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- HERE'S ANOTHER FIRSTHAND REPORT FROM IRAQ saying that things are better than the Big Media coverage makes them sound. But Big Media is catching on. Here's a story from the Philadelphia Inquirer, and Jonathan Rauch writes: Consistently, however, observers -- including some I know personally and trust -- return from... |
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- HERE'S ANOTHER FIRSTHAND REPORT FROM IRAQ saying that things are better than the Big Media coverage makes them sound. But Big Media is catching on. Here's a story from the Philadelphia Inquirer, and Jonathan Rauch writes: Consistently, however, observers -- including some I know personally and trust -- return from... |
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- Playboy Enterprises is having a bit of fun at the expense of Wal-Mart, which tries to promote a squeaky-clean image along with its bargain-basement prices.Playboy.com is seeking female Wal-Mart employees who want to bare it all on the Internet. Applicants must supply photos, proof of... |
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- Enfin. Après 3 semaines d'abandon, le petit gsm Siemens a retrouvé sa propriétaire. Donc, voilà, fière comme Artaban, je me lève en me disant qu'un jour nouveau est apparu, que je deviens une autre femme, fiable, responsable, en un mot adulte. Bille en tête, je pars donc au bureau, forte de mes ridicules 3 petits jours seulement de retard (une paille quand on sait d'om on vient). Bien décidée à même les rattrapper pour prendre de l'avance et désormais toiser cheffe, sous-cheffe du haut de ma perfection d'employée modèle. |
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- Plingston, États-unis d Amérique. Durant la soirée, une étudiante en informatique reste dans les locaux de la faculté afin de pouvoir travailler dans le calme. Mais des bruits vont la déranger, puis soudain une musique violente et macabre. Elle va voir ce qu il se passe, mais tombe face au cadavre mutilé du gardien et d un homme en aube noire munie d une arme à la main |
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- J'ai reçu une non-lettre d'amour Ce qui impliquerait une non-réponse. MAis une non-réponse n'est pas pour autant le silence, dans le cas qui nous occupe. |
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- apres un week end mouvementée entre le pont des arts, où nous avons fait un super picnic avec addy et notre bande de joyeux lurons, le théatre, où j'ai donc été voir Knock avec Luchini ( maaa Luchini, que j'adore plus que tout ! enfin... on se comprend ) et enfin le Louvre, de nouveau avec Addy et les garçons ( ;) ). visite peu concluante a cause de mon triste etat..... |
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- Megan McArdle writes "I have to admit that I was never much of a believer in open source. Maybe my business school coursework rendered me blind to the glorious vision of a "gift culture" in which people contribute their work to a decentralized development project like Linux for honor instead of money." |
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Dead end? (Oct 06 2003 11:58 GMT) - Joi Ito discovers the end of the Internet via Google. [Link] | Discuss |
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- Opening night at the New York Film Festival is always fun in the grandeur of Avery Fisher Hall and stars in tow, and this past year was no different. Clint Eastwood began his introduction of his cast and crew (Mystic River author Dennis Lehane, screenwriter Brian Helgeland, and stars... |
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- Ten Reasons Why Reparations for Blacks is a Bad Idea for Blacks - and Racist Too (thanks to Mark Harden for the link) I'm not normally a big fan of David Horowitz, but this article on the fallacy of paying reparations to "victims" of slavery is 9/10 right on the... |
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- Divine Moving Licensed and insured moving company in new york city (NY DOT-353 |
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- The following was released today by Screening for Mental Health: |
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- I read Brian's original post - which said, in a nutshell, that voting for Bush in 2004 was the only way to preserve democracy - but just didn't feel it was necessary to respond. With his follow-up, though, I'm roused. All I will do is point out that t |
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- but if you work with tigers you shouldn't really be shocked if one of them attacks you after you hit it in the face with a microphone. of course, if a tiger had lunged at me, i think i'd curl... |
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- CLAYTON CRAMER OFFERS more criticism of John Lott's critics, once again on matters not involving complex mathematical and statistical issues. Meanwhile Tim Lambert has responded to an earlier post of Cramer's on the subject.... |
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- CLAYTON CRAMER OFFERS more criticism of John Lott's critics, once again on matters not involving complex mathematical and statistical issues. Meanwhile Tim Lambert has responded to an earlier post of Cramer's on the subject.... |
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Folklore (Oct 06 2003 11:56 GMT) - Netscape Radio selection. |
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- Ich liebe Städte, durch die auch Einheimische vergnügt schlendern können, ohne sich an jeder Ecke die Augen reiben zu müssen, um ü |
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- I added two handy scripts for Frontier in the »Other Scripts« section on my development page: the first script globally changes an e-mail address in all Manila sites of a GDB. The second script exports Manila news items as MySQL dump. |
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- The University of Illinois is thinking about starting a Master of Fine Arts in Software. Elegant solutions, engaging ideas, inspiring work; these are some of the defining characteristics of art. Do they apply to software and is software design therefore an artform? [Solitude]Well, what I can tell for sure is that you need ideas to come up with something new. |
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- Right in time for BloggerCon: The Blog Survey from Perseus.com. 66% of blogs are abandoned. Only 10% of webloggers appear to be older tha 30. |
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- The BloggerCon webcasts work much better today. Yesterday it was just impossible to watch them. Today I don't have the time to follow the sessions (there are two parallel streams anyway). I hope there will be some sessions viewable as archive later on. |
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- Wasn't I Just Saying This? Neal Stephenson has just released Quicksilver, his latest doorstop (this time following the example of Pychon's Mason & Dixon into historical tales from colonial times), and the reviews are in: Stephenson clearly did a great deal of research for this book, and he seems reluctant to let a crumb of it go to waste... [He] bundles much of his research into conversations, packing his characters' mouths with favorite details, such as the derivation of the words "guinea," "dollar" and "sabotage." Much of the dialogue is painfully clunky. |
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- As soon as I have a faster Mac, I’ll purchase a license for LaunchBar. It’s easily the best, uhm, launch... (379 words) |
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1 vice hell (Oct 06 2003 11:54 GMT) - (UK) Desperate teenage prostitutes are being forced to sell sex for as little as #1-a-time on Teesside's streets to feed crippling drug addictions. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(85%), $propaganda_theme1(85%), $propaganda_theme2(60%), $propaganda_theme3(55%), $propaganda_theme5(70%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(95%), $narcotic(100%), $opiate(100%), $various_drugs(95%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
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- (US) Forty-nine percent of the women have used crack cocaine and 75 percent have used more than one illegal substance. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(95%), $propaganda_theme1(85%), $propaganda_theme2(60%), $propaganda_theme3(50%), $use_is_abuse(95%), $propaganda_theme4(95%), $propaganda_theme5(60%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(90%), $stimulant(100%), $cocaine(100%), $alcohol(50%), $various_drugs(90%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
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- (US) Her pain was finally eased earlier this year by OxyContin. Recently informed patients it will no longer pay for the opioid medication. "We have seen evidence that OxyContin has been abused. That this is not only a local problem but a national problem.[$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(100%), $propaganda_theme1(100%), $propaganda_theme2(100%), $propaganda_theme3(55%), $use_is_abuse(85%), $propaganda_theme4(85%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(95%), $prohibition_agency(100%), $narcotic(100%), $opiate(100%), $opioid(100%), $oxycodone(100%), $OxyContin(100%), $various_drugs(95%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
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- (US) The Supreme Court opens its new term today and is set to consider whether states may refuse to pay for religious teaching. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(100%), $propaganda_theme1(100%), $propaganda_theme2(50%), $propaganda_theme3(50%), $use_is_abuse(60%), $propaganda_theme4(60%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(95%), $cannabis(100%), $alcohol(50%), $various_drugs(95%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
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- (US) Columbia-based publication is teaming up with AARP South Carolina. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(85%), $propaganda_theme2(60%), $propaganda_theme3(50%), $use_is_abuse(85%), $propaganda_theme4(85%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(90%), $alcohol(50%), $various_drugs(90%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
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