Nate on July 28th, 2008

According to a press release today, there’s a new search engine being launched by some former Googlers that supposedly going to compete with the giant.
A new search engine created by former engineers from Google Inc. launched Sunday night, claiming to cover three times as many Web pages as Google.
Menlo Park-based Cuil Inc. was created by […]

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Nate on July 27th, 2008

Oh say, what is truth? ‘Tis the fairest gem
That the riches of worlds can produce,
And priceless the value of truth will be when
The proud monarch’s costliest diadem
Is counted but dross and refuse.
Yes, say, what is truth? ‘Tis the brightest prize
To which mortals or Gods can aspire;
Go search in the depths where it glittering lies
Or ascend […]

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Nate on July 27th, 2008

In such a Night, when every louder Wind
Is to its distant Cavern safe confin’d;
And only gentle Zephyr fans his Wings,
And lonely Philomel, still waking, sings;
Or from some Tree, fam’d for the Owl’s delight,
She, hollowing clear, directs the Wand’rer right:
In such a Night, when passing Clouds give place,
Or thinly vail the Heav’ns mysterious Face;
When in some […]

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Nate on July 27th, 2008

Could our first father, at his toilsome plow,
Thorns in his path, and labor on his brow,
Clothed only in a rude, unpolished skin,
Could he a vain fantastic nymph have seen,
In all her airs, in all her antic graces,
Her various fashions, and more various faces;
How had it posed that skill, which late assigned
Just appellations to each several […]

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Nate on July 27th, 2008

Maud Muller, on a summer’s day,
Raked the meadow sweet with hay.
Beneath her torn hat glowed the wealth
Of simple beeauty and rustic health.
Singing, she wrought, and her merry glee
The mock-bird echoed from his tree.
But, when she glanced to the far-off town,
White from its hill-slope looking down,
The sweet song died, and a vague unrest
And a nameless longing […]

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Nate on July 27th, 2008

When you get what you want in your struggle for self
And the world makes you king for a day,
Just go to the mirror and look at yourself
And see what that man has to say.
For it isn’t your father or mother or wife
Whose judgment upon you must pass.
The fellow whose verdict counts most in you life
Is […]

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Nate on July 27th, 2008

The doubt of future foes exiles my present joy,
And wit me warns to shun such snares as threaten mine annoy,
For falsehood now doth flow, and subject faith doth ebb,
Which would not be, if reason ruled or wisdom weaved the web.
But clouds of toys untried do cloak aspiring minds,
Which turn to rain of late repent, by […]

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Nate on July 27th, 2008

If
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And […]

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Nate on July 27th, 2008

When you want a thing bad enough to go out and fight for it,
To work day and night for it,
To give up your peace and your sleep and your time for it;
If only the desire of it makes your aim strong enough never to tire of it;
If life seems all empty and […]

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Nate on July 22nd, 2008

So, we’ve heard about how much debt the United States government is in, but the people reflect the same problem. First, a few stats:
Annual savings       1945   $9,906
Amount of debt      1945   $7,754
 
Annual savings        1965   $5,167
Amount of debt       1965   $36,903
 
Annual savings         1985   $6,518
Amount of debt        1985   $46,908
 
Annual savings         2005    $449
Amount of debt        2005    $111,527
Now if this does not alarm you, what other […]

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