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What Have We Done to Democracy?

Posted on October 3, 2009 by bunty

Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.thenation.com/doc/20091012/roy Siachen Glacier The question here, really, is what have we done to democracy? What have we turned it into? What happens once democracy has been used up? When it has been hollowed out and emptied … Continue reading →

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Monk accused of biting spree | National news | The Phnom…

Posted on October 3, 2009 by bunty

Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2009091628419/National-news/monk-accused-of-biting-spree.html IF MONKS ARE FOUND TO DRINK WINE OR BITE PEOPLE, THEY MUST BE DEFROCKED.

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Boing Boing Community Tips & Trends

Posted on September 23, 2009 by bunty

Stumbleupon Review of : http://trends.boingboing.net trendy.

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http://www.epjournal.net/filestore/EP07398441_c.pdf

Posted on September 19, 2009 by bunty

Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.epjournal.net/filestore/EP07398441_c.pdf It's Fun To Be A Fundamentalist CC© Curtis Gregory Perry This study's uniquely broad based comparison of socioeconomic conditions in the most prosperous democracies confirms that they vary widely among these nations, and that the … Continue reading →

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Crap Detection

Posted on September 10, 2009 by bunty

Stumbleupon Review of : http://members.autobahn.mb.ca/~het/detector.html Shermer's Boundary Detection Kit How reliable is the source of the claim? Has the source often made similar claims? Have the claims been verified by another source? How does this fit with what we know … Continue reading →

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Pivotal Tracker – Free Lightweight Agile Project…

Posted on September 9, 2009 by bunty

Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.pivotaltracker.com Luvly Jubbly. A project management system you don't have to spend more time on than the actual projects you are tracking. It has a pretty much flat initial learning curve (see the short intro screencast) … Continue reading →

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Edge: ECONOMICS IS NOT NATURAL SCIENCE By Douglas Rushkoff

Posted on September 6, 2009 by bunty

Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/rushkoff09/rushkoff09_index.html Unbrand America CC© Ende The net (whether we're talking Web 2.0, Wikipedia, social networks or laptops) offers people the opportunity to build economies based on different rules — commerce that exists outside the economic map … Continue reading →

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Facebook and MySpace Users Are Clearly Divided Along…

Posted on September 3, 2009 by bunty

Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.alternet.org/media/142356/facebook_and_myspace_users_are_clearly_divided_along_class_lines © Big Fat Rat One way of thinking about the transition from MySpace to Facebook is through the frame of fashion cycles and fads. MySpace was first; arguably, some people got sick of it and, … Continue reading →

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Kuchh Kook Hota Hai – Keema Cauliflower

Posted on September 2, 2009 by bunty

Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9mer4iTfhI [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9mer4iTfhI[/youtube] Keema Cauliflower recipe. First, take six ounces of bollyfunk, dance it well. And to drink…

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Boston Review & Noam Chomsky: Crisis and Hope

Posted on September 2, 2009 by bunty

Stumbleupon Review of : http://bostonreview.net/BR34.5/chomsky.php Warnings about the purposeful destruction of U.S. productive capacity have been familiar for decades and perhaps sounded most prominently by the late Seymour Melman. Melman also pointed to a sensible way to reverse the process. … Continue reading →

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