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- Spring 2004: Milan [Hint Mag]... |
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- Read Joshua Tyree's take on the implausibility of the Death Star's trash compactor and waste management system. Then come back... |
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- Hi all, You know, there seem to be a lot of winos - oops I mean oenophiles - on Ecademy? Has anyone suggested wine tastings as a possible networking event? Would anyone else be interested in something like this? Let me know what you think |
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- Hi all, You know, there seem to be a lot of winos - oops I mean oenophiles - on Ecademy? Has anyone suggested wine tastings as a possible networking event? Would anyone else be interested in something like this? Let me know what you think |
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- A German bar is offering women who want to go shopping without their partners the chance to park them at what it bills as the country's first kindergarten for men. |
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- Half of Hispanic adults who make health care decisions for their family -- such as choosing a health plan -- are between the ages of 18 and 34 and represent a demographic that is a key economic force in the health care industry, according to survey findings released ... |
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- Robin "In My Book" Blum spotted news from Australia on the Yarra Plenty Regional Library's lending their books electronically. In about as much time as it might take to get through a good thriller, 25 library members had signed up for a 12-month trial in which they can download up to three e-books at a time to their Palms and Pocket PCs, or any device that can run the MobiPocket electronic reader. Another 10 had suggested that they'd love to do the same thing, if the library would also lend them a palmtop computer. |
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- Included in the San Francisco Public Library's three year strategic plan is the idea of adopting RFID by 2005-6. This hasn't gone unnoticed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation who claims the technology could compromise patron privacy. ...critics contend that if the devices can be turned off, they can be turned on. And that, they say, means that anybody from a law enforcement officer to a small-time computer hacker could track the whereabouts of somebody who just checked out, say, "The Communist Manifesto. |
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- An anonymous patron sent this one in [via craigslist]can a librarian go to the prom? -m4wI was at the central library this evening with my daughter. Completly and unexpectedly I became smitten with the beautiful librarian working in the juvenial section. I've been trying to work up the courage to ask a woman to the prom being held at Roshambeau Winery this saturday night. I'm a single father and would never ever ask a woman out in front of my number one lady(daughter). |
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- One of the best things Rory does over at Library Juice is to reprint interesting library artciles from days gone by. Check out a few of the neat things he's dug up from back in the days before the web, computers and maybe even electricity. Germantown Quakers check the spread of novel reading, from 1874, is a quick note on how "This furnishing of unwholesome mental food or poison is gradually pervading our literature to an alarming extent" The late Librarians' Convention, an article from The Nation in 1876, says "The late Librarians' Convention was even more successful than its promoters had expected" The Heyday of Librarians, from The Nation, July 3, 1913 says "The public library, with a lifetime in this country of scarcely more than sixty years, has already reached that highly specialized development which characterizes the public school." On George Iles' plea for a headquarters for ALA, from 1903, looks at "Mr. George Iles, whose services to critical cataloguing have won him the gratitude of many readers, made a plea, now published in pamphlet form, for a headquarters for the Association. |
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- Iraq disaster of the day 3 U.S. Soldiers Are Killed in 2 Separate Incidents in Iraq And there have been 4,000 U.S. non-combat evacuations in Iraq |
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- Microsoft late Monday announced a series of changes to Internet Explorer to address a recent jury verdict against it in a Web browser patent infringement lawsuit. New retail and OEM versions of Windows XP will have a modified version of Internet Explorer 6 in early 2004 but Microsoft has not yet determined whether it also will alter IE service packs or downloads, said Michael Wallent, general manager of the Windows Client Platform at Microsoft. |
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- Mark Landsbuam of the Christian Times penned this article that suggests that Mel Gibson may essentially water down "The Passion" in an effort to appease the many critics who have opposed the depiction of Jews in the film. Making the... |
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- Two scientists who played a key role in the development of modern hospital scanners won the 2003 Nobel prize for medicine Monday. American Paul Lauterbur and Britain's Peter Mansfield were recognized for their discoveries on magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, a painless diagnostic method used by doctors to look inside the bodies of millions of patients every year. (via geekpress) |
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- Hello everybody. This is Haldur Gislufsson speaking. I'm sitting in an Internet café at a yet undisclosed location. Suffice it to say that I'm enjoying the sun, the sea, and pleasant temperatures of 29°C. |
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- Amy gets into it: I think this should be the year of teams that deserve to win, but never do...... |
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- "A theme that seemed to come up in Sunday workshops and indeed all weekend bears repeating. One issue overlooked by many movements is knowing your ... - www.nyc.indymedia. |
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- YOU ARE INVITED TO A FILM SCREENING AND LECTURE: "Chronicles of Freedom (Organizing Resistance)" and Other Social Movements in Argentina - www.nyc.indymedia.org: |
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- “Argentina´s Alternative Media and Social Movements” Video presentation and talk by Marie Trigona October 7th, 2003 KJC Auditorium 53 Washi... - www.nyc.indymedia.org: |
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- During the last years of the Clinton Admin., the FBI funneled cash to the reactionary Muslim fundamentalist Hamas group for terrorist attacks. - www.nyc.indymedia. |
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- With a porn star, a smut peddler, a washed-up child actor and an Austrian-bred muscleman in the field, it’s easy to make fun of the California reca... - www.nyc.indymedia.org: |
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- Don't forget that a vote for Gary Coleman is a vote against Arnold Schwarzenegger. hee. Ok, seriously. Whatever, whoever you vote for--make sure you vote today, ok?... |
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- >> I see you still on the first step, plucking the word "now" out of the dark thick with resistance, as if time too had forbidden chambers. << |
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- Rob Enderle looks at "the other platforms," meaning "not Windows," in his latest over at TechNewsWorld. "The disadvantages associated with moving to the Mac platform include the cost. This platform doesn't use industry-standard AMD- or Intel-based hardware. While the hardware is generally better looking, you'll pay a premium to get high-performance machines. On the other hand, there are few viruses that attack Mac OS X , and the platform generally is as reliable... |
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- Create your own tabloid. If you can't get enough gossip or don't like what you read in the rags then Quickbrew is for you. With Quickbrew's Dirt Magazine, you can choose from a menu of "dirt" to dish up your own personalized rendition of BenLo-like article. Pulled from Steve Hall's adrants. |
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- TRENTON, N.J. - A former insurance company claims manager who siphoned $1.7 million from her employer by issuing undeserved claims checks to family members has been sentenced to three years and four months in federal prison. |
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- (One Gram Shy) Okay, I make no claims as to the mixing quality on this. But at least it's nice to know it's there, right? nothing in there post 1994. Knock your cross colors right off. ----------- So I've been reading more lately. |
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- Microsoft and Sun Microsystems are making nice and agreeing to extend the period through which Microsoft will support its Java Virtual Machine. Under the agreement announced Tuesday, Sun and Microsoft have agreed to extend Microsoft's maintenance agreement for its Microsoft Java Virtual Machine (JVM) until September 30, 2004. |
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- Avec un zeste d'anglicisme bien francisé, voilà comme le « the » devient « ze » pour exprimer des vérités absolues plus efficacement qu'un « |
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- Plastic::Etcetera::Ugly: See, this sort of he-said/she-said consensual-sex/sexual-assault thing would never happen in the U.S. |
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- can be demonstrated by this quote regarding the Red Sox/A's series: Oakland general manager Billy... |
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- You're pre-approved... for just $49.95. Problem is, you aren't. Thus, FTC said ClickForMail. |
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- Welcome everyone, it's us again, now we extended our offerings, here is a list: 1. Heroin, in liquid and crystal form. 2. Fake currencies, such as.. |
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