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  • Buck, 29, a former Oakland Tribune multimedia intern, used the ubiquitous short messaging service to tap out a single word on his cellular phone: ARRESTED. The message went out to the cell phones and computers of a wide circle of friends in the United States and to the mostly leftist, anti-government bloggers in Egypt who are the subject of his graduate journalism project.
  • The next day, he walked out a free man with an Egyptian attorney hired by UC Berkeley at his side and the U.S. Embassy on the phone.
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He Wrote 200,000 Books (but Computers Did Some of the Work) - New York Times - 0 views

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shared by Matthew Schuler on 16 Apr 08 - Cached
  • developed computer algorithms that collect publicly available information on a subject — broad or obscure — and, aided by his 60 to 70 computers and six or seven programmers, he turns the results into books in a range of genres, many of them in the range of 150 pages and printed only when a customer buys one
  • Mr. Parker has generated more than 200,000 books
  • “I guess it makes sense now as to why the book was so awful and frustrating.”
Matthew Schuler

VOA News - Haiti Seeks New Prime Minister After Food Riots - 0 views

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shared by Matthew Schuler on 14 Apr 08 - Cached
  • Leaders in Haiti are looking for a new prime minister as the Caribbean nation tries to recover from a week of deadly food riots.
  • Six people have been killed in Haiti during violent protests against the high cost of food. The victims include a United Nations peacekeeper from Nigeria who was shot and killed in the capital of Port-au-Prince.
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BBC NEWS | Business | World Bank tackles food emergency - 0 views

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shared by Matthew Schuler on 14 Apr 08 - Cached
  • crisis has sparked recent food riots in several countries including Haiti, the Philippines and Egypt
  • Emergency help would include an additional $10m (£5m) to Haiti, where several people were killed in food riots last week, and a doubling of agricultural loans to African farmers.
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Google Unveils Tool To Track Refugees Worldwide - TechNow News Story - KNTV | San Franc... - 0 views

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shared by Matthew Schuler on 09 Apr 08 - Cached
  • Internet search giant Google Inc. unveiled a new feature Tuesday for its popular mapping programs that shines a spotlight on the movement of refugees around the world. The maps will aid humanitarian operations as well as help inform the public about the millions who have fled their homes because of violence or hardship, according to the office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, which is working with Google on the project.
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ABC News: Judge Allows Wikileaks Site to Re-Open - 0 views

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shared by Matthew Schuler on 03 Mar 08 - Cached
  • The Wikileaks site claims to have posted 1.2 million leaked government and corporate documents that it says expose unethical behavior, including a 2003 operation manual for the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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Digg - US Intelligence: Second Life is a Potential Terrorist Haven! - 0 views

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shared by Matthew Schuler on 08 Feb 08 - Cached
  • US intelligence officials are warning that web sites that enable users to adopt personas in three-dimensional online spaces also are creating security vulnerabilities by opening novel ways for terrorists and criminals to move money, organize, and conduct espionage...and to think, all this time we've looking in Afghanistan & Iraq for terrorists
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FBI wants palm prints, eye scans, tattoo mapping - CNN.com - 0 views

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shared by Matthew Schuler on 06 Feb 08 - Cached
  • The FBI is gearing up to create a massive computer database of people's physical characteristics, all part of an effort the bureau says to better identify criminals and terrorists.
  • The bureau is expected to announce in coming days the awarding of a $1 billion, 10-year contract to help create the database that will compile an array of biometric information -- from palm prints to eye scans.
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Khaleej Times Online - Cable damage hits 1.7m Internet users in UAE - 0 views

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shared by Matthew Schuler on 06 Feb 08 - Cached
  • An estimated 1.7 million Internet users in the UAE have been affected by the recent undersea cable damage
  • The submarine cable cuts in FLAG Europe-Asia cable 8.3km away from Alexandria, Egypt and SeaMeWe-4 affected at least 60 million users in India, 12 million in Pakistan, six million in Egypt and 4.7 million in Saudi Arabia.” A total of five cables being operated by two submarine cable operators have been damaged with a fault in each.
  • The first cut in the undersea Internet cable occurred on January 23, in the Flag Telcoms FALCON submarine cable which was not reported. This has not been repaired yet and the cause remains unknown
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Slashdot | Artificial Bases Added to DNA - 0 views

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shared by Matthew Schuler on 30 Jan 08 - Cached
  • This raises the prospect of engineering life forms with genetic code not possible within nature, allowing new kinds of genetic engineering
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Businesses praise chips as privacy groups worry - USATODAY.com - 0 views

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shared by Matthew Schuler on 30 Jan 08 - Cached
  • Already, microchips are turning up in some computer printers, car keys and tires, on shampoo bottles and department store clothing tags. They're also in library books and "contactless" payment cards
  • By placing sniffers in strategic areas, companies can invisibly "rifle through people's pockets, purses, suitcases, briefcases, luggage — and possibly their kitchens and bedrooms — anytime of the day or night
Matthew Schuler

ABC News: Hey, That's Me! Ads 'Photonap' Web Images - 0 views

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shared by Matthew Schuler on 25 Jan 08 - Cached
  • You and your family are the "real thing." And maybe that's why so many companies (particularly big corporations) are so eager to get their hands on these photos that they seem to be using them without permission.
  • Case in point: A 15-year-old girl from Dallas discovered that a photo of her at a youth car wash posted on Flickr was later used in an advertising campaign by Virgin Mobile in Australia. The photo was not displayed in a flattering way. She was portrayed as the dorky pen pal that Virgin wanted you to dump in favor of its text-messaging service. She only discovered she has been "photonapped" when a friend sent her a copy of the ad.
Matthew Schuler

ABC News: Can a Videogame Help Fight Child Obesity? - 0 views

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shared by Matthew Schuler on 24 Jan 08 - Cached
  • With childhood obesity rates tripling in the last 15 years, Kaiser Permanente has decided to do something about this growing epidemic: It plans to introduce a video game.
Matthew Schuler

Paste Magazine :: News :: Dispatch to release Zimbabwe benefit DVD (Page 1) - 0 views

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shared by Matthew Schuler on 25 Jan 08 - Cached
  • The DVD features two hours of footage from the band’s first performances since its 2004 farewell show, and will be packaged in eco-friendly material. In addition, the set comes with a 10-track bonus CD featuring some of the best songs from the shows, as well as a 30-minute documentary on Zimbabwe. Part of the profits from the sale of the DVD will go to benefit the Dispatch Foundation.
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