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Hi, I'm Jordan Running. By day I write about software for Tucows.com. By night I blog at swirlee.org (sometimes), do some programming, take some photos, and otherwise keep myself busy.

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Obama to expand Bush's faith-based programs

Politics – Reaching out to evangelical voters, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is announcing plans that would expand President Bush's program steering federal social service dollars to religious groups and - in a move sure to cause controversy - support their ability to hire and fire based on faith.

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Police find pipe bomb stuffed inside chicken

News – Authorities in Connecticut are wondering who stuffed a raw roasting chicken with a pipe bomb and left it on a roadside. Simsbury police Capt. Matthew Catania says a motorist noticed the chicken Monday morning.

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Internet book piracy will drive authors to stop writing

Do No Evil – The internet is awash with unlicensed free digital copies of individual chapters or in some cases entire books. Prominent victims of book piracy include Jamie Oliver and J. K. Rowling but the most vulnerable writers are less well-known poets, authors of short stories and writers of cookery books.

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Science fiction writer Arthur C. Clark dies

News – An aide tells The Associated Press that science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke has died at the age of 90.

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Bush raps Obama pledge to meet hostile leaders

Politics – WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush on Thursday sharply criticized Democratic front-runner Barack Obama's pledge to meet Cuban leader Raul Castro without preconditions, leaping squarely into the race to succeed him.

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100 books every child should read

Books – Our guide to the best children's books.

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Obama Emerges Victorious in Iowa

Politics – ABC News projects that Illinois Sen. Barack Obama will be the winner of the Iowa Democratic caucuses. At this point ABC News does not have enough information yet to project who will come in second or third.

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Social News Sites CoRank and Meneame to Merge

Gadgets & Tech – After weeks of speculation that Digg or someone else was going to buy Spanish social news site Meneame and social news hosting service coRank - it's been announced that the two will instead merge to form a new site called MeneaRank. This new venture could really shake things up.

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Lakota Tribe Officially Secedes From U.S.

Politics – The Lakota Indians, who gave the world legendary warriors Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, have withdrawn from treaties with the United States, leaders said Wednesday. "We are no longer citizens of the United States of America and all those who live in the five-state area that encompasses our country are free to join us."

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TIME Person of the Year For 2007 - Vladimir Putin

News – No one is born with a stare like Vladimir Putin's. The Russian President's pale blue eyes are so cool, so devoid of emotion that the stare must have begun as an affect, the gesture of someone who understood that power might be achieved by the suppression of ordinary needs, like blinking.

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6 Singers Who Are Mistaken About Their Raw Sexuality

Celebrities – check out this list of 6 top celebrities who are mistaken totally about their raw sexuality

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Master Your DSLR Camera, Part 2: Manual Mode and More

Do-It-Yourself – In part one of this series you kicked your digital SLR camera's auto mode to the curb with the help of program mode. In doing so, you learned to control the flash, the ISO value, and the white balance. Now in part two we're going straight to manual mode to learn about aperture sizes and shutter speeds. So let's do this thing.

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Automated projector calibration (cooler than it sounds)

Gadgets & Tech – One of our readers sent in this awesome project. It automatically calibrates the projector to hit any surface perfectly in less than one minute. It works when the detector is facing away, through a mirror, you can even stitch to images together seamlessly, or map an image onto an arbitrarily placed 3D model.

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1955 'Origin of Life' Paper Is Retracted

Science – In 1955, Homer Jacobson, a professor at Brooklyn College, published a paper called "Information, Reproduction and the Origin of Life" in American Scientist, the journal of Sigma Xi. He has now retracted the paper because creationists cite it as proof that life could not have emerged on earth without divine intervention

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The 6 Most Terrifying Foods in the World

Food – Humans are like goats. We'll eat any damned thing. Just ask the people who make PowerBars...We've found six dishes that seemed to have sprung from Satan's own cookbook.

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