FYI.
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A list of links to Public news servers
And (for a price!) by-golly! Giganews (which had been providing Usenet services for Comcast) will provide service for you too!
Map of Newspaper Endorsements for 2008 US Election
Blue/Red, depending on whether the Democrat or Republican candidate earned the endorsement.
Size of circle indicates circulation size. If the circle’s perimeter is a darker shade, it means the newspaper endorsed the “other” party’s candidate in 2004.
Interesting visual.
A toast to the late crime writer Jim Crumley – Eddie Muller in today’s Chron
Homer, Alaska – 348.2-pound halibut reels in derby jackpot
Jeff Pardi of San Rafael, CA, caught the fish in July and was declared the winner of the $45K prize when the derby closed on the last day of September, Tuesday.
Picture of fish in the article.
That’s a big fish. I didn’t know halibut got that big!
Amazing speech.
“No way. No how. No McCain.”
“Keep going. …”
Well done, Hillary.
Fish Tale Has DNA Hook – Students Find Bad Labels – NYTimes.com
Two teenagers, recently graduated from high school, decided to check whether the fish in restaurants and at the fishmongers is really what it’s labeled as.
Upshot? They found 25% of the fish with DNA they could identify had been mislabeled.
(The mislabeling usually meant the fish was identified by the seller as a more expensive fish than it really was. Shock.)
The teenagers shipped the fish off to someone at FISHBOL who did the DNA analysis using a newish technique that is simpler and cheaper than a full-bore analysis.
Bad enough that your wild-caught salmon might not be wild-caught. It might not even be salmon!
Maybe the next time I have to look up chyron I’ll remember what it means.
(Three’s the charm.)
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