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Hey I’ve been a good boy all year long (well except for a few phone calls to a certain someone) and I just don’t understand why I didn’t get a Pickle-Me-Cthulhu doll for Christmas. Now what am I going to use for certain not to be named arcane rituals!
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Some people are just plain confused. Then again maybe copyright laws are significantly different in Denmark.
A group of IT-students from the IT-University in Copenhagen has launched a new

You might be wondering why I put open source in quotations in the title . It’s because I’m not referring to software per se but to the use of a particular pice of software, generally wiki software and specifically its use in Wikipedia.
How long will it take for what’s just happened in the Indian [...]

Some of you may already be familiar with Netcraft. They produce massive amounts of statistics for web site owners on site vistors etc. Because of this they have huge databases of informationon websites and the net in general and they have decided to make use of those databases in order to help people defeat scammers [...]

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CBC Newsworld programmes some amazing documentaries each month. For US citizens I believe you can access most of them via Newsworld International if it is offered by your cable provider. Newsworld International was started by the CBC in 1994 but has since been bought by Al Gore (yes that Al Gore) earlier this year. [...]

British Columbia’s Premier Gordon Campbell announced today that BC is donating $8 million dollars immediately to the Red Cross tsunami relief efforts. This is an awesome $2 per resident and a damn good use of our tax dollars, especially considering that the areas devastated by the tsunami are part of the pacific rim, as is [...]

Canada announced today that it has raised its contribution for tsunami relief to $40 million dollars ($33M USD)
Ottawa pledged another $36 million to help the relief efforts in Southeast Asia in the wake of the deadly tsunami, Defence Minister Bill Graham announced Wednesday, bringing Canada’s total to $40 million.
Graham also announced that a 12-member reconnaissance [...]

DigitalGlobe is a private satellite imaging company that uses the QuickBird private satellite to create images that have a resolution of 60cm (24in). Below is one of their photos that shows the tsunami receding from Kalutara beach in Sri Lanka

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