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- Traveling by rail on Rail Transportation Day. |
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- Titillation near the tinned goods, passion in the preserves and flirting amid the fruit-and-veg. Welcome to Paris’ first singles’ supermarket night. Sex and shopping has long been the stuff of fantasy, but now a Parisian department store is bringing the heady mix to life with... |
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Socal Iraq (Oct 14 2003 14:59 GMT) - The full extent of the small spider population can probably never be known directly. No spider census, after all. But in the early morning dew, some of their webs become visible on top of hedges in our neighborhood. There are scads of little webs, ergo, loads of spiders. If just one hedge has 50 webs showing, what does that mean for the number of spiders? |
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- Shopping my way into Toys 'R' Us over the weekend, I caught sight of two supervisors engaged in serious colloquy. It turned out they were comparing the new twenty-dollar bill to the old one, and I stopped by to take a gander at the new Andrew Jackson. What's new about the new bill? |
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- Venezuela in number 100 of 133 in the list of most corrupt nations according to Transparency International. The least corrupt is Finland, while the most corrupt is Bangla Desh. Few Latin Amerian countries are below Venezuela. Paraguay is the most corrupt in Latin America. |
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- The ramifications of this administration’s politicization of intelligence, uncaring attitude toward nuclear proliferation, and extortion and mistreatment of its allies are all on display in how Bush has mishandled the growing problem in North Korea. According to David Sanger in... |
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- Posilnenie akcii takmer vsetkych dnes obchodovanych titulov posunulo hodnotu akcioveho indexu Burzy cennych papierov v Bratislave (BCPB) SAX vyssie o 0,20 % na 175,13 bodu |
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- Ucast na doplnkovom dochodkovom poisteni bude pre ludi vyhodna aj po uskutocneni planovanych reforiem tohto systemu |
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- Oct. 14 - About 1,000 people were evacuated from their homes early Tuesday after a leak at a juice processing plant sent ammonia gas into the surrounding neighborhood. |
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- Oct. 13 - Large objects, like WW II fighter places and antique cars, are littering the lawns in a number of Connecticut towns much to the dismay of residents. |
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- Oct. 13 - Boston College will join the Atlantic Coast Conference as its 12th member, guaranteeing the league a future football playoff game. |
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- Oct. 13 - A shooting in Hartford Sunday night was drug-related and not a random act of violence, police said. |
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- Reuters, from Serbia: A two-seater sports plane on an unauthorized joyride was apparently shot down by mistake when it flew over a Serbian wedding party where guests were firing guns into the air, local media |
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COP 9 (Oct 14 2003 14:58 GMT) |
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- Can anybody tell me what the core voltage is for an Intel pentium. Printing on chip is as follows. A80502-100 SX963 ICOMP INDEX=815 L5310604-1670 INTEL `92 `93 Thanks Chuck crmjr@sisna.com (Comment references N?A) |
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- Apparently tired of actually having to answer the tough questions being asked by the major media outlets, Duh-bya has decided to hit the local broadcaster circuit. As reported in today remains to be seen. But I can only hope that somebody will make an eff |
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- Forget viruses. Spam's Public Enemy Number One. That's according to DoubleClick's recent consumer survey: 89%. Fifty six percent of their incoming's junk. |
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- This morning, a 63-year old doctor from Flagstaff will be wheeled into an operating room at University Medical Center to donate one of his healthy kidneys. |
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- At least 11 American newspapers inadvertently published identical or nearly identical letters from soldiers serving in the same unit in Iraq, each signed by a different person. |
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- WASHINGTON - The Bush administration, seeking broader support for a U.N. resolution on Iraq, made small changes in its proposed language on Monday, including setting a date, Dec. 15, for the Iraqi Governing Council to begin the process of taking on more power. |
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- TIKRIT, Iraq - Saddam Hussein is believed to have been hiding out recently in Tikrit, influencing the anti-American insurgency, the U.S. military said Monday. |
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- AGUA PRIETA, Sonora - When he arrived in this city from the village of Salvador Urbina eight years ago, Daniel Cifuentes had lost hope that his small coffee farm in Chiapas could earn enough to support his family. |
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- FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - The dietary establishment has long argued it's impossible, but a new study offers intriguing evidence for the idea that people on low-carbohydrate diets can actually eat more than folks on standard low-fat plans and still lose weight. |
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- Death-penalty trial opens in Va. for suspect in Washington-area sniper shootings; Case expected to last up to 6 weeks; Some 120 potential jurors being questioned individually |
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- Justices to decide if phrase 'one nation under God' will remain part of patriotic oath as recited in most classrooms |
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- Driver killed, more than dozen others said wounded in blast; Explosion occurs amid Iraqi opposition to troop deployment |
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- Resolution would require election plan by Dec. 15; U.N. security panel pleased; |
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- Congress: As lawmakers iron out an energy bill, factions in the industry clash over how much say government should have in the market. |
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- Uphill fight against scope, poverty, cultural factors |
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- FDA re-examining 11-year-old ban on breast enlargement option |
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- Move is another blow to his prime minister, Qureia, who opposed it |
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- Some say it's impossible to keep information from leaking out of Camp Delta |
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- 2-year-olds from Egypt were joined at the head before 34-hour operation |
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- An anonymous reader writes "According to the Austin Business Journal, Dell's 3-teraflop, 600 server supercomputer cluster cost the University of Texas $38 ... |
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- Mobius sez, "My friend Martin took the NYC MTA's Subway Advisory Alerts and made RSS feeds for each individual train. The URLs link directly to PDFs of the same posters the MTA hangs in the subway stations. Comes in pretty handy if you're used to MTA service sucking ass. Throw a feed up on your desktop aggregator or on your blog (as I have done at sexveggie.com) and you'll never get stuck waiting a month for the train again. |
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- From the ABC : Some 2,000 Indonesian police and troops have been sent to a district in Central Sulawesi province to prevent a major flare-up of Muslim-Christian violence, a police officer has said.And the role of the Christians is..? A... |
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- From the ABC : Some 2,000 Indonesian police and troops have been sent to a district in Central Sulawesi province to prevent a major flare-up of Muslim-Christian violence, a police officer has said.And the role of the Christians is..? A... |
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- Fox have released a few more images for the new Quadrilogy |
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- I've been finding a couple bugs introduced by the input of spurious letters. In particular the category RSS feeds were broken on the site because of this. This is a problem with these Touchstream keyboards, or rather my inexperience with them. Since you're using the same surface for mousing, typing... |
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- Few things are cooler than finding out that your boss is a geek for the same movies that you are. |
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- Le Soleil se lève à l est, la Lune aussi, les planètes du système solaire de même. Et bien entendu, « tout ce beau monde » se couche à l ouest Cela dit, il y a des nuances selon les saisons. (1) Ainsi, l hiver, en France métropolitaine, le Soleil se lève vers le sud-est et se couche vers le sud-ouest. L été, il se lève vers le nord-est et se couche vers le nord-ouest. Concernant la Lune, c est globalement l inverse. |
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- Ici, je me réfère à l article signé Philippe Moreau sur Libération en défense de l exhibition du string à l école, dans lequel il attaque durement et avec les mots grandiloquents de « stupeur », « colère » et « hypocrisie de tartuffe » la position de Ségolène Royal qui elle prône, non pas la chasteté, mais la décence et approuve que les chefs d établissements l interdisent. Franchement, j ai été ulcérée. |
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COP 9 (Oct 14 2003 14:57 GMT) |
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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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- Most recent daily statistics (12 Oct 2003): Ranking: 0, Activity percentile: 0.00%, |
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