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BREAKING SURF Citizen Paparazzi at the London Bombings Reports from survivors of the July 7 London bombings are raising ethical questions about citizen journalism. First-person reports from disaster scenes these days skip the press filter and take advantage of mobile-phone cameras and video, providing an immediacy and impact that pro journalists can't match. Such visual documentation can also help find causes or culprits. Justin, a blogger who survived the Edgeware Road bomb, displays in his posts on the experience sensitivity and restraint that seems a hallmark of those who have been through such horrendous events. If survivors act responsibly, however, some voyeuristic bystanders often lack such instinctive good taste and cruelly and intrusively display their shots of gore and dazed survivors. They act more like paparazzi than responsible journalists. Online Journalism Review looks at the pros and cons of this populist reportage. Just as atrocities like the bombings can highlight the best and worst in people, so can on-the-spot reports.http://www.ojr.org/ojr/stories/050712glaser Dossier of Civilian Casualties in Iraq 2003-2005 This report on civilian casualties in Iraq is based on comprehensive analysis of over 10,000 media reports published between March 2003 and March 2005. It provides some striking statistics. For example, of the 24,865 reported civilian deaths, coalition forces account for 37%, post-invasion criminal violence for 36%, and insurgents for 9%. The rest perished from either unknown agents or some combination of the categories. Almost half the deaths occurred in Baghdad, and over half involved explosive devices. Any count based only on media reports clearly has some biases built in. The report accepts this and tries to overcome it with a range of minimum and maximum casualties for every incident under the assumption that some sources may overreport casualties, while others may underreport them. Averaged out, the aggregate numbers are probably the best that will ever be available. The project FAQ and the dossier itself have more information on the methodology.http://www.iraqbodycount.net/press/pr12.php Finance Geek Puts Value on Free Software The naive consumer may think that the value of software is what you pay a vendor for it, but a more sophisticated analysis has to involve the perceived value of a specific package over time. The total package includes the cost and value of any warranty. In an opinion piece at O'Reilly's ONLamp.com, Robert Lefkowitz tackles the calculations to derive the value of the warranties and support that are usually offered with software or hardware. In a theoretical exercise, Lefkowitz prices software packages analogous to the way Wall Street rocket scientists price options - if the phrase Black-Sholes means anything to you, you know where he's heading. After much waving of hands, and an admission that most of what he just presented is wrong but never mind, Lefkowitz comes up with a striking assertion about open-source advocates, who, he says, are in effect "converting warrants on future maintenance and enhancements into options, which means that instead of having a sole supplier (warrants), we have created a third-party market (options) of these derivatives". Yeah, baby!http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/07/21/software_pricing.html The only excuse for not knowing about the new Harry Potter novel is that you have been too busy racing in the Tour de France. Otherwise, you know about it and perhaps even have read it twice by now. If not, and "scrupulous" isn't in your vocabulary, you should know that pirated copies of the book are out there, in text and audio formats. TeleRead has the relevant info. If you already know who dies, or you don't mind having the surprise spoiled, check out the results of a contest in the Guardian to write accounts of the passing in the style of famous authors. The winner emulated Geoffrey Chaucer, but our favorite was the entry improperly titled "Bertie and Jeeves" instead after the incomparable author P.G. Wodehouse. Rowling's own site is a muggle's dream come true. Now, if we could only get our kids to finish the book so we could read it.... TeleRead: http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=3238 Guardian: http://books.guardian.co.uk/potter/page/0,13381,1521782,00.html Rowling: http://www.jkrowling.com/ Follow the North American Solar Challenge Starting in Austin, Tex., entrants in the 2005 North American Solar Challenge (NASC) then zip across the Midwest to the Pembina/Emerson crossing on the Canadian border. In Canada, they hang a sharp left for the dash to the finish line in Calgary, Alta. The first World Solar Challenge for solar-powered cars was held in 1987 in Australia, where the General Motors entry, Sunraycer, finished more than two days ahead of the competition. Today, North America's largest solar-powered competition is called the Sunrayce, and it's sponsored by the US Department of Energy. Adding to the coolness of the high-tech NASC, all cars carry a wireless GPS tracking unit that lets you follow their progress online. You can follow specific teams, or pull back for an overview of how the contest is shaping up, with frequently updated maps.http://nasc2005.americansolarchallenge.org/index.html Google Moon Celebrates 26th Anniversary of First Landing Out in time for July 20's 26th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing and demonstrating that no place is safe from its ever-growing tendrils, Google presents Google Moon. Google used NASA imagery and its Google Maps interface, and you can surf the moon - which seems a lot easier than actually making the trip. You can do the usual: pan and scan; up or decrease magnification; find out what the moon is made of.... The landing sites on the moon appear to cluster on the map at the Web site, but that's somewhat of an artifact of our unfamiliarity with a flat map of the moon's surface. If you want more info on what you're looking at, try NASA's Apollo 11 page. The link we've provided focuses on the mission's experiments, but you travel to other Apollo pages from there.Google Moon: http://moon.google.com/ Apollo 11: http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/apollo11info.html National Sex Offender Registry Site a Dismal Mish-Mash US Department of Justice's new National Sex Offender Public Registry was buckling under heavy demand, but we persevered to bring you this review. Not that it especially matters, as there's not much "national" about the place; it lists sex offenders for only 21 states and the District of Columbia. We've noted before that some Google Maps interfaces already provide similar information. This official site serves mostly as a collection of pointers to the registries of individual states, and the states don't share a standard way of presenting the information. The net result is a conglomeration of different protocols, procedures, and disclaimers that makes your experience a crashing pain to wade through. In the District of Columbia, for example, plan on making extensive use of Acrobat Reader. Nevada's site is a jungle, but Illinois serves up good material quickly, after you get past the legal mumbo-jumbo. Don't expect any help whacking your way through the confusion from the feds - their server's going to be down. Still, it's far better than the tools you used to have - which were none.http://www.nsopr.gov/ You're probably familiar with Hot or Not, the dangerously addictive site where you rate the attractiveness of total strangers. One of the lesser known features of Hot or Not is Meet Me, which introduces the people in the photos to netsurfers who may be interested in dating them. Jeff Marshall combined the ZIP codes in the Hot or Not Meet Me database with Google Maps to create a map of the locations of people with pictures on Hot or Not. Each represented ZIP code is a pin on a Google Maps interface; click on the pin and you get a menu of photos of everyone in that ZIP code. Click on a photo, and you head off to that person's Meet Me profile. Obviously, the person you're stalk... - er, interested in must actively agree to exchange any contact info (read the Meet Me FAQ for details). Hot or Not has a developer site and a programming API you can use to develop applications based on its database. Hot or Not + Google Maps: http://apps.hotornot.com/jeff/ Meet Me FAQ: http://meetme.hotornot.com/?faq=1 Hot or Not Developer Site: http://dev.hotornot.com/wiki/Main_Page Remix BBC TV and Radio Listings As part of its open-content initiative, the BBC invites hackers everywhere to remix its TV and radio listings. The BBC provides seven days worth of its TV and radio listings in an XML format called TV-Anytime, an IETF approved standard. The listings update daily. Annoyingly, while the BBC has a general-interest news story about the contest, it fails to include links to any details. Nevertheless, the BBC is clearly head and shoulders above other media organizations in providing such excellent access to content and in encouraging people to play with it. The recently launched Backstage site is the central repository for these content-remixing efforts, and is already full of great ideas submitted by hackers worldwide.BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4707187.stm Backstage: http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/ Although he got into reviewing movies by chance, simply handed the task by his Chicago Sun-Times editor almost 40 years ago, Roger Ebert has climbed surely to the top of his profession. Widely known for his popular newspaper, then TV, then online reviews, Ebert combines thorough knowledge of the movies with entertaining commentary. You may not always agree with his conclusions, but you always know why he likes or doesn't like a movie - he coined the aphorism that a movie is not about what it is about, it is about how it is about it. And for movie makers, an Ebert thumb way up is about as good as it gets. Chicago recently celebrated Roger Ebert Day, where he was honored with a big sidewalk medallion, food, and drink. Amazingly, even after toiling at it for so long, Ebert's work just seems to get better and better; his latest reviews remain fresh and informative. Check out his analysis of "The Devil's Rejects" for an example. For a critic, it's the criticism that matters most, but in Ebert's case the critic and product have blended together agreeably and in some ways his personality is as important as his encyclopedic knowledge and critical ability. http://www.suntimes.com/special_sections/rogertribute/index.html Roe v. Wade and the question of abortion may soon come to dominate the American political landscape as the US Senate prepares for hearings on Supreme Court nominee John Roberts. To prepare for hours of fun and vitriol on Internet forums everywhere, let us direct you to two reports: "An Overview of Abortion in the United States" at the Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI); and "Abortion Surveillance - United States" from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Both offer fairly comprehensive statistics on abortion, and both report that there has been a significant decline in the number of abortions. Although the CDC's data set ends in 2001, the AGI report is up-to-date. No matter where you find yourself in the debate, be prepared for these numbers to be presented in any number of disturbing and distorting ways. AGI: http://www.agi-usa.org/presentations/ab_slides.html CDC: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss5309a1.htm Teaching a Spam Filter to Play Chess Laird Breyer shows how to make dbacl, a Bayesian spam filter, act like a chess computer. Breyer realized that what makes a Bayesian process useful for filtering spam, its ability to learn patterns with experience, could help it play chess. Armed with this knowledge, he decided to test his own home-built Bayesian spam filter, dbacl, without any special modifications to its code. It was a successful test - after parsing through the text of nearly 150,000 games, dbacl will give you a bit of a fight on the chess board. This is a brilliant example of creative thought and effective programming. Unlike chess supercomputers, dbacl doesn't think ahead. Rather, it selects moves on the basis of analyses of previous games. Also, unlike those hardware besters of grandmasters, dbacl is a program you can use at home, provided you've got a computer that runs Unix. Breyer's amazing and informative write-up is instructive even for those who aren't into programming.http://dbacl.sourceforge.net/spam_chess-1.html Pentagon Considers China the Next Threat According to the US Department of Defense (DoD), China is the next big threat to global peace and stability. Its latest Annual Report to Congress has drawn China's ire, not least because that country's government wants to be perceived not as a threat but as an economic power. The LA Times has an efficient condensation of the Pentagon's brief.DoD: http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Jul2005/d20050719china.pdf LA Times: http://tinyurl.com/dhyle iTunes Music Store Hits 500 Million Downloads, Reveals Sales Amy Greer of Lafayette, Ind. purchased the 500 millionth song sold by the iTunes Music Store, "Mississippi Girl" by Faith Hill. The lucky Greer won ten iPods, a certificate for 10,000 free song downloads, and four tickets and backstage passes to a Coldplay concert. Apple was giving away iPods to the buyer of every 100,000th song leading up to the magic half billion mark, and its Web site has a list of all the winners, the songs they chose, and the time of purchase. From the information, we can infer that Apple is selling roughly 1.5 million songs a day.http://www.apple.com/itunes/500million/ ONLINE CULTURE A Microsoft research project has hammered out what it calls the Laws of Identity. The project started with the assumption that "the Internet was built without a way to know who and what you are connecting to." Microsoft researcher Kim Cameron examined the limits and dangers involved in this kind of approach and after wide-ranging online discussions with computer-industry representatives came up with the laws. The laws highlight factors that cause digital identity systems to succeed or fail in various contexts. Of course, one of the major advantages of the Internet is that it obscures who and what you are connecting to, which allows people to transcend the boundaries of their identity. Cameron's research does not touch on that at all. Cameron uses Microsoft Passport's failure in the marketplace as an illustration. While you can quibble with some of his laws, the project report, at his blog, should frame discussion about the development of identity systems in cyberspace. MSDN has a video interview with Cameron.Cameron: http://www.identityblog.com/stories/2004/12/09/thelaws.html MSDN: http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=85004 ONLINE TRAVEL If, when you think of Romania, you picture gypsies and Dracula, you need this site. Like most countries, Romania is often thought of in stereotypes, but the small team of backpackers responsible for the Spirit of Romania has launched an elegant, unbiased hub for travelers to redress the balance. The quality of photography at the site is simply excellent, and the hidden gems revealed in the online Travel Logs should make any trip shine. Plan a ride on a narrow-gauge steam train through the Maramures mountains, discover the frescoes in the Orthodox monasteries of Bucovina, or just absorb the magical atmosphere at Sinca Veche's Temple of Fate. There's not a corny vampire gag in sight, just quality travel reports, useful tips for the entire country, and links to companies who can get you there. Be prepared to want to visit Romania within ten minutes of starting to browse here. Oh, and pack your camera - the site wants more stories.http://www.spirit.ro/ Larry Glasco wants a little help organizing his photo album. A history professor at the University of Pittsburgh, he's assembled a small portion of the Teenie Harris photo archive for your review. Harris snapped over 80,000 pictures during his career at the Pittsburgh Courier, one of the largest and most influential black newspapers in the country. He captured the daily life of the city's African-Americans from the Depression through the Civil Rights Movement. Four decades later, his work is still the world's largest collection of photos of any black community. While Harris's images are important slices of black history, they're poorly documented. Glasco displays over a thousand of them in the hope that you view and comment on them, help him recapture history. He's adding a hundred photos each month. Browse the galleries or page through each photo, scan the comments and add your own, and spread the word. Who were those people and why were they doing that? If you know, let Glasco know. http://www.cmoa.org/teenie/info.asp Ever thought about where you'd like to go? Not just "Well, I can afford a package deal to Mexico this year," - we mean the places you dreamed about as a child, the cities that entice you, and the landscapes that challenge your senses. Now is the time to start a list, and hopefully kick-start your travel. Set up your list at 43 Places, then click to see what explorers like yourself made of those places on their own visits. Alternately, you can share your own experiences of far-flung or local spots with others as you post your own recommendations and images. We dare you to resist the temptation to dust off your passport after browsing here. An easily drillable map, temptingly random links between destinations, honest comments, and even fictional locations make the journey around the site pleasurable. http://www.43places.com/ This family-friendly site just happens to be devoted to buttcracks. Well, friendly to some families.... We felt we owed it to you, dear readers, to take the plunge and go for an in-depth look. We began ass-backwards: at the End of the Oregon Trail. There's a moon rising under the sign, and a brief educational blurb about the importance of the trail to America's westward expansion. From there, the site meanders south and points east; always with an educational commentary, and always with a moon on the nearby horizon. You can also tour the site in text-only format, but where's the fun in that? http://buttsacrossamerica.com/homepage.html ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Arthur de Pins, a French illustrator and animator, shares his portfolio with us in his online collection of colorful and sensual still and moving images. The short introductory animation loop alone is worth the price of admission, but do some clicking to be treated to a virtual collage of beautiful pictures and video. The style probably won't appeal to everyone - his signature characters are nymphettes with large eyes and grandes derrieres - but anyone can see that his is a major talent; his characters almost seem to leap out of the monitor at us. The video clips are a little surreal but entertaining nonetheless - you don't need to be fluent in French to follow the adventures of Geraldine and her unusual metamorphosis or any of the other stories. Intrigued? There's plenty more to see, including portraits and wallpapers like you've never downloaded before. Enjoy.http://www.arthurdepins.com/ Jake Shimabukuro: The Hendrix of the Ukelele You will not believe what Jake Shimabukuro can do with a ukulele. No, it has nothing to do with "Moons over America". The video at CollegeHumor of his performance of "While My Ukulele Gently Weeps" will make you involuntarily hit the bookmark button - it made us search out his own official Web site. Oddly, one of George Harrison's favorite instruments was reputed to be the ukulele. Go visit the young virtuoso's Web site. You are so going to want this music.CollegeHumor: http://www.collegehumor.com/?movie_id=159572 Shimabukuro: http://www.jakeshimabukuro.com/ Interactive Frank Lloyd Wright Chicago, a city as proud of its architecture as it is of its pizza, is extra proud of Frank Lloyd Wright, who worked out of the Windy City. About a century later, Wright homes are still treated with the respect accorded holy shrines in other parts of the world, and the recent loss of one to a bulldozer in Chicago was met with a communal gasp. To see just how alive Wright's legacy is, visit the Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust's Architect Studio 3D site and try out its online Wright design studio. Originally designed to educate and entertain the students in the trust's Youth Architecture Workshop, this Shockwave-based site is a great place to try your hand at designing homes a la Wright. The numerous variables available rule out a quick stop, so prepare for hours of experimentation with styles as you design for different clients. The only thing missing is some kind of fast-Forward button so you can see whether your architectural creations will be less or more difficult to maintain than some of Wright's more adventurous attempts.http://www.architectstudio3d.org/AS3d/home.html Art in Cities is dedicated to urban art in its myriad manifestations: graffiti; posters; stickers; etc. The underlying, unifying idea is that individual artists use the physical structure of a given city as their personal canvas. Art in Cities categorizes its exhibitions by geographic location. Click on a region in the awfully crowded map, click on a city in the subsequent menu, and see what's shaking at street level. Visitors are encouraged to comment and contribute visuals of their own devising. The perpetrators of Art in Cities claim they want to promote international discussion and that "all gathered information is going to be used for an extended research, which will lead to a publication." Wanna help them with their book? http://www.artincities.com/ BOOKS & E-ZINES
The Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form Triple-w dot Oh-E-DILF dot comDefines English words with a psalm. The project's ambitious, Which makes it delicious To join in the growing phenom. http://www.oedilf.com/ Fifty Ways to Leave Your Writer's Block Sometimes, the words just won't make it to the screen. That old and common ailment is known as writer's block - or, in tech support, as PEBKAC (peb-cack), which stands for "problem exists between keyboard and computer". How to break word jams is an age-old problem. Every writer eventually suffers from it - yes, yes, even we of the NSD - and every writer has a favorite solution for breaking out of its constraints. Alas, sometimes one's own solutions fail. That's an excellent time to turn to SF writer Jerry Oltion's list of 50 ways to break the block. Many will be familiar, but some are eye-openers. A lone author can use many solutions, while others require teams and even networks. Our reviewer found the "rewrite a story or article a day" useful in working on other projects. Printing out and rereading Oltion's list regularly (not one of the 50 solutions) has also proved useful. Problems recognized are problems that can be solved. By the way, Oltion's last idea really is awful.http://sfwa.org/writing/strategies.html Visual design moves so quickly, it's hard to keep up with the different looks and feels that are in today and out tomorrow. That goes multiply so for animation and illustration, where every new practitioner hypothetically brings a new angle. To keep abreast of the leading edge in visual artistry, visit Drawn, a blog that highlights mostly lesser-known talent. You'll be amazed at how much content Drawn presents every day, until you learn that eight collaborators split the duty among themselves. The blog's focus is ostensibly "illustration, art, cartooning and drawing" in all media, from online to good ol' bristol board. http://www.drawn.ca/ A Quest for Mundane Science Fiction Connecting the words "mundane" and "science fiction" seems oxymoronic or, at least, a poor marketing strategy. Nonetheless, with a little work at the Mundane SF site, you'll find out that it defines "mundane" as "of the world" or "down to Earth", and the folks who frequent the place desire the juxtaposition. They seek science fiction that doesn't embrace interstellar travel ("unlikely"), intelligent life elsewhere in the universe ("no evidence whatsoever"), or communication with alien races ("vexed by time lags and unimaginable differences"). Instead, they yearn for stories like "1984", or "Neuromancer", or "Bladerunner". Having chosen to shut out all fantasy, Mundane SF members write and read fiction grounded in the infinite scientific possibilities of life on Earth - however, beyond the "manifesto" and a couple of papers on topics like "Would Marx Have Been Mundane?", there's not much to find here. The forum has only one post and the Guestbook only ten entries. You'll find a lot more action at the Mundane SF blog, including book reviews and further explanation of what it is to be truly mundane.Mundane SF: http://www.mundanesf.com/ Mundane SF weblog: http://mundane-sf.blogspot.com/ The Best Ray Guns in Science Fiction A sine qua non of any self-respecting science-fiction flick is a death ray. Darren Zenko (whose name, we enviously note, sounds like it was lifted from a B-grade film) of Edmonton's Vue Weekly has listed for us 11 of the greatest ray weapons of cinematic and television history. While some don't deal death, like the ray that reveals the Well of Souls in "Raiders of the Lost Ark", and others, like Godzilla's breath, aren't strictly speaking rays, we feel Zenko the Magnificent has put together a pretty good collection. Surprisingly, Cyclops's destructo-vision in "X-Men" and the heat rays in "Mars Attacks" didn't make the cut, but we'll stop spoiling it for you.http://www.vueweekly.com/articles/default.aspx?i=2064 SURFING SCIENCE Sounds of the Sumatra Earthquake Scientists at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory have released a sound recording of the Dec. 26 earthquake off the coast of Sumatra, which spawned the deadly tsunamis. Underwater microphones at Diego Garcia, more than 1,700 miles from the epicenter, captured the sounds. The recording sheds light on how the quake developed, in this case in two phases, as the responsible fault unzipped in a south to north direction. The observatory's Web site offers an MP3 file of the rumbling, ethereal noise. Incidentally, the microphones at Diego Garcia, a major US naval base, are there primarily to listen for the sound of nuclear explosions.http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/news/2005/07_20_05.htm Polio seems infinitely distant today. Our kids are not one but two generations removed from widespread epidemics and the development of the Salk and Sabin vaccines. The Smithsonian National Museum of American History has put together a retrospective on the disease. The first-hand accounts are particularly touching, especially those from parents unable to visit their sick children and vice versa. With all the controversy over stem-cell research today, it's interesting to note that the Nobel Prize went not to the inventors of the vaccines, but to three scientists who used "human embryonic skin and muscle tissue, grown in a nutrient mix with antibiotics" to grow the poliomyelitis virii in culture - work that set the stage for the invention of a vaccine. The section on worldwide eradication is particularly engaging; the logistics needed for global immunization are astounding. The exhibit leaves its viewers with hope that other epidemic viruses can be conquered or at least lessened to the degree that polio has been today. http://americanhistory.si.edu/polio/ Optical Illusions and Visual Phenomena Michael Bach teaches electrophysiology at the University of Freiburg Medical School. During the last eight years, he's collected 55 amazing optical illusions to illustrate his lectures, and he shares them with us on his Optical Illusions and Visual Phenomena site. Each illusion demonstrates a feature, or flaw, of human vision. He starts with time-motion examples and carefully explains how each one fools us with several different levels of technical detail from "oooh" to "post-doctoral research". Some of the effects are still unexplained, and he asks that you e-mail him if you have any, er, insight to share. Our favorite illusion is the mind-blowing demonstration of how your eyes adapt to afterimages. The colored dots never leave your screen, but now you see them, now you don't. Just try to ignore the floating eyeballs that follow your cursor around the page.Optical Illusions and Visual Phenomena: http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/ Mind-blowing: http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/col_rapidAfterimage/index.html The Minnesota Zoo uncages this Flash application to show you the complex breeding decisions zoos face in today's environment. It starts off like any animal documentary, complete with British narrator. Morgan Freeman and "March of the Penguins" notwithstanding, nature-documentary narrators have to be British, of course, because otherwise it simply wouldn't be believable - they clearly know more about animals than anyone else. In the Zoo Matchmaker game, you breed tigers, and you must choose either to maximize disease resistance or to maintain genetic diversity. It's a PG game - the tigers go off into the bushes to mate. It's incredibly simplistic, though. For one, an assumption is made that no matter which pairing you select, the tigers will obediently go and rustle the bushes. That doesn't happen in the real world, which is why introductions are so carefully monitored. http://www.minnesotazoo.org/education/games/matchmaker/index.html Say "raptor" to anybody under the age of 20 and they probably conjure a mental image of a dromaeosaur, those small carnivorous dinosaurs with a scythe-like claw on each foot. The zoologically trained, however, know that "raptor" really means a member of the hunting birds - hawks, eagles, falcons, etc. The Raptor Resource Project puts you right in the middle of the raptor scene in what appears to be the US's east coast with a boatload of live cameras and a nest of other resources as well. If you find a banded bird, you can look it up at this site. Want to encourage birds to live by you? The site links to instructions for building nest boxes. Offering links to ornithological research centers, among many other places, this is something that bird-lovers will want to bookmark for future reference. http://www.raptorresource.org/ |
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