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Public "Mr. Military" Presidential Candidate is against expanding the GI Bill so vets of Iraq & Afghanistan can have more of their school tuition paid for after serving, and...wait for it...get 3.5% pay increase. (Bush thinks they only deserve a 3% pay) This isn't even about one party or the other - members of both broadly support doing this for the troops -except for Bush, McCain and a few ...
continue reading...May 27th Reply! Forward
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Public A great blog post/article for us news junkies on this side of the Atlantic would be one that rounds-up, compares, and analyzes the major different UK news websites.
Dailymail.co.uk comes to mind. I've heard that this is one of Britain's most read papers (it's submitted to Digg a lot) but it sure does seem a bit on the "sensational" side sometimes. It would be ...
continue reading...Apr 5th Reply! Forward
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Public "I sometimes think that the universe is a machine designed for the perpetual astonishment of astronomers." -Arthur Clarke
As he's laid to rest this weekend, I can't help but appreciate the exquisite and romantic irony in the brightest interstellar object ever seen- a gamma ray burst from 7.5 billion light years away- happening the night this legendary sci-fi author and space pioneer passed away.
http://news.nationalge...
Mar 23rd Reply! Forward
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Public Does anyone know a lot about how Robots.txt / how search engines crawl? I was hoping this would make it the digg's homepage to read more comments, but I'll put it to my fellow powncers: Does the newspapaer business have *any* legit claims here, or they (foolishly) just acting old economy or like the record, media, companies, etc? What do you think. I'd love to hear from ...
continue reading...Mar 16th 1 Reply Forward
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Public The Economist has a story about how some researchers from HP have been studying the homepage of http://Digg.com. Interesting antecdote: the average "half-life" of digg's homepage is 69 minutes.
Mar 12th Reply! Forward