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17 July 2008
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Future Scanner: ON

Future Scanner on the MemeBox Network is kinda like Early Edition for the blogosphere.
Nicely done! We likes it!

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4 December 2007
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Get Your Home Genome Kit in time for the Holidays

Find out more about Personalized Genetics at the ScienceRoll blog. Blog author Bertalan (Berci) Meskó is a Finalist for an Eddie Award in the Best Individual Blog category, where he writes:
I’m a 23-year-old Hungarian medical student and I’m the author of the blog Scienceroll.com. I try to help medical …

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5 May 2007
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Blogs are People, Too

Thank the Penultimate Proximate Cause that somebody is thinking and acting seriously along these lines:

one-size-fits-all search has become debased
(a rant i posted some months ago to my company’s intranet bloggy site wiki thingie)

search has led us astray
(largely due to #1, above)

blogs are people, too
(oh, NOW you’ll get my …

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5 February 2007
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If You Are Over 70, These Folks Want You Dead

Anne C @ Existence is Wonderful:
So, that’s it, senior citizens. Never mind that novel you were writing, that dollhouse you were building for the grandkids, or that new computer you were in the process of putting together. Your existence is threatening the “wonders of the next generation”, so it’s high …

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14 January 2007
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Freedom of speech is [still] a peacetime luxury

Excerpt from George Dvorsky about this time, last year (Feb, 2006):
[T]hat the Homeland Security Department considers bloggers a potential threat really shouldn’t come as a complete surprise; the military would likely shut down threatening and subversive blogs during times of war or civil unrest.

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29 October 2006
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And you may ask yourself, “What is Rational Longevity?”

Existence is Wonderful: “Supporting longevity research is acknowledging that there is nothing special about aging that makes it any less solvable than any other complex engineering problem — it’s not a mystical force or a cosmic directive, it’s a biological process. And the means of counteracting this process won’t be …

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26 October 2006
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Toward a Substrate Independent Engineered Subjective Qualia

In the words of the ever uber salient, George Dvorsky, “Protopanpsychism and the consciousness conundrum, or why we shouldn’t assume uploads.” He writes:
The other broad approach to the issue of consciousness is emergence theory, the idea that self-awareness and qualia can arise from complex computational dynamics in the brain. The …

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