LiveLeak.com – Jesus Camp and George Bush:
Jesus Camp and George Bush

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Crap that’s scary…..

iCommons » Blog Archive » Ex Libris – 10 Great Open Book Sites:
This month, 10 of the Best goes into hibernation – autumn is well under way here in Johannesburg, so we’re cocooning, with a good book and a cup of tea.
Open books are about more than just finding some free literature and escaping library fees. They represent the enormous potential of the internet and open licensing to make knowledge, great words and beautiful stories available to everyone.

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I’ve been working with project gutenberg for years through CDDC. the other ones are good too, as is sense publishing in the netherlands, which gives away electronic copies of its books.

Second Life Herald:
When I first came to Second Life, the idea of a virtual relationship never even occurred to me. SL was a strange landscape of bizarre places to explore where I could be anything or anyone I wanted. But then after a week something happened that completely changed my view of the virtual world. I was walking around a Welcome Area with a helmet head of hair and a blank newbie face stumbling into other blank newbies all wearing the same Linden issued clothes when through the crowd, I saw a beautiful female avatar like I had never seen before.

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this is the funniest sl article i’ve read in a while.

Second Life Herald:
When I first came to Second Life, the idea of a virtual relationship never even occurred to me. SL was a strange landscape of bizarre places to explore where I could be anything or anyone I wanted. But then after a week something happened that completely changed my view of the virtual world. I was walking around a Welcome Area with a helmet head of hair and a blank newbie face stumbling into other blank newbies all wearing the same Linden issued clothes when through the crowd, I saw a beautiful female avatar like I had never seen before.

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this is the funniest sl article i’ve read in a while.

BookMooch:
BookMooch is a community for exchanging used books. It lets you give away books you no longer need in exchange for books you really want

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bookmooch has a space in secondlife too…

AlterNet: America Gone Wrong: A Slashed Safety Net Turns Libraries into Homeless Shelters:
America Gone Wrong: A Slashed Safety Net Turns Libraries into Homeless Shelters

By Chip Ward, Tomdispatch.com. Posted April 2, 2007.

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the state… of the nation

dbpedia.org – Using Wikipedia as a Web Database:
dbpedia.org is a community effort to extract structured information from Wikipedia
and to make this information available on the Web. dbpedia allows you to ask
sophisticated queries against Wikipedia and to link other datasets on the Web
to Wikipedia data.

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is this the structured web? no, i think not. just a more free … freebase

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Serenity named top sci-fi movie:
Serenity named top sci-fi movie
Alan Tudyk, Gina Torres and Nathan Fillion in Serenity
Serenity starred Nathan Fillion (r) as former sergeant Malcolm Reynolds
Space thriller Serenity has beaten Star Wars to the title of best sci-fi movie in an SFX magazine poll of 3,000 fans.

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it is the best… better than star wars by far…