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- Three Sumatran tiger cubs born at Toronto zoo (thanks, Eva)... |
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- Powerhouse marketers Samsung, General Motors and Heineken, which spent more than $100 million in product tie-in advertising around the summer release of The Matrix: Reloaded, are sitting out the sequel after finding the movie too advertiser-unfriendly. |
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- More good news from Ruy Teixeira, whose analyses of the poll tea leaves are proving to be must-reads. On his terrifc blog, Donkey Rising, Ruy emphasizes Clark's strength with men and independents relative to the other Dems. ". . .... |
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- DoubleClick reported third-quarter revenues of of $74.8 million yesterday, and GAAP net income of $6.3 million, or $0.04 per share. This fell slightly below Wall Street analysts' expectations. |
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- Found a spider on my desk. These things are lucky, I think. I'm not a fan of insects; so while... |
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- In reponse to a query, the admin at the FUNimation message boards has announced that the first volume of Tenchi Muyo! GXP will be released on March 9th, 2004. Thanks to Ed L'Ecuyer for pointing this out. |
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150,000 (Oct 17 2003 18:30 GMT) - SiteMeter rolled past the 150,000 unique visitor mark earlier this hour. Granted, InstaPundit has days with that kind of traffic and it's taken OTB a... |
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glub (Oct 17 2003 18:30 GMT) - Search for the Loch Ness Monster, one of the dozens of classic articles written by Scuba pioneer and legend Walt Deas. |
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- Last night Hosting Matters (and their related resellers) was taken down by a DoS attack attributed to Al-Qaeda. This attack not only disabled the intended target but took down some 3000 sites for a significant period of time. Is this an example of cyber-terrorism or some kid with a script? |
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- Southern Folk-Art, Outsider Art & Self-Taught Art • Ginger Young of Chapel Hill, NC who runs this eponymously named art studio, says: "Despite their lack of formal training, these artists have tapped into a powerful wellspring of creativity to render their worlds with passion, pathos, and immediacy." Truly beautiful, unfiltered, vibrant stuff. How could you go wrong with artists named Tubby Brown, Minnie Adkins, Mose Tolliver and Woodie Long? On another note: |
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- WASHINGTON- Richard Scrushy refused to answer questions from lawmakers about his role in a $2.5 billion accounting fraud at HealthSouth Corp. four days after he told a national television audience he wasn't to blame for wrongdoing at the rehabilitation hospital company. |
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- PHOENIX - A Tucson attorney who has defended insurance companies in court is set to become the industry's chief regulator in Arizona. |
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- It might have been lost in a media frenzy, but there's an important workplace lesson from California's recall election: When it comes to the hiring process, never underestimate the power of emotion. |
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- DENVER - Qwest Communications International Inc. has filed its long-awaited restated earnings for 2000 and 2001, saying it lost $2.54 billion more than initially reported in those years. |
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- Four companies are being honored today for their commitment to community service - Raytheon, Cox Communications, W.G. Valenzuela Dry Wall and Horizon Moving Systems. |
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- St. Mary's Hospital will break ground this morning on a new emergency department nearly four times the size of the hospital's existing ER. |
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- Employment among the nation's Hispanics was growing at an annual rate of 5 percent per year prior to 2001. But the recession changed that, according to a study by the Pew Hispanic Center in Washington, D.C. |
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Kekke kwoot (Oct 17 2003 18:30 GMT) - "Ik hoorde vanmorgen de trein over de brug in Helmond rijden, dus dit mooie weer houdt geen drie dagen meer aan." Weerman Johan Verschuuren uit Aarle-Rixtel in zijn dagelijkse weerpraatje op Omroep Brabant Radio. |
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- Every time I think "Linux has probably improved enough that I'm going to try to use it as one of my main desktops", I run into something dumb that makes me switch back... Today it's Broadcom's lack of support for their 54G wireless chipset that's in my Linksys "Instant Wireless" PCMCIA adapter. I downloaded and burned RedHat 9, got it all installed, and then ran into this. I just bought this card a short while ago after I broke my previous one, but long enough ago that I can't exchange it. Doh. |
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- IBM is bringing a faster processor to its lowest-end p615 Unix server and announced new software and hardware Thursday for joining its servers to form a supercomputing cluster. |
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- Überraschend positive Quartalsergebnisse und solide Konjunkturdaten, die die Erwartung einer moderaten wirtschaftlichen Erholung bestätigen, führten in dieser Woche zu Kursgewinnen an den internationalen Aktienmärkten. |
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- The Big Story on Action News this noon is the latest in the federal investigation swirling around Philadelphia mayor John Street. Action News has learned that federal agents have issued subpeonas for documents at the Philadelphia Housing Authority. |
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- A person has been struck and killed by a SEPTA train in New Britain, Bucks County. |
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- A 61-year-old woman accidentally backed a pickup truck into her husband, killing him, when her foot slipped from the brake to the accelerator, police said. |
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- One of the New Jersey teens accused of plotting a killing spree is making a bid to be tried as a juvenile, rather than an adult. |
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- Federal investigators in New York are looking into whether prescription medicine played a role in that deadly ferry crash. |
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- Former Baylor University basketball player Carlton Dotson has reportedly given up his fight against extradition to Texas. |
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- A Delaware man accused of stalking the president of a college in New York state now has been charged with hate crimes, in addition to harassment. |
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