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Tom Drapeau is the Director of Propeller social news. He enjoys all manner of geekery and internet foolishness. He has seen every episode of Battlestar Galactica and the West Wing.
Tom's Email: tom at propeller dot com
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Headline Links - Propeller Blog »
Posted by: tdrapeau 4 days, 22 hours ago in Science & Technology
As we continue to explore ways to improve the Propeller experience, we sometimes come across decisions that benefit one group of members yet hinder the ...
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BREAKING: Gorilla Wins Halloween Avatar Contest »
Posted by: tdrapeau 1 week, 1 day ago in Family
Congratulations opiczka2 on winning the 2009 Propeller Halloween Avatar Contest! The field was particularly strong this year, and our celebrity panel of Netscape and Propeller ...
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Launch of the Ares I-X - The Big Picture - Boston.com »
Posted by: tdrapeau 1 week, 1 day ago in Science & Technology
On Wednesday, October 28th, NASA launched its Ares I-X prototype vehicle, the first launch from Kennedy's pads of a vehicle other than the space ...
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Meet the Contestants of Propeller's Halloween Avatar Contest - Propeller Blog »
Posted by: tdrapeau 1 week, 2 days ago in Family
As the deadline for submissions approaches (5pm EST today), we thought it would be fun to take a look at all of the submissions thus ...
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Latest News From Our Friends - Propeller Blog »
Posted by: tdrapeau 1 week, 3 days ago in Science & Technology
As you may have already noticed, over the past few days we have been testing a new module on Propeller's home and category pages ...
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Propeller Halloween Avatar Contest »
Posted by: tdrapeau 2 weeks, 2 days ago in Family
The Propeller team invites all Propeller members to submit their entry for the 2009 Propeller Halloween Avatar Contest! Entries are being accepted right now, and ...
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Op-Ed- Safety Nets for the Rich - Bob Herbert - NYT »
Posted by: deathray 2 weeks, 4 days ago in Political Opinion
The headlines that ran side by side on the front page of Saturday’ s New York Times summed up, inadvertently, the terrible fix that we ...
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In Praise Of Slow Sex: Carl Honore - Huffington Post »
Posted by: gamahuche 2 weeks, 6 days ago in Arts & Entertainment
Slowing down between the sheets can deepen the emotional, psychological, even spiritual power of sex. It also gives the body -- especially the female body -- the ...
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Aldo Buzzi, Writer and Filmmaker, Dies at 99 »
Posted by: JamesMarcus 2 weeks, 6 days ago in News
Aldo Buzzi, 99, an Italian intellectual who began his career as an architect, then turned to filmmaking alongside directors including Federico Fellini, and in his ...
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Preaching the Gospel Would be Against the Law! (And Other Hate Crimes Myths) -- Politics Daily »
Posted by: epiphannyy 3 weeks ago in News
With a Senate vote expected soon to expand federal hate crimes laws to include sexual orientation, religious conservatives are ramping up the rhetoric against the ...
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The Trafigura fiasco tears up the textbook »
Posted by: berkeley 3 weeks, 3 days ago in Political Opinion
One day – if it's not happening already – they will teach Trafigura in business schools. This will be the scenario for aspiring MBAs. You are ...
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YouTube - Heat Fozzy »
Posted by: deathray 1 month ago in Humor
Official trailer for the greatest Muppet action movie EVER! I love Galacticast...
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Wash. Times continues to smear Jennings with false claim that he failed to report "sexual abuse" of student »
Posted by: Progressive 1 month ago in Political News
In an October 4 editorial, The Washington Times advanced the discredited falsehood that Department of Education official Kevin Jennings "violated Massachusetts law" over 20 years ...
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Print-Era Shackles for a Twitter World? »
Posted by: berkeley 1 month ago in Science & Technology
A newspaper typically gets applause when it tightens its ethics policies. But there were some loud boos when The Post recently implemented newsroom guidelines governing ...
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The Mean Country »
Posted by: jovial 1 month ago in Political Opinion
Article: I read a book about a woman who was a holocaust survivor. She described how she would drag out the dead bodies from the ...
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