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Tim says: "Governator Arnold hides a colorful response in a carefully worded veto."
Schwarzenegger's press secretary, Aaron McLear, insisted Tuesday it was simply a "weird coincidence."
Can a statistician gives us the odds of this happening, please?
Did Schwarzenegger drop 4-letter bomb in veto?
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Beware: a Facebook poke could land you behind bars. Just ask Shannon D. Jackson of Hendersonville, Tennessee, who faces that very real possibility.Jackson was arrested and transported to Sumner County Jail on September 25th with a bond set at $1,500 after she violated an order of protection by allegedly poking a woman on F (Read More)
Oct 13, 2009
: That's the way the whole corporate media empire works these days though doesn't it? Take a sensationalist soundbite and get it all out of context. Then the people watching don't really listen/watch/read the story, and before you know it, (in this case) there's a whole huge group of people going around telling everyone else that you can get arrested for poking someone on Facebook! 
Oct 13, 2009
: Yes, that could lead to some unpleasant rumors. It is quite a prevalent habit in the media, very, very prevalent.
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To mention money and metaphysics in the same sentence, as I did at the close of last week’s post, is to invite any number of misunderstandings. The hoary habit of thinking that walls off philosophical questions in a ghetto of abstractions apart from the world of ordinary life gets in the way of clarity here as so often, bu (Read More)
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This post is a guest post by Morgan Downey. Morgan is author of the book ‘Oil 101’. Exactly one hundred and fifty years ago, on August 27, 1859, the first commercial oil well in the US began producing. The subsequent petroleum bounty has enabled and defined modern civilization. This post is a status update in honor of the (Read More)
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According to a new study from social media solutions provider Rapleaf, the most popular Twitter client is the web. After looking at the 20 most recent tweets from over 4 million Twitter users, it was clear that that updating your status online via Twitter.com is still the dominant way that most people use Twitter with 65% o (Read More)
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The Guardian
As one devastating drought follows another, the future is bleak for millions in east Africa. John Vidal reports from Moyale, KenyaWe met Isaac and Abdi, Alima and Muslima last week in the bone-dry, stony land close to the Ethiopia-Kenya border. They were with five nomad families who have watched all their animals die of sta (Read More)
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Boing Boing
The Sweet Juniper blog has a gallery of abandoned Detroit houses that are being overcome by the foliage around them, trees and shrubs and plants growing around, on and in them. Feral Houses(via Neatorama)Update: Crap, this is a duplicate. Ah, c'est la vie. Enjoy it again, for the first time.Previously:Haunting photo-essay o (Read More)
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The recent debate between George Monbiot and Paul Kingsnorth over whether we actually can save the world seems mostly to have degenerated into sound and fury, which is rather a problem, since the larger question of whether climate change is stoppable, whether we can avoid having billions of people die, seems, well rather a (Read More)
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The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future
This is a guest post by Kevin Rietmann, aka The Dude, on The Oil Drum. The post is a response to Tuesdays NYTimes Op-ed by political scientist Michael Lynch, showing some historical track records between some 'peak oilers' and Lynch and others.Energy analyst Michael C. Lynch's op-ed piece ‘Peak Oil’ Is a Waste of Energy, pu (Read More)
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Where I sit is getting awkward these days. I find myself caught in the middle of an increasingly acrimonious debate between faculty and administrators as financial pressures are creating a perfect storm around the allocation of teaching... [extracted from From where I sit - Between a rock and a hard place via feedly] . (Read More)
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The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future
This post is a guest post by Morgan Downey. Morgan is author of the book ‘Oil 101’. Exactly one hundred and fifty years ago, on August 27, 1859, the first commercial oil well in the US began producing. The subsequent petroleum bounty has enabled and defined modern civilization. This post is a status update in honor of the (Read More)
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The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future
This is a guest post aimed at the person who is unaware of peak oil. Be sure to send links to your friends! It was written by Lionel Badal, Postgraduate Student, Department of Geography, King’s College London. He can be reached at blionel3 at yahoo dot frOil is unique in that it is so strategic in nature… Energy is truly fu (Read More)
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According to a new study from social media solutions provider Rapleaf, the most popular Twitter client is the web. After looking at the 20 most recent tweets from over 4 million Twitter users, it was clear that that updating your status online via Twitter.com is still the dominant way that most people use Twitter with 65% o (Read More)
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