Tuesday, April 07, 2009

Stuff below the fold

Ender's UncleOrson has movie reviews, discusses videophones, and links to a wearable computer demonstration.

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GraniteStudio remembers Mao's "Hundred Flowers" movement of 1957 as if it were merely a domestic quarrel...
In the following year, over 300,000 intellectuals were branded as ‘Rightist Deviationists,’ forced out of their jobs and/or sent to labor camps...

So when Mao instituted his "great leap forward" ideas that probably resulted in the starvation of 20 million people, no experts were left to speak up and tell him why his ideas were not realistic...
Deepak Chopra says there is no evil, only bad psychology... and the idea of Satan has to be discarded...

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Did Gamma rays cause a mass extinction 440 million years ago?
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Luddite story of the day:
the AP is going to war against Drudge, Google News and other websites that aggregate news as a service to busy people.

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Where was the Shroud of Turin during it's missing years? The Knights Templar had it...

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US Aids fighting program in Africa prevented a million premature deaths...
It's Bush's fault...


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and the dog story of the day:
The castaway dog who swam SIX miles through shark-infested waters, then survived FOUR months on a desert island ...before being reunited with her owner.

The dog's name is Sophie Tucker...

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