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Ballmer Peak

Oct 1st

“Since 1990 over 10.4 million Americans — predominantly...”
— Paul Armentano

Oct 1st

“The bald historical truth is that fascism always comes out...”
— Orcinus

Oct 1st

Mistake costs dishwasher $59,000

Oct 1st

Trey Owens might have cancer, but he can't...

Oct 1st

Church Drops The Name “Church” From Their...

Oct 1st

danzigercartoons.com

Oct 1st

“Lord, grant President Bush the wisdom to see and understand...”
— Charles H. Featherstone

Oct 1st

“Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened...”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Oct 1st

“Has it occurred to anybody that if we could run choo-choo...”
— Jim Kunstler

Oct 1st

Project Censored's 10 Signs of Hope: Stories...

Sep 30th

“The Bush regime knows that if people will believe its 9/11...”
— Paul Craig Roberts

Sep 30th

“George W. Bush’s decision to invade Iraq will go down...”
— Chuck Baldwin

Sep 30th

5 Ways to Attract More Comments

Sep 30th

“Hitler was a fond worshipper of God. He had blind faith in...”
— Belief and more belief

Sep 30th

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Raph Koster gives a brief tutorial on his new Metaplace platform

Sep 30th

“If other civilizations exist, then it would seem reasonable...”
— Michael Byron

Sep 30th

iRobot ConnectR — Virtual Visiting Robot

Sep 30th

“The truth was that the native app community was the most...”
— Requiem for a third-party...

Sep 30th

Mr. Jobs, Knock Down that Firewall

Sep 30th

10 Reasons Why I Returned My iPhone

Sep 30th

Mike Keefe

Sep 30th

What if you bought a computer that you...

Sep 30th

“This iPhone 1.1.1 OS update breaks not only iToner, but also...”
— Andrew Welch, el Presidente...

Sep 30th

Why Is US Grad School Mainly Non-US Students?

Sep 30th

“I’ve heard some politicians say that Ahmadinejad has...”
— Charley Reese

Sep 30th

“If you think Jack the Ripper was a doctor in his day job,...”
— The Dilbert Blog

Sep 29th

“Whoop-dee-damn-doo.”
— Clarence Thomas

Sep 29th

If you care about your rights, don't buy an...

Sep 29th

cagle.com

Sep 29th

“Democrats’ stand on civil rights has cost them dearly since...”
— Drew Westen

Sep 29th

CIA Plane Crashes in Yucatan Carrying 3.2...

Sep 29th

IBM Seeks US Patents For Offshoring US Jobs

Sep 29th

Doug Rushkoff on the Technologies of...

Jon Lebkowsky: In my recent Worldchanging interview with Paul Hawken and Bill McKibben, we were talking about how to transform the way people think. Some want to do this through policy, others through culture. I think the idea of "rewriting the rules" is what we were getting at, what a lot of us are thinking about, and an important theme here at Worldchanging. It's hard to change the rules when they both emerge from and reinforce a particular context – we assume a real and inflexible reality and don't necessary see, past our blinders, what we can transform. In closing, can you point to any successful instances of transformation by "changing the rules"?
Doug Rushkoff: The Israelites vanquishing the Egyptian gods, escaping a death cult, and using the new medium of text to write their own laws. That was a great example. It worked really well for a while, too, but literacy was much too limited, and its implications didn't really trickle down to the entirety of the people.
Reality Hackers (the early Mondo 2000) attempted to show people how tools like computers, networks, and plant hallucinogens are also capable of opening the rule sets to tinkering. Even just recognizing that there are rules in place is a huge step in the right direction.
But then the object of the game is not simply to scrawl graffiti on the existing rules (Adbusters style) but to get in there and change the very premise of the game. And this takes some myth-smashing.
The easiest way to start is to socialize with real people in real spaces. When it's just you and other people, many of the existing rules no longer apply. It's not about buying and selling, or "getting what you need" from someone. It's a real encounter from which an entirely new awareness can emerge.

Sep 29th

“This says more about the evolution of the Republican party...”
— Bill Clinton

Sep 29th

get your war on

Sep 29th

“Another game to play is “What would have [been] said...”
— David Brin

Sep 29th

PSA: backups

Sep 29th

More Health Care Professionals Involved...

DOUGLAS JOHNSON: I think it’s important to understand -- and this is an example of it -- that currently in today's world there are more healthcare professionals involved in the design and structuring of torture than there are those who are involved in providing care for survivors.
AMY GOODMAN: Say that again.
DOUGLAS JOHNSON: There are more healthcare people involved in the design and the instrumentation of torture than there are involved in providing healing for the survivors.
AMY GOODMAN: In this country.
DR. STEVEN MILES: No, around the world.
DOUGLAS JOHNSON: In the world.
AMY GOODMAN: Around the world.
DOUGLAS JOHNSON: In the world. And it is, in many times, because healthcare people get engaged and confused by the same ticking time bomb theories that fuel 24 and other fantasy programs, which have unfortunately seem to be the basis of learning for many of our policymakers. It’s fantasy-driven, and it causes people to do stupid things.
AMY GOODMAN: Dr. Miles?
DR. STEVEN MILES: About 130 countries torture, but of the survivors, somewhere between 20% and 50% report seeing a health professional directly involved in supervising the torture. And that doesn’t count the ones who never see the physician who falsely certifies the cause of death as natural causes. So it’s actually around 40% of survivors actually see the health practitioner involved in the torture. And, you know, as Doug said, about 1% of the torture victims in Minnesota are actually getting treatment.

Sep 28th

cagle.com

Sep 28th

“The major reasons why sectarian leaders cannot come together...”
— Roger Owen

Sep 28th

“First, Ahmadinejad never said he wants to wipe Israel off...”
— The Real Words of Ahmadinejad

Sep 28th

Confessions of an ex-publisher

Sep 28th

“Nixon was an authoritarian president. So was Reagan. Indeed,...”
— John Dean

Sep 28th

Bush-Aznar Transcript: The War Crime of the...

Sep 28th

Brain-Eating Amoeba Kills Arizona Boy

Sep 28th

“If I develop a relationship with a blog, I don’t go...”
— The problem with newspaper...

Sep 28th

“Sometimes it seems that the only way to make sense of the...”
— Paul Krugman

Sep 28th

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Texas Legislation

Sep 28th

The REAL Threat to Americans

Sep 28th

A U.S. soldier broke down in tears Thursday...

Sep 28th

“For instance, Blacks make up 14 percent of those who use...”
— Ron Paul

Sep 28th

“Using Census figures, Geoghegan discovers that the 11...”
— Tyranny Of The Tiny Minority

Sep 28th

home.swbell.net

Sep 28th

“That is all the GOP has left — to politicize the...”
— Glenn Greenwald

Sep 28th

“Mayonnaise is as it is now known a bastardization of the...”
— Steve Albini

Sep 28th

Why Microsoft must abandon Vista to save...

Sep 27th

lewrockwell.com

Sep 27th

“Our forefathers loathed Native Indians, and George...”
— A Culture of Violence

Sep 27th

George Bush's devotion to human rights

Sep 27th

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Sep 27th

“In September of 2003, Wesley Clark and Howard Dean led every...”
— Glenn Greenwald

Sep 27th

Turn Gmail (or any E-mail Account) Into a...

Sep 27th

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Pain Ray Fries Troops

Sep 27th

Dan Rather’s Last Big Scoop

Sep 27th

“In commenting on the appearance of President Mahmoud...”
— Doug Henwood

Sep 27th

“It is not just that well-heeled corporations are buying up...”
— Bernard Dov Cooperman

Sep 27th

“What do you say? ‘Thanks for School of the Americas,...”
— The former president’s...

Sep 27th

Plastic Bags, 2007

Sep 27th

In his new new book, the ACLU's Anthony...

Sep 27th

“Hillary Clinton doesn’t talk like a regular human...”
— David Sirota

Sep 27th

danzigercartoons.com

Sep 27th

“For me, the next time I am asked to support a war, my...”
— David P. Gushee

Sep 27th

“When we figured out how to create factories, how to...”
— Leaving the Information Age

Sep 27th

“A head of state, preparing to act alone in starting a...”
— Wendell Berry

Sep 26th

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Talking Trade on Lou Dobbs Tonight

Sep 26th

“The idea that we are the source of all Good in the world and...”
— Glenn Greenwald

Sep 26th

“The last five years have seen a steady assault on every...”
— Daniel Ellsberg

Sep 26th

“The moral vacuum of Iraq—where Blackwater USA guards can...”
— Blackwater and the Bush Legacy...

Sep 26th

Questions for the Candidates

Sep 26th

“In America today, every citizen is a potential terrorist in...”
— Paul Craig Roberts

Sep 26th

10 More Future Web Trends

Sep 25th

cagle.com

Sep 25th

“What the Beltway Establishment believes more than it...”
— Glenn Greenwald

Sep 25th

“The sad lesson of the past year is that the modern...”
— Balkinization

Sep 25th

“Digital content wants to be free, and will seek the path to...”
— The Ed Techie

Sep 25th

The future of content -Pt 1

Sep 25th

“Over the last 30 years, the American CEO Corps has included...”
— John Perry Barlow

Sep 25th

How to operate email

Sep 25th

danzigercartoons.com

Sep 24th

Alan Greenspan vs. Naomi Klein on the...

AMY GOODMAN: It’s good to have you with us. You worked with six presidents, with President Reagan, with both President Bushes. You worked with President Ford, and you worked with Bill Clinton, who you have called a Republican president; why?
ALAN GREENSPAN: That was supposed to be a quasi-joke.
AMY GOODMAN: Talk about it.
ALAN GREENSPAN: Well, Clinton?
AMY GOODMAN: Yes.
ALAN GREENSPAN: Well, I stated that I’m a libertarian Republican, which means I believe in a series of issues, such as smaller government, constraint on budget deficits, free markets, globalization, and a whole series of other things, including welfare reform. And as you may remember, Bill Clinton was pretty much in the same -- was doing much that same agenda. And so, I got to consider him as someone -- as he described it, we were both an odd couple, because he is a centrist Democrat. And that's not all that far from libertarian Republicanism.

Sep 24th

“Apple’s contractual obligations aside, consumers in...”
— Apple’s fight against...

Sep 24th

danzigercartoons.com

Sep 24th

“There should be a word for this, thinking you’re...”
— Presumed idiot criminal...

Sep 24th

“Mobile phones communicate continuously with cellular towers...”
— Jennifer Granick

Sep 24th

A married couple who didn't realise they were...

Sep 24th

In 1972, George W. Bush dropped out of his National Guard...

Sep 24th

“It’s likewise important to remember that, because of...”
— Orcinus

Sep 24th

“Not one of the key facts, all established thourgh...”
— Eric Boehlert

Sep 24th

“After months of debate, the program is set to announce today...”
— Laptop Charity Seeks Help From...

Sep 24th

One Laptop Per Child

Sep 24th

The United States spends more on health care...

Sep 24th

“Here’s your hypothetical question of the day: If it ever...”
— The Dilbert Blog

Sep 24th

“I don’t have comments here out of obligation to some...”
— meyerweb

Sep 24th

“There is, in fact, remarkably little substance to the...”
— Juan Cole

Sep 24th

someecards.com

Sep 24th

President Bush and Karl Rove sat listening...

Sep 24th

Vim vs. Emacs

Sep 24th

“DDT use has decreased enormously, but not because of a ban....”
— Aaron Swartz

Sep 24th

“The right of the people to be secure in their persons,...”
— U.S. Constitution Amendment 4

Sep 24th

David Horsey

Sep 24th

“Cheney had been mulling the idea of pushing for limited...”
— David Wurmser, until last...

Sep 24th

What it may cost to stay in Iraq

Sep 24th

“American majorities repudiated the Vietnam War and have...”
— Steve Coll

Sep 24th

More than 20 retired U.S. generals are...

Sep 24th

“I saw women and children jump out of their cars and start to...”
— Hassan Jabar Salman, a lawyer...

Sep 24th

The 2007 Nobel Peace Prize could go to a...

Sep 24th

“What all this come’s down to is the sense of a nation...”
— Jim Kunstler

Sep 24th

“Apparently, the U.S. Senate cannot find bipartisan consensus...”
— David Sirota

Sep 23rd

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Who does he think he is, questioning a public official during a time of war?

Sep 23rd

“What I find disgusting is General Betray-Us allowing himself...”
— Cindy Sheehan

Sep 23rd

“It is doubtful that foreign security contractors could be...”
— Iraqi official says video...

Sep 23rd

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Ron Paul for the Long Haul

Sep 23rd

“A substantial percent of Americans now believe that America...”
— Bruce Wilson

Sep 23rd

azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/opinions/benson/

Sep 23rd

“Smith’s enemy in Wealth of Nations was mercantilist economic...”
— Who Owns Adam Smith?

Sep 23rd

7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2...

Sep 22nd

Is Bush trustworthy

Sep 22nd

An Honorable Exit from Iraq — 7-step plan to...

Sep 22nd

“Eventually I came to realize that conventional economic...”
— David Korten

Sep 22nd

DIY drones

Sep 22nd

“Just as the industrial economy wasn’t based on making...”
— Cory Doctorow

Sep 22nd

Fascist America, in 10 easy steps

Sep 22nd

“I was happy to hear that NYC didn’t allow Iranian...”
— The Dilbert Blog

Sep 22nd

“Have you ever seen the Senate condemn Saxby Chambless for...”
— The Sideshow

Sep 22nd

“The idea of granting blanket retroactive amnesty for private...”
— Glenn Greenwald

Sep 22nd

Tom Tomorrow

Sep 22nd

“I can relate to the bullying issue. As a young boy, it was...”
— Joe Bageant

Sep 22nd

“Every independent report on the ground situation in Iraq...”
— General Petraeus or General...

Sep 22nd

“How would I live differently if I thought I only had a short...”
— Andrew Tallman

Sep 22nd

Christians in the Crossfire — Pro-war...

Sep 21st

cagle.com

Sep 21st

“Teach kids how to balance their own finances. Make them have...”
— Vulgrin

Sep 21st

“When I came to understand more facts about Pat’s death, I...”
— John J. Smalanskas

Sep 21st

Motorists in Colorado are expressing outrage...

Sep 21st

seattlepi.nwsource.com

Sep 21st

“Part of the original rationale for the troop surge was to...”
— slacktivist

Sep 21st

“Your hypocrisy is so vast that if we could somehow use it to...”
— Keith Olbermann

Sep 21st

Saudi Arabia has refused to cut interest...

Sep 20th

bartcop.com

Sep 20th

Scores of pub-goers in Bicester were tested...

Sep 20th

“In the coming months cable, telco and satellite providers...”
— Blog Maverick

Sep 20th

“Until conditions improve, immigrants will keep coming. Duh....”
— Tula Connell

Sep 20th

How The "War On Drugs" Brought Communism To...

Sep 20th

azcentral.com

Sep 20th

“No one familiar with the findings of social scientists who...”
— John Dean

Sep 20th

“On September 11, General David Petraeus betrayed his office...”
— Rick Perlstein

Sep 20th

“A country that offshores its own production is unable to...”
— Paul Craig Roberts

Sep 20th

Pope Benedict XVI refused a recent request by...

Sep 20th

danzigercartoons.com

Sep 20th

“Sooner or later, the American people will realize we...”
— Charley Reese

Sep 20th

“There is probably more than one reason why these people...”
— Philip Martin

Sep 20th

“Mac is becoming the standard amongst consumers. If you don’t...”
— Lefsetz Letter (via kvasir)

Sep 19th

Watch

Monopoly Game

Sep 19th

earlytelevision.org

Sep 19th

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TV

Sep 19th

Ancient writings from the Dead Sea scrolls...

Sep 19th

“We suffer so Apple can make a few more bucks, when Apple is...”
— Wil Shipley

Sep 19th

Metaplace

Sep 19th

“The lotus analogy is stupid as hell. Lotus went down because...”
— This ain’t the 80s —...

Sep 19th

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Stevie Ray Vaughan - Little Wing

Sep 19th

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Internet People!

Sep 19th

“Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two...”
— Thomas Jefferson

Sep 19th

“The Coalition Provisional Authority issued a...”
— William Greider

Sep 19th

“The middle-class society I grew up in didn’t evolve...”
— Paul Krugman

Sep 19th

Extreme Rich-Poor Divides

Sep 19th

“Hyperlinks have no symmetry, no plan. They are messy. More...”
— the cluetrain manifesto

Sep 19th

“The question we should all ask is why did a United States...”
— Paul Craig Roberts

Sep 19th

Watch

Andrew Meyer Tasered by Police at John Kerry Speech at University of Florida

Sep 19th

home.swbell.net

Sep 18th

The 22 most corrupt members of Congress

Sep 18th

“What’s going to happen? The winners are going to do what...”
— Joel on Software

Sep 18th

“Here in Pensacola, Florida, an assistant U.S. attorney was...”
— Perverted Cop Catches...

Sep 18th

“I found myself watching the president’s speech tonight...”
— Crunchy Con - Rod Dreher

Sep 18th

Villagers in southern Peru were struck by a...

Sep 18th

Batman by Dostoyevsky

Sep 18th

“By the way, the 1920s-30s count as the single most...”
— The Real War of G.W. Bush...

Sep 18th

Chechnya has lost so many men to war that...

Sep 18th

IRAN in the crosshairs

Sep 18th

“And TimesSelect cost the paper much more in the internet...”
— Jeff Jarvis

Sep 18th

azcentral.com

Sep 18th

“Sometimes I can’t help but feel that popular social...”
— Gregory Szorc

Sep 18th

Scientists predict temperatures will plateau...

Sep 18th

“The “-shadow” operator is a advanced operator...”
— IM v6 Examples —...

Sep 18th

tuxick.net

Sep 17th

Author Robert Jordan, whose "Wheel of Time"...

Sep 17th

Tabs, Used Right: The 13 Usability Guidelines

Sep 17th

farm1.static.flickr.com

Sep 17th

The area covered by sea ice in the Arctic has...

Sep 17th

“In my conservative days as an academic, I experienced some...”
— Paul Craig Roberts

Sep 17th

thismodernworld.com

Sep 17th

Wanted: Your 404 Error Pages

Sep 17th

“There have been so many innocent people they’ve killed...”
— Katy Helvenston, the mother of...

Sep 17th

“Half a century ago, corporations paid 45 percent to 50...”
— Chris Hedges

Sep 17th

“There will be less illegal immigration because more Mexicans...”
— President Clinton said in the...

Sep 17th

“Now, as to the shock of Al’s revelation that the Iraq...”
— Jim Kunstler

Sep 17th

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Temp Beatle/”Fridays”

Sep 16th

The three kinds of platforms you meet on the...

Sep 16th

“A more correct definition of “terrorism” would be this:...”
— Wendell Berry

Sep 16th

“This week, Yahoo announced a deal with Bebo that will help...”
— Bill Maher

Sep 16th

“In a recent air attack in southern Afghanistan that killed...”
— U.S. Secret Air War Pulverizes...

Sep 16th

iPod Touch Ripped Apart

Sep 15th

cagle.com

Sep 15th

The Economics of Oil, Part II: Peak Oil and...

Sep 15th

The Economics of Oil, Part I: Supply and...

Sep 15th

“I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to...”
— Alan Greenspan

Sep 15th

Bin Laden And The Wonderful World Of Disney

Sep 15th

“This week Arizona will enact one of the toughest DUI laws in...”
— Tough DUI law to begin

Sep 15th

Frank Kush Field

Sep 15th

“Al-Qaeda hates us because we are occupying Muslim lands and...”
— Charley Reese

Sep 15th

“Resentment against Americans is undiminished, and has...”
— Just Ask the Iraqis

Sep 15th

“The latest iPods have a cryptographic “checksum”...”
— Cory Doctorow

Sep 15th

developmentcrossing.com

Sep 15th

“The British” who came to America may have been...”
— Orcinus

Sep 15th

“Colonel General Aleksandr Rukshin, the deputy chief of the...”
— Russia Says It Tested the...

Sep 15th

Of the six presidents Alan Greenspan has...

Sep 14th

Bob Boze Bell’s Big Bad Book of Diary Entries

Sep 14th

“…war financing is not just about raising money, it’s about...”
— A Top Capitalist Speaks About...

Sep 14th

17 powerful bookmarklets for your iPhone

Sep 14th

IPHONE TOOLBOX: 75+ iPhone Resources

Sep 14th

Who has the oil?

Sep 14th

“‘Fraud” was simply another word for “business as...”
— Billions over Baghdad

Sep 14th

A new poll reveals that more than 1,000,000...

Sep 14th

“Compared with conservatives, liberals were more likely to...”
— The Conservative Brain and the...

Sep 14th

If Fred Thompson is elected president, he...

Sep 14th

azcentral.com

Sep 14th

“Just tell your readers that you have a source who knows a...”
— “Broken...

Sep 14th

AP Fact-Checks Bush Iraq Speech

Sep 14th

“Wikipedia operates, I believe, in exponentially greater...”
— David A. Black

Sep 14th

“David Petraeus is not a “troop.” He’s a...”
— Jeff Huber

Sep 14th

Who needs publishers? Not me!

Sep 13th

On the Friday before the sixth anniversary of...

Sep 13th

U.S. Officials Begin Crafting Iran Bombing...

Sep 13th

“Many American Christians are simply more loyal to a version...”
— Jim Wallis

Sep 13th

“If you think the U.S. has only 160,000 troops in Iraq, think...”
— Jeremy Scahill

Sep 13th

Paintballs laced with mind-altering drugs and...

Sep 13th

intoon.com

Sep 13th

“In less than 10 years, between 2 and 3 billion people...”
— Reed Hundt

Sep 13th

“But history shows that liberty has FAR worse enemies than...”
— David Brin

Sep 13th

Lessons on the surge from economics 101

Sep 13th

“As I have walked among the desperate, rejected, and angry...”
— Martin Luther King, Jr.

Sep 13th

What the Warfare State Really Costs

Sep 13th

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Republican Scandals of 2007

Sep 12th

“Apparently, the Los Angeles Times is giving a platform to...”
— David Sirota

Sep 12th

home.swbell.net

Sep 12th

“Newspaper and magazine readerships are down. In 1995, the...”
— Figaro

Sep 12th

An Erie cancer researcher has found a way to...

Sep 12th

“There’s less than 50 percent chance that the United...”
— Paul Saffo, noted futurist and...

Sep 12th

Rock group Led Zeppelin are to reform for a...

Sep 12th

For 15 years, Hillary Clinton has been part...

Sep 11th

azcentral.com

Sep 10th

“I saw nothing of significance at the point of impact - no...”
— Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski,...

Sep 10th

“The precautionary principle is based on the fact that its...”
— George Nelson, Colonel, USAF...

Sep 10th

“The 9/11 tragedy is the most successful and most perverse...”
— Lynn Margulis, AB, MS, PhD –...

Sep 10th

“When one starts using his own mind, and not what one was...”
— Commander Ralph Kolstad, US...

Sep 10th

“In my opinion, the WTC investigation by NIST falls short of...”
— James Quintiere, Ph.D., former...

Sep 10th

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Davin from Popular Mechanics owned!

Sep 10th

The Forgotten Anthrax Attacks of 2001

Sep 10th

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Israel spies on the USA

Sep 10th

iPod Evolution

Sep 10th

Prozac 'found in drinking water'

Sep 10th

“…I’ve seen a lot of trolls, and yours isn’t a...”
— pudge

Sep 10th

“The problem is that the needy need help now and the only...”
— ShellysSpace

Sep 10th

home.swbell.net

Sep 10th

“Who are the beneficiaries of 9-11? The answer is: the...”
— Paul Craig Roberts

Sep 10th

“Applying two basic principles, conservation of energy and...”
— Dr. Crockett Grabbe, a Caltech...

Sep 10th

“Over the past six years, the ranks of distinguished skeptics...”
— Paul Craig Roberts

Sep 10th

cagle.com

Sep 10th

17 powerful bookmarklets for your iPhone

Sep 10th

“The fact is that search engines are very good at fairly...”
— Seth Godin

Sep 10th

“About 70% of Iraqis believe security has deteriorated in the...”
— US surge has failed - Iraqi...

Sep 10th

Toward a Higher-Dimensional Wiki

Sep 10th

Southwest Fashion Police Set No-Fly Zone

Sep 10th

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Doug Rushkoff on the Technologies of...

More Health Care Professionals Involved...

Alan Greenspan vs. Naomi Klein on the...