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Flickr problems again. Flickr’s playing up this evening – lots of failures to connect, timeouts. This after the dreadful problem with the cacheing servers a few days ago. Must read Cal Henderson’s, ‘Data Normalization is for Sissies‘ again…
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Sydney-based Easy Being Green says it will mitigate your cat’s flatulent contribution to global warming for A$8 ($6). The same company could also make your granny “carbon-neutral” at A$10 a year, according to a report in the Australian newspaper last weekend.
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Laidlaw, 24, who had earlier threatened to “kill all black people”, was found guilty of three counts of attempted murder.
Judge Samuel Wiggs said Laidlaw “intended to kill” his victims, but they were not racially-motivated attacks.
“Although both people you aimed at were black I make no finding that your crimes were racially motivated,” he said.
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Whenever the word ontology is used in a technical context, what is being promoted is likely of limited practical value.
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Judge Ayman al-Akazi sentenced Abdel Kareem Nabil to three years in prison for insulting Islam and the Prophet Muhammad and inciting sectarian strife and another year for insulting President Hosni Mubarak
Washington Post, Egyptian Blogger Gets 4 Years in Prison