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How To: Homemade Playdough. This recipy might come in handy tomorrow, it's supposed to be a rainy day here in NYC...
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That's right, we're expecting a vote as early as Tuesday September 9th. This is a huge leap forward for the environmental education movement. Not familiar with the No Child Left Inside Act? You can learn much more here. You can also see what the media has been saying about the bill lately here.
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TechCrunch
Wonder where Hurricane Ike will hit or when Tropical Storm Hanna will pass? Hurricane season has lots of people glued to the Weather Channel to catch the latest updates on developing storms. But why wait for the weatherman to tell you what is going on when you can check for yourself online? One of the best places to do t (Read More)
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Can it get any worse for the newspaper industry? The steep decline in print advertising just keeps getting steeper and, for the first time, even online ad sales have gone down. Total print ads in the U.S. were down 16 percent in the second quarter to $8.8 billion. That makes nine consecutive quarters in which “prin (Read More)
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I have received a number of emails to the effect of: I'm a conservative, and I can't tell you how fired up and excited I am by Sarah Palin's speech. Finally we have a fresh, new face who will tell it like it is.Noted. As I wrote just after Palin finished speaking, in the jet-lag blur accompanying the latest 14-hour flight b (Read More)
Daily Kos
Americans take their respect for the office of the President seriously. That respect influences how they vote. From WSJ: Yet her excitement will not necessarily translate into a vote for the Republican ticket. Ms. Kidder, who also calls herself independent, is also leaning toward Sen. Obama because of his economic promis (Read More)
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I'm getting a particular kick out of the now-debunked and always-stupid assertion from the McCain camp that Palin was subjected to an FBI background check as part of the vetting process: Rick Davis, McCain's campaign manager and the person at the point of the vice presidential process, said there was no abrupt change of c (Read More)
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Sure, some of that is from the Democratic convention, but most of the big polling days (especially in the Gallup and Rasmussen tracking polls) have come in the last couple of days. There has been a Palin bounce ... for Obama.
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Mashable!
It’s ironic that there are so many new sites and tools for research and scholarly types online these days because the whole Internet started with them forty-six years ago. The concept was born in a series of memos by J.C.R. Licklider of Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN) in August 1962 where he discussed his “Interg (Read More)
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UPDATE **** See also Gustav Videos, Gustav Scammers and Gustav Resource Center for the latest.As Hurricane Gustav approaches Louisiana and over a million people are evacuated, a few crazy people, and some static webcams are providing a live stream live from the area. Here’s some of the places you can watch Hurricane Gustav (Read More)
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Just as the Olympics was a spectacle of physical prowess, the Democratic National Convention has been a spectacle of political aspiration. As best demonstrated by my preference for Fantasy Congress over Fantasy Football, I'm much more of a sucker for the political. And this week's convention was most definitely a 10.0. Ea (Read More)
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One of the most profound ideas in economics is household production: the idea that people can choose how to do things by combining their time and their purchases - and then utilize substitution depending on the prices of each.
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