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meryl's notes
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RoboMacro or MacRobo (Oct 23 2003 23:20 GMT) - eHelp Corporation, the makers of RoboHelp and other Robo products has joined the Macromedia family. This is a good marriage since RoboDemo makes it easy to create Flash how-to style... |
Jason Sutter/ Blog
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Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson Interview (Oct 23 2003 23:19 GMT) - BLVR: They [De La Soul] weren't afraid to be suburban, weren't afraid to be polyglot, weren't afraid to be intellectual. AT: They wore it like a badge of honor. They were my entry into hiphop. |
Boing Boing
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Naturally occuring alphabet on the wings of butterflies (Oct 23 2003 23:19 GMT) - Armand sez, "Smithsonian naturalist and photographer Kjell Sandved one day found a butterfly with a silvery, gleaming letter 'F' woven into the tapestry of its wings. Having found one letter of the alphabet, he wondered whether there might be others butterflies flying around with letters on their wings. Could he find them all? He took the challenge but little did he know that it would take him 24 years." Link (Thanks, Armand! |
Plone, Python And Zope Job Market
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Python Web Developer in Philadelphia, PA (Oct 23 2003 23:19 GMT) - Our client is seeking a senior Python developer to work at their site in Philadelphia for a 2-3 month contract position. This person will be a W-2 employee. This group is the networking group in the central IT group of our client. They have three main applications.. The applications are mostly in support of the NOC and monitor critical host for the NOC. |
The Agonist
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Companies Seek New Opportunities in Iraq (Oct 23 2003 23:19 GMT) - Companies Seek New Opportunities in Iraq As governments gathered to drum up public money for Iraq's reconstruction at a donors' conference Thursday, more than 300 executives from corporate giants General Motors, Motorola, Coca-Cola and others showed up for a parallel gathering of private investors a few hundreds yards away. Many expressed enthusiasm after hearing from Iraqi officials about the country's potential, even as they confessed their fears about security. |
PR Communications
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Promotional tip for book authors (Oct 23 2003 23:18 GMT) - I visited the Northwest Bookfest in Seattle this weekend. While there a book promoter gave me a book for free. This appears to be happening to me rather often lately. Giving away free books to the right audience is a... |
SimplyNeurotic.com
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Party Tomorrow (Oct 23 2003 23:18 GMT) - Tomorrow we're going to have a party for my last day with the kindergarteners. I made cookies. Today they made... |
The Agonist
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Ambassador to Venezuela Denies CIA Plot (Oct 23 2003 23:18 GMT) - Ambassador to Venezuela Denies CIA Plot Washington's ambassador to Venezuela denied Thursday the CIA was working with Venezuelan dissidents to overthrow President Hugo Chavez as the his allies have alleged. |
vigilant.tv
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EU unveils smart card health ID plan (Oct 23 2003 23:18 GMT) - The UK Telegraph reports on a new EU plan for a Union-wide health ID card, which will include biometric data. Critics say it's a step towards consolidating passports, drivers licenses, bank accounts and health insurance into a single centralized database. During the first phase from June 1 next year, each country will be able to choose whether to include photographs, fingerprints and biometric data, such as eye measurements, on the "national" side of the card. Britain is... |
jasun's blog
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Sony Cybershot DSC-T1 (Oct 23 2003 23:17 GMT) - Sony have launched a new slim, fast 5 megapixel camera, the DSC-T1. It looks quite nice and ideal if you want something small and compact. Check out the specs over at DC Resource. There will soon be a review, but... |
DN Fotboll
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Bajenspelare fr hemtjnst - som sponsring (Oct 23 2003 23:17 GMT) - Alexander stlund r bst i Hammarby p att stda i frsvaret. Drfr har ett stdbolag gett honom rets mest ovntade sponsorpris - fri stdning av hemmet en gng i veckan i ett helt r. |
gomi no sensei
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open source research (Oct 23 2003 23:17 GMT) - a little over two weeks from now i'll be giving a talk at los angeles 2600 called "push downstairs :: the privatization of peer to peer networks". as it stands the talk will deal with the shitstorm of riaa lawsuits as of late and how to set up your own private trusted network for your circle of friends using waste. there are no doubt better clients out there but the decentralized nature at the core of the waste network along with the encryption is what's sold it to me. but still, since i only have between half an hour to forty. |
Jew*School
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Rumble in the Restroom (Oct 23 2003 23:17 GMT) - Slain Brooklyn chasid Gidone Busch's aggrieved family had a minor scuffle with the NYPD in a courthouse restroom yesterday. "A city lawyer defending police against the Hasidic family's civil rights lawsuit complained to Judge Sterling Johnson that Busch's brother Greg taunted Sgt. Terrence O'Brien in the rest room, saying the suit would spark a new criminal investigation of the Aug. 30, 1999, shooting."The court has ordered the family and the police to steer clear of each other. |
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Chi deve intendere... (Oct 23 2003 23:16 GMT) - ... non intender. Proprio non ce la fa. Per tutti, invece, il messaggio lo slogan: "La fine l'inizio".... |
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Chi deve intendere... (Oct 23 2003 23:16 GMT) - ... non intender. Proprio non ce la fa. Per tutti, invece, il messaggio lo slogan: "La fine l'inizio".... |
Courrier de Mantes
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Quatre truands du Val-Fourr sous les verrous (Oct 23 2003 23:16 GMT) - Le 14 octobre dernier, les policiers nont pas mis la main sur du menu fretin, mais sur des malfaiteurs spcialiss dans le braquage de banques. La police judiciaire les souponne davoir commis une dizaine de hold-up ces trois derniers mois, dont ceux de Bonnires et dEpne, le 25 septembre dernier. Mis en examen pour vols main arme et crous la prison de Bois-dArcy, les quatre individus, tous originaires du Val-fourr, taient dj bien connus de la police. |
Courrier de Mantes
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Achet 4 , un tableau de Luce revendu 68000! (Oct 23 2003 23:16 GMT) - Connu dans le Mantois, le peintre Maximilien Luce occupe une place de choix au muse de lHtel-Dieu de Mantes. En Lorraine, le matre impressionniste jouit dune rputation bien moindre. Au mois daot, sur une brocante prs de Nancy, un chineur a eu la chance inoue de dgoter une petite toile non rpertorie. Il la paye 4 son propritaire et vient de la revendre 68000 ! |
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