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- 31.05.2003, 19:59h CET Bits of wit, couplets and quatrains, random thoughts deep and wide |
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- Daily Star (Lebanon): US Congressman Darryl Issa on Friday rejected as inaccurate press reports that he is in Lebanon to offer the government half a billion dollars in US aid in return for neutralizing Hizbullah. |
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- Ausnahmsweise auch einmal eine Buchbesprechung im WebLAWg: Der schweizerische Kinderarzt Prof. Dr. Largo hat mit dem lesenswerten Buch "Glückliche Scheidungskinder"... |
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- Summer is almost here - although it's 55 and raining today in Cleveland - and summer is the time for... |
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all up (May 31 2003 18:56 GMT) - Everything is pretty much up. Still some small minor problems I can't seem to fix. All having to do with... |
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- I was horrified by an obscure bug I discovered when I was working in Photoshop the other day. I opened Photoshop, created a new file, and when I saved it, the default folder where I had last saved files was open, and I just hit return like always. Then I stopped to think, hey wait a minute, I just threw that folder in the Trash! So I looked in the trash, and indeed, inside the trashed folder, there was my newly created Photoshop file. I pulled it out and saved it in a safe place. |
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- Clinton Declares Self President For Life In light of Clinton's renewed effort to have the 22nd Amendment stricken,... |
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- Reuters AlertNet: Sweden said on Saturday it had rejected a request by Indonesia to take action against the Stockholm-based leadership of a separatist rebellion in the province of Aceh. Indonesia, which has stepped up a military offensive to crush the rebels who have fought for independence since 1976, sent a letter to the Swedish government in mid-May demanding steps be taken against the rebel leaders. |
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- Dan Gillmor: Denise Howell has posted Bill Gates' and Steve Jobs' remarks on her weblog. Should I post my own coverage soon, now that Denise (and others in the audience) are filing their own stories? Why shouldn't I? Another example of professional level coverage by a weblogger, and information getting out that otherwise would not. |
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- In "Kashmir", Robert Plant sang, "all will be revealed". The new Led Zeppelin DVD comes the closet to revealing everything that made Zeppelin tick as a live band than anything they've ever released. |
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- Emperor Wale OlateJu was born on 22nd July 1945, in Owotedo, Egbado division of Ogun State. |
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- President Bush made clear that he expected traditional allies that opposed him in the war on Iraq, like Germany and France, to conform to an American vision of a shared future. By Elisabeth Bumiller. |
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- 2 MANIFESTACIONS, 2 CIUTATS...1 MATEIXA IDEA!! - barcelona.indymedia.org: |
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- Dos automovilistas (civiles) intentan atropellar a los manifestantes de Ginebra - barcelona.indymedia.org:8080 |
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Pearl Jam (May 31 2003 18:54 GMT) - Went to see Pearl Jam last night at GM Place. After having prevaricated for so long that when I finally... |
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- If you think Microsoft will provide you with free upgrades for Internet Explorer, think again: As part of the OS, IE will continue to evolve, but there will be no future standalone installations. IE6 SP1 is the final standalone installation. ... Legacy OSes have reached their zenith with the addition... |
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- I can't help it but like Rock & Roll, Can't help it but make you lock your doors and close... |
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Admin: (May 31 2003 18:54 GMT) - People coming, people going. http://marnanel. org/joule?user=azurelunatic is the appropriate link. |
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- a adélia roubou pćo na casa do joćo....... |
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Mille Juifs (May 31 2003 18:54 GMT) - When I was a wee tyke, there was a set of Mille Bornes cards in the den. We didn't have any instructions to go along with them, so I would happily go off on my own and just slap down... |
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- The pieces of a sports car that was split in half lie on a driveway in Delaware County after an early morning crash killed one person overnight. |
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- A carnival worker was convicted of slashing a teenager's neck at last year's Bloomsburg Fair in what authorities said was a dispute over a stuffed animal. |
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- The $1.8-billion budget passed by the Philadelphia school system yesterday includes several provisions educators say will help students. |
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- A federal judge said a school district's decision to bar a disabled student from being her high school's sole valedictorian was a clear case of discrimination. |
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- A group of transplant surgeons, academics, religious leaders and activists wants Congress to test whether cash incentives would encourage more families to donate the organs of relatives following their deaths. |
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- The 22-year-old man who opened fire on police before being shot and killed early Friday had a handgun and an assault rifle in his car. |
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- The Philadelphia Museum of Art has laid off 28 workers seven percent of its staff in its first major layoffs since the mid-1970s. |
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- The Air France Concorde took off on its final commercial flight from New York to Paris on Saturday, soaring into retirement at twice the speed of sound. |
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- While the national terror alert has been dropped a notch, from orange to yellow, Delaware will remain at the "high" risk level. |
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- A mercy-killing campaigner has demonstrated a prototype do-it-yourself suicide machine designed to kill quickly and peacefully with a few breaths of carbon monoxide. |
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- Small towns across America could be without fireworks this Fourth of July. |
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- A judge has upheld the suspension of an 11-year-old boy from a youth baseball league after he punched another player in the back. |
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- A Lehigh County jury has decided a 24-year-old Allentown man should be put to death for killing a man playing basketball in a crowded city park in 2001. |
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- A Justice Department official is confirming the man arrested in North Carolina is Olympic Park bombing suspect Eric Rudolph. |
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- Tornadoes cut across central Illinois for the second time in a week, destroying about 15 homes and damaging dozens of others, state and county emergency officials said. |
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- More than 165 paddlers are heading down the Schuylkill River today as part of the 5th Annual Schuylkill River Sojourn. |
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- Three Pennsylvania men charged with sexually assaulting two male schoolmates while in the Boston area on an honor students field trip are scheduled to face trial in Massachusetts in June. |
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- Environmental officials predict a worse than usual mosquito season for the region. |
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- They keep a place set for Father Divine in the grand dining room at Woodmont, the French Gothic manor where he once greeted thousands of followers who believed he was God. |
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- Two sons of former Councilman Ernest W. Scott Jr. have been sentenced to prison for their involvement in the drug trafficking and fraud operations led by their father. |
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- An ex-wife who was convicted of stealing 1,400 pictures taken by famed railroad photographer O. Winston Link was arrested again Thursday after some of his photos showed up for sale on eBay. |
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- My best friend took a book out of the library called the Amber Spy Glass. They are really good books.... |
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Linking (May 31 2003 18:53 GMT) - Some have asked permission to link to this site and specific articles. While I'm flattered that people feel the need to ask, consider this post a blanket permission to link to anything on here. If you want to give a shout-out, a rebuke, whatever. The nature of the Web is to form links and no one need ask my permission to link here. It's free and open to the public. |
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- From The Economist. Mr Hussein had what police call form. He made and used chemical weapons in the 1980s. Throughout the 1990s, he strove to hide his WMD programme from Unscom, the un inspectorate then responsible for dismantling it. In... |
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