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- I have tried to sort these into small groups, so people with dialup aren't totally bogged down. Continue for more... |
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- George W. Bush ist seit Freitag (17.10.) auf einer Asien-Australien-Reise. Sechs Lnder in nur sechs Tagen wenig Zeit fr intensive Gesprche. |
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- Surprise, surprise. Hollywood is revolting against the decision to bar the sending of s nice to have my faith in the intelligence of the movie-making community reinforced.On the other hand, I think we can be assured that MPAA chairman Jack Valenti (the ar |
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Lame jokes (Oct 17 2003 14:25 GMT) - It probably reveals too much about me but I do like the jokes that Krisalis posted.... |
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- M5 Simulator version m5_1.0_beta1 released... |
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- Sky News Oct 17 2003 8:56AM ET... |
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- Computer Weekly Oct 17 2003 9:11AM ET... |
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- ZDNet Oct 17 2003 9:14AM ET... |
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- BTW, PoliBlog was down last night, as was OTB and presumably many other HostingMatters hosted sites. James has the reason why. Hopefully my reader wasn't overly dissappointed last night.... |
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- A man convicted of raping eight children in one of the nation's most lurid - and bitterly disputed - child abuse cases has been granted parole and could go free next spring after nearly two decades in prison. |
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- A Roman Catholic bishops group accused the British Broadcasting Corp. on Friday of having an anti-Catholic bias, pointing to recent programs on contraception, abortion and clergy sex abuse. |
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- Raucher mssen sich darauf einstellen, ab Januar mehr Geld frs Qualmen zu zahlen: Der Bundestag hat die Erhhung der Tabaksteuer um insgesamt einen Euro je Packung beschlossen. Die Zigarettenindustrie will die Erhhung stoppen und kndigte eine Verfassungsklage in Karlsruhe an. |
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- New medical privacy rules established under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) are proving confusing and in some cases even deadly, according to an article in Friday's USA Today. The US Department of Health and Human Services |
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- I have to love when normal everyday people are getting their fifteen minutes by being interviewed on tv. Especially the Today Show. Some of the people they interview are just screaming inside to say something stupid. Some aren't, and they're genuinely nervous, and you can tell they're trying not to say anything that will make them look like a retard. I was getting ready for work and watching Matt and Katie interview this guy who wrote a book on how to bowl the perfect game. |
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- Crawford Kilian writes Legal Technicalities in conjunction with the course on Communications for the Legal Secretary (CMNS 159) at Capilano College in Vancouver. [Via Blawg.org] |
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- Project description: SushiWiki is a WikiWikiWeb like Web application running on .NET platforms. It is written in C#, uses ASP.NET features and stores data in SQL databases or flat XML files. |
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- Project administrators: egroise |
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- Most recent daily statistics (15 Oct 2003): Ranking: 4633, Activity percentile: 66.88%, |
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- Most recent daily statistics (15 Oct 2003): Download count: 2 |
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- Public mailing lists: sushiwiki-devel |
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- Tracker description: Bug Tracking System |
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- Tracker description: Tech Support Tracking System |
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- Tracker description: Patch Tracking System |
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- Tracker description: Feature Request Tracking System |
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- Most recent daily statistics (15 Oct 2003): Commit count: 0; Add count: 0 [Web-based access to repository] |
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- Somebody better tell President Bush's footsoldiers. Top terrorist hunters divisive views "Well, is he [bin Laden] the enemy? Next slide. Or is this man [Saddam] the enemy? The enemy is none of these people I have showed you here. |
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Grouch (Oct 17 2003 14:24 GMT) - I made a quick movie of Edloe on her throne on the porch grouching at Nardo... Edloe the Grouch 1.5MB RealVideo format. This was done with the Sony Cybershot P52. I wanted to say that I had taped the little... |
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- Juan Enriquez gives a long historical perspective on human intelligence, reminding us of the fragility of our (and every) historical position. He says that the difference between us and chimps is primarily that we can learn from one another without having to be physically present. We are about to make a leap similar to that occurred with advent of literacy because of our understanding of genetic information. Biological inventions, he says, are now the most numerous type of patents. His point: |
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- The Norwegian prime minister's own party can now only claim support from 5.3 percent of the country's voters, according to a new public opinion poll. The Christian Democrats' unpopular leader, herself a cabinet minister as well, finally is considering stepping... |
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- Todd Purdum’s piece in today’s nyt on the fallout of the UN Security vote (with amendments, approval of US resolution) is worth reading. To prevent Iraq from being a stone around his neck during next year’s presidential campaign, things have got to settle |
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- This 40 metre diameter stone circle appeared after the heather was overburnt. It has spectacular views of Northumbrian mountains to the north and Cumbrian mountains to the south. Two thirds of the circle remain with half a dozen medium-sized boulders in place and a few depressions showing where stones have been pulled. The north-south line passes through the centre of the circle and is marked by Proudy Hill to the north and a broken currick to the south. I spent an hour with a sharp knife paring the ... |
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