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Ping... (Oct 18 2003 01:59 GMT) - Heheh. This is pretty damned funny. Definitely worth sharing. Pong... |
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- Following is a statement by Transportation Security Administrator Adm. James M. Loy regarding discovery of items aboard Southwest Airlines flights: |
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- I have an entry in my head about Mister. But for now here are some photos of Mister and Max wrestling! No kitties were injured!... |
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- Earth Island's acceptance of new "global travelers' coalition" brings resources, recognition, growth. Ethical Traveler is the first grassroots alliance uniting adventurers, tourists, travel agencies, and outfitters -- everyone who loves to travel, and sees travel as a positive force in the world. [PRWEB Oct 17, 2003] |
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- THE KURDS OF EAST TURKEY HAVE BEGUN TO WELCOME TRAVELLERS INTO THEIR MIDST. BUT ONLY THOSE DEDICATED ENOUGH TO SEEK THEM OUT! [PRWEB Oct 16, 2003] |
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- A call for participation has been issued for the ODRL International Workshop 2004, featuring standardized XML exchange formats for rights expression. The workshop will be held April 21-23, 2004 in Vienna, Austria. The XML-based Open Digital Rights Language (ODRL) specification has been adopted by the Open Mobile Alliance, COLIS project, OpenIPMP project, and by open source projects requiring a small-footprint, license-free rights expression language. |
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- The Inquirer: Pic of eight way POWER5 with 144MB cache revealed. |
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- The Inquirer: Yet more silicon revealed from the Microprocessor Forum. |
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- Electronic Telegraph Oct 17 2003 8:23PM ET... |
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- IHT Oct 17 2003 8:27PM ET... |
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- Boston Globe Oct 17 2003 7:36PM ET... |
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- Teletext Oct 17 2003 7:37PM ET... |
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- edBX writes "GideonTech.com has a new guide up on how to make your own electronic lock using a key card. Built using a phototransistor, infrared-emitting diode ... |
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- Last night I some friends hosted a farewell potluck/cocktail party for me. It was very sweet and fun and, above... |
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- "Why have I failed in keeping up with my duties? It's because I have been dealing with a family tragedy the scope of which has knocked the floor o... - www.indymedia. |
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- It has lain dormant in the darkest recesses of American law for 125 years,but this month Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft introduced critics of theadministration to his latest weapon in law enforcement.In a Miami federal court, the attorney general charged the environmentalgroup Greenpeace under an obscure 1872 law originally intended to end thepractice of "sailor-mongering," or the luring of sailors with liquor andprostitutes from their ships. Ashcroft plucked the law from obscurity topunish Greenpeace for boarding a vessel near port in Miami. |
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- Heidi Klum has broken her 8 million dollar Diamond Bra on the Jay Leno show... Excerpt:HEIDI KLUM broke the $8 million Victoria's Secret bra she was wearing on the set... |
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- О Марке Захарове написано много. Все знают про его легендарное "Доходное место" в Театре Сатиры, запрещенное лично Фурцевой. Помнят "Трех девушек в голубом", которые вышли на публику то ли с третьего, то ли с четвертого захода. Видели "Юнону и Авось" --... |
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- После роли непойманного жулика в "Великолепной афере" Кейдж попадет в тюрьму, не будучи жуликом. Он проживет жизнь реального боксера Билли "Малыша" Рота, который когда-то был чемпионом, а затем... |
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- Постановщик "Форсажа" и "ХХХ -- Три икса", отказавшийся от их сиквелов, нашел вкус в футуристическом боевике "Stealth", который расскажет о живых летчиках и их искусственных подобиях... |
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- Bolivian leader resigns - senior government source Bolivia's president resigned on Friday, offering to step down in a letter he sent to Congress after a nationwide deadly revolt to oust him, a senior government source said. This government collapsed under its own corrupt weight, plus the pressure of hundreds of thousands of protestors who shut down the capitol city. This is a major blow to Bush, as this right wing Bolivia government was one of the few governments left in South America that supported the "free trade" policies so beloved by the Bushies. |
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- Bolivian leader resigns - senior government source Bolivia's president resigned on Friday, offering to step down in a letter he sent to Congress after a nationwide deadly revolt to oust him, a senior government source said. This government collapsed under its own corrupt weight, plus the pressure of hundreds of thousands of protestors who shut down the capitol city. This is a major blow to Bush, as this right wing Bolivia government was one of the few governments left in South America that supported the "free trade" policies so beloved by the Bushies. |
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- You MIGHT make some $ if someone unloaded a really fine |
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- A Soyuz spacecraft carrying a Russian, an American and a Spaniard blasted off Saturday for the International Space Station from the Russian space program's cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. |
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- There's a new game on your iPod with the 2.1 update: Music Quiz. It's awesome. Five songs are listed, and a short clip of a random song from your iPod is played. |
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- From eff.org (Flash)... |
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- New-look Harvey Auditorium set for debut Harvey Auditorium, the stately old theater that has been a venue to generations of Bakersfield residents and high school students, is reopening today after a $1.8 million renovation. |
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- A bouquet for L.A. Flowers in landscaping usually are as much an anathema to modernists as rooms with flocked wallpaper. But the more Frank Gehry thought about the garden, the more he wanted flowers, continuous flowers, to bathe the building in color year-round. They arrived at a blush of seasonal color. |
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- Office parcels plan rejected by panel Drivers leaving the project would have to turn north on Oak, east on 24th and south through the Westchester neighborhood to 21st Street in order to get themselves onto southbound Oak Street. Golly gee! The city rejects a developer's project? Hell must'a froze over. .... |
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- Hell freezes over as Jobs crosses PC line "ITunes for Windows is the best Windows app ever written,'' Jobs said. I sure enjoy ITunes! |
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- Flu vaccine shortage looms County health officials hope people will turn to doctors and companies that offer flu shots in grocery stores and pharmacies if the counties run out. But the solution is a costly one. Counties charge $5 for a flu shot or offer them for free. The price at grocery stores: $15 to $20. |
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- Cost of Insurance Lost in Health Debate By leaving buses idled and supermarkets struggling to stay open, striking transit and grocery workers have sent a message across Southern California: The growing cost of private health insurance has become a serious problem. |
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- Newhall Ranch at Last Hurdle The second argument concerned water from Newhall's agricultural wells, which would provide less than one-third of the water for the new project. Doesn't California have a law banning new housing projects until they can prove they have enough water for residents? What will provide the source of the other 2/3 of the water for Newhall Ranch? |
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- Higher taxes usually road less traveled The only real hope on the horizon, many -- including Weygand -- agree, is a half-cent sales tax increase, from 7.25 percent to 7.75 percent. The increase would bring in $900 million over the next two decades. |
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- Study shows children riding diesel buses exposed to pollution Going to school in the familiar yellow school buses may be exposing children to dangerous doses of exhaust, according to a recent government study. |
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