In life there are various shades of gullibility and naivety. There are those people who need not take precautions in life because bad things only happen to bad people. Then there is the category of person who is taken in by the "because it's science" argument.
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Microsoft has a very bad reputation for ignoring trivialities like web standards. Just to prove how non-compliant some of the recent browsers are, take a look at the output from the web standards project.
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A number of online sources have corroborated on a lip-read translation of what Materazzi allegedly said to unleash Zidane's rage: Hold on, wait, that one's not for a nigger like you. We all know you are the son of a terrorist whore. So just @!$%# off.
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What makes us as human beings so pathological in our approach to happiness? Why do we stand and accept all those factors that take away from our happiness and propagate situations to remove happiness from ourselves and others.
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Here are a couple of media clippings taken from recent headlines around the world.
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My first two cyber-stops every morning are Newsvine and then Digg. Both websites have had a big drive recently to update features and provide a comprehensive user experience.
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My fascination with parasites has been long standing – With his husky, very colonial accent, David Attenborough had a wonderfully understated way of showing how incredible the interplay between parasite and the preyed upon actually is. Carl Zimmer recently wrote a wonderful pie …
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I believe there to be no games that come anywhere close to matching its beauty, elegance and seeming infinite complexity. Emanuel Lasker, a chess grandmaster once stated "it is something unearthly ...
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We all know where the creationists stand, God on a whim created the deeply flawed human race about 6000 years ago, the pinnacle of His creative genius.
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Achtung Achtung we are all going to die! It's true I read it on a blog from a blog from a newspaper from a scientific magazine. It's so sad, I think I need to lie down. In an effort to increase readership, many sources of information are becoming polluted by playing broken
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Back in the Blogger days I used a wonderful tool called w.bloggar to post to my blog.
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I was all of 14 years old and adventuring with my peers on a scouting outride. I had a 12 speed racer back then and most of the ride was an amazing adventure, that is until the hill.
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As new pictures surface detailing human abuse in Abu Ghraib I have to wonder, where are the hoards of protesting masses? Is everybody having a lie-in after the cartoon explosion? Come on people, where is the sense of righteous outrage at violations of human beings on a most horri
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We have had some wonderful posting of late about the amazing world of creepy crawlies. In Carl Zimmer's awesome science blog 'The Loom' he looked at the wasp
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This is not the first time religion has been misinterpreted nor will it be the last. I very much doubt the sense of outrage we are seeing has much left to do with the publication of the cartoon; it was in my opinion merely a trigger.
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The world has gone crazy, no let me refrain, it has gone completely bloody bonkers, fruity loop and down the rabbit hole.
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In an unprecedented show of honesty U.N. advisor Dennis McNamara got to the heart of a lot of the conflict in Africa.
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I work in an open plan office; I have for 5 years now and let me tell you it doesn't get any better with time.
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There is a conservative estimate regarding the number of street children that scrounge out an existence in India, eighteen million is the number, victims of poverty these children will have very little choice but to perpetuate the cycle of poverty.
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"He's back …!". Osama Bin Laden is apparently preparing to conduct more attacks on American soil but also offered them a truce …. Ok! I find this all a little incongruous really, I'm preparing to blow you up but let's be friends!
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A group at UCLA is offering students rewards of $100 for ratting out lecturers who are "abusive, off sided or off topic" in advocating political ideologies (a.k.a.
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I can't stand stupidity and buying
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I came across a wonderful article this morning bemoaning the fact that programmers are often lumped in with the hardware-fixit types. I find this hilarious especially since it happens to me all the time.
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Follow up to this newsvinepost on the push for autonomous robotic soldiers in the future. Based on the Popular Science artice of the same name.
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Stuart is a powerful voice on the soapbox of positive change. With all the unique perspectives Stuart regularly delivers to help us see our world in a clearer light, when the new Newsvine medals roll out, his insatiable curiosity and analytic mind are very well deserving.
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The honeymoon between Cosatu and the ANC's newly elected leadership is all but over. Zwelinzima Vavi, Cosatu's leader, warned this week that the powerful labour federation would not rely on "a belief in messiahs" but on its own strength.
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