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Strike Possible at PA Universities (Sep 30 2003 23:41 GMT) - The union representing 5,500 faculty members at Pennsylvania's 14 state-owned universities began voting Monday on whether its executive council should call for a strike if contract negotiations break down. |
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Golf vs. Rec Center (Sep 30 2003 23:41 GMT) - The Pennsylvania Golf Course Owners Association joined local taxpayers and other groups in filing suit to block a proposed regional recreation center. |
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Probe into White House Leak (Sep 30 2003 23:41 GMT) - The Justice Department launched a full-blown criminal investigation into who leaked the name of a CIA officer, and President Bush directed his White House staff on Tuesday to cooperate fully. |
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Phils Plotting Free Agent Moves (Sep 30 2003 23:41 GMT) - With the images of the final goodbye for Veterans Stadium still fresh in their memories, the Phillies front office is already plotting the moves they'll need to make as they head into 2004 and new Citzens Bank Ballpark. |
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Catapult Watch 2003 (Sep 30 2003 23:41 GMT) - The catapult watch costs $60, but it's got a tiny catapult on top. "When they look around to see who's been pelting them with spitballs, you'll just be casually checking the time." Yeah, on your damn catapult watch! You think they won't know? Backyard Artillery also has other weapons of varying degrees of lethality, including suction cup crossbows, childhood favorite burp guns[0], and labor-saving hand-held bubble machines. |
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"Justice Verniero to Step Down in August" (Sep 30 2003 23:40 GMT) - "Justice Verniero to Step Down in August": The New York Times this evening has a news update reporting that "Justice Peter G. Verniero of the New Jersey Supreme Court, who came close to impeachment in 2001 in the furor over racial profiling in the state, |
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Doug Will Be Waiting Forever for That Laptop (Sep 30 2003 23:40 GMT) - Doug Mohney over at The Inquirer has written up a lively column talking about his quest for a new laptop, but that quest seems continually on hold as he waits for new technologies. The same could be said of PDAs - something better is always around the corner. If you're always waiting for the "next big thing", you'll never get new hardware or software. At the point when your current hardware can no longer do what you need, you buy something new that does - it's that simple. Getting caught up in the never-ending waiting game for "what's next" is a losing proposition. |
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Band to showcase assisted suicide at concert (Sep 30 2003 23:39 GMT) - "Plans to make a suicide on stage the centrepiece of a performance by the alternative rock band Hell on Earth will not be thwarted, the lead singer said yesterday." Euthanasia & Rock, together for the first time. |
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Software tweak boots Linux in under 200 ms (Sep 30 2003 23:39 GMT) - Real-time Linux vendor FSMLabs reports that it has created a version of Linux that radically speeds up system boot time -- to less than 200 milliseconds (ms) from power-up to application code startup. The techniques are processor independent, and boot times of under 100 ms are expected in the future. |
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Thanks Ryan (Sep 30 2003 23:38 GMT) - Thanks RyanWow, new improved bloggerific directions on how to take the T from Logan to Harvard Square if you're visiting for BloggerCon. Here's a weird thing about the Boston T. If you don't know if you're going INBOUND or OUTBOUND you're in big trouble. Inbound means vaguely that you're heading into the center of Boston and Outbound means your heading vaguely out of the center of Boston. Drink two beers and try to remember when your heading to Fenway Park for a Sox game, which is kindof in town, but you need to go kindof out of town towards Brookline to get to it, what the hell direction you're going in and you'll see why they wrote that popular song about a guy who gets lost on the MTA and never returns. |
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