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"Although users are constantly being told not to open attachments from unknown sources, some are likely to ignore these warnings because of their interest in the epidemic and potential threat to their own lives." - from "Bird flue brings on PC virus," by John Blau.The H5N1, avian flu, virus is no longer just an organic threat. Computer virus hackers coded e-mails with a new Trojan Horse virus

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I talk to myself. I like the sound of my voice from between my own ears. It's articulate and, unlike, actual speech, I can stop mid-sentence because I haven't through through the ending. Instead of tucking my tongue between my jaws and silencing my raspy voice, I can re-start and edit as I go an infinite number of times so long as I don't trip over a sidewalk or my perfectionist OCD - a mental

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What I read is the stove and the dial-turning fingers. Music is not my fire; it is the stew in which I simmer. Lately, I've been a masochistic assortment of how we are all fucked - damaged goods, dog-eared and smoke-stained pages. To some these little defects are stories we tell our mirror personalities while we stand drunk, holding onto the bathroom counter waiting for our body to expunge

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Yahoo tip-toes around the copyright laws Google belly-flopped into earlier this year, and digital music revenues triple those of 2004 (tell me again how P2P piracy is hurting the music industry). When newspapers stop clogging up the bathroom feux-recliner, it appears, it won't be long before CDs, books, and other hard-copy, physical forms of entertainment find their way lost in city sewers.

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monday, 8/29 - unctuous: marked by a false or smug earnestness or agreeableness.tuesday, 8/30 - evanescent: fleeting.wednesday, 8/31 - venial: capable of being forgiven; excusable.thursday, 9/1 - capacious: able to contain much.I'm not having sex, but if I were, surely, I'd be yelling out "ah shit." "Oh God!" "Katrinaaaaaaaaa-hh!!!." At which point I'd roll over onto my side of the bed and

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I didn't think anything of writing by the green bulb desklight above my laptop. But there I was, writing in the white/green light on Sunday, listening to the New Orleans, NBC affiliate WDSU-TV report the latest weather conditions and explain the phenomenon hitting the Gulf shore from the WAPT-TV news desk in Jackson, Miss. My friend and I i sat around in my room eating Taco Bell listening/

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I say, what's really going on? Kelo v New London, the eminent domain case affirmed by the USSC in late June, allows local governments to force private property owners to sell land and businesses if the government feels it to be in the best interest of the community. Property rights aside, what will happen to mystery and imagination when Wal-Mart replaces the abandoned, "haunted" house behind an

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it began in a room lit during the day by sunlight through three windows, by the blue-white screen of my friend's first computer at night. he took the week off. we rotated on and off the AOL chatrooms in shifts - napping, working, and eating around the silent hum of his over-heating hard drive.only the rooms have changed since then. now, i'm in a coffee shop sitting behind a laptop and a smoking

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Maybe it's sinister to find a twisted connection between nature - both human and Mother - to product marketing. Undoubtedly, this year will go as one of "nature's" most devilish. The globe mournded London's heartbreak, and it's hands reached far to comfort the sufferers of Dennis. The reach of the world surpassed only by the survival instinct of those left behind.The first images from London

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There seems to be no shortage of criticism surrounding the bloggers. all total, i have 5 or 6. i have these blogspot blogs and one on another site. the blogspot blogs were a virginal attempt to join the blogging community, an opportunity to build a writing portfolio, and a chance to see how or if, my writing voice meshed with readers. eventually, all three have failed. i haven't kept up with it

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LA Times 'wikitorial' gives editors red faces: "Online: Interactive editorial backfires for broadsheet."The Generation Gap extends only as far as understanding. Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, allows users to alter facts and input information based, somewhat, on the Honor System that most of us scoff at, but it's a monitored system. What I know of Wikipedia, I've learned from experience and

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In the new issue of Reason magazine, Matt Welch editorializes his take on a new lawsuit Apple has filed on bloggers regarding "trade secret" violations. It's a new angle on the blogger v journalist war; this skirmish, though, identifies a new opponent: the American government.Welch defines 'trade secrets' using the fine-print definition of the law - information, not just ingredients. Useful

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Porn - the juice is worth the sqeezeSo much is said about the male sex-drive; our 4-wheeling urge to veer off pavement and play in the mud, dirtying our Sunday-, or Monday-Friday-, bests. This stereotype - the cage our mothers and wives try to keep locked in a trunk at the top of the closet next to our father's Playboys - is mostly true. It's an instinctual thing; the male urge to procreate. We

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Hey Congress, Start Blawging...and Podcasting...The next revolution in American Government?It's a great concept; one that seems to make sense on every front, except regarding practibility. I think it would be a valuable resource to have both national and state government officials blogging discussions and votes during the law-making process, but would Americans really want to sit-down and read a

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Proof positive that one thought always leads to another. Sometimes I feel as if I have two personalities: one is the professional, Microsoft Outlook calender using persona, and the other, a Bohemian, artistic character looking to inspire others to not follow in my footsteps, but rather create their own. I just posted a lengthy commentary on the end of television. No proof or validation, just an

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Are there more lazy, dishonest reporters working these days?I graduated from college yesterday; the end of an eight-year membership in the Texas higher education system. Two degrees: Journalism and Creative Writing. Most people don't see the irony. I say beneficial, some say conflict of interest. I say tomAto, you say tomOto. I dream of two Pulitzer Prizes - best fiction, best news. Two people

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When I first heard about the new Huffinton Post site, I was skeptical. I misunderstood everything. Links are being posted everywhere - Blog Herald, Dan Gillmor, Romenesko, and Gawker (all feeds that I read daily, not to mention the countless others that I don't).The power of blogs.But, it wasn't until I saw John Cusack's name that I decided maybe I should check it out. After reading his Hunter

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The Latest Rumbling in the Blogosphere: Questions About Ethics: "As blogs grow in readers and influence, bloggers should realize that if they want to reform the American media, that is going to have to include reforming themselves." Ethics for bloggers? Why? Adam Cohen's Op-Ed piece for the New York Times brings to light (again) a lot of issues journalists have been saying about bloggers since

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So you want to play online poker?: "In the last 2 years, online poker has exploded to a multi-million dollar industry with tens of thousands of players on at all times, day or night. According to PokerPulse, a site which keeps track of the number of users on most major poker sites, the largest online cardroom had a peak of in excess of 40,000 real money players in the last 24 hours Well I've got

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"In fact, some of these people have actually devolved during the 80 years since the Scopes Monkey trial," says Bill Thornton, chief DNA specialist with the National School Board Evolution Analysis Project." - from BlogcriticsBlogcritics and Kottke may have discovered the roots of our strong partisan society.The two blogs have posted three science-related articles that could explain larger,

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Judging a Book by Its Contents: "Amazon.com's Statistically Improbable Phrases aren't just a parlor game that condenses a book to its very essence. They're also a way to move curious readers through the retailer's vast catalog. By Ryan Singel." From Wired OnlineAmazon is now using del.icio.us and flickr tagging technology to attract more online book shoppers. It seems that being the largest

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I am an information glutton, and so are you.: "They say we're living in the Information Age. I think they're right - whoever 'they' are."The Truth is Out There" - now it's easier to find than ever before.The Internet connects millions, allows hand-holding to span across oceans and entire continents, and shares information that would otherwise be buried inside dusty boxes - forgotten and

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I sit in a dilapidated vinyl office chair, the glare of my laptop lights half my bedroom, an orb of green light glows behind me from the desk lamp attached to my wooden waterbed frame. The bed takes up three-fourths of my bedroom. The gap between its foot and my desk is just large enough for my office chair. It's like a booth in a dark piano bar.Nirvana plays in front of me, just on the other

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Article One on the Internet

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