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'Love' back in NBA ads (Oct 17 2003 03:32 GMT) - TV News: Return of '90s campaign draws Murray, Kutcher, King Bill Murray, Ashton Kutcher and Larry King are among the celebrities that will show up in the National Basketball Assn.'s 2003-04 advertising campaign. |
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Lawrence lands at NBC (Oct 17 2003 03:32 GMT) - TV News: 'Scrubs' czar cleaning up In what's perhaps the richest TV comedy development deal of the year, "Scrubs" czar Bill Lawrence has inked a new four-year deal with NBC Studios. |
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Pleshette follows 'Rules' (Oct 17 2003 03:32 GMT) - TV News: Thesp guests alongside Garner on laffer The kids on "8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter" have met their grandmother, and it's Suzanne Pleshette. |
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Bodie tops ICM talent (Oct 17 2003 03:32 GMT) - Film News: Exec replaces Yablans as pic chief Carol Bodie has been named head of ICM's motion picture talent department, replacing outgoing head Eddy Yablans after nearly four years in the job. |
Dean's World
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Jerkwads (Oct 17 2003 03:31 GMT) - "Hosting Matters" is a company that provides a web presence to a large number of people. This includes a slew of very well-known webloggers. Hosting... |
How Appealing
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Elsewhere in Thursday's newspapers (Oct 17 2003 03:30 GMT) - Elsewhere in Thursday's newspapers: The Washington Times reports here that "Senators join forces to roll back parts of Patriot Act." In news from Virginia, "Selection of jury takes another day." A related article reports that "Connecting with jury crit |
Jeremy's Jeremiad!
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Fun Breakfast (Oct 17 2003 03:30 GMT) - I woke up this morning at 5:AM to the sound of Corryn's door being closed. She sleeps across the hall from us and has this obsession with making sure her door is closed when she leaves her room. She would... |
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Yet another hit-and-run coward to find (Oct 17 2003 03:30 GMT) - A driver in KCK hit two women who were walking on Wednesday. From KCTV-5: Phylis Sojack, 63, died at the scene. Her son's pregnant girlfriend, who tried to protect her, survived. The son's girlfriend was hospitalized Thursday, and her baby... |
Light From An Empty Fridge
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Ho hum audio (Oct 17 2003 03:30 GMT) - Ripping RealAudio streams from Salon with AudioHijack and iTunes, and it feels good. Yes, I subscribed to Salon. Given that... |
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life
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Joel Spolsky Recants...I Think (Oct 17 2003 03:30 GMT) - After Joel Spolsky's recent post on exceptions which generated lots of dissenting opinions he has attempted to recant in a way that leads one to believe he is bad at accepting critical feedback. In his most recent posting Joel writes And Back To Exceptions There's no perfect way to write code to handle errors. |
Just Well Mixed
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First Impressions of iTunes for Windows (Oct 17 2003 03:30 GMT) - Well, what with all the hoopla surrounding the launch of Apple's iTunes for Windows I figured I should go and check it out, so I downloaded the software and spent a little while browsing the iTunes Music Store. Here's my first take. The software itself is well done. There was some noise about it being a resource hog, but it runs snappily on my home PC, which is nothing special -- just a homebrew AMD Duron 1200 box (stuffed with 512MB RAM, though, which might be helping). For whatever reason, though, it certainly doesn't feel like a half-baked port from another OS, at least from a performance perspective. |
What Is New
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Plugging a GPS receiver into a Tablet PC (Oct 17 2003 03:29 GMT) - One of the most frequently asked questions that we're asked is about how to use a Tablet PC with a GPS. Who are these people? They're not people just spending money for a cool gadget. They're truck drivers, RVers, bush pilots, commercial airline pilots, ultra-lite pilots, and sales people who drive to their clients' locations. OK - so some of them intend to use it for recreation, but they're looking at it from a practical standpoint of electronic maps. |
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Web/Humor: Jesus Celebrates 33rd Anniversary as God Incarnate (Oct 17 2003 03:29 GMT) - From Mark Sheas blog:In a special celebration held in the home of Mary of Bethany, numerous friends and acquaintances of Jesus of Nazareth gathered to celebrate the Galileans 33rd year as God Incarnate. But sources close to the so-called Son of God.. |
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