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Senator McCain has recently called for his first debate with Senator Obama to be canceled. (To debate, or not to debate, that is the question)
Wisely, Senator Obama has rejected McCain’s suggestion. (Barack Obama says the show must go on)
The President of the US must be able to multitask several important issues and events. And the [...]

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On Thursday 18 September 2008 from 11:30-1pm CDT at Savvis’ main office, the St. Louis chapter of IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) is presenting a talk on Next-Generation Broadband Networks. More details on the event can be found at http://ewh.ieee.org/r5/stlouis/com/. The office can be located through this Google map entry.
Let me know if you’re coming, and [...]

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Cory Doctorow recently authored an article for Nature News called Big data: Welcome to the petacentre in which he discusses three big datacenters, including the Wellcome-Sanger, XS4ALL, and CERN facilities.
As a technologist for a datacenter operator, it’s always fun to read this sort of thing. An excerpt:

I am, admittedly, prone to swooning over a well-designed [...]

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Eve Ensler wrote an article about Sarah Palin called Drill, Drill, Drill for The Huffington Post. It has a brilliant opening:

I am having Sarah Palin nightmares. I dreamt last night that she was a member of a club where they rode snowmobiles and wore the claws of drowned and starved polar bears around their necks.
and [...]

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