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Strike Vote (Sep 30 2003 21:59 GMT) - There are about 10000 MAPE employees in the State of Minnesota 75% of all the MAPE employees are eligible to vote, meaning that they have paid the extra money to be real members. : 7500 people 75% of the eligible members voted : |
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zitiert (Sep 30 2003 21:58 GMT) - Man wirft doch nicht sein ganzes Leben weg, nur weil es ein bisschen beschädigt ist. |
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- Jörg Dünne: Weblog: Verdichtung durch Kommentar Via Funkenfeuer |
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- New York Times article on new policies that ban professors from engaging in "romantic or sexual" relationships with their students. A good description of the various policies that are out there. The strictest? William and Mary forbids consensual relationships between all faculty members and undergraduate students. |
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- Can we name the next guy Pope Ziggy the First? YAHOO NEWS: Please pray for ailing pope, urges senior Vatican cardinal One of the Vatican's top officials called for prayers for Pope John Paul II, saying he was in "bad"... |
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- Urlaubsseminar in Krgis / Meissen: !Du selbst sein! |
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- Dull news-o-the-day: switched mail clients today, for my personal mail, over to Mozilla Thunderbird beta 0.2. In case anyone is... |
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- PRBop linked to: Software Utilizes Unique Typing Styles to Identify Individual Users. Back in 1988 or so I tossed the idea of a grant proposal to investigate just this at UTC. I got a big "Oh, that'll never work" from the newly appointed head of the Center for Excellence in Computer Applications, and went off to diddle with stuff they would pay me to do. |
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- Just because I need a little levity The Primary Main Objective had a link to a glowstick dress. It's like Burning Man all year round. |
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- Copy some C header code over so I can rework it for interop. Get it all to C#, try to compile, get complaints about redefining preprocessor directives. Can't see problem in source code. Close file, reopen, problem persists. Close project, reopen, works fine. |
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- Nevada County, Nevada has removed all art depicting nudity from an exhibit at the Rood Administrative Center. Artists are upset and fighting back. Nevada County Supervisor Sue Horne, pointing, tells artist Irene Nicolas that it was a "slap in the face of the county" for artists to cover their paintings of nudes with "CENSORED" signs and leave them hanging in the Rood Administrative Center. Damn straight. I see you understood the message perfectly. |
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- If you haven't been following the Valerie Plame affair, you've probably been reading the newspaper. Synopsis: Plame is the wife of former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson, who went to Nigeria to investigate the "yellow cake" affair. Subsequently, Robert Novak fingered Valerie Plame as a CIA "operative", citing "two senior administration officials". |
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- Lest selbst was ich so alles kann ;-) Inspiriert von Don't try this at home bei deifl. |
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Ring 'Em Up (Sep 30 2003 21:57 GMT) - Schmidt and Beckett are ringing up the strikeouts at Pac Bell today. Beckett has five through three innings, Schmidt has four. Each has allowed 1 hit.... |
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- looking for my good side |
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- TORONTO - An English professor at the University of Toronto is working on a book with a thesis that is... |
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- Why do they ask for the value of my piece? Edited to |
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- I've just been reading Wallace McClure's blog - looks like he has been under the cosh on a nightmare project. He has some interesting points:• Looking cool may make you look stupid....... "Do NOT try and create your own version of ASP.NET. |
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- I'm a bit skeptical, but Justene's latest interview does make you wonder a little what election day's going to look like.... |
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- Threadless is giving away a thousand dollars. Yep that's right. Not to mention 2 semi-perm tickets for Apr 04, a dff mug, a secret coudal prize, books, stickers, tee shirts, etc. Just submit to Threadless between Oct. 15th and Nov.... |
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- PERSONA NON GRATA STHN TOURKIA H YP. EKSWRERIKWN THS ELBETIAS |
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- Today our CS480 prof laughed off blogs as primarily diaries since among other things they have not been written about in an academic context. Clearly she is not aware that: There are over 1 million blogs UW uses weblogs as a recruitment tool A UW CS professor maintains a blog to explain course decisions Harvard recently appointed a prominent blogger as a Berkman Fellow Several top notch US schools have courses involving blogging Increasingly weblogs are being used by corporations such as Microsoft, Google, Amazon,... as HR, PR, and internal communication tools Anyhow, I now have to do a project on blogs out of spite. And if I wasn't so poor I would personally fly in an expert on blogging (well I do have lots of points... |
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- The Bleaklow plateau has a history of sightings of strange lights and even UFOs - however, this isn't one :-) I for one think overactive imaginations are far more likely to be the cause than little green men. I... |
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- ...and there and back, again.My older cat, Banzai, is in his late teens (approx. 17, actually). For the last year, he's been steadily losing weight. Last week he started a minor cold (snufflies, goopy eyes, sneezing). |
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- ... ce que nous serons demain. O le beau lieu commun que voilà, n'empêche que qui peut m'affirmer qu'un auteur actuel aura sa rayonnance demain dans les milieux littéraires? de quel homme politique on se souviendra (et pourquoi surtout)? Pas beigbeder en tous cas. Si c'est le cas, je préfère renoncer à toute tentation reproductrice avec celle que j'aime pour éviter à mon éventuelle engence d'avoir vent de l'existence de ce truc. |
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- Journalisten Christopher Reuter talade om sin bok Mein Leben ist meine Waffe (Med livet som vapen på svenska) på bokmässan med professorn i islamologi Jan Hjärpe. Boken handlar om självmordsbombare och Hjärpe var imponerad av den skarpa analys av fenomenet som Reuter levererar. Jag blev riktigt sugen att läsa boken men tyvärr fanns den bara inbunden och var rätt dyr så jag avstod. De första självmordsbombarna dök upp på 80-talet, berättade Reuter. Under 90-talet började de växa fram en sorts... |
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- Two new galleries of larger photos (thank you, gigantic hosting plan!): Max's Fourth Birthday Parry Max on Skates There's all kinds of stuff to talk about, of course, but go read Reid's post about the whole Joe Wilson thing. Very well done. Or, if you're not in the mood for real news, try out NationStates |
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- I've been busy lately building a sample RIA for a Macromedia Australia sponsored competition, a Flash browser that allows you to view directories and their contents on the server. It's configured to display image files as they exist, generating jpg thumbnails on the fly from virtually any image extension if required to speed up preview load times with a lot of the application logic Java being consumed by ColdFusion. |
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- Stockholm — This year's winner of the Nobel Prize in literature will be announced on Thursday, said the Swedish Academy.... |
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- http://www. waxy. org/random/html/wsj_settingupw html... |
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- World News: Bollywood film mogul Bharat Shah was found guilty in a Mumbai court Tuesday of withholding information that the criminal underworld had muscled in on his 2000 pic "Chori chori, chupke chupke" (On the Quiet, Hush Hush). |
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- : Belgian director Alain Berliner, in international eclipse since his debut feature, "Ma Vie en Rose" (1997), comes up with a solid slice of tube fare in his adaptation of "The House by the Canal," a non-Maigret novel by Georges Simenon. Domestic drama, set among some dour Flems in early '50s Belgium, is buoyed by good performances, especially from French blonde du jour Isild Le Besco and Lowlands thesp Nicolas Buysse. |
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- Film Reviews: Drawing inspiration from his own experiences, Paris-trained, Burkina Faso-born writer-director S. Pierre Yameogo explores the complexities of cultural differences with an appealingly light touch. This comedy about an odd interracial friendship offers many pleasures that should connect with audiences in African film forums and on multicultural TV. |
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- Film Reviews: Belgian director Alain Berliner, in international eclipse since his debut feature, "Ma Vie en Rose" (1997), comes up with a solid slice of tube fare in his adaptation of "The House by the Canal," a non-Maigret novel by Georges Simenon. Domestic drama, set among some dour Flems in early '50s Belgium, is buoyed by good performances. |
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- A friend of mine forwarded details on a new Japanese sex toy my way, asking if I had ever seen anything like it before.Um... nope. Not quite. Given that it goes for about $320 US, I'm not sure I will anytime soon. |
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- Project description: GPU is a Gnutella client for sharing files and CPU-resources. Our objective is to develop a robust framework for distributed computing on a peer-to-peer grid. We hope to support peaceful, open and free research and to build a cheap supercomputer. |
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- Project administrators: dangermaus, seeschloss |
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- Most recent daily statistics (28 Sep 2003): Ranking: 5094, Activity percentile: 62.24%, |
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