Author: DXO
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Shiites Leading in Hussein’s Home Province
By JOHN F. BURNS and JAMES GLANZ Published: February 8, 2005 BAGHDAD, Iraq, Feb. 7 – The first election returns from the Sunni majority heartland north of Baghdad showed Monday that a low Sunni turnout in Saddam Hussein’s home province has given a lead in the voting there to a Shiite political alliance led by…
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Boing Boing’s Got It Wrong
I am a huge fan of Boing Boing, but they put their patented Indigant Taser on the wrong target today. On the same day I changed my full-text archive into links to the NYT, they complain that one cannot email the full text of an article any longer. All you have to do is choose…
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John F. Burns Link Archive
If the concepts in my Derivative Works Manifesto were put into law & practice, sites like GoogObits and Letters to the Editor, Jack O’Neil, Sewickley would be pretty well-covered. In these sites, I use the complete text of owned content in unique ways. Clearly there is original authorship in the selection and presentation of this…
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Mappr
Mappr is a very cool mapping application that uses the Flickr API to present Flickr photos geographically. Here’s what they say about themselves: Mappr is an interactive environment for exploring place, based on the photos people take. By adding geographical information to the wealth of photographs found on Flickr, it allows new ways of looking…
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The Fact of Evolution
Here’s an item that touches on two of my passions: good obituaries and the propagation of the theory of evolution. Ernst Mayr, Pioneer in Tracing Geography’s Role in the Origin of Species, Dies at 100 He died as the courage to teach evolution is in doubt across the country. Ernst Mayr was a giant. Here’s…