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06 Aug 08

Is Your City Dying?

'These areas, as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau, face fleeing populations, painful waves of unemployment and barely growing economies. By our measure, they’ve struggled the worst of any areas in the nation in the 21st century.'

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Crystal Clear - Wikimedia Commons

'Icons from the Crystal Clear icon set by Everaldo Coelho. – The icons are licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL).'

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Leaving Baghdad: Culture Shock in America

'I have been trying to reflect a good picture of Iraq since I first came here. But at the same time, I’m fighting myself because I’m basically in the country that invaded mine.'

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Life and death of a black and white

This Supreme Court decided that even after an international treaty has been signed and ratified by the Executive Branch and Congress, the individual states can choose to disobey the treaty on a whim. Bush's Supreme Court has put us back in the Wild West.

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Boredom May Let the Brain Recast the World in Productive, Creative Ways

'research suggests that falling into a numbed trance allows the brain to recast the outside world in ways that can be productive and creative at least as often as they are disruptive'

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Viruses can catch colds, says study that redefines life itself - Telegraph

But the discovery of a giant virus that itself falls ill through infection by another virus seems to suggest they too are alive, highlighting how there is no watertight definition of what exactly scientists mean when they refer to something as "living".

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Beerware

*"THE BEER-WARE LICENSE" As long as you retain this notice you * can do whatever you want with this stuff. If we meet some day, and you think * this stuff is worth it, you can buy me a beer in return Poul-Henning Kamp *

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Why I stick with Perl

'No Perl programmer would write a few lines of code, post it to a blog, and call it a "library". Everyone feels obligated to create a CPAN distribution, with documentation.'

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Giant Kites To Harness Wind Power | Device Daily

'The scientists tied a 10 square-meter kite to a generator that produced 10 kilowatts which is enough to power about 10 houses. Now, they want to design a kite that could generate about 50 kilowatts...'

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The Four Hundred-Hour Workweek

'Around six months ago
I began outsourcing
the writing of poems
to an Indian call center'

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The First $1000 iPhone Application

'Its primary function is to display a handsome glowing red jewel on your iPhone’s screen'

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The Wages of Pointless Rewrites

re: Del.icio.us 2.0: 'Next time someone considers rewriting an app into (insert currently fashionable language here), ask yourself whether a three year long timeout will serve anyone's interests.'

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When a Free Yearly Clinic Is Your Only Health Care

'This year, more than 1,800 volunteer doctors, dentists, nurses and assistants descended on the small town near the Kentucky border, setting up enormous field-hospital-style tents in which they saw roughly 2,500 patients over the course of two and a half

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05 Aug 08

No kids, no jobs for growing number of wives

'Dr. Scott Haltzman, author of "The Secrets of Happily Married Women," says stay-at-home wives constitute a growing niche. "In the past few years, many women who are well educated and trained for career tracks have decided instead to stay at home."

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Puppies mark birth of commercial pet cloning

'A U.S. woman received five puppies Tuesday that were cloned from her beloved late pitbull, becoming the inaugural customer of a South Korean company that says it is the world's first successful commercial canine cloning service.'

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Cool Tool: Art & Fear

'the works of highest quality were all produced by the group being graded for quantity. It seems that while the "quantity" group was busily churning out piles of work - and learning from their mistakes - the "quality" group had sat theorizing about perfec

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