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Twitter - the Beak Speaks and Delivers :: Symblogogy

. . . . . " The beautiful thing about New Media is that it defies control yet exemplifies what can be done in an atmosphere of freedom and creativity.Take Twitter for example; a free communications service...

Government will Demand to know People's Bedroom Habits - "State Intrusion of ...

UK:  The Office for National Statistics (ONS) will collect data on sexual identity on all its major continuous surveys from January 2009.  " Government pen-pushers will demand to know the bedroom habits...

PM dares Dion to face voters with coalition plan

"PM dares Dion to face voters with coalition plan Dion quotes 2005 Harper letter decrying government delays of confidence votes Last Updated: Tuesday, December 2, 2008 | 4:42 PM ET Comments474Recommend485 CBC News Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion...

Ringed by Foes, Pakistanis Fear the U.S., Too

"By JANE PERLEZ ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A redrawn map of South Asia has been making the rounds among Pakistani elites. It shows their country truncated, reduced to an elongated sliver of land with the big bulk of India to the east, and an enlarged Afghanistan to...

Is it time for the Catalan media to go back to school?

"I’ve been reading with interest what’s been happening this week in Cataluña regarding the…ahem language spoken by the Catalan media. The Periódico de Cataluña gave us an insight this week into the right and wrong way of pronouncing certain Catalan expressions which...

Separatist billboards

"Wednesday, November 12, 2008 Ahmed Quraishi There is little question that an American-occupied Afghanistan has emerged as the biggest security threat to Pakistan. But you...

Loan Reveals Two Spins on Democracy

Most political news in Vancouver has been swirling around the $100 million loan that is reportedly been authorized as a bailout cushion to either Millennium Development Corp (the company building the Olympic...

A ‘different approach’

"Even though the financial crisis, which he pledged on Friday to tackle ‘head on’, is his first priority, Barack Obama has no choice but to clear the foreign policy mess being left behind by the Republican administration. At his first news conference as president-elect,...

Congratulations America

"It is actually the American people who are the real winners here, they are the ones who voted for a change. Once again America has proven that it can bring about change. I would not count on Obama himself to bring a real change, as we all remember, the newly elected...

What Happens To Seized Guns, Drugs?

Police officers and sheriff's deputies bust people with illegal drugs and illegal weapons every day. Good Question: What Happens To Seized Guns, Drugs? What Happens To Seized Guns, Drugs?

Joe's Gaffe: Say It Ain't So

"There is no question that when Barack Obama sat down and listed out the pros and cons of picking Joe Biden as his running mate, at the top of the "cons" he wrote: "has a propensity for making hard to explain...

Deutsche Bank Sold Massive Amounts of Phantom Stock

" delivery records,” there were “only two failures to deliver.” So Deutsche Bank systematically failed to even locate the stock that it sold, but the NYSE isn’t calling it “naked short selling,” and...

Turing Test Almost Passed: 3 out 12 Judges Say 'Elbot' Computer is Human!

The AP article is a general overview:"UK university holds artificial intelligence testREADING, England (AP) — Computers argued, cracked jokes and parried trick questions Sunday, all part of an annual test of...

'Intelligent' computers put to the [Turing] test

Comedian/Game Show Host Jeff Foxworthy wants to know if you're smarter than a 5th grader, but are you smarter than a computer? October 12, humans and 6 AI will face off to see if the programs can fool human judges into not being able to tell them apart from human beings. Ray...

A More Perfect Union: The Creation of the U.S. Constitution

Today, Wednesday, the 17th day of September 2008, marks the 221st anniversary of the signing of the Constitution for the United States of America by the nation's founders, and with the hope of forming a more...

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