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- With all the focus on Howard Dean and blogging in the last couple of months, it seems a number of other politicians have started to get the message that maybe there is something to this whole "blogging" thing. Of course, they then attack it in typical politician fashion and assign an aide to come up with a blog for them. Maureen Dowd at the NY Times takes a look at a bunch of the new Presidential candidate blogs and is not very impressed, pointing out that none of them really have the off-the-cuff type of speech that makes blogs worth reading and makes readers feel like they have a connection with the writer. Specifically, she wanted to see politicians insulting each other. The only political blogger she thought got it right was one who decided early on not to run: |
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- It looks like De Beers' long monopoly is coming to end. The Wired story "The New Diamond Age" presents not one but two new processes for manufacturing synthetic diamon. One uses a device originally invented in Russia, which uses the... |
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- Caribbean Dinghy Champs In Martinique. caribbeanracing.com Aug 12 2003 11:51PM ET |
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- (Australia) New clinic targets young drug users The clinic will provide pharmacotherapy prescriptions such as methadone and buprenorphine, outpatient withdrawal (detoxification), testing for blood-borne virus, alcohol and drug information, support and referral. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(100%), $propaganda_theme1(100%), $propaganda_theme3(50%), $use_is_abuse(100%), $propaganda_theme4(100%), $propaganda_theme5(70%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(95%), $narcotic(100%), $opioid(100%), $alcohol(50%), $various_drugs(95%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
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- (US) Former coach Dave Bliss and athletic director Tom Stanton abruptly resigned last week after school officials revealed that Bliss was involved in two players receiving improper financial aid and that staff members did not properly report failed drug tests by players. [$drug_related(50%), $drugwar_propaganda(60%), $propaganda_theme2(50%), $use_is_abuse(60%), $propaganda_theme4(60%), $illegal_drugs(50%), $drugs(90%), $various_drugs(90%), $various_illegal_drugs(50%)] |
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- Google is the coolest web site EVER! They've built in the most wicked cool calculator you've ever seen. I don't know how long it's been in there, but it does the most obscure conversions you could possibly imagine. Say for instance if you wanted a parsec expressed in inches. So cool, I've been playing with it for literally seconds. |
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- A write-in election might just give Davis the recall with a capital N-O. Neither S-c-h-w-a-r-z-e-n-e-g-g-e-r nor B-u-s-t-a-m-a-n-t-e would have any sure votes. |
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- Support for President Bush on Iraq appears to have stabilized after a precipitous drop earlier this summer, according to a new Washington Post Poll. |
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- Posada goes 4-for-5, including 1 homer, in 6-0 N.Y. victory |
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- San Diego smacks 24 hits in 14-4 victory over Braves |
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- Prosecutor denounced Sizemore as a violent abuser, saying that Sizemore beat Heidi Fleiss. |
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- There are reasons other than Anne of Green Gables fandom for people to visit Canadas Prince Edward Island. By Erica Johnston for The Washington Post. |
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- La semana pasada escuchando la radio, me encontré con una canción grandiosa, una canción que se parece mucho a... |
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- La semana pasada escuchando la radio, me encontré con una canción grandiosa, una canción que se parece mucho a... |
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- AKQA, a leading digital communications agency in San Francisco, has been selected by Xbox and Microsoft Game Studios to develop online advertising campaigns for its line of leading Xbox and PC game titles including campaigns for such hotly anticipated holiday titles as "Project Gotham Racing 2," "Top Spin," "Grabbed by The Ghoulies" and "NFL Fever 2004" for Xbox along with popular games titles for the PC such as "Age of Empires," "Flight Simulator: Century of Flight," and "Halo." |
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- "It is like writing history with Lightning. And my only regret is that it is all so terribly true." -- Woodrow Wilson, after viewing the pro-KKK movie Birth of a Nation Woodrow Wilson was the only President of the United... |
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- As a British blogger, I am of course duty bound to post about how hot it's been recently. It's been unusually hot recently. Right, that's that out of the way. Actually having said that, it hasn't been as bad here as in the rest of the country; my parents came down from ... |
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- I have been using the spam filter of Mac OS X for about a year, and the effectivity has varied a lot, getting as low as 70% of received spam messages. On the other hand, currently the filter is performing excellently: 239 recognized spam messages out of 266 messages received in one week. Thus, the filter recognized 90% of spam. Not bad. |
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- XML software company Software AG has formed an offshore IT services joint venture with US based iGate Global Solutions. The 50-person ... |
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- XML software company Software AG has formed an offshore IT services joint venture with US based iGate Global Solutions. The 50-person ... |
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- XML software company Software AG has formed an offshore IT services joint venture with US based iGate Global Solutions. The 50-person ... |
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- XML software company Software AG has formed an offshore IT services joint venture with US based iGate Global Solutions. The 50-person ... |
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- My phone card has joined with the ghosts of the legions of socks that once marched proudly, two by two into the laundry to emerge with their numbers seriously depleted, ravaged by the dark forces that lurk there. So I guess I won't be calling Mama just now. Pity. Bad geek did not update her service packs. Bad geek. |
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Wooo! (Aug 13 2003 05:16 GMT) - I'm so glad, the internet is working again!!! :) About 5 minutes after I agreed to go to the gym... |
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Wooo! (Aug 13 2003 05:16 GMT) - I'm so glad, the internet is working again!!! :) About 5 minutes after I agreed to go to the gym... |
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- WHudson writes "Relevantive AG, a German consulting firm who recently completed a study on Linux usability, posted their results in English translation today. ... |
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- Meanwhile, Etenna of Laurel, Md., has released the EdgeWave quad-band antenna, which supports 802.11a, b and g, as well as Bluetooth. ... |
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- Meanwhile, Etenna of Laurel, Md., has released the EdgeWave quad-band antenna, which supports 802.11a, b and g, as well as Bluetooth. ... |
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- Meanwhile, Etenna of Laurel, Md., has released the EdgeWave quad-band antenna, which supports 802.11a, b and g, as well as Bluetooth. ... |
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- China is often viewed around the blogosphere as the evil red bogeyman and some have tried to cast the country as the next adversary of the US following the demise of the Soviet Empire. Indeed, Bush’ first foreign policy crisis... |
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- IBM to court--and which is the target of a countersuit by Big Blue--has threatened corporations with legal action if they don't purchase licenses to its Unix. ... |
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- IBM to court--and which is the target of a countersuit by Big Blue--has threatened corporations with legal action if they don't purchase licenses to its Unix. ... |
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- IBM to court--and which is the target of a countersuit by Big Blue--has threatened corporations with legal action if they don't purchase licenses to its Unix. ... |
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