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terrorismdigest.com
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Feds Searching All Commercial Airplanes (Oct 17 2003 17:30 GMT) - Authorities were searching every commercial airplane in the United States on Friday after someone left three suspicious bags filled with claylike material, bleach and boxcutters on two Southwest Airlines flights, U.S. officials told Fox News. Whoever left the bags on planes in Houston and New Orleans left notes that said the writer was concerned about security on airplanes. It is unclear when the bags were left on the planes. |
terrorismdigest.com
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AP Exclusive: al-Qaida Replacing Leaders (Oct 17 2003 17:30 GMT) - A leadership vacuum left by the arrest of al-Qaida-linked terrorists in Asia has been quickly filled with a new operations chief and top bomb makers who are plotting deadly attacks on international hotels and other Western targets in the region, intelligence officials told The Associated Press. Jemaah Islamiyah, a terror group fighting to establish a pan-Islamic state in Southeast Asia, is in the middle of a recruitment drive and has appointed 48 people to carry out new attacks in three stages between December and April, a senior Indonesian intelligence adviser said. |
Addicted to Digital Media
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New Windows Media Player Plug-ins recap (Oct 17 2003 17:30 GMT) - Lots of activity on WMPlugins.com this week: FXSound Remixer (Free, Trial) - Create a Pro DJ Style Remix of any MP3, WMA or CD Track! Utilizing cutting edge artificial intelligence it automates all of the complex tasks normally performed by a team of skilled musicians, DJs, producers and recording engineers. Even if you have no musical ability, MP3 Remix a |
Balloon Juice
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Poor Josh Marshall (Oct 17 2003 17:30 GMT) - Poor Josh Marshall only likes one side of a story being told- his side. Isn't that stifling dissent?... |
The Raving Atheist
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OhWell (Oct 17 2003 17:29 GMT) - Commenter Agraham suggests that I confused Orson Welles with Orwell in yesterdays post. But those with even a limited education are aware that Welles had a son whom he not only named after himself (Orson Welles), but who was himself. |
onlineblog.com
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OneNote -- free trial version coming (Oct 17 2003 17:29 GMT) - Microsoft hasn't bundled its innovative OneNote application with Office, but the Mercury News says there will be a free trial version available at http://www. microsoft. com/office/onenote after the launch. The "killer feature" is, as the Merc says, "the audio recording tool. |
Boing Boing
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Foglio fan-art for Good Omens (Oct 17 2003 17:29 GMT) - Phil Foglio, one of the premier genre toon artists, has produced a two-page fan-art tribute to Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman's spectacular and hilarious end-of-the-world novel Good Omens. Link (Thanks, Zed!) |
jenett.radio
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some useful resources... (Oct 17 2003 17:29 GMT) - Free Online Lookups [via Tech-Knowlogy] Amateur Movie Portal [via Creativity Machine] Rnews web-based rss aggregator [via The Lost Olive] Floatutorial: Step by step CSS float tutorial |
iceplant radio
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Tune in to Radio EFF (Oct 17 2003 17:28 GMT) - Radio EFF: Creating a future where laws and technologies maximize self-expression, liberty, and the exchange of imagination. |
Meerkat: An Open Wire Service
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Utility computing: Thinking through buzzword overload (Oct 17 2003 17:28 GMT) - Patricia Sueltz, VP at Sun, comes out to talk about what utility computing really is. She correct says that most people are still waiting to hear what this really means, and how it can affect them. She also fights the myths, including "it always involves outsourcing". How will J2EE fit into the utility computing world? |
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