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Ramseys cleared; Denver Post releases the truthers

In a long-overdue move, Boulder prosecutors have officially cleared the family of JonBenet Ramsey in the girl’s December 26, 1996 murder. I say “long-overdue” because for those of us who’ve paid attention to the evidence it’s been clear for years now – painfully, maddeningly clear – that the family was innocent. I emphasize “evidence” in that sentence for a reason.

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The Internet is dead! Long live … television?

So says Mark Cuban. Now, I’m typically a big Cuban fan. But I’m looking at an AdAge report on his remarks from yesterday’s Cable Telecommunications Association for Marketing (CTAM) Summit, and I’m a little puzzled. Speaking at the Cable Telecommunications Association for Marketing (CTAM) Summit in Washington yesterday, Mr. Cuban declared “the Internet is dead” in an otherwise subdued panel

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A pox on 30 Rockefeller Plaza

So NBC has announced plans for its Fall schedule, and it smells like a trainwreck. They’re leaving Thursday night alone – which is good, although I’m baffled at the idea that there’s “critical” acclaim for 30 Rock. Alec Baldwin is good and Tina Fey is likeable, if not actually funny. And if there’s a writer in America who can make

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Scatterlings of the Metrocene: Evolution, Education and the Dawn of the Cyberhuman Epoch

Samuel R. Smith, University of Colorado Jim Booth, Surry Community College She held out her hands, palms up, the fingers slightly spread, and with a barely audible click, ten double-edged, four centimeter scalpel blades slid from their housings beneath the  burgundy nails. She smiled. The blades slowly withdrew. – William Gibson, Neuromancer (1984) Pat Diener…is 26 years old, and she

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