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To "refudiate" or not to "refudiate." Merriam-Webster has declared Sarah Palin's made-up verb its 2010 "Word of Summer." The respected publisher says the pseudo word is the one most-often searched by users of its online dictionary. Palin, the 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate and former governor of Alaska, used it twice in July, once on a news show and later in a Twitter posting where she called on peaceful Muslims to "refudiate" the plan to build a mosque near ground zero in Lower Manhattan. Palin deleted the non-word, replacing it with another tweet, saying "peaceful New Yorkers" should "refute the...

Note: Photos included. SNIPPET: "Boys as young as five can barely hold up the machine guns and pistols in their hands as they take aim at imaginary targets in the Pakistan desert. But this is no sick game, it is their first step along the way to becoming al-Qaeda terrorists as they are taught about military combat and how to launch suicide missions. At hidden camps terrorist chiefs also use toys to teach the boys how they can blow up buildings and mount roadside bomb attacks. One chilling image from a video filmed inside one camp shows children, barely old...

SNIPPET: "Framegrab Framegrab from an online video that was circulated in on online Muslim forum by Ottawa terror suspect Misbahuddin Ahmed. The video lashes out at the US-led invasion of Iraq, and is titled "Operation Iraqi Freedom: Where Are The Muslim Soldiers?" and supposedly made by Jihad Unspun" SNIPPET: "The video was circulated by a man who used the online handle “Qutz,” but his email address indicates he is Misbahuddin Ahmed, 26, one of the Ottawa terror suspects arrested last week." SNIPPET: "Mr. Ahmed was allegedly chosen by his alleged co-conspirators, Hiva Mohammad Alizadeh and Khurram Syed Sher, to lead...

04 September 2010 "TOP TEN JIHADI FORUMS, 04 SEPTEMBER 2010"

I can barely get here, can't do search or pings, etc for at least the last day or so. Is it just my terrible ISP or are we under attack or something?

DBKP has released its (mostly) monthly ratings of the Most Popular 100 Conservative sites on the web, the Conservative 100. The ratings are based on Alexa traffic rankings 3-month worldwide average.

Although Sarah Palin is successfully building a network of supporters, she has also aliened some Republicans whose help she will need if she runs in 2012. Sarah Palin would do well to remember the year 1870. That was the year the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution was adopted. Significantly, it states that the right to vote “shall not be denied or abridged…on the account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” It did not include the word “gender.” Women would have to wait until the Nineteenth Amendment, adopted in 1920. The 1870 Fifteenth Amendment demoralized the American women’s movement...

...[I]mmediately, the far left was up in arms. Gigi Sohn of Public Knowledge said the questions “were extensively explored in not one, but two proceedings.” Media Access Project’s Matt Wood remarked, “The commission asks the same questions time and time again… instead of providing basic answers.” Free Press’s S. Derek Turner declared, “We don’t need more questions from the FCC, we need more answers.” Is this an admission that they didn’t supply correct answers during prior proceedings? Or are they just concerned that the Commission may deviate from an authoritarian approach that regulates the Internet from the top down under...

01 September 2010 "MOM, I'M IN JAIL." SNIPPET: "The administrator of the Ansar al-Mujahideen forum (Arabic), Faical Errai, has been arrested in Spain."

If you have any interest in starting a social network of your own, or pretty much any online venture, you better think twice before you try to use the words “Face” or “Book” in your name unless you want Mark Zuckerberg’s lawyers to come calling. News has been spreading around the Web that Facebook’s lawyers have taken up a lawsuit against a yet-to-launch social network for professional teachers called Teachbook.com. The reasoning behind this is explained in the suit: "If others could freely use ‘generic plus BOOK’ marks for online networking services targeted to that particular generic category of individuals,...

Music and technology have long been willing bedmates. Now the band Arcade Fire has jumped in with search giant Google to create an interactive video for the song We Used To Wait aimed at answering the question "What would a music experience designed specifically for the modern web look like?" Aaron Koblin said that Google Creative Lab's answer was to devise a "project built with the latest web technologies [which] includes HTML5, Google Maps, an integrated drawing tool, as well as multiple browser windows that move around the screen". Billed as the Wilderness Downtown, you are asked to insert your...

A curious thing has been happening on Google Maps -- the Lincoln Memorial is being misplaced in favor of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial, which is a good half a mile south of the more famous memorial. According to the Geographic Travels blog, this "misplacement" has been happening for about two days now. Typing "Lincoln Memorial" into the regular Google search bar brings up a number of listings related to the Lincoln Memorial, yet shows a map of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial. (Click on the image to see the map that's being served up.) Is this a Google Maps...

Google on Thursday further embraced the world of tweets, status updates, and on-the-fly posts with a website devoted to finding "real-time" content as it hits the Internet. A search engine being rolled out in 40 countries at google.com/realtime builds on features that the Internet powerhouse has been adding incrementally to its online query service.

Note: I modified the email address on this post. # NOTE The following text is a quote: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25, 2010 A reluctant farewell Salaamu alaykum wa rahmatulluhi wa barakaatuh brothers and sisters, Bismallah ar Rahman ar Raheem It is with great sadness that I must end my time at RevolutionMuslim. Due to time constraints I find I am unable to keep up with my commitments here. Between my own organization and responsibilities to my family - I am completely over-extended. Insha'allah someone will be along to take my place as the admin for prisoner affairs. Please feel free to...

Jane Jamison, who operates the Conservative Website "Uncoverage.net" has a thriving web presence which offers a "right-wing" perspective of ongoing news items as well as media events. Facebook is one of the social networking tools which Jane has utilized in order to initiate new contacts as well as to stay in touch with existing friends. On August the 22nd Jane's Facebook profile, complete with as many as 5,000 friends and contacts, was wiped off of the face (book) of the earth.