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- Hot on the heels of the Cubs’ disheartening fall (as so angrily and lyrically covered by Tony Pierce) comes tonight’s 11th inning loss of the Red Sox to the Team That Shall Not Be Named. Three days ago it could have been a World Series to care about, with one or both of the most cursed teams in baseball in the Big Game. After tonight, it’ |
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Oh hell (Oct 17 2003 03:53 GMT) - Prayer, if you believe in it (and maybe even if you don’t), is in order: Seattle’s blogmom Anita Rowland has diabetes and ovarian cancer…and no health insurance. |
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- Redmond’s own Irish-Cajun brewpub, the Celtic Bayou, just took home a silver medal at the Great American Beer Festival for their Barbarian’s Best Bitter (in the Extra Special Bitter category, naturally). No tasting notes because you can only get the beer at the pub. Maybe I should swing by again… |
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- I just found out that Wednesday was White Cane Safety Day, which is on October 15 every year since President Lyndon Johnson designated the day in 1964. The National Federation for the Blind explains: The white cane in our society... |
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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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- (US) Olympic athletes face drug tests at major competitions, as well as random testing between events. Agents from the Internal Revenue Service and a San Mateo County narcotics task force went to BALCO last month. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(70%), $propaganda_theme2(70%), $propaganda_theme3(50%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(90%), $narcotic(100%), $various_drugs(90%), $various_illegal_drugs(50%)] |
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- No more second-hand undies for Tanzanians as government bans imports. |
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- Operation to separate twins appears to have succeeded. |
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- Zimbabawe's only private daily newspaper, The Daily News, has launched a court appeal against a government decision to deny it registration. |
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- Talks to continue; government cracks down on ethnic unrest. |
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- Ethiopian prime minister rejects border finding. |
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- Road crash claims lives; parties to meet over fuel crisis. |
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- Being accused of being a witch can be fatal in this African state. |
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- Fighting has erupted in Liberia's remote south-eastern regions between rebels and forces loyal to former President Charles Taylor. |
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- A trendy new youth centre is aiming to grab the imagination of Angolan teenagers, and help them steer clear of HIV infection. |
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- Liberia's new transitional leader, Gyude Bryant, says he is confident all warring factions support his peace mission, but there are reports of continuing skirmishes in the southeast timber region. |
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- Is Google God? When will the company finally go public? Search Engine Watch editor Danny Sullivan poses these and other questions to Google co-founder Sergey Brin. |
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- I wasn't going to comment on Malaysian PM Mahathir Mohamad's speech at the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, but when I read Smuggy's take on it, I knew I just had to. The CBC is going halfway and manages to fit in with the whitewashers while pretending to be unbiased. [...] Our media could at least give people the option of deciding for themselves whether this guy is a nut or not - why do they need to put the squirrel-yelling guy through two hours of hair and makeup before they roll the camera? I'm not sure which CBC article Smuggy was reading, but the one I read earlier today had a headline of "Malaysian PM urges Muslims to unite against what he calls Jewish domination" and an opening paragraph which read (emphasis mine): |
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- Freelance Writing! Freelance Writing! How to be a freelance writer! Tips for the freelance writer! Break into freelance writing!... |
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- I am at the KMWorld conference in Santa Clara. Mike Draper is up with his slideshow titled "Write Once, Publish Often: Content Management Systems and Multi-Channel Publishing". |
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- The success of drink-driving campaigns is partly to blame for a record increase in the number of pedestrians killed after drinking heavily. From the Times of London. |
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- [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] - Salon Oct 16 2003 10:13PM ET... |
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- I don't feel like always updaing MT, fixing things, using TextAmerica for moblogging, and whatnot...so I am switching over to... |
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