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IBM Warns of China Closing the Supercomputer Gap

Syndicated from Slashdot on Fri, 2010-09-24

eldavojohn writes "China is digging a massive hole to house a computer building with the intent of usurping the United States' lead in the field of supercomputing, claims IBM. As of earlier this year, Oak Ridge Lab was beating China's Shenzhen Center.

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U.S. Troops Fight on Despite End to Combat in Iraq

Syndicated from Common Dreams on Fri, 2010-09-24

by Jim Loney

BAGHDAD - Since President Barack Obama declared an end to combat operations in Iraq, U.S.

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This Year, Contractor Deaths Exceed Military Ones in Iraq and Afghanistan

Syndicated from Common Dreams on Fri, 2010-09-24

by T. Christian Miller, ProPublica

More private contractors than soldiers were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan in recent months, the first time in history that corporate casualties have outweighed military losses on America’s battlefields.

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US Executes Grandmother Despite Protests

Syndicated from Common Dreams on Fri, 2010-09-24

JARRATT, Virginia - A US grandmother has been put to death by lethal injection in Virgina, the first woman executed in the state for nearly a century, prompting outrage from anti-death penalty campaigners.

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Transition as a pattern language: visioning

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Fri, 2010-09-24

The future can be a scary place. For many people, not being able to imagine a lower carbon world is a huge impediment to designing and realising it.

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Democracy Now! 2010-09-24 Friday

Syndicated from Democracy Now! on Fri, 2010-09-24

Democracy Now! Friday, September 24, 2010

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A green school with a view...of dignity

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Fri, 2010-09-24

"A school has to be more than beautiful and 'green.' It has to respect students' dignity, and feel like a safe and peaceful place where people care."

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Cooperation law for a sharing economy

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Fri, 2010-09-24

What do you call a lawyer who helps people share, cooperate, barter, foster local economies, and build sustainable communities?

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The revolution will not be blogged, either

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Fri, 2010-09-24

The original Luddites were those who were angered at the notion that they ought to sacrifice their livelihoods and starve to death in order to serve "progress." They demanded that technology be bounded by recognition of human needs.

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MAN UP! It's time to suck the oceans dry

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Fri, 2010-09-24

"Mining's Final Frontier" takes a golly-this-could-be-really-neato look at underwater mining. That's right...underwater mining.

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ODAC Newsletter - Sep 24

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Fri, 2010-09-24

Energy Secretary Chris Huhne has given the strongest indication yet that the coalition government is actually considering the possible impacts of peak oil.

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Swedes Cast Write-In Votes for SQL Injection, Donald Duck

Syndicated from Slashdot on Fri, 2010-09-24

An anonymous reader writes "The Swedish elections were held recently (the third Sunday of September to be exact) and it seems that a few people tried to interfere with the election by voting for parties which were in effect named to be SQL injection attacks or similar. Clever stuff!

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Mapuche Solidarity - Direct Action in Vancouver

Syndicated from Media Co-op on Fri, 2010-09-24

September 23rd, 2010

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'Teenage Paparazzo' (in Arts and Culture)

Syndicated from The Tyee on Fri, 2010-09-24

You may not like celebrity gossip, but you can't look away.

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Blockbuster Poem IX (in Tyee Books)

Syndicated from The Tyee on Fri, 2010-09-24

This week, listening to the sounds of Mr.

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