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Submitted by jasongoldberg:
We launched a new feature today on socialmedian, "News Flash" -- it will be fun to see where this one goes and how it develops based on user feedback.Disclosure: We're pretty darn excited about this one! The foundation for the News Flash feature came from user requests to make it more meaningful to be a Newsmaker on (Read More)
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Barcelonaphotoblog's clipped stories:
As we've been saying over and over (and over) again, Apple is set to end the era of DRM music. We've been hearing it will be at Macworld but we're now getting confirmation both from our sources and from CNet that it is going to happen. This is turning out to be one heckuva Macworld keynote. Even without Stevo, it (Read More)
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guardian.co.uk Science:
The world is full of terrible things and it may seem absurd to be shocked by the state of science teaching more than by war and famine or any of the more obvious candidates. But I was more shocked by the report showing that a significant minority of British science teachers can't see anything much wrong with creationism tha (Read More)
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: Granted, this is a much different issue here in the states, but the issue is still something we will deal with more in the coming years. I think that eventually the question has to come down to this, how would these Christian families react if we started teaching children all the various creationist theories? What if we brought in the Muslim creation story, taught the Native American creation story, the Buddhist, the Shintoist, and on and on down the line?To me this isn't so much about teaching creationism as it is an attempt by Christian fundamentalists (yep, I'm gonna go there) to bring only their view alongside the theory of evolution (which I personally loathe to see called Darwinism). What about all the others? @michaelfidler, @homosuperior, @thekookfringecom, @jasongoldberg, @thomaspower and anyone else I'm leaving out, i would be very interested to hear your thoughts on this issue. 
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: Shall we talk about proving a negative first, or save it for later?
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: For the record, I'm not hostile to Christianity. A great deal of my own world view has been shaped by the Gospels. As well as by Marx, Genet, Kinsey, Foucault, Rosenbaum, Wood, Delany, Gang of Four, Sleater-Kinney, Stanley-Robinson, and a ton of others, none of whom is divine, none of whom created the world and none of whom I agree with, on anything, 100%. I AM hostile to bigots, crackpots and Christianists, as opposed to Christians. Some of my best friends are...
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The Official Google Blog:
Sometimes I find it hard to describe Picasa without sounding like a late-night infomercial for a multi-bladed thingamabob: "It's a photo organizer! A photo editor! A web-savvy photo sharing and management system in just one tiny package!"We try hard to avoid hyperbole around |
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