How Samsung Became the World's No. 1 Smartphone Maker - Businessweek

http://www.businessweek.com/printer/articles/105080-how-samsung-became-the-worlds-no-dot-1-smartphone-maker

As Samsung has risen, others have failed, often in spectacular fashion: Motorola was split up and its handset business sold to Google (GOOG). Nokia watched its long-standing No. 1 position erode when it got blindsided by smartphones. The Sony-Ericsson (ERIC)partnership dissolved. Palm disappeared into Hewlett-Packard (HPQ). BlackBerry (BBRY) continues to be on a 24-hour watch and has had its belt and shoelaces confiscated. When it comes to mobile hardware, today there's only Apple, Samsung, and a desperate crowd of brands that can't seem to rise above being called "the rest."

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Obama uses executive power to move gun control agenda forward - The Hill

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/290885-obama-uses-executive-power-to-move-gun-control-forward


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Slate: The Chilling Effects of the DMCA

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The Chilling Effects of the DMCA
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2013/03/dmca_chilling_effects_how_copyright_law_hurts_security_research.html

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Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal - Obituaries March 26 2013

Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal - Obituaries March 26 2013: "Timothy Wayne “Tim” Hopkins, 54, went to be with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and Dale Earnhardt to contribute his building and painting expertise to the constructing of many heavenly mansions on Saturday, March 23, 2013, in Memphis."

Cold Dead Hand with Jim Carrey from Jim Carrey, NickCorirossi, Charles Ingram, Funny Or Die, BoTown Sound, millsfx, and Melissa Gould McNeely

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/0433b30576/cold-dead-hand-with-jim-carrey


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Supreme court limits police use of drug-sniffing dogs - US news | NBC News

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/51333438#.UVHoFVtATSw


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Twice Baked Potato with Egg on Top :: Home Cooking Adventure

http://www.homecookingadventure.com/recipes/twice-baked-potato-with-egg-on-top


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Raw Cauliflower Couscous | The Spontaneous Hausfrau

http://spontaneoushausfrau.com/2012/09/24/raw-cauliflower-couscous/

Raw Cauliflower Couscous

3 cups cauliflower, shredded
1/2 cup carrots, finely diced
1/3 cup red pepper, finely diced
4 tablespoons basil, chopped
4 tablespoons parsley, chopped
3 tablespoons olive oil
3 tablespoons sundried tomato, finely diced
2 tablespoons Kalamata olives, finely diced
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1 tablespoon capers, minced
2 teaspoons lemon zest
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon pepper

Combine all the ingredients in a large bowl and toss until combined. Chill for at least 1 hour to let the flavors combine.

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Artificial intelligence expert Robert Wilensky dies at 61

http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/03/25/robert-wilensky-dies-at-61/


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Stifel

The money man behind atheism's activism
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2013/03/23/the-money-man-behind-atheisms-activism/


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Home | Costs of War

http://costsofwar.org/
Our tally of all of the war's dead — including soldiers, militants,
police, contractors, journalists, humanitarian workers and civilians —
shows that at least 330,000 people have died due to direct war
violence.
$4 trillion spent

No Dubya, we don't miss you yet. We will never miss your
economy-crushing policies on futile military actions. All to enrich
the oil sheiks.

10 Colleges With Largest Financial Endowments - US News and World Report

http://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/the-short-list-college/articles/2012/11/27/10-colleges-with-largest-financial-endowments

Harvard University leads the pack with more than $32 billion.

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Peter Scott - Telegraph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/9949054/Peter-Scott.html

"The people I burgled got rich by greed and skulduggery. They
indulged in the mechanics of ostentation — they deserved me and I
deserved them. If I rob Ivana Trump, it is just a meeting of two
different kinds of degeneracy on a dark rooftop."

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'Baghdad Bob' and His Ridiculous, True Predictions - Atlantic Mobile

http://m.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/03/baghdad-bob-and-his-ridiculous-true-predictions/274241/

THE PREDICTION

"The infidels are committing suicide by the hundreds on the gates of Baghdad."

THE REALITY

In 2003, this was probably Sahaf's most quoted line. It was so conveniently ludicrous, so patently untrue, that commentators didn't have to do any research or devote any column inches to disproving it.

A decade later, nobody jokes about military suicide. The Department of Veteran Affairs recently published the most comprehensive study of veteran suicides ever conducted, revealing that about 22 American vets committed suicide every day in 2010, the most recent year for which data was available. That's up from 18 per day in 2008.

So Sahaf was actually slightly wrong on this one. The United States really loses their servicemen and women to suicide not by the hundreds, but by the thousands. And not at the gates of Baghdad, but at home.

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10 Best Small Towns in America | Travel News from Fodor's Travel Guides

http://www.fodors.com/news/best-small-towns-in-usa-6591.html

Sedona, Arizona

What it's Like: Red-rock panoramas and the mythical "vortex" energies set the scene for this spa and wellness haven.

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Dangerous Minds | Dying vet’s ‘fuck you’ letter to George Bush & Dick Cheney needs to be read by every American

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/dying_vets_fuck_you_letter_to_george_bush_dick_cheney_needs_to_be_read

The Iraq War is the largest strategic blunder in U.S. history. It obliterated the balance of power in the Middle East. It installed a corrupt and brutal pro-Iranian government in Baghdad, one cemented in power through the use of torture, death squads and terror. And it has left Iran as the dominant force in the region. On every level—moral, strategic, military and economic—Iraq was a failure. And it was you, Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney, who started this war. It is you who should pay the consequences.

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Why the invasion of Iraq was the single worst foreign policy decision in American history - Le Monde diplomatique - English edition

http://mondediplo.com/openpage/why-the-invasion-of-iraq-was-the-single-worst

And so, happy 10th anniversary, Iraq War! A decade after the invasion, a chaotic and unstable Middle East is the unfinished legacy of our invasion. I guess the joke is on us after all, though no one is laughing.

---SPSmith

The March to War and Back — writing out loud — Medium

https://medium.com/something-like-falling/f05a8010fac0


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Bush big oil war

Opinion: Why Iraq War was fought for Big Oil
http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/19/opinion/iraq-war-oil-juhasz/index.html


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GettingStarted - support - A quick guide to getting started with project hosting on Google Code. - User support for Google Project Hosting - Google Project Hosting

http://code.google.com/p/support/wiki/GettingStarted

Here's how to import your project using TortoiseSVN, the most popular Windows SVN client.

---SPSmith

Why Do People Believe Scientifically Untrue Things? - Reason.com

http://reason.com/archives/2013/03/15/why-do-people-believe-scientifically-unt


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Slate: No, Global Warming Has NOT Stopped

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No, Global Warming Has NOT Stopped
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/03/18/global_warming_denial_debunking_misleading_climate_change_claims_by_david.html

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Irish poem

http://ece.uprm.edu/artssciences/ingles/nb-heaney.htm

My "place of clear water,"

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44. Lake Isle of Innisfree. William Butler Yeats. Modern British Poetry

http://www.bartleby.com/103/44.html

And live alone in the bee-loud glade.

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Sexual factors and prostate cancer - Giles - 2003 - BJU International - Wiley Online Library

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1464-410X.2003.04319.x/abstract;jsessionid=B668BA153689BD7548B406EE6906971C.d02t04


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Harry Stamps Obituary: View Harry Stamps's Obituary by The Sun Herald

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sunherald/obituary.aspx?pid=163538353

Harry was locally sourcing his food years before chefs in California starting using cilantro and arugula (both of which he hated). For his signature bacon and tomato sandwich, he procured 100% all white Bunny Bread from Georgia, Blue Plate mayonnaise from New Orleans, Sauer's black pepper from Virginia, home grown tomatoes from outside Oxford, and Tennessee's Benton bacon from his bacon-of-the-month subscription. As a point of pride, he purported to remember every meal he had eaten in his 80 years of life.

Read more here: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sunherald/obituary.aspx?pid=163538353#storylink=cpy

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Book #6: The Big Sleep | 101 Books

http://101books.net/2010/12/02/book-6-the-big-sleep/

Memorable Line: "What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill. You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you. You just slept the big sleep, not caring about the nastiness of how you died or where you fell." - Philip Marlowe

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Ten Things to End Rape Culture | The Nation

http://www.thenation.com/article/172643/ten-things-end-rape-culture


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Justified (TV series) - Wikiquote

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Justified_(TV_series)

Arlo: Where were you, woman?

Helen: Down in the parking lot, giving blowjobs for cash.

Arlo: Were you paying or were they?

---SPSmith

Estimated cost of Iraq War is 190,000 lives and $2.2 trillion | Brown University News and Events

http://news.brown.edu/pressreleases/2013/03/warcosts


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Google Reader Is Shutting Down; Here Are the Best Alternatives

http://lifehacker.com/5990456/google-reader-is-getting-shut-down-here-are-the-best-alternatives


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Driver Side & Passenger Side Mirror Glass Replacement

http://www.automotivemirrorglass.com/mirrorglasscatalog.php?type=Passenger%20Side&make=Nissan&model=MURANO&year=2009&mirror=BUR-5322H


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REPLACE(R) - Nissan Murano 2009-2012 Side Door Mirrors

http://www.carid.com/2009-nissan-murano-side-mirrors/item-1103393.html


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Dialect Survey Results

http://www4.uwm.edu/FLL/linguistics/dialect/maps.html


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Article: The Nine Worst Claims About Guns From John Lott's New Book

The Nine Worst Claims About Guns From John Lott's New Book
http://mediamatters.org/research/2013/03/12/the-nine-worst-claims-about-guns-from-john-lott/193014

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Slate: Regrettable

Regrettable
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2013/03/bob_woodward_and_gene_sperling_what_woodward_s_john_belushi_book_can_tell.html

---SPSmith

In Afghanistan, Pataskala reverend set up Quran training, help for troops | The Columbus Dispatch

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/faith_and_values/2012/06/15/honored-chaplain.html


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What happened to Orson Scott Card? - Salon.com

http://www.salon.com/2013/03/07/end_game_for_orson_scott_card_partner/

Democracy is empathy. It is being able to see the rest of society as people just like you are, whether they agree with you or not. It is about not ruling at the barrel of a gun, but explaining to others the way you feel, bringing them around by letting them inside. By getting them to feel what you feel, which is the very definition of empathy. There are those who think that the failure of the world to agree with them, and their embrace of violence as a solution, somehow makes them the strong ones and the world the weak ones. But violence is such an easy solution, the emotional coward's way out of actually dealing with the existence of those who disagree as legitimate equals.

---SPSmith

Article: Idaho law banning abortions after 20 weeks ruled unconstitutional

Idaho law banning abortions after 20 weeks ruled unconstitutional
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-idaho-abortion-law-20130307,0,1080762.story

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Slate: The Laptop of the Future

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The Laptop of the Future
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2013/03/google_s_chromebook_pixel_is_a_horrible_deal_today_in_five_years_we_all.html

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Is being liberal a choice? - Salon.com

http://www.salon.com/2013/03/06/is_being_liberal_a_choice/


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Tweet from James Martin (@Pundamentalism)

	James Martin (@Pundamentalism)
3/5/13, 10:02 AM Iron Man was actually Fe Male.

Download the official Twitter app here

---SPSmith

Tweet from Shawn Garrett (@ShawnGarrett)

	Shawn Garrett (@ShawnGarrett)
3/4/13, 10:54 AM So we go a few days without a Pope and we already cured AIDS?

Download the official Twitter app here

---SPSmith

Persuasive Litigator: Speak to the Brain's Politics

http://www.persuasivelitigator.com/2013/03/speak-to-the-brains-politics.html

While engaged in this task, Democrats showed greater activity in the left insula, an area in the brain that is believed to be connected to self-awareness, social awareness, and specifically the perception of others' internal states and drives. Republicans, on the other hand, showed greater activity in the right amygdala, the region associated with our reactions to fear and the fight or flight response.

---SPSmith

What happens when you study conspiracy theories? The conspiracy theorists make up conspiracy theories about you! – denialism blog

http://scienceblogs.com/denialism/2013/02/26/what-happens-when-you-study-conspiracy-theories-the-conspiracy-theorists-make-up-conspiracy-theories-about-you/

Don't argue with cranks. I can't agree more. And historically this is what has worked with denialist groups. You don't debate them as if they're honest brokers, you treat them as the defective brains that they are, and eventually, their influence dwindles, and they'll be reduced to a small community of losers sharing their delusions of grandeur and righteous indignation in some tiny corner of the internet.

The key to preventing denialism isn't in arguing with those that have already formed fixed, irrational ideas. It can only happen with prevention – early education that emphasizes logic, scientific methods, rational thought and non-ideological, pragmatic approaches to problem solving.

---SPSmith

An Inconvenient Truth: The Bush Administration Was a Disaster | The American Conservative

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/an-inconvenient-truth-the-bush-administration-was-a-disaster/

Most Americans remember the Bush years as a period of expanding government, ruinous war, and economic collapse. They voted for Obama the first time as a repudiation of those developments. Many did so a second time because most Republicans continue to pretend that they never happened.

---SPSmith

Bits and Pieces: Oprah at Harvard, Part II

http://harry-lewis.blogspot.com/2013/03/oprah-at-harvard-part-ii.html

she promotes the paranormal, psychic powers, new age spiritualism,
conspiracy theories, quack celebrity diets, past life regression,
angels, ghosts, alternative therapies like acupuncture and homeopathy,
anti-vaccination, detoxification, vitamin megadosing, and virtually
everything that will distract a human being from making useful
progress and informed decisions in life

---SPSmith

Article: Is Individual Liberty Over-Rated?

Is Individual Liberty Over-Rated?
http://bigthink.com/Mind-Matters/is-individual-liberty-over-rated

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Language Log

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/

your passport has just been stamped for entry into the Land of Bullshit.

---SPSmith

Mitt Romney: "It Kills Me Not to Be in the White House" - Little Green Footballs

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/41692_Mitt_Romney-_It_Kills_Me_Not_to_Be_in_the_White_House

can you believe these spoiled whiny multi-millionaires? They lost the election because the American people saw through the pandering to the true Mitt Romney: the rich elitist snob who held them in contempt, and would blatantly lie in his quest for power. With every ungracious word out of their mouths, the Romneys just confirm that this impression was dead on

---SPSmith

2013 All-Arizona boys soccer

http://www.azcentral.com/sports/preps/history/soccer/boys/all-arizona.php

GK	Tim O'Brien	Desert Vista	Junior

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Article: The Black Queen Hypothesis

The Black Queen Hypothesis
http://bytesizebio.net/index.php/2013/03/02/the-black-queen-hypothesis/

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Hi,

I thought you'd like this azcentral article. Check it out:

Spending on Medicare, other programs can't be ignored
http://www.azcentral.com/business/articles/20130331medicaid-spending-us-budget.html

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How the Across-the-Board Cuts in the Budget Control Act Will Work — Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3635


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Explanation is not Justification | Bleeding Heart Libertarians

http://bleedingheartlibertarians.com/2013/03/explanation-is-not-justification/

Hayek argues inLaw, Legislation, and Liberty, and even more clearly in The Fatal Conceit, that one reason people are inclined toward socialism and have difficulty accepting the market order and its rules is that we spent a long evolutionary past in small, face-to-face, kin-based groups in which broadly collectivist and altruistic moral rules held and were effective.  That is, we have evolved moral instincts that are disposed to collectivism and socialism.  We evolved in a world where top-down or collectivist distribution of goods according to need was more the norm and could work thanks to the limited size of groups, which allowed for face-to-face, intimate knowledge of others.  For Hayek, the challenge of modernity is learning to live in a world of abstract rules of just conduct that bind us by agreement on means rather than ends.

---SPSmith

Texas motorists challenge U.S. Border Patrol checkpoints | kens5.com San Antonio

http://www.kens5.com/news/South-Texas-motorists-challenging-US-Border-Patrol-checkpoints-193997951.html


---SPSmith

How Mom’s Death Changed My Thinking About End-of-Life Care - ProPublica

http://www.propublica.org/article/how-moms-death-changed-my-thinking-about-end-of-life-care


---SPSmith

5 Ways To Help Family Pay For Housing - Forbes

http://www.forbes.com/sites/deborahljacobs/2012/04/02/ways-to-help-family-pay-for-housing/


---SPSmith