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Mahathir (Oct 21 2003 23:53 GMT) - Just a quick reminder to everyone that there is indeed at least one rabidly anti-Semitic world leader out there. Mark... |
Light From An Empty Fridge
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ANGER (Oct 21 2003 23:52 GMT) - It looks like I'm not going to be able to get broadband in my new apartment. They don't have cable.... |
Instapundit.com
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WELL, THE DoS ATTACK seems ... (Oct 21 2003 23:51 GMT) - WELL, THE DoS ATTACK seems to have been dealt with, for the moment at least. There are a bunch of posts on the backup site -- instabackup.blogspot.com -- so check those out. Winds of Change has multiple posts on this topic, and thinks that there will be more of these... |
Wealth Bondage
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Private Money and Public Policy (Oct 21 2003 23:50 GMT) - Posted by The Happy Tutor Attended a webcast today moderated by Peter Karoff of The Philanthropic Initiative on Public Policy, Politics and Philanthropy. What is the role of private money in promoting a particular conception of the public good? Can we say, as did one participant who runs a very large foundation, "We are privileged and so must serve the public interest. |
Blogator.com
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Sizing Up Windows Server 2003 (Oct 21 2003 23:50 GMT) - [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] - It's been almost six months since Windows Server 2003 was released. Microsoft touts it as being able to do things "faster, more securely, and at lower cost." |
Jew*School
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Noam Federman: Should he rot, or not? (Oct 21 2003 23:49 GMT) - The Voice of Judea, a nationalist nightly, whines, "Jewish political prisoners held as suspects for conspiracy charges to launch attacks against Arabs have entered into a hunger strike demanding equality with Arab political prisoners, who they say have much better prison conditions. The Jewish prisoners are complaining that Noam Federman and some of the other Jewish prisoners are not even permitted visits from their wives and family."My instinct is to scoff, "Aww, poo poo. The terrorists aren't being treated nice." But is there more to this scenario than meets the eye? |
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Questa rossa deriva (Oct 21 2003 23:49 GMT) - Vi racconto una storia. Ieri sera alle 21 durante una presentazione editoriale al Teatro Parenti di Milano, Fassino si č lasciato andare a qualche dichiarazione di troppo sul candidato unico per le prossime elezioni, affermando che l'uomo in pectore, Prodi,... |
Matt Goyer 's blog - A completely egotistical storyline of my life
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While cramming for my psych ... (Oct 21 2003 23:49 GMT) - While cramming for my psych 101 test tomorrow I came across this definition: Spacing effect: The tendency for distributed study or practice to yield better long-term retention than is achieved through massed study or practice. However, the spacing effect can only be practiced if professors practice the 'do not hold all midterms in the same short span effect.' Update: |
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Open video project (Oct 21 2003 23:48 GMT) - Open video project Open video project. A shared digital video collection. The purpose of the Open Video Project is to "collect and make available a repository of digitized video content for the digital video, multimedia retrieval, digital library, and other research communities". The Project is sponsored by and developed at the Interaction Design Laboratory at the School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. |
Boing Boing
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Pill packaging (Oct 21 2003 23:48 GMT) - Check out this amazing gallery of birth-control-pill packaging. Link (via Kottke) |
Boing Boing
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ETCON pre-reg open (Oct 21 2003 23:48 GMT) - Pre-reg is open for the O'Reilly Emerging Tech conference. I've been on the committee for this con, and we're just closing up the program grid, and it looks killer -- easily worth the money (and you save $455 by regging now) Link |
w00t
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"Primus sucks" (Oct 21 2003 23:46 GMT) - For those of you who indulge in the self-proclaimed kings of anti-pop, Primus, you'd be interested to know that I attended their concert at the Wiltern. To begin, let me say that the Wiltern is the absolute bitchinist place to... |
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