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Wikipedia bans Church of Scientology from editing its articles
International Business Times The Church of Scientology, founded by sci-fi writer L. Ron Hubbard in 1953, has had a long and controversial history online— dating back to Usenet groups, … and more » |
Monthly Archives: May 2009
Wikipedia bans Church of Scientology from editing its articles - International Business Times
31-May-09
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Mancow Muller Accused of Staging Fake Waterboarding
NewsBusters In fact, I even posted a Twilight Zone parody skit on the UseNet about a dozen years ago about that very subject. Here are a few highlights from that "Mancow's Twilight Zone" skit. It starts out making reference to some hoaxes Mancow had been … |
TechRadar's Brainfood - TechRadar UK
30-May-09
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TechRadar's Brainfood
TechRadar UK, UK He traces the first post about Google to Usenet, when 'google' was still a subdomain of stanford.edu (it still is, by the way), then shows how its reputation grew via references in a variety of media. A neat trip down memory lane. NOSTALGIA. … |
EasyBoost Going Offline Today
29-May-09
Subject: EasyBoost Going Offline Today
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Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 11:51:34 -0700
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Wikipedia Bans Church of Scientology
Wired News The Church of Scientology, founded by sci-fi writer L. Ron Hubbard in 1953, has had a long and bloody history on the net — dating back to Usenet groups, where critics maintain that the organization is a cult that brainwashes its members and sucks them … Wikipedia excommunicates Church of Scientology CNET News Wikipedia Bans Scientology. … Good! Daily Kos all 197 news articles |
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Wikipedia Bans Scientology. … Good!
Daily Kos, CA For instance, the Usenet group alt.religion.Scientology, a group that features a large amount of posts critical to Scientology, has come under attack, as top officials of Scientology have asked the group to be removed for varying reasons, from logical … |
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Sky Sports heads to Xbox 360 this autumn: Live football yay
CrunchGear, NY Imagine being able to watch The Big Game without having to have a Comcast cable TV subscription; you download all your TV from Usenet anyway! All you'd need is a broadband connection—which, sure, that can be from Comcast—and an Xbox 360, … |
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Initial reaction to Google Wave: Maybe transformative
Ulitzer.com, NJ … underneath them all that recognizes that they're all different ways of doing the same basic thing: IM doesn't know about email doesn't know about Usenet doesn't know about chat doesn't know about Facebook messaging doesn't know about Twitter. … |
Facilities Maintenance Announcement
28-May-09
Subject: Facilities Maintenance Announcement
From: Uncle Jesse
Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 15:51:23 -0700
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Hey: Mac software haus Panic is having itself a 50 percent of sale
CrunchGear, NY And Unison, as I've said in the past, is a fine Usenet newsreader. It's getting a bit long in the tooth—it doesn't show the total download speed in the dock icon, for example—but it's still pretty great. Hopefully Panic will invest some of this new … |