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Monthly Archives: November 2005
Rafah Crossing by Serena
Below (save for the AP quote) was written by Serena, serene@riseup.net RAFAH TERMINAL, Gaza Strip – It was a smooth debut Saturday for the first Palestinian-run border crossing. Hundreds of travelers zipped through passport control without having to submit to … Continue reading
Posted in guest writer, Palestine, travel
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Wasps: nature’s flying noses
Unlike dogs and electronic sensors currently in use, the wasps are disposable. They cost pennies and take minutes to train. Wired News: Sting Operation Targets Terror Woah. This counts for one of them ideas that anyone coulda thunk of. I … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellaneous, news
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Google Click-to-Call
Google foots the bill for all calls – local and long-distance. Google Click-to-Call Holy shinoli!!! How can this be abused? How can they afford it? Woah.
Posted in internet, news, technology
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How The Bush Administration Got Spooked (tomdispatch.com)
With an absurd system for color-coding dangers to Americans, the President, Vice President, and the highest officials in this land were able to paint the media a “high” incendiary orange and the Democrats an “elevated” bright yellow, functionally sidelining them. … Continue reading
Posted in airplane day, news, terror
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Leaving Palestine tomorrow…
Hello world! In the past couple weeks, I’ve witnessed two and a half particularly interesting things. 1) One was the anti-climatic detonation of what turned out to be a fake grenade found by a Palestinian farmer near the olive trees … Continue reading
Posted in Palestine, terror, travel
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testing changes to geopress
I’ve renamed it robopress, but haven’t changed much else. I’d like to use maps.google instead of yahoo; a scrolling zooming map is cooler than a static map any day. If I make any progress, I’ll give the code back to … Continue reading
geotagged post?
This is the first post I’ve written after installing Ravi’s GeoPress – WordPress Plugin for tagging your posts with location. I have put my West Gray address below this entry, and labled it 1211WGray. Clicked Embed Map and Save this … Continue reading
origami
Yesterday one of the Faisal residents showed me how to fold a simple rhombus out of a square piece of paper and then link several of these rhombi together to make various closed solids. From my research, I have determined … Continue reading
Posted in Math / Logic
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