Monthly Archives: February 2006

Google blacklists BMW.de

Slick, but too slick: Cutts explained that when Google’s crawlers visited a BMW page, it saw blocks of text with repeated key search words such as ‘neuwagen,’ which means ‘new car’ in German. However, when a user visited the listed … Continue reading

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NLS: The official VA Blogosphere Super Bowl Pick’em- UPDATED AGAIN

Consistent with my earlier prediction for the Super Bowl: * Jerome Bettis will run for two TDs on the game and be the MVP.* Shaun Alexander will be held to fewer than 100 yards.* Roethlisberger will be shut down offensively, … Continue reading

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Tim Kaine’s Left Eyebrow

Yep. It’s on eBay. Courtesy of The People’s Cube.

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Hamas tells West to take its aid and ‘get lost’

Stupid, stupid politcal calculus on the part of the West: Leading Hamas official Mahmoud Zahar rejected Western and Egyptian pressure for his movement to recognize Israel and renounce violence. ‘The Western nations can take their aid and get lost,’ he … Continue reading

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Brokeback to the Future

It was an experiment in time. But the one variable they forgot, was love… Funniest thing I’ve seen since they passed the Chronic (wha?) -cles of Narnia.

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Two bombs found in Texas

For those who don’t believe domestic terrorism is any less a threat than foreign terrorism…

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My how far we’ve come, and how much further we have to go..

My parents can vaugely remember this era. My grandparents most certainly. So it’s always a certain struggle for individuals my age to try to understand what segregation mush have been like, what an injustice it was, and how heroic those … Continue reading

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Commonwealth Watch: Refocus the Energy

Let this be a lesson to all of us that such idle speculation is what will separate us as blogs from print media. I’ll have more on this as I get my dander up, but for cryin’ out loud guys…

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QandO: The Decline of the Democrats

Dale Franks over at QandO o sole mio ii mp3 suspects what I’ve been saying here all along — the Democratic Party is taking a step to the right: I believe we are edging closer to a time when the … Continue reading

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Open Workbench

Goodbye MS Project! Hello Open Workbench. Why the heck is anyone going to pay $600 in-store for a open-source program they could download for free?

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