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Second Life: On My iPhone Real Soon Now

July 4th, 2008 · No Comments · Second Life

Reuters/Second Life » Second Life on the Xbox/PS3/iPhone?
Avatar Dusan Writer finds an interesting snippet of HTML code on search.secondlife.com which reads:
“placeholer page for XBOX, PS3, and iPhone versions of client when they launch next real soon now”
Now, we’re not banking on a Linden Lab-supported rollout of Second Life to game consoles and cell phones just [...]

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Pierre Bensusan: Altiplanos

July 4th, 2008 · No Comments · Music... Shall All Your Cares Beguile

I heard a bit of this while driving home after a long, frustratingly typical Monday at work. Pierre Bensusan was being interviewed on NPR and was discussing how this song, “Altiplanos” is dedicated to Ingrid Betancourt, a Columbian political reformist who was running for president of Columbia when she was kidnapped by FARC, the left-wing [...]

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Colombians Briefed McCain: Fixing Up The Image

July 4th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Hot Off The Presses, Mini-Posts, Politics, Schmolitics

Colombians Briefed McCain Before Rescue - washingtonpost.com
CARTAGENA, Colombia, July 2 — Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) spoke repeatedly Tuesday and early Wednesday about how he would work as president to free three American hostages held by leftist guerrillas in Colombia, but he declined to reveal one key fact: Colombian President Álvaro Uribe and his aides had [...]

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Mah bukkit 4 sale! Noooo!

July 4th, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorical Weirdness

Ginny
I can has iPhone?
Via: Flickr Title: Mah bukkit 4 sale! Noooo! By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 4 Jul ‘08, 3.12pm CDT PST
Ginny
I can has iPhone?

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Peeps In Spaaaaace!!

July 4th, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorical Weirdness

Chicago’s Adler Planetarium has a “Far Horizons” educational program that sends up experiments to the edges of space via weather balloon. They recently began a rigorous Peep Space Program, recruited various shades of prospective peeponauts from the Marshmallow-American community, and after putting them through a series of training and endurance tests, launched one lucky yellow [...]

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