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Another from Steve’s blog… Another company is getting into the trackable ads game: Adobe. They’ve announced a new product: PDF files with ads. Publishers can upload PDF files to Adobe’s web site; the files will be modified to display ads via Yahoo!’s advertising network. When the PDF file is viewed, “contextual ads are dynamically matched

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Chris forwarded this to me: Steve Bellovin, nice guy, drinking buddy, all-round good egg, baritone Tom Lehrer singer, and inventor of so many pieces of TCP/IP and crypto technology that I feel it incumbent to point out that he wrote Anews just for karmic balance – well Steve’s got himself a blog and writes thusly:

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From Marc Canter’s blog: Adriana Cronin-Lukas – is a blogging consultant. This time – I won’t use the term ‘insultant’ cause she’s much nicer and coy with her customers. I’ve met Adrianna a number of occasions and her wit, insights and diplomacy just reeks of “I’m gonna do whatever it takes to help these folks

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The comprehensive writeup of this trip is at Laureen’s blog; more pictures in Geoff’s gallery…

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Mars Impact Probability Increases to 4 Percent The impact probability for a collision of asteroid 2007 WD5 with Mars on January 30 has increased from 1.3% to 3.9%. … (tags: astronomy science mars)

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cowandboy2611170071231.gif 600×203 pixels Shatner. He’s like a nerd Hoffa. Via Gene. (tags: comics funny) Read me first: The internet can’t be censored and it’s wrong for governments to try | Technology | The Guardian Restating the credo; what is it about some new countries – USA, Oz – which make them wannabee so much more

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The Secular Outpost: Pope forming exorcist squads to wage war on Satan (tags: religion exorcist) Coffee FAQ The OED, Second Edition, does include _espresso_ and _expresso_, the latter being a variant of the former. It correctly derives it from Italian _caffe espresso_. [Accents left off here.] Whoever claimed it derives the term from a would-be

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I first encountered the Nespresso system back in 2005 when I visited Gilles Gravier én famille in Geneva, and he was raving about this machine which would provide good quality Arabica espresso (Gilles has a health issue with Robusta beans) on demand, and was so little mess and fuss. At the time I was interested,

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BBC NEWS | Business | Warner agrees to use MP3 format One by one they fall: Warner Music Group is making its music available for download from Amazon in MP3 format without copy protection. Sony BMG is now the only major recording group not signed up with Amazon. (tags: politics technology Media copyright riaa) Can

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