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EricScheid (Oct 23 2003 16:40 GMT) - delete NameWithheld stuff |
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- Don't forget that Daylight Savings Time ends this Sunday at 2am. I've been chuckling all morning over the posters I made for my building. |
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- MA, you're so sweet! Pookie, so wonderful that you now |
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- Change all of the answers so that they apply to you. |
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- :eek: I hope it works out, thats a sweet looking ring. |
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- STOCKHOLM - The Swedish broadcasting company SVT has published a list of entrants in the national selection to the Eurovision Song Contest 2004. The list has 28 songs, but four more will be named later. These four will come from specially invited song writers and among them is Per Gessle. Per has contributed to the contest once before. |
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- An unnamed entertainment company is looking for Japanese-to-English and Korean-to-English translators in the greater Houston area to translate manga and manhwa to English. The job descriptions can be read here (manga) and here (manhwa). Thanks to Adam for pointing this out. |
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- It's nice to see you asking the right questions, Mr. Rumsfeld. But I'm afraid that we — the American people — cannot allow you to continue to bring America "behinder" in the War on Terror. |
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Not a Car? (Oct 23 2003 16:39 GMT) - So there I am, riding my bike to work. I get to one of my last left turns in "major" traffic. I'm signaling for a good 10-15 seconds with no discernable traffic coming up on my left. I move over... |
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Not a Car? (Oct 23 2003 16:39 GMT) - So there I am, riding my bike to work. I get to one of my last left turns in "major" traffic. I'm signaling for a good 10-15 seconds with no discernable traffic coming up on my left. I move over... |
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- A car plowed through 80 feet of fence and destroyed a century-old cannon carriage at Gettysburg National Military Park, authorities said. The original 1863 bronze cannon resting on the cast-iron carriage was not damaged, park spokeswoman Katie Lawhon said. The carriage was made in 1896 for a memorial. |
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- "I'm doing what I'm doing now not because I'm in love with Palestinian society, or I'm in love with Yasser Arafat himself," he said. "Charity is not involved here. I'm doing what I'm doing first of all because I'm a decent human being and, second, because I'm an Israeli and I have an Israeli interest."The fact that the Palestinian society is a nice society or is not a nice society has nothing to do with the fact that apartheid should be abolished and occupation has to cease. And Israeli society should make a decision about what kind of a society it wants to become. |
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- (US) Neighbors say that so-called area slum lords are causing the crime by attracting gang members, drug dealers and vagrants. "If there's a way we can make you uncomfortable for the fact that you've got drug dealers and gang members living on this street, we're going to do it," Bender said. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(100%), $propaganda_theme1(100%), $propaganda_theme2(50%), $propaganda_theme3(50%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(90%), $alcohol(100%), $various_drugs(90%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
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- (US) VERONICA GUERIN: Cate Blanchett plays a heroic Irish reporter who pushed too hard to expose drug kingpins and ended up with a bullet in her head. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(100%), $propaganda_theme1(100%), $propaganda_theme2(50%), $propaganda_theme3(50%), $propaganda_theme5(60%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(90%), $narcotic(100%), $opiate(100%), $heroin(100%), $various_drugs(90%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
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- Three Democratic candidates have decided to focus their efforts on winning primary election on February 3, after the Iowa caucuses... |
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- rsswriter 1.3. POT.py 1.4.... |
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Bollywood (Oct 23 2003 16:38 GMT) - This week's TIME ASIA features a cover feature on what they're calling the New Bollywood. I must admit that I've never really ventured inside the world of Indian cinema, but this article has got me interested in checking out... |
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- MobiLink W.L.L., a key Telecommunication and IT development company in Kuwait, and Swapcom, a leading European provider of mobile software, announced today an agreement for the roll out of a brand new mobile value-added services ‘Goal Flash’ in Middle-East. [PRWEB Oct 23, 2003] |
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- (Orem, UT) – October 21, 2003 – Q Comm International, Inc. (Amex: QMM; QMM.WS), a provider of prepaid transaction processing and electronic point-of-sale (POS) distribution solutions, today announced that Phonecard PIN Management Pty. |
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- as if the Elliot Smith news wasn't enough to bum everyone out, i just saw that Fred "Rerun" Berry, of What's Happening! fame has died at age 52. and the talk of Elliot Smith and Rerun also remind me that... |
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- Daily Kos notes the Reporter Without Borders report showing the U.S. to be ranked 31st in press freedom, behind Benin and Timor-Leste. Besides dropping 14 places in one year and generally being pathetic, the U.S. |
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New math (Oct 23 2003 16:37 GMT) - Not quite a request to fix a Shrek, but close: ME: Can I have your account number? THEM: It's one thousand and sixty-seven. |
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- Here's a great essay on why rockers need to (and mostly do) stick to their guitars, by WaPo music critic... |
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- Well, this is by Charles Murray, so you know all the PC and multicultural vultures will hate it. He examines 4,000 plus people who have made the gr... - indymedia.org:8080 |
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- Welcome to pResident Bu$h's Nazi America! - indymedia.org:8080 |
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- Congrats, Pookarina! I'm so happy for you! It's a beautiful ring! |
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- The 10 Geekiest Hobbies, scientifically analyzed and presented for your revulsion (and very secret pride). |
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- Aaron Boone's 11th inning plate apperance last night is a good negative example of why I like Hideki Matsui so much. We've been hearing praise of Matsui as a situational hitter, such as this by his manager, Joe Torre: "He... |
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- Have just installed MT Blacklist to try and avoid being hounded by comment spammers. I'll let you know what I think, but so far am impressed it installed so very easily!... |
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- Fancy that. The very Fancy M290 MP3 player contains a speaker, line-in and voice recording (including telephone conversations!), and an FM tuner. All in the size of a Bic gas lighter. |
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- Hi-Fi connects... Sharp, Sony, Pioneer and Kenwood of Japan have announced the first of their Any Music Planning hi-fi systems which will be able to download online music directly without the need for a computer. Each of the Linux powered systems will be able to access the LabelGate music service in Japan via an inbuilt Ethernet port. There are plans to roll out the system worldwide at some point. |
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- New Cybershot DSC-T1 Sony's new Cybershot DSC-T1 [Babel] looks really cool. But don't be fooled by the blurb, it's still quite a bit thicker than the Casio Exilim that it's so obviously targeting. Still size isn't everything is it, and a Carl Zeiss zoom lens, massive 2.5 inch LCD viewer and 5. |
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- Infobar handset. The Japanese really seem to be enjoying themselves in the design of mobile phones. The Infobar is a new KDDI handset which is really interesting. Features a camera, flash and magnesium body. |
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- 21st century manufacturing. This is easily one of the most surreal things I've seen in a long time. The new luxury VW Phaeton car plant in Dresden, Germany. $208 million dollars later you have a factory which features 290,000 sq feet of glass and floors of Canadian maple wood. |
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- The Net as leveller... I throw in this site purely as a demonstration of the power of the Internet. One guy, one cheapo DVD player and his attempts to locate a region free hack for it. Could you have gone into this kind of depth 7 years ago? |
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- Pez fun. When I were a very young lad at school in New York I used to love those Pez candy dispensers. Such fun. Well this guy clearly has a thing about them, since his MyPezQL site features 1,371 of the little blighters. |
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- Skiing fan. Some Swedish folks really seem to want to travel faster while skiing. About 40mph faster in fact. Using a paragliding set up. |
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- Baby view. The Tranwo BabyView camera kit gives you peace of mind whilst you're downstairs watching Pop Idol. 139.95. |
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- Mobile phone fun. The V601SH is a mobile phone with a difference. Not only does it have a 2.0 megapixel camera on-board, but it can also translate doggy barks using an optional SD card add-on. |
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- Wood you believe it? Reported extensively elsewhere but I still like it. The wooden keyboard. Nice, but I still prefer these. |
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- Stingray. An interesting looking product sent in by Ferret reader Kevin Wiliams of The Stinger Report (thanks muchly, Kevin!) is the Stingray (no relation, I'm sure). [Babel]A sort of a cross between a scooter and a motorbike. |
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- Finn's for the memory. So Finland is the world's least corrupt country? I knew there was a reason I liked Helsinki. Pity poor Bangladesh though. |
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- Stuffy stuff. Feeling a bit stuff? Then what you need is a USB powered ionizer. The EP1585 is a 'USB Type Air Cleaner for using in the USB port Designing specially for Computer Operator,Which is a class of new air decontamination devices By ionic corona discharge. |
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