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- Penguins Cause Insomnia: FIRST DAY OF BAND CAMP bailey talks about band camp; new band teacher is evidently a dick,... |
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- sjbrown posted a link to a Guide To Writing Games he is working on, specifically using Python and PyGame. He is stressing the Model-View-Controller design approach. The tutorial already has numerous screenshots, code samples, and has info on multiplayer networking using the Twisted framework. |
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- When I downloaded the Jesus Switch parody, I was expecting something along the lines of, "I was once considered King... |
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- Ever go to the Louvre and wonder how the hell Caravaggio made his faces so crazily lifelike? A controversial book suggests that the Old Masters were quietly getting some technological help on the side. Artist David Hockney has a new book -- Secret Knowledge -- that claims da Vinci and his contemporaries were using camera obscuras and mirrors to project their real-life subjects onto the canvas, and then simply tracing the images. As CBS reports: Hockney says it started in Bruges, Belgium, one of Europe's great 15th century commercial centers, where that optical look, a photographic look, first appeared in the works of Flemish masters like Jan van Eyck. |
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- From the early inception, domain names were treated like third-class citizens in the corporate arenas and also legislative bodies. Now the courts are recognizing domain names as hard assets. |
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- California now has in excess of 130 candidates on the ballot for governor. With the recall of Gray Davis virtually a forgone conclusion, the special election has become a free-for-all. |
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- The Florida Medicaid Fraud Control Unit issued an investigative subpoena to Tenet Healthcare (NYSE: THC) seeking employee personnel records and contracts with physicians. |
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- A Special Series - "The business of educating our children", Part III: School counselors and researchers agree that high school sports produce more than dumb jocks, and band practice can motivate students academically. |
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- More good information from t r u t h o u t : WASHINGTON, D.C. — Even though Bush has... |
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- TAYLOR, Pa. - A small-town mayor was arrested by state police, accused of printing sexually explicit images of naked boys from the computer in his borough office. |
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- Okay. I've got a bottle of Oban scotch sitting here on my desk. It's very nice stuff -- not too peaty, but with enough bite to make it tasty. It's a reasonably expensive scotch, probably about $50 a bottle. I love Oban, would prefer to drink this bottle myself. |
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- Sorry for the lack of updates. We have a major deadline at work, and I will be completely off the Net from tonight till Friday. Why is still a secret, but I do plan on sharing Friday sometime (maybe even Thursday if I'm awake). On a totally unrel... |
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- "It was a case of learning from their child's homework. Peter and Vicky Markstein had long careers in computer science with no interest in biology. But the two researchers helped their daughter Michele with her biology doctorate research in 1999 and so stumbled onto the emerging field of bioinformatics." |
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- Management software bug may cost $500,000 a month; Delay indefinite, officials say; System to handle staffing, payroll, budget functions |
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- Move may save Maryland up to $20 million annually |
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- Council members to seek controls on vicious dogs |
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- VS.NETistä on luvassa näemmä uutta versiota tasaisen tappavaan tahtiin joka vuosi aina vuoteen 2005. Toivottavasti kehitys ei ole samanlaista kuin 02 ja 03 -versioiden välillä. VS.NET 2003 pitää nimittäin sisällään muutaman pienen työtä hidastavan bugin, joita ei 2002 versioista löytynyt. |
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- Which Fantasy/SciFi Character Are You? #Yeah, another one... |
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FYI (Aug 12 2003 05:56 GMT) - FYI #Ed has a new url. |
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- Paul Bradley (see his blog) of Clarity Innovations, Inc. has a TeacherHosting service, which offers different plans for hosting weblogs specifically for teachers and their students. |
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- NEW YORK - A judge rejected a request by Adelphia Communications Corp. founder John Rigas and one of his sons to be tried separately from two other men accused of looting the cable company. |
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- Two mild tremors struck southern Bangladesh early Tuesday, but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage. A magnitude 2.02 quake jolted the southern port city of Chittagong and its adjoining areas at 3.25 a.m. |
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- The wheels of progress turn slowly, but they do turn. |
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- Check out Alec Saunders In Vino Veritas, a blog about wine. He's based in Ottawa but wine is universal! |
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- If you're entering your first year of law school within the next couple of weeks, I'd highly recommend former guest blogger Bobby A-G's article on advice for first year law students. There's good advice in the comments, too. My own... |
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- Gay Dreaming: The AMC Project: Gay Hollywood. TV: If you're insecure and scare easily, Hollywood isn't the town for you. |
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- Chatting with Steve Cropper of Booker T. & the MG's. (Seattle Weekly) The perfectly placed lick. Kung fu soul music, haiku rhythm-and-blues. I have no idea how he did it, his playing is utterly simple, and completely elusive. |
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- Gay Dreaming: The AMC Project: Gay Hollywood. TV: If you're insecure and scare easily, Hollywood isn't the town for you. |
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- Anyone wanna buy me this? <img src="http://i. walmart. |
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- PITTSBURGH - The Pittsburgh Pirates are cutting 11 people from their front office, a move officials expect to save the struggling team as much as $500,000. |
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- I have recently finished reading, "Nationalism and Culture". Excitement ensues below.... |
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- corruption convention talks to continue in september |
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Slash-what (Aug 12 2003 05:51 GMT) - We only read Slashdot for the comments and so should everybody. (via Slashdot/Cleverhack) |
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- Transmeta's new mobile chip has the terrible name of Efficeon. Weird: not even one single bit of information at the Transmeta site. However, for some kind of reason I have a hard time saying that word. They should have kept it easier for foreigners like me and called it 'TMS 8000'. |
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- Since I still have nothing original to write about, I begged volunteered to answer Lawrence's !Five Pointless Questions. Unfortunately, the bastard asked me some toughies. So much for an easy ride. 1. |
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- Comcast.net down, nationwide, apparently, according to a message posted on their web site. At least that is my guess - none of this is official. It starts by implying that engineers are doing network maintenance, but notes that the outage was logged at 9:21 pm EDT (5: |
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- ::Rabblerouser:: Is my first attemtp at setting up the Mambo Open Source content management system, and so far, I’m really... |
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- I alternate between two different rings. Right now I have it set to play that "Charge" thing they play at... |
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- Patentverletzung kostet Softwarehersteller 521 Millionen |
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