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Post odds, if you wish. From Globe and Mail columnist Karen von Hahn's effort of May 4: Victory at last! I might have to run out and buy a bottle of Veuve to celebrate. After weeks of sleeping sideways across a collapsed king-size mattress (and weeks of calls to Sleep Country Canada), our replacement is [...]
Wed, May 7 2008 » Main Page, Minutiae » 2 Comments
The zany populism of YouTube appears to be under siege by governments and other powerful entities. Case in point? A vid by Jordan's Queen Raina. From The Tyee (April 30): Do all Arabs hate Americans? Can Arab women work? Are there any YouTubers in Jordan? Queen Rania of Jordan wants to know. In a slickly produced [...]
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Hate the sucky search function built into Outlook? There may be a solution available. From the NYT: Using Outlook today is like taking a Volkswagen Beetle into space,” (Adam) Smith said. “People are kind of exerting all these stresses upon it that it wasn’t originally designed to withstand.” Xobni, based in San Francisco, is introducing [...]
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From AP via TheStar.com: Gunmen shot dead an Iraqi reporter on Sunday after pulling her out of a car in northern Mosul, a notoriously violent city where journalists are often targeted and live in fear of their life. Police said Serwa Abdul-Wahab, in her mid-30s, was on her way to work when gunmen forced her [...]
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The BBC's Alan Johnston tells the Globe and Mail's Sarah Hampson he heard a report that he'd been killed. Johnston, of course, survived 114 days in captivity with a militant Palestinian Muslim group in the Gaza Strip, finally being freed on July 4, 2007. From the May 5 Globe and Mail: “The worst moment was [...]
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From AP (May 5) : KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — An Al-Jazeera cameraman released from the U.S.-run Guantanamo Bay detention center last week described it Monday as the worst prison mankind has ever seen. Sami al-Haj, a Sudanese citizen, was whisked from his hospital bed in a convoy escorted by police cars with flashing lights and wailing [...]