Nov 06, 2009 -
Counterterrorism: Shifting from 'Who' to 'How'
November 4, 2009 | 1918 GMT
Global Security and Intelligence Report
By Scott Stewart and Fred Burton
In the 11th edition of the online magazine Sada al-Malahim (The Echo of Battle), which was released to jihadist Web sites last week, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) leader Nasir al-Wahayshi wrote an article that called for jihadists to conduct simple attacks against a variety of targets. The targets included "any tyrant, intelligence den, prince" or "minister" (referring to the governments in the Muslim world like Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Yemen), and "any crusaders whenever you find one of them, like at the airports of the crusader Western countries that participate in the wars against Islam, or their living compounds, trains etc.," (an obvious reference to the United States and Europe and Westerners living in Muslim countries).
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Al-Wahayshi, an ethnic Yemeni who spent time in Afghanistan serving as a lieutenant under Osama bin Laden, noted these simple attacks could be conducted with readily available weapons such as knives, clubs or small improvised explosive devices (IEDs).
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Feb 06, 2008 -
I swear, I really am meaning to take a real vacation soon. I really will get out of this chair and see what the world has to offer besides this computer screen. Until then, I am totally going to cheat with Google Sightseeing!
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Feb 28, 2008 -
The editors at PC World spent some time using Google Earth to scour the surface of the planet, and they turned up some incredibly strange sights. The giant portrait of Oprah cut through a field by an Arizona farmer is one thing – you almost expect something like that – but the apparently natural phenomena are the truly mind-boggling ones. The image at left, for example, is an overhead view of a natural geological formation in Alberta, Canada.
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Dec 03, 2007 -
I was browsing the internet for gift guides and I came across this unique way to send an Ecard!!
I made a special message for you all! :)
Go check it out!
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Apr 25, 2009 -
The U. S. Geological Service issued a report in April ('08) that only scientists and oil men knew was coming, but man, was it big.
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Apr 21, 2008 -
Not long ago I had an apple problem. Wavering in the produce section of a Manhattan grocery store, I was unable to decide between an organic apple and a nonorganic apple (which was labeled conventional, since that sounds better than "sprayed with pesticides that might kill you"). It shouldn't have been a tough choice--who wants to eat pesticide residue?--but the organic apples had been grown in California.
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Jan 30, 2009 -
IMO, some people on this earth just shouldn't be given large amounts of money. I heard on FOX this morning that a couple in FL paid $155k to have their dearly-beloved, but dead, dog cloned. I find this so alarming!
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Jan 27, 2009 -
From: Wired magazine
Clive Thompson on How More Info Leads to Less Knowledge
By Clive Thompson
Is global warming caused by humans? Is Barack Obama a Christian? Is evolution a well-supported theory?
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Jun 18, 2007 -
As I found out today not all Cingular/AT&T stores are created equal... Well not if you're looking to buy an iPhone that is. To know if the store near you is a corporate store vs a franchise you can download Google Earth and a plug in that will tell you where the legit stores are near you http://www.wireless.att.com/learn/google_earth/
Can you tell I'm in a complete iPhone frenzy??
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May 06, 2007 -
Source: Wired magazine - Jan 2007
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.01/khipu.html
Khipu recovered from graves on the coast of Peru
The ancient Andean empire built great cities but left no written records – except perhaps in mysterious knotted strings called khipu. Can an anthropologist and some mathematicians crack the code?
By Gareth Cook
Incan civilization was a technological marvel.
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