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    2 starsRobert1 | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 14 2008 | language, security, us
    SpywareInfo :· SpywareInfo :: TomCoyote Chat Room

    Quoted: Information about spyware and how to guard your privacy.

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    2 starsRobert1 | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 09 2008 | language, writing
    TV’s War on “Me” and “I”

    Quoted: Television scriptwriters -- or perhaps actors who are failing to read what has been written for them--seem to be determined to reverse the functions of the pronouns I and me in American speech.

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    3 starsRobert1 | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 09 2008 | writing, language, movies
    You Are What You Read

    Some good advice.

    Quoted: Don’t pretend to be what you’re not. Many people want to dress like movie stars because they want to look like movie stars. Except that ...

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    2 starsRobert1 | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 24 2008 | language, us, world
    What the F***?

    Quoted: the FCC noted that its guidelines define "indecency" as "material that describes or depicts sexual or excretory organs or activities"

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    3 starsRobert1 | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 11 2008 | language, barack obama, europe
    Obama dismisses conservative criticism - Yahoo! News

    He's right. We should learn to speak other languages. At one company where I worked there were Spanish speaking people who I supervised. I relearned enough Spanish to at least be cordial. They spoke good English, but were impressed that I cared enough to learn how to speak a little of their language.

    Quoted: Democrat Barack Obama batted away conservative criticism Friday over a comment he made about Americans' lack of foreign language skills.

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    2 starsRobert1 | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 21 2008 | language, software, firefox
    PC World - Business Center: Mozilla: Firefox Plug-In Shipped With Malicious Code

    Quoted: Mozilla shipped a Firefox plug-in that contained virus-infected code.

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    4 starsRobert1 | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 27 2008 | language
    Visuwords™ online graphical dictionary and thesaurus

    Quoted: Look up words in the Visuwords online graphical dictionary and thesaurus to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Produce diagrams reminiscent of a neural net. Learn how words associate.

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