LynKs

Close to a mudslide - real close...

http://blog.oregonlive.com/breakingnews/2007/12/forestry_worker_tapes_slide_as.html

"Moments before a landslide buried U.S. 30 near Clatskanie on Tuesday, Jason Hinkle of the Oregon Department of Forestry was standing near where the slide started. In the moments before the mud, rocks and water let go, Hinkle thought something was happening and started shooting this video."

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File under "Duh":

http://blog.oregonlive.com/breakingnews/2007/12/forestry_worker_tapes_slide_as.html

"In 2004, health care software vendor McKesson Provider Technologies began focusing on ways to cut IT costs for customers, including hospitals and medical offices.

"The cure for IT cost bloat: moving many of McKesson's medical software applications to Linux, which could then be used on less expensive commodity hardware instead of expensive mainframes."

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http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7140443.stm

Here's childs review of the $100 laptop, XO. Which, somehow, shockingly, manages to run without Microsoft? Could be be? Really??

"I just seemed to work it out. It was rather easy. I didn't even need help." Surprise, surprise, his first discovery was a game. "I found Block Party. It's like Tetris. I'm now up to Level 7."

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File this one under "B. S.":

http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=3991651

"It'll be, 'When was the last time? Did you ever give drugs to anyone? Did you sell them to anyone?'" said Shaheen, whose wife, Jeanne, is the state's former governor and is running for the U.S. Senate next year.

"There are so many openings for Republican dirty tricks. It's hard to overcome," Shaheen said.

"Clinton's campaign said it had nothing to do with his comments, and Shaheen said later he regretted them.

"I deeply regret the comments I made today and they were not authorized by the campaign in any way," Bill Shaheen said in an e-mail released by the campaign."

B. S.

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http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2224694,00.html

'The overwhelming lesson teenagers are now learning from the world around them is that being "sexy" is the ultimate accolade, trumping intelligence, character and all other accomplishments at every stage of a woman's life,' said Liebau, a political analyst and the review's first female managing editor. 'The new female imperative is that it is only through promiscuity and sexual aggression that girls can achieve admiration and recognition.'

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http://news.wired.com/dynamic/stories/B/BALI_CLIMATE_CONFERENCE?SITE=WIRE&SECTI$

"My own country, the United States, is principally responsible for obstructing progress here in Bali," said Gore, who flew to Bali from Oslo, Norway, where he received the Nobel Peace Prize for helping alert the world to the danger of climate change.

"White House press secretary Dana Perino said Thursday Gore was wrong in blaming the United States for holding up progress. "I think he is incorrect," she said."

Oh well I guess that settles that. Nevermind then!