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- Link-O-Rama (December 2005)
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Another month. Another collection of links... Sports/Packers/Racing Turiaf will play for Yakama Sun Kings Michelin to leave Formula One after 2006 Favre unsure of future, wonders if Packers want him Packers Carpet Toyota leaving IRL earlier than expected
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- Ramsey Clark Once Again Redefines the Extreme Left
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Ramsey Clark: Former U.S. Attorney General & Likely Certifiable Wingnut Ramsey & Slobo sittin' in a tree... I don't believe it. Ramsey Clark is going to assist in the defense of Saddam Hussein during his trail in Baghdad. Please tell me
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- Link-O-Rama (October 2005)
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Several of you seemed to enjoy my Links of the Week post a couple weeks ago. Since it's a fairly easy thing to produce I'll try to make it a semi-regular thing. I can't promise once a week, but we'll see how the rebranded Link-O-Rama goes.
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- Another Hurricane, More Satellite Photos
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About one year ago, I posted some cool satellite photos of Hurricanes Ivan and Frances . Given recent events, I figure it's about time for a follow-up... September 22, 2005 Image Courtesy NASA High Resolution More photos... Hurricane Rita (Orbimage)
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- NYT - Impact of Hurricane Katrina
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The New York Times has a great interactive page on the Impact of Hurricane Katrina . It has one of the best illustrations of New Orleans' extensive levee system - A Civil Engineer's wet dream. tags: katrina , new orleans
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- More on Katrina...
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Where did the roads go? A few more interesting links I found tonight... DigitalGlobe: Hi-Res Salellite Images of Katrina Devastation This satellite photo of New Orleans taken yesterday (8/31/05) is particularly fascinating. Quite literally, nearly everything
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- Katrina: The Worst News is Still to Come
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The full scale of the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina is only now becoming evident. It is difficult to see the images just now coming out of Louisiana and Mississippi. And what's even more scary is that the situation continues to deteriorate
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- The Power of the Press: Rewrite Opinions as Necessary
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The New York Times recently published a reader-contributed opinion written by an Army reserve officer. Then on Friday they actually came clean that they had incorrectly 'edited' it. I have a couple of issues with their characterization of the
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- 7/7/05 -- Today We're All British
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The London Bombings
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- The New Fifty Dollar Bill -- Now in Color!
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I'm not quite sure what's cooler, the new fifty dollar bill , or the fact that I heard about it first from a blog .
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- Mount St. Helens Stirs
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Mount St. Helens burps up some steam and ash St. Helens stirred to life today, but it was really more like that burp I talked about than a full-blown eruption. I was a little surprised during lunch today that the web cam was showing a plume, and the seismograph
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- Wow, It's Deja Vu All Over Again
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I moved to Spokane in March of 1980. I was just 19 and it seemed like Spokane was my oyster. Then just a couple of months later, on May 18, 1980, Mt. St. Helens blew its top. Spokane was suddenly a much different, more surreal place. Now 24 years later,
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- Mark Cuban for President!
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I used to think of Mark Cuban as just another dot com brat that got lucky and bailed out before the market went bust. Just another one of those guys from that era with more money than sense. But the more I hear of what he has to say, the more respect
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- Terra Sells Lycos
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InfoWorld is reporting that Terra Lycos is selling its US-based Lycos operation. Now the good news here is that Terra is selling it for as much as $115 million . Not bad for a web site huh? Unfortunately, the bad news is that they paid $12.5 billion for
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- Is "Outrage Fatigue" the New Epidemic?
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From The Onion -- “Nation’s Liberals Suffering From Outrage Fatigue”
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