Opit's LinkFest!: More Reflections in the Funhouse Mirror

Saturday, August 8, 2009

More Reflections in the Funhouse Mirror

Back to that Google/Blogger interruption : I had carried out a 'vanity search' for Opit's LinkFest.blogspot on Yahoo! and come up with that SearchPad Beta; Plus the items from 'Not in Kansas Anymore' ; and still my Tabs are full to overflowing on 2 Windows. It didn't help that I had already started looking up news items on iGoogle. Before we get to that I'll share information from

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I didn't 'whitelist' it on NoScript so some Javascript didn't make it through Copy and Paste : and figure I might as well leave it that way as a demonstration.

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16 hours ago ago from AOL News

COLUMBIA, S.C. -South Carolina communities near military bases are planning now to try to get an economic boost when the military's next jet fighter, the F-35, arrives over the next decade. Representatives from Beaufort, Columbia and Sumter said Thursday they are trying to attract new business by advertising that the fighters are on track to fly out of the Marine Corps Air Station in Beaufort, Shaw Air Force Base and McEntire Joint National ...

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U.S. Plan Raises Ire in Latin America

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BOGOTA, Colombia, Aug. 7 -- A U.S. plan to deploy troops and station aircraft at several Colombian military bases has generated controversy across Latin America, with Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez warning that it could lead to war and the president of Brazil saying that he did not like the idea of an expanded U.S. presence in the region. A senior State Department official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said by phone from ...

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Today in History - Aug. 7

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-Today is Friday, Aug. 7, the 219th day of 2009. There are 146 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Aug. 7, 1782, Gen. George Washington created the Order of the Purple Heart, a decoration to recognize merit in enlisted men and noncommissioned officers. On this date: In 1789, the U.S. War Department was established by Congress. In 1882, the famous feud between the Hatfields of West Virginia and the McCoys of Kentucky ...

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The Case for Leaving Iraq, Now

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Although every day in Iraq repeats the endless spiral of bombs in crowded bazaars and mosques each fueling demands for retribution things are slowly getting better. Last month, the number of violent deaths in Iraq fell to 275, down from 437 in June. And that's a good sign for the security prospects following the redeployment of U.S. forces out of Iraq's urban areas. In Baghdad, the violence has ebbed to the point that the Iraqi government, ...

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Dozens killed in bombings against Shiites in Iraq

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Dozens killed in bombings against Shiites in Iraq By KIM GAMEL , AP posted: 21 MINUTES AGO comments: 129 Text Size A A A BAGHDAD -A suicide truck bomber flattened a Shiite mosque Friday in northern Iraq, while roadside bombs struck Shiite pilgrims in Baghdad, killing at least 37 people and wounding scores nationwide. It was the second-deadliest day since U.S. ...

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bill kerr : tagging posts in blogger
This post illustrates the migration to tagging : now available as a standard blogging tool on WordPress, Blogger and Opera. It provides the indexing which search spiders can use to correlate information. For me this was especially amusing, as it occured the same month as I started blogging at WordPress - in my archived files. Today Zemanta offers illustrations and articles to augment content.

filtering the internet - illustrating the casual censorship resulting from claims of 'protecting the children' : effectively truncating system operations and preserving secrecy

Interestingly enough, Bill Kerr migrated from Blogger May 2006 because of frustrations with the platform, as I am now doing from Opera for routine posts - not without regrets ...... but the more things change, the more they stay the same
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I even left Bill a note on the Iranian post election fiasco, where people are encouraged to support the former leader who was involved in attacks on American servicemen under the guise of 'supporting democracy'! Media control sure uses repetitive and ironic guises.
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