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[My life is so school”¦] The CIA World Factbook: Anything you want to know about a specific country can be found there. It can really help decide which foreign language you should take next.

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[WordPress Ӽ Error] To Nicholas Carr: about Web 2.0, Wikipedia, the... : it's very funny and irreverent, and makes us all think about things from a fresh angle. Your post about the amorality of Web 2.0 is a classic read: "This isn't the language of exposition.

[Avari.Nameh] all's well that ends well: king fahd dies again: Always eager to present itself as a vanguard Muslim nation, among the leaders -- if not the sole leader -- of the Islamic world, Saudi Arabia was of course thrown off by Khomeini's radicalism and populism, which Fahd, and the legacy he inherited -- especially of close and questionable relationships with the United States -- could not dare match. To restore his position, Fahd launched a series of initiatives aimed at retaking the Islamic spotlight, such as boosting aid and cooperation in the anti-Soviet jihad (blessed be the death of Communism), and increasing the influence of conservatives within the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and these are, of course, not mild-mannered conservatives, but among the most radical and narrow-minded Muslims one can find.

http://toobusy.blogspot.com [Too busy!] confessions of a house hermit: ~live through this~ BlogThis! ~live through this~ sometimes the only thing that keeps you going is to pound through it.

[Ross.typepad.com] Ross Mayfield's Weblog: wiki: Governance in Wikipedia is a confusing but workable mix of consensus (0.5% of users generate 50% of the edits, a little over 500 people -- IMHO, the big scaling and usability issue to be tested), democracy (Vote for Deletion), aristocracy (closer to the statement, "leadership in Wikipedia is knowing where information is) and monarchy (Jimbo as benevolent dictator of all human knowledge, for now). They are "flexible over methodology and value results over process."

http://jessicool4.blogspot.com [Jessicool4.blogspot.com] Jess' Blog: Since my last post I haven't been doing much, just sleeping in and enjoying the rest of summer, but my iBook is at the repair shop. It was one of those models that was shipped with the combo drive that was broken.

[Avari.blogs.com] Avari.Nameh: the zionist in me: pissed-off muslims, with a dash of ...: Drawing from her dissertation, she considers here the background to timely questions associated with the Kashmir dispute. She raises the policy question of partition as a tool for crisis management or resolution, and she provides useful historical evidence for scholars wishing to draw contemporary lessons." href="http://www.unc.edu/depts/diplomat/archives_roll/2002_01-03/chester_partition/chester_partition.html">Partition 1947: Drawing the Indo-Pak Boundary

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