December 2010
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Indians to outnumber Chinese in 2025 →
SAY WHAAAAT
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Happy Belated Birthday, World Wide Web! →
the internet turned 20 yesterday.
Almost exactly 20 years ago, physicist Tim Berners-Lee uploaded the first web page onto the Internet and started a global revolution.
But it wasn’t called the World-Wide Web that day on Dec. 25, 1990 when Berners-Lee and Robert Caillaiu, a systems engineer, created info.cern.ch, which still exists. In fact, Berners-Lee had other ideas for a name: The Mine of...
Obama admin takes aim at China’s renewable-energy... →
Last week, in a move that pits American labor against China’s green-technology industry, the Obama administration filed a complaint with the World Trade Organization over China’s wind-power subsidies.
The U.S. move challenges China’s rapid growth in the renewable-energy market, and also throws the weight of the administration behind the unions, elevating concern about Chinese competition to...
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Let's Hear It for the Unappreciated Heroes of 2010 →
Under-Appreciated Person One: Bradley Manning. While we were all fixated on Julian Assange, the story of the young American soldier who actually leaked the classified documents passed almost unnoticed. If Manning was mentioned at all, it was as to be described an impetuous, angry kid who downloaded the documents onto a CD and leaked them as a result of a “grudge” or “tantrum.”
Here’s what...
collegehumor:
Hey late-night Internet addicts, we have a message for you: GO TO SLEEP!
dragging your arrow across your desktop. yup. time for bed.
ps. did you know college humor was on tumblr?
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our mayor might not be a university graduate. →
add that to the list of things you can do without a degree.
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Tumbl, and You Shall Find →
this is making tumblr really, really neat.
One of the big challenges on Tumblr right now is the problem of discovery: How can we come up with better ways to help Tumblr users find great new, interesting things outside of the circle of the people they follow? One step toward solving this is our new curated tag pages. Right now, with the help of several smart members of the Tumblr community,...
AP: "Three bone fragments found on a deserted... →
inothernews:
Holy cow.
AP: "Three bone fragments found on a deserted... →
inothernews:
Holy cow.
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ASK, TELL →
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What Killed Aiyana Stanley-Jones? →
I don’t have any thing to add to this. I’ve just taken out the main parts of the story and posted it here. It probably looks silly among the other ridiculous stuff on my blog. I just think more people should hear this unfortunately true story. Kudos to the author, Charlie Leduff
A nighttime raid. A reality TV crew. A sleeping seven-year-old. What one tragedy can teach us about the...
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write-me-well asked: thanks for the follow (:
What Killed Aiyana Stanley-Jones? →
I don’t have any thing to add to this. I’ve just taken out the main parts of the story and posted it here. It probably looks silly among the other ridiculous stuff on my blog. I just think more people should hear this unfortunately true story. Kudos to the author, Charlie Leduff
A nighttime raid. A reality TV crew. A sleeping seven-year-old. What one tragedy can teach us about the...
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