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- There will be another Stop The War demo in London on Saturday. Arrangements will be very similar to the one... |
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- Non sono l'unico che la pensa in questo modo... Visto che dell'ONU sembrano fregarsene direi di farlo anche noi e di dichiarare unilateralmente l'embargo commerciale agli Stati Uniti (e Regno Unito e Spagna e Australia). Non ci vuole molto basta non comprare cose americane, tipo computer, stampanti, stereo; nel fare benzina evitare le compagnie americane, evitare i MacDonald, non andare al cinema a vedere film americani o prodotti da compagnie statunitensi (o inglesi o spagnole o australiane), non guardarli in tv, non noleggiare film, non comprare CD e DVD statunitensi e acquistare il più possibile da aziende di paesi non coinvolti o contrari alla guerra. |
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- Not much to write about at the moment so here are a couple of shots. Skoda testing their new car... |
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- A recent study shows that Linux is gaining more marketshare. Some of it is probably due to people moving from windows NT to linux but noticeable in the Evans Data Corp study is the fact that "the survey indicates that 29.8% of application developers who target Linux were previously targeting Unix." Companies like Sun Microsystems and HP should worry about this trend too as they may be losing marketshare to an OS that they see as a competitive tool. In their blind fight against Microsoft, some Unix vendors may be cutting off their own air supply. |
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- Here's some excellent online art from Perry Hoberman dealing with technology infiltrating our lives. |
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Nice (Mar 18 2003 09:29 GMT) - English Sans French (Article in Christian Science Monitor)... |
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- The idea of humans as meme machines was popularized by Susan Blackmore in her book The Meme Machine. However, to me this seems farfetched, and to some extend plainly wrong, when you realize the complexity of the human being as a whole, including the role of emotions and the body memory as well. Perhaps weblogs as a system function like a meme machine. Then humans are the operators of the meme machine. But weblogs currently function poorly: |
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- Whose side is Microsoft on? Hackers have attacked a computer in the .mil domain. Hackers have discovered and are... |
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- I'm starting to think about getting together a blog-team. First of all, i need a domain and hosting... I'll do that as soon as i've settled on some work (and have a steady income, unlike now). For the hosting i need only php (prefferably with gd or gd2 lib turned on) and mysql (and ftp access). After that i'm thinking about persuading some of my friends to join the blogging experience. |
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- Sadly, Bush has made the U.S. the 21st century's first colonizer. |
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- Two Garden Grove city councilmen recently announced campaigns to run for a state Assembly seat in the March 2004 election. |
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- This seems to be one of the better sources: [inluminent/weblog] Looking for stock photos for a project you're working on? Look no further than: Inertia Stock Exchange: share your photos with fellow designers. |
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- The open- source movement has become a major factor across the software industry, and MySQL is the world's most popular open-source database. [CNN] |
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- [MarketingFix] NY Post: Yahoo! to Buy UK Online Pay for Placement Ad Firm Yahoo! is close to acquiring Espotting Media, a British-based online advertising firm that is Europe's largest pay-for-placement advertising provider, sources told The Post. A spokesperson for Yahoo! |
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- USB Voice over IP handset. A new handset for making voice over IP calls that connects to a PC over USB. You can make phone calls for free with the Taichi III, but only to other people also using VICQ Planet, which apparently is some voice over IP network. Read [Thanks, Gert]... [Gizmodo] Tiens c'est marrant, ce boî |
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trencherman (Mar 18 2003 09:01 GMT) - Dictionary.com Word of the Day: trencherman[Dictionary.com Word of the Day] |
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