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- Arab News: Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Fahd has ordered the release of 5,000 Saudi and expatriate prisoners jailed for minor offenses, the director of jails said in remarks published by Okaz newspaper yesterday. “A committee is currently assessing who should be released ... The first batch was released on Wednesday ... and work will be completed within two months,” Maj. |
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- A three-man space crew is headed back to Earth after the arrival of an American astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut sent to relieve them. Their stay at the International Space Station was extended two months following the U.S. Columbia tragedy. [Wired News] |
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- We found my old laser pointer the other day, and we decided to mess with Buddy. He is absolutely hilarious when he's chasing it!! Right-click here or on the picture, click "Save Target As" in the popup menu, and save the video to your hard drive. You must have the Quicktime Player to watch the movie. |
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- And early this week, too! This week's edition of the Carnival is hosted, ably as always, by David Sims at... |
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- I haven't checked up on Josh Davis for a while but he reports that he and Branden Hall have finally got their studio up and running with new projects in the pipeline. This should be a very exciting collaboration! |
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- The Voice of Abortion ProvidersIf you're facing an unplanned pregnancy, you have a right to complete medical information, compassionate, non-judgmental counseling about your options, and support for whatever choice you make. |
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- The Treasury Department says the United States could face the prospect of not being able to pay its bills in late May unless Congress raises the government's borrowing authority, now capped at $6.4 trillion. |
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- Since I have a sombrero on the back seat of my truck (you don't want to know) (well, maybe you... |
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- Whatis AudioBooksForFree.Com? |
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- Semant-O-Matic This site indexes the contents of eleven weblogs over the period March - June 2002 ( a total of 1440 posts ). The goal of this search engine is to demonstrate a fuzzy-search technique called latent semantic indexing. LSI has been around for some time, remember? |
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- my head spins I just finished reading the PDF about 'Contextual Network Graphs' I linked earlier... Way to go for my little experimentation, and those algebraic formular are way beyond my grasp. But the basic idea is rather simple, maybe comparable to the TGGoogleBrowser only not visually. One really strong point is the fact that adding AND removing terms/documents from the 'graph' (or the TDM) is trivially simple. (Not so for VectorSpace/LSI approaches) All this will of course be handled in my essay, once it is finished, if ever |
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- È successo questo: che il senatore della Pennsylvania Rick Santorum (una sorta di cardinal Lefebvre ripulito del rosso porpora, ma molto, molto più bigotto) se n'è uscito con una delle sue azzardando un paragone tra il sesso omosessuale e la... |
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MP3 Class (Apr 30 2003 01:58 GMT) - help wanted! |
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E-Pimp (Apr 30 2003 01:58 GMT) - Webpage |
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- TAP - the architectural playground goes Open Source |
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- Sorry for the delay, the blogCerkit item (story) reader is now functional. |
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- David Letterman. "Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees." |
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- If you were unable to go to this conference (March 2003), you'll feel smarter and better after you check out... |
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- From Information Today - "ERIC Continues but without Clearinghouses" by Barbara Quint.... |
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- From the Washington Post's Education Review - Two new teachers in similar situations, but with vastly different outcomes. Interesting read.... |
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- From Education Week (free registration required), Community Colleges are now offering four-year teacher preparation/education programs. Notable, since most community colleges... |
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- vie eSchoolNews - The Library Services and Technology Act is pending reauthorization, which could mean up to 100 million dollars... |
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- Geeks celebrate the 10th anniversary of the browser that allowed regular people to jump onto the World Wide Web. Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina led the Mosaic team in 1993 at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications; now NCSA is throwing a birthday bash. By Michelle Delio. [Wired News] |
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- Apple's new online music-buying system is everything Napster promised to be -- cheap, easy and, best of all, legal. (Salon via MyAppleMenu) |
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- The Wi-Fi Alliance has announced the certification of products using the latest security specification, as it works to allay concerns about wirelessly transmitting data over networks. (CNET News.com via MyAppleMenu) |
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- Lately, I’ve felt a little too much like a denizen of the Matrix…jacked into a virtual world via my laptop,... |
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- DR. WEEVIL is playing "Ba'ath poker," and seems to have more cards to play with all the time.... |
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- Start-up Good Technology and the PC leader shake hands on a pact to collaborate on corporate sales and, down the line, to codevelop a handheld device that will bear Dell's brand. |
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- Start-up Good Technology and the PC leader shake hands on a pact to collaborate on corporate sales and, down the line, to codevelop a handheld device that will bear Dell's brand. |
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- Frank Zappa. "The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced." |
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- I should be happy. I've gotten rid of the minivan that tried to kill me and got a much nicer (and newer) Bonneville to replace it. The job is going well, I'm making enough money to get by on and a little more for extras. I've got family that cares... |
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- Could it be? Did I actually manage to secure work for myself? I went to a "working interview" today, and was offered a one-two week temp assignment that might turn into something more. It would be nice to have money... |
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