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POPSWelcome to ClipCast Welcome but so far I feel I have lost my community by entering into a room with no lights. What in the world is going on and what in the world is ClipCast. What happened to my Clipmarks Community? Okay I will keep on playing more to make some sense.
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POPSWar on Blogs? Hmm. . . could this have something to do with the user comments on the ill-fated Tom DeLay Blog?
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POPS10 Worst Internet Acquisitions Ever Ever heard of "MySimon"? CNET paid $700 million for it in '99. What about the online greeting card site "BlueMountain.com"? Excite@Home paid $780 million for it. So many billions of dollars down the drain.
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POPSTop 10 St. Patrick’s Pinups The Holidays are coming and it’s time for a good, old fashioned count-down of the 10 best St. Patrick’s Day Pinups. Put your green shades on and have a sexy St. Patrick’s day.
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POPS"Honor Killings" In America but multiculturalism hits a crossroads when honor killings come to America. The United States has avoided this bloodstained trend until recently. Some consider Kanwal's death the first documented honor killing here. Others point to the murder of sisters Amina and Sarah Said in Irving, Texas, on New Years' 2007. (Their MySpace page remains up. Featuring assimilated teen culture and American music, it is haunting.) Their father remains on the run from police. In upstate Monroe County just a few days ago, a girl was stabbed by her brother for wearing immodest western clothing and wanting to move to New York City. According to court documents, Waheed Allah Mohammad explained the stabbing by saying his sister was a "bad Muslim girl." "Honor killing is a misnomer," author and exile Ayaan Hirsi Ali told me. "The killing occurs because these girls have allegedly brought shame on their family. The paradox is that these are individuals who have emancipated themselves.
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POPSomg!!!! — Navy Cracks Kids' High-Tech Online Code Actual slide from an actual US Navy presentation on why recruitment rates are at record lows amongst the youngest generation and how deciphering their mysterious alien language could help. im in ur navy, draftin ur kidz!
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POPSShould Online identity remain anonymous? I think that this is a realy bad case of a disturbed human. while the net can be the vehicle it certainly is not the source of this behaviour. second unrelated thing is that in this days of the Web i really think we ought to reconsider and redefine what is anonymity?
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POPSThe Pushkin factor in romantic relationships
Brainy women are probably more sensitive to literary deal breakers than are brainy men. Rare is the guy who’d throw a pretty girl out of bed for revealing her imperfect taste in books.After all, women read more, especially when it comes to fiction. “It’s really great if you find a guy that reads, period,” said Beverly West.“Most of my friends and men in my life are nonreaders,” she said, but “now that you mention it, if I went over to a man’s house and there were those books about life’s lessons learned from dogs, I would probably keep my clothes on.” James Collins, whose new novel, “Beginner’s Greek,” is about a man who falls for a woman he sees reading “The Magic Mountain” on a plane, recalled that after college, he was “infatuated” with a woman who had a copy of “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” on her bedside table. “I basically knew nothing about Kundera, but I remember thinking, ‘Uh-oh; trendy, bogus metaphysics, sex involving a bowler hat’...
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POPSCelebrity Meter Although there are a few different standards for highlighting links like these, most social networking sites, blog software and hosting services support one or more. They're relying on site builders to highlight such links by using special markup. Google uses this information to build a graph of all sites and their links to one another. Rather than request the API from each site individually (Twitter followers, MySpace friends, etc.), Google provides a single RESTful API to send a simple query in one shot. While there are limits to this data (Facebook info is currently not available in this widget), the information we're getting is real and the friend information we're getting isn't a simple number but a list of live URLs that Google has vetted for us.