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Some highlights of Na’vi
December 19, 2009 @ 12:43 am · Filed by Ben Zimmer under Language and the movies
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My Hilarious Warner Bros. Royalty Statement
TMJ is/was a punk-pop band of some minor renown. Some of that renown was due to their music, which included semi-hits such as “Crush Story,” “Donna Everywhere,” and “That’s a Lie” — a cover of the LL Cool J tune that featured the man himself in the music video, which actually got played quite a bit during daylight…
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James Randi: This Cruel Farce Has To Stop
James Randi Educational Foundation
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Finding the laws that govern us
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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A very clever idea to enforce copyright with minimal lawsuits.
One reason the record industry's strategy of suing online infringers ran into trouble is that there are too many infringers to sue. If the industry can only sue a tiny fraction of infringers, then any individual infringer will know that he is very unlikely to be sued, and deterrence will fail. Or so it might seem …
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At peak, Spain gets 53% of its energy from wind
Ok, not all the time, but last weekend at 5:50am on Sunday morning (8th Nov) Spain set a new record, hitting 53.7% of its energy requirements being supplied by wind energy. As you can see from the graph above, the amount of electricity being supplied by wind, the light green portion of the graph, doesn’t […]
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Rogue Amoeba abandons iPhone because of App Store approval insanity
Visit the Rogue Amoeba blog to read more.
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One Small Leap for Open Source, One Giant Leap for Mankind
Search for and read the latest Red Hat news and press releases about the people and products shaping the future of open source and open hybrid cloud technology.
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Seth Godin Tries Out Brandjacking
Seth Godin has ginormous balls. There, I said it. This morning, Seth used his much respected blog to reveal the…
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The Next Generation Bends Over
Mint’s sale to Intuit really pissed me off. Why should I care? Because I think it’s indicative of a VC-induced cancer that’s infecting our industry and killing off the next generation. I don’t know the full backstory, but I’d bet this sale was encouraged by a Mint i…
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