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- The ex-guitarist from US rock band Kiss is wounded in a shooting outside an LA nightclub. |
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- The refurbished Carnforth railway station immortalised by the classic British film Brief Encounter re-opens. |
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- Four British clubs will be in the hat for the Uefa Cup second round draw on Friday. |
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- Don't have anything important to add to the facts already presented in these brilliant comments. Just want to point out that it's warming my soul to read so much sensible argumentation. Especially wh... |
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- John Travolta and wrestling star The Rock are teaming up for a follow-up to 1995's Get Shorty, with Travolta once again playing loan shark-turned-producer Chili Palmer. |
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- Former Baywatch star Pamela Anderson is taking on KFC calling for an international boycott of the fast-food chain for what she calls the cruel treatment of its chickens. |
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- Terminator 3 beauty Kristann Loken would rather kiss a woman than a man because they are more "intimate". |
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- There are reports that Jennifer Lopez has had cosmetic surgery. |
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JChanBot (Oct 17 2003 09:59 GMT) - New Java IRC ChanBot... |
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- Linux Journal Oct 17 2003 4:03AM ET... |
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- vnunet.com Oct 17 2003 4:12AM ET... |
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- "The upcoming Desktop Linux Conference will cover the current state of the Linux desktop and where it's heading..."... |
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- infoSync Oct 17 2003 4:41AM ET... |
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- Silicon.com Oct 17 2003 4:16AM ET... |
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- Silicon.com Oct 17 2003 4:16AM ET... |
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- Reuters Oct 17 2003 4:39AM ET... |
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- South African Government Oct 17 2003 4:40AM ET... |
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- The Register Oct 17 2003 4:04AM ET... |
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- ZDNet Oct 17 2003 4:08AM ET... |
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- Personal Computer World Oct 17 2003 3:51AM ET... |
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- vnunet.com Oct 17 2003 3:52AM ET... |
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- Silicon.com Oct 17 2003 4:16AM ET... |
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- Good News from the Land O' Ender, where returning Arizona State University West students were introduced to Linux-based workstations in the Fletcher Library on Monday. The Library has successfully completed a 14-month conversion project which includes the replacement of Microsoft Windows NT servers and clients with Linux. Scattered throughout the Library are 71 diskless workstations that are network booted. The client custom disk image is locally stored on a workstation using a 1 gigabyte RAMdisk. Sixteen Linux servers drive all aspects of the Library IT operation. |
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- Mary H. Musgrave points us to This List Of Reasons produced by the Department of Education Library and Information down in Australia. Includes Snappy Comebacks, and Longer answers. "We still need libraries because “everything” is not on the Internet. Not even Bill Gates can afford to digitise the sum total of human knowledge. |
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- madtom writes "Staff members of the Creative Commons, an organization seeking alternatives to copyright in the face of increasingly restrictive default rules, recently interviewed Michael Eisen, biologist at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and UC Berkeley and co-founder of the Public Library of Science, about the launch of PLoS Biology, its publication under a Creative Commons license, and its promise to transform open access models, the scientific community, and the world. This week, PLoS moved closer to realizing this dream with the release of its first open access publication: PLoS Biology, a world-class, peer-reviewed scientific journal. Creative Commons Featured Commoner, October 2003." |
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- Where websites go to die is a neat article out of Australia that says The National Library of Australia is a world leader in tracing the evolution of the internet. But, writes Lauren Martin, with the average life of a website now only 44 days, time and money are short. PANDORA - the acronym for Preserving and Accessing Networked Documentary Resources of Australia, PANDORA is an archive of Australia's part in a technological leap which, in a decade, has revolutionised publishing. And it is run by a white-haired librarian, Margaret Phillips, with a staff she can count on one fine-boned hand. |
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- News From Milwaukee says DVDs and other multimedia items are on pace to overtake books as the most popular materials leaving public libraries in the Milwaukee area, statistics show. Nearly 43% of the materials circulated at the 13 Milwaukee public libraries were multimedia items in 2001, the latest year for which figures are available. That compares with 27% in 1994 and 38% in 1999. The demand for multimedia includes videos, CDs and CD-ROMs, along with the increasingly well-liked DVDs and audio cassette books. |
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- djfiander writes "Probably the cheapest and easiest way for those of us north of the 49th (even if I'm at 42 deg N) is from the Ontario Library Association online store. That way we don't have to argue with Canada Post about paying a service charge for them to provide the "service" of collecting taxes." |
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- Here's An Article on BritishPathe.com a collection of more than 12 million historic photographs, capturing scenes from the Boer War to the D-Day landings. The images, which date back to the turn of the 20th century, have been captured from the archives of the British Pathe newsreel, a cinema news service that pre-dated television. The unique collection has been created by re-scanning every inch of the archive's 3,500 hours of 35mm film. |
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- Slashdot Notes Project Gutenberg has passed the milestone of 10,000 free eBooks available, with the publication of the Magna Carta. |
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- The lovely but dead (in a blog sense) Nixon sent me this fantastic Jessica-related animated gif (from b3ta) this morning and I'm lovin' it, I hope you do too. Except for that odd reader from Bristol who keeps emailing me... |
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- I didn't see Aaron Boone's ball land. I told my buddies that if we (The Yanks!) won in walk-off... |
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- DETROIT - The contract covering five unions and 5,900 workers at the city's three casinos expired after negotiators failed to reach an agreement. |
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- Rather than continue to bore you with the long sordid story of why I'm gone and won't be back here -- just go visit my (new and expanded) photography blog at shutterblog.com instead, ok? And check back in October for Boobie Thon updates. It's been fun while it lasted and I will always cherish the good times here at ATPTB. And so we draw the final curtain. |
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