American Songwriter’s Top 50 Albums Of 2011 | American Songwriter

American Songwriter’s Top 50 Albums Of 2011 | American Songwriter:

'via Blog this'

Remembering John McCarthy - IEEE Spectrum

Remembering John McCarthy - IEEE Spectrum:

'via Blog this'

Lanx Satura [Sat-ahyuhr]: (Wet) Dreams of A Comedy Central Roast—Newt Gingrich | A2Politico

http://www.a2politico.com/?p=11370

Newt insists he is a moral man. He firmly believes that marriage is between a man and woman who doesn't have cancer.

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Article: roio » Blog Archive » THE LINCOLN PARK MARK COLLECTION: BOB DYLAN - HAMBURG 2011

roio » Blog Archive » THE LINCOLN PARK MARK COLLECTION: BOB DYLAN - HAMBURG 2011
http://bigozine2.com/roio/?p=940

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Honey Oat Dog Treats Recipe - Food.com - 136165

http://www.food.com/recipe/honey-oat-dog-treats-136165#

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Article: Occupy Together | POSTERS & MATERIALS

Occupy Together |  POSTERS & MATERIALS
http://www.occupytogether.org/downloadable-posters/

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USA TODAY: Editorial: Revisionists point fingers at Fannie, Freddie

Check out this article that I saw in USA TODAY's iPad application.

Editorial: Revisionists point fingers at Fannie, Freddie
http://usat.ly/tZv956

To view the story, click the link or paste it into your browser.

To learn more about USA TODAY for iPad and download, visit:
http://usatoday.com/ipad/

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Article: 50 Free Apps We're Most Thankful For

50 Free Apps We're Most Thankful For
http://lifehacker.com/5862252/50-free-apps-were-most-thankful-for

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Beta blockers - MayoClinic.com

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/beta-blockers/HI00059/NSECTIONGROUP=2

Beta blockers aren't usually prescribed until other blood pressure
medications, such as diuretics, haven't worked effectively. Your
doctor may prescribe beta blockers as one of several medications to
lower your blood pressure, including angiotensin-converting enzyme
(ACE) inhibitors, diuretics or calcium channel blockers.
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USA TODAY: Chrysler's Thanksgiving TV ad is all about poetry

Check out this article that I saw in USA TODAY's iPad application.

Chrysler's Thanksgiving TV ad is all about poetry
http://usat.ly/sVSyjw

To view the story, click the link or paste it into your browser.

To learn more about USA TODAY for iPad and download, visit:
http://usatoday.com/ipad/

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Chewy Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies Recipe - Allrecipes.com

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/chewy-chocolate-chip-oatmeal-cookies/detail.aspx

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Article: Online "Best of 2011" Book Lists

Online "Best of 2011" Book Lists
http://www.largeheartedboy.com/blog/archive/2011/11/online_best_of_7.html

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AMD's Bulldozer server benchmarks are here, and they're a catastrophe

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/11/bulldozer-server-benchmarks-are-here-and-theyre-a-catastrophe.ars

The desktop benchmark scores for AMD's new Bulldozer architecture didn't make happy reading for fans of the chip company, with the new design sometimes failing to beat AMD's own predecessor architecture, let alone Intel's comparable offerings. Hope still persisted, however, that the processor's architecture might fare better when tasked with server workloads. With the release last week of AMD's first Bulldozer server processors, branded the Opteron 6200 series and codenamed "Interlagos," a host of such benchmarks have arrived from AMD and others.

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The roots of the UC-Davis pepper-spraying - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com

http://www.salon.com/2011/11/20/the_roots_of_the_uc_davis_pepper_spraying/

depraved casualness of the officer's dousing the protesters' faces
with a chemical agent

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Interview with Andrew Tanenbaum: Original version - LinuxFr.org

http://linuxfr.org/nodes/88229/comments/1291183

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Lessig: How Gingrich changed Washington

Hey, check this out from CNN:
Lessig: How Gingrich changed Washington
http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/19/opinion/lessig-gingrich-change-washington/index.html

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Article: Titanium Flask

Titanium Flask
http://www.snowpeak.com/tableware/flasks-bottles/titanium-curved-flask.html

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Has a Harvard Professor Mapped Out the Next Step for Occupy Wall Street? - Alesh Houdek - Politics - The Atlantic

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/11/has-a-harvard-professor-mapped-out-the-next-step-for-occupy-wall-street/247561/

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Article: Best Science Books 2011: Amazon.com Editors

Best Science Books 2011: Amazon.com Editors
http://scienceblogs.com/confessions/2011/11/best_science_books_2011_amazon.php

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Cool Story - The Most Spoken Languages

http://www.cool-story.com/story/280/The-Most-Spoken-Languages/

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Otellini: Windows 8, touch-based ultrabooks a pair | Nanotech - The Circuits Blog - CNET News

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-57325491-64/otellini-windows-8-touch-based-ultrabooks-a-pair/

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Believe Me, It's Torture | Politics | Vanity Fair

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/08/hitchens200808

Since Cain and Bachman don't believe waterboarding is torture, let's
us it in the next GOP debate.

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Homemade Treats for Pups (and Persons) @Craftzine.com blog

http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2009/07/homemade_treats_for_pups_perso.html

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Over Half of All U.S. Tax Subsidies Go to Four Industries. Guess Which Ones? | ThinkProgress

http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/11/13/366988/over-half-of-all-us-tax-subsidies-go-to-four-industries-guess-which-ones/?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed

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Article: JoePa has an answer

JoePa has an answer
http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/11/11/joepa-has-an-answer/

"As you know, the kids that were the vic­tims, I think we ought to say a prayer for them,"

And there, in that one sen­tence is the very heart of the grotesque­ness of reli­gion, the very core of what I have raged about, fought against, and endeav­ored to put a face on for these many years all summed up nice and tidy by a dis­graced coach.

PRAYER?? Say a PRAYER for the child vic­tims? You self right­eous sanc­ti­mo­nious jerk… some of those kids are vic­tims par­tial­ly because you failed as a man. You relin­quished your respon­si­bil­i­ty as a human being. Your hubris and self inter­est over shad­owed those vic­tims inter­est. But, now, NOW you'll implore us to mum­ble words to a nonex­is­tent thing in the sky as though that will fix things? As though those kids' lives will be repaired by words to a deity when your own mis­be­hav­ior, self-serving actions, or apa­thy was a causal fac­tor for their pain?

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Article: In Which I Select a Current GOP Presidential Candidate to Vote For

In Which I Select a Current GOP Presidential Candidate to Vote For
http://whatever.scalzi.com/2011/11/11/in-which-i-select-a-current-gop-presidential-candidate-to-vote-for/

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Corporations Hate Regulation, Until They Love It | Mother Jones

http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2011/11/why-businesses-love-regulatory-complexity

…"Here's the key word in the rules: 'exemption,'" former Senator Ted Kaufman, Democrat of Delaware, told me. "Let me tell you, as soon as you see that, it's pronounced 'loophole.' That's what it means in English." Mr. Kaufman, now teaching at Duke University School of Law, earlier proposed a tougher version of the Volcker Rule, which was voted down in the Senate. "We've been through this before," he said. "I know these folks, these Wall Street guys. I went to school with them. They're smart as hell. You give them the smallest little hole, and they'll run through it."

This is probably the biggest reason that no one should take too seriously Republican complaints about burdensome regulations strangling the economy. The truth is that most reformers preferfairly simple rules. In the tax world, they'd prefer to simply tax all income. In the environmental world, they'd prefer to set firm limits for pollutants. In the financial world, they'd prefer blunt rules that cut off risky activity at its knees.

But businesses don't like simple rules, because simple rules are hard to evade. So they lobby endlessly for exemptions both big and small. This is why we end up with tax subsidies for bow-and-arrow makers. It's why we end up with environmental rules that treat a hundred different industries a hundred different ways. It's why financial regulators don't enact simple leverage rules or place firm asset caps on firm size. Those would be hard to get around and might genuinely eat into bank profits. Complex rules, conversely, are the meat and drink of $500-per-hour lawyers and whiz kid engineers. If the rules are complicated enough, smart lawyers can always find ways around them. And American corporations employ lots of smart lawyers.

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Check out: 'Perry Does Letterman’s Top 10 "Oops" Jokes' on Slate

I thought you might find this Slate article interesting:

Perry Does Letterman's Top 10 "Oops" Jokes
By Josh Voorhees
http://slatest.slate.com/posts/2011/11/11/rick_perry_does_david_letterman_s_top_10_oops_jokes.html?wpisrc=sl_ipad

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Michael Lewis on the King of Human Error | Business | Vanity Fair

http://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2011/12/michael-lewis-201112?currentPage=all&t=1320866932

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Richard Dawkins plans to arrest Pope Benedict XVI during his state visit to Britain ‘for crimes against humanity’

http://www.infiniteunknown.net/2010/04/12/richard-dawkins-plans-to-arrest-pope-benedict-xvi-during-his-state-visit-to-britain-for-crimes-against-humanity/

Dawkins, author of The God Delusion, said: "This is a man whose first
instinct when his priests are caught with their pants down is to cover
up the scandal and damn the young victims to silence."

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Income disparity and U.S. political economy | WBEZ

http://www.wbez.org/episode-segments/2011-11-09/income-disparity-and-us-political-economy-93898#

He proposes a new branch of government, a "people's council," that
could try government officials for war crimes and abuse, veto and
propose legislation, and ultimately keep government accountable to the
masses. His ideas stem from research into ancient systems such as Rome
and Athens, where plebeians held high positions in government
alongside elites.
---SPSmith

Federal Farm Promotion ("Check-Off") Programs

http://www.nationalaglawcenter.org/assets/crs/95-353.pdf

---SPSmith

Article: Does Penn State Actively Condone The Rape Of Children?

Does Penn State Actively Condone The Rape Of Children?
http://freethoughtblogs.com/physioprof/2011/11/09/does-penn-state-actively-condone-the-rape-of-children/

The pedophile pope on penn state

---SPSmith

A Very Good Night for Democrats - Molly Ball - Politics - The Atlantic

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/11/a-very-good-night-for-democrats/248149/

---SPSmith

Article: The Tuesday Birthday Problem : EvolutionBlog

The Tuesday Birthday Problem : EvolutionBlog
http://scienceblogs.com/evolutionblog/2011/11/the_tuesday_birthday_problem.php?utm_source=combinedfeed&utm_medium=rss

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CosmoLearning | Mathematics Documentaries

http://www.cosmolearning.com/mathematics/documentaries/

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"Started Early, Took My Dog": Kidnapping in Yorkshire - Fiction - Salon.com

http://www.salon.com/2011/03/14/started_early_took_my_dog/

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Article: [1111.0434v1] Pancake Flipping is Hard

[1111.0434v1] Pancake Flipping is Hard
http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.0434v1

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3 Misconceptions That Need to Die (WMT, X)

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2011/10/25/3-misconceptions-that-need-to-die.aspx

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Article: AMD to cut workforce by 10 percent, invest savings in emerging markets and the cloud

AMD to cut workforce by 10 percent, invest savings in emerging markets and the cloud
http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/03/amd-to-cut-workforce-by-10-percent-invest-savings-into-emerging/

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Article: In Religious Divisions They Trust

In Religious Divisions They Trust
http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2011/11/03/in-religious-divisions-they-trust/

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With Vaccines, Bill Gates Changes The World Again - Forbes

http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2011/11/02/the-second-coming-of-bill-gates/

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The Corporatocracy is the 1% | Common Dreams

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/11/02

Corporations don't care about helping America succeed. Corporations as they exist now exist solely for profit, not public good. If the government stands in the way of their profit potential, they can legally purchase new politicians through unlimited, undisclosed campaign donations. 
---SPSmith

The Stupidity of "Buy American" - Reason Magazine

http://reason.com/archives/2011/11/03/the-stupidity-of-buy-american?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reason%2FArticles+%28Reason+Online+-+All+Articles+%28except+Hit+%26+Run+blog%29%29

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