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- Programming .NET Component: I got a copy of Juval Löwy's (signed no less) new book yesterday. |
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- Strange, maybe, but I love the smell of car airconditioning after a rain shower. Moisture. If moisture has a scent, it's that pungent discharge of air when first the airconditioner is turned on. Tomorrow is Mother's Day, that most dysfunctional of holidays. When angry mothers are reminded how little they are appreciated the other 364 days of the year, and mothers who are appreciated don't really notice. |
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- An American, a German, and a Chinese got lost in the desert. Just before they are about to faint, a genie appeared in front of them and offered them 3 wishes. They decided to split up the 3 wishes so each of them will get one. The American says, "My... |
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- An American, a German, and a Chinese got lost in the desert. Just before they are about to faint, a genie appeared in front of them and offered them 3 wishes. They decided to split up the 3 wishes so each of them will get one. The American says, "My... |
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- Quote of the day: You see, in this world there's two kinds of people, my friend. Those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly |
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- CTV.ca May 11 2003 0:19AM ET... |
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- Errrrrr...whoah, looks like Radio revived. Yes. |
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Bored (May 11 2003 05:57 GMT) - It's funny, now that I have made the decision to move back to Australia and the tickets are paid for, it's so boring now. I leave on the 25th of May, so I have about 15 days to wait. I'm... |
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- This kid used a video camera at school in order to tape his Star Wars moves. Check out the video It didn't take long for the online community to remix it with Star Wars special effects. Check out the video... |
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- Local Government Goes RSS. RSS and eGovernment "Brian Sweeting runs the Spanish Fork City web portal. He announced today that RSS feeds are available for city news and upcoming events. This is a great application of XML to eGovernment. I don't know of another government using RSS in this way, but its surprising that they all aren't since its so easy to do. |
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- At last the waiting is over, if we can believe what we read in the papers. The Irish Independent appears to have been first to break the story, with IRA man under protection of British agents, dated 18:56 on Saturday,... |
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- "I dont like country music, but I dont mean to denigrate those who do. And, for the people who like country music, denigrate means put down."... |
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- One doesnt have to be a "vulgar Marxist" (i.e. one who likes to trace direct causal connections between the economic and the political and cultural: an abuser of the base/superstructure metaphor, and the usual butt of "refuters" of Marx) to see that behind all the talk, there are solid economic reasons why our rulers will take their orders from the... |
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- Harare and press freedom.... |
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- http://www. netfuture. org/2003/Apr2903_144. html, A quite superb review of a new book, Enough: |
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- So much for my prophesy of great things, hah? Oh well. Doubtless, to translate freely from the Gaelic, there will be another day.... |
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- http://www. mcsweeneys. net/2003/04/22fellowship. html, Unused Audio Commentary By Howard Zinn & Noam Chomsky, Recorded Summer, 2002, for The Fellowship of the Ring Platinum Series Extended Edition DVD, Part One). |
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- "I think they are absolute shit, just terrible, worse than Enid Blyton. I have discouraged my children from reading them. They are not particularly badly written I dont mind bad writing its the smugness and the complicity with the reader that I dislike. Its like... |
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- see the link for details. |
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- At least one of the FBI's prior Chinese spy investigations is going to be re-examined as a result of the... |
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- RSS Identity. Ben Trott: We need a way to represent federated identity. Obviously, this is a can of worms, but we could standardize on FOAF being used to represent identity, and embed <foaf: |
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- By the way, Radio sucks. Think we've had this discussion before. There is nothing more irritating than great software full of defects. |
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Public Eye (May 11 2003 05:55 GMT) - "Public Eye" by Jon Feldspar posted 5/11/2003 12:55:23 AM. |
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- Pennsylvania Professional Employment Network, Westmoreland Chapter 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 21st, Pennsylvania CareerLink facility, Business & Industry Center, Westmoreland County Community College, 300 E. Hillis St. |
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- Maj. Robert Thompson was a citizen soldier and a 'weekend warrior' -- a member of the 141st Tactical Fighter Squadron of the New Jersey Air National Guard based at McGuire Air Force Base in central New Jersey. When he wasn't being a fighter jock for the Air Force, he flew for several airlines. Aviation was his vocation and his avocation for most of his life. He was an airline pilot three days a week, then flew a fighter plane for the Guard on the weekends. |
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- ...haven't heard about this anywhere but Ha'aretz but it's pretty intriguing:The secretary-general of Hezbollah, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, says that the United States has offered to recognize his organization and its political role in Lebanon in return for a suspension of... |
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- No date is offered for the fossil, although the article suggests it was from between 3 million and 17 million years ago. While the fossil is evidence for a once warmer South Pole, the reason for the warmth is unknown: "We have to look at the models more closely: Obviously it wasn't greenhouse gases warming Antarctica 15 million years ago," he said. "Some other variables, other than human variables, caused [it]. |
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- At Movement Building, they have a Buffy-as-social-commentary-on- department. |
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- Photo of the non-vented particulate respirator (mask) that everyone in China is trying to get a hold of. We're going send these to Inner Mongolia for Ginger's family as extras.... |
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- The growing rivalry between competing bus operators in Chinatown has escalated to the murder of one driver/owner, after a chase down Henry Street to Market Street. The victim, De Jian Chen, had worked at Dragon Coach earlier but then left to form Dragon Coach U.S.A.: "Over the last year, several... |
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- Wow, loooooonnnnng day. Up early to head to the Keys but after getting dragged out of bed we didn't really roll until 11:00. |
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- Or the lack thereof. (122 words) |
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- "...just so that a decade from now we can read back over them with our friends (natural and artificial) and be amazed at the primitive things that we were impressed by back in 2003 (all this while zooming around in our flying cars)." (quick link) |
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- "Think at least three times before eating anything that is advertised on television, or that comes in a package that has had more design energy put into it than you would put into leaving a note for the UPS person." (quick link) |
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- Via Mark Kleiman I saw a nice Town Hall piece by NR editor Rich Lowry about prison rape. As I read it, I was thinking to myself that there might be hope after all. Reasonably sensitive people of all ideologies... |
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- (United States) CHEYENNE -- The Wyoming Supreme Court on Wednesday reversed four aggravated assault convictions against convicted Casper methamphetamine dealer Samuel Thomas Urbigkit. The warrant was based on information from an informant, John Logan, who said he bought methamphetamine from Urbig...[$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(50%), $propaganda_theme2(50%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(95%), $stimulant(100%), $amphetamines(100%), $various_drugs(95%)] |
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- (United States) The raid was part of an on-going investigation into the sale and delivery of cocaine.[$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(70%), $propaganda_theme1(55%), $propaganda_theme2(70%), $propaganda_theme5(60%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(95%), $stimulant(100%), $cocaine(100%), $cannabis(100%), $paraphernalia(100%), $various_drugs(95%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
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