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pareidolia
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Thanks to Bloggity Blog Blog

http://realtegan.blogspot.com/2008/01/wednesday-linkdump_23.html

, I now have a new favorite word:

pareidolia

http://www.answers.com/Pareidolia?nafid=3


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A-Dictionaries and Encyclopedias_Brittanica vs. Wikipedia
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The free online resource Wikipedia is about as accurate on science as the Encyclopedia Britannica, a study shows.

http://www.guerrillanews.com/headlines/6611/Wikipedia_Survives_Research_Test

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A-Dictionaries

Office Slang

J-Political Science

The March of American Progress

The Fairness Doctrine
How we lost it, and why we need it back


Good SOTU speech Bush gave. Too bad he won't back it up (see: education funding 2002).
Molly Ivins has more on the difference between the rhetoric and realities of this administration.

"WASHINGTON -- January 31 -- Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH), the Ranking Member on the House Government Reform Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats and International Relations, today demanded a broad investigation of the $9 billion in missing reconstruction funds in Iraq, including a criminal investigation and Congressional hearings."

Scary. In Iraq, the US does eliminate those who dare to count the dead

Evan a conservative has had it with the neocons.

K-Law

How the hell can you copyright a public space? That's so damn wrong.

M-Music

Artists earnings and copyright.

Most excellent. Mp3tunes. (I still like artists I've found on Magnatune and Opsound better, in general.)

NC-Animation

This one cracked me up.

NC-Comics

Oooh, pretty Dorothy of Oz

Stupid, stupid parent.
And a much better library CEO than the Huntsville, Al division. Goldfields Library CEO Jan Penney said she was aware of the book and it would be put back on the shelf."Censorship does not belong in public libraries," Ms Penney said.

Funny Planety bit here
This is cute. My Life with pets.

This is bizarre

We Are Zogg
PN-TV

Wil Wheaton auditioning


P-Lit

Vanity publishers stung

PN-Film

Damn. Ossie Davis passed away. Goodbye, JFK.

This is for [info]seamusmoon. Turn your Mac mini into a low-cost recording studio
PN-TV

Fans paying for Enterprise new season? Not likely now, but I bet this WILL be a future business model.

QA-Computers

This is interesting for those of you looking to save some server bandwidth.

MacModding videos

T-Tech


build your own robot

Z-Lib

Id probably use this if i had a Mac. Delicious Library. Koha's working fine for me now that I 've got the quirks out of it on my WinXP box.

Rage, rage, against the lying of the Right.
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A-Dictionaries

This free dictionary online project is pretty cool.

GT-Manners & Customs
Quizzes


      
Isaac Asimov walks to Cyberworld and squeezes the whip.
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GV-Recreation

Bicycling


I need me some of these. Especially the "Learn how to drive!" one.

H-Sociology
Nerds serve 2 masters.

J-Poltical Science

What the United States gave to Saddam Hussein

Saw this in a comment by by Maryscott OConnor on Fri Sep 24th, 2004 at 11:27:46 PST on the Daily Kos and fell in love with it.

Rage, rage, against the lying of the Right.

Tom Toles consistently has some of the best editorial cartoons out there.

Letter: Military lawyers defend civil liberties

Watch this if you haven't yet. John Conyers forum on C-SPAN:

Some helpful links to how voter fraud was perpetrated.

"America Is So Much Better Than This" By Sen. Russ Feingold, AlterNet. Posted December 7, 2004.

Not much has changed since FDR wrote this.

LB-Eductation

How creative people work

More reasons to be ashamed of people from our state.

M-Music

Sillines. EBay Negative on Negativland IPod

http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,65959,00.html

This is-oh, just look. The Finnish Men's Shouting Choir

Make an ipod case out of a milk jug

NC-Animation

Cartoon character skeletons

P-Lit

The leading Sherlock Holmes scholar murdered under mysterious circumstances.

PM-Esperanto

Blade 3 Trinity has Esperanto in it.

QA-Computers

One of my favorite pieces of software. OpenOffice.org In Swahili

Get Openoffice.org here http://www.openoffice.org

bye bye American rights
psychoses, scallawag, pirate
[info]cainmark
well this:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/24/politics/24TERR.html?pagewanted=print&position=

is terrifying. Not that he might be guitly of what he might be accused off, but that the blurring of criminal civil and military law is starting to make a mockey of our already tattered justice system.

and this:

http://www.economist.com/World/na/PrinterFriendly.cfm?Story_ID=1863097

has been happening since 2000 and I'm still pissed about it. Free speech Zone my ass. America IS (ow was) a free speech zone. Wankers.



And this is the America I want back:

http://july4.bmgbiz.net/

With al the proper amendments in place, of course.