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This page contains links that give the impression that some of the site contents are stored on a content delivery network.

nginx [engine x] is a HTTP server and mail proxy server written by Igor Sysoev.

Varnish is a web accelerator / reverse proxy caching server.

Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) is the industry standard for developing portable, robust, scalable and secure server-side Java applications.

Adding the Google search box to your website puts our search engine at your visitors' fingertips. And combining search with AdSense puts Google's base of advertisers to work for your bottom line.

Omniture SiteCatalyst® provides your website with actionable, real-time intelligence regarding online strategies and marketing initiatives.

Optify marketing software enables B2B lead generation through search engine optimization, Twitter for business, and out-of-the-box reporting.

Provides Quantcast with tracking information about your site which anyone can access and view demographic information.

Fixes PNG handling in IE

Changes effected Flash content in Internet Explorer - this library fixes them.

JQuery is a fast, concise, JavaScript Library that simplifies how you traverse HTML documents, handle events, perform animations, and add Ajax interactions to your web pages. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript.

A light-weight, customizable lightbox plugin for jQuery.

The page embeds the Twitter platform in one method or another.

Brightcove lets you realize the potential of online video with the most comprehensive Internet TV service available today

The website uses the FeedBurner widget to display how many readers of its RSS feeds they have.

Follow Button to your website to increase engagement and create a lasting connection with your audience.

The page contains content from the Associated Press.

FeedBurner is the leading provider of media distribution and audience engagement services for blogs and RSS feeds.

The website claims HTML 4.01 Transitional DTD, which includes presentation attributes and elements that W3C expects to phase out as support for style sheets matures.

The description attribute provides a concise explanation of the page content.

Meta tag containing keywords related to the page.

Cache Control setting on the page to provide caching performance gains.

JavaScript is a scripting language most often used for client-side web development. Its proper name is ECMAScript, though "JavaScript" is much more commonly used. The website uses JavaScript.

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a stylesheet language used to describe the presentation of a document written in a markup language. Its most common application is to style web pages written in HTML

The website uses conditional comments that are supported by Microsoft Internet Explorer. They allow web developers to show or hide HTML code based on the version of the viewer's browser.

The defer attribute gives a hint to the browser that the script does not create any content so the browser can optionally defer interpreting the script. This can improve performance by delaying execution of scripts until after the body content is parsed and rendered.

ISO 8859, more formally ISO/IEC 8859, is a joint ISO and IEC standard for 8-bit character encodings for use by computers. The standard is divided into numbered, separately published parts, such as ISO/IEC 8859-1, ISO/IEC 8859-2, etc., each of which may be informally referred to as a standard in itself. There are currently 15 parts as of 2006 excluding the abandoned ISO/IEC 8859-12 standard.