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data on egypt in the days of hosni mubarak

Hosni Mubarak became vice president of Egypt in 1975, and assumed the presidency in 1981. It appears that he has recently resigned. Leaving aside moral questions, let’s take a statistical look at what has happened to the people of Egypt during his reign. Related Posts:Eric Margolis on the Muslim BrotherhoodFood Stamps (Again): Response #3 to [...]
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leningrad codex facsimile online!

That’s right.  An exclamation point.  I seem to be using more of these lately, and with news like this there’s good reason.  Though I have previously looked for an online facsimile of the Westminster Leningrad Codex, my searching was in vain.  But today I googled it and found this.  Enjoy.  It’s an extremely big download, [...]
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on google snooping and the march of the regulators

It was recently uncovered that Google vans captured information about what websites people were visiting.  It’s an embarrassing blunder for Google, which claims the information was accidentally gathered by “experimental software” and wasn’t actually used in any way.  Although I have my doubts about Google’s public statement, I’m not worried, nor am I at all [...]
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murdoch misunderstands the internet news world

“I think when they’ve got nowhere else to go they’ll start paying,” he said. Related Posts:the story of the bible translation project on this siteon google snooping and the march of the regulatorswhy google is so successful, and why this site existsReplacing BHS: Or, How to Make Yourself Well Known in the Field of Biblical [...]
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wow. thanks, google.

And all along I’d thought the reason traffic keeps going up monthly for this site was that I was writing great stuff.  I guess not.  It turns out that for some reason Google loves me.  Related Posts:data on egypt in the days of hosni mubarakleningrad codex facsimile online! on google snooping and the march of [...]
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a ridiculous example of anti-trust law being used against liberty

The internet is a massive network of unregulated information–billions of pages of information scattered on millions of computers linked together throughout the world.  When you’re out looking for specific information on a particular topic, it can be very difficult to find.  And so suppose a very inteligent fellow created a program which could ingeniously sort [...]
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bye bye, google.

I love using the Google search engine.  I love Gmail. But for the last two days, google.com has been the one website which will not load.  All others work fine. I don’t like Yahoo because it’s messy. So I’m using Bing now.  Although it’s not quite as clean as I’d like, it can do for [...]
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let’s give buzz a warm welcome

We all hear, of course, the groans as the anouncement of Google’s Buzz rolls out. Some will whine that it’s just another annoying competitor in the world of social networking.  I mean, we’ve all got facebook already, so why would we want another? Related Posts:open dns — a most excellent ideai disconnected from facebook todaydata [...]
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why google is so successful, and why this site exists

And ye shall uphold copyright unto the fifteeth year, and publish liberty throughout all the cyperspace unto the surfers and bloggers thereof;  it shall be a time of rejoicing unto you;  and ye shall unshackle every work from intellectual property, and ye shall return every work into the public domain. — Leviticus 25:10, out of [...]
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