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Nov 10, 2008 5:03pm

Georgia Claims on Russia War Called Into Question - NYTimes.com

TBILISI, Georgia — Newly available accounts by independent military observers of the beginning of the war between Georgia and Russia this summer call into question the longstanding Georgian…
Nov 10, 2008 5:03pm

Highlights: Newsweek's Special Election Project | Newsweek Politics: Campaign 2008 | Newsweek.com

One senior aide said that Nicolle Wallace had told Palin to buy three suits for the convention and hire a stylist. But instead, the vice presidential nominee began buying for herself and her…
Nov 10, 2008 5:02pm

Rachel Cooke meets Seymour Hersh, the most-feared investigative reporter in Washington | Media | The Observer

He exposed the My Lai massacre, revealed Nixon’s secret bombing of Cambodia and has hounded Bush and Cheney over the abuse of prisoners in Abu Ghraib… No wonder the Republicans describe Seymour…
Nov 10, 2008 12:16am

Victor Xray - Dub Of The Flutes

This is a very very rough mix. It’s based around a motif that’s in in the middle of Tchaikovsky’s “Dance Of The Flutes” in F# minor (from the Nutcracker Suite). Even if you don’t think you know…
Nov 3, 2008 10:52am

Annals of Democracy: Rock, Paper, Scissors: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker

Voting in America, it’s fair to say, used to be different. “Are you not a man in the full vigor of manhood and strength?” a member of the House Committee on Elections asked another Harrison…
Nov 2, 2008 1:51pm

Ubuntu 8.10 released

The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop and Server, continuing Ubuntu’s tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use…
Nov 1, 2008 11:51am

Why White Supremacists Support Barack Obama - Esquire

How do racists, anti-Semites and all-purpose hate-mongers view the possibility of America’s first black president? Not necessarily the way you think they would.
Oct 30, 2008 6:50pm

Mark Steel: I'm frozen with fear – could Obama still lose the election? - Mark Steel, Commentators - The Independent

But if McCain wins, imagine how that will transform electioneering. In general elections around the world each candidate will strive to come over as more incompetent and idiotic than the other,…
Oct 28, 2008 5:44pm

John Mccain - parasite.

Mccain is a senile old man who is extremely dangerous. He’s never had anything but a government job. He was fifth from the bottom of his class - of something like 700 - but admiral daddy and WW2…
Oct 28, 2008 4:07pm

TPM Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Dozens Of Call Center Workers Walk Off Job In Protest Rather Than Read McCain Script Attacking Obama

Some three dozen workers at a telemarketing call center in Indiana walked off the job rather than read an incendiary McCain campaign script attacking Barack Obama, according to two workers at the…
Oct 28, 2008 4:07pm

Adam Rutherford: Sarah Palin and the fruit fly | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

Sarah Palin’s comments display an attitude that is blatantly anti-science. Worse, it’s lazy, ignorant and gleefully so. Somewhere along the line, the Republicans have endorsed a candidate who is so…
Oct 28, 2008 2:07pm

Ignore the open source hot heads, CIOs told: News - Software - ZDNet Australia

Efforts to increase the adoption of open source software are being derailed by the efforts of a “loud minority” within the community that have stooped to making personal attacks on those deemed to be…
Oct 27, 2008 3:06pm

The Joys of Windows, Part Infinity

“I have done nothing to deserve Windows”
Oct 27, 2008 12:06pm

TPM Election Central | Talking Points Memo | McCain Communications Director Gave Reporters Incendiary Version Of "Carved B" Story Before Facts Were Known

John McCain’s Pennsylvania communications director told reporters in the state an incendiary version of the hoax story about the attack on a McCain volunteer well before the facts of the case were…
Oct 27, 2008 12:06pm

Think Progress » Memo To Palin: Fruit Fly Research Has Led To Advances In Understanding Autism

Palin did not specify what fruit fly research earmark she was referring to (presumably a grant for olive fruit fly research), but she is apparently unaware that scientific research with fruit flies…
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