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Arcade ROMs for Download, Legally (Oct 01 2003 22:38 GMT) - jgoeres writes "StarROMs, Inc. has just launched a pay-per-download service for classic arcade ROM sets. These are what you need to make your emulator fun and ... |
The On-Going Adventures of Pseudo Cyborg
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...then it taketh away (Oct 01 2003 22:37 GMT) - i think one of my favorite things about friendster is writing testimonials. here's a few i've written: these are two i've written for jp: jay-peezy-fo-sheezy does things with synths that i can only dream of. people always think we're brothers when they see/meet us. |
The Left Half of My Brain
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space operas and their fat ladies (Oct 01 2003 22:37 GMT) - If you like the science fictional genre "space opera", I would very highly recommend Charlie Stross's Singularity Sky. What happens when an autocratic society meets an economic and informational singularity? (By singularity, seem to mean the thing that Vernor Vinge talks about here and which the transhumanists seem awfully fond of.) There's some neat stuff in this book. (Though one section of the book, which I misread as a flash-forward which contained a flashback and was only a flashback, confused the hell out of me for about 150 pages, until I reread the (ho ho) offending passage for the fifth time. |
California Insider
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The Gray and Arnold dance (Oct 01 2003 22:37 GMT) - The LA Weekly's Bill Bradley, in an intriguing piece, reveals his version of top-secret negotiations in which he says he served as a go-between trying to negotiate a debate between Davis and Schwarzenegger. The piece raises interesting questions about the... |
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Jaguars' Smith Returns Humbled, Wiser (Oct 01 2003 22:36 GMT) - (US) 3 arrested in narcotics raid in Dinuba Does he regret criticizing the police officer who arrested him after pulling him over for speeding two years ago, or the state lab workers who processed the positive cocaine test that resulted from the arrest? [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(75%), $propaganda_theme1(75%), $propaganda_theme2(50%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(95%), $stimulant(100%), $cocaine(100%), $narcotic(100%), $various_drugs(95%)] |
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Stoudamire back with Blazers (Oct 01 2003 22:36 GMT) - (Canada) (AP) Portland Trail Blazers guard Damon Stoudamire was reinstated to the team Wednesday. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(60%), $propaganda_theme5(60%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(90%), $cannabis(100%), $paraphernalia(100%), $various_drugs(90%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
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Smith wiser and humbled after time in rehab (Oct 01 2003 22:36 GMT) - (US) Does he regret criticizing the police officer who arrested him for speeding two years ago, or the state lab workers who processed the positive cocaine test that resulted from the arrest? [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(75%), $propaganda_theme1(75%), $propaganda_theme2(60%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(95%), $stimulant(100%), $cocaine(100%), $various_drugs(95%)] |
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Jaguars' Smith Returns Humbled, Wiser (Oct 01 2003 22:36 GMT) - (US) Does he regret criticizing the police officer who arrested him after pulling him over for speeding two years ago, or the state lab workers who processed the positive cocaine test that resulted from the arrest? [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(75%), $propaganda_theme1(75%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(95%), $stimulant(100%), $cocaine(100%), $various_drugs(95%)] |
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Damon Stoudamire Reinstated With Blazers (Oct 01 2003 22:36 GMT) - (US) (AP)--Trail Blazers guard Damon Stoudamire was reinstated to the team Wednesday, having served a nearly three-month suspension for his arrest on drug charges. Stoudamire pleaded innocent in July to possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(60%), $propaganda_theme5(60%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(90%), $cannabis(100%), $paraphernalia(100%), $various_drugs(90%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
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New Suit Says Bishop Dailey Shuffled Pedophile Priests to Evade ... (Oct 01 2003 22:36 GMT) - (US) Some of the victims in this case went on to become alcoholics and drug abusers, one of them even committed suicide. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(85%), $propaganda_theme1(60%), $propaganda_theme2(70%), $propaganda_theme3(50%), $use_is_abuse(85%), $propaganda_theme4(85%), $propaganda_theme5(70%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(90%), $alcohol(100%), $various_drugs(90%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
Kingdom Come
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UK: What we believe (Oct 01 2003 22:36 GMT) - The BBC has commissioned some research into British attitudes towards faith from Mori for its Sunday morning Heaven & Earth show. The findings make interesting reading:The Mori poll, which was specially commissioned for BBC ONE's The Heaven and Earth Show, explores what people in Britain believe in today. Whilst 60% of people believe in God, only 18% are practising members of a religion. 52% of respondents believe in heaven, whereas only 32% believe in hell. |
Deaf Today
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Deaf Squash side in dire need of funds (Oct 01 2003 22:36 GMT) - From: Business Day, South Africa - Oct 1, 2003 The South African Deaf Squash Team made a desperate appeal for funds in a bid to get the side to the World Deaf Squash Championships in the Netherlands. The tournament begins... |
Fair and Balanced Bird Droppings
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Home Treatment #1 (Oct 01 2003 22:35 GMT) - So, I've just administered Banzai's first batch of sub-Q liquids at home. I feel terrible.First, I had to take him out of his cardboard box/house that he's been convalescing in. He feels very safe there, and comfy...and everytime I take him out, I have to do unpleasant things to him. |
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Blast! (Oct 01 2003 22:35 GMT) - As requested, I dropped my Friendster "V.C." connection in favor of a connection to "Vassar Alums" because the former has... |
Wikipedia
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Don (Oct 01 2003 22:35 GMT) - Andre Engels: Robot-assisted disambiguation Aberdeen |
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Die längsten Domainnamen (Oct 01 2003 22:34 GMT) - Einfach, damit ich sie mal gesammelt habe: www. llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwy com, www. thelongestdomainnameintheworld com, www.-. |
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Aaaaargh! :( Düüüp..... düüüüp... mein Aldi ist jetzt verdüüüüppt! (Oct 01 2003 22:34 GMT) - Jetzt, wo seit letzten Montag mein Aldi Nord (Hamburg, Nähe Thadenstrasse/ K(l)eine Freiheit, St.Pauli) auch verdüppt ist, kann ich endlich nachvollziehen, warum so viele Aldi Südler immer sagten, seit ihr Aldi verdüppt sei, ginge alles viel schneller, sie kämen jetzt mit dem einräumen der bereits abgerechneten Waren auch nicht mehr hinterher - denn jetzt ging es mir genauso. |
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Bolzplatz - Datenbank (Oct 01 2003 22:34 GMT) - Was es nicht alles gibt - eine Bolzplatzdatenbank - leider wirds ja jetzt langsam ungemütlich draussen, aber für nächstes Frühjahr... kann man ja vielleicht schonmal sein passendes Team dazu raussuchen (was auch auf der Seite geht)? |
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