tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58563112011-12-15T02:40:55.363Zmy fun thingy<br> blogging the bloggers - medical stuff - and everything tastelessHugh Whttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12226946909815324207noreply@blogger.comBlogger5911100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5856311.post-59313319176804668192009-11-25T07:41:00.000Z2009-11-25T07:41:57.412Z

vaccine canada - Google News: "Six bad reactions to swine flu vaccine in Canada: officialAnaphylactic shock is a severe, rapid and sometimes fatal allergic reaction to a foreign substance such as a vaccine, shellfish or insect venom. ..." one particular batch now withdrawn

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BBC - Wales - My Beard - A Brief Chronicle: "Do women like beards?It's often said that women don't really like men with beards... here we find out!"

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Leopard seal teaches photographer how to catch penguins - Boing Boing

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List of unusual deaths - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "See also * Toilet-related injury * List of inventors killed by their own inventions * Darwin Awards * Multiple gunshot suicide * List of people who died in public * 1000 Ways to Die * Spontaneous human combustion"

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Fate of marijuana mine in limbo | Oddly Enough | Reutersmarijuana mine" - Google SearchCBC News - Manitoba - Medical marijuana operation halted in Flin Flon: "Just want to correct a mistake in the article. There are over 4000 people in Canada currently licensed, maybe 1400 of those 4000 are growers, and about 300 purchase from Health Canada. Of these 300 I bet most live in cities without

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The Synchronicity of Indeterminacy: "Found Photo Stories: Life and Art Linked by PhotographsA study in creativity, this site features one-minute short stories inspired by found photos, an idea based on the Indeterminacy recordings by John Cage, pairing one-minute short stories with random sounds.All stories © 2004-2009"

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'Who do you think you are? Jenson Button? - Google Search

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Perfection of Giving - The Practice of Giving in Buddhism: "The Buddha taught that when we give to others, we give without expectation of reward. We give without attaching to either the gift or the recipient. We practice giving to release greed and self-clinging."

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Positive thinking is positively bad for you so always look on the glum slide of life | Mail Online: "But, I pointed out, the therapist had not advocated positive thinking. She'd advocated realistic thinking, which is what we all need to focus on.Had the client come to her banging on about her brilliance, it would have been sensible for my friend to point out that yes, she was brilliant, but that

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Rockwatching: "So here is where you slip down the incline from beneath all the tangled wire deeper into the cave. Right next to my helmet there is an old milk churn and in sliding over it I bruised my ribs quite badly and I’m still feeling it today. I am looking down a slope that is strewn with broken glass and old bottles and wondering wheter I’ll be getting my belly slashed today. The cave is

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The Food Issue - The Calorie-Restriction Experiment - NYTimes.com: "THERE’S A JOKE that says calorie restriction may or may not extend your life, but it will most assuredly make your life feel longer. At least in theory, you must accept endless days of grinding asceticism. Starbucks ventis without a breakfast scone (460 calories). Sandwiches without Swiss (106), mayo (57) or potato chips (155).

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Internet-Genealogy Blog: Back After a Long Layoff: "I know many of you in the genealogy world are aware of my recent fight with prostate cancer, but I just wanted to let everyone know that I am doing fine and I received an excellent report on my recovery from my doctor on September 1, 2009"

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Caring for Aging Parents - The New Old Age Blog - NYTimes.com: "In my father’s apartment building in South Jersey, the older tenants start drifting into the small lobby each day around 1 p.m., taking up positions on chairs and couches. The ostensible reason: The mail is about to arrive. The real reason: They relish a chance to schmooze.“There’s a lot of discussion about the economy,” Dad reports.

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SES ASTRA - What do I need?: "The signals from the satellite are collected by the dish and focused onto the LNB (Low Noise Block Converter), which is located at the end of an arm in front of the dish. The signals are then transferred from the LNB to the receiver via a cable.To receive all the services from an ASTRA satellite, you will need a dish fitted with a universal LNB. If you have a

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Expert Witness: Gwen Cooper - Expert Witness - Open Salon: "I mean certainly again with this book, if it were not for the nature of the internet, and the speed with which things can go viral, and where you can see it happening in real time, I don't know that I would've gotten his deal, or I don't know that it would have happened the way that it did. It really was an instance of being able to see

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Prostate biopsy - MayoClinic.com: "The prostate is a small, walnut-shaped gland in men that produces fluid that nourishes and transports sperm. During a prostate biopsy, also called a core needle biopsy, a fine needle is used to take a number of tissue samples from your prostate gland. A prostate biopsy is done by a urologist, a doctor who specializes in men's sex organs and urinary system. Your

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Beautiful Buzz: "words on music and more by Adam Perry (mppedro@gmail.com)"

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Welcome to ESTA - the Official U.S. Government Web Site: "Welcome to the Electronic System for Travel Authorization Web Site.International travelers who are seeking to travel to the United States under the Visa Waiver Program are now subject to enhanced security requirements. All eligible travelers who wish to travel under the Visa Waiver Program must apply for authorization using the following

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The PSA Test for Prostate Cancer | Health | Patient UK: "* HomeThis leaflet is designed to help you decide whether to have the PSA blood test for prostate cancer. You might have no symptoms but just want to check that you don't have prostate cancer, or you might be thinking about the test because you have developed prostate symptoms. There are pros and cons about having the test which are

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Prostate-Specific Antigen (PSA) Test - National Cancer Institute: "# What are some of the limitations of the PSA test? * Detecting tumors does not always mean saving lives: When used in screening, the PSA test can detect small tumors. However, finding a small tumor does not necessarily reduce a man's chances of dying from prostate cancer. PSA testing may identify very slow-growing tumors that

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Men overdiagnosed for prostate cancer: Study: "He adds: 'Prostate cancer screening has resulted in substantial overdiagnosis and unnecessary treatment. It may have saved relatively few lives . . .'We desperately need the ability to predict which patient has a localized cancer that is going to metastasize and cause suffering and death and which patient has a cancer that is destined to stay in the

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The Public Editor - He Works for The Times, Too - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com: "multiple interests and loyalties raise interesting ethical issues in this new age when individual journalists can become brands of their own, stars who seem to transcend the old rules that sharply limited outside activity and demanded an overriding obligation to The Times and its readers."

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Bruce Mau Design - Manifesto: "An Incomplete Manifesto for GrowthWritten in 1998, the Incomplete Manifesto is an articulation of statements exemplifying Bruce Mau’s beliefs, strategies and motivations. Collectively, they are how we approach every project. 1. Allow events to change you.You have to be willing to grow. Growth is different from something that happens to you. You produce it. You live

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Slow Family Online: "The San Francisco Public Library has recently included among its offerings an “ecocard” that is made from corn and is renewable and biodegradable, as an alternative to its plastic library cards."

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List of unusual deaths - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "this is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy certain standards for completion. You can help by expanding it with sourced additions."

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Facebook to address Canadian privacy issues: "Facebook doesn't have enough safeguards to prevent 950,000 third-party developers around the world from getting unauthorized access to users' personal information, nor does it ensure users have given 'meaningful consent' to allow their personal information to be disclosed to the developers. Recommendation: Developers should only get the information

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YouTube - JK Wedding Entrance Dance

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CIA - The World Factbook -- Country Comparison :: Distribution of family income - Gini index: "This index measures the degree of inequality in the distribution of family income in a country. The index is calculated from the Lorenz curve, in which cumulative family income is plotted against the number of families arranged from the poorest to the richest. The index is the ratio of (a) the area

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Banks (Menswear) Ltd: Department: 'BIG SHOP'

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Enlarged Prostate (BPH) Relief Center: Take the Symptom Quiz (Sponsored): "Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), commonly known as an enlarged prostate, is more than an inconvenience. It can lead to serious urinary complications. When BPH is diagnosed and treated early, the risk of developing complications decrease"BPH) - Google Search: "benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) also known as nodular

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Kegel Exercises for Women: Benefits and How-To Instructions: "In men, Kegel exercises are used to treat stress incontinence and urge incontinence, a need to urinate that is so strong that you cannot reach the toilet in time."

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marine superstitions and nautical myths: "Dolphin swimming with the ship are a sign of good luck.Killing one will bring bad luck. It is unlucky to kill an albatross. It is unlucky to kill a gull.They contain the souls of sailors lost at sea."

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Asda Chelmsley Wood - Google SearchWe're open ...Mon 7:00am - 10:00pmTue - Fri 7:00am - 11:00pmSat 7:00am - 10:00pmSun 10:00am - 4:00pmAsda Stores Limited, Asda 341 Bosworth Drive Chelmsley Wood Birmingham B37 5EXASDA.com - Online supermarket, Groceries, Electricals, Entertainment, George and more...somone please tell their webmaster - he is 5 days late with B37 5EX

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Phone Call Reports: "0012102808094Phone lunch time 2 consecutive days, a recorded message stating I have won a holiday in the Bahamas press 9 to continue. I didn't, just left the phone off the hook for 10 minutes"Phone Call Reports 0012102808094. have phoned up twice said something about a survey - Google Search

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Amanda Palmer's Twitter riches -- and journalism - The Future of Journalism - Open Salon

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Bladder and Bowel Foundation > Bladder and Bowel FoundationDo you have bladder control problems and have to hurry to the toilet and don't always make it in time? Or maybe you have to pass urine more often than you used to? You may have urge incontinence or frequency as a result of an overactive bladder. For men see also prostate. Do you leak urine in your sleep or have to wake up more than twice

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ChapeauAnnouncesWinners: "Chapeau Blog Awards is an awards contest that tips its chapeaus to honor bloggers worldwide who devote their time and knowledge to inform, entertain and challenge their readers. Those involved in the Chapeau Blog Awards are not involved in the final selection of winners. Rather than assembling an antiquated academy of high profile ‘Noggers’ – Non-bloggers - to determine

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Walking Backward May Sharpen Thinking: "The next time you're facing a challenge, you might not want to stand your ground. Maybe you should try walking backward instead, Dutch researchers suggest.'Whenever you encounter a difficult situation, stepping backward may boost your capability to deal with it effectively,' Severine Koch, PhD, and colleagues write in May's edition of Psychological

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The WELL - Guide to Well Engaged - ShortcutsKeyboard Shortcut Result L Goes to My List. P Clicks the Pass button. T Opens the Topic list. N Next or New advances through "My Conference

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sumo robot - Google SearchRobot-sumo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Robot-sumo, or pepe-sumo, is a sport in which two robots attempt to push each other out of a circle (in a similar fashion to the sport of sumo). The robots used in this competition are called sumobots.The engineering challenges are for the robot to find its opponent (usually accomplished with infrared sensors) and to push

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Beautiful Buzz: "Look to your right: in “pages,” some of my recent articles are available for your perusing, enjoying and criticizing. Here I am creating something that’s ostensibly mine, a blog where I’ll catalog my published musings on arts & culture (with a focus on music) and talk a little off the top of my head from time to time: what I’ve been listening to, where I’m traveling, what goes on

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Moose Dropping Festival - The Craziest Festivals in 2009 - Pictures - Travel - Virgin Media: "Where is it: Talkeetna, Alaska, USAWhen is it: JulyWhat is it? Taking place over two days each summer, the festival’s highlight is a prize lottery in which visitors draw raffle tickets to bet on numbered moose turds being dropped onto a giant bulls-eye from a helicopter. More exciting than a tombola, but

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The Official Formula 1 Website: "08 - 10 May06 FORMULA 1 GRAND PRIX DE MONACO 2009 (Monte Carlo) 21 - 24 May07 2009 FORMULA 1 ING TURKISH GRAND PRIX (Istanbul) 05 - 07 Jun08 2009 FORMULA 1 SANTANDER BRITISH GRAND PRIX (Silverstone) 19 - 21 Jun09 FORMULA 1 GROSSER PREIS SANTANDER VON DEUTSCHLAND 2009 (Nürburgring) 10 - 12 Jul"

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The Official Formula 1 Website: "Thu 21 May 2009Thursday Practice 1 10:00 - 11:30Thursday Practice 2 14:00 - 15:30Sat 23 May 2009Saturday Practice 11:00 - 12:00Qualifying 14:00Sun 24 May 2009Race 14:00 * Convert To Race Local Time"

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15 Coolest Pillows - Oddee.com

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Bolt from the Blue - Bow. James Bow.: "and Erin was getting out of the tub herself when the water flashed blue, and there was a loud clap. Erin felt what she described as a punch in her chest as though from a hammer, which knocked her back into the tub. Vivian witnessed this and was quite alarmed. I came in and hauled Erin out of the tub. Her heart was racing and she had a headache, but other

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15 Wonders of the LEGO World | Aleptu

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White House stands back as papers' trail grows: "Online is the answer! Hold it. Unique visitors to Chronicle parent Hearst Corp.'s Web-only Seattle Post-Intelligencer have fallen by one-third since the paper stopped its presses in March. Thirty staffers from the defunct Rocky Mountain News launched INDenverTimes.com, believing it would attract 50,000 paying subscribers from the get-go. On

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MUSIC WARNING !!!Scrappin' With Gamma: "Finally...Gamma Got Some Pictures!!I have a son who lives in Oklahoma with his wife and three girls, Ivy, Allisson, and Emily. Emily was born a little over a year ago...and I have yet to receive the first picture of the child. Well, either Michael or his wife, Lisa, decided to send me some pictures. So, I decided to share with all of you the pictures he

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Man bites snake that attacked him - Africa, World - The Independent: "If you find yourself bound by a giant python, what should you do?According to Ben Nyaumbe, the answer is to bite back. The Kenyan farm manager was preparing a meal of maize porridge when a snake coiled itself around his feet. He was soon being dragged towards a tree. With nothing else to fight with, he resorted to his teeth. '

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No 10 aide fired over 'obscene' email smears - UK Politics, UK - The Independent: "The 'lies and innuendo' that McBride was peddling" "The emails begin with a BlackBerry message from Damian McBride on 13 January 2009 at 18.34. He wrote: Gents, A few ideas I've been working on for Red Rag. For ease, I've written all the below as I'd write them for the site, but obviously Andrew will want

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unofficial WELL blogs aggregator

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The Tent of Doom: "The net is fairly transparent, but did a nice job of cutting down the awful life-sucking glare of the fluorescent lights. While inside, it really gave the feeling that you were out in the woods. The only thing that was missing was some tapes of birds and screeching monkeys or something."

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Social Media Research Blog: cool

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Hair-Made Soy Sauce: An Update (Comments): "a factory in China that had been caught making soy sauce out of human hair"

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TUESDAY CHUCKLE: IKEA PLANS TAKEOVER OF GMC: "IKEA HAS ANNOUNCED ITS INTENTION TO TAKE OVER GM AND TO SELL CARS."

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2 Mass. man catch toddler who fell 40-feet from 3rd-story window; police say they're heroes - Los Angeles Times: "Two Massachusetts men are being hailed as heroes by police for catching a toddler who fell 40 feet from a home's third-story window."

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CNN - How fast can YOU swim when chased by a crocodile? - October 9, 1998: "Swimming coach Mark Davies says his young swimmers are beating the clock, now that they're being chased by a hungry 'croc.'"

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BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | Thai 'Spider-Man' to the rescue: "An unusual disguise has helped a Bangkok fireman rescue an eight-year-old boy who had climbed on to a third-floor window ledge, Thai police say.The firefighter dressed up as the comic book superhero Spider-Man in order to coax the boy, who is autistic, from his dangerous perch"

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Past Expiry Cartoon: "Past Expiry CartoonWelcome to my cartoon blog featuring some of the 100 cartoons I've had published in papers in Toronto, and Rhode Island... and a bunch that were not. Please feel free to leave a comment, or use the '5-Star' rating feature which only requires a mouse click (no registration is required)! My cartoons are FREE for use on personal blogs or personal websites

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snopes.com: Urban Legends Reference Pages

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15 Years of Wired - Proto Social Network 'The Well' Runneth Over: "The early Well was a God-send for intelligent conversation in the 1980s, more than a BBS, better than Prodigy, a lot less costly than Dialog, and a peek into the future of online communications. Its Unix command line was simple but powerful."

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Home | AlterNetAlterNet's Mission AlterNet is an award-winning news magazine and online community that creates original journalism and amplifies the best of hundreds of other independent media sources. AlterNet's aim is to inspire action and advocacy on the environment, human rights and civil liberties, social justice, media, health care issues, and more. Since its inception in 1998,

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Contact EXHALE: "A Literary Magazine for Intelligent People Who Have Lost a Baby,Or Can't Figure Out How to Make One in the First Place"

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Bill Costley: "'How will you explain Daylight Savings Time to your cat?' asks Ivo, saying Congress may pass a law that it only apples to states with names of more than 2-syllables. I explain: 'Reggie's time-agnostic. He can really only distinguish analog day from analog night.'Last night, packed into NASA Ames Immersion Center (Mt.View), Ivo & I watched the Kepler liftoff at Canaveral, surrounded

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galaxy.swf (application/x-shockwave-flash Object)

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Insomnia Support Group: "A community of patients, family members and friends dedicated to dealing with Insomnia, together."if I can't sleep I just go silver surfing

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Kuna Melba Newsgreat auctioneer

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The WELL - Online community is no oxymoron here. The WELL is known as the birthplace of the online community movement.: "Welcome to a gathering that's like none other — remarkably uninhibited, intelligent and iconoclastic.The regulars in this place include noted authors, programmers, journalists, activists and other creative people who swap info, test their convictions and banter with one another

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BAHN-online.org - Das Portal für die kleine und die große BahnBahn TV, der Fernsehsender der DB AG, sendet 24 Stunden im Internet unter www.db.de/bahntv. Außerdem wird Bahn TV unverschlüsselt über Astra digital ausgestrahlt (Empfang: Astra digital 19,2º Ost, Frequenz 12.633 MHz, Transponder 113, FEC 5/6, Symbolrate 22 MBit, RS 188/204) und ist zudem in den digitalen

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Steve Silberman: Texts and ConnectionsI'm Steve Silberman, and I'm a contributing editor at Wired magazine. My features appear regularly there and in other magazines, and are linked here when they're published on the Web. I also co-host several conferences on The Well, one of the most perspicacious and longest-lasting online communities. I was the editorial consultant for Closing the

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Inhabited Man: "As he squatted trembling on the alien markers, the path lay clear before him. If only for a moment, revenge was sweet."

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Community Guy, Jake McKee - OCRN: Randy Farmer Interview [VIDEO]: "Last week, I had the pleasure of interviewing one of the smartest cats in the community biz, Randy Farmer. Check out the video below. Randy is also a member of the OCRN… just sayin."Habitat Chronicles: "You can always tell a patent troll because they are not actively developing or marketing the supposed 'protected' technology and

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Bubblehead Soap Co.: "Suz and Anna have just created a new line of artisan soaps to help you celebrate!Each is hand-crafted using the finest soap bases, skin-safe colors,and fun cosmetic-grade scents. (We make unscented soap, too.)"

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Books of The Times - In ‘The Numbers Game,’ Michael Blastland and Andrew Dilnot Show How Statistics Can Lie - Review - NYTimes.com: "In 2003 the villagers of Wishaw, England, convinced that a recent rise in the incidence of cancer in their area was caused by a nearby cellphone tower, proceeded to lynch the tower, or, more accurately, pull it down in the dead of night.What the villagers didn’t

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UAE | University of Waterloo: "Make a difference. Learn from experience. At the University of Waterloo’s new United Arab Emirates (UAE) campus, bright, motivated students like you will soon experience the Waterloo way. A direction that encourages ideas and innovative real-world connections."

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(cancrum oris - Google Search: "Cancrum oris (noma) is an orofacial gangrene, which causes progressive and mutilating ... Noma, cancrum oris, necotizing ulcerative stomatitis."Noma Children Hospital Sokoto - Google Search: "There is a permanent Noma Children's Hospital in Sokoto, Nigeria"Noma (disease) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "TreatmentKnown in antiquity to such physicians as

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WorldWide Telescope - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "The WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is a computer program created by Microsoft running under Microsoft Windows which allows its users to view outer space"

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Indra's net - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Indra's net (also called Indra's jewels or Indra's pearls) is a metaphor used to illustrate the concepts of emptiness"

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Op-Ed Contributor - The One-State Solution - NYTimes.com: "If the present interdependence and the historical fact of Jewish-Palestinian coexistence guide their leaders, and if they can see beyond the horizon of the recent violence and thirst for revenge toward a long-term solution, then these two peoples will come to realize, I hope sooner rather than later, that living under one roof is the only

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Open Salon: You make the headlines: "Danish headline: 'Obama can only disappoint'January 20, 2009 • 3:33 pmBy Hugh Watkins"

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Failblog - Google SearchFAIL Blog: Pictures and Videos of Owned, Pwnd and Fail Moments

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A Burning Dog Needs No Chimney: "The new cloth masks, which hook behind the ears and cover the mouth and nose, will help “reduce the stress from drivers when they see the police,” said Mr. Somyos, the highway police commander." Bangkok highway patrol Clown - Google Image Search

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850-pound emerald at center of dispute - CNN.com: "LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- An 850-pound emerald said to be worth as much as $370 million is in the hands of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department while a court decides who really owns it, a spokesman for the sheriff said."

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Thriving in the Age of Collapse: "If you have or foresee significant ongoing medical needs, staying in the United States will pose a unique set of problems; you might even consider seeking refuge in one of the many countries that provide free basic and emergency medical care to their entire population. The United States is a very special case in having made basic medicine into a profit-making

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London, Essex, Kent, Hertfordshire, Suffolk & Sussex Pubs, Inns, Taverns & Beer Houses History & Trade Directory.:"These are the entry pages to the history of London, Essex, Kent, Hertfordshire & Cambridgeshire, Suffolk, Sussex & Dorset Historical Public Houses site, which complement many other excellent FREE genealogy sites.. (or use the navigation bars and the excellent search engines).London

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Halfmachine.dk: "Peter Madsen´s submarine crew has build the world's largest privately built submarine" Submarine UC3 Nautilus - a set on Flickrnautilus uc3 - Google Search - nautilus uc3 - Google Image SearchHalf Machine - a set on Flickr

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Hugh Watkins's Blog a daughter of The WELL - Conference List: Conferences are the heart of The WELL

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Earthquake shakes southern Sweden - The Local: "Uppsala University seismologist Reynir Bödvarsson estimated the quake measured between 4.5 and 5.0 on the Richter scale.“It was likely felt in much of southern Sweden. For Sweden, this is a very strong quake,” Bödvarsson told the TT news agency.Seismologists in Sweden estimate the quake’s epicentre was located 18 kilometres underground, beneath a

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Where Buddha Meets Freud | Psychology Today Blogs: "This is about this very moment. This wonderful moment. Have you noticed? This week is the solstice: Sunday, to be precise. The shortest day of the year, and the longest night."

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iPhone thief thwarted by MobileMe sync - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW): "While at the dry cleaner one day, Rob's iPhone was stolen. He immediately chalked it up as gone forever, and proceeded to purchase a brand new one that same evening. It was the next day when unfamiliar contacts began to appear on the new phone. The (not-too-bright) thief was unwittingly supplying him with names and

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Det nye tv-signal: "I Danmark anvender vi en særlig nordisk udgave af MPEG4-standarden, så du kan ikke være sikker på, at en MPEG4-boks købt i udlandet virker herhjemme."NorDig.org: "NorDig is specifying a common platform for Digital Television to be used within the Nordic region (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden)."Digi TV: "Digitalt antenne TV vil også kunne sende HDTV. Dette sker i

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BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | secrets of the Syrian souk: "Rana Salam and Malu Halasa, are shining a spotlight on this little-known local speciality, with a new book called The Secret Life of Syrian Lingerie.'They used to tell me at art school: 'Look within your culture'. So I looked and I was in for a big surprise,' graphic designer Ms Salam told me at the launch in London last month.'The

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4. The morphological study of pattern: "The life patterns, and life habits, the behaviors, creeds, and the forms of the artefacts of peoples of specific human cultures on the planet Earth preserve a certain degree of constancy even while the generations come and go. The most remarkable and most problematic factor of the diachronic extension of cultural patterns is that many of them extend beyond

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hospital, ALDI, doctor - a set on FlickrANTICOAGULANT treatment recordSlideshow

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Jean Felix: "Lider du af vinterdepression ?En anderledes depression:Hvad energiløsheden angår ligner en vinterdepression enhver anden depression. Men derudover er symptomerne på en vinterdepression ganske specifikke.For det første forekommer vinterdepressioner som regel hvert år omkring november og december. For det andet vil en vinterdepression, som typisk i vores overbevisning kunne være

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Rude Tube - Shows - E4.com - matt kirschen, matt kirchen, matt kirshen, rude tube, e4.com, some girls and a drinking utensil

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The Six Standard Phrases of Autogenic Training: "Relaxation is associated with deep diaphragmatic breathing that in return deepens the experience of inner calm and peace."

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