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Two reporters, Stephen
Bevan of The Sunday Telegraph and Barry
Bearak of the New York Times, tell of their ordeal in Zimbabwe. They were arrested for the crime of “committing journalism,” imprisoned, and subsequently released.
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at 5:28 PM on April 27, 2008
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Getting Excel to interpret text string as formula
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at 11:39 AM on March 29, 2008
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You know who else enjoyed Auschwitz? No, not
them. That's right,
them.
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at 9:54 AM on September 19, 2007
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Two days ago, the senior Pentagon official in charge of military detainees suspected of terrorism was
interviewed (wma file, relevant remarks begin at 3:00) on
Federal News Radio, an internet-only all-news radio station aimed at government employees. What has drawn the attention and ire of both the mainstream (liberalish) media, e.g.,
(1) (2) (3), and intertubers, e.g.,
(1) (2), is that deputy assistant secretary Stimson
(pic) (a lawyer no less) is advocating that businesses boycott prominent law firms representing prisoners at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
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at 11:26 AM on January 13, 2007
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Has there ever been a thread in which every comment was posted in the form of a question?
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at 10:11 AM on September 6, 2006
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nbd is comment-spamming and must be punished.
1,
2.
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at 9:32 AM on February 25, 2006
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I’m looking for reviews/recommendations with respect to small-group or small-boat tour companies. I’d like to go somewhere exotic, have someone else worry about all the details, and be assured of a great experience. Any advice?
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at 9:45 AM on December 5, 2005
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They can put a man on the moon, but they can’t make an indestructible plush dog toy? My dog loves the stuffed animals, but is extremely rough on them. Even the best ones are unstuffed or decapitated within a couple of weeks. Any leads on durable furries?
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at 10:05 AM on July 26, 2005
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In the
thread about setting suns and British empires, I made a comment to the effect of,
WTF? I just didn’t understand what the discussion was about. After logging onto another computer, I finally see why. I wasn’t seeing the punch line link. In both Firefox and IE, I don’t see the hyperlinked text. This is not a problem in any other FFP. Weird; what gives?
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at 1:40 PM on June 29, 2005
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My mom's XP Home (on a Dell laptop) won't recognize her Minolta Dimage XT camera anymore. She's at wit's end, and I'm nowhere near to play around with it. She replaced the driver and double-checked the cable connections. Still no luck Can you give any troubleshooting suggestions?
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at 4:07 PM on June 5, 2005
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The US house majority leader, a
long-time supporter of an
armed citizenry, jokes about weapons as the great equalizer in his battles with critics. “When a man is in trouble or in a good fight, he wants all of his friends around him, particularly armed,'
said Delay to the NRA convention.
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at 11:02 AM on April 17, 2005
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I vaguely recall hearing about an employee emailing his/her company's confidential salary information to all employees. I've googled and Snoped, but to no avail. I know this was in some commercial, but did it happen in real life?
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at 6:12 PM on September 15, 2004
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Lingofilter: What exactly is the Interweb? Is it meant to refer simultaneously to the World Wide Web and the Internet? Is it what people used to call cyberspace? Also, why didn't I get the memo?
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at 8:46 AM on September 11, 2004
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This website
exists because astrosociology is not yet a widely recognized subfield of sociology, and therefore it can benefit from a centralized approach. It is intended to serve as a catalyst for the growth of astrosociology from a general state of nonexistence.
As a little known sociologist fights his
lonely quixotic battle to introduce
a new sociology subfield, some who are stuck in their earthbound paradigm
object.
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at 7:03 AM on July 29, 2004
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I'm looking for the original source of a Charles Darwin quote, which is sometimes stated as "It is not the strongest of the species that survive, not the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." This isn't easy since seemingly thousands of authors and public speakers have quoted him without referencing the source (although they do attribute it to Darwin). Can you help? [more versions of the quote inside]
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at 12:40 PM on May 28, 2004
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Press photographer stripped of award;
accused of
overly darkening some portions in the digital editing process. Nothing was added or moved. Explains N.C. Press Photographers Assoc. president Chuck Liddy: You might say, "Gosh, I don't like the way this background looks I can get rid of this with a couple of keystrokes". No contortions in the darkroom with your hands and a dodging wand. No making ten or fifteen prints over a two hour period to get that print just right. Nope, just go and use the lasso tool, yank those levels to the max and VIOLA! the background disappears. Burning has always been an acceptable action. Burning to "de-emphasize" a background is something all of us do. But deleting the background by using some of the powerful tools Photoshop offers is totally unacceptable and violates the ethics code we adhere to. Schneider, the photographer, responds in an
NPR interview (scroll down to audio link). In this allegedly
unethical photo, Schneider says he corrected for overexposure. Is this a backlash against digital manipulation, which rankles the old school because it is simply too easy?
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at 9:45 AM on August 30, 2003
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Latest dispatch from the inner sanctums of the evil empire:
(NY Times article. All the usual warnings apply: Registration required. May not be factual. etc. etc.)
Last summer, Orlando Ayala, then in charge of worldwide sales at Microsoft, sent an e-mail message titled Microsoft Confidential to senior managers laying out a company strategy to dissuade governments across the globe from choosing cheaper alternatives to the ubiquitous Windows computer software systems. Mr. Ayala's message told executives that if a deal involving governments or large institutions looked doomed, they were authorized to draw from a special fund to offer the software at a steep discount or even free if necessary. Steven A. Ballmer, Microsoft's chief executive, was sent a copy of the e-mail message. The memo on protecting sales of Windows and other desktop software mentioned Linux, a still small but emerging software competitor that is not owned by any specific company. ‘Under NO circumstances lose against Linux,’ Mr. Ayala wrote.
Legitimate competitive tactics?
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at 3:37 PM on May 15, 2003
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Jesus junk mail.
(As an update to
last year's Texas story) Every household in South Carolina will receive a videocassette of a
bad film about Jesus this week. The Special 9-11 Remembrance Edition features an introduction by three members of the NY Fire Dept. Regardless of how you feel about Jesus H., isn't there a better film to send to every household in South Carolina?
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at 6:53 PM on September 9, 2002
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"My So-Called Lungs",
is the affecting audio diary of Laura Rothenberg. Laura is a young, articulate woman confronting her mortality as she struggles with cystic fibrosis. Her audio diary aired on NPR tonight. Another excellent piece by the
producer Joe Richman. Also written up in the
NY Times (reg. req’d).
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at 4:09 PM on August 5, 2002
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“There are ethical ways to cut costs,
and then there is executive greed. Your comment at the recent shareholder's meeting will be your legacy, like it or not (‘I have to make that much money, I have an expensive wife.’).”
–says a disgruntled EDS employee to his CEO, Dick Brown in an internal company memo.
FuckedCompany rides the corporation bashing bandwagon and
branches out to give you further insight into some of your favorite companies. Subscribers to the mother site get complete access. Non-subscribers can view the free rotating posts.
Described in NYTimes (password).
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at 5:27 PM on July 29, 2002
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