How the Brewers Got to First Place

Very nice description of how the Milwaukee Brewers opened the season 4-9, but now find themselves going into a weekend series with the St. Louis Cardinals tied for first place in the NL Central

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IBM purchase of Sun could have broad local impacts : County-News : Boulder Daily Camera

Some history of IBM and Sun in Boulder, Colorado, anticipating the merger of the two companies.

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Coup attempt in Guinea after president dies - Yahoo! News

Good summary of latest events in Guinea (Conakry).

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Who carried out the Mumbai attacks?

Can't vouch for the entire analysis, but this is clearly someone who knows something about the Indian political environment. The official sources are all suspect, with their own agendas.

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U Utah Phillips has left the stage

Utah Phillips died last night. Organizer, storyteller, hobo, Wobbly, songwriter, all-round funny guy and amazing performer. Utah (aka Bruce) was a unique presence on the cultural landscape. The younger crowd may remember his two CDs with Ani DiFranco a few years ago.

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BBC NEWS | UK | Children 'damaged' by materialism

"Unless we question our own behaviour as a society we risk creating a generation who are left unfulfilled through chasing unattainable lifestyles."

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Rioters Attack U.S. Embassy in Belgrade

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US Election Wiki To Watch: Superdelegate Transparency Project

Mashable covers PRWatch's Superdelegate Transparency Project:

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Poynter Online - Changing Times at The Cap Times

Poynter Institute column on the death of the liberal daily Capital Times (in print, at least). Geisler used to work in Milwaukee, and certainly knew the CapTimes well. Excellent links, as well.

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Isthmus | The Daily Page - On the death of The Capital Times

Madison's Weekly Newspaper mourns the death of the liberal daily Capital Times. Including comments from CapTimes Associate Editor John Nichols.

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Who did it?

A Guardian (UK) columnist rounds up suspects (usual and not-so) in Benazir Bhutto's assassination, and concludes that we will probably never know for sure.

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Boulder Camera: Police shut down Boulder High over 'suspicious incident'

Looks like it may be nothing, but these things keep happening...

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Here come the Dell Linux desktops, laptops

Boldly resisting invoking the lead character in "The Big Lebowski," let us note that a threshold is being crossed when "you're getting Linux on Dell." And as it happens, I need a laptop for my summer vacation.

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Edwards: The Campaign Goes On Despite Wifes Cancer Recurrence - The Caucus - Politics - New York Times Blog

Additional quotes from the news conference. Comments are ranging quite a bit too.

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Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: More Details on Favre's Return

Quotes from Steve Mariucci and others on the QB's return.

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Election Night Viewing Includes Web's Bells and Whistles - New York Times

Not a bad guide to planning your Election Night watching/surfing.

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9news.com | News | Gunman claims to have bomb, now holding hostages in high school

Coverage and webcast of high school hostage situation just southwest of Columbine High School.

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RealNetworks Delivers RealTime News To Desktop - E-business & Business Technology News by TechWeb

RealNetworks Inc. has entered the news delivery business with RealTime, a free desktop toolbar, news reader and screen saver that brings up-to-the-minute personalized information and images to the desktop. The service launched in beta on Monday.

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IBM extending tech support to raw Eclipse platform - Yahoo! News

This story oddly doesn't mention that Eclipse was originally created by IBM. Nonetheless, software shops considering using Eclipse as an IDE will be relieved to know they can go to the business people and say they'll get tool support.

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Eclipse touting desktop client tool, other efforts at EclipseWorld

The Eclipse Foundation at the EclipseWorld 2006 conference in Cambridge, Mass., this week plans to tout the progress of open source projects focused on desktop application development, PHP (Hypertext Processor) and embedded Java. New version of RCP Developer due soon as well.

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Two Great Tastes That Taste Great Together

AJAX and Flash. Just what the world needs.

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Will the Writely-Google Combo = Microsoft's Pearl Harbor (or is it Stalingrad)?

I'm not sure I'm ready to drink this particular Kool-Aid, but the case is strongly made. But I do hope the "Pearl Harbor" analogy is wrong--who was it that won World War II?

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Al-Ahram Weekly | Opinion | Sane Britain disappears

A thoughtful defense of London Mayor Ken Livingstone in the Egyptian press (no less).

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ABC News: ABC News' Bob Woodruff and Cameraman Injured in Iraq

The "official" page for news about Bob Woodruff's condition. Whatever you think of this war, it's important to recognize the sacrifices made by people trying to get information to you. More journalists have died in Iraq than in any other war zone.

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