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Fruit (Aug 13 2003 03:53 GMT) - For a long time there, I was drowning in medical information. Clear, flavorless, and of a volume that is difficult... |
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- This one goes in the "You've Got to Be Kidding" department; the |
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- A plot to smuggle a shoulder-launched surface-to-air missile into the United States was foiled today: |
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- Former deputy assistant secretary of defense Peter Brookes reminds us that there's a reason why North Korea was included in George Bush's Axis of Evil -- and that Pakistan should ... |
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- The scumbags released from jail by Israel as a "good will" gesture toward the Palestinians are now calling for more violence and kidnappings, and scorning the agreements disavowing terrorism that ... |
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- LGF reader Dave Burge (known as "iowahawk" in these here parts) has passed on a dispatch from the Loony Tunes news service that's oddly reminiscent of today's loony pronouncements from ... |
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- At Winds of Change, Trent Telenko has a very interesting theory/analysis of recent developments vis a vis the Saudi oil ticks -- and how their oil weapon may be defused: ... |
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- hahahaha Aldo's Pianito.... |
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- I'm back from the Retail Tech show, and convinced that Murphy is alive and well. It was one of those trips where nothing goes right from start to finish... 1) TNT Lost our Gear. We freighted 7 boxes of gear to Sydney for the show. TNT lost 6 of them, and didn't deliver them until late on Monday (fortunately Monday was a set up day). |
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- In Israël zijn dinsdagmorgen kort na elkaar twee aanslagen gepleegd; in een winkelcentrum in de buurt van Tel Aviv en bij de joodse nederzetting Ariel op de Westelijke Jordaanoever. Bij de aanslagen vielen vier doden... |
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- De Liberiaanse president Charles Taylor heeft maandag zijn functie neergelegd, en is vertrokken naar Nigeria. Hij droeg de macht over aan vice-president Blah.... |
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- De vermeende rekenfout bij het verdelen van de vluchten over Schiphol is een leugen, meent GroenLinks. De partij pleit voor een parlementair onderzoek naar 'vrijstaat Schiphol'... |
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- Familie, vrienden en collega's van de ontvoerde Nederlandse hulpverlener Arjan Erkel reizen dinsdag met een speciale 'Arjan-bus' naar Den Haag voor een bezoek aan premier Balkenende en de Russische ambassade... |
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- Het ministerie van Defensie heeft te weinig mariniers naar Irak gestuurd, waardoor het bataljon is opgezadeld met een onmogelijke opdracht.... |
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- Mirna Louisa-Godett is beëdigd als premier van de Nederlandse Antillen. Haar broer en aanstaand adviseur, FOL-leider Anthony Godett, hield zich opzichtig afzijdig.... |
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- Bedrijven moeten voor het eerst betalen voor kopieën uit bladen en boeken. De rekening is te hoog, vinden ze. De ontvanger denkt van niet.... |
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- Opnieuw zucht het internet onder een virus. Sinds begin deze week is een groot aantal computers met het besturingssysteem Windows besmet met Blaster, een wormvirus.... |
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- Ok, more Pointless Questions coming in a while. I need to think up a few more and, besides, it's so hot here that unless I get into a very cold shower in the very near future, my brain is likely to melt. In the meantime, let me reiterate that any blogs participating in the Pointless Exercise of Pointless Questions should ping me with their reply. If you don't have a TrackBack-enabled blog, use Kevin's manual Trackback form so you can get your two automatic links from EV. If you don't, I won't know about your answers. |
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- Regular readers may remember the series on the draft EU Constitution I posted last spring, Part I and Part II and Part III. The Washington Times has a piece comparing and contrasting the U.S. Constitution with the draft EU Constipation... |
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- Last week Steven Den Beste wrote a second post criticizing the Bush Administration for covering up for the House of Saud. Certainly the decision to redact out of the 9/11 report details of the Saudi linkages to the 9/11 terrorists... |
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Hookahs (Aug 13 2003 03:51 GMT) - This is a great resource for fans of the Sacred Narghile (or hookah).... |
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Hookahs (Aug 13 2003 03:51 GMT) - This is a great resource for fans of the Sacred Narghile (or hookah). |
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- I agree with you that for occassional "ping"s HTTP would be best. I was thinking originally that you'd want to have almost continuous updates, so the overhead of IIOP might be justifiable.Regardless,... |
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- Fast Spreading Worm Attacks Microsoft Windows. An Internet worm aimed at the Microsoft Windows operating system was rapidly spreading around the world today, infecting home users and company networks alike. By Kirk Semple. [New York Times: NYT HomePage] Amazing... |
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- (US) Baylor president Robert Sloan said school investigators discovered that Bliss was involved in two players' receiving improper financial aid and that staff members did not properly report failed drug tests by players. [$drug_related(50%), $drugwar_propaganda(60%), $propaganda_theme2(50%), $use_is_abuse(60%), $propaganda_theme4(60%), $illegal_drugs(50%), $drugs(95%), $various_drugs(95%), $various_illegal_drugs(50%)] |
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- (US) Baylor president Robert Sloan said school investigators discovered that Bliss was involved in two players' receiving improper financial aid and that staff members did not properly report failed drug tests by players. [$drug_related(50%), $drugwar_propaganda(60%), $propaganda_theme2(50%), $use_is_abuse(60%), $propaganda_theme4(60%), $illegal_drugs(50%), $drugs(95%), $various_drugs(95%), $various_illegal_drugs(50%), $dea_prime_contractor(50%)] |
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- (India) The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) recovered heroin worth Rs 27 crore from a Nigerian passenger who was about to board the August Kranti Rajdhani Express at Mumbai Central on Monday afternoon. [$drug_related(100%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(100%), $narcotic(100%), $opiate(100%), $depressant(100%), $various_drugs(95%)] |
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- (Taiwan, Province of China) Claimed that he was a "heavenly god" catching ghosts in the human world during Ghost Month.[$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(85%), $propaganda_theme1(85%), $propaganda_theme2(60%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(95%), $narcotic(100%), $opiate(100%), $various_drugs(95%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
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- Flash drive maker adds boot feature. In a move that may speed the death of floppy disk drives, M-Systems says its USB flash memory storage device can now start a PC's boot-up process. [CNET News.com] |
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AWG (Aug 13 2003 03:50 GMT) - +Aruban guilder; disamb. notice |
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- I had no idea that debian was 10 years old. Amazing.... |
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Cars. (Aug 13 2003 03:49 GMT) - I was into cars, once upon a time. I'm not talking Matchbox and Hot Wheels, here, although I liked those,... |
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Soda Sweet (Aug 13 2003 03:49 GMT) - Twenty years ago, the Coca-Cola Company began making Diet Coke with NutraSweet. There were Coke machines in my high school.... |
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huh. (Aug 13 2003 03:49 GMT) - not atrocious. (see previous post.) weird, awkward, and mildly inappropriate, but not atrocious. small blessings; film at eleven. |
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- As promised, here's the now available link to David Brooks's article on political and cultural tribalism from the Atlantic Monthly.... |
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- The business case for call-center applications is clear: increasing revenue through up-selling and cross-selling while responding to customer inquiries or complaints. For a myriad of reasons, achieving this ideal has not been easy. Turnover is notoriously high in call centers. On top of that, expected cost efficiencies never seem to be realized. |
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- In the brave new world of lower access fees in exchange for spam, satisfied consumers would pay less for Internet service, say researchers at the University of Missouri in Columbia. ISPs would cover their discount costs with ad dollars from spammers, and advertisers would improve their marketing efficiency. |
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- IT specialists at businesses, educational institutions and other organizations throughout the U.S. are working feverishly to thwart a worm that exploits a vulnerability in Microsoft's Windows operating system, but it continues to spread. |
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- Bonds fell after today's FOMC meeting--possibly because the Fed dropped from its statement the phrase in which it worries about the economy's ability to deliver "sustainable growth": WSJ.com - Fed's Message Boosts Stocks: Stocks jumped and bonds fell after the Federal Reserve left its interest-rate targets unchanged, as hope spread among investors that an economic recovery is under way. Despite the Fed's effort Tuesday to reassure bond investors by saying that it doesn't plan to raise interest rates "for a considerable period," investors focused mainly on the prospects for economic growth. |
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- The Economist explains the currently-limited power of monetary policy: Economist.com: Of course, what the Fed manages to convey about what it will do in the future is as important as what it does or does not do in the present. The FOMC has its hands on only the shortest of short-term interest rates--the overnight rate at which banks can borrow federal funds. |
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- Where else but in the "comments" on my weblog would somebody come out eight-octagon in favor of functional indoor plumbing? (August 12, 2003 06:37 PM: "Could I just point out that the philosophy of 'I would be a better, happier person if I only got that new technological gadget' has failed so spectacularly at the personal level" "I dunno, toilets are nice.") |
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- The Economist notes the large wedge between output growth and employment growth in America today: Economist.com: AMERICA'S economy is now supposedly on the road to recovery, but somebody forgot to tell the labour market. Non-farm payrolls fell by another 44,000 in July. |
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