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Jun 08 2009

Pirates capture seat in EU parliament

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The Swedish Pirate Party captured a seat in the EU parliament today after running a campaign solely based on reforming copyright laws! The party believes that Europe no longer has...

Jun 06 2009

Archives, Europe, Images, Photographs, Web 2.0, World

Archives Normandie 1939-1945

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There is a great collection on Flickr of photographs from the battle at Normandie. The collection includes close to 3,000 images documenting the event; information and tags for this collection...

Jun 05 2009

Education, Environment, Women, World

“Margaret Wertheim: The beautiful math of coral (and crochet)”

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Curious where math, coral reef, education, saving the environment, and the domestic arts intersect? My friend Abby showed me the video below that explains this intersection brilliantly. Take a look!...

Jun 04 2009

Education, Politics, World

Fundación ALAS

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ALAS (América Latina en Acción Solidaria) was founded in December 2006 as a medium to mobilize Latin American society in favor of young children. The organization’s leadership includes renown artists,...

Jun 02 2009

bi/multilingual, Libraries, Tools, World

Pregunte: Las Bibliotecas Responden

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The Ministry of Culture and the Autonomous Communities in Spain have joined forces to offer a new online reference system called “Pregunte: Las Bibliotecas Responden” (Ask, The Libraries will Answer)....

May 28 2009

Technology, Tools, Web 2.0

Google Wave

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Google just announced on its blog that they are developing a new tool which aims at integrating email, live chat, photos, videos, maps, feeds, gadgets, and more! The idea is to...

May 27 2009

Technology, Tools, Web 2.0

Addict-o-matic

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Addict-o-matic is a clever page that instantly builds you a customs made page displaying results in a variety of formats on your topic of interest. Depending on the topic you...

May 26 2009

Politics, Technology

Data.gov

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The current USA administrations is keeping its word of making more information available to everyone. Today, 120 into the new administration the site Data.gov has been launched. This new site...

May 18 2009

Latin America, Poetry, Uruguay, World

Mario Benedetti, 1920-2009

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Mario Benedetti, Uruguayan journalist, novelist and poet passed away yesterday May 17. I’ve loved Benedetti’s work from the minute I heard his poem “Hagamos un Trato” back in the tenth...

May 16 2009

Technology, Web 2.0

Legacy Locker

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Now that most of us have so many online accounts I was wondering what happens to these when we pass away or become incapacitaded; NPR just answered me questions. Last...