links for 2006-12-30
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So, you’ve just met up with your fellow progressives for your weekly Drinking Liberally meeting; you belly up to the bar and look at the list of beverages on offer: Coors? Nope (Buyblue.com rating of 16%!), Rum and Coke? Not a chance (Bacardi is a contrib(tags: Gastronomy Leftism)
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BuyBlue.org supports businesses that share our progressive values and ideals. We believe in a triple bottom line: people, planet and profit. BuyBlue.org uses our power as consumers to vote with our wallets, supporting businesses that abide by sustainabili
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Throughout the ages, man has pondered the question, “How much is inside?”
With a few extra bucks, and a decent spot on the internet, we at cockeyed.com expose these long-hidden truths.(tags: Random) -
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At Christmas, we traditionally retell Dickens’s story of Scrooge, who cared more for money than for his fellow human beings. What would we think of a Scrooge who could cure diseases that blighted thousands of people’s lives but did not do so? Clearly,
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Tags have recently become popular as a means of annotating and organizing Web pages and blog entries. Advocates of tagging argue that the use of tags produces a ’folksonomy’, a system in which the meaning of a tag is determined by its use among the co(tags: Blogging)
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The media coverage and resultant discourse surrounding social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Friendster contain narratives of inevitability and technological determinism that require careful explication. Borrowing a tactic from the Russian(tags: Social_Networking)
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Four factors of the Internet—technology, the market, the law, and social norms—offer a means to analyze the legal, policy, and educational considerations associated with the use of social networking technologies by today’s college and university stude(tags: Internet_Usage)
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The digital revolution of the information age and in particular the sweeping changes of scientific communication brought about by computing and novel communication technology, potentiate global, high grade scientific information for free. The arXiv for ex(tags: Media)
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ITOCA is a capacity building organization aimed at enhancing information and communications technology (ICT) skills for African librarians, information specialists, scientists, researchers and students in Sub-Sahara Africa. Formerly, TEEAL Africa Office,(tags: Internet:Development Africa)
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You don’t need to get a Russian visa and buy a ticket to Moscow to learn Russian. MasterRussian.com site gives you the help you need to master Russian grammar, learn new vocabulary, practice in speaking and reading Russian, and learn fascinating facts abo(tags: ???????)
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(tags: NYC)