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POPSBBC: "Egypt women blog for their rights" Obsession with virginity Another blogger who wanted to remain anonymous, writes about her past as a drug addict and has criticised what she calls Arab society's "continuing obsession with female virginity. "My blog is a way to remind myself that I am not alone, Even if no one reads it, I would still keep writing," she says. Another significant way in which the blogosphere is being used to change Egyptian society is that it is one of the few public spaces in Egypt where men and women are represented more-or-less equally. It makes collaboration on social issues possible between men and women. Subjects that are taboo on the street can be discussed online. They discuss issues such as sexual harassment, which is often pigeon-holed in Egypt as a "woman's problem".
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POPSThe 10 Most Worthless College Majors Philosophy Why It Won’t Help You Get a Job: This isn’t ancient Greece: No one is going to pay you money, or allow you to sodomize their attractive son, in exchange for your knowledge of existence. Never has there been an employer who’s said “Man, we’re having all kinds of problems, I wish we had someone on our team who could reference and draw conclusions from the story of Siddhartha that would pull up our fourth quarter numbers.” I took many philosophy classes and it involved reading and smoking a shit pile of weed. You don’t need to pay 20,000 dollars a year to do that. All you need is twenty dollars and a library card. What Job You’ll End Up With: Thanks to your extensive knowledge of philosophy, you’re now self-aware enough to know that most jobs out there will make you totally miserable. So most likely you’ll wait tables part time and hope someone starts paying you for the bi-monthly entries on your blog.
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POPS Thug Ed Markey (D-MA) Tried to Launch Investigation on Climate Bill Opponent!
… Our witnesses… have every right to expect that in exchange for their honesty with us, they will not be subjected to sanction, retribution and vengeance simply because the facts and opinions they offer do not square with those of the Committee’s members. Exercising the power of the Majority requires a special responsibility to protect witnesses. … As the hearing was still under way, however, Mr. Sokol and his company became the focus of apparent intimidation when Chairman Markey by letter dated the day of the hearing, asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to answer specific questions about investment and transmission-related activities of MidAmerican Energy and its parent, investor Warren Buffett… … An after-the-fact rationalization, however, does not change the appearance that Chairman Markey’s June 9 letter to FERC was intended to badger and harass a witness whose offense was merely daring to disagree with Mr. Markey
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POPSLiving Lightly A project led by David Chernushenko, producer of the film, BE THE CHANGE... Chernushenko was interviewed on the local cable station last evening.
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POPSThe Axis of Evil: An Idiot's Guide: David Frum Joseph Cirincione, the man most widely identified as Obama's top nuclear-affairs adviser, last September pooh-poohed as "far-right" "nonsense" the early rumors that the Syrian nuclear facility was indeed a nuclear facility. Cirincione wrote on the Foreign Policy blog: "This appears to be the work of a small group of officials leaking cherry-picked, unvetted 'intelligence' to key reporters in order to promote a pre-existing political agenda. If this sounds like the run-up to the war in Iraq, it should. This time it appears aimed at derailing the U.S.-North Korean agreement that administration hardliners think is appeasement. Some Israelis want to thwart any dialogue between the U.S. and Syria." Cirincione seems to have been so determined to avert what he regarded as the threat of U.S. over-reaction--so eager to promote dialogue with Syria--that he blinded himself to the reality of a nuclear threat.
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POPS Exposing The Hidden Jihad In America You can download a pdf file of a shorter version of the legal memorandum, which will be published in the Utah Law Review in Sept 2008. The Center also works to educate the public, press and policymakers on the significant risks of Shariah and Shariah-Compliant Finance through the blog http://shariahfinancewatch.wordpress.com and a free weekly email newsletter, the Shariah Risk Due Diligence Newsletter. In addition to the legal analysis cited above, the Shariah Risk Due Diligence financial research team has been hard at work and their analyses will be introduced in May and June. On April 17, the Center announced the launch of a national campaign to alert the public to the serious risks of Shariah-Compliant Finance and Shariah Law - the Stop Shariah Now campaign. Other organizations including ACT America have also started national campaigns to stop the spread of Shariah-Compliant Finance through the U.S. finance system.
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POPSopenomy "Openomy is an online file system. You can store files on Openomy and access them from any computer. Openomy organizes files and users via tags (as opposed to folders). You can choose to keep your files guarded by Openomy, or allow certain outside applications (of your choice) to do new and interesting things with your data."
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POPSWigix the eBay 2.0 Wigix is the new way to buy and sell online. It's a socially-driven marketplace, where you can communicate with like-minded collectors and traders. Get a live pricing history for each item and negotiate prices intelligently. Social communication encourages informed buying.
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POPSOprah Winfrey School Like a Prison? According to the article, Oprah is unaware of how strict the school's rules have become. This article came from a gossip blog, so it may have to be taken with a grain of salt. Still interesting reading, though.
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POPSEverything 2.0 " Mainly "thin" web-based variations on classical (Outlook!) office ware in this category. Only a few brilliant apps; most of them beat MS in bad logic, stupid interfaces and ugly GUIs:"
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POPSHOW THE CLINTONS WILL DESTROY JOHN MCCAIN Dr. Jack Wheeler Allegations of this nature have been made over the years, many by Vietnam veterans. There is an even an organization, Vietnam Veterans Against McCain. But they are based on suspicions and circumstantial claims. There has never been any hard direct evidence. What T says the CIA has is such evidence. Its release would destroy McCain. The threat of its release could force McCain to take a fall, blow the election and lose on purpose. And just who do you suppose would know what the CIA has and work with them to release it? Someone who has been a CIA asset since he was recruited by London station chief Cord Meyer while a student at Oxford in 1968? "They all darkly point to Bill's participation in anti-war peace conferences in Stockholm and Oslo, and his trip to Leningrad, Moscow, and Prague while he was at Oxford. We recruited Bill the first week he was at Oxford. Bill's been an asset of The Three Bad Words ever since." h/t lonewacko.com/blog/
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POPSQlipBoard-make a video with your voice and drawings over images and screen captures make a video with your voice and drawings over images and screen captures of pictures, documents and web pages and with one click. Publisher's description of QlipBoard Qlip Media makes QlipBoard--the easiest and coolest way to make a video with your voice and drawings over images and screen captures of pictures, documents and web pages and with one click. Share them with friends, family, co-workers, customers, and partners. Send as a multi-media email, embed in a blog to make an instant video blog or save locally to upload as a video, or use in a podcast. Use QlipBoard to explain anything, make talking pictures, or show-n-tell. Version 1.5.1779 features extended preferences section.
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POPSUse your mobile phone like a business card: myDropcard.com Kind of a cool idea. When you meet someone (in real life) and want to exchange contact information, send an SMS to this site with their email address, and they will be forwarded a link to a simple, professional-looking page with your email address, phone number, web link, and social networking profiles. Posted by Orli Yakuel.
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