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Spooky (Oct 02 2003 13:55 GMT) - Otckt. Det ser ut som om jag r hemma, fr Erykah Badus album snurrar ute till hger under "...just nu", men jag har bara glmt att stnga av datorn. |
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- Excerpt: "The University of California's quest for secrecy has reached a dead end, and rightly so. A Superior Court judge had already ruled that as a public institution, UC has the obligation to reveal details of its investments in venture capital firms.... VCs can't have it both ways. They can't both take public money and continue to demand secrecy. |
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- Excerpt: "U.S. District Judge Melinda Harmon late Tuesday dismissed from the employee lawsuit most of the banks, the prominent Houston law firm Vinson & Elkins, the outside directors of Enron's board, former Enron CEO Jeff Skilling, former Chief Financial Officer Andrew Fastow, ex-official Michael Kopper and others, according to attorneys working on the case who reviewed the judge's order." (The Houston Chronicle) |
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- Excerpt: "Current and former Enron Corp. employees will be allowed to proceed with a lawsuit that contends the bankrupt energy trader didn't meet its duties in administering the company's pension plan. In a 329-page order released Wednesday, U.S. |
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- Montag, 06.10.03, 20.15 Uhr, (WH 01.15 Uhr) |
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- Why gay couples may make better parents than Christians: A woman who burned her 6-year-old daughter’s hand on a stove so she could “feel the... |
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- MIThrill vest. MIT at it again, with more research into body worn computing. The MIThrill Vest (geddit?) looks kind of scary actually. |
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- More tapeless goodness. Sanyo joins the tapeless video camcorder bandwagon with its new DMX-C1 model. The Xacti - as it's known to its friends - features 3.2 megapixels, takes VGA sized movies at 30 fps which is not bad, and claims to be the smallest of its type in the world. |
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- It's a car baby, yeah groovy... No doubt we will see many more weird hands-free car attachments for mobile phones coming onto the market now that the law is clamping down on talking while driving. But will they all have to look as strange as this Car Baby? 'To make a call, turn your Car Baby on and tune your radio to the correct radio frequency. |
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- Road rats? Why are corporate suits so...er...well so unimaginative? |
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- Ringtones galore... Got time? And a yen for a new ringtone for your precious mobile handset? Then hie thee to the MrTones. |
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- Postal stalker... The Planet Wide service is very cool, especially if you're a travelling soul. Scan-Me is a service which scans your snail mail and then forwards it to your chosen email address. Follow-me simply bundles up your ordinary mail and posts it to any worldwide destination you designate. |
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- Trouser semaphore. Trouser semaphore - for communications in the modern age. Hilarious! Check out the demo movie! |
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- Drive in fun... Take one SUV, add FM tuned audio through the car stereo, a digital projector and DVD and an inflatable 50 foot screen. Result - a 21st century drive-in theatre! Is it comeback time? |
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- Musos ahoy. For the musician in your life - the Fender Table. Strats or Teles. |
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- The High Court on Thursday rejected an appeal by the ailing Ronnie Biggs to reconsider his 30-year jail sentence for participating in Britain's "Great Train Robbery." Two High Court judges dismissed Biggs' application as "hopeless" and "completely misconceived." |
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- In this month's WPDFD, Joe Gillespie puts a batch of browsers through to the test to see how well... |
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CSS Primer (Oct 02 2003 13:53 GMT) - The Bare Bones, No Crap, CSS Text Control Primer, by Wendy Peck. If you've tried looking at one of the... |
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- This morning's Ten Commandments news: The Raleigh News and Observer reports here that "Supporters exalt 'the rock'; Caravan comes to Raleigh protesting removal of Ten Commandments." And The Associated Press reports here that "East Texans rally in Lufkin |
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1.65i (Oct 02 2003 13:53 GMT) - Read on: |
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- ExperCom has stock of the PowerMac G5/2GHz Dual 512/160/SuperDrive/Radeon9600 with an additional 512MB RAM installed for $2,999. Shipping is free,...(more) |
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Thrash (Oct 02 2003 13:53 GMT) - I dreamt last night that, on a whim, I just up and moved to New York. It was very weird, it was like I just decided that was that, didn't dwell on it, didn't think hard about it, I just... |
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- Favorite company and global SMS provider Clickatell is sponsoring and presenting "the Mobile Application Developers workshop", to be held at... |
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- Founding Gawker Editor and New York Mag's New Hotness Elizabeth Spiers just can't keep her touch-typing fingers off the internet.... |
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- The head of Interpol says law enforcement officials have abused anti-terrorism to harass innocent citizens, according to Reuters. Ronald K. Noble, secretary general of the 181-nation police organization, told Reuters in an exclusive interview Thursday that people subjected to abuse often had no chance of redress from anonymous officials. "I know that I've been searched because I look like a person who could be Arabic, if I'm travelling from an Arab country, or I could be a... |
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- skipper sieht sehr interessant aus. offenbar wird auch ueber einen OSX port nachgedacht. schade, das sind so die seltenen momente, wo ich echt gerne programmieren koennen wuerde. via [seewolf] |
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- A friend and business associate approached me yesterday asking where is the best place to source a GPRS PC Card for his notebook. I suspect that the high street mobile phone retailers are not the best source. I would be grateful for any insight anyone can offer regarding type, cost, network, and supplier so I can advise him accordingly. Thanking you in anticipation. Scott |
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- A friend and business associate approached me yesterday asking where is the best place to source a GPRS PC Card for his notebook. I suspect that the high street mobile phone retailers are not the best source. I would be grateful for any insight anyone can offer regarding type, cost, network, and supplier so I can advise him accordingly. Thanking you in anticipation. Scott |
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- (UK) "(But) I also found my name connected around the world with drug abuse and cheating, and especially in the news in my home country Kenya, and that is something I found abhorrent." [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(85%), $use_is_abuse(85%), $propaganda_theme4(85%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(95%), $various_drugs(95%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
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- (US) A pending appeal that the court hasn't said it will hear yet asks if the federal government treads on doctors' free-speech rights who advise patients on medical marijuana use. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(100%), $propaganda_theme1(55%), $propaganda_theme2(50%), $propaganda_theme3(75%), $use_is_abuse(100%), $propaganda_theme4(100%), $propaganda_theme5(60%), $propaganda_theme6(65%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $cannabis(100%), $medical_cannabis(100%)] |
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- (US) Stoudamire served a nearly four-month suspension for his offseason arrest on drug charges. Stoudamire pleaded innocent in July to possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia after security agents allegedly discovered marijuana in his luggage at the Tucson International Airport. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(60%), $propaganda_theme5(60%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(90%), $cannabis(100%), $paraphernalia(100%), $various_drugs(90%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
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- (UK) "(But) I also found my name connected around the world with drug abuse and cheating, and especially in the news in my home country Kenya, and that is something I found abhorrent." [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(85%), $use_is_abuse(85%), $propaganda_theme4(85%), $propaganda_theme5(70%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(95%), $various_drugs(95%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
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