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- This should be hilarious, and with so many candidates running, I am sure they can find 5 to compete.The Game Show Network will pick five... |
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- I found this image on a site for The Organisation of the Swiss Abroad's Youth Service. It's a picture of college-age kids playing a school-age game. On one hand, so to speak, they are clearly having fun. On the other, they are about to hit each other. |
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TypePad (Aug 13 2003 14:59 GMT) - A new TrackBack-enabled service that's near and dear to our hearts has launched. It's called TypePad.... |
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- Four people emailed me within 5 minutes about this dispute regarding the Black Dog Tavern of Cape Cod and Precious Paws, which desires to sell clothing. Black Dog is claiming rights in the silhouette of a black lab. Coverage here |
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Wow (Aug 13 2003 14:59 GMT) - Heavy music fans, Sevendust has put a song from their upcoming album up for download right here. And it is... |
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- Der illegale Handel mit der russischen "Nadel" |
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- The State Department is praising Taiwan for intercepting a North Korean-registered vessel that a U.S. spokesman said carried a chemical weapons precursor. "We applaud Taiwan for its effective action in preventing items from going to proliferators," deputy spokesman Philip T. Reeker said Tuesday. |
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- I can't believe it's too early - they must have plans. Cash in on the franchise, Bravo! |
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- I can't believe it's too early - they must have plans. Cash in on the franchise, Bravo! |
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- Channel Four, which I gather is some sort of UK HBO, launched some brilliant ads for the "new" season of... |
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- Channel Four, which I gather is some sort of UK HBO, launched some brilliant ads for the "new" season of... |
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- Richard Perle says "This is total war. We are fighting a variety of enemies. There are lots of them out there. All this talk about first we are going to do Afghanistan, then we will do Iraq... this is entirely the wrong way to go about it. |
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- There is a reason why the tag line on this website is Ex Post Fucto. My mechanic tried to find the part for my truck all over the country. No one has one. He had to order it from Ford... |
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- There is a reason why the tag line on this website is Ex Post Fucto. My mechanic tried to find the part for my truck all over the country. No one has one. He had to order it from Ford... |
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- Reuters: The Israeli army Wednesday razed the family home of a Palestinian suicide bomber who jolted a six-week-old truce but avoided a military response, mindful of a broad desire for restraint to preserve a new peace plan. After U.S. officials counseled caution, Israeli forces settled for destroying the home of a Palestinian teen-ager who blew himself up in an Israeli supermarket. |
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- Reuters: The head of Iran's atomic energy program said Wednesday the Islamic Republic planned to allay international concerns about its nuclear program which Washington says may be used to produce atomic bombs. "I believe that we will remove the international concerns," Iran's Atomic Energy Organization chief Gholamreza Aghazadeh told reporters after a weekly cabinet meeting. The U.N. |
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- Reuters: Moscow has proposed a multilateral security pact with North Korea to end a standoff over Pyongyang's nuclear program, Interfax news agency said on Wednesday as Russia began talks with North and South Korea. North Korea has revived a demand for a non-aggression treaty and diplomatic ties with the United States, laying out tough terms ahead of six-way talks on the nuclear crisis, which are likely to start on August 27 in Beijing. A Russian Foreign Ministry official, quoted by Interfax, suggested a compromise whereby others at the talks could join the United States in signing a pact guaranteeing Pyongyang would be safe without a nuclear deterrent. |
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- Reuters: The American Bar Association, an outspoken critic of certain Bush administration anti-terrorism polices, on Tuesday opposed the renewal of surveillance powers granted to the executive branch in a post-Sept. 11 law. The ABA's policymaking body voted to oppose efforts to repeal the Dec. 31, 2005, expiration date of the powers contained in the USA Patriot Act until Congress reviews whether they have been used properly and determines if they should be extended. |
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- Reuters: The United States said on Tuesday that the Palestinian Authority "must act now" to dismantle terrorist groups after a pair of Palestinian suicide bombings threatened to derail U.S. peace efforts. "The Palestinian Authority must act now to dismantle terrorist networks that perpetuate such attacks and to prevent future attacks," White House spokeswoman Claire Buchan told reporters in Crawford, Texas. |
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- AP via Globe and Mail (Canada): The administration of U.S. President George W. Bush has appealed to the Supreme Court to reinstate a law that punishes website operators who expose children to dirty pictures and other inappropriate material. |
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- AP via MSNBC: Iran's president admitted Tuesday that his program of democratic reforms has largely failed, but said he will not break his promise to voters to promote democracy and freedoms. Iranian President Mohammad Khatami made the remarks amid continuing attempts by ruling hard-line clerics to undermine his reform agenda and deepening public discontent over the country's slow pace toward democratic change. ''Lately, speaking for me has become difficult because I feel many of the ideas and programs I sincerely offered and the people voted for have not materialized,'' the official Islamic Republic News Agency quoted Khatami as saying. |
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- AP via Rocky Mount (NC) Telegram: The American Bar Association said Tueday the administration should drop plans to let agents eavesdrop on conversations between terrorism suspects and defense lawyers and should ease other restrictions to ensure military tribunals are fair and open. The ABA's policy-making House of Delegates took no position on whether individual lawyers should participate in tribunals, although another lawyers' organization has already said it would be unethical to represent terrorism suspects under the current rules. |
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- WaPo: Libya has pledged to assume responsibility for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, and to pay $2.7 billion in compensation to relatives of the 270 victims in exchange for a formal end to an 11-year United Nations embargo, U.N. diplomats said today. |
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- AP via WaPo: Iraq began pumping fresh crude oil Wednesday through a pipeline to Turkey's Mediterranean coast for the first time since the war, a Turkish oil official said. Iraq began pumping oil at around 4:30 p.m. |
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- LA Times: Temporarily free from taxes, import tariffs and government regulations on what and how they sell, small-business owners in Iraq report that they are enjoying the fruits of a free-market economy. Although overall reform of Iraq's previous centrally planned system will be difficult, economists and bankers say the postwar surge in small merchants' sales bodes well for Iraq's long-term prospects. |
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- LA Times: A message attributed to the Taliban's reclusive leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar, bitterly attacked Western charities as the "greatest enemies of Islam and humanity." The authenticity of the two-page Pashto-language message, received by Associated Press in Pakistan, could not be verified. In the southern and eastern parts of Afghanistan, international aid has dwindled to a trickle as jittery organizations have banned travel on most roads, fearing attacks by rebel fighters. |
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- WaPo: Faced with growing public questioning of his department's anti-terrorism policies, Attorney General John D. Ashcroft plans to kick off a cross-country tour next week focused on defending the USA Patriot Act and other legislation as vital tools in the fight against terrorism. Justice Department officials said the series of appearances at more than a dozen stops from Philadelphia to Salt Lake City will be aimed at countering criticism from civil liberties groups and some lawmakers that authorities have gone too far in wielding anti-terrorism powers granted by Congress after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. |
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- WaPo: John M. Poindexter took issue yesterday with critics of his Pentagon efforts to develop new data scanning systems and an online futures market for flushing out terrorists and predicting Middle East developments, saying the programs had fallen victim to ignorance, distortion and Washington's "highly charged political environment." In a letter of resignation ending a controversial 20-month Pentagon tenure, Poindexter pressed his case for employing new technologies to discern terrorists' plans in such everyday transactions as credit card purchases, travel reservations and e-mail. He said innovative approaches are needed to overcome the historic barriers among U. |
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- LA Times: The Bush administration's smallpox vaccination plan is too narrowly focused to adequately protect Americans from bioterrorism, and the vaccine itself is too risky to be made widely available to the public, a scientific advisory panel reported Tuesday. "Smallpox is not the only threat to the nation's health, and vaccination is not the only tool for preparedness," said Dr. Brian L. Strom, chairman of the Institute of Medicine committee and a professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. |
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Insomnia (Aug 13 2003 14:57 GMT) - simply quite exhausted, long day ahead.... |
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- Bill Theobald of the Indianapolis Star reports that the Indiana National Guard has approved flights in an F-16 fighter jet for 11 civilians during the... |
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Smug (Aug 13 2003 14:57 GMT) - Robert Samuelson in The Washington Post notes that accuracy troubles at The New York Times predate Jayson Blair by a while:Beginning in 1999 the Times ran articles alleging major Chinese nuclear espionage involving U.S. government researcher Wen Ho Lee; the... |
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- Corinthianos sempre apontam o dedo. |
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- "E sua barguilha/braguilha estava aberta " VACILAO! |
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- Ninguem vai bair esse cara da sala nao? Cade o operador do canal??? |
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Nutch (Aug 13 2003 14:57 GMT) - Dave talks about nutch, an open source alternative to Google. Nutch: about Web search is a basic requirement for internet navigation, yet the number of web search engines is decreasing. Today's oligopoly could soon be a monopoly, with a single company controlling nearly all web search for its commercial gain. That would not be good for users of the internet. |
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