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    • Human Flesh Search: Vigilantes of the Chinese Internet

      Posted by Shemuses

      The first time I noticed the term "ren rou sou sou" on a Chinese website, I was taken aback. "Human flesh hunting" is a literal translation, but the term, applied to the Internet, means a search engine that runs on people power - "human flesh searching engine." In December 2007, a 31-year-old Beijing woman named Jiang Yan jumped off the 24th floor balcony of her apartment. A post on her blog before her suicide blamed her death on her husband's extra-marital affair. News of this "death blog" spread on the Chinese Internet and soon, a mass of outraged netizens launched a "human flesh search engine" to track down the guilty parties.

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      Consumer Ethanol Appliance Promises Cheaper Gas, Less Emissions

      Posted by Jeff from Yahoo News!

      The New York Times today reports on the $9,995 Microfueler, a home-based appliance for brewing ethanol for your car. The MicroFueler will use sugar as its main fuel source, or feedstock, along with a specially packaged time-release yeast the company has developed. Depending on the cost of sugar, plus water and electricity, the company says it could cost as little as a dollar a gallon to make ethanol. In general, he says, burning a gallon of ethanol made by his system will produce one-eighth the carbon of the same amount of gasoline.

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      EBay sues Craigslist ad website

      Posted by Jeff from BBC News

      Online auction site eBay acquired a 28.4% stake when it bought shares from a former employee who had been given equity by Mr Newmark. Mr Newmark and Mr Buckmaster give away for free most of the services that Craigslist provides.

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      Australia Takes On Laser Lunatics

      Posted by Shemuses from New York Times

      Are lasers weapons? In the movies, of course. In warfare, they do everything from guiding bombs to earth to blasting targets in space. And now handheld laser pointers have earned a place alongside guns in Australia's largest state. A new law proposed today by the premier of New South Wales declares possession of the handheld lasers a serious crime, punishable by up to 14 years in prison, depending on the device's power.

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      The Future of Oil

      Posted by Jeff from New York Times

      To many experts, the steadily rising price underscored longer-term fears about the future of a system that has supplied cheap oil for more than a century. "This is the market signaling there is a problem,"

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    raincitywoman comments on:

    Apple announces $199 iPhone 3G

    I never thought I’d say this, but I sorta feel sorry for Microsoft.

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    4:27 pm 6/10/08
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    stephanie comments on:

    Arianna Huffington makes waves on the Web

    I stopped going to the Huffington Post when it became Hillary Clinton Bashing Central.

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    11:49 pm 6/09/08
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    theauthor comments on:

    Arianna Huffington makes waves on the Web

    It’s a great site to visit if you don’t mind the occasional terrorist propaganda piece.

    The huff is the site that actually ridiculed the Bush administration for catching the Ft Dix six before they carried out their plans. I’m not exagerating or taking anything out of context. They posted a piece that actually chastised the admin for preventing an attack.

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    7:46 pm 6/09/08
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    papadavid comments on:

    Arianna Huffington makes waves on the Web

    we all have our plus’s and minus’s, jeff.  and, yes, you are (understandably) biased on this one.  god bless and keep up the good work!

    david

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    12:46 pm 6/08/08
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    Jeff comments on:

    Arianna Huffington makes waves on the Web

    I am biased...but I find her site to be fairly sensationalized (headlines exaggerated often) and the bloggers too self-aggrandized.

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    12:35 pm 6/04/08
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    theangryindian comments on:

    Black Accountability Project: DNC Color Divide

    Yeah, especially if you are meaning still working within your political system although we don’t want to.  I can think of several.

    You could start with the U.S. must offically apologising for American Aboriginal genocide and than make the necessary changes to the educational system to wash out the colonial propaganda clotting American hearts and minds.  Second, ALL of First Nations-U.S. are to be honoured and without undue delay.  Next, the United States is to offically apologise for chattle slavery, genocide and systematic institutional racial bias.  The U.S. must then return full sovereignty to Puerto Rico, Guam, the Dominican Republic, the Philippines and promise to not try and re-take the island of Cuba.

    Following all that there would need to be a restructuring of the entire political system and the acceptance of multiple parties including revamping the voting system without the Electoral College.

    Without the former list of suggestions, the latter half is only cosmetic.  Just my opinion.

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    4:08 pm 5/22/08
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    Damianmann comments on:

    Black Accountability Project: DNC Color Divide

    That’s fine. Got another option?

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    3:10 pm 5/22/08
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    “The Angryindian” is an internationally recognised Indigenist activist and outspoken critic of U.S. colonialism practised against Aboriginal societies in America and abroad. He is editor of IntelligentaIndigena Novajoservo and the host of Radyo Inteligentaindigena, an independent, non-partisan international Indigenist podcast.

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