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Ethan Zuckerman's Weblog : Antiquated, illiterate, destructive and indefensible Ethan, vey eloquently, puts into words something that has been on my mind for years now. The dire effect of western agricultural subsidies, on the fate of the developing world. I won't bore you with my rendering of
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I think i tore my cruciate ligament on tuesday. Again. At least i think i heard that snapping sound, like one of those wide rubber bands, gone slightly soft under the influence of sun and time. Ofcourse it wasn't really my cruciate ligament at all. Just a piece
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When you look out the window and see an unjust world, When you look in your heart and see the strength to improve it, What is left to you but the choice between cynicism and idealism? I choose to believe in life because the alternative is unbearable!
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speech accent archive This site examines the accented speech of speakers from many different language backgrounds reading the same sample paragraph. Currently, we have obtained 264 speech samples. [via BoingBoing]
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Blogging Feature (John Daly) Just a little self-promotion. The latest mail-out to the ict4dev community on Development Gateway links to an article by John Daly on blogging for development. And one of the examples used in the article is the ict4dev section of my very own multiplicity blog. So afterall,
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If you visit my front-page, and have a look at the category list on the right hand side you'll notice 2 new categories. Handhelds, is about my new Palm Tungsten C, and my experiences with handheld computers in and off the wireless networks that I work with. Look
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German Toilets Having spent many a summer in Austria, and living next door to Germany, I'm one of many who's spent a not insignificant amount of brain-cycles wondering what the deal is with those useless toilets. Apparently I'm not alone :-) Whenever folks who
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This is ridiculous. John Gilmore, a respected tech journalist, was refused on a BA flight, because he wouldn't remove a political message from a 1 inch button he was wearing on his lapel. This whole censorship in the name of anti-terrorism is reaching ridiculous proportions. Politech: John Gilmore:
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Sue All The World Music Video (from the Napster Bad! Cartoon Series on Camp Chaos) If you also think the Recording Industry and Hollywood aree tripping bigtime with their suits and their suits, take a look at this parody. There's explicit language in their (dont' say I
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The internet is shit [via Ben Hammersley]
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i'm in vienna. visiting my grandparents, family, vacation. it's hot here. almost in the accra sense of the word. sweating, hanging out, WiFi'ing via metronet wireless access points in some of the nicer café's here. the problem with metronet, and many other
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I've changed my RSS 2.0 feeds to include the entire posts instead of just excerpts, and I've adopted Brad Choates templates from here: Brad Choate: A Non-Funky MT RSS 2 Template So if you want the best feeds from this site, switch to RSS 2.