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« Thursday « June 30, 2005
1. datetime
  1. {06302005}
  2. {01:59:35 PM}
  content
  1. Steal This Software
    
    (IEEE Spectrum)
  2. What makes China stand out is the rate of piracy: fully 92 percent of software loaded onto PCs in China in 2003 was illegally obtained...many China watchers suspect that the poor enforcement of piracy is in fact deliberate.
    
    It sounds like a nation of thieves, if you ask me. Sue them. Oh, yeah, but they don't believe in intellectual property.
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  3. What makes China stand out is the rate of piracy: fully 92 percent of software loaded onto PCs in China in 2003 was illegally obtained...many China watchers suspect that the poor enforcement of piracy is in fact deliberate...."
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  1. keywords:
  2. geopolitics
  3. economy
  4. tags:
  5. intellectual+property
  6. piracy
  type
2. datetime
  1. {06302005}
  2. {11:00:57 AM}
  content
  1. GarageBand: Recording Your Podcast (Apple.com) How-to publish your podcast to iTunes.
    11:00:57 AM
  type
« Wednesday « June 29, 2005
1. datetime
  1. {06292005}
  2. {01:48:37 AM}
  content
  1. No, I'm not keeping up with your blog.
    
    (Joho the Blog)
  2. ClueTrain guy: "I don't want to lie any more. I don't want to feel guilty any more. So let me tell you flat out: There are too many blogs I like and too many people I like to making 'keeping up' a reasonable expectation, any more than you should expect me to keep up with Pokemon characters or I should expect you to keep up with Bollywood movies. I'm not going to feel guilty any longer about my failure."
    
    Everyone experiences information overload, but only some are self-important enough to share the experience. There are also too many podcasts, books, movies, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and talk shows to reasonably keep up with all of the things you're interested in, and that's just for starters. What about actually spending real time with real people? Shouldn't everyone apologize, for contributing to this Tower of Babble(sic), or are only so-called "A-List" bloggers/writers, or people with the bully pulpit of Big Media behind them allowed to complain about too much information? I thought the whole idea behind blogging was that Everyman could have a Voice. Now, according to one of the so-called "blogosphere's" biggest hypesters, there's too many voices? Get a cluetrain. Oh, and by the way, I'm not keeping up with your blog. Natch.
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  3. ClueTrain guy: "I don't want to lie any more. I don't want to feel guilty any more. So let me tell you flat out: There are too many blogs I like and too many people I like to making 'keeping up' a reasonable expectation, any more than you should expect me..."
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  1. keywords:
  2. weblogs
  3. internet
  4. tags:
  5. blogosphere
  6. overload
  7. rss
  type
« Monday « June 27, 2005
1. datetime
  1. {06272005}
  2. {08:05:37 PM}
  content
  1. File-sharing suffers major defeat.
    
    (BBC)
  2. Related:
    The Problem with Music
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  2. 08:05:37 PM
  3. Related:
    The Problem with Music
    ..."
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  1. keywords:
  2. cyberculture
  3. entertainment
  4. tags:
  5. music
  6. file+sharing
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« Sunday « June 26, 2005
1. datetime
  1. {06262005}
  2. {05:52:49 PM}
  content
  1. Oprah's Not Going to Let Hermes Wiggle Out of its Blatant Racism
    
    (BlackAmericaWeb.com)
  2. Indeed, hell hath no fury like a billionaire black woman with an internationally popular TV show scorned.
    
    Well, on the other hand, it was a French store, and you know how they are. But I love the part about the store flunkies saying, "We're having trouble with 'North Africans.'" Are those code words? Maybe Oprah should start patronizing Black -- maybe even North African -- fashion designers who probably could use her business and media stature to help their business and brand recognition grow.
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  3. Indeed, hell hath no fury like a billionaire black woman with an internationally popular TV show scorned...."
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  1. keywords:
  2. fashion
  3. white supremacism
  4. tags:
  5. oprah
  6. hermes
  type
« Saturday « June 25, 2005
1. datetime
  1. {06252005}
  2. {03:07:43 PM}
  content
  1. The Cotton Club
    
    (village voice)
  2. Black-conscious hip-hop deals with an overwhelmingly white live audience. Once again the Man co-opts...and cashes in.
    
    b/w: Prometheus6
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  2. 03:07:43 PM
  3. Black-conscious hip-hop deals with an overwhelmingly white live audience. Once again the Man co-opts...and cashes in...."
  categories
  1. keywords:
  2. black people
  3. society
  4. tags:
  5. hip-hop
  6. wip-hop
  type
2. datetime
  1. {06252005}
  2. {06:44:06 AM}
  content
  1. US rules all porn is child porn (The Register UK) All pornography in the US is now effectively classified as child pornography, unless providers can prove the ages of everyone taking part.
    06:44:06 AM
  type
« Friday « June 24, 2005
1. datetime
  1. {06242005}
  2. {09:29:22 PM}
  content
  1. Bitter harvest: How EU sugar subsidies devastate Africa
    
    (Independent UK)
  2. One is an English aristocrat worth £35m with 9,000 acres and an 18th century manor house; the other earns less than £300 a year cutting sugar cane for 12 hours a day in rural Mozambique to support his parents and four brothers. The link between the two, and the reason why one has continued to increase his wealth while the other faces losing what he has..."Consumers and taxpayers are financing a system which denies African countries the chance to grow out of poverty, while lining the pockets of the European sugar industry."
    
    This is how G8 nations keep poor countries down: super-high tariffs, artificial price supports. It's ugly. The playing field is distorted in favor of people who benefit not from producing better, lower-cost deliverables, but from political and economic alliances. These aren't open markets. This isn't free trade.
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  3. One is an English aristocrat worth £35m with 9,000 acres and an 18th century manor house; the other earns less than £300 a year cutting sugar cane for 12 hours a day in rural Mozambique to support his parents and four brothers. The link between..."
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  2. geopolitics
  3. economy
  4. tags:
  5. live8
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« Thursday « June 23, 2005
1. datetime
  1. {06232005}
  2. {06:08:29 PM}
  content
  1. Live 8
  2. [ c|b ].rating: 3.15/5 stars (63%)
  3. Make poverty history.
    
    Updated observations:
    (Updated: 7/2/2005).
    
    Kanye West has a lot more stage presence than I realized
    
    The idea for raising awareness is great, but big, gigantic crowds are just mobs
    
    VH-1 says Live8 is sponsored by "War of the Worlds" - G8 vs. "Third World"?
    
    Jay-Z and Linkin Park, wtf was that?
    
    Madonna was great, apparently, but I missed her set
    
    In London, Green Day ends their set with "We Are The Champions"... of what?
    
    (Original post: 6/23/2005).
    Debt relief is a great idea. If the rich nations can't forgive the debt, then at least convert the loans to interest-free instruments. International banking is fine, just not under loan-shark terms and conditions. Poor countries with growing economies and hopeful people are better than poor countries with dying economies and desparate people. (For one thing, you breed less terrorists in places where there's hope.) But an economy can't stabilize, much less grow, if it's saddled with loans and interest payments that extend several generations into the future; the kind of stuff that makes people desperate. Still, as compassionate as this would be for the G8 to do, I'm skeptical about their motivations if they actually go through with it. I don't see how ruthless, mercenary people can suddenly become benevolent and altruistic overnight, with no ulterior motives. There's no way debt relief wouldn't come with massive strings attached. Be careful what you wish for.
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  3. Make poverty history.
    
    ..."
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  2. geopolitics
  3. economy
  4. tags:
  5. live8
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« Wednesday « June 22, 2005
1. datetime
  1. {06222005}
  2. {12:29:50 AM}
  content
  1. Wikitorial Post Mortem
    
    (Corante)
  2. The LA Times's 'wikitorial' experiment lasted but a few short hours.
    
    Last weekend, the LA Times opened its editorial pages with a "wiki"-style interface, where web visitors could insert their own pithy commentary into the workflow. As anyone who's been around might guess, when you give the hoi-polloi free access to the bully pulpit, civilized discourse will eventually degenerate to bathroom humor, scatology, and finally, yeah, that's right, porno. This is the schematic of the modern, Western mind. The experiment lasted less than three days. This article is a pretty good summary of what happened, what went wrong, and what's next...possibly. My take: self-edited MSM content is not ready for prime time. Mass media simply can't be customized to fit each individual consumer; that's not what mass means. But maybe that's just me.
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  3. The LA Times's 'wikitorial' experiment lasted but a few short hours...."
  categories
  1. keywords:
  2. news and media
  3. internet
  4. tags:
  5. cyberculture
  6. wiki
  7. web2.0
  type
2. datetime
  1. {06222005}
  2. {05:17:39 PM}
  content
  1. DVR Recording Tips (Extremetech) Useful for ReplayTV and TiVO owners alike.
    05:17:39 PM
  type
« Monday « June 20, 2005
1. datetime
  1. {06202005}
  2. {02:09:36 PM}
  content
  1. Jungle Podcast Cool -- I mean -- tremendous. Sports-talk radio pitbull/wiseguy Jim Rome is now podcasting, for a fee though. Still, excellent. Rack him!
    02:09:36 PM
  type
« Sunday « June 19, 2005
1. datetime
  1. {06192005}
  2. {02:22:32 AM}
  content
  1. The Doofus Dad
    
    (New York Times)
  2. Where did we fathers go wrong? [O]n television [they]'re oblivious ("Jimmy Neutron"), troubled ("The Sopranos"), deranged ("Malcolm in the Middle") and generally incompetent ("Everybody Loves Raymond"). Even if Dad has a good job, like the star of "Home Improvement," at home he's forever making messes that must be straightened out by Mom. Homer [Simpson] embodies a famous distinction made by Margaret Mead: motherhood comes naturally, but fatherhood must be learned. It's an awkward process.
    
    Happy Fathers Day, Dad! I know you read the blog. You had a good job, you were a good provider and a great role model, and, yeah, you were probably a little bit troubled. But in the end, it all worked out just fine. Look at your sons: five or six college degrees, and not a single murder rap or even one second of time in state or county jail between them. I'm being facetious, a little, but with three sons, growing up in Ill Town, U.S.A. that's a notable accomplishment. Thanks Pops!
    
    Related:
    Salaries of (fictional) TV Dads (Money/CNN.com)
    
    b/w: HuffPo
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  3. Where did we fathers go wrong? [O]n television [they]'re oblivious ("Jimmy Neutron"), troubled ("The Sopranos"), deranged ("Malcolm in the Middle") and generally incompetent ("Everybody Loves Raymond"). Even if Dad has a good job, like the star of "Home I..."
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  1. keywords:
  2. families
  3. culture
  4. tags:
  5. homer+simpson
  6. fathers+day
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2. datetime
  1. {06192005}
  2. {10:33:04 PM}
  content
  1. Happy 140th Juneteenth (Juneteenth.com) Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation become official on January 1, 1863; enslaved Black people didn't learn they were free until June 19, 1865. Now that's colored people's time.
    10:33:04 PM
  type
3. datetime
  1. {06192005}
  2. {10:03:53 PM}
  content
  1. Power, Privilege and Guilt
    
    (Angry White Kid blog)
  2. Quote: "[G]aining the power of whiteness and American citizenship would allow me to do more for my family and my community than saving my identity."
    
    LOL. To understand the basic problem here, go and read the passage from start to finish. When you sense the complete and utter lack of empathy, you'll know that you've arrived. Maybe that will improve with age and experience, but we seriously doubt it.
    
    b/w: Republic of T.
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  3. Quote: "[G]aining the power of whiteness and American citizenship would allow me to do more for my family and my community than saving my identity."..."
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  1. keywords:
  2. white supremacism
  3. racism
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4. datetime
  1. {06192005}
  2. {09:10:00 PM}
  content
  1. Robert Horry (ESPN.com) Will Smith's NBA twin comes through with the big shot in crunch time...again! A classic game.
    09:10:00 PM
  type
5. datetime
  1. {06192005}
  2. {08:44:16 PM}
  content
  1. SAMBO'S BACK (IN JAPAN)
    
    (Poplicks.com blog)
  2. "But Mori [a psychologist] said most Japanese were surprised to learn that "Little Black Sambo" had racist overtones. "It never occurred to us," he said. "It was just a story." Intrigued by the controversy, Mori conducted academic experiments involving readers that he said showed the Japanese take nothing racist away from reading "Little Black Sambo."
    
    So it's like that. Maybe the bruthas [those who be psychologists, ya dig] find no racist overtones in the words "Hiroshima" or "Nagasaki." There's a common denominator in there, somewhere, between slavery and nuclear annihilation, but your mileage may vary, depending on your politics and phenotype.
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  3. "But Mori [a psychologist] said most Japanese were surprised to learn that "Little Black Sambo" had racist overtones. "It never occurred to us," he said. "It was just a story." Intrigued by the controversy, Mori conducted academic experiments involving re..."
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  1. keywords:
  2. racism
  3. culture
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6. datetime
  1. {06192005}
  2. {06:20:30 PM}
  content
  1. Moses's oily blessing
    
    (Economist.com)
  2. [I]f their calculations turn out to be accurate, their oilfields could yield tens or hundreds of millions of barrels, enough to make Israel (which consumes some 100m barrels per year) partly self-reliant.
    
    This would really shake things up, don't you think?
    
    b/w: Foreign Dispatches
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  3. [I]f their calculations turn out to be accurate, their oilfields could yield tens or hundreds of millions of barrels, enough to make Israel (which consumes some 100m barrels per year) partly self-reliant...."
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  1. keywords:
  2. geopolitics
  3. economy
  type
7. datetime
  1. {06192005}
  2. {05:10:45 PM}
  content
  1. Coming soon: Googling the truth (Guardian Unlimited) Google is for the first time planning to rank news stories according to their accuracy and reliability as well as their topicality (and they're filing a patent on it.) OK, now: paging George Orwell.
    05:10:45 PM
  type
« Friday « June 17, 2005
1. datetime
  1. {06172005}
  2. {08:36:17 PM}
  content
  1. Google, meet TiVo (Economist.com) The new frontier for search engines is to make video clips as easy to search as text. But that is more easily said than done...
    08:36:17 PM
  type
2. datetime
  1. {06172005}
  2. {08:35:52 PM}
  content
  1. The Interactive Truth
    
    (New York Times)
  2. More than 60 percent of the American people don't trust the press. Why should they? They've been reading "The Da Vinci Code" and marveling at its historical insights. I have nothing against a fine thriller, especially one that claims the highest of literary honors: it's a movie on the page. But "The Da Vinci Code" is not a work of nonfiction. If one more person talks to me about Dan Brown's crackerjack research I'm shooting on sight.The novel's success does point up something critical. We're happier to swallow a half-baked Renaissance religious conspiracy theory than to examine the historical fiction we're living (and dying for) today.
    
    This is an excellent rant on the failure of news organizations today, with a troubling concern about what's filling the vacuum. Wikipedia is mentioned, having quickly become the people's encyclopedia, but just because a large number of people endorse consensus-driven content does not make it automatically correct. How, for instance, does a publicly-edited resource like Wikipedia insure accuracy when dealing with contentious subjects? The answer is: it can't; all it can do is say: "This topic is being debated." How authoritative, that is. So you can't trust the gatekeepers -- the traditional news organizations and networks, they're only after a profit, as they've always been. And you can't really trust the vast, unwashed masses either, at least not without a fat dose of skepticism. So what to do, when practically anyone can be their own minister of propaganda? (Registration required or just bugmenot).
    
    b/w: bookslut
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  3. More than 60 percent of the American people don't trust the press. Why should they? They've been reading "The Da Vinci Code" and marveling at its historical insights. I have nothing against a fine thriller, especially one that claims the highest of litera..."
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  1. keywords:
  2. cyberculture
  3. news
  4. tags:
  5. internet
  6. journalism
  7. truth
  type
« Thursday « June 16, 2005
1. datetime
  1. {06162005}
  2. {11:00:00 PM}
  content
  1. U.S. to Review Heart Drug Intended for One Race
    
    (New York Times)
  2. An F.D.A. panel will consider whether BiDil should become the first drug intended for one racial group, in this case, African-Americans.
    
    Hey, hey, now. Wait a minute. If pharma research can develop drugs that actually target specific (and so-called) "races" then doesn't this lend some credence to the crackpot theory that AIDS was created in a lab, specifically to de-populate certain groups of people? This is my blog and it's just a place where I think out loud, in public, but: when clinical researchers in pharma companies, or at the CDC or WHO are testing for cures or breaking down deadly pathogens - or creating new ones - are not the laboratory techniques exactly the same? If they can isolate agents that target specific racial groups and have curative effects, would it be that hard to isolate agents that have deleterious effects? What's going on here? Is this is a developing situation or has it existed for some time? Tuskegee? Syphilis? Hello! (Registration may be required, or just bugmenot.)
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  3. An F.D.A. panel will consider whether BiDil should become the first drug intended for one racial group, in this case, African-Americans...."
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  1. keywords:
  2. ethnic studies
  3. health
  4. tags:
  5. bidil
  6. pharmaceuticals
  7. drugs
  8. racism
  type
« Wednesday « June 15, 2005
1. datetime
  1. {06152005}
  2. {11:20:34 PM}
  content
  1. Steve Jobs' Stanford Commencement Speech (Stanford Report) As far as graduation speeches go, this one's pretty good.
    11:20:34 PM
  type
2. datetime
  1. {06152005}
  2. {01:18:09 PM}
  content
  1. Legal Guide for Bloggers (Electronic Frontier Foundation) FAQs designed to help you understand your rights. To be clear, this guide isn't a substitute for, nor does it constitute, legal advice.
    01:18:09 PM
  type
« Monday « June 13, 2005
1. datetime
  1. {06132005}
  2. {02:15:00 PM}
  content
  1. Jacko: Not Guilty (The Smoking Gun) Oh boy.
    02:15:00 PM
  type
2. datetime
  1. {06132005}
  2. {07:00:46 AM}
  content
  1. Senate ready to apologize for not enacting anti-lynching law (USATODAY.com) Too bad it comes a century too late, after thousands of needless murders.
    07:00:46 AM
  type
« Sunday « June 12, 2005
1. datetime
  1. {06122005}
  2. {09:04:32 PM}
  content
  1. Row over German zoo's Africa show
    
    (BBC)
  2. German anti-racism campaigners have condemned plans to stage an African cultural festival in a zoo...Responding to the criticism, Augsburg Zoo Director Barbara Jantschke said she does not see anything wrong with staging the event in a zoo, where many cultural exhibitions are held.
    
    There's no need to comment when the bigotry is this ingrained. The more things change, the more they remain the same.
    
    b/w: Black Looks
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  3. German anti-racism campaigners have condemned plans to stage an African cultural festival in a zoo...Responding to the criticism, Augsburg Zoo Director Barbara Jantschke said she does not see anything wrong with staging the event in a zoo, where many cult..."
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  2. white supremacism
  3. culture
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2. datetime
  1. {06122005}
  2. {07:37:11 PM}
  content
  1. Debt relief (Guardian UK) The agreement to wipe billions of pounds off the debts of the world's poorest countries is a mighty step forward.
    07:37:11 PM
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3. datetime
  1. {06122005}
  2. {11:01:50 AM}
  content
  1. The Downing Street Memo Full text.
    11:01:50 AM
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« Wednesday « June 8, 2005
1. datetime
  1. {06082005}
  2. {08:00:00 AM}
  content
  1. American Express Begins Issuing Contactless Payment Cards
    
    (ContactLess News blog)
  2. ExpressPay is a new payment feature that consists of a secure computer chip powered by RFID. ExpressPay transactions are 63 percent faster than using cash. In addition, the Company announced 7-Eleven, Inc. as the latest national merchant partner to accept ExpressPay.
    
    We're getting closer to the day where you can walk into a store, pick up a bunch of items, walk out the door, and automatically have your account charged. Definitely post-consumer. Isn't there something in the Bible about "only those with the 'mark of the beast' being able to buy and sell?" Convenient or creepy? Jury's still out.
    
    Related:
    Wireless Chip for Medical Implants (Reuters.com)
    Time to Buy a New Shirt, Dave (Wired News)
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  3. ExpressPay is a new payment feature that consists of a secure computer chip powered by RFID. ExpressPay transactions are 63 percent faster than using cash. In addition, the Company announced 7-Eleven, Inc. as the latest national merchant partner to acce..."
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  1. keywords:
  2. technology
  3. business
  4. tags:
  5. rfid
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2. datetime
  1. {06082005}
  2. {11:41:33 AM}
  content
  1. Mixed-gender pornography boosts sperm
    
    (Nature.com)
  2. Men facing images of sexual competition may be more fertile. It might sound unlikely, but men looking at explicit pictures of two naked men with a naked woman have been shown to produce higher-quality sperm than those watching pornographic images featuring women only.
    
    However, the testing method described leaves a lot to be desired.
    
    b/w: MindHacks blog
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  3. Men facing images of sexual competition may be more fertile. It might sound unlikely, but men looking at explicit pictures of two naked men with a naked woman have been shown to produce higher-quality sperm than those watching pornographic images featuri..."
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  2. sexuality
  3. science
  4. tags:
  5. porn
  6. no+homo
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3. datetime
  1. {06082005}
  2. {10:48:08 AM}
  content
  1. TagCloud
  2. TagCloud is an automated folksonomy tool.
    
    But folksonomy is not a real word.
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  3. TagCloud is an automated folksonomy tool...."
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  2. weblogs
  3. internet
  4. tags:
  5. web2.0
  6. ia
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« Tuesday « June 7, 2005
1. datetime
  1. {06072005}
  2. {10:00:34 AM}
  content
  1. America's Most Unwired Cities Availability of commercial, public and free wireless access points: Seattle #1, SFO #2, Austin #3.
    10:00:34 AM
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2. datetime
  1. {06072005}
  2. {11:08:03 PM}
  content
  1. Survivor Open Casting Calls (Reality TV Magazine) The locations reveal the obvious casting flavor that the Survivor franchise has been drifting towards lately: Deep South, Farm Belt Midwest provincial... and boooooooring. Serious Red State/Blue State dichotomies, but fish where the fish are.
    11:08:03 PM
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3. datetime
  1. {06072005}
  2. {10:53:24 PM}
  content
  1. Google tops TW as Street's No. 1 media stock (Hollywoodreporter.com) Google Inc. is the most valuable media company on the planet. (Stay tuned, Bubble 2.0 is on the way, and to some, greed, in the absense of anything but trivial value, is good.)
    10:53:24 PM
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« Monday « June 6, 2005
1. datetime
  1. {06062005}
  2. {02:39:01 PM}
  content
  1. The Mac-Intel Computer, Finally! (ABC News) Apple's machines can easily be sold as a Lexus compared to the Fords and Chevy's of Dell and HP.
    02:39:01 PM
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2. datetime
  1. {06062005}
  2. {10:04:35 AM}
  content
  1. Pistons-Heat Game 7 Preview (Yahoo! Sports) If the old Whaq-Diesel, from three seasons ago, shows up then the Heat move on. Otherwise, it's a Detroit Pistons world.
    10:04:35 AM
  type
« Saturday « June 4, 2005
1. datetime
  1. {06042005}
  2. {08:28:44 PM}
  content
  1. Man Bites Phish
    
    (I, Cringely)
  2. Let's change that. If you get phishing e-mail, go the web sites and enter false data. Make up everything -- name, sign-on name, password, credit card numbers, everything. Instead of one million messages yielding 100 good replies, now the phisher will have one million messages yielding 100,000 replies of which 100 are good, but WHICH 100?
    
    Brilliant idea, if all the good guys buy in.
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  3. Let's change that. If you get phishing e-mail, go the web sites and enter false data. Make up everything — name, sign-on name, password, credit card numbers, everything. Instead of one million messages yielding 100 good replies, now the phisher will..."
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  2. cyberculture
  3. business
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2. datetime
  1. {06042005}
  2. {02:17:04 PM}
  content
  1. Order the perfect cup of joe
    
    (HighBastard.com)
  2. HighBastard.com has developed The HB Coffee Wheel™. Once assembled, it makes the process of ordering special coffee drinks a breeze.
    
    I'm not much of a coffee drinker -- my caffeinated drinks of choice are tea, Coke, and Jolt, when I can find it -- but I will admit that on those few occassions when I've shuffled into a Starbucks, because it's close by, and I need something to kick my *ss into highgear, the whole ordering process is confusing, straight-up. Way too many choices. And while I'm struggling, trying to figure it all out, everyone else in the line seems so sure of their half-caf, nonfat, double mocha lattes, skim with room for cream, or w.t.f. Someone like me needs this coffee wheel.
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  2. 02:17:04 PM
  3. HighBastard.com has developed The HB Coffee Wheel™. Once assembled, it makes the process of ordering special coffee drinks a breeze...."
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  1. keywords:
  2. food and drink
  3. culture
  4. tags:
  5. starbucks
  6. coffee
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3. datetime
  1. {06042005}
  2. {01:16:28 PM}
  content
  1. WAL-MART: The High Cost of Low Price [A] deeply personal journey into the everyday lives of families struggling to fight goliath.
    01:16:28 PM
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  1. {06042005}
  2. {12:48:25 PM}
  content
  1. A Literary Map of Manhattan
    
    (The New York Times)
  2. [ c|b ].rating: 3.5/5 stars (70%)
  3. Here's where imaginary New Yorkers lived, worked, played, drank, walked...
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  2. 12:48:25 PM
  3. Here's where imaginary New Yorkers lived, worked, played, drank, walked......"
  categories
  1. keywords:
  2. books
  3. writers
  type
5. datetime
  1. {06042005}
  2. {11:46:44 AM}
  content
  1. The 25 Really Most Useful Sites For Writers
    
    (Coping with Sanity blog)
  2. "[S]ites I think are must haves for any fiction writer."
    
    Keeping in mind that this list is just one blogger's -- er, writer's -- opinion.
    
    b/w: Writer's Edge
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  2. 11:46:44 AM
  3. "[S]ites I think are must haves for any fiction writer."..."
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  1. keywords:
  2. books
  3. writers
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« Friday « June 3, 2005
1. datetime
  1. {06032005}
  2. {10:16:00 PM}
  content
  1. Paperdoll Heaven
  2. Angelina Jolie.
    
    Put clothes on your latest cinematic obsession. (Yeah, I have to admit it, I'm just another drooling Angelina fan, going all the way back to her Hacker daze. But this is just silly.
    
    b/w: Cinematical
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  2. 10:16:00 PM
  3. Angelina Jolie...."
  categories
  1. keywords:
  2. movies and films
  3. entertainment
  4. tags:
  5. angelina+jolie
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2. datetime
  1. {06032005}
  2. {09:49:26 PM}
  content
  1. VOSS Water
  2. No point to this post, except to propose that the ultimate salesman in the world has got to be the man who can sell water to another man. Water is, perhaps, the most basic, lifegiving element... and now you have to buy it? WTF?
  metadata
  2. 09:49:26 PM
  3. No point to this post, except to propose that the ultimate salesman in the world has got to be the man who can sell water to another man. Water is, perhaps, the most basic, lifegiving element... and now you have to buy it? WTF?..."
  categories
  1. keywords:
  2. food and drink
  3. business
  4. tags:
  5. water
  type
3. datetime
  1. {06032005}
  2. {01:55:23 PM}
  content
  1. Power outage: Where'd all the home runs go?
    
    (ESPN.com)
  2. Omar Vizquel, SF Giants SS: "The biggest reason is steroids, obviously. Second is [less use of] supplements. Third is injuries. And anything else is all a bunch of bull." But nothing in baseball is ever quite as simple as it sounds on the talk-show dial. So we've polled numerous players, general managers and other experts. And we've concluded that while steroid testing may be the big reason, it isn't the only reason. Let's take a look...
  metadata
  2. 01:55:23 PM
  3. Omar Vizquel, SF Giants SS: "The biggest reason is steroids, obviously. Second is [less use of] supplements. Third is injuries. And anything else is all a bunch of bull." But nothing in baseball is ever quite as simple as it sounds on the talk-show dial...."
  categories
  1. keywords:
  2. sports
  3. entertainment
  4. tags:
  5. baseball
  6. steroids
  type
4. datetime
  1. {06032005}
  2. {06:58:54 AM}
  content
  1. Porn sites to get their own Internet domain
    
    (Reuters.com)
  2. It's a nice little red-light district for the pornographers, but...
    
    And what a big, juicy but(t) that is.
  metadata
  2. 06:58:54 AM
  3. It's a nice little red-light district for the pornographers, but......"
  categories
  1. keywords:
  2. sexuality
  3. internet
  4. tags:
  5. porn
  type
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