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- Via The Telegraph, discussion of the BURBERRY brand. Old story on defending its pattern here. International Herald Tribune on the hottest handbags here. |
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Nigeria (Oct 08 2003 20:59 GMT) - Brad Christensen is making a fool of all the nigerian letters. It takes a long while to read these, but... |
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- Odd: Naga fireballs: Timing still a mystery for scientists (Bangkok Post): Methane and phosphine, a mix of phosphorus and hydrogen, were found in waterways near the Mekong. These gaseous substances ... |
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- Odd: Naga fireballs: Timing still a mystery for scientists (Bangkok Post): Methane and phosphine, a mix of phosphorus and hydrogen, were found in waterways near the Mekong. These gaseous substances were believed to cause the fiery balls, researchers said, though they were not sure exactly how or why they occur. |
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- Adios amigos, I'm off to Spain for six days of tapas eating and schmoozing with the Barcelona blogosfera. Hope to see folks at ArtFutura, and if you're in Barcelona and won't be there, drop me an email if you want to meet up or something. Blogging will be light until I return. In my absence, please pray for the Sox. |
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- The data storage company has hired Howard Elias to work on new ventures, making him the latest high-level HP manager to jump ship for a rival. |
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- Metroactive.com recently published an amusing little piece on the dangers of allowing seizure-prone NASA scientists to use robots in their search for alien life on Mars. |
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- New Scientist Oct 8 2003 3:17PM ET... |
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- eWeek Oct 8 2003 1:13PM ET... |
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- Mad.co.uk Oct 8 2003 1:30PM ET... |
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- If you previously used Terminal to modify iSync 1.1 for unsupported calendar syncing, you may lose data or duplicate data when you sync the phone using iSync 1.2.1 or later. |
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- The Register Oct 8 2003 2:43PM ET... |
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- SevenSix Dirty Words.... |
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- Most blogers drop their weblog within a year. Then again, most people don't last more than a year with any... |
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- Gapers' Block got press.... |
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- The Rock-Paper-Scissors International World Championships.... |
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- Browse 1.6 million Enron emails for free, online. Really.... |
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- I started using Counter Intelligence, which is like what webtrends live used to be, but cheaper. it currently costs either EUR10 for a month, or EUR100 for the year. pretty sweet. i have it on both my sites now and... |
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- April writes "Wake County citizens today voted yes on a bond referendum that will supply $35 million for new libraries. So far, there isn't much up besides the results of the vote at our local news site, but here are the results, and here is some info about the bond issue from the county's homepage." And in other good news... Steffers writes "The Dickson Herald reports that a $20,000 donation to the library general fund will attempt to help the county keep their books. A council member will be drafting a request that the county pick up the remaining money owed to the state. |
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Holy (Oct 08 2003 20:58 GMT) - This scene can be found at the front of the Notre Dame in Paris (looking towards the back). The lighting was wonderful albeit low so I was happy to capture this without a tripod. |
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- While military expert Ralph Peters's commentaries on the Iraq war have been most useful, he always seemed to be over... |
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- On the way home the car radio was playing me Terry Gross's Fresh Air interview with Bill O'Reilly. O'Reilly managed... |
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- Guess the Fake Headline. Win a link to Feed the Model. 12,320 Californians voted Gary Coleman for governor Elvis Memorabilia Triggers... |
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- And other revelations from David Kay's report. : Fred Kaplan in Slate dissects the President's insupportable propaganda about the Kay Report proving that Saddam Hussein was a threat. Furthermore, the report supports the conclusion that the UN inspection process was what kept any weapons development in Saddam's Iraq at bay. "Saddam wanted and, in some cases, tried to resurrect the weapons programs that he had built in the 1980s, but that the United Nations sanctions and inspections prevented him from doing so. |
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- Former owners of The Salt Lake Tribune don't plan to contest a judge's order that gave them until Friday to raise $355.5 million and buy back Utah's largest daily, but a fresh round of legal maneuvers may keep the three-year ownership dispute alive. |
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- The G5 is in Sacramento, waiting to go to Phoenix! Griffin PowerMate 2.0b3 - for the audio and media controller device Apple iSync 1. |
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- I've written on this topic before. The French boycott is peculiar in my opinion - and easy, convenient. If the boycotters want to get serious, let's also boycott Germany's BMW and the crude oil we import from Russia. Germany was more anti-war than France. Russia was against the invasion of Iraq, and was prepared to use it's veto power at the U. |
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- Apparently, the administration's new "defend the war" strategy is employing the administration's favorite tactic. The lie. Condoleezza Rice told a... |
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- Although Krempasky's weblog is currently out of commission due to hosting problems, when it comes back up you will be... |
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