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- What the warming relationship between Germany and Russia means for the world. |
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- Israel declared over the weekend that it is cutting off ties with the BBC to protest a repeat broadcast of a documentary about non-conventional weapons said to be in Israel. The program was broadcast for the first time in March in Britain, and was rerun Saturday on a BBC channel that is aired all over the world. The boycott decision was made by Israel's public relations forum, made up of representatives from the Prime Minister's Office, the Foreign Ministry and the Government Press Office. It was decided that government offices won't assist BBC producers and reporters, that Israeli officials will not give interviews to the British network, and that the Government Press Office will make it difficult for BBC employees to get press cards and work visas in Israel. Before the broadcast Saturday, Israeli officials tried to pressure the BBC to cancel the broadcast, saying that the program was biased and presented Israel as an evil dictatorship. |
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- Elsewhere in Tuesday's newspapers: The Los Angeles Times reports here that "Ruling on Religious Land Use Is on Hold." In other news, "Landlords Win Right to Stop Renting; Justices say a property can be taken off the market if residents are annoying. The |
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- These billion dollars brought to you by the letters D-M-C-A. |
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- This may be the first hint of the next generation of internet searching tools. IBM has been working on a... |
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- Now that you've been commenting and posting your feeds in that handy dandy field I have there - I've now... |
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- 1. What was your first layout about? PRetty much the same as I have now. 2. Who was your first... |
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- Despite my still painful leg (it actually only hurts when I stand still bizarrely) I went for an 8 mile walk with my brother and niece up a great big hill. Like building patios this has been the kind of thing I have been lacking in the last few months of constant writing (and trying to write). It's a much better work-out than even anything Nelson could devise (I mean my personal trainer, not the historical figure for any non-regulars. |
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- Heading up to the Lake District today for the second leg of my holiday, which involves a caravan, a couple of tents and my mum, dad, brother and niece. I am going camping. I feel I am unlikely to feature in the pages of Hello magazine in the near future. |
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- Generally I don't expect to see the phrase "heavy vaginal bleeding" on a subway ad. But I guess subway commuters make a good target market for drugs. Seeing that the folks selling street drugs can't buy advertising, us strap hangers are left with reading ads for prescription drug companies. In some of the not-fine-enough-print are some real delightful possible side effects.The ad in this case was for a "morning after" pill, a pill a woman can take as an emergency contraceptive. |
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- Security Focus has an article entitled "Steganography Revealed" which explains the basic theory behind hiding data in graphics files.... |
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- Security Focus has an article entitled "Steganography Revealed" which explains the basic theory behind hiding data in graphics files.... |
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- Sync Entourage-Address Book synchronizes Entourage X and Apple's Address Book in OS 10.2.2 and later. It allows you to maintain Entourage as your centralized Personal Information Manager while at the same time taking advantage of the direct access provided to Fax programs, iSync, iChat, iPod, the new .Mac Address Book, and more by OS X's Address Book. |
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- Look, up in the sky, it's a search engine, it's a phone book, it's....a calculator? Start/Programs/Accessories/aww screw it, I've got Google. Found this by searching for my phone number (with the parens in the wrong place) because a magazine article told my girlfriend to. By the way, my phone number is -7 662. |
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- It "...has no side effects, causes no allergic reactions, is not addictive" and patients can even be taught how to administer it to themselves, yet hypnosis isn't used as widely as pain drugs, anitdepressants and pharmaceuticals. (More inside.) |
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- A new computer worm has been born, and area network security groups are still trying to figure out what to name it as it makes its way into the world. |
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Join Arnold (Aug 13 2003 02:29 GMT) - Will I Join Arnold for the recall election? Will I support another Republican? Or will I vote Libertarian? I don't know. Hopefully we'll get some interesting posts here that will help me decide. |
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- A visibly angry Bill Ratliff, a Republican State Senator (Mount Pleasant) had said before hand he stood by the notion that the Democrats have a con... - nyc.indymedia.org:8080 |
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Queer Eye (Aug 13 2003 02:29 GMT) - Can it be? Is "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" not on in Canada? I can't find it anywhere in... |
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- Deus do céu. Das duas tentativas de escrever BLOG não acertei nenhuma. ¬¬ |
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- Haha foi legal sim. Só que eu não assisti inteiro, fui ver a mulher da novela que morreu. Cê tem que gravar e pôr no site a sua versão de Agamamou. Quem vota na cena do "Blg'n'Roll volta djá!" - com dedinho - pra Best Of Capanema in Bolg'n'Roll? |
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- Fred Kaplan of Slate apparently has no problem accusing the Bush administration and/or the US military of fabricating evidence of... |
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- Wired has the scoop on the latest advances in artificial diamonds. Given the current situation in Africa, I found this... |
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- A great seven inning duel in Cincinnati tonight between Curt Schilling and Paul Wilson. Schilling gave up six hits but struck out 11 without allowing a run in his seven innings. Wilson only allowed three hits, but Steve Finley took... |
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- Heather Newman wrote, "Pills for Video Game Players", which examines the use of herbal supplements sold to improve gaming performance. Heather points out that because the supplements are herbal, no government testing is required, and she questions the use of green orange extract, which has been linked to heightened blood pressure and heart palpitations. What in the world have we come to? The steroids for geeks? (Meryl) |
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- In 1952 a disaster hit London: in five days, 4000 died; those who died months later from the aftereffects may have numbered some 8000 more. Don't recall hearing about it? It was the Great Smog |
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- Fidel Castro, the world's longest ruling leader, turns 77 Wednesday after a year that saw his communist-run island grow even more isolated as he lashed out at his European allies and jailed some of his most vocal critics. |
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- WASHINGTON (AP) - A suspected arms dealer who thought he was selling a shoulder-fired missile to a Muslim terrorist bent on shooting down an airliner was actually the target of an international sting operation that resulted in three arrests, officials say. Authorities in the United States, Britain and Russia cooperated in the investigation, which... |
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