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An obituary worth reading. Marie Smith | Economist.com BEYOND the town of Cordova, on Prince William Sound in south-eastern Alaska, the Copper River delta branches out in silt and swamp into the gulf. Marie Smith, growing up there, knew there was a particular word in Eyak, her language, for the silky, gummy mud that squished

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The Glory, Bliss and How-to of Screen Scraping for RSS – ReadWriteWeb Damn, this is cool. Take regularly-updating web pages and provide a RSS feed for them via scraping… (tags: blogging dataportability xml web2.0 video Dapper scraping) What’s Next on the Web: a ReadWriteWeb Toolkit for 2008 – ReadWriteWeb Read up! This is what other

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yeah yeah… Originally uploaded by alecmuffett Progress!

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Hanging Yoghourt Originally uploaded by alecmuffett Hanging freshly made yoghourt to make cheese; got a couple of pints of whey off it too, need to make pancakes with that…

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A Degree in Surfing Originally uploaded by alecmuffett Some of my friends have had been inclined to go back to college and get (more) degrees in order to better themselves; here at last from the University of Plymouth is something I could face: a degree in “Surf Science and Technology”. (I found the prospectus on

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Via Geoff, a very cool music video – what you can do with 9 quicktime viewers and a screen capture… Bad Astronomy Blog » I (heart) George Hrab

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Very cool music video – what you can do with 9 quicktime viewers and a screen capture… Bad Astronomy Blog » I (heart) George Hrab

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BBC NEWS | Technology | Password pain looks set to ease BBC covers OpenID. Hmmm. (tags: security identity openid authentication) Crazy Paper Cylinder ! How To Make ! cute rainy-day project, cf: hexaflexagon (tags: paper fun Recreational maths) trench warfare 🙂 (tags: photos funny cats) HDR Tutorial – New and Improved for 2008! what it

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Pardon the caps, but this is fairly serious: the last 2 days I have found Akismet marking all of my comments sourced from Sun bloggers – Walker, Moffat, Skrocki – as “spam” and dropping them into the to-be-deleted greylist. I am not sure why this is so, for the moment I attribute it to a

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Editorial: Beware the Child-Man? Hymowitz dubbed this new generation of young men with the derogatory title “Child-men”, saying that because of their attraction to [VIDEO GAMES AND CABLE TV] and their seeming lack of strong commitment skills that we had a maturity gap emerging within society. Young men were no longer rushing to the altar

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Opinions of the Archbishop of Canterbury: Ruth Gledhill – Times Online – WBLG: Has the Archbishop gone bonkers? I don’t think Rowan Williams has “gone bonkers”. I think he is confused, misguided and mistaken, following his instinct like some secular social reformer, someone who views our community as a social worker and not the leader

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Stanley Lombardo Reads Homer’s The Iliad in Ancient Greek Professor Lombardo has given dramatic readings of his translations on campuses throughout the country, as well as at such venues as the Smithsonian Institution and the Chicago Poetry Center and on National Public Radio. He is presently at work on an audio (tags: audio Homer Greek

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