University of Maryland has a tool at Dustball.com which is supposed to check to see that research papers are original.  (http://www.dustball.com/cs/plagiarism.checker/) only trouble is, it doesn’t even detect papers which are published as free term papers on SchoolSucks.com. A quick google for a few particularly insightful phrases works pretty well for checking to see if [...]

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There was a lot of news recently about if Powerset should sell, or play David and Goliath with Google.  I vote sell. The concept is good, but they are more of an Ask competitor than a Google competitor, and we know how well Ask is doing. So let’s Play. Question one, which I posed a [...]

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The malaria has become a serious problem over the years especially in the Asian and the African countries. The disease kills over million each year.  A lot of the victims amongst them are children. Seattle biomedical research institute has come up with a unique policy in order to combat this deadly disease. Seattle biomedical research institute [...]

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Schoolsout.com offers alerts for parents to let them know when there are County School Closings, or Snow Days.  If you Register with Schools Out.com they will send you e-mails or Text messages to let you know when school won't be in session.  So if you are affected by the recent West Virginia School Closings, or [...]

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Schoolsout.com offers alerts for parents to let them know when there are County School Closings, or Snow Days.  If you Register with Schools Out.com they will send you e-mails or Text messages to let you know when school won’t be in session.  So if you are affected by the recent West Virginia School Closings, or [...]

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Getting found is not only about having the right stuff on your page, but also having the right people to link to you.  So if you want to really boost your own page rank you need to get one of these guys to link to you.  Good luck, with very few exceptions these sites don’t [...]

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“Age of Empires III” Expands Into the Eastern World This Fall Big Huge Games to develop second expansion pack for massively popular Games for Windows franchise. REDMOND, Wash. — May 18, 2007 — Pack your bags — “Age of Empires® III” is heading east. Microsoft Game Studios, Ensemble Studios and Big Huge Games Inc. today [...]

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