1. #Jan25: “Sorry for the inconvenience, but we’re building Egypt.”  permalink

#Jan25: “Sorry for the inconvenience, but we’re building Egypt.”
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Its been a remarkable few months in the middle east.   Most recently the events in Egypt have captured the world and Al Jazeera’s english web site has become the place to watch many of the events unfold.   Given that the channel isnt carried by most US cable companies the web site has been the means to view the channel live over the ...

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Al Jazeera’s Social Revolution ‘Freedom’   —  Yasmine El Rashidi Yasmine El Rashidi It was around 3 PM on Friday that we began to feel it might be over. Earlier, there had been fears of a new government crackdown, as protesters, still seething from Mubarak’s defiant speech and Suleiman’s call for people to go home the night before, had promised to make the eighteenth day of revolution ...

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Al Jazeera’s Social Revolution "A republic if you can keep it"   —  I closed my reflections on Egypt with the title's Ben Franklin quotation. And I want to expand on that point briefly, because there's often confusion about what it takes to make a republic. We sometimes think that a nation has become a democratic republic because it elects its leaders and has a constitution that checks the right boxes. But we ...

2. Youtube Gems: Joss Stone and Jeff Beck  permalink

Youtube Gems: Joss Stone and Jeff Beck
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This is an almost perfect combination -- one of my favorite singers (Joss Stone), one of the world's most brilliant guitarists (Jeff Beck), the world's greatest drummer (Vinnie Colaiuta) and one of the ten greatest songs of the rock era, People Get Ready. Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post... Also check out the ...

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Youtube Gems: Joss Stone and Jeff Beck 'I GET a lot of trouble from people who just don't realise Dexter is a highly moral person; there are simply lines he will not cross, no ...   —  'I GET a lot of trouble from people who just don't realise Dexter is a highly moral person; there are simply lines he will not cross, no matter what," Jeff Lindsay says of his antihero.

3. Hutchinson Wants To Go To Court  permalink

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Remember Ken Hutchinson, the virulently anti-gay preacher from Washington? Now it seems he's jumping on the anti-evolution bandwagon. In a recent communication with his flock he said: Dear Prayer Warrior, Put your prayer knee pads on. I think God is leading me to raise support to sue the state of Washington Board of Education for teaching a ...

4. Zos Kias  permalink

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5. Seeds  permalink

Seeds
Johanna / Comics Worth Reading

Seeds joins the growing category of memoir comics, specifically those about dealing with cancer, either one’s own or that of a family member. (Compare Mom’s Cancer, Cancer Vixen, Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person, and Our Cancer Year, to name the best-known.) Author Ross Mackintosh here captures his reactions to his father’s ...

6. Software makes it easy to say, 'forgive me father, iSinned'  permalink

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South Bend, Ind.— Can your iPad or iPhone bring you closer to God? A new application for the devices aims to help Roman Catholics who haven't been to the confessional booth in a while keep track of their sins, one Commandment at a time.

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7. Darwin and the Voyage: 08 ~ The Gauchos  permalink

Darwin and the Voyage: 08 ~ The Gauchos
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We're half way through Darwin Month, and only a tiny ways through the voyage. Need to hurry up! So, let's skip ahead a bit and hit the Gauchos.... (This is a modified version of a post from my old blog). Well, you don't really want to hit at Gaucho ... they hit back rather hard.... Read More Read the comments on this post... Also check out the ...

8. We Can 'Print Prosperity': On Ersatz Fiscal Constraints and Idle Real Resources  permalink

We Can 'Print Prosperity': On Ersatz Fiscal Constraints and Idle Real Resources
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One of the annoying claims by the so-called fiscally responsible is that we can't "print prosperity"--that is, we can't deficit spend in order to help the real economy. It's derided as unrealistic and 'ideological' (whereas fiscal austerity is implied to be 'common sense'). Peter Cooper explains how it is fiscal austerity--the worship of deficit ...

9. Soul'd  permalink

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10. Paul Krugman: Signs of Returning Sanity in Monetary Policy?  permalink

J. Bradford DeLong / Grasping Reality with Eight Tentacles

Paul Krugman: Europe Turns on Its Axel : Axel Weber has bowed out of the race for ECB head gracefully.... [Since] this isn’t... about the person... [but] the views... I am therefore glad to hear both that he won’t be taking the job, and that the reason he bowed out was that euro-area leaders didn’t share his hard-money views. ...

11. I get email  permalink

I get email
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I don't know what it is, but the kooks who write to me either don't know what paragraphs are, so that I get a dense knot of disconnected sentences, or they use a peculiar pattern of quirky line breaks that makes sense to them, I suppose, but not to anyone else. Arvin is one of the latter. He likes his white space. Hello Dr. PZ Myers my name is ...

12. Sarah Palin Embraces Evolution  permalink

Sarah Palin Embraces Evolution
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OK, maybe the argument is a bit weak, but still... Read the comments on this post... Also check out the featured ScienceBlog of the week: Inside the Outbreaks on the ScienceBlogs Book Club

13. Creators of Transformers: War For Cybertron Release A Tease For Transformers: Dark of The Moon Game!  permalink

Creators of Transformers: War For Cybertron Release A Tease For Transformers: Dark of The Moon Game!
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Amazon listings has the game release for June 14th 2011, which is half a month before the actual movie release on Playstation 3, XBOX 360, Nintendo Wii and Nintendo 3DS. More Transformers: Dark of the Moon Videos Transformers: Dark of the Moon is released in Theaters July 1, 2011. LEEE777 - Many thanks to CBMer and buddy loum410 again for the ...

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Teaser for Transformers: Dark of the Moon Game   —  High Moon Studios, the creators of Transformers: War for Cybertron, have debuted the teaser trailer for the upcoming game based on Michael Bay's Transformers: Dark of the Moon. You can watch the teaser below, thanks to IGN.

14. Higher Resolution Logo For The Avengers Merchandise Revealed!  permalink

Higher Resolution Logo For The Avengers Merchandise Revealed!
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Thanks to RealIrOnMaN for providing us with the following image. Directed by Joss Whedon and starring Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr, Chris Hemsworth, Jeremy Renner, Scarlett Johansson and Samuel L. Jackson, The Avengers is set to be released on May 4, 2012!

15. An Immigrant's Quest For Identity In The 'Open City'  permalink

An Immigrant's Quest For Identity In The 'Open City'
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Teju Cole's debut novel, Open City, follows Julius, a half-Nigerian and half-German doctor, as he wanders the streets of New York. Julius struggles to understand his identity as an immigrant, an experience the author himself is familiar with.

16. Player4you  permalink

Player4you
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player4you is a free player that plays videos from Youtube without commercials and uses a crossfader to avoid breaks between the tracks. A live search makes it easy to find your favorite tracks. You can also load and save playlists and customize the player. Date Updated: 2011-02-13 Developer: wolfgangpue Tags: fun , music , search , video APIs: ...

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Player4you Google Explains, Apologizes For, CR-48 Spam   —  Early this morning people who have received a Google CR-48 notebook, and people who've requested one, got hit with 100 or more emails from a newly created Google Group. Google sent out an email this evening apologizing for the emails and explaining what happened. Google was planning on launching the group next week for all users who have been ...

17. Wave of imports hits export-led growth  permalink

Wave of imports hits export-led growth
David Smith / David Smith

My regular piece is available to subscribers on www.thesundaytimes.co.uk. This is an excerpt. Every month I look for the promised improvement in Britain’s trade performance on the back of a super-competitive pound, which is 24% below pre-crisis levels. And...

18. Hospitals in Germany  permalink

Hospitals in Germany
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Displays hospitals in Germany and shows their job offers. Date Updated: 2011-02-13 Developer: smmm0105 Tags: mapping , reference , search , visualization APIs: Google Maps

19. 02/11/11 PHD comic: 'How do I love you?'  permalink

02/11/11 PHD comic: 'How do I love you?'
PHD

Piled Higher & Deeper by Jorge Cham www.phdcomics.com title: " How do I love you? " - originally published 2/11/2011 For the latest news in PHD Comics, CLICK HERE!

20. 10am  permalink

10am
Sam / [daily dose of imagery]

Union Station at 10am on a Sunday....