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- Today was my office's staff retreat, held at an unbelievably snazzy Chelsea apartment belonging to two of our big donors.... |
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- This is Zak Shusterman with legal stories running in Tuesday's foreign press. The Japan Times reports the District Court in Yokohama ruled against school principals who allowed teachers paid days off to attend teachers' union training meetings. The tea |
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- PULL A TOUR! THE KILLS have postponed their UK tour due to exhaustion. The duo were set to hit the road at the end of October. However, after returning from their third US tour this year, the schedule took its toll on the band and the decision was mad |
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- Just differently intelligent. Jeff Nolan of the Knowledge Media Design Institute at the U of Toronto, teaches a course on Early Childhood: Computers in Education, and Knowledge Media & Learning. From his blog, he has a wide set of interests. Very much concerned with the digital divide. |
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- http://ilrt. org/discovery/chatlogs/foaf/la |
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- Tammy Rivera-Zaragoza remembers all too well the summer she twice suffered heatstroke driving her two sons from one activity to another. |
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- libby: now with name-based search as well as by email/mbox_sha1sum; libby: updated once a day from the codepiction database; libby: |
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- Last Updated: Monday, October 20, 2003 8:04 p.m. |
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- libby: danbri suggests make an annotea server out of it; libby: currently just html output though; danbri: |
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- The Times Cinema gets in the spirit with some of the best and strangest horror movies ever screened in the days before Halloween. |
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- DanC_RSW: on today's TAG agenda; (2003-10-20 15:16) |
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- Welcome once again to Renovation Nation, that madly mushrooming genre where once-shabby rooms become shining examples of good design, bold colors and really darling coffee tables. PBS started the whole thing 24 years ago with "This Old House," but cable has sanded and varnished it with a new generation of rehab and redecorating shows, from TLC's still-hot "Trading Spaces" to such oddities as VH1's "Rock the House," where one couple had their living room transformed into a tropical paradise under the auspices of ex-Van Halen musician Sammy Hagar. |
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- reagleBRKLN: The Sign, The Signifier, and The Signified; DanC_RSW: I've read stuff like this; maybe I don't get it, but it doesn't appeal to me at all.; |
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- If you want an example of how little public radio has in common with talk radio and cable news mud wrestling, listen to NPR ombudsman Jeffrey Dvorkin spanking "Fresh Air" host Terry Gross for an "unfair" interview with Bill O'Reilly. |
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- DanC_RSW: attendee Dan Connolly; DanC_RSW: cf irc notes; DanC_RSW: |
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- T.E. Lawrence - When my mood gets too hot and I find myself wandering beyond control I pull out my motor-bike and hurl it top-speed through these unfit roads for hour after hour. My nerves are jaded and gone near dead, so that nothing less than hours of voluntary danger will prick them into life. T. |
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- Striking teachers in Marysville voted to obey a judge's order and go back to work, ending the longest teachers' strike in state history. The vote Monday night was 420-181 to begin teaching classes Wednesday, the first of this school year for the district's 11,000 students, said Rich Wood, a Washington Education Association spokesman. |
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- Among the items Howard Kurtz considers today--a new book by Bernard Goldberg about liberal bias in the news media. Yawn. As... |
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- The newly released Arab Human Development Report 2003, commissioned by the United Nations, says that in Islamic countries in the Middle East, Arabs aren't reading books, they are educated to ... |
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- Ever since I started working in a photolab, I've gotten a lot of strange questions. I've compiled my favorites and most frequent questions into this list. These are all questions that I have been asked while working in the lab.... |
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- Ever since I started working in a photolab, I've gotten a lot of strange questions. I've compiled my favorites and most frequent questions into this list. These are all questions that I have been asked while working in the lab.... |
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- Let's hear it for the toolmakers. |
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- Mark, over at Not Quite Tea and Crumpets, watched the Mississippi governor's debate and has an analysis. I would have never figured him for a Mississippian with that blog name.... |
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- (US) Adding that the city medical examiner's office had been studying whether he was on hallucinogenic drugs at the time of his death.[$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(70%), $propaganda_theme2(70%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(95%), $hallucinogen(100%), $cannabis(100%), $various_drugs(95%)] |
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- (India) Martinez said Navarro was behind the capture of three Americans, Tom Howes, Marc Gonsalves and Keith Stansell, after their single-engine plane crash-landed in FARC-controlled territory on Febraury 13 while on a anti-drug mission. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(75%), $propaganda_theme1(55%), $propaganda_theme2(50%), $propaganda_theme3(75%), $drugs(90%), $prohibition(100%), $various_drugs(90%)] |
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- (US) combined with the fact that the lion's share are in for using "illegal drugs". [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(60%), $propaganda_theme2(50%), $propaganda_theme5(60%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(95%), $alcohol(100%), $various_drugs(95%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
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- (US) C, Lafayette, charged with possession of marijuana, had a switch license plate, and failure to signal, and had no insurance. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(70%), $propaganda_theme2(70%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $cannabis(100%), $alcohol(50%), $police_related_news(100%)] |
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- FISCHERSPOONER 'EMERGE' AGAIN FISCHERSPOONER have almost finished their second album and their comeback single is likely to be titled ’NEVER YOUNG’. The New York electroclash group have almost finished recording their second album, with the band puttin |
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- I'm working on doing a little rework of my site. Not too much, although I radically changed the look of it. It's a bunch of CSS work, really. So, things won't really look 100% until tomorrow afternoon, probably. Maybe longer,... |
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- I'm working on doing a little rework of my site. Not too much, although I radically changed the look of... |
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- What do cell phones and super soakers have in common? In a discovery that could have vast implications for how we power everything from mobile phones to the national electric grid, two U.S. researchers have demonstrated a new way to produce energy by flowing water through micro-sized tubes:The technique is based on understanding that when a non-conducting glass container is filled with water, the glass develops a tiny electric charge while the water takes on the opposite charge. |
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- While surfing my blogroll, I stopped off at Geoff’s blog - the inimatatable blog driver’s waltz. Saw this item on... |
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- Designing web pages to fit user expectations is an important topic. Heidi Adkisson has done some research and anyone with a web site will profit from looking at what she says. |
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QOTD (Oct 21 2003 04:06 GMT) - "I was walking down the street wearing glasses when the prescription ran out." Steven Wright. [Quotes of the Day] I know the feeling, sitting here blogging with 3-year-old specs while waiting the arrival of the latest prescription tri-focals. |
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- Red Sox Haiku Going, going, gone In the eleventh inning Winter has begun |
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- A federal law enforcement official confirmed yesterday that investigators are interviewing Nathaniel T. |
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- The worst part is: there?s no problem. Hollywood has made more money every single year since the last fight like this, over the VCR. Last year was the movie companies? |
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- I've heard plenty of stories of people being able to intercept and read someone else's email. Now, for the first time, a judge has sentenced a woman to home detention for just such a crime. He originally planned to send her to jail, but decided she was better off at home, where she could take care of her kids.... - Techdirt. |
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trademarked (Oct 21 2003 04:05 GMT) - What is it about French courts and American search companies? It wasn't that long ago that they were declaring Yahoo's CEO a war criminal because he wouldn't stop the American Yahoo site from selling old Nazi paraphernalia. Now, they've struck out at Google for the practice of letting people buy text ad keywords... - Techdirt. |
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barman (Oct 21 2003 04:05 GMT) - Alex Wellen , co-creator, executive-producer, and co-host of TechTV's CyberCrime , and now touring author of a witty novel about the legal profession, |
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firewire (Oct 21 2003 04:05 GMT) - We?re asking for your help with the Broadcast Flag. This is a proposed technology mandate that would give Hollywood studios a veto over the design of the output and recording technologies that get built into DTV receiver ?which is by way of saying the stuff that we take for granted on our general-purpose... - Electrolite |
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the trip (Oct 21 2003 04:05 GMT) - This awesome road trip was the creation of my wonderful wife, Deanna. She did all the planning and I was simply the driving labor. We left on Sunday, Oct. 12th, traveled for six days, and returned on the 17th. day 1: |
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- Enjoying a visit from the Googlebot. (373 words) |
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- Little kids, a ball and two nets. (424 words) |
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- Use the money in your flexible spending account in December, or lose it forever. |
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