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long, luxurious, flowing hair (Oct 01 2003 01:26 GMT) - i didn't think i was that much of a geek, but apparently i was mistaken. at 51.67653%, i'm a super geek. go figure. |
Hammerland
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Quoting The Zack (Oct 01 2003 01:25 GMT) - Zack: We're studying sentences in school. Dad: So Zack, what is a sentence made out of? Zack: |
Samizdata.net
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Let Slip the Dogs of Law (Oct 01 2003 01:25 GMT) - The great gift of cash (fiat currencies included) is the anonymity if affords the bearer. Nobody but the bearer knows just how much cash he has. Nobody knows how much may have been earned, paid, spent, saved or transported. But that is all about to change: Dogs trained to sniff the ink on bank notes are being used for the first time on trains to detect criminals carrying large amounts of illicit cash. |
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Diary: Converting your old QuickBlog time DB to Rollator style. (Oct 01 2003 01:25 GMT) - Below follows a small script to convert your QuickBlog date data to UNIX timestamp. You'll have to execute the sql statements yourself. It'll print out what you need to do. Sorry, I just don't feel 'safe' entirely automating this you can change the echo to a mysql_query() if you feel the need. [more... |
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Diary: Converting your old QuickBlog DB to time_t. (Oct 01 2003 01:25 GMT) - Below follows a small script to convert your QuickBlog date data to UNIX timestamp. You'll have to execute the sql statements yourself. It'll print out what you need to do. Sorry, I just don't feel 'safe' entirely automating this you can change the echo to a mysql_query() if you feel the need. [more... |
Radio UserLand Messages
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Re: And now... (Oct 01 2003 01:24 GMT) - I'm seeing these in the posts: [base "] [base '] [per thou] [sigma] [OE] æ [base "] is at the beginning of some lines because the long post is a conversation - that's just the way the post was typed in. The [base "] and other odd character encodings appear everywhere in the post though - not just at the beginning of a line. |
David Galbraith
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Automated trackbacks (Oct 01 2003 01:23 GMT) - Could trackbacks be enabled by simply adding an argument t=y (trackback equals yes) to any permalink? If this were the... |
Clutcher
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Tom Waits - Closing Time (Oct 01 2003 01:22 GMT) - Ogni cosa ha il suo tempo. E' comune e quasi dovuto che i propri gusti musicali seguano un percorso, che oltretutto spesso è simile a quello di altri. Il sentiero molte volte è pure molto stretto, non ammette deroghe alle convinzioni del momento e di certo la mentalità |
Simply American
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Moreno Valley Forecasting (Oct 01 2003 01:22 GMT) - Some funny numbers are being thrown around in discussions of the city's plan to build a utility company: YearCustomersProfit 11418-$32,082 22150$241,179 1511600$3,800,000 And they already admit tricks are coming, too: A portion of those earnings would go to provide rate discounts to bring businesses to Moreno Valley, [City Enterprise Services Manager Tom] Breitkreuz said. The city also would set aside 5 percent to cover any spikes in energy prices, he said. ENCO[, the company that will run the utility for the city, ] would receive a share of the revenue from distributing power to customers, which would amount to $48. |
JS Online
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Filmmaker explores redlining (Oct 01 2003 01:22 GMT) - Examining the collective conscience of Milwaukee, filmmaker Dan Banda's latest installment into the complex world of race relations explores the practice of economic discrimination. |
Baseball Musings
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Cubs Crowd (Oct 01 2003 01:21 GMT) - Kenny Lofton just singled leading off for the Cubs, and cheers went up at Turner Field. Seems a lot of Cubs fans made the trip to Atlanta to root, root, root for the road team. When I was at the... |
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Struggle for everyday survival that forces women to risk the ... (Oct 01 2003 01:20 GMT) - (UK) The Caribbean does not produce cocaine but is a handy stopping-off point for the drug as it makes it way from Colombia to its destination market.[$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(100%), $propaganda_theme1(100%), $propaganda_theme2(80%), $gateway(80%), $propaganda_theme4(80%), $propaganda_theme5(60%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(95%), $prohibition_agency(100%), $drug_policy(100%), $stimulant(100%), $cocaine(100%), $narcotic(100%), $various_drugs(95%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
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Punishment solution may lie closer to home (Oct 01 2003 01:20 GMT) - (UK) Compared with the total flow of cocaine into Britain - 40 to 50 tonnes a year is a customs estimate - the amount smuggled in by individual couriers is a minor link in the supply chain.[$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(80%), $propaganda_theme2(80%), $propaganda_theme3(50%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(95%), $drug_policy(100%), $stimulant(100%), $cocaine(100%), $various_drugs(95%)] |
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Ex-Oakland Cops Innocent of Corruption (Oct 01 2003 01:20 GMT) - (US) Last year, prosecutors dismissed about 90 mostly drug-related criminal cases with connections to the men. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(50%), $propaganda_theme2(50%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(95%), $various_drugs(95%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%), $police_related_news(70%)] |
linkfilter.net
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The 1939 Alcatraz Return Address Protest (Oct 01 2003 01:20 GMT) - In 1939, the Bureau of Prisons decided to require prisoner mail to be addressed in a special way. Alcatraz prisoners, concerned that their relatives would be ostracized because of the postmark and return address, wrote letters of protest to Attorney General Frank Murphy. Both Johnston and his boss, James V. Bennett, looked for ways to avoid branding prisoners with the stigma of the Rock; to protect the dignity of their relatives; |
linkfilter.net
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Video: So You're Living in a Police State (Oct 01 2003 01:20 GMT) - This is a video clip (Real Player) from Comedy Central's the Daily Show where Steven Colbert explains how curtailing our civil liberties does not have to be oppressive. (you can also find shitty downloadable QuickTime versions here) |
Amish Tech Support
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Another day, another... (Oct 01 2003 01:19 GMT) - So, this time around I remembered to put the envelope in the mailbox on the way home. Aside from that, an uneventful walk home. Well, sort of. Walking towards Greenway Plaza, there was another guy walking along the sidewalk, pretty... |
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