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- The company soars into the top 50 most visited U.S. Internet properties in September, a substantial improvement from its 135th ranking the previous month, according to a report. |
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- Je viens de regarde mes stats, à défaut de regarder mes nouveaux commentaires puisque je n’en ai pas ( ça c’est un appel à tous mes lecteurs; mdr). Et je viens de voir que quelqu’ |
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- Lu sur Indymédia Paris : "Suite à la plainte pour diffamation déposée il y a deux ans par Pizza Hut contre Abdel Mabrouki, délégué syndical Cgt, pour un tract intitulé "Shame on you Pizza Hut", la 17ème Chambre du Tribunal Correctionnel de Paris a aujourd'hui débouté la société de restauration rapide. Après deux tentatives de licenciement pour des motifs bidons, nouvel échec dans la stratégie de cette entreprise d'exploitation internationale pour éliminer et faire taire ce syndicaliste actif. |
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- Grouper est un outil gratuit qui vous permet d'afficher sur votre site les news de Google ou de Yahoo au format RSS. Plutôt que de reprendre bêtement les fils fournis en standard Grouper vous permet de reprendre les résultats de requêtes intégrant tous les opérateurs et filtres fournis habituellement par Yahoo et Google. (Merci Pointblog) |
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- Dan Farber of ZDNet fame has an excellent overview article on the issues facing companies adopting federated identity, the standards efforts in that space, and the key role that PingID will play. ... |
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- Il ne faut pas dire, il ne faut pas dire. |
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- Unstrung.com Oct 21 2003 3:02PM ET... |
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- Lu sur Risal : "Barrancabermeja est une ville symbole, construite au rythme de la résistance sociale et politique. Capitale pétrolière de la Colombie, elle a vu ses quartiers populaires construits progressivement par les migrations de travailleurs. Des quartiers qui portent comme nom les dates d'arrivée de ces immigrants en quête de travail. Bordant le plus grand fleuve du pays, le río Magdalena, la raffinerie écrase, au même titre que le soleil, le paysage urbain. |
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- IHT Oct 21 2003 3:03PM ET... |
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- plus q'une seule journée avant les vacances!! Mais quelles vacances aussi... une masse de devoirs en vue et des contrôles dès la rentrée.. beuuh :/ pas cool la terminale. |
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- BizReport.com Oct 21 2003 2:40PM ET... |
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OpenURL (Oct 21 2003 20:26 GMT) - I just received an ad e-mail from Elsevier about their Link Finder Plus. Along with this was a link to a white paper "OpenURL: a Tutorial". After filling in a form asking phone #, address, etc, the result was a paper about 1 1/4 pages long. Just not worth the effort. |
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- TOKYO - A Japanese man has been arrested for fraud after claiming royal lineage to stage an extravagant "imperial wedding", bilking guests of 12.7 million yen (US$115,000) in gift money, officials said Tuesday. Yasuyuki Kitano, 41, who claimed to be Prince Arisugawa for more than a decade, carried out the scam in April with the help of a 45-year-old woman pretending to be his bride and a 42-year-old company executive. All three were arrested on Monday, a Tokyo Metropolitan police spokesman said on condition of anonymity. But that was only after the trio mounted a spectacle involving more than 350 guests at an exclusive Tokyo club along with convincing knockoffs of traditional imperial wedding robes. |
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- TORONTO (Reuters) - A "smiling" man survived a 50-meter (150-foot) plunge over the fast-flowing Niagara Falls, and police said on Tuesday that the unusual case was still under investigation. The man, who has not been identified, is believed to be the first person to survive a drop over the falls without any life jacket or flotation device. Dare devils have braved the drop in barrels and boats -- a now-illegal practice that leads to heavy fines. "The man went over on the Canadian side, right at the brink of Horseshoe Falls," said Inspector Paul Forcier, of Niagara Parks police. He said the man's name might be released later on Tuesday. |
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- A Norwegian witch has won a £5,000 business grant from her government to make and sell magic potions. The Norwegian Industrial and Regional Development Fund has awarded Lena Skarninga 53,000 kroner so she can sell elixirs to residents around the forest of Nord-Odal, 93 miles north of Oslo. Skarning, a 33-year-old practicing witch said she plans to make a living mixing potions for clients, selling wares door to door and making house calls. "I'll travel to their homes," she said. "This is what I always wanted to do. |
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- DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - A Tanzanian man cut off his genitals in an attempt to win sympathy from creditors after squandering their money on prostitutes and alcohol, a newspaper reported on Saturday. The 24-year-old reached the decision after realizing he could not pay back millions of shillings lent to him by friends and relatives to invest in a business venture. The Guardian newspaper said the man's condition was improving after he received treatment at his local hospital in the east African country's northern Manyara region. The report said it was the second such incident in the area in two months. Another man slashed off his genitals upon failing to settle a 300,000 shilling ($287) debt. |
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- Link from cadhla: Why Elrond's So Grumpy |
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Energy Plan (Oct 21 2003 20:26 GMT) - This will not go over at all well with the oil-based Bush crowd. But then I don't suppose it was... |
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- Another excellent article about Judith Dean (Dr. Judith Steinberg) has surfaced today... She's still taking care of patients by Ellen... |
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- My dad hated ATM cards when they came out. He claimed that they made it too easy to get more money for making impulse purchases. As a lover of the dizzying high and crashing low of impulse purchasing, I remember arguing my 14 year old heart out in favour of the idea. Right or wrong, ATM cards came to stay for now and you can even buy a coffee with one. Enter Speedpass-type technology, where you set up an account linked to your credit card, and your account is uniquely identified by an RFID tag. |
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- I don't know whether any of you have heard of Angelina Jolie before... she seems like a nice person with a good personality, and I thought that some of you might be willing to help her out.Angelina recently came out as bisexual, but she hasn't had sex for over a year and is "starting to really want it". Unfortunately, her career makes it hard for her to have much of a social life. She's interested in finding a partner(s) for a casual fling, but doesn't know where to start, because she's never done it before. |
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- [Geekzone, mobile forums] - The first mobile phone running the Windows Mobile Smartphone to be released in North American is now available on AT&T. Juha Christensen, corporate vice president of the Mobile Devices Division at Microsoft comments. |
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- [InfoWorld: Top News] - ORLANDO, Fla. -- Speaking in separate sessions Tuesday at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo here, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Intel's chief Craig Barrett discussed the looming security issue. ADVERTISEMENT:VERTABASE PRO - Project Mangement Made Easy - Top-rated, web-based project management application. |
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- [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] - 2003-10-21: Metalog 2.0b is a reasoning system built for the Semantic Web that adds a query layer on top of RDF. Developed by Massimo Marchiori, Antonio Epifani and Samuele Trevisan, Metalog is user friendly and makes reasoning and thinking about the Web easy through an interface similar to natural language. |
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- Could it be that Microsoft is finally hearing footsteps from competitors in the office suite software market? Analysts say maybe so; Microsoft says of course not. By Nat Ives (New York Times via MyAppleMenu Wintel News) |
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- With more than $32 billion in sales last year, Microsoft doesn't usually worry about losing one customer. But this one may be different. (Associated Press via MyAppleMenu Wintel News) |
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