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- I was cruising Karen's blog and came across what I thought were funny posters (the key part is me thinking they were funny, you might not): Wolfowitz Instapundit Dozens more can be found here (note: these are spoofs of what... |
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A/UX (May 18 2003 00:59 GMT) - Interesting story on AppleFritter about A/UX - Apple's Unix. I'm not sure how many people realize that OS X isn't Apple's first attempt to combine the friendly Mac OS and the power of a UNIX OS into one machine. |
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- Of all of the Canadian provinces, I'd bet my next pay check that Ontario leads the way in DFR discouraging and DFR disposal. Yes, it is definitely the case that union members are expected to exhaust their internal complaint procedures before filing a DFR. If that means that they will spend months, maybe even years, bringing their issue to various union appeal meetings where there is little or any hope of any meaningful consideration, so be it. I... |
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- BC Teamsters buying into P3's does not seem to jive with the policy of these Teamsters. Are these guys not on the same team? Privatization: How Teamsters Can Fight the Growing Threat to Public Services quote: The growing trend toward privatization and contracting out is a genuine threat to workers in the public sector and an attack on the American system for providing public services for Teamster families and all Americans. |
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Lunches (May 18 2003 00:58 GMT) - quote:That is what a smart manager would do.does save on have one of thoseWe won't know until you ask.... |
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- Alexis Buss is my hero.... |
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- and here i thought all the DTA's were called management!!... |
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- This web site created by Robert Beard, Bucknell University, is a gateway to other sites on Russian art and architecture. It covers virtually all periods in the history of Russian art, starting from the icons of the Kievan Rus' and Novgorod. There are also links to the sites on the 19th century Russian painting with an electronic gallery of masterpieces and two separate sites devoted to L. Aivazovskii and S. Ivanov. |
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- This site has been created by the Ukrainian Museum (NY) founded in 1976 by the Ukrainian National Women's League of America. It is entirely devoted to pysanky (Easter eggs) - one of the most interesting expressions of the Ukrainian folk art. The word 'pysanka' originates from the verb 'pysaty' (to write). The Ukrainian pysanka was believed to possess an enormous power not only in the egg itself, but also in its symbolic designs which consist of geometric motifs with some animal and plant elements, and colours. The site describes the history of pysanky and contains a slide show with 17 images, apart from the 3 images on the main page. |
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- This site - a joint effort of the students of Rollins College (Florida) taking a course in History of Russian Painting and Dr Alexander Boguslawski - is a unique source of information for students and lovers of Russian art. Unlike other web sites of the kind this site doesn't only include the reproductions of paintings, but combines them with the aritists' biographies and discussion of particular works, movements, schools, etc. It also provides bibliographical references and links to other sites. It includes the following sections: icons (provides the historical background, information on icon restoration and Byzantine icons, and focuses on the famous icon painters, such as Andrei Rublev, Simon Ushakov and others); |
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- Keep your browser tuned to The Daily Roxette and come here on Monday at 00.01 CET. With the kind permission of Capitol Records Sweden, The Daily Roxette will stream 30 seconds of Per Gessle's new single "Här kommer alla känslorna (På |
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- The Institute of Historic Building Conservation (IHBC) is the professional institute that represents conservation professionals in the public and private sectors in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Their web site contains detailed information about the Institute's aims, membership requirements, branches, and officers. News of upcoming events and conferences may also be found at the site. There is a list of academic courses accredited by the Institute and online essays giving guidance on particular conservation issues. Details of 'Context', the institute's magazine, are provided at the site, as are the texts of archived articles from the journal. |
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Dambusters (May 18 2003 00:57 GMT) - This web site, published by the National Archives, looks at the Dambusters raid that took place during the Second World War. The site looks at the development of the ideas behind the raid, the Barnes Wallis's designs that made it possible to create 'bouncing bombs' which would enable the British to attack German dams, and the creation of a new elite unit, 617 Squadron, headed by Wing Commander Guy Gibson. It also covers the May 1943 mission, Operation Chastise, when 617 Squadron bombed the Mohne, Eder, and Sorpe dams, and the effect the raids had on the German war effort. Alongside the narrative the Dambusters sites offers excellent primary sources in facsimile form. These include examples of Wallis's designs, correspondence about the mission, 617 Squadron's Operational Record Book, photographs of the targets, German records of the impact of the raids, and video footage of bombing trials and Guy Gibson. |
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- Documents Online provides online access to almost a million digitised public records held at the Public Record Office, which are pertinent to both academic and genealogical research. The index can be searched for free, and digital images of records can be downloaded for a small fee. The complete index can be searched, or separate sections can be browsed for a more specific content search. The browse categories are broken into two main sections, Family History, where users can search through wills, and Other Records, which contains a wide range of primary source material. The material in Other Records falls into six categories, New Releases, containing the New Year's Openings, which are the most recently released government documents, Society and Law, containing legal records like title deeds as well as documents relating to crime and immigration, including convict transportation lists, and Military and Defence, which holds resources on espionage, propaganda and defence policy. |
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- Citizenship - a History of People, Rights and Power in Britain is one of the online exhibitions featured on the Public Record Office Pathways to the Past web site. It was developed in a partnership between The National Archive and the House of Lords Record Office, and funded by the New Opportunities Fund. This is an impressive web site, containing a large amount of material on the shaping of the relationship between the people and the state, tracing the development of citizenship in Britain from 1066 until the present day. The content is divided into four main chronological chapters, beginning with Citizen or Subject?, which looks at England, Wales and Scotland in medieval times, from 1066 to 1603. |
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- This is the web site of a TV documentary about the brothers Wilbur and Orville Wright, the pioneers of flight. The show was originally broadcast in 1996 as part of the series 'The American Experience' by the PBS network. The site contains a complete transcript of the original programme, along with a separate article explaining the brothers' background, achievements, and the obstacles they had to overcome. The site also features a QuickTime movie of a flight made by a replica of the Kittyhawk, the plane in which the brothers made their first flights. RealAudio interviews with historians about the Wright brothers may be heard and read at the site, and there is a short bibliography of suggestions for further reading. |
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Mangler (May 18 2003 00:57 GMT) - ZoneMangler (Mangler v1) released... |
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- Add egoboo, an SDL based 3d dungeon crawling adventure PR: 51503 Submitted by: Jan Stocker <Jan. Stocker@t-online. |
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- This is awesome. (very slight Matrix spoiler- no actual plot point revealed) The lesson here is twofold: 1. Good writers... |
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- Wonkish tidbit from the always-informative A Taxing Blog:[T]he other notable thing about the bill is that it would apply to all dividends (as that term is defined under current Section 301) paid during those years, thereby straying from the "all... |
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- A Houston charity that feeds poor children will be under "constant oversight" of a new committee amid allegations its former leaders and some staff members misappropriated funds for airline travel, lavish meals and other personal expenses. |
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- Some students in Alief make a horrifying discovery -- the body of a high school student. The body was found in a burned car near an apartment complex on Rodeo Square near Dairy Ashford. |
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- A Dallas-area man is suing the producers and distributors of the Fox television show "American Idol," contending he originated the title and concept of the program. |
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