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Ubuntu Video - First Impressions : John Bradbury

Seeded on Tue Nov 27, 2007 1:32 PM EST (johnbradbury.com)

A great video recorded by a Windows user about his first experiences with Linux - Ubuntu. Edit:The website seems to be down atm. The first two videos can be found here.

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Thousands Returning to a Safer Baghdad

Seeded on Sun Nov 4, 2007 6:49 AM EST (FOXNews.com)

In a dramatic turnaround, more than 3,000 Iraqi families driven out of their Baghdad neighborhoods have returned to their homes in the past three months as sectarian violence has dropped, the government said Saturday.

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Is the Iraq war really about oil?

Seeded on Wed Sep 26, 2007 10:05 AM EDT (JPost.com)

That is true of all the major oil exporters, whatever their political convictions. They have to sell their oil, so it does not really matter much to the West who rules these countries (although it obviously matters greatly to the local residents).

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Sarkozy debut budget eyes growth

Seeded on Wed Sep 26, 2007 8:30 AM EDT (BBC News)

A string of measures aimed at boosting France's growth have been unveiled in the country's budget, Nicolas Sarkozy's first since becoming president.

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Germany 'drops CIA extradition'

Seeded on Sun Sep 23, 2007 7:39 AM EDT (BBC News)

Germany has dropped a request to the US to extradite 13 suspected CIA agents accused of abducting a German citizen, officials and media reports say.

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Entry "Israel Finally Listening to Big Lizards' Advice"

Seeded on Thu Sep 20, 2007 9:55 AM EDT (biglizards.net)

A long time ago (in blog years -- June 2005), I wrote a piece on Patterico's Pontifications called "Words of Wall," which I later reposted here on Big Lizards. As I wrote in the introduction to the repost:

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Russia tests super bomb, military says

Seeded on Wed Sep 12, 2007 1:21 PM EDT (FT.com)

Russia has tested the world's most powerful vacuum bomb, which unleashes a destructive shockwave with the power of a nuclear blast, the military said on Tuesday, dubbing it the "father of all bombs".

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Freedom Versus Security: The False Alternative

Seeded on Tue Sep 11, 2007 1:54 PM EDT (US_Homepage_Featured_Stories)

Whats more important: freedom or security? Since 9/11, weve heard this question in debates over issues ranging from the PATRIOT Act to wiretapping to interrogation techniques.

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Wouldn't you feel safer with a gun? - British attitudes are supercilious and misguided

Seeded on Sun Sep 9, 2007 8:37 AM EDT (The Times)

Despite the recent spate of shootings on our streets, we pride ourselves on our strict gun laws. Every time an American gunman goes on a killing spree, we shake our heads in righteous disbelief at our poor benighted colonial cousins.

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Defending the right to bear arms

Seeded on Thu Sep 6, 2007 8:11 AM EDT (libertyforall.net)

I carry openly. I do this for political reasons-the same reason I make it a point to sit in the smoking section at restaurants when I go out to eat by myself, even though I don't smoke. But that's another story.

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Astronomers Find Gaping Hole In The Universe

Seeded on Wed Aug 29, 2007 10:11 AM EDT (Science Daily)

University of Minnesota astronomers have found an enormous hole in the Universe, nearly a billion light-years across, empty of both normal matter such as stars, galaxies and gas, as well as the mysterious, unseen "dark matter." While earlier studies have shown holes, or voids, in …

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Weapons sell for just £50 as suspects and victims grow ever younger

Seeded on Sun Aug 26, 2007 6:10 AM EDT (The Times)

Senior police officers have been warning for several months that a growing number of teenagers in big cities are becoming involved in gun crime. [...]

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The Link Between Estrogen And Pain

Seeded on Thu Aug 9, 2007 7:46 AM EDT (Scientific Blogging)

Estrogen plays an important role in determining how sensitive a person is to pain, and the estrogen receptor known as ER-beta is particularly significant in this context. These are the conclusions of a study from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet.

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Fossils Could Force Rethink of Human Evolution

Seeded on Wed Aug 8, 2007 3:38 PM EDT (Live Science)

Long before humans and Neanderthals lived side by side in Europe, two other species of early humans were coexisting in Africa, a controversial new study claims.

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Stone Age Site Surfaces After 8000 Years

Seeded on Wed Aug 8, 2007 3:36 PM EDT (Science Daily)

Excavations of an underwater Stone Age archaeological settlement dating back 8000 years took place at the National Oceanography. [...]

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Understanding the Loss of Freedom

Seeded on Fri Aug 3, 2007 7:17 AM EDT (libertyforall.net)

All Americans, if not all human beings, think they know how to define freedom. And, in all fairness most of them do understand personal freedom as it applies to themselves as individuals.

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Soda Can Assault Victim Wakes to Shoot Robber

Seeded on Sat Jul 28, 2007 12:24 PM EDT (FOXNews.com)

An elderly man beaten unconscious by an assailant wielding a soda can later awoke and shot the man during an attempted robbery, police said.

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Does a parking lot have more rights than you do?

Seeded on Wed Jul 25, 2007 5:07 AM EDT (buckeyefirearms.org)

Silly question, I know. But your NRA-ILA is fighting against huge corporate conglomerates who argue that the rights of a humble patch of asphalt outside a business trump yours.

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Third German(journalist) in Afghan 'kidnap'

Seeded on Wed Jul 25, 2007 4:55 AM EDT (BBC News)

A German journalist and at least one Afghan have been kidnapped in Afghanistan's eastern province of Kunar, local officials have said.

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A different approach to fight terrorism - Fear No Evil

Sun Jul 22, 2007 8:02 AM EDT

"Fight against terrorism" is usually associated with military action, surveillance and police. The main aim is to prevent terrorist attacks and thereby fight terrorism.

Continue reading this entry ...

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Cuyahoga County Republican Party's Anti-Gun Platform

Seeded on Sat Jul 21, 2007 3:54 PM EDT (buckeyefirearms.org)

The Cuyahoga County Republican Party is holding a meeting on Wednesday, July 25th to adopt the party platform. A platform is a basic template of ideas the party openly supports.

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'Shots fired' at Musharraf plane

Seeded on Fri Jul 6, 2007 11:02 AM EDT (BBC News)

Pakistani police have sealed off a house in the city of Rawalpindi amid reports of an attempt to shoot down President Pervez Musharraf's plane. Reports say the house was under the flight path of Gen Musharraf's plane.

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Is Intellectual Property the Key to Success?

Seeded on Thu Jul 5, 2007 10:31 AM EDT (mises.org)

One of the greatest tragedies of intellectual property law is how it generates intellectual confusion among successful businesspeople.

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Anti-gun mayors' hypocrisy blasted by SAF

Seeded on Mon Jul 2, 2007 10:28 AM EDT (libertyforall.net)

Several members of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's anti-gun Mayors Against Illegal Guns coalition are annoyed by freedom of information requests about their activities from a California law firm, yet these same mayors have no problem demanding complete access to sensitive gu …

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.357—Don't Leave Home Without

Seeded on Fri Jun 29, 2007 5:29 AM EDT (Town Hall)

I never doubted the value of my little bottle of pepper spray.

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