Category Archives: Politics and Society

Facebook users plot global carrot rampage

Stumbleupon Review of : http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=371170 “More than 60,000 people from an online group have pledged to swarm supermarkets and buy out their supply of carrots in one day in a bizarre mission labeled “impossible” by vegetable growers.”

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Tony Benn – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Stumbleupon Review of : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Benn Five questions Benn insists should be asked of any powerful person: What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you use it? To whom are you accountable? How … Continue reading

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Humorix | Finally, A Solution To The DMCA!

Stumbleupon Review of : http://humorix.org/articles/2001/08/grepping/ On the sixth day, He debugged. On the seventh day, He continued to debug. Rest is for the weak. On the eight day, the debugging continued. Only 128 compiler warnings did He now receive. On … Continue reading

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Chinese Town Becomes Graveyard of Christmas Past : TreeHugger

Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/12/chinese_town_becomes_graveyard_of_christmas_past.php

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Jewish Fable on Christmas Eve | The Distributed Republic

Stumbleupon Review of : http://distributedrepublic.net/archives/2007/12/25/jewish-fable-christmas-eve There is a well known midrash [parable] about the two brothers, one who had a family and the other who was single, who each night would deliver wheat to each other. The one with the … Continue reading

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Socialism for Gunslingers: Frankly Comrade

Stumbleupon Review of : http://democraticgunslinger.blogspot.com/2007/12/frankly-comrade.html During the seventies, Ferrari Bravo worked in the University of Padova’s Institute of Political Science, where Negri had assembled an impressive array of workerist intellectuals. One of them, Alisa del Re, recalls a certain intellectual … Continue reading

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Best AFP photos 2007_English_Xinhua

Stumbleupon Review of : http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-12/06/content_7209538_11.htm An Iranian man waves a final good-bye to his relatives before being hanged, in Teheran, Aug. 2, 2007. Two men were hanged for murdering a judge in 2005. This was the first time Iran had … Continue reading

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Kehlkopfmikrofon: Almost forgot these comments

Stumbleupon Review of : http://kehlkopfmikrofon.blogspot.com/2007/12/almost-forgot-these-comments.html The blogger blogs the blogger blogged. Blogaciously

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ConsumerReports.org – Gift card pitfalls

Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/money/shopping/shopping-tips/gift-card-pitfalls-12-07/overview/gift-card-pitfalls-ov.htm For the imaginationly challenged: try $Cash$ – the gift card with no expiration date!

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What Future? Street Children in the Democratic Republic of Congo: V. Abuses

Stumbleupon Review of : http://hrw.org/reports/2006/drc0406/5.htm So anyway… the other day I got this thumb-solicitation for a site. Normally when I get these I just oblige: I visit, and thumb them down. But this one was different. It made me stop … Continue reading

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