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- I think it's ironic that a man in an ad for Turner Classic Movies, that runs right before Matrix Reloaded, tries to buy tickets for "Visually Stunning but Ultimately Pointless Sequel". WARNING: SPOILERS UPDATE: This guy does a great job of explaining the philosophical and religious thought that went into the sequel, and he even makes two predictions that I did, namely that Agent Smith will end up helping Neo, and that the young kid that Neo apparently saved at one point will end up playing a pivotal role in Revolutions. Well worth reading for the curious. |
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- This wasn't supposed to be the script. Despite economic chaos and financial looting by the elites, Argentina was supposed to... |
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- Guardian: The blog clog myth. The trouble is that when potentially legitimate concerns about Google's weaknesses are shrouded in conspiracy theories, and other stuff that's just plain wrong, we all reach for those in-built filters far stronger than anything Google can supply: the ones that help us smell BS from afar, and route round it without further ado. Then, one day when Google really does get it wrong, the message will be all the harder to get out. |
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- Napster reborn! Roxio buys PressPlay The Register - Roxio is to relaunch Napster, on the back of today's $39m cash and stock acquisition of PressPlay, the download music service, from Sony and Universal Music. The company is the proud owner of the Napster name and P2P file trading technology, acquired for $5m last November. But from the sound of it, there won't be much in the way of file trading, legal or otherwise: |
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- NEW YORK - WorldCom agrees to pay $500 million to investors. |
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- has Damon Albarn officially gone crazy? according to NME, Damon wants Blur to record their next album in Baghdad!!! quoth Albarn, "(I want to do it) even if everyone thinks I'm crazy. I love the way the Iraqis arrange strings and vocals. |
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- anyone who's anyone takes a few hours each and every Sunday to pour through The New York Times. and if you were one of the lucky ones just yesterday, you got to see not one but TWO articles on blogging. the first focuses on dating someone who blogs, but it's really more about people's anxieties to reveal the fact that they actually take time out of their lives to post. |
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- Ahum, nog wat last van de naweeen van het heli-relaas. |
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big dyke (May 19 2003 15:57 GMT) - Yesterday I got my first Butch comment on my haircut. I don't think it is the hair that makes me... |
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- I have to add one more thing. Craig at Lead and Gold takes down a NY Times article that gets... |
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- It's here! Salon Blogs' unofficial digest, which includes:The Matrix ReloadedDoorsNot AnonymousBirdsImage, Truth, and The Bush AdministrationBlogger TherapyNoisy Constitution DayOn SuicideWhat happens if Democrats return to power?Ballad of the Old Lamp BaseBlair!BackboneLetters to the Editor: |
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- Seriously I need one! My entire body has decided to claim war on me. Our power here at work keeps... |
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- Traditionally, the <a> tag in HTML has served three purposes: providing a link to another URL providing an "anchor", whereby... |
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- Press Release (PDF): Fishbowl & JTech Partner for Restaurant Industry Guest Loyalty Program Interesting announcement about a program designed to integrate email, wireless messaging and a loyalty CRM program for restaurants. When a guest enters the restaurant and identifies himself as a regular customer and member of the loyalty program, the greeter can call up the patron's record in the CRM system, learn about his frequency, preferences, etc., and let the staff know details with a wireless pager system what kind of service perks the diner deserves. Then, the VIP relationship can be nurtured later through custom email alerts. |
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- I’m grateful that I lack a daily commute. I really hate Chicago Traffic. On our way back from Chicago last Friday I witnessed some really unhappy people. One driver, intent on short-cutting traffic by driving on the shoulder, was stopped by the two cars in front of us. |
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Our Party (May 19 2003 15:56 GMT) - Two nights ago we had a big gathering hosted at the girls' dorm to celebrate another successful semester! There was good food and great atmosphere. Everyone was so happy to be finished with portfolio work and excited to begin summer vacation. It was a bilingual party and everyone was chatting in half-Japanese, half-English; it was fantastic. |
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- From: "Erika Berger" <yhk9a2s9of@yahoo.ca> ganz schoen runter, die dame. |
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- While we await the U.S. Supreme Court's posting of today's opinions online: Let me be among the first to observe that, as best as anyone can tell, the Court's ruling today in Breuer v. Jim's Concrete of Brevard has absolutely nothing to do with comedian Jim Breuer, who once was a cast member on Saturday Night Live. |
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- "Roe v. Wade and Bush v. Gore: Making judicial activism 'mainstream.'" Nelson Lund has this essay today at National Review Online. |
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- Michael Page beat the RIAA because he was able to spoonfeed the judge the distinction between centralized and decentralized P2P... |
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- 2.57 miles, average speed of 8.8 MPH. Ouch. And the cycle computer doesn? |
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- Although most of the Web services examples in tutorials and books are green-field developments -- that is, started from scratch with little or no concern for legacy systems -- that is not a likely scenario in most enterprises. When large organizations contemplate Web services, they are seeking more efficient interactions with customers or trading partners with whom they already have relationships. |
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- The W3C’s architecture folks have a strawman up on the problem of IDs. Simply put, the problem is this: It’s nice to be able to uniquely identify a given element in an XML document. |
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- The W3C’s architecture folks have a strawman up on the problem of IDs. Simply put, the problem is this: It’s nice to be able to uniquely identify a given element in an XML document. |
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- Tourism officials in Monroe, Michigan are considering putting "4-foot-tall dudded up muskrats" around town to drum up tourism, similar to New York's cows or Toronto's mooses. Apparently locals also host mukrat dinners! I wish it weren't so, but it should be noted that I was born just a few miles... |
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- Seems that I had some antique RSS templates in place, from an old (probably the first installed) version of Movable Type. I've upgraded to a new set of templates, from the instructions on feeds.archive.org. Now there are brand-spanking-newish 1. |
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- New Controller May Jump Start iSCSI Market ... The Sad State Of Storage Security ... Disney DVDs to Self-Destruct in 48 Hours ... Gartner: Flash Memory Market Booming [Technology News from eWEEK and Ziff Davis] Synopsis of storage news with links to full story. |
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