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Monday	August 29, 2005		Comments

	After more than a year, four-thousand-plus article links, and over a thousand unique sources, SmartActivist.org is going on hiatus, indefinitely. Thanks everyone for your participation! Global \| SmartActivist.org		[3]

	Even Geeks Need a Breather Global \| Wired News		[0]

	"No matter how bad your occupational situation, you are at least NOT a child-stealing death-dealing soul-selling blood-sucking running-dog-lackey advertising official at the Chicago-based Leo Burnett advertising firm." United States \| Z Communications		[0]

	Spin the Global Warming Wheel and find out how the weather might change as Earth's overall temperature increases. Global \| Results for America		[0]

	Video games have enabled a novel kind of identity theft, as we play out our fantasies and frustrations in their many make-believe worlds. Global \| New Atlantis		[0]

Sunday	August 28, 2005		Comments

	Musical Attention Deficit Disorder Global \| Stay Free! Daily		[1]

	Common Content available to anyone for copying or creative re-use. Add some more! Global \| Common Content		[0]

	Working to End the Global E-Waste Epidemic: What you can do to prevent old computers from ending up in a landfill. Global \| TechSoup		[0]

	The economic challenges of the world's 77th richest country - the online game EverQuest. "As a developer, I would love to leave it all as a free market. But people who are new to the game would have nothing, and the big players would have everything." United States \| Flat Rock		[0]

Saturday	August 27, 2005		Comments

	Feeling Old and Ugly? Take Another Look Global \| Women's eNews		[0]

	WASP Values and Political Work United States \| Z Communications		[0]

	The CIA's Campus Spies: Exposing the Pat Roberts Intelligence Scholars Program United States \| CounterPunch		[0]

	A long piece, covering the abuse of the Capitalist system on the worker, an ideal socio-economic organization, and the principles and essentials that will help us change the current system. United States \| Punkerslut		[0]

Friday	August 26, 2005		Comments

	Sports and political activism United States \| Z Communications		[0]

	"Boredom is an entirely reasonable response to the world we've created for our kids over the past 50 years." United States \| Marylaine Block		[0]

	Discover What the World Thinks About U.S. United States \| Watching America		[0]

	For a city dweller who only needs a car occasionally... Global \| CarSharing Network		[0]

Thursday	August 25, 2005		Comments

	How American Are You? United States \| Blogthings		[0]

	Easy way to see what's on newspaper front pages from around the world Global \| Newseum		[0]

	The Pentagon's Bid to Militarize Space United States \| Power and Interest News Report		[0]

	Harry Potter and the dilemma of the political left Global \| Z Communications		[0]

Wednesday	August 24, 2005		Comments

	The conclusions are a stretch but this article has an interesting overview of how women in films are involved in more violence than ever before, "In the most disturbing scene, [he] kicks her several times when she is on the floor." United States \| OpinionJournal		[0]

	Assasinate Chavez? Rumsfeld notes that it is not his DEPARTMENT that does those sorts of things. Canada \| Reuters		[0]

	Download the first issue of the new anti-consumerism magazine Consume(R)Evolution [.pdf] United States \| CONSUME�EVOLUTION		[0]

	Charities changed by technology Global \| ITtoolbox		[0]

Tuesday	August 23, 2005		Comments

	Democrats aren't the only ones split on the war in Iraq Iraq \| Media Matters for America		[0]

	When Senator Snowe questions Roberts about his view on equal pay... [.gif] United States \| Women's eNews		[0]

	George�s Lucky "Top 13" Summer-of-Cindy Reading List United States \| TomDispatch		[0]

	No wonder "Dove wants to celebrate [women's]curves." Think of all the surface area they provide! United States \| Z Communications		[0]

	Fascinating article on the structure of the Democratic strategic class � the foreign policy advisers, think-tank specialists, and pundits who prop up hakish politicians like Biden and Clinton. United States \| TomPaine.com		[0]

	Empty Calories, Empty Promises: The American Beverage Association's new school beverage policy a no more than a PR stunt United States \| Common Dreams		[0]

	Procter and Gamble's new product: pre-menstrual tampons called "Almost". Global \| Stay Free! Daily		[0]

	Drug companies have started putting language in their contracts with medical institutions to shape what doctors can and cannot tell patients about specific drugs. United States \| Stay Free! Daily		[0]

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