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Almanac (The State)
MEETINGS COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS COLUMBIA CLEMSON CLUB: Noon Wednesday at Seawell’s on Rosewood Drive. Guest speaker will be Will Merritt. Tickets are $20; to make a reservation, send a check payable to the Columbia Clemson Club, P.O. Box 2242, Columbia, SC 29202 or e-mail mtaylor@mcnair.net PALMETTO PERSONAL COMPUTER CLUB: 6-8:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 14, at Capital Senior Center, 1650 ... Couple’s computer center in Taiwan a friendship hub (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
TAIPEI—ROY AND HEIDE VILLUNA are two unassuming Filipinos accomplishing feats in Taiwan. As the heart and soul of the 5-year-old e-PC Data Processing and Learning Center in Taipei, this couple has been quietly and steadily promoting computer literacy among Taiwan’s overseas Filipino workers. Where Can You Find Jewelry Making Patterns? (BellaOnline)
Places to find patterns for jewelry making. Students can enroll in public school courses offered online | By Lisa Coalwell Loveland Reporter-Herald (Loveland Reporter-Herald)
Nathan Jones may move from home school to public school this fall, but he won’t have far to travel. The 13-year-old Loveland boy’s commute will be the distance to his computer. Cuil: Good, But Not Great (ReadWriteWeb)
Last night, the new search engine Cuil launched out of stealth-mode. As some had predicted, it seems Google's announcement about the size of its search index was a preemptive move to take some momentum away from one of Cuil's main features: the size of its index with 120 billion pages. As Cuil's team features quite a number of Google alumni, comparisons with Google's search are inevitable. ... Brian Taylor looks at the fallout from the Glasgow by-election (BBC News)
Brian Taylor looks at the fallout from the Glasgow by-election Local Happenings (Daily Record)
The Somerset County Park Commission Environmental Education Center at 190 Lord Stirling Road in Basking Ridge has scheduled the following naturalist-led programs so children and adults can enjoy the wonder and beauty of summer. The end of human customer service? (MSNBC)
Imagine standing in a retail store desperately looking for help from someone, anyone, and being directed to ... a computer screen. "No one here can help you," a clerk might say. "But someone 1,500 miles away probably can." This just might be the future of customer service. Vote now for an Everyday Person with Never-Quit Spirit to join the Energizer(R) Keep Going(R) Hall of Fame (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
There's no need for Americans to wait until November to cast their votes. They can vote online and vote now for a great American hero. Voters have until July 25 to elect a new member of the 2008 Energizer® Keep Going® Hall of Fame. Has global warming stopped? (The New Statesman)
'The fact is that the global temperature of 2007 is statistically the same as 2006 and every year since 2001'. Plus read Mark Lynas's response
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