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- "If I have to choose between Europe and the open sea, between you and Roosevelt, I will always choose America," Churchill told de Gaulle in 1944. British prime ministers, Tony Blair the crowning example, have followed Churchill; French leaders have held to de Gaulle's suspicion of Britain as an American Trojan horse in Europe. France, like Germany, was shaped by defeat in the second world war; undefeated Britain continues to look to its war-time saviour America. |
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- Some of the anti-war idiots have been harassing military members. In the first incident, two males on San Antonio's northeast... |
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- Engineers at a nuclear plant are examining residue, about half the size of an aspirin, apparently from reactor coolant fluid that leaked near the bottom of a reactor vessel. The residue was found a week ago while the reactor was shut down for scheduled refueling and maintenance. |
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- Daemonite: "Given the recent traffic in off topic posts from various blogs concerning the 'Iraqi Conflict' we have received lots of complaints about the aggregated content. ... |
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- Washington Post - White House cybersecurity adviser Howard Schmidt will resign from his post at the end of the month, raising concerns about the Bush administration's commitment to implementing its strategy for protecting the ...Would you trust Uncle Sam with your secrets? Geek.com HSD seeks to secure data it gets from the private sector GCN. |
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ArneSchwabe (Apr 19 2003 11:56 GMT) - comment to I use emacs |
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- Slim Shady III need to make clear the intent of the previous post, Eminem for Dummies, as some confusion is resulting. The intent is not to persuade anyone to become an Eminem fan, I don't think I could do that or even to persuade you that his methodology is cool/OK. The purpose is to demonstrate the mechanics of his methodology, as I see it. That is not clear from yesterday's post but in some ways it parallels what actually occurred in life. Unfortunately you can't see what is going on in my head and so my true intent is not clear. |
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- I've just finished reading Max Beerbohm's Zuleika Dobson on the recommendation of a friend (thanks, Barb!). What a bizarre little... |
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- Got more work done on the SourceForge project for NewtSync. I moved all of the particularly pertinent bugs and feature requests from my proprietary bug tracking system to the SourceForge site. I'm not sure at this point whether I'll stick with everchanging's phpbb-based forum system or switch to SourceForge's forums. I'm thinking I'll do the latter because then I can downgrade my ISP account. Either way, the registration key code has been removed from NewtSync (it was never checked into SourceForge, actually) and once this particularly nasty Dates bug is fixed, the next release will be a SourceForge-based release. |
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- Science News - Minuscule samples of sediment from New Zealand and Siberia have yielded bits of DNA from dozens of animals and plants, some long extinct. This genetic material, which includes the oldest DNA sequences yet found that can be traced to a specific ...DNA in frozen soil tells story of life New Zealand |
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- Abbott has compiled a survey of mistresses from ancient Greece to modern times, producing intimate sketches of more than 70 mistresses with astonishing and sometimes salacious detail. There are mini-biographies of such famous and diverse mistresses as Jeanne du Barry, George Eliot, Simone de Beauvoir... |
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- so ive spent all night learning as much as i could about moveable type's MT tag system. its pretty cool. im still having problems here and there with the CSS positioning of elements...i was tring to have a table-less layout.... |
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- Well the day is gone on without us. We hardly ever do it: sleep past 3:45 for Ann, 4:30 for... |
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- PITTSBURGH AP) - The Chicago Cubs find themselves in an unaccustomed position, even in mid-April: first place. |
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- Slate - Andrew H. Card, Jr., the White House chief of staff, participated in an online chat Wednesday night with Internet users. The White House referred to him as "Secretary Card. |
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- "A Mighty Wind" [Daypop Top 40] |
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- 20 jahre lang hab ich mit meinem sx-64 und c-lab programmen songs komponiert. nur weil ich vom musikerkollegen einen amiga bekam, wechsle ich das system. der sx-64 funktionert immer noch gut! falls jemand das komplette historische sequenzer-system betriebsbereit kaufen und in ch-8200 schaffhausen abholen will: suetterlin. |
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- ATLANTA AP) - The Atlanta Braves didn't waste much time overcoming a poor start to the season. |
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- Howard Dean lost 3 percentage points in the latest New Hampshire poll of likely Democratic voters. That's 50% of the gain he achieved between February and March. Kerry's @ 24% and Dean is @ 19%.... |
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- The Atlantic | May 2003 | "I'm Right, You're Wrong, Go To Hell" | Lewis [Daypop Top 40] |
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- Funny thing from my mother: California's Velcro Crop Under Challenge |
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- Syria has banned Iraqis without visas from entering the country, airline sources confirmed Saturday, an apparent effort to counter U.S. charges that it is sheltering former members of Saddam Hussein's regime. |
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- PENSACOLA, Fla. — Christian and Jewish clergy say a billboard that promotes vegetarianism by claiming “Jesus was the prince of peas” is historically inaccurate and... |
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Argh! (Apr 19 2003 11:38 GMT) - Today I woke up and drove to college. Yeah, I drove to college on a Saturday... isn't that sad-cased? Had... |
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打折 (Apr 19 2003 11:38 GMT) - 聽說，天鵝去吃巷內。 被服務生問認不認識羊 (都同班兩年半了說@@) 至今，後悔中.... 因為一時口誤，沒打到 原來我是用來打折的... |
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- The owner of La Chambre, the supposedly haunted sex club in Sheffield, says some patrons are having a hard time performing because of a randy ghost who gropes the ladies and watches the men. Ghostbusters Tackle Haunted Sex Club... |
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- The AppleScripts for viewing web page source code in an external editor are available for the following OS X browser flavors: Camino 0.7, Chimera 0.6, IE 5.2. |
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- Famed ocean explorer Robert Ballard has received a $500,000 federal grant to help expand his high-tech system for giving people a glimpse of what's under the sea to students and scientists across the country. Satellites and high-tech computer technology will soon be beaming the underwater exploits of Ballard and crews across the globe. |
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- Zinc is an IF interpreter front-end (it does both TADS and Z-code) with network support, so that people can connect across the network to collaborate on a game. There's a new Celestia, which now comes with a user's guide. Langband is an Angband clone written in Lisp, which aims to contain existing and new Angband variants as plugins (what has happened to the good old technique of just cramming every single feature into the same game?). The Langband logo also demonstrates the debilitating effect on Roman discipline of imported Greek culture. |
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- Speaking of which... Scapy is a Python tool for packet manipulation. drumpiler is a drum machine program with a little mini-language that includes functions. Sure beats writing a Perl script to generate Csound, like I did for Annoying Techno Music. emo2html is a script that turns a file generated in Emacs outline mode into HTML. |
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- It's not just a history of building landmarks like the Hoover Dam that helped Bechtel Corp. win the first major Iraq reconstruction contract. The company is as well-connected as Washington insiders come. |
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- French archaeologists unearthed a necropolis filled with rock-hewn tombs that are more than 4,000 years old, Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities said Saturday. |
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- Once upon a time, we were curious and everything we encountered was new. We were excited about discovering new things and the world offered unlimited possibilities. Then we went to school and were taught to color inside the lines, that everything had its place and the world was ordered. |
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- We hear and talk a lot about card sorting in various forms, and how it can be used as input on a hierarchy or classification system (or a taxonomy, if you like more technical words). We hear that we should test our hierarchies, but we dont talk about how. |
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