
3/7/2010
Eighty-second annual Academy Awards begin at 5:30 PM Pacific Time on ABC, preceded at 3 PM by the Red Carpet show, and followed at 8:30 PM by the one-hour Barbara Walters Special, then more of the Red Carpet format with some of the winners, until the News at 11 PM. Nothing really after that.
3/21/2010
Ten-part series, Life, begins on the Discovery Channel. Episodes include: Challenges of Life, Reptiles and Amphibians, Mammals, Fish, Birds, Insects, Hunters and Hunted, Creatures of the Deep, Plants, and Primates (NOTE - Though the Website insists that the series contains ten parts, the television commercials are calling it an eleven-part series. Oprah Winfrey narrates).
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3/5/2010 - DUBAI AND BAALBEK
The roof that covers the indoor ski slopes in Dubai, UAE (see ALEF Places - Dubai, United Arab Emirites) weighs over 3,000-tons and was raised 147 feet into position. And yet it remains a superhuman (even supernatural) mystery how the 2,000-ton megaliths were lifted into place at the Temple of Jupiter in Baalbek, Lebanon (see ALEF Ancient Places - Lebanon - Baalbak).
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3/3/2010 - "SERIAL KILLA"
Too bad, but little surprise, that a 12,000-pound "Killer" Whale at Sea World in Orlando, Florida "killed" one of its trainers; especially having killed twice before: Another trainer in Canada in 1991, and a naked man found lying dead on its back in 1999. Hell, that would be a Serial Killer Whale by human standards. While a poor mountain lion would have been hunted down and killed just for snarling at someone's child.
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2/25/2010 - AMERICAN FATWA
The Missile Defense Agency, www.MDA.Mil, a part of the US Department of Defense, was originally established in 1983 as the Strategic Defense Initiative, then renamed to the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization in 1993, and finally to the Missile Defense Agency in 2002. It's recent logo change has stirred-up a few questions.
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Who Invented the Typewriter?
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SOFTMAKER OFFICE
You've read the disappointing horror stories across the Web about the Open Office Suite of programs provided free from Sun Microsystems. Perhaps you've also read our article on our own abysmal experiences with it (see ALEF Articles - Open Orifice).
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Obama's mandation of health care.
Sarah Palin, for President?
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2/25/2010 - CHILDREN'S CRUSADE
The story of the US Baptist group arrested at the Haitian border for illegally trying to take thirty-three earthquake orphans out of the country (none of whom, according to the AP, were even orphans) reminds me of the Children's Crusade. There is much disagreement about how much of the story is actually true and how much is legend. Some say the story is actually a synthesis of two different historic movements, some say the children were probably not as young as once thought, and others say Jerusalem was not even the intended destination. But in 1212 AD, 30 - 40,000 children from France and Germany, based upon a young French or German boy's visions of Jesus telling him to make a crusade to the Holy Land and peacefully convert Muslims to Christianity, mobilized toward the Mediterranean, but the sea did not part as they apparently had expected. Kind sea "merchants" offered many of them passage, but instead sold them into slavery in Tunisia or shipwrecked off Sardinia. The rest died of exhaustion or starvation.
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STUDENT SLAPS GOOGLE BUZZ WITH PRIVACY LAWSUIT
Despite the changes being made by Google, there seems to be no end to the criticism against the Internet search giant. Now a student at Harvard Law School has filed a class action suit against the company for making personal information of the users public.
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I often wonder what the individuals behind the New World Order want. They have had control of earth all through history. They control the money, they control the minds of the unaware. Control is the recurring agenda here. All the evidence combined concludes that they want total control of the collective mind, which is what God is.
Roger S Bullock
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KAZAKHSATAN
Kazakhstan, or KazakhSatan, as more and more people are referring to it, interestingly the land of Borat, the home of its first leader, President Nursultan Nazarbayev, and the site of their new capital at Astana, the first world capital built in the Twenty-first Century. And what a curious building project it is, and one that makes even Dubai pale in comparison. Needless to say, it has all stirred up a great number of Global Urban Legends revolving around the Satanic, One World Government, the New World Order, Paganism, the Occult, and the Antichrist.
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GOOGLE KNOWS YOU'RE BUZZING ABOUT BUZZ
You can't say Google is resting on its globe-encircling laurels. Recently the massive search company created Google Wave, an innovative collaboration tool that brings people together so they can work to figure out what Google Wave is good for.
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2/10/2010 - OLD AND IMPROVED JIMMY FALLON
Jimmy Fallon is certainly the most improved host among the bunch. And all it took was becoming his old self again (his singing, his impersonations, and his charm), instead of awkwardly emulating the mannerisms of the vastly inferior talents of a Carson and a Letterman.
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In three years, when the low-end WiFi-powered iPad costs $199, many households will buy 3 or 4 of them and just leave them lying around the house. These iPads won't be "owned" by any one member of the household, the way PCs and cell phones are. They won't live on desks, the way desktops do, and they won't be carried everywhere, the way mobile phones are. They'll just be there, around the house, on tables and counters, the way today's books, magazines, games, and newspapers are, booted up, ready to use.
From We Have Seen The Amazing Future Of Apple's iPad And This Is It, by Henry Blodget, at www.BusinessInsider.Com, on 1/29/2010
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2/1/2010 - OPERATING SYSTEMS MARKET SHARE
From PCMagazine.Com, 1/31/2010
Windows XP - 66.15%
Windows Vista - 17.47%
Windows 7 - 7.57%
Mac OS X 10.5 - 2.37%
Mac OS X 10.6 - 1.8%
(Linux not even mentioned - usually around 1.5%. Imagine, that in only 1.5% of the market are enough computer experts to foster an entire Linux community, to create and maintain more than 200 different versions, and to have a global breadth of users (there is likely a much higher relative percentage of experts in Linux. In Mac and Windows, maybe 5%. In Linux, probably 50%).
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1/28/2010 - KKKHRIS MATTHEWS
Chris Matthews of MSNBC has often been described as a head-over-heels idolater of Barack Obama. In fact, after Obama's first State of the Union Address, Matthews was so enamored with the speech, so excited about "an African-American guy in front of a bunch of other white people," that he said he forgot that Obama was Black.
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THE TRUE IDENTITY OF THE SO-CALLED PALESTINIANS
In this essay I would like to present the true origin and identity of the Arab people commonly known as "Palestinians," and the widespread myths surrounding them. This research is intended to be completely neutral and objective, based on historic and archaeological evidences as well as other documents, including Arab sources, and quoting statements by authoritative Islamic personalities.
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1/22/2010 - JEAN SIMMONS DIES
British actress, Jean Simmons, died today of lung cancer at her home in Santa Monica, California, at eighty years of age.
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Obama completed his first year as President and has three years left; but NBC offered him $45 million to leave altogether.
Jimmy Fallon, 1/21/2010
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1/21/2010 - CONAN: ONE DAY LEFT
NBC has finally settled with Conan O'Brian for $45 million. What a whirlwind! One day Conan learns that his show is terminally ill and, in a week, it's dead. Man, that Comcast doesn't mess around.
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1/20/2010 - PENGUIN AWARENESS DAY
Today, January 20, is actually Penguin Awareness Day. It would be a great time to familiarize yourself with the Linux operating system, since the penguin is its logo.
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President Obama took something that was in terrible, terrible shape and brought it back to life: The Republican Party.
Jay Leno, 1/20/2010
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Nimbus - Nimrod
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1/20/2010 - OBAMA'S FIRST ANNIVERSARY
I complained the other day about the fact that President Obama, despite the graciousness of saying nothing when attacked with racist rhetoric or satire, should occasionally make some kind of formal and official statement - if only for those of us who are either personally offended or simply do not believe such dialog should ever be permitted to go unacknowledged and uncriticized in our society (see 1/9/2010 - Racist Harry Reid Remains Senate Grand Dragon).
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1/20/2010 - TEAM LENO
The above is a morphing of Jay Leno and Robert Pattinson from the Twilight series. God knows it brings a modest gentleness to Leno's look after the recent events. It represents our ongoing endorsement of Jay Leno as the best "asset" of late night. It accompanies our grave disappointment, after ten years of avid support, in Conan's subsequent five-and-a-half-year-long decline into infantile obscurity. It also accompanies our newfound disgust with Jimmy Kimmel for placing vileness above comedy and our ongoing disrespect for David Letterman.
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1/20/2010 - AVATAR AND "HUMAN AUTHORITY FIGURES"
People are beginning to report headaches, nausea, dizziness, blurred vision, hypertension, and most importantly, suicidal impulses after seeing Avatar. In fact at least one person has officially died already after collapsing during the movie, being rushed to the hospital, and first being diagnosed with a brain hemorrhage.
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1/19/2010 - GOODBYE, CONAN O'BRIEN. PWNED!
It's about time the piano realized it didn't write the sonata.
All About Eve
Conan:
When you were still in shock from Comcast's brutal corporate blindsiding, you had the laughable audacity to talk about protecting and preserving the Tonight Show "franchise," as if it were yours to protect and preserve. As if you thought you owned the show. But you were the one who was owned (see 1/7/2010 - Owned!)!
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1/18/2010 - TIM CONWAY, JR AT KFI
Tim Conway, Jr, the recently acquired KFI Los Angels radio talk show host, used until now for the 4 to 7 PM weekend show and for occasional vacation relief, has been awarded the 7 to 10 PM weekday show vacated by the vacuous Bryan Suits.
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1/16/2010 - NBC'S CORPORATE CONDUCT
And let's face it, has NBC really acted that egregiously?
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1/10/2010 - "TIGER, TIGER, BURNING BRIGHT"
William Blake
This is what I mean about intentionally misguided criticism of the entitled.
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1/9/2010 - RACIST HARRY REID REMAINS SENATE GRAND DRAGON
"light-skinned with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one."
Democratic Senator and Majority Leader, Harry Reid
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1/7/2010 - OWNED!
When it gets to the point that Conan's still and lifeless wax figure exhibits more integrity and vitality than Conan himself, the time is overdue for him to go. And I suspect that Conan has bitterly known it for about as long as we have, but has not only been unwilling to address the matter, but even appears to be intentionally exacerbating it in a kind of relenting defiance.
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ALEF People - Bridget Fonda
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NEWLY EDITED AND FORMATTED ALEF TEXTS
ALEF Texts - Alexander Hislop - The Two Babylons
ALEF Texts - Arthur Schopenhauer - Studies In Pessimism
ALEF Texts - Barbara Aho - Mystery Babylon the Great
ALEF Texts - Karl Marx - Communist Manifesto
ALEF Texts - Stuart Bruce - Modern Law Is Babylonian Code
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WAS THE JFK ASSASSINATION REALLY A SUICIDE?
In progress.
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GOOGLE CHROME - YOU GOT SPAWNED!
We, along with many others concerned about privacy, freedom, and autonomy, have warned of Google's evil intentions and nefarious agendas for years now, despite their pretentious "Do No Evil" motto: Their free products that spy, track, and collect private information, their ravenous and surreptitious data-gathering assignment from on high, and their license agreements that take absolute ownership of everything that you pass through their servers.
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ALEF Anarchism
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ALEF ANARCHISM
In progress.
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12/21/2012
1,018 days until Friday, 12/21/2012 (4 Ahau 3 Kankin), end of the Mayan Calendar
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Here we are in the years.
Neil Young
DECADE
We look forward to fondly reminiscing with all of you about the passing decade ... but not for another year, of course. For, despite the media's preference for excitement and incitement over accuracy and truth and the public's ease in accepting their dishonesty, and despite the audacity of those in power to hold up four fingers and insist that there are five, with the same shamelessness that they trample over climate science to promote their environmental agendas at any cost, 2 + 2 is still 4, and the decade, like the century and the millenium, still begins at 1, and not at 0.
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THE IPHONE IS RUINING THE COUNTRY
Cell phones are nothing but time-wasters. It's time to get rid of them and refocus on the PC.
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Doctors, hospitals, vaccines, and cancer clinics could all disappear tomorrow
and most people would actually be far better off. Of course, no one disputes the
value of having emergency rooms to handle acute trauma and accidents, but when
it comes to preventive medicine and protecting quality of life, western medicine
is a near-total failure.
Mike Adams, NaturalNews.Com, 9/1/2009
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Activists Protest Swedish Journalist Donald Bostrom, Who Accused Israel of Stealing Organs From Dead Palestinians
ISRAEL HARVESTED ORGANS WITHOUT PERMISSION
Jerusalem (CNN) - Israel harvested organs from bodies in the 1990s without permission of family members, the former head of a state-run forensic laboratory said in a newly released interview.
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12/18/2009 - MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Merry Christmas, to whomever it may concern! And to our many other dear friends among the Jews, Muslims, Jehovah's Witnesses, atheists, ACLU, and all the well-meaning detractors of the yuletide season, just as we acknowledge and encourage the celebration of all of the various holidays and cultural, religious, and social events, including, no less, the right to personally celebrate none or Nothing, we do not respect anyone who condemns or interferes with someone else's harmless celebrations and hope, if nothing else, we can all at least just enjoy the extra day off, in this time of good will to all, and otherwise just shut the fuck up. We'll all be back at work together soon enough slaving equally for the Masters.
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Character Is Destiny
Heraclitus
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12/13/2009 - MUSLIM MOON
There is always some amount of prurient confusion in any discussion of Homosexuality and Islam. Indeed there has been a fair share from both corners in response to recent notices (see 11/9/2009 - "Muslim Backlash", 11/7/2009 - Fort Hood, and 11/6/2009 - Unjust Desert; but especially see 11/6/2009 - Your Ass Is the Bomb!; and also 9/4/2009 - Down Low In Afghanistan" and 8/10/2009 - Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Don't Release Photographs).
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HISTORICAL FACTS ABOUT THE DANGERS (AND FAILURES) OF VACCINES
Vaccines are the quackery of modern medicine. Mass vaccination programs not only fail to protect the population from infectious disease, they actually accelerate the spread of disease in many cases.
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12/12/2009 - BLACK POPE
The Vatican has uploaded its playlist of twelve songs onto their official MySpace streaming music service page, released this week in the UK. Along with selections from Mozart and Shirley Bassey are Muse's Uprising and Tupac Shakur's Changes.
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ALEF Lyrics - Z Z Top - Rough Boy
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11/29/2009 - GO GET EM, TIGER!
Tiger Woods, as famous for being a "Black" golfer as he is famous for just being a highly talented golfer, but who is actually one-quarter Chinese, one-quarter Thai, one-eighth Native American, one-eighth Dutch, and only one-quarter Black (but who is nevertheless promoted in the same disingenuous and racist manner as are Barack Obama and Halle Berry), after leaving his home in the tightly-guarded Isleworth, Florida gated community, had a severe accident at 2:30 AM in his Cadillac SUV in front of his house while trying to leave his driveway! The vehicle hit both a fire hydrant and a tree and sustained over $8,000 worth of damage.
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Anne Kilmer - Hurrian Cuneiform Song (Oldest in the World) (Audio)
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11/26/2009 - HAPPY THANKSGIVING
President Obama pardoned his first turkey today, Courage, sent from North Carolina. A second turkey, named Carolina, was also provided in the event that Courage died before he could be granted a pardon from death.
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11/25/2009 - OUR AMERICAN HYPOCRISY
Americans proudly promote the spread of our great innovation and inventiveness, our far-reaching, modern ideas, and our superior values, boasting when the rest of the world follows our leads and consents to our grandiose American Way, especially so that history can record the transmission for our proud posterity.
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WAKE UP, AMERICA: FORCED VACCINATIONS, QUARANTINE CAMPS, HEALTH CARE INTERROGATIONS, AND MANDATORY 'DECONTAMINATIONS'
The United States of America is devolving into medical fascism and Massachusetts is leading the way with the passage of a new bill, the "Pandemic Response Bill" 2028, reportedly just passed by the MA state Senate and now awaiting approval in the House. This bill suspends virtually all Constitutional rights of Massachusetts citizens and forces anyone "suspected" of being infected to submit to interrogations, "decontaminations" and vaccines.
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11/24/2009 - MAN'S SON
Forty-one-year-old Matthew Roberts, a Los Angeles DJ born in the Hippie summer of 1968, learned at ten that he was adopted, but did not begin to trace his lineage until he was twenty-nine. He located his birth mother in Wisconsin, learned that he was originally named Lawrence Alexander, but did not discover the truth about his father for some time later.
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11/23/2009 - TAYLOR SWIFT
Taylor Swift is not the young artifact from American Idol. That was Carrie Underwood.
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11/22/2009 - WHY THE LONG FACES, LOS ANGELES?
Why the long faces, Los Angeles? It's nothing new. It's just another in an endless stream of examples of elite entitlement, double standards, and our two-tier legal system.
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WILL WINDOWS 7 PROMOTE LINUX ADOPTION?
I've done a bit of research on Windows 7 Enterprise to discover some of its new features and to uncover its secrets. From what I've seen so far, Microsoft has provided some interesting Linux-esque features that might accidentally boost Linux adoption as a side effect. The two primary features to which I refer are 7's ability to natively use virtual hard disks (VHDs) and the easy to add on UNIX-compatibility services and applications.
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AGNOSTICISM
There's got to be something better than 'In the middle.'
One Headlight, Wallflowers
Agnosticism is a philosophical and theological position of cowardice; or at best, a state of intellectual incompleteness. From the Greek a, 'not,' and gnosis, 'knowledge,' or 'to know.' Thus the agnostic claims not to know if God exists, and by extension, that God's existence cannot be known.
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GOOGLE CHROME OS - A THREAT TO WINDOWS 7?
Google OS has been warmly embraced by the anti-Microsoft crowd, but Davey Winder is less than blown over by the announcement.
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NATIVES - GEORGE PAL WAS NEITHER
Suffering and travail are certainly not exclusive to America; the older cultures of Western and Eastern Europe have had more than their fair shares. And no doubt some number of their artists have crossed over and come here and shared the enlightenment that their particular suffering has brought forth, finding commonality in the American experience and imparting something special to our welcoming audiences.
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WINDOWS 7 IS A WINNER, MOSTLY
Win 7 is good, but it has factors working against it-including Microsoft's track record.
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11/20/2009 - MODERN SLAVERY
Currently, more than twenty-seven million human beings are being held in slavery in every country in the world and in every state in the US. Whether in forced labor, especially agricultural, or in forced prostitution, especially of minors, that is more than twice the total number of human beings subjected to slavery during the entire 350 years of the Atlantic Slave Trade.
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Doctors, hospitals, vaccines, and cancer clinics could all disappear tomorrow and most people would actually be far better off. Of course, no one disputes the value of having emergency rooms to handle acute trauma and accidents, but when it comes to preventive medicine and protecting quality of life, western medicine is a near-total failure. Mike Adams, NaturalNews.Com, 9/1/2009
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LINUX AND LINUX MINT
Linux may be one of the most important things in your life you may or may not have ever heard of, and it stands beside the Pyramids at Giza as one of the most amazing achievements of human cooperation and endeavor. It is a computer operating system like Microsoft Windows, or Apple Macintosh OS X, or, for those who remember, MS-DOS, PC-DOS, VAX-VMS, VM, UNIX, AIX, OS/2, and CP/M, to list but a few.
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Where America, the Indies?
Antipholus of Syracuse, Comedy of Errors
The only reference to America in all of Shakespeare
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11/18/2009 - SARAH PALIN GOING ROUGE
Sarah Palin's new book, Going Rogue is out. At first, I thought it was called "Going Rouge," as in makeup, because, after all, she tries to promote herself as a woman instead of simply as a neutral gender human being. And it also comes from the word "red," the official color of her Russian neighbors.
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WINDOWS 7 VODKA AND THE MICROSOFT HANGOVER
Microsoft can't change perceptions if it doesn't get its marketing and PR acts together.
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11/15/2009 - TOP 500 SUPERCOMPUTERS
The list is out for the month of November, 2009 that breaks down the operating systems used in the top 500 supercomputers:
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11/10/2009 - "BY JUPITER, FORGOT!"
Coriolanus
It is early in the evening of November 10, 2009, the date planned for the execution by lethal injection of John Allen Muhammad, the man known as the "DC Sniper," who terrorized Virginia, Maryland, and Washington DC for three weeks in 2002 and left ten dead.
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11/9/2009 - MUSLIM "BACKLASH"
The "backlash" against Muslim-Americans that I warned about in my discussion of Fort Hood (see 11/7/2009 - Fort Hood) is underway and has already become more sloppy and reckless than I would have imagined.
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Fourth Infantry Division Memorial at Fort Hood, Texas
11/7/2009 - FORT HOOD
There will no doubt be plenty of time to discuss the numerous irregularities that have already surfaced at the military base at Fort Hood, Texas, a city unto itself with 92,000 citizens, 57,000 of whom are military personnel. To date, thirteen are dead and thirty others are either wounded or injured after thirty-nine-year-old Major Nidal Malik Hasan opened fire on soldiers on November 5, 2009.
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11/6/2009 - UNJUST DESERT
A humble shop owner was arrested and convicted of a series of sexual molestations of young boys, culminating in the brutal rape of an eleven-year-old, later left to die of thirst and exposure in the desert heat. The man was first beheaded then crucified for all others to behold and be made to seriously consider the consequences of such crimes.
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NATURAL NEWS CALLS FOR BOYCOTT ON KINDLE, IPHONE, AND OTHER BIG BROTHER DRM TECHNOLOGIES
Two weeks ago when Amazon.com remotely deleted copies of books that customers had purchased for their Kindle devices, it was a wake-up call for many consumer. "Huh? They can delete stuff I already bought?" Welcome to the world of DRM technology.
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DUAL ASPECT THEORY
Plato and Aristotle formalized the standards for the two opposite poles that attempt to define the nature of reality, which, along with questions about the nature of being, are the main concerns of the branch of Metaphysics known as Ontology, as well as of the less formal area of study called Philosophy of Mind.
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MICROSOFT BLOWS UP THE CLOUD
The EULA is the problem; it lets companies be lax about their products and services.
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WHY OPEN SOURCE MISSES THE POINT OF FREE SOFTWARE
When we call software "free," we mean that it respects the users' essential freedoms: The freedom to run it, to study and change it, and to redistribute copies with or without changes. This is a matter of freedom, not price, so think of "free speech," not "free beer."
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Open Orifice
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OPEN ORIFICE
Like everyone who is fleeing from the fascism of Microsoft products, some to the Macintosh others, like me, to Linux, particularly Linux Mint, it is not enough to replace just Windows. There are also a number of their applications as well. Opera is the best replacement for Internet Explorer and Outlook or Outlook Express. And for applications like the suite of Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, and Outlook), that dominate our desktops, it appeared that the Open Office suite from the big player Sun Microsystems would be an important contender. Here was a product that could replace the Microsoft suite, application by application. And they had versions for most platforms including Windows and Linux, it was half the size, and was even easy to turn into a portable application. And to cap it all off, it was even Open Source software and free! But unfortunately, the Open Office suite of applications from Sun Microsystems, version 3.x, is a dismal disappointment and a complete worthless piece of crap.
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CANCER IS NOT A DISEASE
What you are about to read may rock or even dismantle the very foundation of your beliefs about your body, health, and healing. The title, Cancer Is Not a Disease may be unsettling for many, provocative to some, but encouraging for all. This book will serve as a revelation for those who are sufficiently open-minded to consider the possibility that cancer and other debilitating illnesses are not actual diseases, but desperate and final attempts by the body to stay alive for as long as circumstances permit.
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MARIJUANA'S NEW HIGH LIFE
Cannabis is moving into the mainstream, with fashion, films, TV, and politicians acknowledging it's here to stay.
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The Thoth Thanatorium
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AFTER I DIE
Please don't burn, embalm,
Or bury me when I'm dead;
Out in the high desert calm
Let me rest instead.
Lean me against stones
To slowly harden and dry,
Be a dignity of bones
Long after I die.
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THE THOTH THANATORIUM
The words of a visionary, last wishes and lifelong dream of our revered and beloved founder; always in our thoughts and prayers ... and always in Enclosure 0000-00001, of course.
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WHAT IS HAPPENING TO WINDOWS 7?
Blame the tricky upgrade process - and, by extension, the registry - for the backlash against Windows 7.
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CLINTON'S IS IS
For, what is 'that' but 'that,' and 'is' but 'is?'
Clown, Twelfth Night
Even a clown could see through Bill Clinton's feeble "what the definition of is is."
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That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the Lord, and there is none else. I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.
Isaiah 45:6-7
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POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES
308,389,951 on 1/1/2010
Approximately 308,835,243 on 3/9/2010
6,646 per day, or 206,031 per month (1 Birth per 7 Sec, 1 Death per 11 Sec, 1 Net Immigrant per 34 Sec = 1 Net Person per 13 Sec). According to the US Census Bureau; settings recalibrated annually.
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POPULATION OF THE WORLD
6,793,593,686 on 1/1/2010
Approximately 6,807,287,499 on 3/9/2010
204,383 per day (factor of .000030085 or .0030085%), or 6,335,869 per month (factor of .000933 or .0933%). According to the International Programs Center of the US Census Bureau; settings recalibrated annually.
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