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Nodong-2 range centered on Pyongyang

Nodong-2 with nuclear warhead based in Pyongyang holds at risk 1.58 bn people, mostly in China and Japan. Coming next: the converse image of risk from a nuclear attack on Pyongyang.

geospatial view of UK internet usage

Interesting sutff from the BBC. What I find fascinating is that the people who are the most e-engaged are the overstimulated people who are already living in major urban centers.

dillon burroughs on how to carry out an effective online ministry

church business – ministry. spinning the web an effective online ministry in 6 steps. technorati tags: dillon burroughs, ministry, online.

Dillon Burroughs on How to Carry Out An Effective Online Ministry

Church Business – Ministry

Spinning the Web
An Effective Online Ministry in 6 Steps

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Another absolutely essential book from O’Reilly

oreilly.com — Online Catalog: Mastering Regular Expressions, Third Edition

Mastering Regular Expressions, Third Edition

By Jeffrey E. F. Friedl
Third Edition August 2006 (est.)
Pages: 542 (More details)

Another of those absolutely essential books from O’Reilly.

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Political Book Sale Patterns, Aug 2006

Political book sale patterns, August 2006, using Amazon.com “customers who bought x also bought y data,” from Orgnet.com.

Political book sale patterns Aug 2006

No Invisible Violence, Please: We’re Americans

Violence You Can’t See — By Darius Rejali, Reed College

What would the police camera have shown if the police had used stun weapons on Nathaniel Jones instead of clubs? Nothing, perhaps; out of sight is out of mind. Niccolo Machiavelli once advised princes to use stealthy violence because people will get less alarmed. He said, “in general, men judge more by sight than by touch. Everyone sees what is happening but not everyone feels its consequences.” Before American citizens let princes decide for them, they better think about the consequences of using violence they can’t see.

My old friend Darius Rejali is one of the world’s leading advocates of a world without terror.

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Google Trends comparison

Google Trends: joe conason, eric alterman, juan cole, tom engelhardt

Google Trends comparison of four progressive writers: Juan Cole, Eric Alterman, Tom Engelhardt, and Joe Conason.

LexisNexis hits in last 2 years (including bylines, and lightly disambiguated):

  • Eric Alterman 433
  • Juan Cole 736
  • Joe Conason 456
  • Tom Engelhardt 69

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Population within missile range of Iran

Population within 2896 km (Nodong-2 range per FAS).

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CNN.com – Israel smashes bridges, roads into Beirut – Aug 4, 2006

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Israel expanded its assault on Lebanon Friday, launching its first major attack on the Christian heartland north of Beirut and severing the last significant road link to Syria.

BREITBART.COM – Israel Severs Lebanon Road Link to Syria

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World Centered on Esfahan

The world centered on Esfahan, Iran. Orthographic projection.

Population density centered on Esfahan.

church websites

church business – an effective online ministry in 6 steps: part 2 by dillon burroughs just 10 years checks to cash instantly created specifically for ministries by electronic payment ccp, chrp whether you’re speaking with the leader of

Lost Paraguayos: The Yankees are Coming

Asia Times Online :: Asian News, Business and Economy – Part 2: Lost paraguayos: The Yankees are coming

SUNCION – “The Yankees are coming,” says a Paraguayan university student in Villa Morra, the slice of North American suburbia in eastern Asuncion. Wait; in fact they’re already here. And not only because of the American University, or the rows and rows of private clinics, medical services, pharmacies and life-insurance companies catering to expat customers in Mariscal Lopez Avenue. President Nicanor Duarte has been allowing US troops on Paraguayan soil since mid-2005. US Special Forces are performing 13 military exercises, to expire late this year, including “educational courses”, “domestic peacekeeping operations” and counter-terrorism training, this one part of Operation Commando Force 6, scheduled to go on until next month.

The whole package is part of a controversial military agreement between Paraguay and the United States endorsed by the Paraguayan Congress more than a year ago. The US Special Forces are guaranteed total immunity and diplomatic status.

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Dumbledore definitely dead

News: Dumbledore ‘definitely’ dead, says Rowling

Question about upcoming deaths): You shouldn’t expect Dumbledore to pull a Gandalf. I need to be more explicit: Dumbledore is definitely dead. I know there’s an entire site out there called DumbledoreIsNotDead.com, and I’m sorry they’re not going to like this answer.

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Pepe Escobar: Hezbollah south of the border (Asia Times)

Asia Times Online :: Asian News, Business and Economy – Part 1: Hezbollah south of the border

CIUDAD DEL ESTE, at the triple border of Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay – This is the way savage globalization ends – at least 20,000 shops, stalls, tin shacks and mini-malls crammed into 15 blocks selling everything under the (tropical) sun. There’s Little Asia – thousands of Taiwanese, mainland Chinese and Koreans. But above all there are some 20,000 Arabs of Syrian and mostly Lebanese descent (another 12,000 live in the Brazilian resort of Foz do Iguacu, across the Friendship Bridge).

Welcome to Ciudad del Este, Paraguay, population 200,000, free-trade cesspit and World Trade Organization wet dream, realm of sacoleiros (bag carriers) crossing the bridge every day and dreaming of the ultimate knockoff, but mostly realm of money changers, prehistoric armored cars, gun-and-coke dealers, dodgy pharmacists and stolen Mercedes with tinted windows.

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Irving and King plead: Don’t Kill Harry Potter

Don’t Kill Harry Potter, Authors Urge Rowling

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Two of America’s top authors, John Irving and Stephen King, made a plea to J.K. Rowling on Tuesday not to kill the fictional boy wizard Harry Potter in the final book of the series, but Rowling made no promises.

This is almost as surreal as yesterday’s Ann Arbor News headline that Great Britain and California are tackling global warming together.

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GLOBALISTAN cover concept with text

I am also going to try this with the image filling the entire cover and the words in white punching out through it.

Mel Gibson on the Mideast

CNN.com – Statement from Mel Gibson – Aug 1, 2006

This is not about a film. Nor is it about artistic license. This is about real life and recognizing the consequences hurtful words can have. It’s about existing in harmony in a world that seems to have gone mad.

In other words, it’s not about drinking under the influence, anti-Semitism, or hate speech, it’s about Israel and Palestine.

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