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<insert name here>Leaks

By Donal on Wed, 12/22/2010 - 10:15am | Politics



What hath WikiLeaks wrought? Besides all the polarization and controversy - OpenLeaks. In, How OpenLeaks is Likely to Work, the Read Write Web blog doesn't tell us too much, but it doesn't seem like there's much to tell yet:

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Today you ... tomorrow me

By Donal on Mon, 12/20/2010 - 10:33am | Social Justice

I was reading 3 Quarks Daily, then one thing led to another and I found this story on reddit. And it's a great story for so many reasons. The writer was commenting on a thread, Have You Ever Picked Up a Hitchhiker?:

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Embedding Youtube

By Donal on Sat, 12/18/2010 - 9:35am | Media

A few of you have had trouble embedding youtube. Like some of you, I first tried to use the embed code from youtube. It didn't work for me, either. But I noticed that in the composing menu bar, to the far right is an icon (Insert/edit embedded media) that looks like two frames of film. Single-clicking that icon brings up a window. The first line in that window defaults to Type: Flash. Flash is right for youtube.

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Any shooting you can walk away from ...

By Donal on Thu, 12/16/2010 - 10:05pm | Politics



Any landing you can walk away from is a good landing. They say that because flying always involves risk.

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Astroturf and Masturbation

By Donal on Tue, 12/14/2010 - 10:23pm | Politics

I keep stumbling across today's boring competition over which dag commenter can be more offensive, and Georges Monbiot and Barry Eisler have me wondering whether I am reading astroturfers or masturbators, or both.

First Monbiot, in the Guardian:

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What Do YOU Think?

By Donal on Fri, 12/10/2010 - 8:56pm | World Affairs



One of my fondest memories was showing Fahrenheit 451 to my stepson. After Guy Montag finds the community of living books at the end (of the film), my stepson proclaimed them heroes with the sort of ardor most kids reserve for famous athletes. He's a librarian now.

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