Superb high resolution wallpapers (up to 2560x1600)

An excellent source for free backgrounds, sorted by user rating. The images are available in all common resolutions, from 2560x1600 down to 1024x768, and are very diversely themed.

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Logo in progress

This a logo I'm designing for my client. I want to add more oomph to it. What do you think?

Tell Stephen Colbert to STOP THE FALSINESS!

MoveOn and Brave New Films are putting Stephen Colbert on notice. For almost a year, his ceaseless falsiness--disguised, shamelessly, as truthiness--has gone unchallenged. No longer. Sign the online petition and demand Stephen Colbert STOP THE FALSINESS!

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Photography eZines: Best of the Web

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By spock
Photography aficianado? Get lost in these
AK47 an online art photography magazine showcasing both fine arts and documentary photographers.
BLIR for emerging artists.
Blueeyes — an online documentary photography magazine devoted to publishing new long-term project work. It is a labor of love created by a dedicated group of people who believe in the power of still photography.
F-STOP a photography magazine.
mooncruise* featuring photography and music by international artists.
Revolver photojournalism, street & travel photography.
seesaw observation full and felt.

BP Pipeline Leak Closes Down Biggest U.S. Oilfield

In a move that cuts 8% of U.S. oil output and sent oil prices sharply higher on Aug. 8 BP has begun shutting down the biggest U.S .oilfield due to a pipeline leak. BP said late Aug. 6 it had begun shutting down the Prudhoe Bay oil field in Alaska after discovering severe corrosion on a pipeline and a small spill.

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Hillary Clinton Slams Rumsfeld, Questions His Judgment.

US Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) tore into Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld today as he testified before a Senate hearing. "Under your leadership there have been numerous errors in judgment that have led us to where we are in Iraq and Afghanistan. We have a full fledged insurgency and full blown sectarian conflict in Iraq," she said.

Rumsfelds first utterance after the tongue lashing: "Oh my"

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Arthur Lee, 61; Forceful Leader of Influential '60s Band Love

Arthur Lee, who forged a legacy as one of rock's great visionaries and forbidding eccentrics while reigning briefly with his band Love as princes of the mid-1960s Sunset Strip, died Thursday of leukemia in a Memphis, Tenn., hospital. He was 61.

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The Sound of One Domino Falling

"It's been obvious for years that Donald Rumsfeld is in denial of reality, but the defense secretary now also seems stuck in a time warp. You could practically hear the dominoes falling as he told the Senate Armed Services Committee yesterday that it was dangerous for Americans to even talk about how to end the war in Iraq."

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Love's singer songwriter RIP

33 1/3: Arthur Lee, RIP

Love without Arthur Lee
R.I.P.
Messageboard For Love Fans
Love was a part of the California sound of the 60's

Pocketknives are Tools Used by Millions

By David D. Kowalski

Reply to: Wall Street Journal, Tuesday, July 25, 2006 … “How New, Deadly Pocketknives Became a $1 Billion Business”
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A bit of Mischeif

new M6 Mischeif coming soon from
Swamp Rat Knife Company

This will be the first Knife for me from the new 2006 line. Swamp Rat is a part of the Busse Combat Company

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