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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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Google App Engine Blog: App Engine SDK 1.2.5 released for Python and Java, now with XMPP support »
Posted by: tdrapeau 3 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & Technology
Today we are releasing version 1.2.5 of the App Engine SDK for both Python and Java, our first simultaneous release across both runtimes ...
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Winton train arrives in London - Channel 4 News »
Posted by: gamahuche 3 months, 2 weeks ago in News
A steam train recreating the journey of hundreds of child evacuees, rescued from the Nazi's by a man dubbed Britain's Oscar Schindler, arrives ...
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Men lose their minds speaking to pretty women »
Posted by: FunnyBoyz 3 months, 2 weeks ago in Style
Talking to an attractive woman really can make a man lose his mind, according to a new study.
(read more)Read (250) | Share | Discuss (8) | Read Full Story at telegraph.co.uk
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Carnival Cruise Lines lifts lifetime ban on family... »
Posted by: BronxBomber 3 months, 2 weeks ago in Family
Carnival Cruise Lines said it has lifted a lifetime ban it had imposed on a family because of scrapes on a dresser in their cabin.
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Fire Dept. Chief shot by a cop in court over tickets!!! »
Posted by: BronxBomber 3 months, 2 weeks ago in News
It was just too much, having to return to court twice on the same day to contest yet another traffic ticket, and Fire Chief Don ...
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Commentary: OPEN YOUR MINDS, AMERICA »
Posted by: TimALoftis 3 months, 2 weeks ago in Political Opinion
As people shout over each other and tune out diverging views in town hall meetings, the health care debate is proving to be symptomatic of ...
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Ze Frank Tries to Understand Health Care Reform »
Posted by: tdrapeau 3 months, 2 weeks ago in Arts & Entertainment
The current debate about healthcare reform... turns out it's complicated.
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Reporting and Moderating Content on Propeller »
Posted by: tdrapeau 3 months, 2 weeks ago in News
Active members on Propeller have seen the temperature rising in comment threads over the past few months. Hot button topics, such as health care reform ...
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15 of the Weirdest Magazines Still in Publication - Asylum.com »
Posted by: tdrapeau 3 months, 2 weeks ago in Arts & Entertainment
It's great to live in a country where there's a magazine for every possible interest and/or fetish. (Google "balloon fetish" sometime if ...
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Highly accurate breathalyzer test can detect lung cancer »
Posted by: IsraGeek 3 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & Technology
"Early detection of lung cancer dramatically increases the odds of survival. Currently, only 15 percent of cases are discovered before the disease has begun to ...
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HOWTO defeat the Klan with humor and bravery - Boing Boing »
Posted by: tdrapeau 3 months, 3 weeks ago in News
The repentant former KKK leader Johnny Lee Clary explains how Reverend Wade Watts, an NAACP leader, disarmed him by being cool, funny and brave, engaging ...
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Why corporate IT should unchain our office computers. - By Farhad Manjoo - Slate Magazine »
Posted by: tdrapeau 3 months, 3 weeks ago in News
During a town hall meeting for State Department workers last month, an employee named Jim Finkle asked Hillary Clinton a very important question: "Can you ...
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Before New York—National Geographic MagazineNational Geographic Magazine - NGM.com »
Posted by: tdrapeau 3 months, 3 weeks ago in News
Of all the visitors to New York City in recent years, one of the most surprising was a beaver named José. No one knows exactly ...
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I Was At the Birth... »
Posted by: jovial 3 months, 3 weeks ago in Political Opinion
I was there when it began, the ugliness, the ever-so thinly-veiled racism, the attacks on the press.
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It was August, 1992. The place, the Houston ...Read (621) | Share | Discuss (72) | Read Full Story at opednews.com
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Sen. Ted Kennedy Dies -- Politics Daily »
Posted by: epiphannyy 3 months, 3 weeks ago in News
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, longtime Democratic senator and the patriarch of the Kennedy political family, has died after a lengthy battle with brain canc
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