Lingam Tape - all three members of Haidar Panel unanimous in separately recommending Royal Commission of Inquiry?
Lingam Tape - all three members of Haidar Panel unanimous in separately recommending Royal Commission of Inquiry? ... had one common recommendation – to establish a Royal Commission of Inquiry. If this is true ... Minister. Then the questions are the terms of reference and composition of the Royal Commission [more...]
Date: 2007-11-14 06:29:35
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Art and Elitism: A Form of Pattern Recognition
Can you tell a dog from a cat by just looking at photographs? I am sure you can – even a four-year-old can. You can do it even when some dog breeds may have lot more in common to a cat than other kinds of dogs. Take a pekingese, for example. Compare [more...]
Date: 2007-11-14 07:00:04
Blog: Britannica Blog...
Banned Because of 'Generous Bazoongas,' Author Fights Back
Banned Because of 'Generous Bazoongas,' Author Fights Back There is probably nothing that an author hates more than having a book banned from a ... , and all of Tarragon Island has seen them." Ms. Tate said she chose bazoongas over other more common but ruder slang terms. "I was looking for something a little humorous without being obscene," she [more...]
Date: 2007-11-14 00:21:01
Blog: Book Chase...
A Train of Thought: November 13th, 2007 Edition
I'm cheating here, because I'm writing this from my kitchen table. My current client is one of the big investment banks. While I'm not too enthusiastic about their culture, I can seriously get into having all the banking holidays off. I went to part of the Westchester/Fairfield County Code Camp this weekend and came away with some topics for [more...]
Date: 2007-11-13 11:57:00
Blog: Jeremy D. Miller -- Th...
State of Georgia turns to God
Out of answers and out of water, the Governor of Georgia, ... shrugged off in the Bible Belt, where turning to the heavens for help is common and sometimes even [more...]
Date: 2007-11-13 19:36:23
Blog: CommonSenseAmerica - I...
dandelionsalad
Dandelion Salad by Michel Chossudovsky Global Research, February 22, ... , merciless and fanatic, we as the leader of the world for the common welfare cannot drop that terrible bomb ... potentially spread, in terms of radioactive fallout, over a large part of the Middle East [more...]
Date: 2007-11-10 01:11:19
Blog: Dandelion Salad...
A Development of Doctrine? Elizabethan England, part II
I wound up looking at two editions of the Encyclopedia Britannica last week, and the differences between them were quite striking, in terms of the changing view of Elizabeth’s reign predicted by Belloc. One edition offers “the Elizabethan Myth” in its modern - it does refer to “cruel injustice” against Catholics - but still [more...]
Date: 2007-11-14 09:09:16
Blog: || The Da Vinci Code & ...
How Stressed Are You?
I found this interesting website: http://www.compsych.com/jsp/en_US/core/home/index.jsp? ... suggest managers may be kidding themselves in terms of their workers’ stress levels,” said Dr. Richard [more...]
Date: 2007-11-13 17:23:11
Blog: The Blog from City Hal...
Optimising Swap Performance
I recently wrote some suggestions about appropriate swap space sizes ... process is not as intensive as other processes in terms of swap use because it is a chain of processes ... for each directory as you descend the build tree is common) and then a gcc process that launches [more...]
Date: 2007-11-10 13:36:24
Blog: etbe ...
Data capital, or: data as common tender
Wikipedia states that Legal tender … is payment that, by law, cannot be refused in settlement of a debt denominated in the same currency. Currency, in turn, is a unit of exchange, facilitating the transfer of goods and/or services. I was asked a question earlier today about the relative value of open services against open data [more...]
Date: 2007-11-12 03:35:56
Blog: FactoryCity — This can ...
FDB Interview Spot - DJ Majesty of Da King & I
PreC.I.S.E. MC - ‘Encore’ taken from preC.I.S.E.-ly Done (Luke, 1991) Da King & I - ‘Flip Da Script’ (Remix) taken from Flip Da Script VLS (Rowdy, 1993) If you’ve been tuning into FDB for a while now you’ll know that one of my discoveries of the year has been the fantastic Contemporary Jeep [more...]
Date: 2007-11-13 21:30:28
Blog: FROM DA BRICKS ...
Deep dive into Prosper
A couple of months ago, I took a look at Prosper.com to see what that was all about, and I wrote a post about what I found ... at, but while I was poking around a few common themes jumped out at me. I thought the things I noticed were ... are the hardest to read. These situations also underscore the criticality of understanding the terms [more...]
Date: 2007-11-14 03:43:54
Blog: Frugal Zeitgeist...
Inevitable Inflation?
The new inflation goes beyond all markets, turning them into art forms or play grounds for economic playboys. - Marshall McLuhan, 1974 If food, fuel and housing are all increasing in price, why isn't it called inflation? The Consumer Price Index (CPI) compiled by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) [more...]
Date: 2007-11-14 02:50:43
Blog: Fruits of Our Labour...
"An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support." - John Buchan *** One of the few failings of the book is that although a moral panic over a moral panic is raised, the fact that only some sectors of American society (some Universities, schools, newspapers and companies) were afflicted by the madness [more...]
Date: 2007-11-09 16:28:02
Blog: Balderdash...
Understanding intelligence consumers
One of the persistent myths that we find too often in intelligence shops – particularly among editorial and production management staff – is the idea ... in products which emphasize the removal of common terms of art – despite the utility such short phrases [more...]
Date: 2007-11-13 19:31:50
Blog: Kent's Imperative...
on the trail of a government mashup
on the trail of a government mashup 14 November 2007 So why haven't online government services progressed more swiftly and in a more ... today. The aspiration is that a common underlying infrastructure will meet the needs of both internal [more...]
Date: 2007-11-14 11:15:13
Blog: NTO UK - Jerry Fishende...
The Burden Of Proof
The Burden Of Proof Filed under: Epistemology — Peter @ 12:00 am The burden of proof is a commonly invoked principle, used to end an argument by pointing out that there is an unsatisfied burden of proof that falls on one of the parties, and thus that their position can be justifiably considered false unless they produce the required proof ( [more...]
Date: 2007-11-14 07:03:10
Blog: On Philosophy...
The Source of the Problem
Michael Linden of the Governance Team, suzerain of Second Life. Long ago, a very old and wise beta-test era resident told me that the Lindens *themselves* are griefers, and that's why the problem of griefing in SL is so rampant. I thought she was over the top -- the Lindens? [more...]
Date: 2007-11-09 17:40:33
Blog: Second Thoughts...
Gaming with Trust, Relevance, and Usefulness
Gaming with Trust, Relevance, and Usefulness There is an old study from 1961 that looked at how people determine relevance of documents ... . That is, no one was trying to assert relevance (either real or artificial) through keyword injection, a very common [more...]
Date: 2007-11-13 19:11:39
Blog: SEO Theory - SEO Theory...
Global Staffing Perspectives: William Chin, Senior Staffing Manager at Intel Asia Pacific, Part 2
By Dave Mendoza, Master Cybersleuth, Affiliate Partner, JobMachine Inc ... from? (# quantity) Strictly speaking, in terms of quantity then newspaper ads, campus recruiting and job [more...]
Date: 2007-11-14 03:40:11
Blog: Six Degrees From Dave -...
Another Peek into the Petri Dish... ...where the formerly Great Britain used to be ... excluded. This was enshrined in common law during the early years of the US, and later informed [more...]
Date: 2007-11-14 03:27:34
Blog: The Smallest Minority...
Halitosis - Science To The Rescue
Halitosis - Science To The Rescue Tuesday 13 November 2007 @ 5:44 pm Halitosis, also known as plain old bad breath, ... that they suffer from it. Sometimes it takes an embarrassing social episode to come to terms about having bad [more...]
Date: 2007-11-13 17:36:16
Blog: http://theworldsbesthom...
The Importance of Keywording Your Photos
Over the course of the past few years I've become increasingly aware of the importance of keywording. By keywording I mean the act of using software to add identification words i.e. keywords ... I spent hours and hours and hours tagging my photos with descriptive keywords on Flickr [more...]
Date: 2007-11-13 21:55:34
Blog: Thomas Hawk's Digital C...
18 new messages in 14 topics - digest
uk.legal http://groups.google.com/group/uk.legal?hl=en-GB uk.legal@googlegroups.com Today's topics: * Ronald Castree/ Lesley Molseed case/ Is the jury rigged? - 2 messages, 2 authors http://groups.google.com/group/uk.legal/browse_thread/thread/26e073f61475a819? [more...]
Date: 2007-11-11 08:02:25
Blog: Insurance...
25 new messages in 12 topics - digest
uk.legal http://groups.google.com/group/uk.legal?hl=en-GB uk.legal@googlegroups.com Today's topics: * SKY News - Now Even Morocco Is To Get High Speed Rail - 7 messages, 5 authors http://groups.google.com/group/uk.legal/browse_thread/thread/20e1df7c3f53c355?hl=en-GB * How Justice works in the UK - 2 messages, 2 authors http://groups.google [more...]
Date: 2007-11-11 09:55:21
Blog: Insurance...
25 new messages in 15 topics - digest
uk.legal http://groups.google.com/group/uk.legal?hl=en-GB uk.legal@googlegroups.com Today's topics: * George Galloway MP v Blackpool Pleasure Beach - 3 messages, 1 author http://groups.google.com/group/uk.legal/browse_thread/thread/c94108b15965fc5b?hl=en-GB * reason 22 and a half - 2 messages, 2 authors http://groups.google.com/group/uk [more...]
Date: 2007-11-10 16:25:03
Blog: Insurance...
25 new messages in 9 topics - digest
uk.legal http://groups.google.com/group/uk.legal?hl=en-GB uk.legal@googlegroups.com Today's topics: * We all shouted "armed police" - 3 messages, 3 authors http://groups.google.com/group/uk.legal/browse_thread/thread/f4fcbfc54beccc59?hl=en-GB * British Muslim woman convicted of penning poems about beheadings - 2 messages, 2 authors http: [more...]
Date: 2007-11-10 13:20:29
Blog: Insurance...
What Do Larry Craig and Anthony Pollina Have In Common? No, Not That. Or Even That. (You Guessed It: Good Intentions.)
Terri Hallenbeck — not content to take Anthony Pollina’s non-announcement over the weekend as anything more than a non-announcement — gave Pollina’s trial balloon a serious tweaking in this morning’s Free Press. In fact, Hallenbeck just about rubbed that balloon in her hair and stuck it up on the wall with static electricity. [more...]
Date: 2007-11-13 22:35:51
Blog: Vermont Daily Briefing...
An Open Letter to Steve Ditko on His 80th Birthday
Dear Mr. Ditko:Forgive me for taking a personal communication public, but I don't know how to reach you privately. I know that today is your 80th birthday and I cannot let the day pass without somehow taking this opportunity to tell you how much your work has meant to me, ever since my own years were in single digits [more...]
Date: 2007-11-14 03:54:25
Blog: Tim Lucas Video WatchBl...
Really useful anamorphisms in Ruby
and brave all of the challenges inherent in using methods for object comparisons) ... philosophies the language supports. In Ruby”s case, for example, you find the usual assortment of imperative structured programming suspects like for, while, and until. But you also find [more...]
Date: 2007-11-10 15:13:59
Blog: raganwald...
Smooth thinking on sexuality: Labels don’t communicate well
Robert Epstein, a frequent commentator on sexuality issues, reports in advance of his Scientific American online survey of 18,000 people regarding precision in defining sexual orientation. He says, Although common thinking ... who voluntarily answered an online quiz shows that these terms are highly misleading. Sexual orientation [more...]
Date: 2007-11-14 05:54:19
Blog: Warren Throckmorton ...
What Digital Camera Terms Should I Know? Posted By : Dave Deane
It helps when learning to use your new digital camera to also know what some of the more common terms mean. Below you will find many of these common terms defined. [more...]
Date: 2007-11-14 10:31:13
Blog: Afro Articles - Article...
Travel Search Geniuses: Brilliant at Basics
The king is dead, long live the king. The old SEO is new again. This session, “Those Who Do…Tell: Effective Travel SEM Case Studies, “reinforced what we all know to be true: There are NO shortcuts. Effective travel search marketing means researching and testing available channels with optimized content [more...]
Date: 2007-11-12 20:04:21
Blog: aimClear Search Marketi...
Competitive Intelligence is Legal Industrial Espionage @ SMX
Competitive intelligence is about reconnaissance, research, testing, and implementation ... out who is ranking for your keyword terms and marketing with PPC. A classic SEO approach is to examine [more...]
Date: 2007-11-13 17:51:19
Blog: aimClear Search Marketi...
Skin Deep: Natural, Organic Beauty
Skin Deep: Natural, Organic Beauty November 10th, 2007 Comments(0) ... clear of skin-care products with parabens, common antibacterial agents used as preservatives [more...]
Date: 2007-11-10 18:45:44
Blog: Alanat News...
JOHN HAGEE DENIES THAT CHRIST (means MESSIAH) JESUS IS THE...MESSIAH!
Then the high priest stood up and said to Jesus, “Are you not going to answer? What is this testimony that these men are bringing against you? ... adjustment to make. Until then, let’s work in common cause for the State of Israel to help them secure [more...]
Date: 2007-11-13 22:26:58
Blog: Apprising Ministries...
NetGuru Inc Ready To Delist
NetGuru Inc Ready To Delist 11 Nov Posted by lt as Deals, Capital, ... involving potential asset purchases, common stock purchases, and reverse mergers, but, to date ... . But the company noted its cash burn rate may force it to delist if it cannot come to terms [more...]
Date: 2007-11-11 05:43:11
Blog: SEO News, Startups and ...
Faith for Thought
Young adults are disillusioned with Christianity. Many young adults today are more skeptical and resistant to Christianity than they were 10 years ago, according to the book Unchristian by Dave Kinneman. Only 16% of Americans between the ages of 16 and 29 said they have a favorable impression of Christianity. The most common terms they used [more...]
Date: 2007-11-13 21:12:32
Blog: CCO...
The 10 Minute Immigration Debate
Immigration in absolute and relative terms The other day a friend (hi Jane) pointed me towards two good Daily Kos diaries on immigration. There’s a lot to like in both of them, but I want to pick [more...]
Date: 2007-11-14 00:30:30
Blog: Firedoglake - Firedogl...
Facts on Income Tax Payers
I found this article from Kiplinger's fascinating. It's on taxes and who pays what ... , but still, it puts you in the top 10% -- not bad. (And, by the way, being a millionaire, while more common, also puts you among the elite in terms of net worth.) 3. The bottom 50% only earn 13% of the total [more...]
Date: 2007-11-13 19:01:49
Blog: Free Money Finance...
On November 13th...
Felix Unger was asked to remove himself from his place of residence... ...you know the rest. November 13th was also the day in 1940 that Willys-Overland (later American Motors) completed the first prototype for the Army's ultimate vehicle—The Jeep. That same day in 1940, Walt Disney's animation landmark “Fantasia” premiered [more...]
Date: 2007-11-13 20:38:13
Blog: Group News Blog...
Attention Profiling: APML Beginner's Guide
Attention profiling is quite possibly the next wave of smarter, more relevant web browsing ... your attention profile - the sites you visit, the search terms that interest you most, the content you most [more...]
Date: 2007-11-14 10:48:42
Blog: Independent Publishing ...
11.13.07
As dispassionate scribblings dictate, it’s time for some links. And some answers. 1 ... . Smoking Aces left my boyfriend Common alive as well as Alicia Keys. So there. 2. I’m sad. I got ... told off”, too, but I can sometimes couch the counseling of that student in different terms [more...]
Date: 2007-11-14 02:07:25
Blog: Mocha Momma...
Promoting Your Products with Search Engine Marketing
Do you have a new product or an existing product that you'd like to promote? ... common keywords associated with your product or service. The second method is to use long-tail keywords ... and propose relevant search terms. When evaluating the list, look for those search terms [more...]
Date: 2007-11-13 19:47:17
Blog: RK Weblog Technology Re...
A perfectly good Wall Street Journal article on green living that I will complain about anyway
A perfectly good Wall Street Journal article on green living that I will complain about anyway by Adam Stein I was all set to snark this Wall Street ... jumbo around energy statistics. The article then proceeds to offer up exactly the same common ... from an environmentalist who informs us that whatever we’re doing, it’s not the right thing. In broader t [more...]
Date: 2007-11-14 03:14:16
Blog: TerraPass blog | TerraP...
I have a crazy and likely unpopular thought but would like opinions...
FistK wrote:HUD7 wrote:I stand by my statement that Don King did great things for the sport of boxing.For those who disagree (Rich Davey and FistK) please post some facts to backup what you're saying because other than the common babble that sums Don King up, all of which I know of.. his contributions far outweigh the flippant statements [more...]
Date: 2007-11-13 22:43:05
Blog: Ultimate Fighter Forum...
I have a crazy and likely unpopular thought but would like opinions...
HUD7 wrote:FistK wrote:HUD7 wrote:I stand by my statement that Don King did great things for the sport of boxing.For those who disagree (Rich Davey and FistK) please post some facts to backup what you're saying because other than the common babble that sums Don King up, all of which I know of.. his contributions far outweigh [more...]
Date: 2007-11-14 00:02:30
Blog: Ultimate Fighter Forum...
Please help me to improve my presentation
Hi everyone, I have made following material for my presentation please do read and give me advise to make it more better.Thanks in advance :) ... say that clarity has two main points. Number one: choosing precise, familiar and common words ... selection should be very easy to understand and it should be consisting on very familiar and common [more...]
Date: 2007-11-10 10:02:56
Blog: UsingEnglish.com ESL Fo...
SEO a waste of money?
SEO is not the wysiwyg thing we’d all like to believe SEO - the process of search engine optimisation as we’ve all come to know and love may appear to be about cause and effect but is it really so? Whilst it’s nice to think that our seo efforts are a simple case of do action x, wait, montitor record, [more...]
Date: 2007-11-11 20:02:49
Blog: Yack Yack SEO - Not jus...
SEO a waste of money?
SEO is not the wysiwyg thing we’d all like to believe SEO - the process of search engine optimisation as we’ve all come to know and love may appear to be about cause and effect but is it really so? Whilst it’s nice to think that our seo efforts are a simple case of do action x, wait, montitor record, [more...]
Date: 2007-11-11 20:02:49
Blog: Yack Yack SEO - Not jus...