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15 Tools for Monitoring a Website’s Popularity
As a web designer or developer building a site, it’s helpful to first scout similar websites (i.e. the competition) to help you make design and development decisions. Knowing what websites work and which ones tank can give you insights and inspiration on what design elements, website features, and website content is effective.
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France urges Israel not to attack Iran
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner has urged Israel not to launch a military strike against Iran\'s nuclear program, an Israeli newspaper reported on Sunday Kouchner, in the region for talks with Israeli and Palestinian...
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Inside Dubai\'s labour camps (PICS)
\'We need slaves to build monuments\' A hidden army of exploited immigrant workers are building Dubai\'s skyscrapers.
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FCC deepens probe into Pentagon TV analyst payola
The FCC is asking former military officers for details on their participation in a campaign to promote the Department of Defense\'s Iraq policy on national news program without proper disclosure.
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Markets in Europe and Asia Plunge
lobal stocks plummeted Friday after the rout Thursday on Wall Street, where the Dow Jones industrial average plummeted 7.3 percent, or 678 points, closing below the 9,000-mark for the first time since 2003.\\r
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Federal Judge Orders 17 Guantánamo Detainees Freed
Seventeen Uighurs held at Guantánamo Bay must be freed and allowed into the United States, a federal judge ruled.
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Glenn Beck: The End Game is Global Government & One Currency
“There is a global meltdown coming. It is global depression. And one world currency and one world financial system is the endgame.” Glen Beck Says, “China said last week they want one global currency. France said yesterday … they want one world order - a new world order at the end of this event.
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EXCLUSIVE: Pelosi paid husband with PAC funds
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has directed nearly $100,000 from her political action committee to her husband\'s real estate and investment firm over the past decade, a practice of paying a spouse with political donations that she voted to ban last year.
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Exclusive: Inside Account of US Eavesdropping on Americans
Despite pledges by President George W. Bush and American intelligence officials to the contrary, hundreds of US citizens overseas have been eavesdropped on as they called friends and family back home, according to two former military intercept operators who worked at the giant National Security Agency (NSA) center in Fort Gordon, Georgia.
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The Future of News
Kevin Rose talks at FOWA 08 (London) about where Digg has gone wrong and highlights unanswered questions in social news
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Gen. Petreaus: \"I Do Think You Have To Talk To Enemies\"
Right from the General\'s lips to your ears.
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Oh...So That\'s Why I Don\'t Drive in London [PIC]
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National Debt Clock Runs out of Digits
Just thought you should know...
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22 of the World\'s Most Creative Alphabets
There are so many crazy ways to write the ABC\'s. It\'s a great creative exercise - it would do me well to try my own when I hit a creative slump. I\'m amazed at the ingenuity of some of these. This collection of alphabets was gathered from the portfolios of artists, photographers and design students around the world.
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105-Year-Old Virgin: No Sex is Key to Long Life
Britain\'s oldest virgin has revealed the secret of her longevity on the eve of her 105th birthday - no sex.
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FTC Listens To Your Complaints, Bans Telemarketer Robocalls
After reviewing the more than 14,000 comments left by living human beings, the FTC yesterday amended its Telemarketing Sales Rule to ban most types of robotic telemarketing calls. By this December, any recorded calls will have to lead off with an automated opt-out option; by September 2009, telemarketers will need written permission to contact you.
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The Future: Open-Source Humanoid Robots
The Willow Project is a seriously cool effort to bring robotics to the masses: think of it as Lego Mindstorms all grown up...
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Robot wheelchair finds its own way (MIT)
MIT researchers are developing a new kind of autonomous wheelchair that can learn all about the locations in a given building, and then take its occupant to a given place in response to a verbal command.
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Fellow Keating Five Member: McCain Deserves More Scrutiny
Former U.S. Sen. Dennis DeConcini told PolitickerAZ.com Monday that he thinks Sen. John McCain\'s involvement in the Keating Five scandal of the late \'80s and early \'90s is fair game as an issue in the presidential contest between the senator from Arizona and Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.).
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NASA: MESSENGER Returns Images from Oct. 6 Mercury Fly-By
MESSENGER is the first mission sent to orbit the planet closest to the sun. On Oct. 6, 2008, at roughly 4:40 a.m. ET, MESSENGER flew by Mercury for the second time this year. During the encounter, the probe swung just 125 miles (200 kilometers) above the cratered surface of Mercury, snapping hundreds of pictures.
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