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Clip Source: www.accomline.com
Vietnam is a country of sublime natural beauty from the Red River Delta in the north, to the Mekong Delta in the south. This is complimented by divine coastal beaches and with soaring mountains inland.
The capital Hanoi boasts a charming French Quarter as well as the exquisite Presidential Palace. The conservative city offers an excellent combination of history and cuisine, as well as a more gentle insight into Vietnam.

Ho Chi Minh City, previously known as Saigon, is Vietnams largest city and economic powerhouse. War museums are grippingly absorbing and the infamous Cu Chi tunnel network is within easy day tripping reach.

Although Vietnam?s climate varies notably from North to South, generally speaking the country is accessible all year round.

Its narrow central regions have three UNESCO protected sites. The little town of Hoi An is a unique pocket of old French streets, especially charming by night. Beyond Hues city walls the woods contain dozens of imperial tombs. In the north lies the poetic rocky limestone outcrops of Halong Bay - stunning natural beauty.


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Tien sy DH Bach Khoa Paris tuoi 26


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clippers remarks: Be proud of Viet Namese
Clip Source: www.tuoitre.com.vn
TT - Tr? th�nh ti?n s? v?t l� c?a ?H B�ch khoa Paris (Ph�p), m?t trong nh?ng tr??ng ?H h�ng ??u th? gi?i, ? tu?i 26, ni?m say m� v?i v?t l� c?a Nguy?n Quang T??ng nh? ?� tr? th�nh t�i s?n c?a ??i anh.�Sau b?y n?m, ?n t??ng c?a T??ng trong th?y Nguy?n Duy Ti?n v?n l� ?m?t c?u b� ??p trai, s�ng s?a, nghi�m t�c, h?c h�nh ?�ng ho�ng v� r?t gi?i�m�n v?t l�? c?a khoa c? nh�n t�i n?ng ?H Khoa h?c t? nhi�n (?H Qu?c gia H� N?i).



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� t??ng chia s? tri th?c b?ng clip "vietnam" ? clipmarks.com


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Clip Source: blog.360.yahoo.com
Clipmarks.com c�n ?i xa h?n n?a, t? g?i d?ch v? c?a clipmarks.com l� "tinh th?n kinh doanh nh�n v?n". L?i �ch cho h? ?�u kh�ng bi?t, ch? bi?t b�y gi? h? ?ang gi�p ng??i d�ng:
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2. chia s? c�c th�ng tin ?� v?i m?i ng??i
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Why use online services like Writely


clipped by: minhdang
clippers remarks: - Aims and potential users of a new service.
- Online services serve highly flexible users, not rigid corporates.
Im a professional writer. I have used Writely Writely since it became available, long before Google purchased it, in preference to MS Word for everything except final editing. I do prefer Word for that, because all the editors I work with use it. But let me tell you, when you travel, use several different computers in addition to your laptop, and can go online and have all your work in front of you exactly as you left it at the last stop, you realize that online applications are a goldmine.
Along with that, I cant tell you what a pleasure it is to be able to travel without worrying that your livelihood is in that verrry identifiable bag, just waiting to be ripped off. Go ahead; steal my ThinkPad. Theres not much of value on it, and its insured.
Im never impressed by the opinions of people who evaluate things without considering the conditions theyre designed for. It shows an insularity that isnt consistent with the reality of the Web and computing today.


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Primary Documents from the Phoenix program


clipped by: tpq62
clippers remarks: A little something from the memory hole
Documents from the Phoenix Program

>>> Created by the CIA in Saigon in 1967, Phoenix was a program aimed at "neutralizing"?through assassination, kidnapping, and systematic torture?the civilian infrastructure that supported the Viet Cong insurgency in South Vietnam. It was a terrifying "final solution" that violated the Geneva Conventions and traditional American ideas of human morality. (For a full introduction to Phoenix, see below.)

While researching the Phoenix Program for my book on the subject, I conducted over a hundred interviews and collected boxes full of documents from individuals, as well as from the State Department and Department of Defense. The most important documents provided by any one individual came from retired CIA officer Nelson Brickham, the man most responsibile for the creation of the Phoenix Program.



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Iraq like Vietnam, says Bush


clipped by: Kore7
clippers remarks:
Asked whether he agreed with Friedmans summary, Bush said, "He could be right. ... Theres certainly a stepped-up level of violence, and were heading into an election."

Clip Source: www.foxnews.com

Administration OK With Iraq-Tet Offensive Comparisons

Thursday, October 19, 2006


WASHINGTON�?� On the campaign trail in Pennsylvania Thursday, President Bush insisted pulling out of Iraq now would be a victory for terrorists like Al Qaeda leader Usama bin Laden.

But the presidents comments in an interview with ABC Wednesday garnered most of the news coverage. In the interview with This Weeks George Stephanopolous, Bush was asked about writer Thomas Friedmans column in The New York Times in which Friedman wrote that the recent spike in violence in Iraq might be the Iraqi equivalent to the 1968 Tet Offensive in the Vietnam War.

"What were seeing there seems like the jihadist equivalent of the Tet offensive," Friedman wrote, adding that jihadist Web sites frequently state how it is critical that the media war parallel the armed effort.

Asked whether he agreed with Friedmans summary, Bush said, "He could be right. ... Theres certainly a stepped-up level of violence, and were heading into an election."

Bush said he thinks terrorists in Iraq think if they inflict enough damage then U.S. forces would leave.

"They believe that if they can create enough chaos, the American people will grow sick and tired of the Iraqi effort," Bush said.

The 1968 Tet Offensive is seen by most historians as a critical juncture in the Vietnam War. The attack did serious damage to public support for the war and for President Lyndon Johnson even though it was a major routing of the enemys troops.

Partisans suggest it may not be the comparison Bush wants to make.

"I dont think the president is well-served when he compares something in Iraq going on to the Tet Offensive because we all remember the Tet Offensive was a turning point when we recognized, when the American people recognized that we werent going to win the war in Vietnam," said Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.



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Bipolar Disorder: Americas Schizophrenic View of Warfare (Josh Manchester)


clipped by: Kore7
clippers remarks:
The result of these two national experiences is that warfare exists along a one-dimensional axis for most Americans. World War II exists as the positive terminal of this circuit, and Vietnam as the negative; the tendency then is to reinforce the one, while eschewing the other.

Clip Source: www.tcsdaily.com
Bipolar Disorder: Americas Schizophrenic View of Warfare
By Josh Manchester : BIO| 30 Aug 2006
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Our attempts to compare every conflict to World War II or Vietnam hinder our ability to fight different kinds of wars, including the current one.

In the pantheon of American warfare, no conflict garners as much popular admiration as the Second World War, which holds the title of ideal war. Consider:

  • The campaigns in both Europe and the Pacific were largely conventional affairs, leading to decisive victories
  • The nation was largely unified in the wars prosecution; politics ended "at the waters edge"
  • The entire country was put in uniform; everyone served in some way or another, whether in the infantry, at sea, or in factories at home
  • The economy was militarized; the entire resources of the country went toward the war effort
  • The result was unconditional surrender; and yet the victors made allies of the vanquished.

Whereas World War II is the gold standard for US warfare in most Americans reckoning, the specter of Vietnam forever haunts our every move in any conflict that does not appear to resemble World War II. In Vietnam:

  • Conventionally fought battles never seemed to result in sustainable progress
  • The nation was divided as it had not been since the Civil War
  • Only volunteers and those drafted were sent to Vietnam; the National Guard was never mobilized, and draft deferments galore were available for a variety of reasons
  • The result was a qualified defeat; a hollowing out of the US military; a loss of confidence in US commitments abroad; and various forms of outrage that continue to affect a number of Baby Boomers today.


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"Psychological motives of belligerent, chest-beating warmongers"


clipped by: Kore7
clippers remarks: Digby, clipped from Glenn Greenwalds blog, with some insightful points, I think.

Neoconservative author Francis Fukuyama felt that with the fall of our last great opponent at the end of the Cold War (see Pax Americana), American men were doomed to fail to live up to the Western-Frontier-era ideal of masculinity. In other words, peace is for wussies. This idea worried him so much that he wrote an entire book on the subject ? The End of History and the Last Man ? which was held by an important few warmongers in Washington to be the perfect moral prescription to find new enemies with which to wage continuous war.


You simply cannot be a warrior if you are not willing to fight. This, I think, is deeply understood by people at a primitive level and all cultures have some version of it deeply embedded in the DNA. Its not just the willingness to die it also involves the willingness to kill. Men who went to Vietnam and faced their fears of killing and dying, whether voluntarily or involuntarily, put themselves to this test.


And then there were the chickenhawks. They were neither part of the revolution nor did they take the obvious step of volunteering to fight the war they supported. Indeed, due to the draft, they allowed others to fight and die in their place despite the fact that they believed heartily that the best response to communism was to aggressively fight it "over there" so we wouldnt have to fight it here. These were empty boys, unwilling to put themselves on the line at the moment of truth, yet they held the masculine virtues as the highest form of human experience and have portrayed themselves ever since as tough, uncompromising manly men while portraying liberals as weak and effeminate. . . .


The only political aspirants among those three groups who failed to meet the test of their generation were the chickenhawks. And our problem today is that they are the ones in charge of the government as we face a national security threat. These unfulfilled men still have something to prove.



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Swift Boat Leader Responds to John Kerry


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Clip Source: www.humanevents.com
John Kerry recently volunteered that he was prepared to ?kick [the Swift Boat Veterans?] ass from one end of America to the other? and that he would ?demolish? us.� He ought to take a Christmas cruise to Cambodia to calm down.� Maybe he could take a side trip to tour ?Genghis Khan? ruins.
It is a little difficult to imagine Kerry (?I voted for it before I voted against it?) kicking the most decorated living serviceman, Bud Day, a Congressional Medal of Honor recipient, or our salty commander, Adm. Roy Hoffman, anywhere.� Perhaps Kerry had in mind using a ?Rice Fanny Grenade? as he did by mistake on himself shortly before leaving Vietnam.� If so, based on the record, he is in far more danger than anyone else.
Kerry and his friends certainly seem to show much greater anger and hatred toward us than toward the murderous al Qaeda terrorists. This is actually a positive thing.� Based on his record of switching to adopt the North Vietnamese position in 1971 and (after voting to send our kids to Iraq) proposing to cut and run in Iraq, it is likely that Kerry will be endorsing our positions by 2008 and (in his words) ?Swift Boating? himself. If not, it is OK.� After living for 34 years with his claim that our comrades, living and dead, were like the army of Genghis Khan, we will always remember and be grateful for the support of the American people in 2004.� Nothing he will ever say can demolish that or will speak nearly so loudly.

Mr. ONeill is a Houston attorney who clerked for Chief Justice William Rehnquist during the Supreme Courts October 1974 term. He authored the New York Times No. 1 bestseller, "Unfit for Command" in 2004.



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Vietnam War: PTSD


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clippers remarks: "Skeptics have argued that these results are inflated by recall bias and other flaws."
...
"We found little evidence of falsification, an even stronger dose-response relationship, and psychological costs that were lower than previously estimated but still substantial."
Clip Source: www.sciencemag.org

Science 18 August 2006:
Vol. 313. no. 5789, pp. 979 - 982
DOI: 10.1126/science.1128944

The Psychological Risks of Vietnam for U.S. Veterans: A Revisit with New Data and Methods

In 1988, the National Vietnam Veterans Readjustment Study (NVVRS) of a representative sample of 1200 veterans estimated that 30.9% had developed posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) during their lifetimes and that 15.2% were currently suffering from PTSD. The study also found a strong dose-response relationship: As retrospective reports of combat exposure increased, PTSD occurrence increased. Skeptics have argued that these results are inflated by recall bias and other flaws. We used military records to construct a new exposure measure and to cross-check exposure reports in diagnoses of 260 NVVRS veterans. We found little evidence of falsification, an even stronger dose-response relationship, and psychological costs that were lower than previously estimated but still substantial. According to our fully adjusted PTSD rates, 18.7% of the veterans had developed war-related PTSD during their lifetimes and 9.1% were currently suffering from PTSD 11 to 12 years after the war; current PTSD was typically associated with moderate impairment.



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Robber hid for 20 years as policeman


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Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

Reuters
Robber hid for 20 years as policeman

HANOI (Reuters) - A convicted Vietnamese robber who escaped from prison 20 years ago chose a sly way to hide from the law -- inside the police force and as a member of the ruling Communist Party.

A police newspaper reported Friday that Ngo Thanh Tam, 51, was re-arrested Tuesday, two decades after joining the police under a false identity in the Central Highlands province of Dak Nong.

The An Ninh Thu Do (Capital Security) newspaper described Tam as a "dangerous criminal" on the national wanted list. After his arrest he was purged from the party, which he joined in June.



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Military covered up prisoner abuses in Vietnam war, attacked whistleblower


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Clip Source: www.latimes.com
latimes.com

A Tortured Past

Documents show troops who reported abuse in Vietnam were discredited even as the military was finding evidence of worse.
August 20, 2006
In early 1973, Army Chief of Staff Gen. Creighton Abrams received some bad news from the services chief of criminal investigations.
An internal inquiry had confirmed an officers widely publicized charge that members of the 173rd Airborne Brigade had tortured detainees in Vietnam.
But there was a silver lining: Investigators had also compiled a 53-page catalog of alleged discrepancies in retired Lt. Col. Anthony B. Herberts public accounts of his war experiences.
"This package ? provides sufficient material to impeach this mans credibility; should this need arise, I volunteer for the task," wrote Col. Henry H. Tufts, commander of the Armys Criminal Investigation Division.
Now, declassified records show that while the Army was working energetically to discredit Herbert, military investigators were uncovering torture and mistreatment that went well beyond what he had described.
The abuses were not made public, and few of the wrongdoers were punished.


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Does this sound familiar?


clipped by: Merican
clippers remarks: No wonder the soldiers think they can get away with it.
Clip Source: www.latimes.com
Fourteen received prison sentences ranging from six months to 20 years, but most won significant reductions on appeal. The stiffest sentence went to a military intelligence interrogator convicted of committing indecent acts on a 13-year-old girl in an interrogation hut in 1967.
He served seven months of a 20-year term, the records show.


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Viet Cong Diary--A skull, a bullet hole, and a diary.


clipped by: tpq62
Clip Source: www.latimes.com

Day to Day Among the Viet Cong

A young doctor kept an intensely personal journal of her life on the front lines before she was killed in 1970. Its a bestseller in Vietnam.
"No, I am not a child. I
am grown up and already strong in the face of hardships, but at this minute why do I want so much a mothers hand to care for me? ? Please come to me and hold my hand when I am so lonely, love me and give me strength to travel all the hard sections of the road ahead."

 ? Final diary entry of Dr. Dang Thuy Tram
Remembrance


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The YouTube War - American Soldiers Speak out on Iraq


clipped by: rmowery
Clip Source: www.time.com

The YouTube War

American soldiers are telling their story of the Iraq war in homemade videos. And the picture isnt any brighter

Posted Wednesday, Jul. 19, 2006
The National Guardsman in the frame looks grim. His bunkmates are cutting up a bit, clowning for the camera. The cameraman tries to coax some action out the unwilling documentary subject, who refuses: "Im not supposed to talk to the media," he says. You can hear the insults sting in the cameramans shouted protest: "Im not the media! Im not the media!" The sharp denial reflects a key collateral campaign in the Iraq war: to keep soldiers strictly on message.

But theres no question that the soldier behind the camera in "The War Tapes" is part of this wars media. Just as Vietnam had been Americas first "living-room war," spilling carnage in dinnertime news broadcasts, so is the Iraq conflict emerging as the first YouTube war. Growing up in a world where they can swap MP3s as well as intimate details about their lives via MySpace or Facebook, American soldiers are swapping their Iraq experience as well. Theres a byte-enabled intimacy to "The War Tapes," the film that bills itself as the first documentary about the war filmed by those fighting it. Critics of the mainstream medias war coverage might hope that the soldiers unmediated view would be a more positive one. Vice President Cheney complained last March that the publics dwindling support for the war was due to the "perception that whats newsworthy is the car bomb in Baghdad," rather than what success has been had "in terms of making progress towards rebuilding Iraq." Talk show host Laura Ingraham encouraged those covering Iraq to "talk to those soldiers on the ground" in order to get a sense of all the good things happening there that should be "celebrated." By that logic, putting cameras in the hands of those soldiers on the ground should provide enough celebration for an "Up with Iraq" musical.



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clippers remarks: actually made me laugh out loud... I guess Im weird.
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Top Firefox 2 config tweaks


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Session restore

Fx 2.0 only: As a blogger and web mail user, it breaks my heart to recount how many times Ive composed a long post or email message, then accidentally closed the tab or browser and lost all my work. No more! With Firefox 2, set the browser.startup.page key to 3 to restore your browsing session - with form entries intact! - every time you start your browser or undo close tab after a wayward click. Note: By default, Firefox 2 automatically restores your session if your browser crashes - but this does it every time you restart your browser normally. Thanks for the tip, Arun!

Fetch only what you click

Fx .6 and up: Firefox has this wacky little feature that downloads pages from links it thinks you may click on pages you view, like the top result on a page of Google results. This means you use up bandwidth and CPU cycles and store history for web pages you may not have ever viewed. Creepy, eh? To stop that madness, set the network.prefetch-next key to false.

  • layout.spellcheckDefault = 2 turns on Firefox 2s spell-checking in input fields as well as textareas. (That means no more typos in Lifehacker post headlines!)
  • browser.urlbar.hideGoButton=true turns off the rarely-used Go button at the end of the address bar, for more room to see long URLs. Thanks, sister-ray!

    • See the MozillaZine about:config wiki page for the exhaustive list of Firefox preferences keys, their possible values and effects.



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    Sand Castles


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    Fangs


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    Hillary Loses Senate Debate . . . Big Time


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    Clip Source: www.newsmax.com

    On Friday night, Hillary Clinton finally had to face an unscripted, uncontrolled media event -- a debate with her feisty opponent John Spencer, the Republican candidate for Senator from New York this year.

    Spencer pinned her ears back with his opening statement when he declared: "I am the only person here who really wants to be the Senator from New York .... she wants to be president."

    And then he exploited the opening by reminding Hillary "youre not the president yet."

    During the debate, Spencer highlighted Hillarys vote against the NSAs wiretapping program and her efforts to kill the Patriot Act.

    John Spencer began his challenge to Hillary tonight. The race starts today.

    Hillarys huge financial advantage and her lead in the polls was of little use tonight because it was obvious that the empress has no clothes.

    While Hillary gave scripted, rehearsed answers, Spencer challenged her failure to deliver on her campaign promises of 200,000 new jobs and mocked her refusal to accept blame for anything, pinning the job loss on Bush and the North Korea bomb on the State Department.

    But beyond the words, there were the appearances. Hillary Clinton was a Richard Nixon look-alike tonight, wearing pancake makeup, featuring hooded eyes that never met the camera, and looking like she felt -- angry at having to waste time justifying her Senate tenure in something as trivial as an election.

    John Spencer may not beat Hillary, but he sure made her sweat tonight. If she wins by less than 12 points -- the margin Lazio lost by in 2000 --- she will have a lot of explaining to do. And John Spencer, may just be the guy to make it happen.



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    Clipmarks IQ test


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    clippers remarks: ok now the big test....I would like to see the Clipmarks IQ. Especially interested to see IQ of our leaders!

    I got a 118!
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    My Life at the Moment


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    clippers remarks: I dont know why, but xkcd is one of the rare examples of art capable of making me cry.
    Clip Source: www.xkcd.com
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    Apocalypse: a history of the end


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    clippers remarks: I havent read this yet. Highly recommended Frontline companion site on the development of apocalypticism and its role in Western thought.
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    26,000 light-years of space.


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    Clip Source: news.yahoo.com
    Photo
    This is an image of one-half of the Hubble Space Telescope field of view in the Sagittarius Window Eclipsing Extrasolar Planet Search (SWEEPS). The field contains approximately 150,000 stars, down to 30th magnitude. The stars in the Galactic disk and bulge have a mixture of colours and masses. The field is so crowded with stars because Hubble was looking across 26,000 light-years of space in the direction of the centre of our Galaxy. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY REUTERS/NASA/ESA/Handout

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    YouTube gives up user data in media lawsuit


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    clippers remarks:
    Music company lawyers first warned and then sued individual users who downloaded their songs. Now it looks like piracy hunters for the movie studios are using the same technique against YouTube users.
    YouTubes decision to help Paramount track down Moukarbel stands in stark contrast to the philosophy of Google, which has fought the U.S. Justice Department over attempts to access data about consumers who use its search services.

    SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Its no secret that millions of Internet users every day watch copyright-infringing video clips on YouTube, the upstart Web site that Google Inc. has agreed to acquire for $1.65 billion.
    Whats less known is that YouTube has been watching the watchers.
    YouTubes actions in response to a subpoena it received in May show that it has been keeping tabs on users who post copyrighted material to its site -- and in one case shared the name of a user with lawyers from a Hollywood film studio.
    On May 24, lawyers for Viacom Inc.s Paramount Pictures convinced a federal judge in San Francisco to issue a subpoena requiring YouTube to turn over details about a user who uploaded dialog from the movie studios "Twin Towers," according to a copy of the document.
    YouTube promptly handed over the data to Paramount, which on June 16 sued the creator of the 12-minute clip, New York City-based filmmaker Chris Moukarbel, for copyright infringement, in federal court in Washington.
    That YouTube chose to turn over the data, rather than simply remove the offending video from its site -- as it did Friday when it agreed to take down 30,000 videos at the request of a group of Japanese media companies -- came as a surprise to copyright experts.
    "YouTube seems to have given up too easily," said Laurence P. Colton, an intellectual-property lawyer at the firm of Powell & Goldstein LLP in Atlanta.
    Its prompt legal capitulation suggests that YouTube users who post copyrighted material should not expect the company to protect them from media-business lawsuits, said Colton, whose firm wasnt involved in the Paramount subpoena or lawsuit and who learned of them from a MarketWatch reporter.


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    Monolith perhaps largest found in Mexico


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    MEXICO CITY - Archaeologists announced Friday that a monolith discovered earlier this month near Mexico Citys main square is perhaps the largest ever unearthed in the citys center.

    The monolith, found on Oct. 2, is rectangular and measures nearly 13 feet on its longest side. The largest monolith from the citys center until this latest discovery ? the circular Piedra del Sol, or Aztec Calendar, unearthed in 1790 ? has a diameter of 12 feet.

    A part of a newly discovered monolith is shown at the archaeological site of Templo Mayor, Mexico City Friday, Oct. 13, 2006, in Mexico City. Archaeologists announced Friday that a monolith discovered Oct. 2 near Mexico Citys main square is perhaps the largest ever found in the citys center. The newest discovery is rectangular and measures nearly 4 meters (13 feet) on its longest side. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)

    "At this time, the most important thing about this is its size," said the lead archaeologist on the excavation project, Alvaro Barrera.

    The 24-ton Aztec Calendar stone, however, is nearly double the weight of the newcomer, which is estimated to be a mere 14 tons.

    "Its tough to say which is the biggest, because the Piedra del Sol (Aztec Calendar) weighs more, but its circular radius is not as long as this monoliths largest side," said Angel Romas, information director of the Templo Mayor Museum, which is collaborating with the archaeological team.



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    And your mom said dont play with your food ... Huh !


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    clippers remarks: The way they are growing food and the way some of it tastes these days this may become all its good for.
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    Its okay to play with your food...sometimes. :)












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    Beautiful Photo-NASA Rockwell Space Shuttle


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    OV-105 Launch of Space Shuttle Endeavour from Pad 39B on mission STS-97. This is a five minute exposure taken from the Causeway (about 7 miles away from the pad). Taken with a borrowed all-manual Nikomat camera, 24 mm lens, f/16, Kodak Royal Gold 100 film. When the exposure was stopped in this shot, the shuttle was approximately 229 statute miles downrange.
    More: Off-Airport - Kennedy Space Center
    More: USA - Florida, November 30, 2000


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    Google vs. God


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    Six Word Stories


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    clippers remarks: inspired by hemingways famous six word story "For sale: baby shoes, never worn," great short stories by sci-fi authors.
    Clip Source: wired.com

    Failed SAT. Lost scholarship. Invented rocket.
    - William Shatner

    Vacuum collision. Orbits diverge. Farewell, love.
    - David Brin

    With bloody hands, I say good-bye.
    - Frank Miller

    Epitaph: Foolish humans, never escaped Earth.
    - Vernor Vinge

    Dinosaurs return. Want their oil back.
    - David Brin

    I saw, darling, but do lie.
    - Orson Scott Card



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    News is free site


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    clippers remarks: The top square shows my folders. Each one has news sources I placed within the folder to review. The second square shows the actual news sources I have chosen. There are some hidden, but only cuz the list is very long.

    This is a great site to read your news all in one place, choose the sources you want and it makes it easier for submission to your favorite sites, like clipmarks. No bouncing all over the web to find them.

    Hope you like.
    Clip Source: www.newsisfree.com
    On This Page:


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    Muslims Slaughter 600 Christians


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    Muslims have slaughtered an estimated 600 Christians this week in Nigeria, according to the Christian Association of Nigeria.

    The carnage in Kano, in the countrys mostly Muslim north, began with a protest in retaliation for Muslim deaths hundreds of miles away in Yelwe, said the British-based monitor of persecution against Christians, Barnabas Fund, the Assist News service reported.

    Andrew Ubah, general secretary of the association, told Reuters Thursday the tally was based on reports from church leaders throughout the city. Twelve churches have been burned, he said.

    David Emmanuel, a factory worker, told Reuters he saw two truckloads of corpses Wednesday night and counted at least 30 bodies in the street.

    "Hundreds of people were killed," said Christian leader Mark Amani. "Some corpses were burned in wells. Even little children were killed.

    "The bodies of pregnant women were ripped open and their bodies burned," he said.

    A spokesman for Barnabas Fund said its source reports the killing of several hundred people "when defiant mobs of Muslim youths armed with clubs and machetes and cutlasses rampaged at about 1 a.m. on Thursday despite a police imposed curfew."

    "Mobs went from house to house looking for Christian victims and in some cases trapped the occupants inside and torched the houses," the Barnabas spokesman said. "Police have been issued orders to shoot armed rioters on sight."



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    australian dreamtime


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    The Geekiest License Plates


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    geek license plate
    HTTP-COM license plate
    binary license plate


    XML license plate











    HEY STFU



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    Go Fug Yourself - On The Rip-ping Edge


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    October 26, 2006

    Fugshambles

    Historically, Kate Moss has managed to avoid our wrath, mostly because she is one of the few people who can pull off pretty much everything she attempts.� Until now:


    Its the visible Hanes Her Way panties that have pushed me over the edge.

    But whats really alarming about Kate Moss right now is not this sheer taffeta monstrosity, but rather her male accessory.� We havent mentioned Pete Doherty on here, ever, I dont think, mostly because this site isnt called Go Drug Yourself.� But I have just about had it with these two.

    Listen, weve all made bad choices in the romance department. I once dated a man who had no refrigerator because "it was too loud next to [his] head."� But does ANYONE ANYWHERE think Pete Doherty is a good bet romantically?� He has -- and I think I can say this without using the "allegedly" -- drug problems.� His teeth are a mess.� Hes often bleeding from the head.� He falls down a lot. Hes sweaty. He seems like it would be hard to have a conversation with him between the hours of 4 pm and noon. Hes a total fing mess, and hes the sort of boy who,� should you be dating him, prompts a lot of concerned conversations with your girlfriends including the words "loose cannon," "kind of greasy," and "your daughters well-being." Hes like the dating equivalent of wearing acid-washed short-shorts to your grandmothers funeral:� totally inappropriate to the point that people begin to wonder if youve had a head injury.

    And thats not chic at all.



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    How To Make Firefox Faster


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    Heres something for broadband people that will really speed Firefox up:

    1.Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:

    network.http.pipelining network.http.proxy.pipelining network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

    Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.

    2. Alter the entries as follows:

    Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true"

    Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true"

    Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once.

    3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to "0". This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it recieves.


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    US War Crimes law


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    TITLE 18 > PART I > CHAPTER 118 > ��2441

    ��2441. War crimes

    (a) Offense.? Whoever, whether inside or outside the United States, commits a war crime, in any of the circumstances described in subsection (b), shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for life or any term of years, or both, and if death results to the victim, shall also be subject to the penalty of death.
    (b) Circumstances.? The circumstances referred to in subsection (a) are that the person committing such war crime or the victim of such war crime is a member of the Armed Forces of the United States or a national of the United States (as defined in section 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act).
    (c) Definition.? As used in this section the term ?war crime? means any conduct?
    (1) defined as a grave breach in any of the international conventions signed at Geneva 12 August 1949, or any protocol to such convention to which the United States is a party;
    (2) prohibited by Article 23, 25, 27, or 28 of the Annex to the Hague Convention IV, Respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land, signed 18 October 1907;
    (3) which constitutes a violation of common Article 3 of the international conventions signed at Geneva, 12 August 1949, or any protocol to such convention to which the United States is a party and which deals with non-international armed conflict; or
    (4) of a person who, in relation to an armed conflict and contrary to the provisions of the Protocol on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Mines, Booby-Traps and Other Devices as amended at Geneva on 3 May 1996 (Protocol II as amended on 3 May 1996), when the United States is a party to such Protocol, willfully kills or causes serious injury to civilians.



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    Top 99 Undiscovered Web Sites


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    The following list is made up of sites that are still flying under the radar, but are useful, funny, or interesting enough to merit entr�e into the Webs public consciousness.

    � next > �


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    Halloween Ban on Black Cat Adoptions


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    BOISE, Idaho (Oct. 28) - A black cat wont cross your path this Halloween, not if a northern Idaho animal shelter can help it. Like many shelters around the country, the Kootenai Humane Society in Coeur dAlene is prohibiting black cat adoptions from now to Nov. 2, fearing the animals could be mistreated in Halloween pranks - or worse, sacrificed in some satanic ritual.

    "Its kind of an urban legend. But in the humane industry its pretty typical that shelters dont do adoptions of black cats or white bunnies because of the whole satanic sacrificial thing," Morgan said. "If we prevent one animal from getting hurt, then it serves its purpose."

    "If somebody comes in here and theyre strange enough that wed question why theyre adopting a black cat on Halloween, then were probably not going to adopt any animal to them," Fugit said from her Boise office. "It doesnt seem to be a justifiable reason for not adopting black cats. We are absolutely inundated with cats that need homes right now."

    Black cats tend to be adopted less often than other felines, Buchwald said.

    If nothing else, he said, the ban gives the shelter a chance to educate the public about other dangers pets may face during the Halloween season.

    "It gives us a chance to remind people about safety and their pets. Always make sure that you keep Halloween candy out of the reach of pets, and if you own any cat I would make sure it stays inside. Dogs can get frightened by all the kids in costume, and the constant door opening of trick-or-treating gives animals a chance to run away," he said.



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    Bush Approval Rating Tracker


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    Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

    Chart how George W Bush has fared over the last five years in relation to key events of his presidency.

    Line graph showing President George W Bushs approval ratings from Jan 2001 to December 2005


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    Elevator of Doom


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    clippers remarks: People need this kind of jolt in their day.
    Clip Source: www.hemmy.net
    Elevator Floor Illusion

    Going into this elevator would certainly makes one nervous. A sign at the entrance cautions the people that goes in about work in progress. A more detailed look shows that the floor has been painted with an illusion that there is no floor. 3 more pics after the jump.



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    Letterman vs OReilly


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    By: SilentPatriot on Friday, October 27th, 2006 at 11:41 PM - PDT�� Submit%20or%20Digg%20this%20Post

    Letterman-OReilly1.jpg�David Letterman didnt try to hide the fact last night that he just plain doesnt like Bill OReilly. He wasted no time bashing FOX News and doing what few people can do ? ridiculing OReillys ratings (Lettermans audience is more than 2x as large .) While sparring over Iraq, Letterman interrupted the giant talking head saying he "doesnt care" what Bill has to say. When Bill O, in typical FAUX form, tried to suggest that Dave believes "Bush is an evil liar" and that "America is a bad country" Letterman comes back with the line of the month:

    "Youre trying to put words in my mouth just the way you put artificial facts in your head."


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    5 Tips to Increase Your Likeability


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