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Barbara D’Arcy White, Interior Design Guru, Dies at 84

No Agenda News Network — Sat, 19 May 2012 04:11:29 +0000

Ms. D’Arcy was an interior decorator whose eclectic sense of style helped change Americans’ taste in home furnishings in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s, when she worked at Bloomingdale’s.
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Thread: Tech design can’t move that fast

No Agenda News Network — Sat, 19 May 2012 03:41:47 +0000

Interesting piece that lists 15 current technologies that a child born today will never use.
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UK Police extract mobile phone data of suspects…. then keep it regardless

No Agenda News Network — Sat, 19 May 2012 01:46:34 +0000

The Metropolitan Police has implemented a system to extract mobile phone data from suspects held in custody. The data includes call history, texts and contacts, and the BBC has learned that it will be retained regardless of whether any charges are brought. So you could be brought in because you “look” like you did something. Get all your phone data taken and then they keep it for god knows what. Time to encrypt I think.
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Final Is Backyard Battle in Bayern’s Backyard

No Agenda News Network — Sat, 19 May 2012 00:48:11 +0000

Chelsea faces Bayern Munich in that team’s Allianz Arena in Saturday’s Champions League final for the title as the best club soccer team in Europe.
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Thread: Why amateur reviewers are better

No Agenda News Network — Fri, 18 May 2012 23:22:49 +0000

1. Amateurs don’t have relationships with the vendors to protect.
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Merkel Called Greek President To Clarify German Position -Spokesman

No Agenda News Network — Fri, 18 May 2012 21:55:07 +0000

I bet she did! Over the past 24 hours German politicians have been in steady contact with Greece’s caretaker government to impress upon Athens that Berlin wants Greece in the euro, but that Greece must fulfill its international obligations.
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High-fructose corn syrupcan make you dumb, US scientists warn

No Agenda News Network — Fri, 18 May 2012 21:25:56 +0000

Well, at least it makes your lab rats dumb according to the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA.) I wonder who paid for this study? The sugar wars are still raging.
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Facebook vs. Twitter

No Agenda News Network — Fri, 18 May 2012 20:29:09 +0000

In the world of social networks, Facebook and Twitter can be compared to the old children’s story, The Tortoise and the Hare. But this race is not judged by speed, but by the long-term relationship with users and their privacy.
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Greek Leftist Leader Throws Down Gauntlet on Debt – (Odious Debt)

No Agenda News Network — Fri, 18 May 2012 19:59:05 +0000

“Our first choice is to convince our European partners that, in their own interest, financing must not be stopped,” Mr. Tsipras said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal. “If we can’t convince themâbecause we don’t have the intention to take unilateral actionâbut if they proceed with unilateral action on their side, in other words they cut off our funding, then we will be forced to stop paying our creditors, to go to a suspension in payments to our creditors.”
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ICC Siera Leone court; Charles Taylor asks Why isn’t Bush on trail?

No Agenda News Network — Fri, 18 May 2012 19:30:58 +0000

He questioned why former US President George W Bush, who he alleged had admitted to ordering torture, was not being brought to face a court, asking: “Is he above the law?”
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