tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55696072009-02-21T11:49:05.042-05:00Gems I've pick up while surfing ... and want to share.Jonenoreply@blogger.comBlogger48125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5569607.post-56229317702752396482007-09-15T13:53:00.001-04:002007-09-15T13:55:28.830-04:00

Among the most powerful women in the history of the world were Eleanor of Aquitaine (ruler of Aquitaine and queen of France then England) and Queen Isabella of Spain.

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New York Times today summarizes recent research that shows that the ancestors of most mammals were alive long before the global extinction of dinosaurs and that it took a much longer time -- 10-15 million years -- than previously believed, for those lines to diversify and flourish. What does all that mean? It's too early to know, but certainly one thing: there's still much work to be done to

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"We can learn a lot about women's roles when we watch democracy in action."For instance, I learned last week that "women's social rights are not critical to the evolution of democracy" - or so says Reuel Marc Gerecht, a former Middle East specialist and fellow at the American Enterprise institute."We had a democracy in 1900, he says, and women didn't have the vote then."According to his logic,

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White supremicism lives -- on the Internet, in a "kindler, gentler" form. Making it all the scarier, because the kindness is just a strategy....http://righthandthief.blogspot.com/2005/08/in-your-all-white-prism-with-your.html

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From the NY Times: In Ethical Culture's Venerable Halls, Music Camp in Riot Grrl TraditionI had the great honor to be in the EC building during the week these amazing girls were participating -- and can attest first-hand to the incredible energy that reverberated through the august old building!

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Evangelical Christianity Has Been Hijacked: Definitely a thought-provoking article!

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What I'm listening to: Bill Staines: River

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The American Prospect: Nothing Sacred. by Brett Di Resta and Cliff Schecter. February 26, 2004.: "A quick look around the Internet shows that heterosexual couples are doing an excellent job of undermining the 'sanctity of marriage' on their own. "

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Doonesbury@Slate - His teeth were there: Was he?: "So don't let the smear artists define the president. If you personally witnessed George W. Bush reporting for drills at Dannelly Air National Guard Base between the months of May and November of 1972 we want to hear about it. Help Mr. Bush put this partisan assault on his character behind him, so he can focus on more serious issues like jobs, the

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The Despoiling of America - "How George W. Bush became the head of the new American Dominionist Church/State" - a well-researched article about the theocratic ideas of dominionist religious conservatives.

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Time to stop giving to the Salvation Army: STAR-TELEGRAM.COM - Fort Worth Dallas news, sports, cars, and jobs: "NEW YORK - A civil rights group said Monday it will sue the Salvation Army because it allegedly has begun requiring employees to identify their church affiliation and support the army's mission to 'preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ.'"

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Zempt :: Multi-platform posting for Movable Type :: Zempt -- it doesn't work with Blogger, that I can figure out, but it IS great for Movable Type blogs.

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How Can I Keep From Singing? - one of my favorite hymns, here in an MP3 version of the traditional Quaker hymn, performed by the WFBHS Concert Choir.

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EO News: NASA Olympics Blue Marble Release; February 6, 2002: "This spectacular “blue marble” image is the most detailed true-color image of the entire Earth to date. Using a collection of satellite-based observations, scientists and visualizers stitched together months of observations of the land surface, oceans, sea ice, and clouds into a seamless, true-color mosaic of every square kilometer (

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CGIProxy-- HTTP/FTP Proxy in a CGI Script - an interesting script to provide access to web pages from behind a firewall. Note: unless this is running on a secure server (https:// will appear in the URLs), supposedly secure data will be sent insecurely.

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Fascism Anyone?: "The cliche that people and nations learn from history is not only overused, but also overestimated; often we fail to learn from history, or draw the wrong conclusions. Sadly, historical amnesia is the norm." From Free Inquiry magazine, Laurence W. Britt.

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To see ourselves as others see us: Gary Younge: God help America: "So while there is a constitutional, albeit contested, barrier between church and state, there is almost no distinction between church and politics. Indeed, when it comes to elections, religion is the primary galvanising force and the church the central mobilising vehicle." From The Guardian.

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An Open Letter to Albus Dumbledore

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BioethicsWeb: a "searchable catalogue of Internet sites and resources covering biomedical ethics."

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Weblogs Compendium: "Here you can find everything you need to know about weblogs/blogs: hosting services, tools, directories, definitions, RSS readers and resources..."

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Stud Finders, Sensors and Scanners - Bill's latest, on how to "see through walls."

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The Real Intelligence Failure (Francis Fukuyama, August 6, 2003): "The media has been focusing obsessively on the relatively minor issue of how an incorrect assertion about Iraq's nuclear ambitions got into the president's State of the Union speech. In doing so, it has missed the much larger issue, which is that of Iraq's missing weapons of mass destruction. The inability to locate these weapons

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Commanding Heights: Home | on PBS - an interesting web site on globalization and the global economy.

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Button Maker :: Kalsey Consulting Group - an interesting tool to make buttons for weblogs.

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My Turn: Saved by the Kindness Of a Virtual Stranger: a touching story of the lengths some people will go to, to make the world a better place.

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