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Mystery Ape (Aug 12 2003 02:58 GMT) - CNN reports evidence of a "mystery ape" in the Congo, and the reports sound like descriptions of yeti and sasquatch. [Link] Discuss Mystery Ape document.write("(" + ct_23_LcWS + ")"); |
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- It's Perseid Meteor Shower time again. Unfortunately, viewing will be hampered this year by the full-moon, but it's still worth... |
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- John Darnielle loves Liam Lynch's "United States Of Whatever, calling it possibly the best novelty song ever" The song is... |
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- The longlist of nominees has been announced for the Shortlist Prize. Of the nominees, I'd vote for Kathleen Edwards, Neko... |
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- Elite Force Aviator: George W. Bush, US President and Naval Aviator 12" action figure. the bitter shack... |
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- The Austin City Limits Music Festival has posted schedules for the eight stages of their three day music extravaganza. Luckily... |
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- Nos hacemos eco de esta interesante y extensa reflexión publicada por Jorge Cortell en www.faq-mac.com en la que podemos encontrar abundante información que nos puede ayudar a aclarar un poco el entuerto que se ha producido con las posibles demandas estivales. |
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- El 51,9 por ciento de las 2.813.159 empresas activas en España, es decir, más de 1,4 millones de compañías, no emplea a ningún asalariado, según la última actualización del Directorio Central de Empresas (DIRCE) hecho público hoy por el Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE). |
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- Variable Maximum Transfer Unit, or VMTU is an algorithm for negotiating the packet sizes passed from your Internet Service Provider (ISP) to your Internet TCP connection. Simply download, install, run and let VMTU do all the work for you. It's a Beta, but well worth taking a look at. (Kevin Christley) |
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psa (Aug 12 2003 02:56 GMT) - Just a note: I'm helping some bloggers fill in for Ian of Inoperable Terran while he's vacationing. So far the other bloggers are outblogging me by a margin of 50-1, but I just put up a nifty Tim Blair link... |
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- i have never seen Wacky here before. I only wonder, what |
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- [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Wacky [/i] [B]Princessmichele, Lighten up!! King Wacky [/B][/QUOTE] Yea, Rodentman and |
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- did you resize your ering (wedding band?) My ering and wedding band |
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- I wish i liked gemstones. The only gemstone i have is |
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- And it feels totally sweet! I did a full weight training circuit at the gym this evening. Overall, about 45 minutes. I'm amazed at how uneven my strengths and weaknesses are. Anything lower body I'm in the 350 to 450... |
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- When Microsoft dropped support for DirectDraw in the new releases of DirectX I stopped working with the API as much as I was. Mainly because I do not have the tools, or the skills to create decent 3D Models, or textures. That is why I worked with 2D in the first place. Thankfully GameDev.net has just released an article on how to write a 2D game engine using Direct3D. |
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- Her company's technology may be dragging the entertainment industry, kicking and screaming, into a future of file swapping, but the entertainment industry would rather drag Nikki Hemming and her company into court. (Kevin Christley) |
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- I was in Costco yesterday. They do things a bit differently; they pile books on tables, so that multiple stacks of a book are visible, and you can see several covers of the same book. I was looking over the books, when my eyes were brutally assaulted by at least eight or nine covers featuring psychotic attack harpy Ann Coulter and her latest stinking chunk of offal. That was unacceptable; |
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- After a $55 million cleanup, one of the world's largest hotels is ready to reopen its 453-room Waikiki tower, shut down only a year after it was built because of a persistent mold problem. |
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Josei (Aug 12 2003 02:55 GMT) - anime for high school girls |
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Naomi (Aug 12 2003 02:55 GMT) |
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- Here's candidate George Bush pressing the flesh with Islamic Jihad terrorist kingpin Sami Al-Arian. In light of the federal indictment of Al-Arian and the apparent involvement of the Saudi government... |
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- Peter Berkowitz has written a truly remarkable white paper on freedom and the liberal spirit in America.... |
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- VDH to the rescue, again. Because we are products of an affluent and leisured West, we have a special burden to remember how tenuous and fragile civilization remains outside our... |
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- So what do you do when you've gone to all that trouble and a thousand virgins think that you're too dumb to love? Here's a story about an average American... |
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Gotcha (Aug 12 2003 02:54 GMT) - Screw the sarcasm, this is James Taranto at his hold-their-feet-to- the-fire best. We missed this last week, but it's so stunning that it's worth highlighting even a few days late.... |
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- My brother, an architect, got a Tablet PC recently. What's amazing about this is that he's never one to jump first at anything. He's very cautious. So he's a bit frustrated with the few bumps he's encountered in the "Tablet PC Early Adopter Land." He installed AutoCAD 2004 and he's found that it really needs the keyboard since there are lots of keyboard shortcuts and some annoying bugs, eh, I mean features that require the keyboard to workaround : |
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- Fox News "has sued liberal humorist Al Franken and the Penguin Group to stop them from using the phrase 'fair and balanced' in the title of his upcoming book," Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right, the AP reports.... |
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- Everyone has probably heard of DVD X Copy from 321 Studios. They have a new product out called DVD X Copy Xpress which is just what the doctor ordered. Not only is it dummy proof (add DVD blank, add original DVD movie, click COPY button, wait until blank ejects and copy is completed), it copies the DVD movie onto ONE DVD. (Kevin Christley) |
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- The defense at the Bali bombing trial quotes Michael Moore in their official defense submission. Tim Blair has it all, including the payoff line.... |
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- Guardian Unlimited Aug 11 2003 8:22PM ET... |
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- CNN Aug 11 2003 8:23PM ET... |
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- USA Today Aug 11 2003 8:26PM ET... |
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- Washington Times Aug 11 2003 8:33PM ET... |
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- A Govis organized and sponsored seminar on open source software and government has concluded in New Zealand, bringing more positive highlights to OSS there. |
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- Computer Weekly Aug 11 2003 8:22PM ET... |
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