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Monthly Archives: January 2008

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Thursday, January 10, 2008

The Death of High Fidelity : Rolling Stone
In the age of MP3s, sound quality is worse than ever (Thanks to Foxy for the heads-up)
(tags: Radio science design audio culture Music Sound technology trends)

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Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Holy Chavistas! Venezuela Violent Deaths Double Iraq’s Numbers
Looks like violence in Venezuela is twice as bad as Iraq.
(tags: death iraq Politics statistics crime)

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Lame duck? What lame duck?

Monday, January 7, 2008

From the ever superb Ivo at The Spike:
2007 turned out to be a pretty good year for George W. Bush.
Late last year, voters turfed Republicans out of Congress over either lack of spending restraint or dissatisfaction with progress in Iraq or both, depending who you ask. (Robert Novak: war; Alan Greenspan: spending; Rush Limbaugh: both, [...]

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Domino effect in the Balkans

Monday, January 7, 2008

Israeli Newspapers are abuzz about Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic’s (32) recent speech in Israel which has been hailed as “a masterpiece of intellectual diplomacy, based on the values of justice and international order”.
You can read about it here “
Domino effect in the Balkans - Haaretz”
A writer in the Jerusalem Post has written an [...]

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Peter Zimmermann - Spomenik

Monday, January 7, 2008

The Crown gallery gives us this lovely series of photos by Peter Zimmermann taken in the Former Yugoslvia and called “Spomenik“.

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Sunday, January 6, 2008

National Secular Society - Home
(tags: philosophy Politics religion society activism law uk)

British Humanist Association
(tags: activism ethics philosophy Politics sociology science religion)

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Saturday, January 5, 2008

How Denmark Kicked Its Foreign Oil Habit
(tags: energy environment future development green oil planning technology Government Politics)

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Thursday, January 3, 2008

BBC NEWS | Business | Oil price at record $100 a barrel
The mythical $100 barrel price arrives. Onwards to $200.
(tags: Economics long_emergency oil_peak)

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Wednesday, January 2, 2008

A Helium Shortage?
Old but good. Did you know that there is a critical global shortage of Helium?
(tags: energy long_emergency resources)

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