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EU Concerned About Google’s Street View Images - Yahoo! News

Friday, May 16th, 2008

EU Concerned About Google’s Street View Images - Yahoo! News
Yeah, the EU is concerned that Google is infringing on it’s territory…  At least, that is the feeling I got in Amsterdam.  There were cameras darn near everywhere in that city.
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Where should conversation on race start? - Yahoo! News

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

Where should conversation on race start? - Yahoo! News
“Let’s talk about what we have in common, common values, rather than what makes us different,” he says.
I want to relate a story from my days in academia.  Early on in my employment at a certain private University, all of the staff had to go to [...]

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Legality of Current Primary Election System

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

OK, I am not a lawyer and I usually don’t delve into politics in my public life, as I view them to be personal, but I have lately been a bit agitated about my lack of voice in picking a presidential candidate and it got me wondering about the constitutionality of our current primary [...]

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Mark Zuckerberg Red in the Facebook - Yahoo! News

Thursday, December 6th, 2007

Mark Zuckerberg Red in the Facebook - Yahoo! News
Montgomery said that one line in Zuckerberg’s post is particularly telling: “If you select that you don’t want to share some Beacon actions or if you turn off Beacon, then Facebook won’t store those actions even when partners send them to Facebook.” Just because Facebook [...]

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Keystone Directories

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

Keystone Directories
So, I got yet another phone book/yellow pages today.  Thank goodness, because I think I know have a complete collection.  I figure I can look up someone’s phone number at least 4 or 5 different ways now.
At any rate, I called Keystone Directories asking them if I could opt out and they say [...]

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Legal Action against bloggers

Friday, September 7th, 2007

Anyone have experience with a company threatening legal action over what you wrote on a blog? I got a call today from a company attorney saying I must remove a certain page from my blog because it is libelous and because it appears on the first page of Google’s rankings. They said [...]

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