American Idol is seriously big here : A Kris Allen fundraiser and watch party will be held at the Pizza Inn, 724 Oak St., Wednesday night. Pizza Inn will donate 10 percent of buffet sales [...] to help send Kris' brother Daniel Allen to Los Angeles..

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So the Obama trip abroad is over, and he finished it as he began it, diplomatic even to Hugo Chavez. There's been a lot of hot air wasted by fools on various elements of the trip, but I was reading one story that made me very curious as to how the...

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Proof that I shouldn't be let loose in the evening: I just spent several hours writing a program to create galleries from my photos . I expect some other evening I will spend several hours making it all swanky and cool. It's scary, really.

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You know, I took political signs out of peoples' yards as a stunt when I was younger. It was a lark. I probably wouldn't do it, however, on general principal, if I were the town mayor , and the signs were opposing one of my political objectives...

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TechCrunch, home of all things new and shiny on the interweb, has an entry on a language learning website , which as a bonus lists the websites it considers competitors. I hadn't heard of any of the sites, and since I'm a language learning junkie.

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