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As I was conducting some research this morning I pulled up my favorite search engine, Google. I am often amused by the cute graphics around their logo at the top of the page. Today’s graphic is in braille. When you hover over it, it says, Happy Birthday Louis Braille!

I have been impressed with Google Earth, a program that is a free download and which enables you to see places all over the globe. Google has taken satellite photos and pieced them together in a fascinating user friendly interface. Despite the efforts of Homeland Security to get Google to take the site off, Google has defended the right to use public images by developing this educational interactive program.

The folks at Google have Ten things Google has found to be true on their corporate page. These items really stood out for me:
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Here are some “top ten”-ish and new years wish/resolution items I have found today.

Democracy Now! offers a 2005 in Review: Power, Politics and Resistance from its December 30th program. The review looks back at highlighted events in 2005,
including George W. Bush’s inaugeration and protests against election fraud, the occupation of Iraq, the conviction of attorney Lynne Stewart, the appointment of John Bolton to the UN, the revelation of Deep Throat, the conviction of Edgar Ray Killen for killing the three civil rights workers in 1964, and much more.

Common Dreams
Medea Benjamin writes a piece entitled 10 Good Things about Another Bad Year:
As we close this year, a year in which we were pummeled by the Iraq war, attacks on our civil rights and Mother Nature’s fury of hurricanes, earthquakes and tsunamis, there is no shortage of reasons to feel bruised and beaten. But to start the new year with a healthy determination to keep on fighting, we need to reflect on the good things that happened. And there are plenty.

Media also writes Imagine if in 2006…, a list of wishes for the world.
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