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- Via Citizen Smash, formerly known as the Indepundit (sneaky bastard), I found the following: Today I entered my polling place... |
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- The Urbana Champaign IMC has launched a nifty website for their community wireless project. They're much further along than other wireless groups i know.... |
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- MPEG founder seeks copy-protection accord. With Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) founder Leonardo Chiariglione at its head, group plans to produce a set of recommendations, largely focused on existing technologies, that bring content protection plans into the digital mainstream. [Tomalak's Realm via The Mediaburn Radio Weblog] |
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- JustDeals.com offers the refurbished Logitech QuickCam Pro 4000 USB webcam for $53.77. Apply coupon code "JD961239" |
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- JustDeals.com offers the Memorex 40x/12x/40x CD-RW USB 2.0 drive for $49.95. Coupon code " |
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- The MicroStar K7T Turbo Socket A ATX motherboard costs $19.99 at JustDeals.com. Coupon code "MS6330v3" |
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- Our Collectors' Collections gets an update today with images of Ryo Hanada's collection of Star Wars toys. |
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Redesign 2 (Oct 07 2003 18:59 GMT) - So, it’s done. yay. I don’t think there are any lagging pages or anything, and it’ |
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- Oct. 7 - Voters streamed to the polls Tuesday to make an unprecedented decision: whether to recall Democratic Gov. Gray Davis, whose popularity has plunged. |
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- The Detroit News Reports The Justice Department has asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit challenging a controversial section of the USA Patriot Act. In July, the ACLU filed suit in Detroit on behalf of six community groups, asking a federal judge to invalidate a provision of the act. "Maintaining the secrecy of such investigations is therefore centrally important to the government's ability to gather information regarding the activities of international terrorists and hostile foreign adversaries without causing the disclosure of information that would undermine its efforts to prevent further acts of terrorism," said the Justice Department's 35-page response that was filed Friday. |
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- Donatella Versace has designed a colorful collection for spring, with a return to prints, reaching fifty-five different nuances, both ultra feminine and sexy. |
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Sleepy (Oct 07 2003 18:58 GMT) - My daughter did not awake at her usual time this morning. This is pretty unusual as she likes to wake... |
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- Tyco's ex-boss and finance chief face a Manhattan court charged with stealing $600m from the company. |
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- President Bush says he does not know whether the person who leaked the name of a CIA agent will ever be found. |
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- If Democrats were to hold a silent auction, how would they describe it in a news release? Diverse. Of course.... |
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- (Review) Art Torres can't possibly believe what he says. Democratic Party Chairman Art Torres said the predicted high turnout "could be the definite advantage for the governor. ... I think the lieutenant governor (Cruz Bustamante) is closing in on the... |
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PSA (Oct 07 2003 18:58 GMT) - Is you are a man with a tribal tattoo, or similar variant, around your arm, or if you are a woman with a tattoo 3 inches above your ass. You, my friend, are irretrievably lame and should kill yourself immediately.... |
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PSA (Oct 07 2003 18:58 GMT) - Is you are a man with a tribal tattoo, or similar variant, around your arm, or if you are a woman with a tattoo 3 inches above your ass. You, my friend, are irretrievably lame and should kill yourself immediately.... |
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I SPY (Oct 07 2003 18:58 GMT) |
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Faster (Oct 07 2003 18:58 GMT) |
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- I was doing a little bit of eavesdropping on the bus this morning. Or, I guess it should be called... |
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- The Bongafield development valued at $2.7 billion (about N345.6billion)is set to come alive on schedule, with oil targeted for March, 2004. Also,the largest Floating Production Storage Offshore (FPSO) vessel in the world,Bonga is scheduled to arrive Nigeria before the end of November, where itwill be anchored 120 kilometers offshore the Niger Delta. It was gatheredthat mid this year, 37 sea-floor components were successfully installed,while all five production manifolds have also been successfullyinstalled. |
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- Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Mr. Odion Ugbesiasays the Federal Government has designed a seven-year strategy action planfor the development of solid minerals in the country. The Minster who wasrepresented by Dr. Siyan Malomo disclosed this yesterday, in Benin City in akeynote address he delivered at a mineral workshop, organized by the BensonIdahosa University (BIU) in Edo State. |
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- VIRTUALLY all the commercial banks in Asaba, Delta State capital werejam-packed yesterday with customers who went to make withdrawals inanticipation of the proposed nationwide strike called by the Nigeria LabourCongress billed to commence on Thursday this week. |
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- True government amasses all our petroleum wealth but it does nothave all the resources. ..... |
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- For the fourth year in a row, President Obasanjo has sent aSupplementary Budget request for approval by the National Assembly. And lastweek the Minister for Finance was informing chairmen of committees of theHouse of Representatives that extra-budgetary expenditure and the failure tosynchronise the nation's expenditure with revenue inflows had been one ofthe major causes of our economic difficulties. Those two events raise anumber of questions about the management of the economy which must beaddressed urgently if the newly unveiled economic programme is tosucceed. |
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- The queues are back again, brought back on the weary wings ofspeculations on whether or not there will yet be another increase in theprice of petroleum products (the fourth) to be tucked nicely into thetraditional presidential speech on October 1, Nigeria's forty thirdbirthday. With widespread restlessness within government circles as well aspublic over the last stalemate, there had been good reason to believe thatgovernment will try its luck once again. |
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- An Associated Press story says that DHS Sect. Ridge announced in Toronto that Canadian citizens will be exempt from the |
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Foto Speleo (Oct 07 2003 18:58 GMT) - Questa e altre bellissime foto sul sito di Cesare Mangiagalli Speleonet... |
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- Quote: "There are some obvious ways that librarians can support educational bloggers: Teaching information literacy In higher education, e-reserves Providing current awareness services (many librarians already do this for faculty and students) Providing 24/7 reference (e.g., if you're in Illinois you can go to http: |
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- Finally, finally, I have access to a Blackboard 6 test system (I've just not had time to work on my own). The first thing I did was see how to add an RSS channel at the portal level. It works and quite well too. |
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- This past weekend I was as BBSeug (while everyone else was at BloggerCon). It was a short, but very well organized conference indeed. Sandy Bryant at Rollins College did an absolutely superb job. |
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- Quote: "As communities of practice provide a social mechanism to situate conversations, individual learning, and collective efforts, they also provide special challenges for software developers. Workshops play an important role in the life of communities and our attempt to develop a workshop that incorporates some of the powerful features of a community of practice suggests how to push the inherent limitations of a workshop in creative ways." Comment: Via this conversation at elearnspace. |
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