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IPad 3G owners account information compromised

Posted by flinc on Wednesday June 09, 2010 @06:42PM
from the bits.blogs.nytimes.com dept.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/09/att-exposes-e-mail-addresses-of-114000-ipad-owners/?src=busln

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Trying to eradicate a disease is a waste of money: researcher

Posted by flinc on Saturday May 15, 2010 @02:40PM
from the eurekalert.org dept.

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-04/mu-tte041410.php

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The 3 key parts of news stories you usually don’t get

Posted by flinc on Thursday August 20, 2009 @12:38PM
from the newsless.org dept.

http://www.newsless.org/2009/08/the-3-key-parts-of-news-stories-you-usually-dont-get/

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Is Dvorak a Professional Troll?

Posted by flinc on Saturday August 15, 2009 @04:24PM
from the self-post dept.

After John Dvorak accused Vivek Kundra of being a phony, Tim Oreilly shortly afterward tweeted a link to a youtube video of John "explaining how he lies to get controversy" http://twitter.com/timoreilly/status/3271565056 and later stating that he is "trolling for traffic" http://twitter.com/timoreilly/status/3272103221 Dvorak responded that this was an ad hominem attack...

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Re:On the 3.2kbytes in Influenza A on Tuesday June 23, 2009 @12:10PM (#670619)

the best resource on H1N1 (and virology in general) I've found to counter the news hysteria http://www.twiv.tv/

Re:Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accomplish them. on Friday June 19, 2009 @12:36PM (#665434)

http://ideas.al3x.net/

Alex Payne's Open Ideas: he's publishing his notebook of "someday" ideas

http://twitter.com/al3x/status/2169778627