24/10/2006 @ 23:01 GMT
jimray : If you don't buy this newspaper, we'll shoot your democracy - Slate has a well thought tretise on decrying recent newsroom cutbacks. I'm still not a fan of cutting newsroom staffs, if only out of self-interest, but this is definitely good food for thought.
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24/10/2006 @ 23:01 GMT
jimray : Midterm Madness - Interesting WashPost interactive that lets YOU pick the WINNERS in the upcoming elections. How many folks are really gonna pick 468 seats, though?
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24/10/2006 @ 23:00 GMT
jkottke : First draft of Rafe's Law: "An Internet service cannot be considered truly successful until it has attracted spammers."
veen : rc3.org: Rafe's Law - "An Internet service cannot be considered truly successful until it has attracted spammers."
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24/10/2006 @ 22:00 GMT
jkottke : The Moleskine City Notebooks, the cool make-your-own travel books, are being released in the US on Nov 1 and moleskinerie has information on where to find them - The Moleskine City Notebooks, the cool make-your-own travel books, are being released in the US on Nov 1 and moleskinerie has information on where to find them.
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24/10/2006 @ 21:01 GMT
jimray : YouTube's War on Propriety - Thoughtful look at the inconsistency of GooTube's "flagged as inappropriate" model and the inherent weakness of community moderation
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24/10/2006 @ 21:01 GMT
jimray : MSNBC.com doing well, apparently - One minor quibble - we're the news website of all of NBC, not just the cable channel, and we do our own schtick as well.
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24/10/2006 @ 21:01 GMT
deusx : Technorati Weblog: Blog Claiming with OpenId - "Well, we've added another way for authors to claim their blogs using OpenID."
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24/10/2006 @ 21:01 GMT
deusx : VerseLogic - Wordpress OpenID Plugin - "The wpopenid plugin lets visitors to a Wordpress blog quickly register, login, and leave comments using their OpenID Identity."
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24/10/2006 @ 21:00 GMT
deusx : WP-Microsummary: Microsummaries plugin for WordPress - "The purpose of this plugin is to return the latest blog post title as plain text, to be used as a microsummary for Firefox 2.0 "
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24/10/2006 @ 21:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : The Google Myth goes “pop” - The Google Myth goes “pop”: "The Google Myth is simple: to produce good businesses, hire the best engineers and leave them alone except for occasional priority setting."
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24/10/2006 @ 20:01 GMT
Andy Baio : Sony shuts down Lik-Sang - the most popular distributor of grey market and import gaming wares
deusx : Important Notice: Lik-Sang.com Out of Business due to Multiple Sony Lawsuits - This makes me sad: "Lik-Sang.com, the popular gaming retailer from Hong Kong, has today announced that it is forced to close down due to multiple legal actions brought against it by Sony"
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24/10/2006 @ 20:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : The Non-Annoying Terminal Mini How-To & Fun with shopt - The Non-Annoying Terminal Mini How-To & Fun with shopt: a bunch of useful little bash tricks
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24/10/2006 @ 20:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Animated Knots by Grog - Animated Knots by Grog: "Animated Knot-Tying for Boating, Climbing, Fishing, Scouting, Search and Rescue, and Arborists"
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24/10/2006 @ 20:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Comprehensive Flight Training Manual and Knowledge Handbook for Gliders - Comprehensive Flight Training Manual and Knowledge Handbook for Gliders: "These books were written specifically for the student pursuing a Private Pilot Certificate with a Glider rating, although they are also a useful aide for preparing for a Commer
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24/10/2006 @ 20:00 GMT
jkottke : Time's White House photographers have a daily photoblog - Time's White House photographers have a daily photoblog. A good look at the stuff that doesn't make it into the newspapers or magazines. (thx, pablo)
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24/10/2006 @ 20:00 GMT
jkottke : outside.in is a hyperlocal blog/newspaper/information aggregator that Steven Johnson is heading up - outside.in is a hyperlocal blog/newspaper/information aggregator that Steven Johnson is heading up. Here's his announcement post on his blog. "Type in a zip code or address, and you'll instantly see the conversations that the natives are having about thei
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24/10/2006 @ 19:05 GMT
Cameron Moll : The inspiring work of Anthony Hurd - The inspiring work of Anthony Hurd lacks no color, creativity, or ingenuity. Love it. Prints also available.
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24/10/2006 @ 19:03 GMT
Cameron Moll : Lucha del Gato - Lucha del Gato. No further explanation required.
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24/10/2006 @ 19:01 GMT
deusx : Richard Dawkins: Why There Almost Certainly Is No God - Yahoo! News - "We cannot, of course, disprove God, just as we can't disprove Thor, fairies, leprechauns and the Flying Spaghetti Monster. But, like those other fantasies that we can't disprove, we can say that God is very very improbable."
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24/10/2006 @ 19:00 GMT
jkottke : Kodak has a pretty good corporate weblog called A Thousand Words where employees share their photos and discuss photography - Kodak has a pretty good corporate weblog called A Thousand Words where employees share their photos and discuss photography.
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24/10/2006 @ 19:00 GMT
jkottke : Artist Liz Cohen fixes up old cars and then photographs herself with them as a bikini model - Artist Liz Cohen fixes up old cars and then photographs herself with them as a bikini model. Here's a recent article on Cohen's work in the Phoenix New Times and an older article from Wired. (via art fag city) [via]
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24/10/2006 @ 18:03 GMT
jcgregorio : Debian -- python-httplib2 - w00t!
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24/10/2006 @ 18:03 GMT
Linkorama : Five years at McGee’s - This space is a place where I try to get my own thinking straight and a way to immerse myself better in the ongoing conversation of others trying to get their thinking straight. Some of them think in like-minded ways, others in very different ways, and al
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24/10/2006 @ 18:03 GMT
Linkorama : WorldChanging Book - Comes out on November 1st, I'm picking up a copy
jkottke : Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century is out today - Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century is out today. "[The book] is a groundbreaking compendium of the most innovative solutions, ideas and inventions emerging today for building a sustainable, livable, prosperous future." The authors came up
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24/10/2006 @ 18:02 GMT
Linkorama : Edgeio gets $5 million - Now the question becomes whether Edgeio has folded its end-run strategy too early — agreeing to play with the big boys, and thereby allowing them to co-opt Edgeio by keeping their users to themselves. But Edgeio is betting that becoming a “me
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24/10/2006 @ 18:02 GMT
jimray : Build your own search engine with The Google
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24/10/2006 @ 17:01 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Do babies dream of being database engineers? - Do babies dream of being database engineers?: hahahaha. funny video.
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24/10/2006 @ 17:00 GMT
plasticbag : The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science - I will contributing money to this and I recommend any and all of you to do the same. Richard Dawkins has a style that not everyone gets along with, but that doesn't stop him being clearly and self-evidently right.
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24/10/2006 @ 17:00 GMT
wearehugh : IEBlog : Must Have Add-Ons for IE7 - insert obvious jokes here
jimray : IEBlog : Must Have Add-Ons for IE7 - Forgot the link to Firefox...
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24/10/2006 @ 17:00 GMT
jkottke : Richard Dawkins: Why there almost certainly is no God - Richard Dawkins: Why there almost certainly is no God. "We cannot, of course, disprove God, just as we can't disprove Thor, fairies, leprechauns and the Flying Spaghetti Monster. But, like those other fantasies that we can't disprove, we can say that God
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24/10/2006 @ 17:00 GMT
jkottke : Portfolio site of graphic designer Si Scott - Portfolio site of graphic designer Si Scott. The navigation is ridiculous and inscrutable, but the work within is worth seeing.
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24/10/2006 @ 16:02 GMT
43folders : MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo Is Here - Gizmodo - "Just like that, and without fanfare, Apple dropped its MacBook Pro with Core 2 Duo processors today."
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24/10/2006 @ 16:02 GMT
43folders : Word Spy - TiNo - "To not watch a TV show saved on a TiVo or other personal video recorder."
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24/10/2006 @ 16:02 GMT
43folders : Presentation Zen: Bill Clinton and the art of speaking in a "human voice" - "Whether it is a speech or an interview, he comes across as articulate and extremely intelligent but without being aloof or pedantic."
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24/10/2006 @ 16:01 GMT
jimray : Go on an eight-week carbon diet - Slate magazine and treehugger.com have come up with a way to assess your current carbon output and suggest ways to reduce your emissions. Awesome!
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24/10/2006 @ 16:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Edgeio gets $5 million to expand Web 2.0 classifieds site - Edgeio gets $5 million to expand Web 2.0 classifieds site: "The idea behind Edgeio is audacious because it seeks to do an end-run around the incumbents like Craigslist and others, by letting people bypass them entirely."
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24/10/2006 @ 16:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : The Fat Calico blog - The Fat Calico blog: "Well, Fat Calico is a platform for facilitating the rapid propagation of short form audio to mobile devices."
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24/10/2006 @ 16:00 GMT
plasticbag : The Guardian reports on Tioti - Bit of a specious article. Tioti's quite interesting though.
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24/10/2006 @ 15:03 GMT
Cameron Moll : Paid Content's new design, EE powered - Paid Content and its network of sites soft launches a new design, powered by Expression Engine. Congrats Airbag and crew!
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24/10/2006 @ 15:03 GMT
Cameron Moll : iStock: Concentric Circles - iStock: Concentric Circles (vector).
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24/10/2006 @ 15:03 GMT
Cameron Moll : iStock: search?text=grunge - iStock: search.php?text=grunge (vector and raster).
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24/10/2006 @ 15:00 GMT
jkottke : Interesting discussion on the "future of serious, high brow general interest magazines" - Interesting discussion on the "future of serious, high brow general interest magazines".
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24/10/2006 @ 13:00 GMT
plasticbag : Jon Ronson goes behind the scenes of the UK's Deal Or No Deal - Now that's one hell of an article, revealing some of the sad desperate lunacy of both Noel Edmonds and the people who hope and pray that they'll be able to appear on the show, only for their dreams of riches to be completely dashed...
Rod Begbie : Guardian Unlimited | Weekend | Jon Ronson goes behind the scenes of Deal Or No Deal - For all the US version of DoND is bright, brash and loud, the UK version is subdued, complex and, from the sounds of this report, completely fucking barking insane. [via] #
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24/10/2006 @ 10:01 GMT
Nelson Minar : iPod analysis - Insightful retrospective on iPod success
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24/10/2006 @ 08:02 GMT
Linkorama : The browser is the new OS - These pocket-size monsters with keyboards, luscious displays, and brisk 3G connections will soon replace laptops. All they need are browsers that can access Web-based software as easily as your desktop can.
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24/10/2006 @ 08:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : AOL to offer Web API for its IM - AOL to offer Web API for its IM: Those Yahoos better get cracking, huh?
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24/10/2006 @ 08:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Why Everyone Loves Google - Why Everyone Loves Google: "Quite simply - everyone is paid to love Google."
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24/10/2006 @ 08:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Rails Framework Documentation - Rails Framework Documentation: they documented the sht out of rails!
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24/10/2006 @ 07:01 GMT
Rod Begbie : Doonesbury's War - washingtonpost.com - Excellent profile of Garry Trudeau. [via] #
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24/10/2006 @ 07:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Bush uses "The Google" - not the most tech-savvy guy, it seems [via]
Nelson Minar : Bush and "the Google" - He likes to look at his ranch
jimray : Bush says he uses "the Google" - The Google is the next The Internets. "And sometimes, I use The Google to look up things I don't know much about. Like... The Constitution."
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24/10/2006 @ 06:01 GMT
joshua : metroactive on the geowanking mailing list - oh, now i'm an "überdork"
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24/10/2006 @ 06:01 GMT
joshua : Clorox Project - shared memory for AJAX applications.
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24/10/2006 @ 06:01 GMT
Linkorama : I blame GOOGLE!!! - I have been driven to blog, I see now it is the only way to invoke change. So as soul driven to change as much of the world as I can. I have done it - I’ve started my blog.
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24/10/2006 @ 06:01 GMT
Linkorama : Thanks be to Flash - Flash showed that if you make it easy enough the users will follow. So, while there are many reasons to explain the success of Youtube, and I do I admire those guys, in the midst of all of this deal frenzy, I hope someone pauses to write a little thank yo
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24/10/2006 @ 06:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Debian/Ruby Extras - Position on RubyGems - Debian/Ruby Extras - Position on RubyGems: fuck. I need an extra package on debian just to get gem to I can install rails. grrr.
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24/10/2006 @ 05:02 GMT
Linkorama : Google unveils ‘custom’ searches - Google will on Tuesday launch a customisable search engine that users can carry on their own blogs and other websites, a move that potentially opens up a big new market for its search listings and related advertising.
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24/10/2006 @ 05:01 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : The Problem of Email - The Problem of Email: "I have over 20,000 messages spread out over 5+ inboxes. This is after I declared defeat 5 months ago, dumped everything into an archive, and started fresh."
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24/10/2006 @ 05:01 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : 2007 Region 9 Soaring Contest - 2007 Region 9 Soaring Contest: July 1-7, 2007 in Parowan, UT
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24/10/2006 @ 04:01 GMT
43folders : Badass on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - Heh. "Dock Scrabble."
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24/10/2006 @ 03:01 GMT
jcgregorio : httplib2 in Gentoo Linux - That's so cool.
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24/10/2006 @ 03:00 GMT
veen : Chris Anderson Strikes Again: The Economy of Abundance - "[W]hen the elements that make up a business are sufficiently abundant as to approach free, companies appropriately should view their businesses differently than when resources were scarce."
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24/10/2006 @ 03:00 GMT
wearehugh : nicolas rougier | Artwork / Gnu browse - cute little propaganda penguins!
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24/10/2006 @ 02:01 GMT
veen : Lawrence Lessig: The Ethics of Web 2.0 - "So there’s an important distinction developing among “user generated content†sites — the distinction between sites that permit 'true sharing' and those that permit only what I’ll call 'fake sharing.'"
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24/10/2006 @ 02:01 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : What have all the rich Apple and Pixar folks done with their money? - What have all the rich Apple and Pixar folks done with their money?: that's a good question
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24/10/2006 @ 02:00 GMT
plasticbag : David Cameron's approval ratings are apparently starting to falter - Specifically as a result of some of the apparently policy-lite soft-left stuff that he's been pumping around recently. I can't see my traditionally right-wing family taking to him particularly. They're definitely hoping there's some steel under all the to
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24/10/2006 @ 01:02 GMT
Simon Willison : Poking new holes with Flash Crossdomain Policy files - Very scary attack: if you can upload a file to a server, you can probably open it up to XSRF.
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24/10/2006 @ 01:01 GMT
Simon Willison : Dojo 0.4 release notes - GFX (a 2D drawing API) is awesome; dojo.html.metrics looks extremely useful, and onDomLoad is always nice. [via]
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24/10/2006 @ 01:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : menuism - menuism: user editable restaurants, menus, reviews. They use Yahoo! BBAuth too!
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24/10/2006 @ 01:00 GMT
plasticbag : IDEA 2006 - Peter Merholz is involved in organising this fascinating looking conference happening right now in Seattle. This is one that I really wish I'd been able to go to.
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24/10/2006 @ 01:00 GMT
jkottke : Jimmy Wales: what if you had $100 million...what copyrighted works would you buy and then release under an open license? - Jimmy Wales: what if you had $100 million...what copyrighted works would you buy and then release under an open license? (via bb) [via]
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24/10/2006 @ 00:04 GMT
deusx : Jame's Alliance leveling Guide - Chapter I (30-41) | World of Warcraft Pro - "With this guide, questing will be very efficient and much better than pure grinding."
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24/10/2006 @ 00:03 GMT
deusx : Metroblogging San Francisco: Trivia Nights at SF bars - "There are bars all over the city which participate in the nationally-run Brainstormer Pub Quiz trivia nights and there are also bars which forego national affiliation for creating their own quiz nights."
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24/10/2006 @ 00:03 GMT
deusx : AlterNet: War on Iraq: How to Make Hundreds of Thousands of Dead Iraqis Disappear - "The Lancet study that estimated 655,000 Iraqis killed since the US invasion of 2003 was based on some of the most solid research methods possible, but that didn't stop the American press from trying to say it wasn't so."
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24/10/2006 @ 00:02 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Alabama candidate campaigns on cleavage - Alabama candidate campaigns on cleavage: Her campaign is offering T-shirts and marijuana stash boxes adorned with a photo of her with a plunging neckline and the words: "More of these boobs."
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24/10/2006 @ 00:02 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Real Sharing vs. Fake Sharing - Real Sharing vs. Fake Sharing: in case you're not sick of sharing
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24/10/2006 @ 00:02 GMT
plasticbag : Rufus Cubed Productions - This is the professional Machinima outfit responsible for many short films as well as much of the WOW-work in the recent South Park episode we all loved so much...
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24/10/2006 @ 00:00 GMT
jkottke : A collection of excuses for not blogging more - A collection of excuses for not blogging more. "I haven't had the internet and I have been drunk or busy alot."
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