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- Thomas Friedman makes an interesting if impractical argument in his column today: There is an old proverb that says, "If you're going to sup with... |
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- Oh oh. A Pat Leahy/Democrat AA franchise is about to be shut down.... |
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- Mike McGlynn sends along news of two free and ad-free hosting providers: NetDojo and f2o.org. Both provide very full-featured hosting environments (Python, PHP, MySQL, etc), with no charge and no ads. How do they do it? |
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- This has just been sent to me by a very dear friend. Definitely food for thought and makes you count your blessings If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep ... you are richer than 75% of this world. If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish someplace ... you are among the top 8% of the world's wealthy. |
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- This has just been sent to me by a very dear friend. Definitely food for thought and makes you count your blessings If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep ... you are richer than 75% of this world. If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish someplace ... you are among the top 8% of the world's wealthy. |
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- A writer's lot can be a lonely one, since churning out pages usually means hours spent alone at a keyboard.... |
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- The Beeb is having a Limerick Challenge in honour of National Poetry Day. In that spirit, they invite you to come up with the next four lines of any of these openers. On Arnie's first day in the job... At Blackpool one day by the sea... When Tony asked Gordon to lunch... |
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- Steve Fesenmaier writes points us to The NYTimes and another story on the now famous, Nancy Pearl, the model for a librarian action figure ("With amazing push-button shushing action!"). "Is this dowdy? Do I look dowdy?" Nancy Pearl asked as she took the stage, plucking at her elegant blouse. |
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- An Iranian court has sentenced a convicted child rapist to eight death sentences and 173 lashes, the judge in the case said Thursday. Mohammad Ali Firouzi, 34, was sentenced under Islamic law this week to hang in each of the eight rape counts he confessed to, Judge Karam Ali Bahrami told The Associated Press. |
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- Disney COO Bob Iger shows that there's more going on beneath those big round ears than learning how to drive a steamboat. Beyond exploring ways to block digital piracy, Iger discusses DVRs, video on demand, their new MovieBeam movie rental service, digital rights management and privacy. Eric Picard comments. [summary] |
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- Internationella motståndets dag och Civilkuragets dag, den 12 oktober 2002 skrev Subcomandante Marcos denna brev som jag finner lämplig att publicera här. |
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- Neologism of the day: propagenda, as coined by Brian Eno in Zembla Magazine. Musing on how the Iraq War was... |
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- Luana: "'ele vem com a observação que vc foi dispensado por ser drogado ou bicha, aí tu vai pagar mico pelo resto da vida.' q comentário ridículo e preconceituoso. " O meu comentário não foi ridículo e preconceituoso não, é apenas a realidade. Vc fala como se fosse a coisa mais normal do mundo assumir que é gay e drogado, e ainda acha que isso não vai te atrapalhar no seu convívio social. |
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- "Heeding the call from small and mid-market businesses (SMBs) for enterprise-calibre functionality at a lower cost, Oracle Corp. on Wednesday announced a new entry-level database that it claims offers SMBs the best of both worlds. The Redwood Shores, Calif.-based company unveiled the Oracle Standard Edition One — a single processor version of its Standard Edition database. Despite a price tag of US$5,995 per processor for an unlimited number of users — US$195 per named user with a minimum of five users or a US$979 entry point — Oracle assured users that Standard Edition One comes with the same traditional performance, reliability and security of the Oracle Database. |
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- Is Microsoft ready to move onto the 'extinguish' phase with the Web browser? |
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- "SashXB is an open-source programming environment developed by IBM. It is the Linux rewrite of the Windows-based Sash language and uses JavaScript as a programming language..."... |
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- Just when Computer Associates is putting it all together, something doesn't compute. |
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- Yonhap News Oct 9 2003 7:54AM ET... |
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- New York Daily News Oct 9 2003 8:10AM ET... |
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- bargainPDA.com Oct 9 2003 8:13AM ET... |
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- TheStreet.com Oct 9 2003 8:18AM ET... |
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- CNET Oct 9 2003 8:18AM ET... |
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- msn.co.in Oct 9 2003 8:21AM ET... |
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- ZDNet Oct 9 2003 7:37AM ET... |
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- Washington Post Oct 9 2003 7:38AM ET... |
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- The Mercury Oct 9 2003 8:01AM ET... |
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- MSNBC Oct 9 2003 8:08AM ET... |
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- Business Week Oct 9 2003 8:08AM ET... |
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- ZDNet Oct 9 2003 8:07AM ET... |
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- Perhaps because alligators seem natural in New York (who hasn't wondered if there was an alligator in the sewer beneth their feet), Ming the Tiger, the illegal Harlem resident, got all the media attention, whereas Al the Alligator got very little love. The Times ponders this issue as well as... |
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- As I noted on Monday, we have a third new t-shirt design. Pictured above is the "Weapons of Crass Obstruction" t-shirt (click here for ordering info). Doug Weinberg at ThoseShirts.com was inspired by recent battles in the Judiciary Committee.... |
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- Most recent daily statistics ( 6 Oct 2003): Ranking: 0, Activity percentile: 0.00%, |
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- Most recent daily statistics ( 6 Oct 2003): Download count: 0 |
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- Public mailing lists: sushi-devel |
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- Public discussion forums: Open Discussion, Help |
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- Tracker description: Bug Tracking System |
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- Tracker description: Tech Support Tracking System |
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- Tracker description: Patch Tracking System |
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- Tracker description: Feature Request Tracking System |
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- Most recent daily statistics ( 6 Oct 2003): Commit count: 0; Add count: 0 [Web-based access to repository] |
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- Project description: Sushi is a suite of GNOME application that allow people to play a pen-and-paper game across the Internet. |
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- Project administrators: davide178 |
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- Back at the beginning of July, Jonathon Russell walked into his workplace near Jefferson City, Missouri with a Glock semi-automatic, killed three co-workers, injured five more, then turned the gun on himself. I can't speak to the frequency of such... |
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- Johannes Paul II. ist 25 Jahre im Amt |
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