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03:57 pm
[Link] | http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/8395287.stm
The BBC's Tom Burridge dines out at a Swedish fast-food chain that is trying to discourage people from eating too much meat by publishing the carbon footprint of each item on its menu.
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12:29 pm
[Link] | The US Government is finally settling a 13 year lawsuit brought by tribes who were swindled out of their land by the Dawes Act. NPR and BBC carried the story. I've not seen it mentioned anywhere else.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121203756
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8402329.stm
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10:19 pm
[Link] |
I think this is a must see show.
http://globalprogressiverocknews.blogspot.com/2009/09/bozzioholdsworthlevinmastelotto-west.html
Terry Bozzio
Tony Levin
Allan Holdsworth
Pat Mastelotto
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09:42 pm
[Link] |
Historian finds Red Baron's death certificate
http://www.seattlepi.com/national/1103ap_eu_poland_red_baron.html
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03:47 pm
[Link] |
Want to go flying?
http://www.seattlepi.com/business/gallery.asp?SubID=5304&page=1>itle=Virgin%20Galactic%20unveils%20SpaceShipTwo
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01:22 pm
[Link] |
Cargo Bikes: Go Ahead And Bring The Kitchen Sink
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121034522&ps=cprs
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09:52 pm
[Link] |
R.I.P. Eric Woolfson
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8392805.stm
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12:11 pm
[Link] |
25 November
1120 – The White Ship sinks in the English Channel, drowning William Adelin, son of Henry I of England.
1491 – The siege of Granada, the last Moorish stronghold in Spain, begins.
1783 – American Revolutionary War: The last British troops leave New York City three months after the signing of the Treaty of Paris.
1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Missionary Ridge – At Missionary Ridge in Tennessee, Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant break the Siege of Chattanooga by routing Confederate troops under General Braxton Bragg.
1867 – Alfred Nobel patents dynamite.
1876 – Indian Wars: In retaliation for the American defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, United States Army troops sack Chief Dull Knife's sleeping Cheyenne village at the headwaters of the Powder River.
1905 – The Danish Prins Carl arrives in Norway to become King Haakon VII of Norway.
1943 – World War II: Statehood of Bosnia and Herzegovina is re-established at the State Anti-Fascist Council for the People's Liberation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1950 – The People's Republic of China joins the Korean War, sending thousands of troops across the Yalu river border to fight United Nations forces.
1963 – President John F. Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
1970 – In Japan, author Yukio Mishima and one compatriot commit ritualistic suicide after an unsuccessful coup attempt.
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08:41 am
[Link] |
Bappy Hirthday to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) polka_king
Bappy Hirthday!!!
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10:55 pm
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07:31 pm
[Link] |
News doesn't matter. Only money.
http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/archives/186042.asp
Microsoft reportedly is in talks with News Corp. and other publishers to pay for exclusive content indexing on Bing if they cut ties with Google. News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch's anti-Google crusade has escalated in the past few weeks. He's threatening to take his news outlets' content off of Google, which indexes content from thousands of news sites. News Corp. owns outlets such as The Wall Street Journal and FOX.
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02:58 pm
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Scary
A Belgian man who doctors thought was in a coma for 23 years was conscious all along, it has been revealed.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8375326.stm
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01:25 pm
[Link] | http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8373690.stm
Children should be allowed to get dirty, according to scientists who have found being too clean can impair the skin's ability to heal.
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10:09 pm
[Link] | Enjoying the b-day present from my wife. An iPhone.
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09:31 am
[Link] | BBC News - Tribes resistance could help CJD
Darwinian natural selection could help halt human "mad cow disease", experts say after finding a tribe impervious to a related fatal brain disorder.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8364603.stm
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03:22 pm
[Link] | http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/hungering_for_a_true_thanksgiving_20091117/
“Over 1 billion people are chronically hungry,” says the U.N., yet it would take only $44 billion per year to end hunger globally.
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02:47 pm
[Link] |
What's so patriotic about hysteria?
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/what_is_so_patriotic_about_hysteria_20091118/
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11:23 am
[Link] |
Say No To Size Zero campaign
http://www.katiegreenofficial.com/
She's not very curvy, though.
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09:36 am
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UN says more children in school and fewer dying
http://www.seattlepi.com/national/1110ap_un_worlds_children.html
I find it disturbing that only the US and Somalia have never ratified the convention. Somalia doesn't have a government and conservatives in Congress keep blocking it. Do we care more about children or more about ideology?
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01:20 pm
[Link] | Stories about the fictional planet Nibiru and predictions of doomsday in December 2012 have blossomed on the Internet. There are now (June 2009) more than 175 books listed on Amazon.com dealing with the 2012 doomsday. As this hoax spreads, many more disaster scenarios are being suggested. “Ask an Astrobiologist” has received nearly a thousand questions about Nibiru and 2012, with more than 200 answers posted. Many new questions are similar to those already answered. Following is a list of the most popular “Twenty Questions” organized in a logical succession and answered in some detail.
Please pay special attention to answers #8, 9, 18 & 19.
http://astrobiology.nasa.gov/ask-an-astrobiologist/intro/nibiru-and-doomsday-2012-questions-and-answers
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