links for 2007-03-24
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Literary legend, George Orwell wrote an essay in 1946 called Politics and the English Language as something of a cure for the state of writing in publications of the day. PickTheBrain.com brings to light 5 rules from said essay that will bring out your wr
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The Iranian navy has seized up to 15 British sailors, the Ministry of Defence confirmed today, sparking a diplomatic standoff between the UK and Iran.
The Royal Navy and Royal Marines personnel were taken after they had boarded a dhow during a routine
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Did Tony Snow go to high school? Has he ever taken a civics course? Has he never seen Schoolhouse Rock?! Because, ya know, it’s almost impossible to, like, not know that this (second video) is complete and utter bullshit: “[Congress] does not have constit
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Last month, the American Bar Association’s general policy-making body passed a resolution urging Congress to alter certain sections of the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA). Congress should, indeed, take up this important matter.
The United States
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The U.S. military’s faulty war plans and insufficient troops in Iraq left thousands and possibly millions of tons of conventional munitions unsecured or in the hands of insurgent groups after the 2003 invasion — allowing widespread looting of weapons and
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The Federal Reserve helped create a “perfect storm” in the US subprime mortgage market that could expose up to 2.2m more Americans to the threat of home foreclosure, Chris Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking committee, said on Thursday.
Mr Dodd, w
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You can reach a hospital easily, but there is no one to deal with you. And if they do deal with you they might come and kill you afterwards
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Blue Cross of California “routinely” violated state law when it canceled individual health insurance coverage after policyholders got pregnant or sick, making no attempt to determine whether they did anything to merit such “harsh” treatment, according to
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Nearly 40,000 hectares of forest vanish every day, driven by the world’s growing hunger for timber, pulp and paper, and ironically, new biofuels and carbon credits designed to protect the environment.
The irony here is that the growing eagerness to sl
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SHAKER HEIGHTS, Ohio — In a sign of the spreading economic fallout of mortgage foreclosures, several suburbs of Cleveland, one of the nation’s hardest-hit cities, are spending millions of dollars to maintain vacant houses as they try to contain blight
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A BRITISH Airways passenger travelling first class has described how he woke up on a long-haul flight to find that cabin crew had placed a corpse in his row.
The body of a woman in her seventies, who died after the plane left Delhi for Heathrow, was ca
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I have not left base in a good two weeks. This is unprecedented, given that sometimes I would run two or three missions per day, or at least try for five or six or seven per week. Trying to get living quarters and good communications is truly a waste of t
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Former Deputy Interior Secretary Steven Griles will plead guilty to one count of obstruction of justice in the Jack Abramoff corruption investigation, The Associated Press has learned.
Griles, an oil and gas lobbyist who became an architect of Presid
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H3Mod is a tool to modify images in firmware files for the H300 series of iriver products (since 2.0 also H1xx, since 2.2 H10 and X5, since 2.4 T10, since 2.4.2388 H10 mi4, since 2.6.2409 Sansa e200, since 2.7.2520 S10, since 2.7.2623 Sansa e200R firmware
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EasyH10 is an open source project for the development of a software suite for iRiver H10 digital audio players. It creates the database layout for an H10 player, without the need for iRiver Plus or Windows Media Player 10, based on music and playlist file
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If ever a software application was built to be more than itself, it’s Mozilla Firefox. Over the past 2 years we’ve tried, loved and posted dozens of feature-adding extensions for our favorite web browser. But today we have the master, grand daddy list of
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Banks have a habit of using your savings to give credit to unseemly industries like cluster bomb manufacturers and Big Coal — but finding a practical alternative can be tricky.
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Hmmm. “Political theatre”
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So here’s an alternate option - put the Google Talk client in the Firefox sidebar so it always stays in the foreground no matter what website you are on currently.
To add Google Talk to your Firefox sidebar, bookmark the following URL (right-click and
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ABC News reports: “New documents show Gonzales approved firings of U.S. attorneys, contradicting earlier claims he was not closely involved.”
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