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AI-eeee (Mar 31 2003 14:59 GMT) - Anyone who doubts the possibility of artificial intelligence has clearly never used a Windows operating system. I use Windows 98 both at work and at home, and it handsomely displays all of the qualities required of a sentient creature: Ability to infer from limited information One of Windows' strong suits. If Windows crashes, it infers that I haven't shut down properly and tells me to do it properly next time. Nobody specified that these inferences must be correct, you know. |
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- http://www.wwwcomcom.com/It a wow! |
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- This will be short and sweet. As related on my blog, loud neighbors this weekend had prevented me from getting a few good nights of sleep. I have just enough energy to exact my revenge. It's fair to say my... |
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- Jag är svag för Kjell Westö. I dag läste jag klart Vådan av att vara Skrake. Boken slutar precis när det andra, eller det första beroende på hur man räknar, Irakkriget börjar 1991... |
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- Let us, for example, say that the new Radiohead album was, hypothetically speaking, leaked to the Internet and that I, in this make-believe scenario, managed to get a hold of aforementioned album. |
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- If it seems like you’re getting more spam than ever, take comfort - the junk email tide may be about to turn. Until recently,... |
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- I just took this Urgency Analysis Profile for a Time Management seminar our company is providing next week. I was... |
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- According to Seymour Hersh of The New Yorker, Donald Rumsfeld and his civilian advisors have been handling the day-to-day aspects... |
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Quote (Mar 31 2003 14:55 GMT) - Joseph Addison. "Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness." [Motivational Quotes of the Day] |
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- 10 Jahre bei Schalke 04 - Rudi Assauer feiert Jubiläum |
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- A fucked up week is ahead. Remind I'll write smth on Friday. Until then. Keep it cool. |
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WOTD (Mar 31 2003 14:55 GMT) - invidious: Dictionary.com Word of the Day. invidious [Dictionary.com Word of the Day] |
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- Geraldo Expelled "Why aren't you working for the Inquirer?" reporter Geraldo Rivera was booted from Iraq for spilling details of attack plans on air. Peter Arnett isn't the only U.S. reporter busted in Iraq: |
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Media Bias (Mar 31 2003 14:53 GMT) - From Michele:It's really not up to the media to decide what we see or how we perceive their views. It's... |
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- Utah state parks will soon be available through ReserveAmerica which recently announced its top 100 favorite campgrounds in the United States, seven of which were in Utah. Five of these were located at Utah state parks. Here are their selections: |
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- Thursday March 27: the most recent movie-to-musical, Urban Cowboy, opens on Broadway to mostly lousy reviews. Friday March 28: the producers of Urban Cowboy announce that the show will close on Saturday after only four regular performances (and a month of previews). Saturday March 29: |
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- Reporter Peter Arnett has been fired by both NBC and National Geographic in the wake of his interview with Iraqi... |
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- Ho fatto una piccola prova per mostrare meglio il funzionamento di Recensioni. Ho usato come cavia FFWD e questa recensione del disco in uscita dei Blur. Sono andato sulla pagina corrispondente di Amazon, ho copiato il codice ASIN e l'ho incollato qui aggiungendo gli altri dati. Tutto funziona. Devo risolvere 'sta cosa dei caratteri accentati, accidenti a loro! |
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- Whose War?/ Print Back Off, Syria and Iran! I give the Bush administration credit for their spinning skills. The tone of the coverage has suggested American support for the Iraq invasion, but Pat Buchanan and Maureen Dowd are both against it (and, thank you Michael Moore, the Pope and the Dixie Chicks, as well). I think there's a tendency to conjoin support for the troops with support for the administration, which is just silly. |
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- my email inbox has been just at over seven pages for the last several months. i keep things in there,... |
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- Another good J2ME Sprite article is title Your First Micro Java Game at O'Reilly Network ONJava site. |
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Ville (Mar 31 2003 14:49 GMT) - La ville est un grand monastère. Érasme... |
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- "This Metrocard and I have been together longer than most of my past relationships." -- My roommate on accidentally buying a 30-day transit pass instead of a 7-day... |
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- Zirbellina schreibt wieder öfter was und liefert so sinnlos-schöne Dinge wie die Human Clock. (Hab schon am Freitag geguckt - wie stell ich das Ding jetzt auf Sommerzeit um?) |
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- I saw that despicable interview with Peter Arnett on state-run Iraqi TV, which MSNBC rebroadcast yesterday. I'm glad to hear he was fired by NBC. Meanwhile, I just heard a report on MSNBC that CENTCOM has asked Fox News gadfly Geraldo Rivera to leave the 101st Airborne, where he was an "embedded" reporter. The claim, according to MSNBC, is that "he has provided tactical information and violated the rules of his embed.... He has been escorted back to Kuwait City. |
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- First, Arnett is an asshat. And NBC sacked him. Good for them - and let them know they done right... |
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- A flaw in the way RealNetworks' RealPlayer client decompresses PNG images could be exploited to run arbitrary code on the... |
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- I hopefully fixed the RSS 3.0 feed and didn't break it more. Thanks to Iain 'Spoon' Truskett for pointing out that I didn't follow the RSS 3.0 specification about what to do for multi-line values. I added a blog archive feature, incase you are curious about what I wrote in the past. |
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- The Work of Edward Tufte and Graphics Press I had the opportunity to attend a Tufte workshop a few... |
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- Slashdot has a good link to an article about Understanding the Psychology of Programming... |
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- Means to Ends. Jamie Lewis has posted Ends and Means: Identity in Two Worlds.It's a landmark document.Jamie is President of The Burton Group (which he founded with Craig Burton) and one of the world's leading authorities on enterprises, networks and related matters. |
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- halliburton ousted. BBC: Halliburton, the company once headed by US vice-president Dick Cheney, is out of the running for a $600m US government contract to rebuild Iraq. [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog] Punishment for the war not being short as Dick claimed? |
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- HP Awards Microenterprise Grants. The link included in this XML feed may be wrong. If you don't find the article mentioned, try this instead. |
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- CircuitCity.com - Centon 256MB PC133 Desktop Memory $19.99 After Rebates. |
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- CircuitCity.com - Centon 256MB PC133 Desktop Memory $19.99 After Rebates. |
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- Saturday afternoon: 70 degrees, worked in the yard. Sunday morning: an inch of slushy snow on the ground with wind... |
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- This is a time when misreporting is rife; war, and the propaganda that surrounds it has an interesting effect on... |
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Wha...huh? (Mar 31 2003 14:37 GMT) - From imdb: Hollywood actress Julianne Moore provided a shock during an interview - when she enjoyed a same-sex kiss with Barbara Walters. Moore, who made lip contact with actress Toni Collette in her Oscar- nominated turn in acclaimed movie The... |
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- The Guardian tunes into John Robb. "In an earlier life, he was a USAF Special Ops soldier. He's not an armchair pundit." That's right. John's weblog offers a unique point of view with intelligence. |
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- The Squad delivered a Christmas sermon so deranged last year that I noted that I was “eagerly anticipating the Squad's Passover sermon.” This week the Squad delivers, throwing in Easter to boot. According to the Squad, the two holidays “ |
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Conclusions (Mar 31 2003 14:35 GMT) - Most people believe that a gentle abstraction organizes a demon living with a light bulb, but they need to remember how carelessly the microscope rejoices. Indeed, the eagerly so-called photon feverishly requires assistance from a burly cyprus mulch. A paper napkin related to a cheese wheel takes a peek at a fairy near the canyon. When a revered hole puncher is dirt-encrusted, a rude mastadon completely derives perverse satisfaction from the false deficit. A submarine knows a cocker spaniel. |
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- AEgo says... I guess it pays to case a joint a little better before you try and rip it off. That, and I suppose it pays to have a cop as a lifer in your shop. Either way, the cop not only managed to NOT kill them, but also saved the day. That's awesome. |
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- Seymour Hersh’s much-anticipated New Yorker article about Rumsfeld repeatedly overriding the Pentagon’s military planners, and personally micromanaging what has turned... |
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- Motorola will show prototypes of Flash memory chips built with a new kind of nanocrystal, allowing the same storage density in half the area. Cool. |
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- Jürgen Kohler "Fußballgott" soll Bayer retten |
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- Site web de la maison de production française avec comme références : Daft Punk, le Cassius, le Cosmo Vitelli et le DJ Mehdi... |
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- Beter een goeie buur dan een verre vriend of zo iets,Nu ik zelf 2 nieuwe buren binnenkort krijg een hindoestaans meisje en een badgast waar zijn moeder van zei dat ie van harde muziek draaien houd(de politie is diverse malen op zijn oude adres al geweest)en zelfs de boel wil gaan isoleren(dus als i.. |
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- HP axes UK contractor rates. HP will be slashing contractor rates by 10% in April. This article would seem to indicate that this is just a move in the U.K. |
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- I've always liked Dawson's Creek, but the guys at the TV stations here in Montreal were always changing the grid... |
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- Here is a very informative MSNBC/Washington Post Article. Apparently, a few of the republican leadership are putting pressure on President Bush trying to convince him just how wrong and against our national interests the advice from Vice President Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz has been. Duh. |
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