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“A party should generally never accept a worse resolution than its BATNA. Care should be taken, however, to ensure that deals are accurately valued, taking into account all considerations (such as relationship value, time value of money, likelihood that t
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“Context. Each expression is evaluated within a given context. In general, XPath assumes that the context is defined by the application sitting on top of XPath (e.g., XPointer or XSLT). A context consists of the following things:
– A node, which is
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I can’t get a snippet because of the fancy text expansion and compression ui they’ve cooked up.
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“The TransQuoter brings in quotations from textfiles and web pages all over the Net and concatenates them into a web page, keeping each quotation connected to its source. Here’s a sample of such a transquotation page. Each quote is seen as a differentl
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“Nelson has recently delivered a demonstration of Web transclusion, the Little Transquoter (programmed to Nelson’s specification by Andrew Pam). It creates a new format built on portion addresses from Web pages; when dereferenced, each portion on the resu
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Glass is a conversation-oriented fairy tale, taking place in one room. It is likely to take only a few minutes to play once, but can be played several times to different endings.
Archive for April, 2007
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“The essence of REST is to make the states of the protocol explicit and addressible by URIs. The current state of the protocol state machine is represented by the URI you just operated on and the state representation you retrieved. You change state by ope
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“Over the years, he has built and sold 10 homes and dozens of house plans, which cost about $1,000. But the real story is that he’s become a poster boy for simple living, with interviews or mentions in This Old House magazine, the New York Times, USA Toda
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“a reproduction after an original in the British Museum dated to about 870 BC from Sippar, southern Iraq. It is a copy of a deed recording the restoration of lands by the Babylonian king Nabu-apla-iddina to a priest of the same name. On the top of the sto
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“The University of Minnesota owns nineteen artifacts inscribed in cuneiform, the script of ancient Mesopotamia. This collection, which is kept in Special Collections and Rare Books at the Elmer L. Andersen Library, comprises sixteen clay tablets, two clay
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“Infiniti was introduced in the United States by Nissan in 1989, to rival Toyota and Honda’s introduction of their own luxury brands, Lexus and Acura, respectively. A series of Zen-inspired advertisements, which became known as the “rocks and trees” campa
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“Metalinguistic abstraction — establishing new languages — plays an important role in all branches of engineering design. It is particularly important to computer programming, because in programming not only can we formulate new languages but we can als
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“Parents love these movies because it’s a real window into their child’s mind,” says Crames. “They see how their children make decisions, and [that in turn] can be a way to help them with their critical thinking.” In fact, Lean Forward’s web
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Owen Gingerich’s William Belden Noble Lectures, originally delivered in November 2005 at the Memorial Church, aim much more explicitly than Wilson to demonstrate the compatibility of science and Christian faith. Three basic arguments are wielded in supp
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“Because most people process gains and losses differently, cognitive bias also influences military negotiations. According to the findings of prospect theory (for which Kahneman received a Nobel Prize in economics), our aversion to a loss of $10 is greate
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“She brushed aside the distinction between the “deserving” and the “undeserving” poor, and that between legal and illegal residents. One Mexican, the actor Anthony Quinn, who as a teen-ager acted as a translator for her, told an interviewer, “Du
links for 2007-04-28
April 28, 2007-
see http://tinyurl.com/2w5pvd
“If both representations are included in a single system, however, we will need some way to distinguish data in polar form from data in rectangular form. Otherwise, if we were asked, for instance, to find the magnitude of th -
see http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-17.html#%_sec_2.4.2
“One important component of this infrastructure is the ability to dynamically attach tags to materials being manipulated. For example, in eukaryotic cells, proteins are construc -
Rational sounding presentation on Iraq history and current situation. I learned a lot. Allawi is Chalabi’s nephew according to Wikipedia.
Ali Allawi [04-13-07]
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I went by there today.
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“Allawi recommended devolution within Iraq, economic and political regional integration in the Middle East, and the setting up of independent boards to oversee reconstruction and security issues.[1] The article was praised by Independent commentator Patri
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April 27, 2007links for 2007-04-26
April 26, 2007-
“offers competition style rock crawling products for Jeep CJs & Wranglers.
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“Welcome to my 2003 Toyota 4runner SR5 4×4 Chaos Edition page. Feel free to navigate through the site from the top of the page. The modifications page will lead you to the current modifications made to the 4runner. The tech page will lead you to various m
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Stupid web site design, but possibly cool parts
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The Chassis
Caged Structure
Engine Fitting
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The StarRotor engine uses the Brayton cycle (see Figure 1), the same thermodynamic cycle employed by jet engines. In the compressor, ambient air(1) is compressed. The typical discharge pressure is 6 atm, but other pressures can be used (higher pressures i
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“John’s Background Switcher periodically changes the background image on your computer (like every hour or every day). You can specify which pictures to choose from in any of the following ways:
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via http://webcast.berkeley.edu/course_details.php?seriesid=1906978428
It seems to me that Darwin’s claim that there is “no limit” to the extent of variation is relatively glossed over. Perhaps he’ll address it in the next lecture where he talks about pr -
“So Windows Vista is not easy. In fact, it is just the same old brutal, cruel Microsoft. While it made me wait, it showed me marketing copy about how easy it was to use. And so here I sit blogging on my Mac, watching in vague bemusement as this grumpy PC
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I’d tagged this previously but the url changed.
“Summary of good delicious tagging (see nov 17, 2005) – “We actively follow expert users and ignore everyone else. There are a number of expert folks out there who tag well and tag a lot. They use sophistic -
Good so far, but annoying since they’re Real Media video which only stream so far as I can tell.
“”Wed 2/14 Water Relations
View archived webcast Fri 2/16 Water Relations/Mineral Nutrition
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I looked through the June 2007 issue while waiting to get my summer tires put on at Harmon’s in Ellsworth yesterday. It covers lots of the same topics that Eben’s bicycle magazine cover, just from a different perspective.
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“Mr. White once wrote the most stirring of all articles in praise of life in the steel jungles of Manhattan. It was, as we recall it, a kind of pastoral to be sung to the accompaniment of a pneumatic drill. It gave great satisfaction to thousands who knew
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I found this by hacking the url with the SFX OpenURL generator at the University of Alberta, combining
http://demo.exlibrisgroup.com:9003/demo/
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Title: The Talk of the Town – Notes and Comments
Source: The New Yorker [0028-792X] White yr:1934 pg:11
11/24/1934
“One of the first things that happened to the streamlined Zephyr, on its regular run, was that it met a truck (We are picking our verbs -
‘Both men agreed the problem was increasingly urgent, citing a new report by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that said rising temperatures and sea levels were linked to the growing quantity of greenhouse gases emitted by cars,
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“(born September 7, 1968, in Cherryfield, Maine) is a former NASCAR driver. He is retired from racing and now owns his own NASCAR Busch East Series team – Andy Santerre Motorsports. Also, he has one career Busch win to his credit. At the age of 19, he was
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“It has been a busy winter and spring for Cherryfield’s Andy Santerre but the fun begins on Saturday night.
The Greased Lightning 150 at Greenville Pickens Speedway (S.C.) will kick off the 13-race Busch East Series and the Andy Santerre Motorsports
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“Our method is to relocate the mounting point of the spring that holds the truck up, without changing the location of the stock suspension arms. This is the method that we use with the Truxxx Lift and Level kit, because it makes the lift install simpler a
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This is the brand of scooter they have in stock at Dicks in Bangor
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“But then she heard of her husband’s death, and in 1869, mystifying some of her relatives, Connolly put that respectability at risk, too, marrying a well-to-do black sea captain from Grand Cayman Island and moving there with him. Hodes, a historian at NYU
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It has a list of what looks to be some interesting books by Bowdoin authors.
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“Along with Robert Horvitz and Sydney Brenner, Sulston discovered the phenomenon of programmed cell death in the worm, an essential concept that explains how biological development occurs in animal life and, as Horvitz later showed, how it occurs in human
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Cameron: [singing] When Cameron was in Egypt’s land…”let my Cameron go!”
Grace: Oh, he’s very popular Ed. The sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, waistoids, dweebies, dickheads – they all adore him. They think he’s a righteous dude.
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“Most of the APIs in the wild that call itself RESTful actually are not really RESTful in Fielding’s sense of the term (especially regarding application state and functionality that need to be divided into uniquely addressable resources), but rather “REST
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““We visited SaintGobain Advanced Ceramic’s facility in East Granby, Connecticut, where they were in the infancy stages of manufacturing CERBEC precision balls out of ceramic (silicon nitride) material,” says Bill Popoli, president of IBAG North Ame
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“starting with micron sizes powder which is compacted and then densified at extremely high pressures and temperatures. The densified blanks are then precision finished using free-abrasive diamond lapping procedures. Grade 3 and 5 precision levels are typi
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Title: Onward & Upward with the Arts – Farewell, My Lovely
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“Catherine Fosl demonstrates how racism, sexism, and anticommunism intersected in the 20th-century south. Braden’s story connects southern reform drives of the 1930s and 1940s to the mass civil rights movement of the 1960s and to the continuation of rac
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La Rue Spiker and:
“African American, Cold War, New Deal, New York, Anne Braden, Supreme Court, Rone Court, Carl Braden, Andrew Wade, Jim Crow, Communist Party, Old Left, Red Scare, United States, Charlotte Wade, Martin Luther King, Civil War, Deep South
links for 2007-04-24
April 24, 2007-
Dick Atlee was telling me about this at the last library tea.
“From Booklist
Kunstler established a writing career criticizing American suburbia (e.g., The Geography of Nowhere, 1993), and his animosity against his bete noire does not abate here. It’s a -
“Sullivan met with about a dozen of Ross Alameddine’s former elementary school classmates in the lower level of the church yesterday afternoon, after the church’s regular Sunday Mass es . He said Alameddine, 20 , attended the 420 -student St. Mary’s Schoo
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“The intention is to demonstrate the ability of OpenURL resolvers to provide context-sensitive, extended services based on the metadata embedded in OpenURLs and to describe the construction of simple OpenURL resolver software. The software described here
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This may be what I’ve been looking for to get arbitrary OpenURL references into del.icio.us
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Creating Links to Full Text | FSU Libraries
You can use the SFX OpenURL Generator to build a dynamic URL to a full text … The URL that you construct using the SFX OpenURL Generator can be used in …
http://www.lib.fsu.edu/sfx_linker – 29k – Cached – Similar -
The most widely-used link server and the linking solution of choice for over 1,000 libraries worldwide, SFX – the original OpenURL link resolver – is an innovative tool for interconnecting library-controlled resources and services. SFX provides users with
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“In case you’re interested in the code, here’s a compressed tar file of the 200+ lines of code and the support files to exercise it. No promises that it’s abstract enough to build a Wiki on, but I did go to the trouble of adding the gratuitous white-spac
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This appears to be about as far as Maine gets on Library 2.0 technologies. I got here whilst trying to find a OpenURL referrer in Maine.
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“Library cataloging, classification, metadata, subject access and related topics.”
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“The COinS Generator is ready for comment at
http://generator.ocoins.info/ The COinS generator is running on a
fully functional instance of Openly’s 1Cate Link Resolver, so you can
send it OpenURL 0.1 or 1.0 links and get back COinS info. We have -
“Try this: if you’re writing in your weblog about some book you’ve read, the book is the referent. You want people reading your weblog to be able to get that book, or at least to look it up somewhere, easily. So, you could post a link to an online booksto
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Author: White
Title: Onward & Upward with the Arts – Farewell, My Lovely
Source: The New Yorker [0028-792X] yr:1936 pg:20-22
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“He published Ho Hum in 1931, Another Ho Hum in 1932, Every Day Is Saturday in 1934, and in 1936, in the New Yorker, under the pseudonym Lee Strout White, the essay “Farewell My Lovely!” One of his best-known pieces, it was suggested to him by a manuscrip
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Author: White
Title: The Talk of the Town – Comment – We saw a Moto-Scoot in Abercrombie’s
Source: The New Yorker [0028-792X] yr:1936 pg:7-7
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1885 Benz
1898 Leon Bollee Tri-Car
1901 Riker Torpedo Racer
1902 Oldsmobile Runabout
1902 Rambler Runabout
1903 Mercedes Simplex Tourer
1903 Prescott Runabout
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1901 Steffey Motorcycle
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1868 Velocipede Boneshaker
1870 Noyes Tricycle
ca. 1875 Mergomobile
1879 Harvard Highwheeler
ca. 1885 Quadrant Tricycle
ca. 1885 American Star Safety Highwheeler
ca. 1887 Safety Bicycle
ca 1890 National Offset Tricycle
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ca. 1880 Simpson Dennison Launch Engine 1915 Smith Motor Wheel
1880 Merlin Portable Steam Engine 1916 Lawrance Twin
ca. 1885 Horizontal Compound Steam Engine 1917 Clerget Rotary
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Inspired by David Weitzman’s wonderful Model T: How Henry Ford Built a Legend, I’ve been riffing on the Tin Lizzie. I like it because it’s minimal, simple and archetypal. There are some wonderful resources: videos, parts catalogs (I could almost build one
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“I have worked in education and history museums for 20 years, and I have yet to find a more complete and entertaining guide for “doing” local history. Weitzman has compiled activities and ideas that teach all aspects of local and family history: using the
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“Welcome to our Virtual Museum of Scooter Advertising. We collect these images over time and clean, repair, and in some cases, recreate them in Photoshop. additional images may be added over time. Please help us by sending us scans of your your scooter ad
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“Author White, E. B. (Elwyn Brooks), 1899-
Title Farewell to model T by Lee Strout White; drawings by Alain.
Publisher New York, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1936.“
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“The next essay, “From Sea to Shining Sea” was written in 1953, telling about a trip that Mr. White took across America thirty-one years before in one of those Model Ts. He and his friend were young. Instead of taking along a Blue Book, they brought
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“Neat spring-based cloth simulation in the browser.”
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This is a great telephone. We’ve got three of them in use. Simple design. They just work.
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“A procedure known as a mind-meld … making it possible to share thoughts, experience, memories, and knowledge with another individual. Vulcans can perform mind melds with members of most other species, most notably humans, with Captain Jonathan Archer b
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“a Native American pueblo built on top of a 367-foot (112 m) sandstone mesa in the U.S. state of New Mexico. The Pueblo, believed to have been established in the 12th century or even earlier, was chosen in part because of its defensive position against ra
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From Library Journal
America’s history and heritage can be traced almost as far back as the earliest civilizations in Asia and Africa. This latest contribution to local American history, written by the director of the Smithsonian National Museum of Ameri -
34 Arkansas 51.3 19.82
35 Oklahoma 50.3 19.40
36 Arizona 45.2 17.43
37 Colorado 41.5 16.01
38 Maine 41.3 15.95
39 Oregon 35.6 13.76
40 Kansas 32.9 12.69
41 Utah 27.2 10.50
42 Nebraska 22.3 8.60
43 Nevada 18.2 7.03
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“sprayed-on linings. Since the company’s inception in 1988, Rhino Linings USA’s mission has been to design top-quality SprayCast™ equipment and develop proprietary, high performance polyurethane, polyurea and hybrid formulations for commercial, indu
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… promotes performance, education, and research in improvised music, and illuminates connections between musical improvisation and creativity across fields.
Reflecting the melding of diverse cultures, ethnicities, disciplines, and ideas that sh
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/born 1956/ is a rare example of a person whose educational background includes studies in classical music / piano, composition /, technology/ electroacoustics.
Konikiewicz has a well-established position in several fields of activity especially as a : C -
“1. It’s simple.
I don’t need to spend time figuring out how to use it. Set up is quick and so is the ability to update.
2. It’s social.
We’re adding friends, and keeping track of other people’s updates as ‘followers’. When you visi
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What I don’t get is why I should want to use a site that only allows me to post books.
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Richard stopped by for a visit today.
“can’t have a conversation without the internet.”
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“In London, during October 1993, England is playing Holland in the preliminaries of the World Cup. The Bosnian War is at its height, and refugees from the ex-Yugoslavia are arriving. Football rivals, and political adversaries from the Balkans all precipit
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“Honesty and straightforwardness in strangers is a rarity. Treasure those who truly exemplify these traits — because you may never again meet another who does.”
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Saw it at Borders yesterday
“engine production records, radius and brake rods, centerdoor sedan, pinion bearing spool, black wire wheels, magneto horn, inner axle bearings, babbitt pinion bearing, clash strips, small electric tail light, driveshaft housi -
“White first wrote about the flivver in “Farewell to Model T,” which appeared in the New Yorker in 1936. Rich in comic descriptions of the T’s many eccentricities and the absurd demands it put on its devoted owners, this was the first of White’s essays to
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“Although Google Scholar is very useful for identifying the title, author, and other bibliographic information associated with an article, very often one cannot use Google Scholar to access the full text of an article. This is because Google Scholar’s res
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“p2p file sharing is a natural evolutionary step
We’ve been massively distributed for hundreds of years!
We can help each other
Keep your horizons long if you want to effect lasting change (that’s generations, not years, or even decades)
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Charismatic characthers, documentary style mixed with obvious play-acting.
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TEA
A MAGAZINE®
A consumer quarterly magazine all about tea, both as a beverage and for its cultural significance in art, music, literature, history, and society. TEA also produces many tea books, tea items, and conducts classes about tea.
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“Yes, this is the official web site of Harold “Dynamite” Payson, author of Build the New Instant Boats, and many other popular books on boat building and modeling. This is the place to get plans, books, sails, etc. by mail. If you’d like, call Harold hims
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“Dinghy Description
Dinghy FAQs
NEW! Mail from Pudgy Owners
Photo Gallery
Links: Choosing the Best Dinghy
Detailed Drawing of Fully Rigged Dinghy
Dimensional Drawing of Basic Dinghy
Contact Us
Price List
Davit Hanging, Towing, a
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One of the characters in Wassup Rocker was wearing an Emerica t-shirt.
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“To use Parakey, you’ll need to download a small app onto your computer – which essentially turns your computer into a local server, thus enabling offline access. Kind of similar to how Dave Winer’s Radio Userland blogging tool works. This description cou
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Jorn: “Mellow linkblog”
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“Van has figured out how the next round of networking performance improvements will happen, and he has the numbers to prove it. Expect some very interesting (and fundamental) changes in the Linux networking stack as Van’s ideas are incorporated. This arti
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How does *this* relate content-centric networking?
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“Here’s what I’ve already learned: Being poor doesn’t mean not wanting things; it means wanting the right things for the right reasons. When these clothes wear out, I’ll get new ones. In time, I’ll want a new computer for my freelance writing work. Severa
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“It only took a couple of years for Darwin to formulate the idea of evolution by natural selection. It took thirty years to frame that idea in a way that would convince other scientists and the general public. Both the idea, and the rhetorical strategy th
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“The point is not that any one story line is right. With so much horror, such extreme mental illness and so many victims, no single story line can be. But it is important to ask whether more robust responses to stalking and mental illness would have made
Talkabout 