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Futurity.org
"Futurity features the latest discoveries in all fields from scientists at the top universities in the US, UK, Canada, and Australia. "
research  news 
november 2011 by soypunk
Surf by Osmosis (and get on with your life)
"Your time is valuable, but the Web is distracting. Surf by Osmosis minimizes the time you spend staying in the loop by showing you some of the Web’s top content really quickly."
news  web  software 
august 2010 by soypunk
News Industry Text Format - IPTC Web
"NITF uses the eXtensible Markup Language to define the content and structure of news articles."
ldc  xml  specification  news 
january 2009 by soypunk
LizardFeeder | Mozilla
Basically a Planet Mozilla on crack. Man, that's quite the firehose.
mozilla  news  feed 
january 2009 by soypunk
The Cartoon Lounge: Online Only: The New Yorker
An interview with xkcd creator, Randall Munroe (plus, bonus comics!)
xkcd  humor  interview  news 
october 2008 by soypunk
SpinSpotter, A New Browser Plugin To Help Spot Media Bias - ReadWriteWeb
Hrm: "With the new browser plugin from SpinSpotter, you can edit and share any sign of bias on the web." Curious to see if it works, my gut says the "spin makers" will abuse this tool.
firefox  extension  plugin  news  journalism 
september 2008 by soypunk
FresnoBee.com: Local: Burglar victims wake to spice rub, sausage attack
Maybe the greatest news story of all time: "A burglar who broke into a home just east of Fresno rubbed food seasoning over the body of one of two men as they slept in their rooms and then used an 8-inch sausage to whack the other man on the face and head before running out of the house, Fresno County sheriff's deputies said Saturday."
news  weird  humor  food  sausage  via:stevenf 
september 2008 by soypunk
Official Georgia warblog
Country of Georgia is keeping a Blogger blog concerning the Russian invasion. Seems legit.
georgia  russia  war  blog  news 
august 2008 by soypunk
Pipes: Webpage-to-RSS
"Webpage-to-RSS Pipe generates RSS from any webpage which doesn't have native syndication. It utilizes a data mining service called Feedity ( www.feedity.com ) to dynamically build the RSS, and then only return unique items."
rss  syndication  yahoo  pipe  web  news 
march 2007 by soypunk
The Gavel
Nancy Pelosi's weblog complete with embedded Youtube videos.
blog  government  politics  news 
february 2007 by soypunk
Twitter / cnnbrk
It is official, Twitter has gone ape-shit. CNN?
twitter  news  media 
january 2007 by soypunk
TSN.ca - NHL: Transactions
List of notable transactions made as NHL teams try to fill out their rosters under the rules outlined in the new Collective Bargaining Agreement.
nhl  hockey  news 
august 2005 by soypunk
Player Bio: Sean Burke
Lightning sign goaltender Burke to 2 year deal. Burke tends to perform consintently in the regular season but has had trouble in the playoffs. Danger, Will Robinson. Danger.
nhl  hockey  news  tampa 
august 2005 by soypunk
Wayne Gretzky set to coach Coyotes
My guess is the NHL begged him to do this for the publicity because Wayne has always done whatever the NHL asked of him. Regardless it'll be nice to have him more visible again.
nhl  hockey  news 
august 2005 by soypunk
Language Log: Copy-editing terrorism
Problems in translating arabic, particularly entity names. Arabic, as a language, is *so* interesting.
arabic  linguistics  news 
july 2005 by soypunk

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