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Search Goes Open-Source

May 1, 2007

If you happen to be, like me, in the throes of hoisting a company that incorporates some flavor of Search technology as a key capability, you know that its value in managing and sorting the torrent of internet information pouring out of blogs and everything else these days is essential to the success of the [...]

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Repost: Manhattan’s Milosevic

November 27, 2002

With Henry Kissinger being announced as the new head of the September 11 Investigation this article, forwarded to FOIB last summer, gains new relevance. Given Kissinger’s personal stake and his ties to the REpublican party, is there any hope of an unbiased, nonpartisan investigation of 9/11 and the Bush Administration’s culpability thereto?
-Ian.
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The India-Pakistan Problem…

June 3, 2002

You can’t blame the Al Quaeda for this one, although the US State Department, in order to keep the fire lit under his ass, hints that the almighty Bin Laden might be behind terrorist attacks in India. This article highlights the fact that nuclear weapons in the hands of junior players like India and [...]

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FW: Great article – check it out….

September 14, 2001

—— Forwarded Message From: Dan Cox Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 13:27:53 -0700 (PDT) To: me [at] ianbell [dot] com Subject: Great article – check it out….
> Body counts and head counts
> 9/14/01
> San Francisco Chronicle
> By Jon Carroll
>
> PHIL BRONSTEIN, THE executive editor of The
> Chronicle, sent out a memo
> Wednesday about emotions. [...]

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