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- Carrie Bickner, whom I had the pleasure of meeting at SxSW and have done my best to keep in touch with since, has a new book out, Web Design on a Shoestring. She has told me before that I'm not really the target audience for such a book, but it ... |
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- Carrie Bickner, whom I had the pleasure of meeting at SxSW and have done my best to keep in touch with since, has a new book out, Web Design on a Shoestring. She has told me before that I'm not really the target audience for such a book, but it ... |
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- Cross-posted to found_objects: |
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- IBM Corp., the world's largest computer maker, said Monday that a California appeals court refused to delay a trial in a case brought by former employees who claim they contracted cancer at the company's hard-disk-drive plant. |
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- A bond downgrade by Moody's prompts the company to move up its reporting of upbeat results by a day. |
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- The order for 11,000 units raises shares of the slot maker 11%. Harrah's joins Park Place and MGM in updating. |
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- Vical Inc., a San Diego biotechnology company developing infectious-disease treatments, said it signed an agreement with the U.S. to manufacture an experimental SARS vaccine. |
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- Intel Corp. introduced a flash memory system that aims to capitalize on the photography and multimedia functions being built into cell phones. |
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- Californians elected Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger governor last week apparently because in a time of grave economic distress, voting for a Hollywood action hero who symbolizes power and strength represents a statewide rescue fantasy. The easy victory for a movie star with no political experience was an especially cold shower for the big kahunas of the Democratic Party. |
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- The Ohio congressman uses his announcement speech to stress his antiwar stance. |
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- RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — The Saudi kingdom, an absolute monarchy, announced Monday that it would hold its first elections, a vote for municipal councils. |
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- WASHINGTON — President Bush, rejecting criticism that he has lost control of his Iraq policy amid staff infighting, said Monday that "the person who is in charge is me" and that his strategy is producing solid results. |
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- UNITED NATIONS — The Security Council voted unanimously Monday to expand the 5,500-strong NATO-led force in Afghanistan to areas beyond the capital. |
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- MONROVIA, Liberia — Tens of thousands of Liberians welcomed businessman Gyude Bryant when he returned to his West African homeland Monday to be sworn in as head of an interim government designed to rebuild Liberia after 14 years of war. |
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- An Indonesian court convicted an Islamic militant of bombing the Philippine ambassador's house in 2000 and sentenced him to 20 years in prison. |
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- Government forces battled rebels and right-wing paramilitary fighters in several locations in heavy fighting that killed 27 gunmen and two soldiers, the army said. In the largest battle, government troops said they killed 17 fighters of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia outside the town of Orocue. |
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- Communist rebels attacked a police training camp overnight in western Nepal, sparking a gun battle that left at least 12 policemen and 15 guerrillas dead, officials said. |
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- JERUSALEM — Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat appointed an acting security chief Monday over interim Prime Minister Ahmed Korei's opposition. |
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- Rob Salkowitz at Emphasis Added does a nice analysis of Bush's "leadership" qualities and the problems they're starting to cause. He does a nice job comparing Bush's version of leadership to that of previous presidents, and shows how little true... |
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- At the ITU Telecom 2003 exhibition, First Hop Ltd launches on Monday Wireless Broker, the next-generation middleware product allowing operators and service providers to manage the complete process of provisioning, delivering, and charging of a large, dynamic service portfolio over all wireless channels, such as SMS, MMS, WAP Push, WAP, and HTTP. |
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- With 12 teams, title game in football will be allowed |
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- No. 1 Oklahoma too much for No. 11 Texas, 65-13; Notre Dame defeats Pitt |
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- SAN FRANCISCO Levi Strauss has announced a new line of pants to be introduced under its Dockers brand of sportswear. "Dockers Viagra" are intended to meet what the company has identified as a "growing need" among men. "We did extensive research with focus groups," said company spokeswoman Julene Atkinson, "And after asking thousands of men to help us design the ideal pair of pants, we found that one of the most commonly requested features was the ability to conceal a state of male arousal." |
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- A four dimensional rubik's cube. Offline program and source code also available here to download. |
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- Megri is an interest site. I was looking for a quote (fuzzy was helping) and at one point i ended up here. It has 360 links for quotes etc. and if you level up, it has other links for reference type materials (i love how it adds the number of links for each category!) Interestingly, the company is out of India. |
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- Pakistan test-fires new missilePakistan has carried out its third test in less than two weeks of a missile capable of... |
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- In Los Angeles, the workers are restless L.A. grocery strike joined by transportation strikeThe 70,000 grocery workers now on strike in southern California were joined at midnight Monday by Metropolitan Transit Authority workers. The mechanics union is striking and workers will honor the picket lines thus shutting down the entire system. |
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