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Dictionary.com has around 76 known usages of the word cast.
I am reproducing 6 of those here, do check out the rest – they too are illuminating !
–verb (used with object)
1. to throw or hurl; fling: The gambler cast the dice.
2. to throw off or away: He cast the advertisement in the wastebasket.
3. to direct (the [...]

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What did he expect ?
Abhinav Bhatt, a law student based in Pune, filed a complaint with the magistrate’s court in June 2000, saying that Rediff has committed offence under section 292 of IPC (selling, distributing obscene material).
His contention was that if one was to type words such as “sexual intercourse” in the search window on [...]

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And, last week the founders and owners of Pirate Bay were found guilty of copyright infringement and :
The Stockholm district court on Friday sentenced Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij and Carl Lundstrom to one year in prison each for helping millions of Pirate Bay users commit copyright violations of movies, music and computer [...]

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Feedburner has completely F***ed up on this site. it keeps working and dying. want to know if anyone else has the same issues.
have now reverted back to original feed and feedburner feed. am just checking to see if the original feed ends up updating readers….feedbuner is still not working

addthis_url [...]

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.. and we (as in the online community) click a lot. Yahoo News had an interesting piece on audience trends.
….surfing for p*rn had dropped to about 10 percent of searches from 20 percent a decade ago, and the hottest Internet searches now are for social networking sites.

“As social networking traffic has increased, visits [...]

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Stuff that made me – in no particular order – think, chortle, smirk, snigger , slurp, nod my head wisely. I shan’t identify which is what …coz it will be fun a year later to figure:
Three army men detained with 170 kg of ganja I had this vision of army men in these floral camouflage [...]

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after a fairly long hiatus, I thought that I would try out a Microsoft web product for a change…
windows live writer and Windows Live Photo Gallery are both being tested.
Why ? coz i have been having issues with the new WP editor, and for some weird reason Flickr uploader has been acting funny !
are [...]

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Stuff that made me – in no particular order – think, chortle, smirk, snigger , slurp, nod my head wisely. I shan’t identify which is what …coz it will be fun a year later to figure

a) Economic Woman looks at different ways to see the world through worldmapper. The current way of seeing the [...]

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Ficci Frames 2008 began yesterday in Mumbai. This year's theme was sustaining development.
As, usual it was great for the networking. I caught with quite a few people that I had lost touch with. Met some new ones. Bonded with old colleagues. Drank lots of coffee. attended loads of talks where i felt like a school [...]

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Last week  a call center person was at the receiving end of my ire. He called me up and told me that abc was the outstanding on my credit card and I could avail myself of a personal loan to pay it off. What irked me wasn't the call, but the fact that someone had [...]

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