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- The sports world is being rocked by a doping scandal involving a "designer steroid" synthesized so craftily that it is undetectable by the standard test given to athletes. |
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- The Post has a nice story about reintegrating Afghans into civilian life. It gives a very good look at the... |
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Panama (Oct 23 2003 15:39 GMT) - Balboa Monument... |
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- Even though the meme about "Clinton's staff passing on a sooper plan to combat al-Qaeda to the Bush Administration" has... |
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- It's weird what dreams you will have when you are stressed out. For some reason last night I decided to make introductions in my dreams. Joelle meet Hoopty and vs. versa. Odd huh? |
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- An analysis by the Children's Defense Fund of recently released Census data for 2002 reveals that the percentage of uninsured children in the nation varies widely from state to state. In more than half the states, at least 10 percent of children have no health ... |
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- Das erste Backnanger Gemeinschaftsblogg ist nun am Laufen! Ich halte das für eine sehr gute und längst überfällige Idee, regionale Informationen zu kommunizieren. Wer sonst, außer die Bürger selbst, weiß denn, was wann und wo in einer Stadt los ist und wo der Bär steppt? Ich hoffe nur, daß alle teilnehmenden Schreiberlinge eine Art Gruppen-Disziplin an den Tag legen, die zu wenig administrativem Aufwand (z.B. |
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- hmmm, weshalb trifft es die Blogger von größeren Diensten bzw. Benutzer von "Standard-Software" (z.B. MovableType) immer zuerst, wenn die Kommentar-Spammer wieder unterwegs sind? - Weil die Spammer diese Dienste und Tools kennen und mittels automatischer Programme recht einfach "befüllen" können. |
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- How the Poll Results on Iraq Were Manipulated In fact, Zogby International (ZI) in Iraq had conducted the poll, and the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) did publish their interpretation of the findings. But the AEI's "spin" and the vice president's use of their "spin" created a faulty impression of the poll's results and, therefore, of the attitudes of the Iraqi people. ( ed. Usually, with this source I would say treat as suspect; however, the essay was written by Zogby himself, which begs the question: |
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- Facility for homeless would be Harford's first |
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- Petition urges Army to remove chemical |
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- Rocket-fuel ingredient found near city's wells |
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- The stated premise of "MLK Boulevard" is intriguing, but the film fails to live up to its promise. |
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- There are new questions about airport security this afternoon, after a man allegedly smuggled a gun past security at Kennedy Airport. |
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- Richard MacManus usefully pulls together some of the threads weaving about on broadcast, conversations and the future of blogs. He cites the latest from Clay which continues to make a point that strikes me as clearly right: At a certain point, a blog may have so many readers that it can't be as interactive with them as a less-read blog can be. Why this idea ruffles feathers puzzles me, although I have seen people (mis)take Clay as saying that all small blogs are necessarily interactive. People also seem to think Clay is saying that the "tail" isn't as important or... |
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- Well, fun at least. You may or may not know, but Parrot's got a simple but functional Forth implementation as part of it. Nothing fancy, just the base line scanner and math functions, but the compiler works so you can do things like 10 20 + . and get 30 as you'd expect, or : GIMME_30 10 20 + . |
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- The EFF released the following advisory a while ago. The concerns still stand. Check it out. EFF Reports on Trusted Computing San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on Thursday published a landmark report on trusted computing, a technology designed to improve security through hardware changes to the personal computer. The report, entitled "Trusted Computing: |
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- The EFF released the following advisory a while ago. The concerns still stand. Check it out. EFF Reports on Trusted Computing San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on Thursday published a landmark report on trusted computing, a technology designed to improve security through hardware changes to the personal computer. The report, entitled "Trusted Computing: |
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- In today's Herald Tribune, Philip Bowring reports on the Organization of the Islamic Conference -- and doesn't even mention Mahathir Mohamad's bigoted rant: |
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- On our last visit to the Ark, the Montgomery County Humane Society's non-profit pet supply store in Rockville, Maryland, I discovered Evolve, a new dog food packed in bags with a 'space age' oxygen barrier seal; when you seal the bag with its reclosable zipper, you can squeeze out the inside air through a one-way valve. That gimmick alone was worth the purchase. |
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- Slovenska koruna sa pocas opatrneho obchodovania oslabila z otvaracich 41,330/360 SKK/EUR na zaverecnych 41,350/390 SKK/EUR |
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- Slovensky pozemkovy fond chce cez bratislavsku burzu cennych papierov predat svoj 21,3-% akcionarsky balik v bojnickom Vyskumnom ustave okrasnych a ovocnych drevin |
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- Vysledna podoba reformy dochodkoveho zabezpecenia, ktoru v podobe zakonov o socialnom poisteni a starobnom dochodkovom sporeni predlozilo ministerstvo prace, je z odborneho hladiska neuspokojiva |
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- The Sumo Counter Hall of Fame is a hall of fame for modern classic boardgames. Modern means anything younger than... |
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- ExtremeTech roundup of wireless PDAs, with some tips on how to connect to a WiFi network, something which isn't always particularly easy or intuitive. Read... |
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- ExtremeTech roundup of wireless PDAs, with some tips on how to connect to a WiFi network, something which isn't always particularly easy or intuitive. Read... |
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- Jim Meskauskas brings us a media buying fable pitting the poor media buyer, roped in by the callous account guy, in a battle to conduct a cost per action deal to find purple unicorn riders. But, Jim, they really do exist. OnlineSpin reports. [summary] |
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- Microsoft gets weblogs (continued). Robert Scoble: "We're giving our developers open access to a very recent build of Longhorn. Just days old at this point. And we want you to hate it. |
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- Algeria, Brazil and the Philippines were elected to seats on the U.N. Security Council on Thursday for two-year terms along with Romania and Benin. The five candidates won the support of more than 170 nations in voting by the 191-member General Assembly. Five other nations were chosen last year for terms expiring in 2004. |
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- About 18 percent of women ages 40 to 44 in 2002 had never had a child, compared with 10 percent in 1976. Women in the same age group, on average, had 1.9 children in 2002, considerably fewer than the 1976 average of 3.1 children, according to a U.S. |
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- (US) He said certain people were using the park for drug deals, public drinking and other disruptive behavior. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(80%), $propaganda_theme2(50%), $propaganda_theme3(50%), $gateway(80%), $propaganda_theme4(80%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(90%), $various_drugs(90%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
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- (Australia) Herald Sun: Designer drug tests [24oct03] Designer drug tests The Australian Sport Drug Agency also confirmed yesterday that it would begin re-screening selected samples from all athletes "within days" for the recently discovered anabolic steroid. In the US, federal drug laws co...[$drug_related(100%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(95%), $drug_law(100%), $prohibition_agency(100%), $various_drugs(95%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
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Uh oh! (Oct 23 2003 15:36 GMT) - I've been trying to sign up for Sony Eircsson's Developer site, but I keep getting the following (amusing) error: Uh oh! |
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OTB STATUS (Oct 23 2003 15:36 GMT) - I'm off to Dan Drezner country for a conference on the Armed Forces and Society. I may get a chance to blog while there but... |
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- With the new implementation of iDisk for Mac OS X v.10.3 Panther, all iDisk activity will now be as fast as performing the same activities on your Mac. That’s because, in Panther, a copy of the contents of your iDisk remains on your hard drive at all times, so you don’t even have to connect to the Internet to access its contents, open files, or save them. iDisk is part of Apple's US$99/year . |
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- Claudia A. McMurray, Associate Deputy Administrator and Chief of Staff to the Deputy Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), today announced that she will be taking a position as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Environment at the ... |
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- et oui, samedi j'ai (enfin) mon premier stage d'arbitrage ! ... |
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- ComputerWorld: Free hot spots pay dividends. Ron Shaich, CEO of Panera Bread Co, on the return-on-investment of 802.11 service in Panera restauraunts: "What is the ROI on a bathroom? |
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- You heard me: An Ann Coulter Talking Action Figure |
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- How to Tell When a Relationship is Over in Ninety Seconds. The dead pigeon is a nice touch, though I'm... |
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- (Review) I have argued, since the beginning of this blog, and for years previously, that the true obstacle to Mideast peace is not the policies of the Israeli government, but rather the intransigence of the Palestinian Arabs. An opinion poll... |
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