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karmagrrrl: tales of a karmically challenged life...: Wake Me Up When September Ends |...because I have to be dreaming ...having a nightmare, in which case, please pinch me now - hard. |

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Anti-War signs. FREE. Borrow and contribute!|"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."- Theodore Roosevelt, 1918"I feel it is a patriotic thing for me to resist this war. I am against those who have brought it on, Saddam and

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***R.H.D. HOME***tune into the realm of Beastmaster Romance & the Earl of Bandwidth...|Readers of this site may have noticed that we here at RHD are a bit obsessed with recombining things: humans with dragons, faces with beards, text with image, and so on. In an attempt to explain why this is so, and why we see recombinance as an important condition of our times, with serious consequences for our

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Project for the OLD American Century-liberal news from unbiased sources The Project for the OLD American Century is a grass-roots organization that strives to protect and strengthen democracy primarily by disseminating unreported and underreported news stories from a perspective untainted by political or corporate sponsorship. The Project was founded in 2002 in response to a rigged election,

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53�44'N� 0�26'W |If you have ever tuned a radio beyond the medium wave band, you will have entered the weird and wonderful world of short wave. You will hear many strange transmissions, such as ranting American evangelists warning you that the end of the world is near, people trying to sell you gold and silver before the economic collapse (SHOULD HAVE BOUGHT SOME!), jammed clandestine radio

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VotersUnite! |A non-partisan national grassroots network for fair and accurate elections! Active local communities increasing your voice by uniting with others across the nation.|

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Seattle Weekly: News: The Minus Touch by Rick Anderson |Lehto and Hoffman theorize that computers might also have automatically assigned under-votes—when a voter fails to choose one candidate or another—to a candidate not of their choosing, and they say a forensic analysis or audit of the machines' programming could settle that and other claims. The county and the machine maker, Sequoia Voting

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Untested voting systems used |"We had (counties using) untested, uncertified software (to run voting systems) ... and we had the secretary of state making up last-minute emergency rules to circumvent the law to let them do it," said Linda Franz, a member of the non-partisan activist group Citizens For Voting Integrity-Washington. "In my opinion, it raises a lot of questions." Counties with

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The Seattle Times: James Yee Investigation |"Some of the things he said sounded extremely sympathetic to the detainees," said Army Reserve Capt. Jason Orlich, a newly arrived intelligence officer. "I mean, it made the hair on the back of your neck stand up at attention." That simply, Capt. James Yee became a suspect. For the next two years — 76 days of it in solitary confinement — Yee would

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Project Syndicate |Project Syndicate is an international association of quality newspapers devoted to: * bringing distinguished voices from across the world to local audiences everywhere; * strengthening the independence of printed media in transition and developing countries as well as upgrading their journalistic, editorial, and business capacities.|

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HoopsHype: Stern rewards Detroit's latest Bad Boys at least one sports columnist realizes that Detroit's fans aren't the first to interrupt an NBA game by harrassing the players... |Piston fans have raised the bar. Let’s see if San Antonio’s notorious “Baseline Bums” can provoke Kevin Garnett, Latrell Sprewell and Sam Cassell, thereby eliminating the team that’s most likely to defeat the Spurs in

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DJ Danger Mouse & Jemini now have a video for "Bush Boys"

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BBC NEWS: Toilet summit opens in Beijing |"The entire toilet movement is taking on the world scale. People are saying, 'We want good toilets'....because you see a toilet is a basic human right and this basic human right has been neglected. So the world deserves better toilets..."| on a related note...TOILET PHOBIA! |Vicki has toilet phobia - she has a phobia of not being able to go to the toilet

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The Consortiumnews.com |While it’s extraordinary for a candidate to get a vote total that exceeds his party’s registration in any voting jurisdiction – because of non-voters – Bush racked up more votes than registered Republicans in 47 out of 67 counties in Florida. In 15 of those counties, his vote total more than doubled the number of registered Republicans and in four counties, Bush more than

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Virtual Canadian |Many talk about fleeing the United States to Canada, but between the hardships of relocation, and the difficulty of obtaining actual Canadian citizenship, that may not be an option for many. There's also the lingering desire to stay and try to do some good in the States. The solution: become a Virtual Canadian. It's idealist protest, combined with pragmatic reality.|

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Electing to Leave (Harpers.org) |Given how much the United States as a nation professes to value freedom, your freedom to opt out of the nation itself is surprisingly limited.|

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Black Box Voting |Black Box Voting has taken the position that fraud took place in the 2004 election through electronic voting machines. We base this on hard evidence, documents obtained in public records requests, inside information, and other data indicative of manipulation of electronic voting systems. What we do not know is the specific scope of the fraud. We are working now to compile the

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Taking on Tom Delay: |Here are the latest headlines exposing Tom DeLay's arrogance and abuse of his position. You can help remove this power-monger from office by contributing to Richard Morrison's campaign.|

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Threat and Humiliation: Racial Profiling, National Security, and Human Rights in the United States |Despite promises by President George W. Bush shortly after his taking office to end racial profiling, the number of American ethnic, racial, and religious groups whose members are at high risk of being subjected to this scourge has increased substantially. To address this growing national problem,

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radiohead news: : Rodeohead? |comedian Chris Hardwick and his band mate Mike Phirman have recorded a "Radiohead bluegrass medley" under the moniker Rodeohead.|

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WALK FOR LABOR: Annual march draws unions, a voter drive and a lone dissenter |"I'm not afraid of dying or getting beat up," he said. "I've had a good life."|

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ignoring the most obvious targets |The DivestTerror report (you have to provide your name and e-mail to read the whole thing) shows that such pension funds have $188 billion invested in the stocks of some 400 companies that provide "critical revenues and advanced equipment and technology," as well as "moral and political cover to the governments" of terror-sponsoring states. ... While shareholder

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moovin' on up |We figured there was a vast, untapped treasure chest of archaic racial names that DQ was missing out on, so we contacted the spokesman listed on the bring-a-cow press release. Chad Durasa was most helpful: Q. This drink, it's not the "Mulatto"? A. No. No. No. "Moo," meaning cow, and then "latte," meaning -- Q. OK. We were thinking of some other possible items, and I just wanted

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humane prison interrogation? |The past decade has seen revolutions both in brain-scanning technologies and in drugs that affect the brain's functions. Like personal computers and digital camcorders, these technologies are getting faster, better, and cheaper. And they may have uses in the interrogation room that will render moot debates about the excesses of Abu Ghraib-style treatment of prisoners

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can you forgive them? |Being wrong about the war may have caused me mild embarrassment among some of my friends on the left, but it has most certainly not cost me entrée into the power salons of Washington. ... Indeed, some former hawks... have enhanced their reputations for thoughtfulness by admitting that they botched this one. But the oddest outcome concerns not those who were wrong about Iraq

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OS X Video Applications You Can Use

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COLLATERAL |If all you know of Foxx is from TV sitcoms and movie drool (Breakin' All the Rules), you're in for a shock. This is Foxx's year (his upcoming turn as Ray Charles in Ray takes him to Oscar heights), with the revelations starting here as Max. Foxx fires up the screen with the power and subtlety of a born star. And his teamwork with Cruise is a thing of beauty.|

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Peter Travers reviews OPEN WATER |Ever since Open Water scared the cynicism out of the Sundance crowd in January, experts predicted the indie shark flick would take a Blair Witch bite out of the box office when it hit theaters. That time is now.|

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:: BUSH'S BRAIN OFFICIAL WEBSITE :: |The film by Joseph Mealey and Michael Paradies Shoob, based on the book of the same name by Texas journalists Jim Moore and Wayne Slater, is scheduled to open Aug. 27 in New York and Los Angeles and expand to more cities in September.|

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Rape as a weapon of war: sexual violence and its consequences |The testimony of the Sudanese woman given above echoes hundreds of others, collected by Amnesty International, other human rights organisations, UN fact-finding missions and independent journalists. They all describe a pattern of systematic and unlawful attacks on civilians in North, West and South Darfur states, by a

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Michigan Indy Media Center |A number of different groups called for protests outside of President Bush’s visit including Clean Water Action and the Grand Rapids Chapter of the Sierra Club, the West Michigan Justice and Peace Coalition, the Grand Rapids Republicrat (un)Welcoming Committee, and the Grand Rapids chapter of the Michigan Democrats.|

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The Online Beat |During the platform-writing process, the drafting committee quietly removed the section of the document that endorsed capital punishment. Thus, for the first time since the 1980s, Democrats will not be campaigning on a pro-death penalty program.|

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Counter Convention - Republican National Convention Protest Tools and Resources |These listings include all events relevant to countering the Republican National Convention.|

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The Caine Prize for African Writing |Brian Chikwava, from Zimbabwe, has won the fifth Caine Prize for African Writing for ‘Seventh Street Alchemy’ from Writing Still, Weaver Press, Harare 2003. The result was announced by the Chair of the judges, Alvaro Ribeiro, at a dinner held on Monday, 19 July in the Bodleian Library in Oxford. Brian is the first winner of the Prize from Zimbabwe.|

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ACT Video Hosting Page |ACT is the largest voter contact program in history. ACT needs you to help beat George W. Bush and elect Democrats up and down the ticket in 2004 – in federal, state, and local elections.|

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No Manchurians in 'Manchurian Candidate' |"I mean, there's only two people, two classes of people you can portray as a villain on a television action-adventure show anymore, and that would be the Russians or white, middle-class Americans, businessmen preferably, right? Because they don't have any minority group to get up and raise hell." The Cold War is over, so the Soviets are out; Middle East

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a great parody of Woody Guthrie's "This Land," starring G.W. Bush & John Kerry...

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Songs from the fringes of hip-hop.

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The Tragic MooLatte |"MooLatte" sounds a lot like "mulatto," which is a word, not in much use nowadays, that describes a person whose father is white and mother is black or (less common in bygone days) the other way around.|

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The filmmaker who pestered Tricky Dick. |As Fahrenheit 9/11 racks up another week of multimillion-dollar grosses, pundits are buzzing that no major documentary has been so scathing toward a sitting president during an election. Apparently, they've never seen Emile de Antonio's Millhouse: A White Comedy.|

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What Did Bush Know? - And what did he think his intelligence agencies knew about Iraqi WMD? |The 2002 estimate in question, titled "Iraq's Continuing Program for Weapons of Mass Destruction," was such a document. It was ordered so that the president could decide, in an informed manner, whether to go to war. The president is the main consumer of the NIE; it is written entirely for his benefit. To

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Court relief for Bhopal victims |India's Supreme Court has ordered the government to release millions of dollars in compensation for victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy.|

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Egyptian hostage 'freed in Iraq' |The reported release comes after Mr Gharabawi's Saudi employers agreed to leave Iraq following a threat by his captors to kill him if they did not go.|

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Philippines complete Iraq pullout |The Philippines began withdrawing its 51-strong force last week, after agreeing to the kidnappers' demands in order to save Mr de la Cruz's life.|

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How I, Robot gets the science-fiction grandmaster wrong. |Asimov's faith in the rule of robots was genuine and based on his faith in the rule of reason. He viewed his now-canonical Rules of Robotics—the code for robot behavior used in his books—as a roadmap for human ethics. Just as Asimov's machines are better than people at calculating mathematics, they're superior at coming to moral judgments

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The Man Who Helped Kill CAPPS II |"My first reaction was, 'We need to get the fuck out of this place.' I had lived in Prague. I had lived in Berlin. I'd seen this movie before. We were in a pot. And that water was getting hotter," Scannell recalled. "But my wife said, 'I'm staying.' And I said, 'If we're staying, I'm going to stay and fight.'"|

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I, Robot No Deep Thinker |In the movie version of I, Robot, Hollywood's rules rule. Asimov fans and others who like their sci-fi on the chewy side will probably revolt -- the essence of the book is gone. But the average popcorn muncher will appreciate I, Robot -- it's a good example of why the blockbuster formula works.|

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DeLay's Corporate Fundraising Investigated (washingtonpost.com) |This case "is only one piece of a much larger picture," said Ronnie Earle, the Travis County district attorney running the investigation. "And the larger picture is a blueprint of what is happening in the country, namely a saturation of the political process by large corporate interests with large amounts of money."|

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'Little Scarlet': Anxiety Rises From the Ashes of Mosley's Smoldering City |This book needs no excess baggage. Its plot explores the riots' irrevocable consequences and builds up to a denouement of "Chinatown"-like eeriness for its secrets and its deadly self-deceptions. What makes it more than a genre piece is Easy's insight into how the world is changing around him. "The morning air still

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"No one is going through what we are going through" |More than 30 members of Alpha Company have been wounded in action, and those who haven't been describe miraculous near-misses outside the base. For Alpha Company soldiers, these are bad odds, and they get worse in light of the current administration's policy -- fewer U.S. soldiers in Iraq means greater stress for those sent into it, soldiers

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Salon.com Politics |Greg McNeilly of the state Republican Party said the GOP is doing nothing wrong and hopes Nader will draw votes from the Democratic candidate. Republicans will make sure Nader has more than the 30,000 valid signatures he needs by July 15 to qualify for the Michigan ballot, McNeilly said.|

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Strange alliance |Nader's book presents a unique synergy of politics and profits for Murdoch. "It's a win-win for him," says Consumers Union's Kimmelman, who during the early '80s worked for Public Citizen, a public advocacy group founded by Nader. "Murdoch's making money by promoting the book on Fox, and if Nader draws a strong audience, it may benefit reelecting George Bush, which would mean a

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Exhibit on lynching aims to educate, heal |About 100 images of executions, along with a range of disturbing artifacts, are included in the exhibit, which tells stories of the victims and how executions were used to intimidate and punish blacks and others from after the Civil War through the rise of the civil rights movement.|

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Ray Carney's search for a missing American classic |John Cassavetes' film Shadows is an American classic. But what happened to the missing first version of the masterpiece? Ray Carney has spent two decades trying to find out| don't know how i missed this news...

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NOTHING SO STRANGE: The Film |NOTHING SO STRANGE follows the efforts of an organized group of these skeptics, who call themselves Citizens for Truth, as they launch an aggressive independent investigation of the Gates assassination and in the process confront the LAPD, a hostile mainstream press, and the group's own internal squabbles.|

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Netflix Imitators Are Everywhere |While Netflix and Wal-Mart are currently battling for customers in the mainstream DVD business, and Blockbuster is planning to offer a similar rent-by-mail service, dozens of upstart companies are handling media that Netflix doesn't touch: books, games and that old e-commerce standby, pornography.|

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Night of the Living Dead |In this classic yet still creepy horror film, strangers hold up in a rural Pennsylvania farmhouse and battle constant attacks from dead locals who have been brought back to life by mysterious radiation.| don't worry, it's legit...

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Fourthwall Films |Fourthwall brings filmmakers and audiences closer together in two ways: first, by distributing films via its online independent multiplex, and second, by giving audiences access to films' raw materials so they can re-edit and re-create with them.|

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The John Ashcroft Amateur Video Contest |Sexiest 1 minute or shorter video that includes a discussion of Attorney General John Ashcroft|

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The New Cosby Kids |The law-abiding old whites are no prize either. Overwhelmingly, they choose indolence over employment — lounging on park benches, playing canasta — when we all know there are plenty of people-greeter jobs out there. Since it's government money that allows them to live in this degenerate state, we can expect the Heritage Foundation to reveal any day now that some seniors are

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Wired 12.07: Attention, Shoppers: You Can Now Speed Straight Through Checkout Lines! |Depending who you ask, RFID tags constitute: 1. the best thing to happen to manufacturing since the cog. 2. the biggest threat to personal privacy since the crowbar. 3. the near-exact fulfillment of the Book of Revelation's description of the mark of the beast.|

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Wired News: Building a Better Mozilla |There are now close to a hundred extensions available for downloading. Most work perfectly; others are a bit buggy.|

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Trio's The N-Word investigates the history of America's most ambiguous racial slur. By Dana Stevens |Chuck D. of Public Enemy (who will also be serving as guest programmer on Trio this week) questions the efficacy of hip-hop attempts to re-appropriate the term: "Black people didn't invent 'nigger.' It was thrown at us, and us accepting it is like someone just catching garbage and lovin' it."|

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The summer replacement series we can't afford to lose. ByTimothy Noah |The Times op-ed page desperately needs her mature voice, her sharp mind, and the challenge her ideas pose to the common wisdom.| i must thank her for helping me understand the source for John Edwards' comment about "real Americans," thus proving that he can and does read...

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The British Empire's second-greatest gift to the world. By Christopher Hitchens |"You know, Minister, I believe that in the long view of history, the British Empire will be remembered only for two things." What, Healey was interested to know, were these imperishable aspects? "The game of soccer. And the expression 'fuck off.' "|

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A post-Oscars reflection on the state of American acting. |Penn's prison yard hunch is as much a fabrication as Marlon Brando's Godfather mumble, and probably just as far from reality. It represents our idea of something, not necessarily the thing itself. The Method's so-called naturalism mostly consists of the imaginative embellishment, which makes a star a star the way a trademark image or

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The Man Who Knew Too Much |Watching Ken Jennings play is like witnessing any great athlete in top form: He's the Michael Jordan of trivia, the Seabiscuit of geekdom.|

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Blacktree - Quicksilver also check out Dan Dickinson's handy setup guide...

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Editor's Cut |Democrat Paul Richards on the Detroit Pistons 4-1 victory over the Hollywood Lakers| * That ordinary guys who get in shape, hustle and persevere can win * That blue collar workers playing pristine ball can upset spoiled rich prima donnas * That reality can outshine glitter, despite all the PR to the contrary * That dynasties can fail and storied empires fall * That radical

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Editor's Cut |after a seven-year truce in the US House that discouraged members from filing ethics charges against one another, Rep. Chris Bell has gone to the ethics committee and filed a 187-page bombshell charging that DeLay engaged in extortion, money-laundering and other abuses of power.|

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== Free Culture / Derivatives/Remixes == i already bought the hard cover copy. should've known i'd be able to get it 'free'...

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DIGITALSNAPSHOT.de take a walk in the park...

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BBC Motion Gallery |Spanning over 70 years, BBC content encompasses more than 300,000 hours of footage, including a wealth of material covering natural history, wildlife, news, locations, art, music, celebrities, culture, performing arts and more.|

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Embedded Patriots |A series of explosive leaks--closely held documents and well-informed tips--have altered the course of politics and might very well influence the outcome of this year's presidential election. Yet we don't know whom to thank. |

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Mountain Dew "Spy vs. Spy" ads

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have you seen jesus?

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Peaceful Protestors Charged With Felonies For Highlighting Bush's Dirty Energy Plan |The four women and two men scaled the 700-foot smoke stack at the Hatfield’s Ferry power plant, 50 miles south of Pittsburgh, and unfurled a 2,500 square foot banner that read, “The Bush Energy Plan Kills – Clean Energy Now!”|

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When Do Papers Print the F-Word? |The Post printed the F-bomb verbatim, while other newspapers that reported on the argument cloaked the veep's "fuck" in classic newspaper-ese...|

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Michael Moore.com |At the Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor, shortly before midnight on Thursday the line to get in stretched down the block.| 'down the block,' you can see the back of my head, and Dan's and Ursula's...

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Internet Archive: Independent News |Open News Network, the "always ONN" source for independent news. There's great material here that you probably missed because it's ignored by mainstream media. |

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Internet Archive: Naropa Audio Archives |The mission of the Naropa Archive Project is to enhance appreciation and understanding of post-World War II American literature and its role in social change and cultural criticism. |

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MIT OpenCourseWare |The goal of this class is practical: to interrogate, make explicit, and thus to develop the powerful musical intuitions that are at work as you make sense of the music all around you.|

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TRIBnet 24-hour News Page |Dave Chappelle got so angry with the crowd Tuesday night at Sacramento's Memorial Auditorium that the stand-up comic walked off the stage for nearly two minutes. Upon his return, he told the audience, "You people are stupid."|

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Searchlight |Searchlight has existed for more than 30 years. In summer 1962, in response to a resurgence of open and violent neo-nazi activities, a group of people from a wide variety of political and religious backgrounds met in London to set up the Searchlight Association. |

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Kinoeye |Kinoeye aims to explore European film using a number of different writing styles: film reviews, festival overviews, interviews with directors or other industry players, career overviews, analytical articles, reviews of recent VHS/DVD releases, book reviews and book extracts, translated articles from other journals and other oddments and thought-pieces.|

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not coming to a theater near you |If not discerned in its title, this site assumes a bias towards older, often unpopular, and sometimes unknown films that merit a second look.|

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Masters of Cinema - HOME |Masters of Cinema is an organic, international initiative founded in 2001 by four friends with a mutual interest in a particular type of filmmaker. Living thousands of miles apart from each other in three different countries, they aim to bring pertinent information together in one place for aficionados of World Cinema.|

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An underground tape...

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Goodie Bag TV |because funny is better than sad|

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GreenCine Daily Spidey vs. Michael Moore

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Urban Think Tank |For the Body of Thinkers in the Hip Hop Community|

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from Black Issues Book Review®

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HIP HOP CONVENTION 2004

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Dan LeRoy on John Kerry and Hip-Hop National Review Online |If enough hip-hop voters support Nader in a tight election, Kerry might have the free time to actually listen to the music he allegedly loves.|

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the chutry experiment i like his style...

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palimpsest: open-source teaching resources. good stuff, free. |Founded in January of 2004, Palimpsest is a site devoted to teaching language and literature, one where ideas are exchanged, resources are shared, pointers to already existing sites are posted, and websites are collaboratively created.|

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Rhizomes:Manifesto |New thinking need not follow established patterns.|

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BBC News | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE | Timeline: Real robots

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BBC NEWS | Technology | Top honour for robot heroes |The tin-filled hall of fame at Carnegie Mellon University will be graced with Honda's Asimo bot, Shakey the Robot, Astroboy, C3PO and Robby the Robot.|

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BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Attempt set for private space trip |When the X-prize is won, it could open up the skies to future tourist trips to the edge of space for those bored of the usual beach holiday.|

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