robot_dave: October 2007 Archives
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The jailbreak opens your iPhone for full disk access and installs Installer.app so you can add pretty much any third party application you like.
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Current TV is now at current.com
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The Chalkwork iPhone Mini-Set is a set of custom icons built specifically for the iPhone UI. Featuring base icons from the Chalkwork Family stylized to match the iPhone look and feel, each icon rests on top of a unique texture or photographic element.
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Fishing capacity is nearly four times more than is sustainable, species are becoming extinct 100 times faster than fossil records show, and 12 per cent of birds, 23 per cent of mammals and over 30 per cent of amphibians face extinction.
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"The Burma military regime is not only brutal but very superstitious. They believe that contact with a woman's panties or sarong can rob them of their power," the Lanna Action for Burma group said.
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Claiming a lineage with post-Enlightenment classical liberalism, as well as in some cases with the resoundingly portentous blatherings of Ayn Rand
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How can humans survive such deprivation? What downright un-American things are they forced to eat? The new Axis of Evil Cookbook has some of the answers.
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The Common Travel Area between Ireland and Britain is expected to end in two years time with the result that people travelling by air or sea between the two countries will require a passport.
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Looking at a sign in Clearview after reading one in Highway Gothic is like putting on a new pair of reading glasses: there’s a sudden lightness, a noticeable crispness to the letters.
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As the news spread about the Nobel Committee’s recognition of Gore’s work publicizing the threat from global warming, both the right-wing media and major news outlets geared up to hype criticism of Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” in a ruling by a
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The school governor who challenged the screening of Al Gore's climate change documentary in secondary schools was funded by a Scottish quarrying magnate who established a controversial lobbying group to attack environmentalists claims about global warming
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The government has ordered a wide-ranging investigation into wireless computer networks amid concerns over the potential health risks they pose for millions of schoolchildren and office workers.
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I think nothing has higher priority than averting an attack on Iran, which I think will be accompanied by a further change in our way of governing here that in effect will convert us into what I would call a police state.
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On the subject of terrorism and flying, I have this to say: your chances of being involved in a real incident — as opposed to a false alarm — are vanishingly small. Much of the post-9/11 security checks are smoke and mirrors, nonsense designed to demo
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THE US administration has shifted strategy and is drawing up plans for possible air strikes against Iran's Revolutionary Guard instead of the country's nuclear sites, it was reported today.
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ONE of the founding fathers of neoconservatism has privately urged US President George W. Bush to bomb Iran rather than allow it to acquire nuclear weapons.
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The President’s position, and its corollary—that, if many of America’s problems in Iraq are the responsibility of Tehran, then the solution to them is to confront the Iranians—have taken firm hold in the Administration.
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John Bolton, the former US ambassador to the United Nations, told Tory delegates today that efforts by the UK and the EU to negotiate with Iran had failed and that he saw no alternative to a pre-emptive strike on suspected nuclear facilities in the countr
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