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WASHINGTON POST -- Obama waiver allows U.S. aid to 4 countries using child soldiers -- Law was signed just before Bush left office and would have penalized six countries.

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GREAT SCHOOLS -- Education Nation Scorecard - how do schools stack up on standardized testing?

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MASHABLE -- “FarmVille” Interruption Cited in Baby’s Murder

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INHABIT -- Reclaimed Pyramid Residence Sits Atop Seattle’s Smith Tower

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LIFEHACKER -- How to Opt Out of Yellow Book Delivery

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CROSSCUT -- The making of a religious 'None' -- Some might wonder why I'm posting this, or even be upset that *I* would post this. Go read it again.

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DISCOVER DIGITAL LIFE -- TNS Digital Life -- In depth look at what's most important online and how they access it (a dashboard of stats) to promote larger package of stats available for sale (still, quite a bit, and covering a lot of countries in the free website - worth taking a look)

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MSNBC -- Court: Girl, 4, can be sued for negligence -- Sad in so many ways

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CNET NEWS -- Tesla opens doors to electric auto factory (photo gallery)

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SETH GODIN -- Pushing back on mediocre professors

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CROSS CUT -- Space Needle: Tower of Power - In my opinion, a must-read for anyone who lives here.

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DELIVERABILITY -- Deliverability by engagement – a class action lawsuit waiting to happen? - That is, is it right for Google or Hotmail to classify and sort our emails for us? Interesting take from the other side.

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WSDOT -- WSDOT releases request for proposals to build SR 99 bored tunnel alternative - such a shame, such a waste, such a bad, shortsighted inflexible idea

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THE HIGH CALLING -- Originality

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FAIL BLOG -- Key Ingredient Fail - Hmmm... Maybe Hardee's has a leg up on the competition?

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MSNBC -- 20,000 Iraq war victims unidentified at morgue

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ENGADGET -- Sony's LocationPorter real-time video transmission system goes multichannel = no more news van?

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INHABIT -- Fast-Charging Electric Buses Coming to Southern California - Foothill Transit's replacing all its buses with new ones that recharge in 10 minutes. Dang!

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WASHINGTON STATE HIGHWAYS -- Washington State Route 108

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WASHINGTON STATE HIGHWAYS -- Washington State Route 109

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ENGADGET -- Google Places' camera exposed in the convenience store wilds

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SETH GODIN -- Is Everything Perfect?

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TECHCRUNCH -- Woot’s Deal Of The Day: Woot! — Amazon Buys It. Price? $110 Million Weird. (thanks, Shari!)

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YOUTUBE -- I missed it because I'm behind on my reading, but @OldSpice Guy @Isaiahmustafa posted lots of videos in response to tweets people sent him.

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LIFEHACKER -- What Caffeine Actually Does to Your Brain - as I add this item, I'm lying in bed sick. I wonder how many of my current maladies are from having a lot of coffee on Friday and then none yesterday or today.

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WASHINGSTON STATE HIGHWAYS -- Washington State Route 103 (he's driving and photographing and journaling all freeways in the state) - 103 is one of his shortest reviews.

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WSDOT -- SR 99 - S Holgate Street to S King Street Viaduct Replacement - a *very* slick walk-through of what will be done as they prepare to and then do tear down the south end of the Alaskan Way viaduct. Multiple camera angles and everything. Really worth checking out.

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Include "I Fought For You" by Sound Tank, trailers for social network movie(s), and a Star Wars reenactment on a subway.

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ENGADGET -- Chrome overtakes Safari for number three browser spot in the US sez StatCounter. Wow.

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I, CRINGLEY -- Apple Goes Semi-Pro, Part 2 - AppleTV to become a video game platform with iPods and iPhones as the Wii-like controllers? Wonder how often these are real products that he has inside knowledge on and how many times he convinces other companies to create products simply by inventing them and then suggesting that a particular company is already working on them?

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SETH GODIN -- Goodbye to the Office

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THE HIGH CALLING -- Wages and Roses

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REDISTRIBUTING KNOWLEDGE -- MoveOn.org Scrubs their "General Betrayus" Ad

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MASHABLE -- 10 Fascinating Facts You Didn’t Know About Apple - fascinating might be an overstatement

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UNCLUTTERER -- Ask Unclutterer: Encouraging kids to help out at home

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Videos for a new product from Samsung, an upgrade from Ford and a music video from a Tesla fan that works best with the sound off.

The Passing of Evangelical Christianity

... To a nation filled with intense religious fervor, the Hebrew prophet Amos said: You are not the holy people you imagine yourselves to be. Though the land is filled with festivals and assemblies, with songs and melodies, and with so much pious talk, these are not sounds and sights that are pleasing to the Lord. "Take away from me the noise of your congregations," Amos says, "you who have turned justice into poison." ...

A long, but rather thought-provoking read on the "passing of evangelical Christianity" that questiosn why American Christians seem to be so for the war when the rest of the Christian community is against it.

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/id....

Brave of the Home