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- Seattle, USA - The world music Web site run by one of World Music Central's main collaborators is celebrating its first birthday. Starting on a lark and fondness for world music, Patty-Lynne Herlevi will be celebrating the first anniversary of her homegrown world music site, Cranky Crow World Music June 2003. The celebration will feature CD giveaways (kindly donated by Real World/Narada, Tinder Records, White Swan Music, Naxos World and NorthSide), reviews of summer releases and features along with links to world music festivals around the globe. |
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- I decided last November that I was going to find the time to develop a system to replace Radio Userland as my blogging software. Lots of people had been reporting problems with it and although... |
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- "The organizers of the Wall Street Journal's All Things Digital conference made reporters promise that all sessions were off the record unless the speakers specifically agreed to put the comments on the record. Regular conference attendees were under no such restraint, and as a result we have coverage from the audience, not the journalists." |
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- Whenever I hear the debate about renaming Mt. Clay to Mt. Reagan (as described by Jim), I always get the Monty Python guy in my head, "I'm not dead." Shouldn't you guys be working on the budget or healthcare? |
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Bummed (May 31 2003 21:59 GMT) - Our new cat has a cold he got from the shelter and is sneezing all the time (your only warning is his little mouth opens a split second before you get slimed in cat snot). The Dr. gave us some medicine to give him that he just loooves to take. My role is usually picking him up and holding him as my wife administers the eyedropper of artificial beef flavored fun. The thing is now I can't even enter a room that he is in with out him taking off for cover... |
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- I made my very first eBay purchase this past weekend, and I couldn't be happier. I had a old-ish Dell laptop that had a bum battery, and anytime I would do a search to buy a new replacement, I would be turned off at the high prices. I mentioned this to a guy at work who is big into eBay last week and he brought up a whole list of eBay sellers selling the battery at nearly $100 off what a new one would cost. It was a little hard to get over the fact that I was buying something from someone I had never met, but I jumped in and clicked Buy Now (the Buy Now was only $5 more than the current bid price). A couple days later plus a night of charging and I'm now typing the post from the porch sans wires. |
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- I fixed my lawn mower today... yeah, I can't believe it either. No matter how many times I primed the mower, it just wouldn't turn over. On a wing and a prayer I drove to the hardware store and bought a new spark plug and a new air filter. A couple twists of screws and a few tugs later on the cord and I was good to go. |
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- We met some friends downtown last night for our semi-regular beer night. It was a new location for us that we choose for a change in venue and the fact that it had been recently remodeled. Being a fish out of water in this new location, I felt a little strange, but I grabbed the beer list to see what was on draught. As my eyes scanned the small print I suddenly came to a halt... Sierra Nevada (joy). |
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- J'ai longtemps été un pingouin avant d'être un ours polaire. Je ne veux plus l'être, ça fait trop souffrir. |
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- Je rampe litteralement d'un bout à l'autre de ma chambre;et l'autre bout étant le lit,je risque de m'écrouler et me faire bouffer par les moustiques (Begon ça marche pas) et puis "l'autre bout" il est quand meme loin...Alors j'y vais rarement. |
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- "Tu as l'assurance d'être ce que tu es et d'entretenir la personne que tu as décidé d'être" |
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- Lu sur 154 recettes de cuisine végétalienne : "250g de flocons d'avoine, 4 dl de lait de soja, 700g d'épinards, 2 oignons, 2 càs de levure diététique, noix de muscade, piment de Cayenne (facultatif), 2 càs de margarine végétale, sel marin. Faites gonfler les flocons dans le lait de soja. Lavez et égouttez les épinards. Mettez-les dans une cocotte à fond épais et faites-les fondre ainsi en remuant de temps en temps. |
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- Je profite d'un repos bien mérité après le concours. Je suis rentré chez mes parents, les bagages remplis de livres. Je passe les journées dans ma chambre, plongé dans des textes que je voulais lire depuis longtemps. |
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- Pendant près de 3 mois, les salariés de DAEWOO-ORION ont lutté avec l'Intersyndicale CGT/FO/CFTC contre la casse de l'emploi organisée par un patronat mafieux avec la complicité des pouvoirs publics. |
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- Karl-Friedrich Lenz proposes the idea of setting up a server to provide access to out-of-copyright works in Japan where copyright expires 50 years after the death of the author. This is an interesting idea. The question is, would this pressure the US to change their copyright law or pressure the US to pressure Japan to "harmonize" with the US? |
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- Five minutes before we were to leave for the hospital on Thursday, we receive a call from the hospital that... |
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- As the most highly connected country worldwide--"where more than half of all homes are plugged into high-speed broadband Internet connections"--South Korea's recent presidential election is the one to reflect on for the emergence of "epolitics" or "digital democracy." Candidate Roh Moo-hyun enacted an electronic campaign strategy with the help of a 70,000 strong fan club active online. In fact, for election day, "text messages flashed to the cellphones of almost 800,000 people, urging them to go to the polls." Notably, using electronic communication, Roh, unable to attract voters in previous election campaigns for parliament, is credited with drawing younger voters to the polls, a demographic normally apathetic in Western elections. |
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- Although one of the most idealistic promises of the Internet has been its democratic potential, teachers have increasingly encountered forces of homogenization, standardization, censorship, hierarchy and corporatization. This edited volume, tentatively titled Brave New Classrooms: Educational Democracy and the Internet, is soliciting articles on political theory of electronic education; commodification and marketing of electronic courses; critiques of intellectual content and educational value of electronic courses; |
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- Tom Coates has written an intricate post called "Discussion and Citation in the Blogosphere." He argues that rich debate can happen on weblogs. Some might think that's stating the obvious, right? Coates knows that. To my mind, he's arguing for the academic legitimation of blogging, something that's already happening very quickly (as Charlie linked in this post). |
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- Listed with the notice of the The Chronicle of Higher Education Colloquy Live session on academic blogging is this text from David Glenn which looks at academic blogging. I thought the following a very good description of why academics might blog: Blogging also offers speed; the opportunity to interact with diverse audiences both inside and outside academe; and the freedom to adopt a persona more playful than those generally available to people with Ph. |
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- The Chronicle of Higher Education is hosting a Colloquy Live session on academic blogging: Wednesday, June 4, at 1 p.m., U.S. |
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- Never have I felt so tired, simply after reading a single book. Though not much longer than The Name of... |
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- Never have I felt so tired, simply after reading a single book. Though not much longer than The Name of... |
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- I think I've sent out 40+ resumes now, only to be continously shot down. Case in point, the following letter... |
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- "To abandon hope of speaking truthfully about reality is to abandon the adventure of life." --Lesslie Newbigin, Truth to Tell: The Gospel as Public Truth, 1991, p. 4. Read it in the book with me own eyes. |
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- Deloitte Consulting Global IMPACT DayVolunteers making a difference through building, landscaping, networking computer labs and offices, and relationship-building with the orphanage’s children [PRWEB May 31, 2003] |
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- Much of the land bought in the Louisiana Purchase is being drained of people on the 200th anniversary of the event, which doubled the size of the United States. By Timothy Egan. |
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