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Archive for June, 2008
News: Web Domains Could Expand Broadly Under New Plan
Jun 25th
The organization that oversees Internet addresses is expected Thursday to approve a proposal to create an unlimited number of so-called top-level domains — the familiar suffixes like “.com” at the end of Web addresses.
Under the plan, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers will allow organizations to apply for any top-level domain. Businesses, for example, could use brand names such as “.ibm” or “.ebay” in their Web addresses. Cities could sign up for names like “.nyc” or “.berlin.” It will also be possible to apply to use more general terms, such as “.news” or “.sports,” to define sites associated with groups or categories of information.
ICANN, a nonprofit group that acts as regulator for the Internet, expects the change to spur the creation of many more Web sites — and to allow individuals and organizations to express their identities in useful new ways.
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Source: WSJ.com
News: Legendary Comedian George Carlin Dies at 71
Jun 23rd
George Carlin, the edgy comedian and counterculture icon, died Sunday at the age of 71.
The stand-up comic and author ? best known for his groundbreaking routine “Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television” ? reportedly died of heart failure at Saint John’s Health Center in Santa Monica. (Carlin, who was open about his long struggle with drugs and alcohol, had a history of heart problems, including a previous heart attack.)
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Source: People.com
News: Obama’s strange appeal to high priests of US conservatism
Jun 22nd
They’re called the Obamacons — the conservative thinkers who are disgusted with the Republicans and are rallying to Democrat Barack Obama as the nation’s economic and diplomatic savior.
They are joining younger evangelical leaders who see more to their religious mission than slavish devotion to Republican social mores, and fiscal conservatives who reject the war-fueled spending of President George W. Bush.
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But thinkers such as Francis Fukuyama, Andrew Sullivan and Andrew Bacevich — all vehemently opposed to the war in Iraq — dislike Republican candidate John McCain and see something alluring in his Democratic rival.
Fukuyama, the conservative author of the post-Cold War treatise “The End of History and the Last Man,” said on a visit to Sydney last month that the Republicans were a spent force intellectually.
He told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. that many on the right of US politics believe “Obama probably has the greatest promise of delivering a different kind of politics” that breaks with decades of Republican orthodoxy.
Bacevich, professor of history and international relations at Boston University, believes that after eight years under Bush, the Republicans need to lose November’s election to reinvent their thinking and policy platform.
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Source: Google.com
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