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Yiddish in Jazz
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Recently at Boing Boing Gadgets
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/11/30/recently-at-boing-bo-8.htmlRecently at Boing Boing Gadgets, we endured Black Friday (which turned out to be Gray Friday for gadgets) and mundane gadget spam to bring you delights like humping USB M.U.S.C.L.E men. John spotted Stephen Fry's laconic review of the BlackBerry Storm, a tiny computer that screws into your monitor's VESA mounts, and new wireless earbuds from Sennheiser. …
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Watchismo is giving a free LIP diode watch to a BB reader!
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/12/01/watchismo-is-giving.htmlOur pals at Watchismo have launched a new store to highlight their kick-ass line of reproductions of LIP diode watches -- replicas of Roger Tallon's 1973 timepieces that were among the first (and coolest) digital watches made. I bought my LIP back in September and I've been wearing it ever since. …
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Lesezeichen vom 01-12-2008
http://www.polkarobot.de/2008/12/01/lesezeichen-vom-01-12-20...How Dan Kaminsky broke and fixed DNS
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The Steel Deal - an oasis of reason in a sea of insanity.
http://steelturman.typepad.com/thesteeldealgive this some context. The current Credit Crisis bailout is now the largest outlay In American history. Crunching the inflation adjusted numbers, we find the bailout has cost more than all of these big budget government expenditures – combined: Link • Marshall Plan: Cost: $12.7 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $115.3 billion • Louisiana Purchase: Cost: $15 million, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $217 billion • Race to the Moon: Cost: $36.4 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $237 billion
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Chris Anderson estrena FICOD 2008
http://switchonmadrid.wordpress.com/2008/12/01/chris-anderso...The Long Tail invitó a los medios de comunicación digitales a ser más “facilitadotes de conversación” que creadores de información. Como ejemplos de blogs que trabajan en esta dirección destacó a BoingBoing, PostSecrets, Huffington Post o Gizmodo, blogs, todos ellos, que tienen un mayor número de visitas que prácticamente cualquier medio de comunicación tradicional ‘online’.
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Books Make Great Gifts
http://dukeupress.typepad.com/dukeupresslog/2008/12/books-ma...The Association of American Publishers is reminding shoppers this year that books make terrific, economical gifts. This weekend several sites singled out Duke books as particularly good gifts. Boing Boing
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The Sly Oyster | culture & entertainment on the sly
http://slyoyster.comare clearly not pregnancy or a miracle and yet this is the type of country America has become. Women’s reproductive rights and healthcare options have become demonized and marginalized into something that women should not be allowed to pursue. [via]
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For your browsing pleasure
http://www.greatwhatsit.com/archives/3501fan film made by active duty U.S. sailors off the coast of Japan. 4. Ten fascinating last pictures taken. 5. Hard-core knitting.
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The Inquisitr
http://www.inquisitr.comFacebook Connect Readies for Broader Distribution with Digg and HuluHow Dan Kaminsky broke and fixed DNS
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Ramblings of DarkMirage - Anime, Games, J-Pop and Whatever Else
http://www.darkmirage.comEpisode 8 has so much dorama and lulz, it’s like anime blogging. Maybe someday there will be a Genshiken-style anime about blogging and the blogosphere will finally have its very own Madarame. Or is that Cory Doctorow? In any case, I digress.
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Curly's Corner Shop, the blog!
http://curly15.wordpress.comgrab from the WordPress Dashboard, I’d offer figures from my Active Meter too but they’d only duplicate and complicate. The big spike in the middle, should you be wondering, was caused by a massive influx of visitors when Cory Doctorow at Boing Boinglinked here. Thanks to the good ten per cent of you who return here day by day, your support is much appreciated! Possibly related posts: (automatically generated) March Review
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Round Up
http://blog.prathambooks.org/2008/12/round-up.htmlup their libraries of digital books to capitalize on the presumed success and hype of the Amazon Kindle — actual sales are still based on speculation — but one big name is putting its money on a device that has proven its popularity: the iPhone. Via BB, a report on the Digital Youth Project: The Digital Youth Project, a MacArthur-funded three year, 22 case study, $3.3 million ethnographic study of what kids are doing online, has wound up and published its results. The project was undertaken by the eminent sociologist Mimi Ito and her
