|
|
|
|
|
|
- From the NY Times:Major magazines are generally introduced with a great deal of fanfare: news releases, lavish parties and bold... |
|
|
|
- A trial investigating gross police misconduct in the shooting of Brooklyn chosid Gidone Busch in 1999 opens this week. |
|
|
|
- After reading all of the rave reviews, I decided to go see Kill Bill with my Father the other night. Absolutely amazing. Quentin has managed to accurately capture the feeling of, and make fun of, Japanese Anime and fight genres... |
|
|
|
- It lay hidden for 2,000 years in Afghanistan, eluded the Taliban and escaped dozens of adventurers and bounty hunters. Now the Bactrian hoard, one of the world's greatest archaeological collections, has been found. ¬> Guardian |
|
|
|
- Thank you for all the wonderful birthday wishes and messages! I had lots o' fun on my b-day and in... |
|
|
|
- I'm so entertained: The nTag sleep attack [kottke.org]. |
|
|
|
- The upcoming re-release of the Battle Angel Alita manga by Viz will include some extras not seen in their original release |
|
|
|
- Former Liberal Party president and long-time John Howard defender, John Valder, was conspicuous in the lead up to the Iraq... |
|
|
|
- The conservative worldview is shaped by very different family values. The strict father model assumes that the world is and always will be dangerous and difficult and that children are born bad and must be made good. The strict father is the moral authority who has to support and defend the family, tell his wife what to do, and teach his kids right from wrong. The only way to do that is painful discipline – physical punishment that is to develop by adulthood into internal discipline. |
|
|
|
- HTML version of AI-519a |
|
|
|
- Word is, Gregg Easterbrook got fired from ESPN for his comments about Jewish studio executives and Kill Bill. Fair punishment, rank political correctness, or just retaliation for taking a shot at the boss? |
|
|
|
- The thirteenth Monday Mashup revolves around the Boston Red Sox. (Yeah, you can take a week off if you're staring... |
|
|
Head-breaky (Oct 20 2003 17:57 GMT) - hai_kah_uhk is attempting to include everything in her reality. Read her description of it and attempt to break her head here. |
|
|
|
- "Jerusalem was chosen as the next site of an international gay and lesbian parade. The event is slated for 2005. Israeli gay and lesbian parades in Jerusalem have drawn protests from some members of the religious community." (c/o JTA) |
|
|
|
- The Used have put together five songs for their forthcoming album so far. "When we first started writing we never had any idea about the type of songs we wanted," frontman Bert McCracken tells RollingStone.com. "We just concentrated on the emotion be... |
|
|
|
- Yay personal distributed computing. I've got a nice dual G4 tower, which compiles much faster than my laptop does (faster disk, more processors, yadda, yadda). But I'm a laptop bigot: I can take my world with me when I travel, it runs quieter, and I can use the laptop screen as a second screen (invaluable when doing fullscreen OpenGL debugging, and generally nice at all other times for moving my "information cloud awareness" stuff like IM and RSS onto the subsidiary display). But I work on a big app, and updating to the latest source & doing a compile can take time. |
|
|
|
- This is a public service announcement from HardOCP.... |
|
|
Flecktonic (Oct 20 2003 17:57 GMT) - Béla Fleck and the Flecktones at the Beacon Theater, Oct. 17: As always, a unique musical experience, especially with thereminist Pamelia Kurstin sitting in. Kurstin demonstrated just how versatile of an instrument the theremin is. Setlist. |
|
|
|
- One of the folks on my team just added a minor update to the Design Guidelines document about overloading ToString() on Exceptions. As always, comments are welcome. |
|
|
|
- Deras blickar möttes och Olivia drog efter andan då hans ansikte närmade sig. Hon kände hans sträva haka mot sin, hans läppar mot sina. Det var inte en lång kyss, utan bara en lätt och ömsint godnattkyss. Men det fanns ett löfte i den som Olivia inte vågade analysera...Ur Kärleken till Olivia av Carol Marinelli.... |
|
|
|
- So yeah, we went to the hospital last night because Rebecca had something up her nose. Turns out it was a piece of green crayon. The worst part was when three people (including me) held her down to get it... |
|
|
|
- So that everyone knows....I WILL be spending no more than $20 |
|
|
|
- Hi All- I'm looking for an appraiser in the California Bay Area |
|
|
|
- or you ARE the FBI ! :rolleyes: |
|
|
|
- A final extract from Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death In America, Orwell's prophecies are of small relevance, but Huxley's ... |
|
|
|
- Lethal Injection -- the safer, simpler nicer execution ... |
|
|
|
- (US) [(Cocaine is prohibited.] And you'll find the war on drugs. (Cocaine is prohibited, but Bolivians may chew the coca leaf, drink coca tea, and ingest the plant in other manners more mild than white powder.) , which tracks the drug war's effects: In this way, the war on drugs has undermined ... |
|
|
|
- (US) A study of 22 college students who were heavy marijuana users suggested their sperm moved too fast too soon and lost oomph before they could reach their destination - the egg.[$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(100%), $propaganda_theme1(100%), $propaganda_theme2(70%), $propaganda_theme3(55%), $use_is_abuse(100%), $gateway(55%), $propaganda_theme4(100%), $propaganda_theme5(70%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $cannabis(100%)] |
|
|
|
- (US) Van Wert County will hold Red Ribbon Week Oct. 20-24 with the theme of "Unite for a Drug Free World." All the schools will also have special announcements with an anti-drug message. The Chamber of Commerce will be displaying an anti-drug message in the window during Red Ribbon Week. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(100%), $propaganda_theme3(50%), $propaganda_theme5(60%), $propaganda_theme7(55%), $drugs(95%), $prohibition(100%), $alcohol(50%), $various_drugs(95%)] |
|
|
|
- outside the inboxis a compilation of songs inspired by and titled after the subject lines of mass-email (spam). brought to us by "brad sucks", "a one man band with no fans". i've enjoyed the songs, the idea, the band name, the band's (clearly untrue) description, and brad's own music. it's all wonderful and free to download. go listen. |
|
|
|
- [ click for 23MB SV3 QT, 5'47" ]Leonard Lin's excellent short on p2p.[ via waxy.org ] |
|
|
|
- A combination of special floor tiles and human bodies... err not in the soylent green sense, but in the humans being in the room (not in the tiles) is allowing for 10mbps indoor wireless networking. Check it out!... |
|
|
|
- New exhibition: School Daze. The school I went to as a kid has been shut down and is about to be demolished. A fine day not too long ago I went back to the school for the first time in (counting on fingers) 13 years. I took a stroll on the school grounds and in parts of what used to be my home town. |
|
|
|
- System of a Down guitarist Daron Malakian is trying to give Amen new life by releasing their next record, 'Death Before Musick', on his Columbia Records imprint label EatUrMusic. "The band has had some tough luck," Malakian told MTV News. "That's the... |
|
|
|
- (Review) Larry Kudlow is giddy with optimism about the economy. Metal prices have skyrocketed to a 30 percent rate from a 5 percent decline rate over a year ago. Raw industrials have moved from zero percent to 21 percent. For... |
|
|
Busy Week (Oct 20 2003 17:55 GMT) - Can I fit everything in? I think not.I'm spending this evening sorting out my ... |
|
|
|
- Donald Sensing, citing a Cato Institute study, adds yet more evidence that government subsidies for sports stadia are economic boondoggles. He cites the case of... |
|
|
EmacsSchism (Oct 20 2003 17:54 GMT) - a different opinion |
|
