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BenQ using WTC images in advertising.

This pretty outrageous. BenQ is using images of the rubble of the WTC in their advertising.

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Mathematics applied to US policy and life in general. An interesting read.

This article is a description of “Levy flight” as it applies to many things, from politics to social networking sites. The essential concept involves the “jump” from one area/school of thought/etc to another. I’d like to learn more about this. Anyone have any links for more info?

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If there was any doubt before, lay it aside. Civil war in Iraq

“Followers of the militant Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr took over state-run television Saturday to denounce the Iraqi government, label Sunnis “terrorists” and issue what appeared to many viewers as a call to arms.” While I’ve long believed that civil war was underway, I was waiting to see an organized leadership controlling things. Now what?

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FBI Visits PhD student A 2nd Time About NWA Ticket Ordeal

Chris, the PhD Student that created the NWA Ticket Generator has been visited by the FBI a second time. This time he found his home ransacked and all of his equipment completely absent on the eve of an upcoming conference. They carried out a search warrant at 2:00AM Indianapolis time, taking all of his electronic posessions. Copy of warrant posted.

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Civil Rights

I’m up tonight because I had a bad dream. I dreamt that I was hanging out with Shaq (that O’Neal, as opposed to Jermaine) and a couple of other people, one of whom was a cop but I don’t know why or even who he was. We seemed to be friends in the dream.

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