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The worst kept secret in the dot com business is finally in the open. Search engine Google has filed papers with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for an initial public offering of shares. The company says it hopes to raise $2.7 billion... Defying Wall St. Tradition

Google offering: Feeling lucky?
Free Monitor for Google
http://www.cleverstat.com/google-monitor-query.htm is a way for you to track the ranking of a certain site (or even a page) on the Google index.
· http://www.cleverstat.com/google-monitor-query.htm
· See Also Google stands out: Quirky IPO has dual-class shares, lofty ideals
· See Also John Battelle's great analysis of the Google SEC filing
· See Also Creating and publishing weblogs (Wikipedia)
· See Also Information Literacy Weblog

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All hail Dungeons & Dragons, which has turned 30:
Its great being part of an underground world which baffles 90% of people you talk to about it... There is something in D&D that strikes a chord in many people; the call of adventure

Dungeons are alive and kicking
The event which occurred on August 21, 1915, when an entire battalion was gone in the presence of other people, had been an official secret for over fifty years. Only in 1967 the documents containing the testimonies of twenty witnesses to this incident, which happened in the Southern Europe near Dardanelles, were made public
· Mass disappearances of people are among the mysteries in the world history which are most hard to explain
· See Also Flying through the holes