diplomats this past Wednesday, State Department and National Security Council officials said they do not expect any major policy shifts to emerge from either a White House review or the bipartisan panel, led by former secretary of state James A. Baker III and former congressman Lee H. Hamilton (D-Ind.
), according to diplomats familiar with the meeting. The diplomats spoke on the condition of anonymity because the briefing was private.
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Channel Image06:57 UK spy probe police go to Russia BBC News | World | UK Edition
British police have left for Moscow as part of the inquiry into the death of Alexander Litvinenko, Home Secretary John Reid says.
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Click here to bookmark this link.Channel Image06:56 Boeing: Accused of Running Torture Travel Agency AfterDowningStreet.
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By Rick Anderson, The Seattle Weekly
A British author and an ex-prisoner's attorney say that records uncovered by Spanish investigators show Boeing has a direct role in "extreme renditions" - planning and organizing the flights through a unit of its Seattle commercial airplane division.
Since 2003, human-rights investigators and news media reports have described a Boeing Business Jet as one of the most-dreaded planes in the Central Intelligence Agency's clandestine air force.
The modified 737 - a model rolled out in Renton in 2001 - was built for executive fun and comfort. But it is alleged to be the flagship of the CIA's "extreme rendition" squadron, ferrying suspected terrorists to secret agency prisons or countries where the U.S.
is said to outsource torture.
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Click here to bookmark this link.Channel Image06:56 Underused Clark vows to target Collingwood Cricinfo cricket news
Stuart Clark was surprisingly under-used by Ricky Ponting after he had England limping in the first session with two early blows.
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Ricky Ponting says Australia will chase a target if life is breathed into the remainder of the second Test. Despite trailing by 239 runs entering the fourth day, Ponting indicated the team would not be afraid to attack on a batsman's pitch, but he felt the main hope of setting up an outside chance of victory would rely on their progress in the opening session.
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Ricky Ponting etched another notch in the history books by becoming the most prolific Australian century-maker of all time, but even his latest magnum opus - an emphatic 142 from 245 balls, most of which came in a 192-run stand for the third wicket with Michael Hussey - wasn't enough to deny England the honours on a compelling and hard-fought third day at Adelaide.
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Channel Image06:56 Pietersen in the eye of a storm Cricinfo cricket news
Kevin Pietersen has found himself at the centre of a storm after comments made in an interview with the South African edition of GQ magazine led to the South African board writing to the ICC and England board demanding that action be taken.
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The short square boundaries at Adelaide Oval could bring Kevin Pietersen undone, according to the man who knows the ground better than most, Darren Lehmann.
He said attacking Shane Warne would be an attractive idea but it could be a dangerous move.
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A "confused" Brett Lee has been fined 25% of his match fee for over-appealing when he was convinced Steve Bucknor had given Kevin Pietersen out caught behind.
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Click here to bookmark this link.Channel Image06:56 It's Edgbaston all over again Cricinfo cricket news
For 24 more hours at least, the parallels remain. By tomorrow evening, we should have a better idea of how "Ashes: The Sequel" is panning out.
Will Australia's bowlers, lacking the services of Glenn McGrath through a foot injury, be put to the sword on a flat batting track by England's rampant batsmen? Or will Ricky Ponting's Australians demonstrate, once and for all, that the result in 2005 really was a "blip on the radar"?.
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Click here to bookmark this link.Channel Image06:56 Fletcher calms Flintoff injury concern Cricinfo cricket news
Duncan Fletcher has allayed fears about the fitness of England's captain, Andrew Flintoff, who bowled just four overs on the fourth morning at Adelaide before playing no further role in England's attack. Flintoff was off the field when Australia were finally bowled out for 513 shortly after tea, but Fletcher insisted the break from action was purely precautionary.
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It has happened again. Down 1-0 after a first-Test thrashing, England have been revived for the second Ashes series in a row by batting first in the next match.
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Matthew Hoggard produced the finest performance of the game with a sweaty seven-wicket collection as the second Test drifted towards a draw. Michael Clarke's 124 saved Australia from a fifth day of stress while Hoggard's tireless work on a pitch borrowed from the nearby airport runway allowed England to take a 38-run advantage.
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Click here to bookmark this link.Channel Image06:56 Collingwood and Pietersen make it England's day Cricinfo cricket news
England's batsmen produced a day of dogged defiance to haul themselves into a promising position by stumps on the first day of the second Test at Adelaide. Led by a fighting 113-run partnership between Paul Collingwood and Ian Bell, and boosted by another aggressive, counter-attacking half-century from Kevin Pietersen, England reached the close on 3 for 266, with Collingwood unbeaten on 98.
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Duncan Fletcher believes that England's maverick strike bowler, Steve Harmison, has turned a corner in the second Test after his wayward display last week.
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Channel Image06:56 Buchanan finds praise for bowlers Cricinfo cricket news
John Buchanan's quotes at the end of the second day at Adelaide.
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Andrew Miller on Paul Collingwood's 98 not out.
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Darren Lehmann has told of his desire to coach England, less than a week after his Yorkshire team-mate Darren Gough said Lehmann was the man for the job.
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Channel Image06:56 West Indies lose strength and conditioning coach Cricinfo cricket news
Bryce Cavanagh, an Australian hired in April 2005, has resigned as West Indies' strength and conditioning coach following the Test series against Pakistan.
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A 14-year-old allrounder is one of three late changes to Uganda's squad for the World Cup qualifiers for the African nations in Kenya.
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Twenty20 cricket continues in its groundbreaking way - and the latest development could be good news for the women's game.
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Channel Image06:56 South Africa announce squad for Pakistan series Cricinfo cricket news
Shandre Fritz has been announced as South Africa's captain at the age of just 21 and will lead them for the five-match ODI series against Pakistan in Pretoria in January.
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Aswini Kumar, the Haryana coach, talks to Cricinfo about what ails Indian domestic cricket and a likely debutant for India in the near future.
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Stuart MacGill has announced he will stop playing one-dayers for New South Wales to give fellow spinners Nathan Hauritz and Jason Krejza a chance to make it to Australia's side for next year's World Cup.
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Channel Image06:56 Karnataka and Baroda claim victories Cricinfo cricket news
A round-up of the final day's play of the second round matches of the Ranji Trophy, 2006-07.
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Duncan Fletcher has allayed fears about the fitness of England's captain, Andrew Flintoff, who bowled just four overs on the fourth morning at Adelaide before playing no further role in England's attack.
Flintoff was off the field when Australia were finally bowled out for 513 shortly after tea, but Fletcher insisted the break from action was purely precautionary.
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Shane Warne is in the headlines for the wrong reasons with the publication of a book by Dick Pound, the head of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA),.
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Matthew Hoggard produced the finest performance of the game with a sweaty seven-wicket collection as the second Test drifted towards a draw. Michael Clarke's 124 saved Australia from a fifth day of stress while Hoggard's tireless work on a pitch borrowed from the nearby airport runway allowed England to take a 38-run advantage.
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Duncan Fletcher believes that England's maverick strike bowler, Steve Harmison, has turned a corner in the second Test after his wayward display last week.
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Channel Image06:56 Bracewell admits opening blunder Cricinfo cricket news
John Bracewell, New Zealand's coach, has admitted that the team management made a mistake trying to convert middle-order batsmen into Test openers.
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Mehrab Hossain jr, one half of Bangladesh's newest opening pair, is confident of his rapport with Shahriar Nafees.
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Despite the absence of Sarwan and Dwayne Bravo in the five-match ODI series against Pakistan, Bennett King, the coach of West Indies, was confident of his side coming good.
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Channel Image06:55 91 Die, 40 Hurt in Baghdad Car Bombings AfterDowningStreet.org - Impeach Bush and Cheney Now!
By Qais Al-Bashir, Associated Press
Baghdad, Iraq - At least 91 people died and more than 40 were wounded as three parked car bombs exploded near an area packed with vendors in central Baghdad on Saturday, officials said.
The bombs were about 100 yards apart in the busy al-Sadriyah shopping district and exploded nearly simultaneously, according to police Lt. Ali Muhsin. At least 10 other parked vehicles were destroyed in the area, where vendors sell fruit, vegetables and other items such as soap.
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How to Stay in Iraq: The Iraq Study Group Rides to the Rescue
By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch
Finally, the President and the New York Times agree. In a news conference with the Iraqi Prime Minister last week, George W. Bush insisted that there would be no "graceful exit" or withdrawal from Iraq; that this was not "realism.
" The next day the Times, in a front page piece (as well as "analysis" inside the paper) pointed out that, "despite a Democratic election victory this month that was strongly based on antiwar sentiment, the idea of a major and rapid withdrawal seems to be fading as a viable option."
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As one of the main architect's of the Clinton economy, it's vitally important to review Robert Rubin's work in order to understand what can be done in the future.
In short, Rubin's policies worked. It's that simple.
First, let's start with the balanced budget, which was part of Clinton's plan from the beginning of his Presidency.
The following is from On the Edge, by Elizabeth Drew, page 60:
Following the election [during the transition], Clinton realized there was little he could do about raising spending for his investments if he didn't tackle the deficit...
..He [Clinton] gradually came to see that the debt posed a threat to what he wanted to do to spur competitiveness and economic growth, as well as to revive the economy, and was using up capital that could otherwise go to public and private investment.
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In Search of Peace
With Cindy Sheehan
November 29th: the day that two Camp Casey supporters were found guilty in Waco, Tx courts for a misdemeanor that they did not commit, Larry Northern, a Vietnam Veteran pleaded no-contest to mowing down our Arlington South crosses, which lined Prairie Chapel Road in August, 05, memorializing OUR children who have been murdered in the unstable neighbor down the road s war of terror on the world.
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Channel Image06:49 Washington's UN envoy quits post BBC News | World | UK Edition
The US ambassador to the UN is to leave his post when his temporary appointment runs out, officials say.
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Wind River on Dec.
15 will ship a new version of its Eclipse-based development toolsuite that will, for the first time, be available as a set of plugins, greatly increasing deployment flexibility. Workbench 2.6 also features new test and analysis tools, a sophisticated patch manager for Linux, and online documentation.
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-Russian Relations Rferl.org
December 4, 2006 -- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says the poisoning death of former Russian intelligence officer Aleksandr Litvinenko is harming relations between Russia and Great Britain.
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Channel Image06:43 Pantech IM-R110 Cellphone: Swivel Display, Multimedia Galore Gizmodo
r1101.jpgTime to contact your local Korean import guy, since the Pantech IM-R110 is just about ready to see the light of day. It's a cellphone with one of those newfangled "t" screens that pivots on command.
The cellphone also works as a portable media player (one that can accept DMB broadcasts, no less) but the camera is only two megapixels. I say "only" because cellphones in here in the U.S.
are starting to feature such cameras, which means that the Korea phones should be at least five megapixels. Korean cellphones > U.S.
cellphones as a rule of thumb. Please accept these photos in lieu of other actual facts.
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Will Pantech ever release the IM-R110 here? Probably not, which is a shame since it looks pretty groovy.
Nicholas Deleon
IM-R110, the new Sky [Akihabaranews.com]
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N. ambassador The Agonist - thoughtful, global, timely
Washington DC | December 4
AP - Unable to win Senate confirmation, U.N.
Ambassador John Bolton will step down when his recess appointment expires soon, the White House said Monday.
Bolton's nomination has languished in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for more than a year, blocked by Democrats and several Republicans.
President Bush gave Bolton the job temporarily in August 2005, while Congress was in recess.
But the appointment expires when Congress formally adjourns, no later than early January.
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Slate Magazine
The New York Times leads with a new report that reveals the police force in Afghanistan is in poor shape, and much of it is due to a lack of training and oversight. The joint report, which was carried out by the Pentagon and the State Department, says the local police force is incapable of performing day-to-day work, and managers can't even keep track of officers or equipment. USA Today leads with Pfizer's sudden decision to end clinical trials for a drug they had hoped would be the next blockbuster to fight heart disease.
High expectations had been placed on torcetrapib, which increases what is commonly known as good cholesterol, but trials were canceled when researchers realized those taking the drug were dying at higher rates.
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Previews and editorials about today's school integration cases: The New York Times editorial page weighs in here, Nina Totenberg reports at NPR here, and another NPR story, featuring a school superintendent from Illinois, can be heard here.
At ACSBlog, Amy Stuart Wells of Columbia University has an article here, and the Chronicle of Higher Education carries an article about today's cases here. At How Appealing, Howard Bashman links to even more articles about today's cases in this post.
Justice Breyer appeared on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace yesterday, and the video of the interview can now be streamed on-demand here.
Finally, on the lighter side, Jack Balkin has a post here at Balkinization called "If Supreme Court Justices Were Rock Stars."
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Iraq Study Group Report Available December 6 www.usip.
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As coordinator of the Iraq Study Group's activities over the last eight months, the U.S. Institute of Peace is pleased to announce that a PDF copy of the report will be available for download at 11:00 AM EST, Wednesday, December 6, 2006, at www.
usip.org
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Cory Doctorow: This video of an octopus squeezing its large, rubbery body through a one-inch hole in a plexiglas box is positively eerie and entrancing.
Octopi are freaking amazing, whether they're running on two legs and impersonating a crab or strangling sharks or escaping from their cages in feats of mechanical derring-do. Link (via Digg)
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Cory Doctorow: The Data-Mining Blog is a great, frequently-updated blog devoted to the new ways that people, governments, scientists and corporations are extracting more information out of the data-clouds we leave in our wake.
It's enough to make you paranoid.
When Bruce Schneier talked at my speaker series earlier this year, he characterized personal information as a kind of pollution, easy to create, hard to destroy and potentially very dangerous.
Our approach to personal information reminds me of the days when we dumped our trash in the sea.
"The sea is so big, our trash is so small, we'll never make a dent in its depths." Or our present view of greenhouse gasses, for that matter. We offgas all this personal data and the instruments capable of turning it against us grow ever-more sensitive.
Round Trip To Google
If you publish a blog and subscribe to Google's blog alerting, you can - by using the real time option for altering - get an idea of how long it takes Google to get each post.
* I posted Weekends At The Movies at 5:18 AM on December the first. The alert from Google came at 3:48 PM, a delay of 10 hours and 30 minutes.
* Now With More Matterhorn was published at 7:25 PM on November the 30th, the alert arrived at 2:32 AM on December 1st, a delay of 7 hours 7 minutes.
These figures suggest a substantial round trip time for blog publishing, indexing and alerting. Given that Technorati claims to have a mean time to index of 5 minutes (something which I personally doubt) Google seems to be pretty slow.
Of course, I've only looked at 2 data points from a single blog. Perhaps there are other bloggers out there who can also share their stats on this one.
Update: This post was published at 9:23 AM on the December 2nd, the alert from Google was time stamped 3:22 AM on December 3rd - a minute shy of 18 hours.
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Blog: Oh dear, they're at it again.
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Cory Doctorow: Johan sez, "A few science fiction fans in Uppsala, Sweden, gather each first advent to bake something in gingerbread. This year the result was a very good-looking TIE Fighter Advanced.
I wish I could have been there." Link (Thanks, Johan!)
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Channel Image06:26 Liverpool nearing Dubai takeover BBC Sport | Sport Homepage | World Edition
The investment arm of Dubai's government confirms it is in exclusive talks about a takeover of Liverpool FC.
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klever_kutter.
jpgNext time you consider breaking out the high explosives to open one of those impenetrable plastic clamshell packages, use the Klever Kutter instead. Even though it's packing ultra-sharp razor blades, there are no exposed cutting surfaces and it's guaranteed not to cut you or that valuable gadgetry/snack food on the other side of that bulletproof plastic shit in which it's entombed. Not a bad deal for less than two bucks.
Charlie White
Product Page [Safe Cutters, Inc.]
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Australia's opposition Labor Party elects ex-diplomat Kevin Rudd as its new head to lead it into next year's polls.
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New federal Labor leader Kevin Rudd has sent a strong message to the party's factional bosses, saying he will choose the frontbench he wants.
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Channel Image06:10 Celebrity security. Slate Magazine
Celebrity security.
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Channel Image06:10 Cartoonists' take on Iraq. Slate Magazine
Cartoonists' take on Iraq.
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Channel Image06:10 Bram Cohen on BitTorrent's Future Slashdot
Last week, BitTorrent creator Bram Cohen was rumored to be leaving the company he co-founded -- just as it landed big distribution deals with Hollywood. Can the rumors be true? What's in store for online file-sharing?
According to the response, Cohen is not leaving; the piece goes on to talk in more detail about some of BT's recent announcements.
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Parked.
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When you can watch and listen rugby to league on the BBC
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Channel Image06:02 Don't Mess With...
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Marshall, TX
NEW IMPEACH FOR PEACE GROUP
Visit the new Marshall, Texas Impeach for Peace group at
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The Prime Minister, John Howard, is expected to reveal his plans for the future of the wheat industry today.
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Channel Image05:58 BT Vision is go The Register
All singing, all dancing, all kicking launch
BT said it expects to sign up hundreds of thousands of subscribers for its Vision TV over broadband service within the year, with two to three million subscribing in the medium term.
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It'll be sooner than you think...
Comment When we first began thinking of the mobile phone as "our identity" it became obvious overnight that it was the most personal and handy portal for all entertainment services. But how long will it take until that eventuality comes about.
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Channel Image05:55 Novell, FOSS activists go head-to-head LXer Linux News
Novell will roll out the big guns for the first face-to-face debate with the free software movement over the merits of the recent Microsoft-Novell deal. In Cape Town Novell country manager Stafford Masie will meet outspoken critic Derek Keats and other free software advocates at the CITI Foss Foum on Thursday.
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Channel Image05:54 links for 2006-12-04 Bob Sutor's IBM Blog
Music Brian Jonestown Massacre OGG versions of their songs for free. (tags: free music mp3) Real Estate Chateau in the Sky - New York Times In case you are looking for a new place. (tags: realestate ny) Website and Blog Technology frankie roberto blog - 10 Add-ons to consider for your website Once you ve done all the important stuff, there s still a whole list of [.
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Channel Image05:53 U.S., Russian Diplomats Clash At OSCE Meeting Rferl.
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December 4, 2006 -- A senior U.S. diplomat has called on Russia to complete the withdrawal of its troops from Georgia and Moldova, prompting a sharp rebuttal from Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
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condom_wedding_gown.jpgLast Friday, December 1 was the 19th World AIDS Day, and an enterprising seamstress in New York decided to commemorate the big day with a very special wedding gown.
Consisting entirely of 12,500 individually colored and stitched-together condoms, the result is quite fetching, the perfect complement to the chandelier made from penis pumps.
So with the average sex frequency of married couples holding right at 98 times per year according to a 2001 Durex Survey, this supply of condoms ought to keep the average married couple child-free for about 127.5 years.
There was no word about whether the condoms had been used or not before being sewn up into this dress, but with all that stitching involved, their use after the wedding ceremony was not recommended. Charlie White
Condom Wedding Gown [Spluch]
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European ski resorts are hoping for sudden snowfalls to rescue the start of their season.
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fakenokia.jpgNerds have entirely too much time on their hands and have "revealed" the Nokia 6639, a new Nokia cellphone+DSLR (read: it's fake) that comes equipped with a Swiss army knife, lighter, double megapixel camera and built-in Photoshop.
All this runs on a Pentium M which helps power the 1024x768 display. In your dreams, kiddos.
Actually, this feature creep (fantasy as it may be) is exactly the kind of thing that many of you railed on several weeks ago: cellphones that try to be all things to everybody and often end up just sucking.
As long as we're on the subject, are there any wacky features that you'd like to see incorporated into a cellphone? Built-in gaydar? Weather control?
Nicholas Deleon
Nokia 6639 DSLR, Zippo Lighter, Swiss Army Knife Phone [SlashGear]
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We certainly wouldn't want this iBook G4 charger spontaneously combusting next to a stack of old newspapers, but then we wouldn't be gingerly coaxing it to start on fire, either. We're not sure what to make of this video, but one thing's for sure: the four-year-old charger could make a pretty good firestarter.
But when you notice the aluminum foil spread out underneath the charger, you can be sure this was not exactly an unexpected occurrence. Something's fishy about this. Charlie White
iBook Charger Catches Fire [YouTube]
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Channel Image05:35 Govt urged to appoint terrorism laws reviewer ABC News: Top Stories
A federal parliamentary committee has recommended an independent person be appointed to oversee the nation's counter-terrorism laws.
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Today at 10 AM eastern, the Court will release an Orders List relating to its Conference of 12/1 (it granted three cases on Friday afternoon - see here).
We will link to the complete list as soon as possible, though an analysis of today's orders will be somewhat delayed.
The Court will then hear two hours of oral argument in cases dealing with voluntary school integration programs. It will first hear one hour of argument in Parents Involved v.
Seattle School District followed by one hour of argument in Meredith v. Jefferson County (combined preview here). Audio of today's two arguments will be made available shortly after their conclusion; C-SPAN's coverage of the cases begins at 11:15 AM eastern today.
Transcripts will also be available this afternoon.
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bobibobi writes "After months of revisions, OpenDocument receives status of a full published standard.
The various stages of a standard's "stage code are also online." The OpenDocument standard has been developed by a variety of organizations and is publicly accessible. This means it can be implemented into any system, be it free software/open source or a closed proprietary product, without royalties.
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Singer Pete Doherty is fined for five counts of possessing drugs, including crack cocaine and heroin.
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Channel Image05:31 U.S. Officials Urge End To 'Senseless' Violence In Iraq Rferl.
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December 4, 2006 -- The top U.S. civilian and military officials in Iraq have issued a joint statement calling on Iraqis to avoid the "senseless" cycle of violence now wracking the country.
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Let's stay together for the children's sake
Analysis The legal action uncovered this week between Microsoft and Alcatel is seen by many as sounding the death knell to their cosy carve up of the IPTV market among global tier one telcos.
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Channel Image05:24 Anger at UN chief's Iraq comments BBC News | World | UK Edition
Iraq's national security adviser says he is shocked by Kofi Annan's claim that Iraqis are worse off than under Saddam.
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jpgSamsung hits ITU Telecom World 2006 opening day today in Hong Kong with its Ultra series of cellphones, including the Ultra Music (F300), the Ultra Video (F500) that we mentioned earlier today, and Ultra Messaging (i600) smartphone.
The Ultra Music F300 has a screen on the front and a conventional candy bar phone keypad on the other side, and gives you extra oomph with its Bang Olufsen-designed digital amplifier inside. Hopefully that won't jack the price up 4x.
Just like its Ultra Video brandmate, it has a 2-megapixel camera and a miniSD slot for 2GB more storage.
Another member of the Ultra line: the Ultra Messaging i600..
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It's an HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) smartphone running Windows Mobile 5.0, which at .
46 inches thin is called the world's slimmest messaging phone. And check out that second camera on the front, letting you video conference, too. Available in Q1 of next year, so far it's Asia-only.
Charlie White
Samsung launched Ultra Messaging i600 [AVing]
Samsung Unveils New Ultra Series for Music, Video and Messaging [Mobile Korea]
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Click here to bookmark this link.Channel Image05:19 Quotes of the week BBC Sport | Sport Homepage | World Edition
Wenger on Henry 'spat' and Pietersen on Collingwood
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Jess Schipper posted a time of 57.
48 seconds to relegate Libby Lenton (57.62) to second in the 100 metres butterfly final at the Australian Swimming Championships in Brisbane tonight.
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Channel Image05:19 Oral Argument Date of January 26th Set by Judge Karas for Dismissal Motion in Elektra v. Barker Recording Industry vs The People
Judge Kenneth M. Karas has set Friday, January 26, 2007, at 2:15 P.
M., as the oral argument date for Ms. Barker's motion to dismiss complaint, in Elektra v.
Barker, pending in federal court in Manhattan.
November 28, 2006, Order of Hon. Kenneth M.
Karas*
The argument will take place at the newer federal court house, located at 500 Pearl Street, New York, New York, in courtroom 21D on the 21st Floor. Proceedings are open to the public.
This is the case in which amicus briefs were filed by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the U.
S. Internet Industry Association (USIIA), and the Computer Communications Industry Association (CCIA), and a Statement of Interest was filed by the U.S.
Department of Justice (USDJ).
Defendant Tenise Barker moved to dismiss the complaint on the ground that neither downloading nor uploading had been alleged sufficiently to give her notice of what she was being accused of, and on the further ground that merely "making available for distribution" was not a copyright infringement at all. The RIAA and MPAA argued that merely "making available" was indeed a copyright infringement.
Defendant, CCIA, and USIIA argued that it was not.
EFF argued that intangible computer network transmissions cannot be "distributions" within the meaning of the Copyright Act. USDJ argued that they can be.
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