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- This is nuts: over 800 visitors today, almost all a result of searching for Tuesday Morning Quarterback at Google (or any Google-affiliated site). That search points to a post I made over a year ago about my admiration for Gregg Easterbrook; 17 have commented as of 6pm this evening. (In case you’ |
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- Just reading a post over on Ben's blog about the new PSX. I've not looked at the news for today on The Register, ./ etc, but I'm sure this will be one of the more interesting new products announced today... |
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- Sir Richard Branson and Steve Fossett outline plans for the first solo-piloted aircraft to fly non-stop round the world without refuelling. |
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- A Paris court is due to sentence a British woman accused of running one of Europe's biggest prostitution rings. |
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- Scripting News: "So which is it -- the pros have the bucks and time to do the fact checking we can't in blogland, or..?"... |
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- [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] - Personal Computer World Oct 22 2003 6:34PM ET... |
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- Is this a parody or a real-world look behind the scenes of a large law firm paralegal assignment: Legal Research?... |
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- So some of the boys arrived today. Not the major ones mind you... those are still on pre-order for November.... |
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- I've had Enviro exit on switching to terrain several times now. Seems like it |
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- Zack, There are no hard-coded limits. If Enviro exits unexpectedly, you can lo |
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- Ben, Thanks for the info. You're right: # of instances isn't the problem since |
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- Do public interest groups have a right to link to illegally obtained corporate memos? Do ISP's have a right to host pages containing such links? Is the company's copyright claim controlling even when the public interest is strong (in this case, exposing large security flaws in the manufacture of voting machines)? We may find out now that the EFF has decided to defend the linkers (Independent Media Center) and ISP (Online Policy Group) against the infringement claim by the corporation (Diebold). For more details, see the EFF press release and a campaign to support the linkers through electronic civil disobedience. |
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- This is what anti-Semitism looks like. Notice the contrast between it and the anti-Kill Bill "anti-Semitism" people were talking about... |
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Fantasy*2 (Oct 22 2003 23:53 GMT) - "Finally, a Zizekian fractured fairy tale (see The Plague of Fantasies (London: Verso, 1997), p. 74 and 84n25). A young woman, an unhappy, scorned-by-her-family-and-peer princess, befriends and kisses a slimy frog. The frog turns into a young, handsome, rich prince, and their friendship turns to Love in all its glory. |
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- All We Want For Christmas -- Legos Of CourseWe want this. And about a million other Lego sets. |
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- The Test is Over I think I did fine - not quite what I expected. It required more thought and... |
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- According to reliable sources the International Court of Justice in TheHague may intervene in arbitrating the border crisis between Sierra Leoneand Guinea at Yenga. |
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- Jean Helene, the correspondent of Radio France Internationale (RFI) inCote d'Ivoire, was shot dead by a policeman on Tuesday night while he waswaiting outside police headquarters in Abidjan to interview 11 politicaldetainees who were about to be released, a French embassy spokesmansaid. |
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- Security officials from Ghana and Nigeria were meeting in the Ghanaiancapital, Accra, to discuss greater collaboration to curb increasing childtrafficking in and out of West African countries. |
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- Six persons were yesterday shot and wounded following a fierce gunbattle between two rival armed groups at Orugbo, Warri South LocalGovernment Council of Delta State. |
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- The Conference of Nigeria Political Parties (CNPP), the umbrella body ofpolitical parties in the country has called on Vice President Atiku Abubakarto tell Nigerians what manner of "begging" he offered the deputy SenatePresident, Ibrahim Mantu and the Senate, before the Minister of FederalCapital Territory (FCT), Nasir el-Rufai was cleared. |
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- Hundreds of thousands of health workers began an immunization campaigntoday aimed at reaching every child in five West African countries withinthree days to stop a growing threat of polio, the United Nations WorldHealth Organization (WHO) said. |
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- The government of Burkina Faso has arrested Norbert Tiendrebeogo, leaderof the opposition Social Forces Front (FFS) party, in connection with analleged coup plot. |
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- The top United Nations envoy for Côte d'Ivoire today condemned thekilling of a radio journalist who was murdered Tuesday while on assignmentin the city of Abidjan. |
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- FAMILY Health International (FHI) a non-governmental Organisation (NGO)has expressed great concern over the alarming spread of the dreaded HIV/AIDSin the northern part of Nigeria. |
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- NATIONAL President of the National Association of Community HealthPractitioners of Nigeria, Alhaji Musa Ibrahim Yahaya, has called for adrastic change in the country's immunisaton strategy if vaccine procurementand distribution must improve. He said, "I have very little confidence inthe present arrangement." |
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- Presidential elections in Guinea, in which the the head of state,Lansana Conte will seek another seven-year term despite failing health, willtake place on 21 December, the government has announced. |
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- The treason trial continues at the Freetown High Court presided over byJustice A. Bankole Rashid. |
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- How Korean firm used fictitious bill of laden to win $3.5 million caseagainst Ghana |
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- The Hohoe North constituency youth organizer of the New Patriotic Party(NPP), Mr. George Egbenunyah, has categorically denied ever hatching anassassination attempt on the life of the presidential candidate of theNational Democratic Congress (NDC), Prof. Evans Atta Mills. |
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- In recent times, there have been programmes on HIV/AIDS to createawareness and conscientize people about the deadly disease. |
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- The Council of Churches in Sierra Leone (CCSL) is currently holding thefirst West African Ecumenical Peace Forum with members of different churchesfrom Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia, Ivory Coast, The Gambia, Burkina Faso,etc. |
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- African countries have to come to a consensus on major decisionsaffecting capacity building for forestry development. |
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- Police Service Commission has lamented what it described as deplorableconditions under which the Nigeria police personnel live and work. |
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- In an attempt to further curb terrorism, the United States ConsularGeneral will today commence the electronic scanning of two fingerprints,from non immigrant visa applicants. Ron Kramer, Head of the Consular sectionsaid in Lagos yesterday that the process is aimed at improving the U.S visaprocess worldwide and in compliance with the U.S. 2002 Patriot Law. |
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- President Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday said the colossal waste associatedwith the local government system over the years was made possible partlybecause of the connivance by accountants (chartered or otherwise) withfraudulent public officials to defraud government. The waste in this lowesttier of government, according to him, necessitated the on-goingreforms. |
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- Aviation Minister, Mallam Isa Yuguda yesterday disclosed that localairlines will soon be designated on the international routes. The move willput an end the clamour for the Federal Government to allow private carriersto utilise the Bilateral Air Services Agreement (BASA) routes, which havebeen dormant since Nigeria Airways became incapacitated. |
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