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Real Name:n/a
Location:Egypt
Joined:2-10-2007
About me
I love to live in different countries. I've been in Egypt for nine months and hope to stay for another year thanks to Egypt's one year tourist visa. This is the longest I've lived in any country (except of course for the country of my birth). I'm an ex-pat, and a bit of a nomad because the world is too big and beautiful to stay home.
Why I use Clipmarks
To maintain a record of the state of the world as filtered through the Internet. In a way the Internet is like television, if you watch it too much your view can become distorted. On the other hand there is much to learn. It's a matter of judgment.







   
 
 
 
   
 
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New Orleans: The Art of the Corpse by Andre Codrescu
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by zizzy  Today 2:57 AM   
 New Orleans sank into the funk like a corpse into the embrace of the earth. The rows of fridges lining the streets looked by moonlight like primed canvasses ready for painting. The city’s artists, who have been enthralled since John James Audubon by New Orleans’ embrace of decay and death (Audubon purchased all his American birds dead from the French Market) were not long in reacting. New Orleans music and art had always been inspired by funk ... Now here was all this funk, magnified a thousand times. And here were all these metal tombs stretching as far as the eye could see, more numerous than the graves they resembled. ,,, In a short time, there were thousands of art works in the city, an exhibition that stretched for miles, Today, most of the show is closed. New Orleans always renewed its armies of ghosts after every disaster of its 500-year history, but this last addition came with its own unique, absolutely new style.
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Diagram: Empirical System for Separating the Different Proteins from Tissue
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by zizzy  Today 2:28 AM   
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America's First Couple
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by zizzy  Today 2:13 AM    3
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No Script: Java Script Blocker for Firefox (FREE)
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by zizzy  Yesterday 9:04 PM   
 I use No Script because it allows me to choose which sites to allow to execute JavaScript. It's free and so are the updates.
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Blind Man Bowls Perfect Game
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by zizzy  Yesterday 8:48 PM   
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Halliburton Facing Rape Lawsuit Trial
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by zizzy  Yesterday 8:16 PM   
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Kung Fu Finger Retires After A Lifetime of Achievement
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by zizzy  Yesterday 8:10 PM   
 Video on site.
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S.W.A.N.: Service Women's Action Network
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by zizzy  Yesterday 12:55 AM   
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In Debt We Trust
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by zizzy  5-11-2008    1
 ".. a powerful credit and debt industrial complex, deliberately fueled by excessive debt."
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NYT Letter to the Editor re: Immigrants Who Die in Custody
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by zizzy  5-11-2008   
 Link to story referenced in letter http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/05/nyregion/05detain.html?scp=1&sq=+Immigrants+Who+Die+in+Custody&st=nyt
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Guinness Layoffs, Closings, St. James Gate
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by zizzy  5-10-2008    1
 Thank goodness. I can now sleep better at night knowing that St. James Gate remains. :D
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That's Ms. Slutbucks to You
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by zizzy  5-10-2008    4
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Tips on Getting Yourself to Do Something You Don't Want to Do
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by zizzy  5-10-2008    2
 The fact is, you're unlikely to be happy or successful when every aspect of your life or job feels like a big drag. Don't accuse yourself of being lazy or being a procrastinator, but ask - what's making this so difficult? The fact that you're finding it hard to make yourself do something is a sign that maybe you should be doing something else. On the upside: novelty and challenge, as uncomfortable as they can be, DO bring happiness. The chore that feels onerous today may give you a huge boost of satisfaction tomorrow, when it's behind you. Keep that in mind.
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Eva Mendes Topless (and Toe Sucking)
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by zizzy  5-10-2008   
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Django Reinhardt, Stephan Grappelli - The Hot Club of France
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by zizzy  5-10-2008   
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Can You Become a Creature of New Habits?
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by zizzy  5-10-2008    1
 “I apprentice myself to someone when I want to learn something new or develop a new habit,” .... “Other people read a book about it or take a course. If you have a pathway to learning, use it because that’s going to be easier than creating an entirely new pathway in your brain.” ... three zones of existence: comfort, stretch and stress. Comfort is the realm of existing habit. Stress occurs when a challenge is so far beyond current experience as to be overwhelming. It’s that stretch zone in the middle — activities that feel a bit awkward and unfamiliar — where true change occurs. “Getting into the stretch zone is good for you .. “It helps keep your brain healthy ... unless we continue to learn new things, which challenges our brains to create new pathways, they literally begin to atrophy, which may result in dementia, Alzheimer’s and other brain diseases.
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Racism and Discrimination at the Secret Service
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by zizzy  5-9-2008   
 E. Desmond Hogan, a lawyer for the black agents, said the agents were “shocked but not surprised by the late production of significant evidence of racism at high levels in the Secret Service.” “The government’s delay,” Mr. Hogan said, “follows a pattern of the Secret Service stonewalling plaintiffs and ignoring court orders, depriving African-American agents of the fundamental evidence of race discrimination that is key to their claims.” The lawsuit, which has dragged on through years of litigation, was filed in 2000 by 10 black agents who charged that they were unfairly denied promotions. The agency employs about 3,200 agents, about 10 percent of whom are black.
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PX3 2008 Winners
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by zizzy  5-9-2008   
 There are many more outstanding photographs onsite.
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PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris 2008 Best New Talent Award
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by zizzy  5-9-2008   
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PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris 2008 Photographer of the Year
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by zizzy  5-9-2008   
 Artist's Name: Balazs Gardi Country: Budapest, Hungary Title: The Valley Description: Afghan man holds a wounded young boy in front of a house on October 20, 2007 in Yaka China village, Kunar province, East Afghanistan. The boy received several shrapnel wounds from a rocket as a US airstrike targeted a suspected insurgent position in a nearby house the previous night. The air strike also killed five other civilians and injured at least seven villagers including children.
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Stock Gumshoe
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by zizzy  5-9-2008   
 One of the most useful sites I've ever frequented.
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Blog: A Vast Public Collection of Real-LIfe Rejections
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by zizzy  5-9-2008    1
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A Personal Directory of Book-Related websites
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by zizzy  5-9-2008   
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Dust Jacket Review
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by zizzy  5-9-2008    3
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McCain's "Spiritual Guide" Wants America to Destroy Islam
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by zizzy  5-9-2008    1
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Political Ring Tones
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by zizzy  5-9-2008   
 Yes I know, they're mp3 files. I've clicked on each one and my Mac is still as clean as the day I brought it home. ;)
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African-American Snapshots and Portraits 1950-1980
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by zizzy  5-9-2008   
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African-American Snapshots and Portraits 1900-1950
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by zizzy  5-9-2008   
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African American Religiosity, Humanism and Politics
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by zizzy  5-9-2008   
 Go to site to listen
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About Julia Ward Howe
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by zizzy  5-9-2008   
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The True Origin of Mother's Day in the U.S, - Julia Ward Howe's Mother's Day's Proclamation - 1870
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by zizzy  5-9-2008   
  Let them solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means Whereby the great human family can live in peace... Each bearing after his own time the sacred impress, not of Caesar, But of God - In the name of womanhood and humanity, I earnestly ask That a general congress of women without limit of nationality, May be appointed and held at someplace deemed most convenient And the earliest period consistent with its objects, To promote the alliance of the different nationalities, The amicable settlement of international questions, The great and general interests of peace. Written 5 years after the end of the civil war
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Egypt ruling party wins 92 percent of local pollseats
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by zizzy  5-9-2008   
  The next presidential election is set for 2011. And the winner will be Gamal Mubarak, son of Hosni, unless a miracle happens.
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Egypt Begins Shipping Natural Gas to Israel
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by zizzy  5-9-2008    1
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How to Opt Your Child Out of Military Recruitement
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by zizzy  5-9-2008   
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Freedom and Reason. That's all ...
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by zizzy  5-9-2008   
 Cherish your beliefs, just don't force them on me.
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A Poet Soldier: Words From the Front
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by zizzy  5-9-2008   
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A Song Alone by Neil Young
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by zizzy  5-9-2008   
 "Until then I can write a song about the search or spend all my time looking. But a song alone will not change the world. Even so, I will keep on singing."
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Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra at the Sphinx
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by zizzy  5-9-2008   
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A Few Photos from Tales from Kulafumbi: Diary of a Nature Lover
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by zizzy  5-9-2008   
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Swedish Doctors Got Asthma After Identifing Tsunami Victims in Thailand
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by zizzy  5-9-2008   
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