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- Christian Crumlish: Blogistan Pie. Hot on the heels of Steven Frank's memorable Ben & Mena... Now let's just hope the Recording Industry Association of America doesn't manage to lay its hands on it! |
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- Excerpt: "Employers pay staff anything from 25 percent to 35 percent above their agreed salaries in work-related benefits, according to Santa Barbara entrepreneur Larry DuBois.... Mr. DuBois says not all employers realize the cost of benefits and very few workers appreciate the full value of their employment package. His company's mission is to change all that. |
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- Excerpt: "The push is on to make generic the prescription brand of choice. Last year, for the first time ever, generic drugs commanded more market than brand-name prescription medicines ..." (The [Raleigh, N.C. |
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- Excerpt: "The Galen Institute Center for Consumer Driven Health Care has compiled a list of companies offering consumer driven health care products. Employers, individuals, and others can search the directory to find information on products companies offer and how to contact them." (The Galen Institute) |
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- Anti-virus companies have been sounding alarms about a new internet pest called, variously, MsBlast, MBlast, Blaster, Poza and Lovesan -- and if your Windows browser keeps rebooting, you've got it. |
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- There are hopeful signs the 34th Pacific Islands Forum under way in Auckland will make more progress than is usual with this under-achieving organisation. The agenda of such get-togethers always seems to be captured by a major outside event, which concentrates minds on matters elsewhere. The task that should be at hand is overlooked or put off to another day. |
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- Briton believed he was selling weapon to Muslim terrorist, officials say; 2 others arrested in N.Y.; Shoulder-fired device would target airliner; FBI, U. |
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- Action follows separate Palestinian attacks that killed 2, wounded 11; Sides blame each other for escalation of violence amid cease-fire |
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1:50AM (Aug 13 2003 13:58 GMT) - That is when the girls went to sleep. I heard them moving around at 820am. Oy. Luckily, Olivia is still... |
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- Tomorrow afternoon I'm having the alien implant in the top of my foot removed. It's much less stressful if I... |
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- Alex got back home on Monday and we broke up last night. As trite as it sounds, we've grown apart.... |
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- Since uname -m can now report any i[3456]86 values, change the script to work with this. Submitted by: Andrew Thompson |
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- - Update to 1.1 PR: 55524 Submitted by: maintainer |
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NADER (Aug 13 2003 13:57 GMT) - SAN FRANCISCO - Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader (news - web sites) was hit with a pie as he endorsed party member Peter Camejo for California governor. The show of political support at the Green Party's San Francisco headquarters took an unscripted turn Tuesday when a prankster burst into the room and slammed a cream pie into Nader's face. The culprit fled through a side door. Camejo later suggested the pie assault was the work of Democrats who may feel threatened by the Green Party's growing popularity. Some Democrats blame Nader for helping put President Bush (news - web sites) in the White House by siphoning off votes from Vice President Al Gore (news - web sites) in the 2000 election. |
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- ... Ahhhnold loses TV time. |
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- Dominologist Ma Lihua has declared war on cockroaches in particular after one bug managed to knock down 10,000 tiles - a day's work. |
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- Not safe for work. Fishermen grab your rods. |
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Retro Candy (Aug 13 2003 13:57 GMT) - Chick-O-Sticks, Big Hunks and bubble-gum cigarettes. Ribbon candy, Pixy Stix and Goo Goo Clusters. Nostalgia candy is hot. Boomers yearning to reconnect with their youth are turning to Internet sites to order throwback treats like Cherry Mash and Sen-Sen. And now, retail stores (including many owned by baby boomers) are adding old-fashioned candy to their catalog of vendibles. |
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- Aron Weingarten brings the yellow diamond up to the stainless steel jeweler's loupe he holds against his eye. "This is very rare stone," he says, almost to himself, in thickly accented English. "Yellow diamonds of this color are very hard to find. It is probably worth 10, maybe 15 thousand dollars." "I have two more exactly like it in my pocket," I tell him. |
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- You may not have heard of coltan, but you have it in your cell phone, laptops, pagers and other electronic devices. It is important to everyday communication in the United States, but it is making the conflict in Congo more complicated. |
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- Again, just unlucky really, it's the only machine I have left that has a "real" IP address, all of the others are bridged to 192.168.x.x, this was the only one that still had a real IP. |
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- Family Photos I had a great time hanging out with my brother, Todd and my step-nieces, Tisha and Annie, the past few days. |
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tolerance (Aug 13 2003 13:55 GMT) - Shock and Awe revisited I am absolutely in awe of the world's astonishing tolerance for the Windows operating system. Sure it's not Microsoft's fault that there exist misguided people who insist on creating havoc. Sure they are more targeted by these "evil doers" than other os vendors -- that's the price they pay for their extremely dominant marketshare. |
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- PITTSBURGH - Two teens who drove around the city shooting passers-by with paintball guns were shot with real bullets for apparently targeting the wrong group, police said. |
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- In anticipation of the close to the Julie/Julia Project, Julie Powell's marathon cook-and-blog-a-thon to cook every recipe from Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking and blog about it, Amanda Hesser visits Powell and her husband for a meal of veal kidneys, sautéed potatoes, glazed onions and a cherry... |
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- MoDo announces that not only blogs specifically, but the Internet in general, is dead. However, my guess is that as long as there are personalities like Maureen Dowd around to ridicule and pick apart, blogs will continue to exist in their current, snarky form (and they'll probably continue to popularize words like "snarky" as well. At least that's the "meme"). In other news, they've decapitated Ted Williams. I have no idea what to say about this. |
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- After three years of Israeli-Palestinian violence, private security guards have become ubiquitous outside Israeli bars, shops, restaurants and schools. |
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- Police clash with trade union protesters in the Swazi capital, Mbabane as heads of state gather for a conference. |
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NADER (Aug 13 2003 13:53 GMT) - SAN FRANCISCO - Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader (news - web sites) was hit with a pie as he endorsed party member Peter Camejo for California governor. The show of political support at the Green Party's San Francisco headquarters took an unscripted turn Tuesday when a prankster burst into the room and slammed a cream pie into Nader's face. The culprit fled through a side door. Camejo later suggested the pie assault was the work of Democrats who may feel threatened by the Green Party's growing popularity. Some Democrats blame Nader for helping put President Bush (news - web sites) in the White House by siphoning off votes from Vice President Al Gore (news - web sites) in the 2000 election. |
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- ... Ahhhnold loses TV time. |
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- Dominologist Ma Lihua has declared war on cockroaches in particular after one bug managed to knock down 10,000 tiles - a day's work. |
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- Not safe for work. Fishermen grab your rods. |
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- Aron Weingarten brings the yellow diamond up to the stainless steel jeweler's loupe he holds against his eye. "This is very rare stone," he says, almost to himself, in thickly accented English. "Yellow diamonds of this color are very hard to find. It is probably worth 10, maybe 15 thousand dollars." "I have two more exactly like it in my pocket," I tell him. |
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Retro Candy (Aug 13 2003 13:53 GMT) - Chick-O-Sticks, Big Hunks and bubble-gum cigarettes. Ribbon candy, Pixy Stix and Goo Goo Clusters. Nostalgia candy is hot. Boomers yearning to reconnect with their youth are turning to Internet sites to order throwback treats like Cherry Mash and Sen-Sen. And now, retail stores (including many owned by baby boomers) are adding old-fashioned candy to their catalog of vendibles. |
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- You may not have heard of coltan, but you have it in your cell phone, laptops, pagers and other electronic devices. It is important to everyday communication in the United States, but it is making the conflict in Congo more complicated. |
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- I added a Zwiki Web to a plone site and got the following error. Any help, please? ... |
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- ERP5 is an open-source entreprise resource management solution built on top of Zope by ZSP Nexedi ... |
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- (2003-08-13) -- The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) today announced that it has arrested three unnamed CIA agents and prevented a "virtual missile attack". In a complex triple sting operation, a CIA agent posing as an arms dealer purchased a... |
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- Oh yeah. And while things were being made ready for the funeral, I was looking at the bookshelves, and they were looking for some book numbered 4.0 with the numbered books, and it eventually turned out to be the dictionary, but I was looking at the sparkly series on the one shelf, in the sorts of hardbacks one gets from the SF Book Club, and I was commenting. It was the Earth's Children series, only it was going by a different name, and there was far more of the sparkly rainbow unicornish stuff going on, but it was the same series and there was a bit of an argument about it. And it was, like, books 26, 27, and some upwards. |
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- Lately I've been writing about a class I have been taking at work. I've been studying harder than I did... |
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- These image and animation galleries are stunning. Link... |
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- Put pure carbon under enough heat and pressure - say, 2,200 degrees Fahrenheit and 50,000 atmospheres - and it will... |
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- It looks like someone finally decided to stand in the way of the RIAA juggernaut. It is about time.... |
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