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Lives Saved (Oct 11 2003 05:25 GMT) - This man saved his family's lives. If some people had their way, he, his wife, and his children would likely be dead now.... |
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- Dr. Curt Stager and Martha Foley wonder: what's up with insects? A student brought in two obviously disimilar insects who appeared to be mating. But no, the canker worm moth can tell the difference—it's just that the female of the species has no wings. |
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- SunnComm has decided against filing a lawsuit against John "Alex" Halderman for his act of publishing a paper that described how to work around their CD protection scheme. Apparently, all it takes to break the protection is to press the shift key when inserting the CD. It's too bad that there won't be a lawsuit. As Lessig remarked, it would have been good news for the law to be able to help establish an obvious point. On the other hand, since that point does seem to be obvious, it's not ever so important to establish it even further. |
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- "One must also accept that one has 'uncreative' moments. The more honestly one can accept that, the quicker these moments will pass." |
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- "The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings." |
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- "If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people." |
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Babe Ruth (Oct 11 2003 05:25 GMT) - "I have only one superstition. I touch all the bases when I hit a home run." |
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- "I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave." |
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- "Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering." |
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- Amazon.com - Hasbro Ebay Auction Game $5.29 Shipped. Amazon has the Hasbro Ebay Auction Game |
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- Amazon.com - Hasbro Ebay Auction Game $5.29 Shipped. Amazon has the Hasbro Ebay Auction Game |
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- The Center for Public Integrity, a site dedicated to providing "investigative journalism in the public interest," has a wonderful sub-site, Well Connected, that gives information and resources related to telecoms and the FCC. One item that got attention on Media Geek was their database of radio ownership in the U.S.. Media Geek used the database to check out the situation in Urbana-Champaign, where both of us are based.... |
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etc (Oct 11 2003 05:23 GMT) - Guardian :: (October 11, 2003) Tensions within the Bush administration over postwar Iraq were exposed this week after a major... |
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- MATTHEW YGLESIAS ruminates about the constitutional amendment to allow foreigners to be President. He says that the change might encourage foreign political talent to come over and give it a shot. The American Presidency is a more powerful office than anything else in politics, and its availability to foreigners might draw foreign political talent. Sounds weird, I know. I don't think that people in the middle of their careers would make the move; |
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- So where have I been all week? In part, making music with my computer, something I’ve had a mind (but... |
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Today: (Oct 11 2003 05:21 GMT) - Capping off a rather bad overall week... Today, I: Took the cat to the vet. Again. Got my flu shot.... |
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- Yes, this is volume 1 of my review. I cannot really review this, because quite frankly, I want everybody to... |
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- Yes, this is volume 1 of my review. I cannot really review this, because quite frankly, I want everybody to... |
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- Heureka! Nobel Lecture 2002: "Consider what happened to language in the twentieth century, what became of words. I daresay that the first and most shocking discovery made by writers in our time was that language, in the form it came down to us, a legacy of some primordial culture, had simply become unsuitable to convey concepts and processes that had once been unambiguous and real. Think of Kafka, think of Orwell, in whose hands the old language simply disintegrated. |
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- Stuff like this makes me feel good. |
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Radiohead (Oct 11 2003 05:19 GMT) - Við vorum að koma af Radiohead tónleikum í Madison Square Garden. Þeir voru helvíti flottir.... |
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- (US) Red Bull and vodka has been called Ecstasy in a can, a reference to a popular club drug. Mixed with Bacardi Limsn in a Red Lemon, Red Bull tastes like an energy Chartreuse: herbal and sweet, with acidity and slight carbonation. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(50%), $propaganda_theme3(50%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(90%), $hallucinogen(60%), $MDMA(60%), $alcohol(100%), $various_drugs(90%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
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- (US) "All the time she is crying. In a poor nation where anti-narcotics efforts are focused on combating supply.[$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(100%), $propaganda_theme1(80%), $propaganda_theme2(100%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(95%), $narcotic(100%), $opiate(100%), $various_drugs(95%)] |
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- (US) Paying pieces include a prostitute, a marijuana leaf and an Uzi weapon. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(90%), $propaganda_theme1(90%), $propaganda_theme2(60%), $propaganda_theme3(50%), $gateway(80%), $propaganda_theme4(80%), $propaganda_theme5(70%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(95%), $cannabis(100%), $alcohol(75%), $various_drugs(95%)] |
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- I just got back from the On-Line Community Summit up in Sonoma. Representatives from Salon, Consumer Report, World Bank, MeetUp, There.com, EZBoard, Web Crossing, Omidyar Foundation, Tribe. |
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- 11 Oct 2003: On the heels of its landmark Sun Java Enterprise System announcements, Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced more than 300,000 registered licenses of the Solaris 9 Operating System (x86 Platform Edition). Read the news at OSNews.com. |
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- Sunday Times South Africa Oct 10 2003 11:12PM ET... |
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- Sunday Times South Africa Oct 10 2003 11:12PM ET... |
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- An interesting article on "Adding RSS to Library Catalogs" from The Shifted Librarian: This is exactly what I was saying at the BloggerCon session about aggregators - librarians are a natural point of entry for educating the public. Librarians are the information center of their communities. University librarians can help their faculty and students, public librarians can help their residents, corporate librarians can help their company's employees, etc. It's a win-win situation to spread the gospel of RSS when it's ready for prime-time. |
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- Here's a weird little something from MiniPeace which caught my eye. It seems to be a masterpiece of Newspeak: 'Navy... |
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- Borges: Martinez battles Clemens with chance to help end ‘The Curse’ |
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Foomacs (Oct 11 2003 05:17 GMT) - I’m at the FOO (Friends Of O’Reilly) camp in Sebastopol, with a bunch of very stimulating people, I’m sitting next to Brian Ingerson of YAML fame (and why, I ask, would we not get along?) fame as I type this. What’s weird is, this is the first time in my life where I’ve been to a substantial gathering and more or less everyone is using a Macintosh. |
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Dawg! (Oct 11 2003 05:16 GMT) - The only thing worse than the eubonics-speaking punks from the last time we made a midnight run to Denny's, are... |
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- Due to the amount of comment spamming I'm receiving from the 209.210.176.* IP range, I've blocked POST acces to that... |
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- Doug Glanville drives the ball into the outfield to score Lofton from first as Conine dives and the ball rolls by him to the wall. Cubs lead 5-4 in the 11th. Update: Cubs just get the one run. To the... |
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