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http://www.nature.com/news/2007/071206/full/news.2007.358.html

"Most people tend to learn from their mistakes and avoid making the same blunder twice. Now research reveals a genetic mutation that helps to determine the extent to which certain people are doomed to repeat history."

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http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS2414535067.html

"Sometimes, several unrelated changes come to a head at the same time, with a result no one could have predicted. The PC market is at such a tipping point right now and the result will be millions of Linux-powered PCs in users' hands."

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http://kara.allthingsd.com/20071207/venture-summit-has-the-internet-jumped-the-shark/

Has the Internet jumped the shark? I doubt it. But it does appear as though some things has simply run their course (Windows for example). Change is in the air. By 2010 things will be starting to look different as new ideas come to the fore.

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http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/12/07/First-Passport-now-fraud-ex-MS-employee-charged_1.html

"In another alleged scam, she is charged with convincing a Microsoft contractor, Marksmen Inc., to send checks to her attention at Microsoft, claiming they were being used to repay a Microsoft employee, G.M. Lossman, for transferring domain names into Microsoft's control. Those checks were cashed in Gudmundson's mother's account, according to the U.S. Department of Justice."

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http://torrentfreak.com/50cent-file-sharing-doesnt-hurt-the-artists-071208/

"What is important for the music industry to understand is that this really doesn`t hurt the artists!"
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"The advances in technology impacts everyone, and we all must adapt. Most of all hip-hop, a style of music dependent upon a youthful audience. This market consists of individuals embracing innovations faster than the fans of classical and jazz music." -- 50 Cent

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http://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSN0933738520071209?feedType=RSS&feedName=internetNews

"The objective is to create a platform for engagement, so the artist can engage with the fan for both collaboration and financial support," O'Connell says. "It's our intention to create a way forward that is as sustainable and exciting for the audience as it is for the creator."

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http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/12/opinion_newdow

"Hollywood spent a mind-boggling $180 million to bring author Philip Pullman's celebrated anti-religious novel, The Golden Compass, to the silver screen, but essentially stripped the work of its devastating attack on organized religion."

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/10/radiohead_wartime_misery/

"Misery will be compulsory, if top rockers Radiohead have their way. The band have thrown their weight behind a "World War 2"-style programme of austerity measures: including restrictions on behaviour, and higher taxes.

"Last week, two newspaper columnists called for a return to the kind of social coercion only ever seen before in wartime. It's all for the sake of "the environment", but as we'll see - it's a very peculiar and selective version of environmentalism."

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http://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R3QR3AC2WXWHIT/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm/

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