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- I am fascinated by the "taxonomy" of the conservative movement. I am interested in, and have studied, the political and intellectual history of the movement. And not infrequently I have been drawn into the internecine quarrels of conservatism. These fights seem to have intensified and deepened with the end of the Cold War and the Republican Majority. We now have terms like paleo-conservative and neo-conservative being debated in the conservative press and even seeping into the mainstream pr ... |
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- ... Farming RPG... ... ... Nelson Minar describes Harvest Moon, an SNES farming-simulation game:... ... |
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- ... Pez museum opens... ... ... A Pez museum has opened in Easton, Pennsylvania, around the corner from the Crayola factory. ... |
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- ... Cellular minutes can be resold in the Philippines... ... ... A Filippino cellular company is allowing its customers to re-sell unused airtime. ... |
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- ... Russian prison tatts... ... ... ... ... |
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- ... Full-back koi tattoo blog... ... ... ... ... |
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- ... Foglio fan-art for Good Omens... ... ... ... ... |
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- ... Swedish Fish trademarks... ... ... Ernie sez, "Apparently, the makers of Original Swedish Fish have lost their trademark battle with Famous Sqwish Candy Fish in a complete rout. |
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- ... Franken book changes conservative columnist's mind... ... ... Becky Miller, a conservative editorialist in The Oregonian has read Al Franken's excoriating new book, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right, and it's caused her to reconsider her politics. |
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- ... Spider Jerusalem blogs... ... ... Warren Ellis is blogging in the voice of Spider Jersualem, his character from the brilliant and sadly finished Transmetropolitan series. ... |
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- ... Game-designer on copyright... ... ... Greg Costikyan, an award-winning games designer (he's the man behind Toon and others) who makes his living off of copyright, has written a brilliant editorial on the nature of intellectual property today. ... |
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- this is an awesome pendant. great romantic gift ideas for |
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- Thanks everyone and especially GemGoddess for sharing your experience with me. |
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- Updated the splash page with adorable Wolverine/Rogue Halloween fanart drawn for us by Lady T. Updated the fanart page with contributions from Marrie and Sparky1038. Also re-did the fanart page to reflect the new style. |
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- Just got back from Aspen. This weekend was like nothing I have ever experienced before. More on that after a nap. I am so tired. |
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- For those of you having problems with errant "Macro error: Can't evaluate the expression because the name "text or when or channeltitle" etc. hasn't been defined" I think I've made a couple of more changes to the dataFileCleaner code that will fix these problems. Here's where you can find dataFileCleaner. If you already have dataFileCleaner installed just select "Refresh Code... |
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- The Massachussetts state government has adopted an open source/open standards policy for IT purchases. Massachussetts was, as I recall, the last holdout state in the MS anti-trust suit, so this is another shot across MS' bow from the state. Watch this whole story unfold nastily over the next few years - and watch politics drive it more than technical merit (and that would be different from the rest of the IT sector how, I wonder?) |
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- These days, the sound card that comes as standard in most personal computers is capable of creating new and exciting electronic music that in the 1950s required a whole department of people. The BBC FOUR programme Alchemists of Sound (Sunday... |
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- Ahhhhh....Thank you so much everybody. Roberta |
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round robin (Oct 19 2003 23:27 GMT) - Let's take a look around the web today, shall we? «And gay fathers are a threat to children?!» 'Think of... |
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- Right-Wing Disinformation Campaign waged against Clark's campaign to dicredit him with Democratic voters! The only hope for the right-wing extremis... - www.indymedia.org: |
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- Four people in two vehicles were killed Sunday in a fiery head-on collision that produced flames so hot that both vehicles were welded together, officials said. The victims' identities were not immediately released, said Florida Highway Patrol Lt. Bill Leeper, though he said one is believed to be a 9-year-old child. |
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- [Slashdot] - pbaumgar writes "With more than $32 billion in sales last year, Microsoft Corp. doesn't usually worry about losing one customer. But this one may be different. ... |
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- Ed at Late Final does a masterful fisking /fact checking ofSen. Edward Kennedy. Read the whole damn thing.... |
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- In un mondo interconnesso e affollato, in cui le occasioni di contatto e scambio si moltiplicano in maniera esponenziale, trovare un mezzo di relazione che consenta di vivere e di convivere in maniera (se non civile) quanto meno urbana sembra farsi davvero vitale. Sopravvivere nella società globalizzata, infatti, significa anche saper rispettare il bagaglio culturale e affettivo delle galassie umane che la globalizzazione ha portato nel nostro universo personale, per non innescare delle reazioni a catena di incomprensione e violenza (di ignoranza, in senso letterale) che sono da sempre preludio a scelte politiche e sociali estreme: quindi, ricercare un codice di comportamento improntato più che mai al rispetto e alla “ |
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- In un mondo interconnesso e affollato, in cui le occasioni di contatto e scambio si moltiplicano in maniera esponenziale, trovare un mezzo di relazione che consenta di vivere e di convivere in maniera (se non civile) quanto meno urbana sembra farsi davvero vitale. Sopravvivere nella società globalizzata, infatti, significa anche saper rispettare il bagaglio culturale e affettivo delle galassie umane che la globalizzazione ha portato nel nostro universo personale, per non innescare delle reazioni a catena di incomprensione e violenza (di ignoranza, in senso letterale) che sono da sempre preludio a scelte politiche e sociali estreme: quindi, ricercare un codice di comportamento improntato più che mai al rispetto e alla “ |
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- Information Week has an interesting articled called Staring Down Linux that has some thoughtful points about how Microsoft plans to play the game when dealing with customers and partners and Linux. Not surprisingly, the word uncooperative describes much of their "strategy." Also, read the embedded surveys on why customers choose Linux vs. why Microsoft. Pretty interesting stuff. |
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- Information Week has an interesting articled called Staring Down Linux that has some thoughtful points about how Microsoft plans to play the game when dealing with customers and partners and Linux. Not surprisingly, the word uncooperative describes much of their "strategy." Also, read the embedded surveys on why customers choose Linux vs. why Microsoft. Pretty interesting stuff. |
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- Information Week has an interesting articled called Staring Down Linux that has some thoughtful points about how Microsoft plans to play the game when dealing with customers and partners and Linux. Not surprisingly, the word uncooperative describes much of their "strategy." Also, read the embedded surveys on why customers choose Linux vs. why Microsoft. Pretty interesting stuff. |
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- Fareed Zakaria wonders why Donald Rumsfeld still has a job. It's something I've wondered for a long time now: And He's Head of Intelligence? : President Bush's commission on public diplomacy recently noted that in nine Muslim and Arab nations only 12 percent of respondents surveyed believed that "Americans respect Arab/Islamic values. |
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- ComputerWorld has a spread on MySQL takeup - looks like the little database that could is getting noticed: MySQL is also upsetting the entire database market. Charles Garry, an analyst at Meta Group Inc. in Stamford, Conn., hails it as "a disruptive technology" that's commoditizing databases"so much so, he says, that "the future of the database market will be the standardization on MySQL. |
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