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- For those of you who don't know, Tour de France Soundtracks is not a French album. Kraftwerk is a German electronica/techno-pop group with a 29-year history of discography currently created by Fritz Hilpert, Ralf Hütter, Henning Schmitt and Florian Schneider. |
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- Underground tunnels are located all over our country. Do they really serve as protection from nuclear war or is their purpose twofold? The transpo... - www.indymedia. |
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- All in all, Kid Notorious on Comedy Central last night wasn't all that bad. The cat Puss Puss is the... |
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- A designer steroid at the center of a sports doping scandal is synthesized so craftily that it is undetectable by the standard test given to athletes. |
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- I came to Kieslowski for the fateful mystery of La Double Vie de Veronique, but I stayed for the unassuming, naturalistic power of the Dekalog. This seminal ten-part series of films is playing this weekend at Symphony Space in NYC. POV has an excel |
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- 201. /28 Days Later.../ (2002, Danny Boyle). Plays better on the small screen, but the final act is still troublesome.... |
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- Arnold Kling has a very good article about non-linear thinking. Nothing new (at least to me) but a cogent way... |
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- LAWRENCEVILLE, N.J. - A 20-year-old man arrested Thursday in Pennsylvania is believed to be the gunman in a Rider University campus shooting last week that injured two people, authorities said. |
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- I just don't understand when intolerance and lack of acceptance is a person's hobby, as seems to be the case... |
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- I was dismayed to read in WaPo that Clark's handlers are keeping him at arm's length from the media who... |
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- Was es nicht alles gibt: Amazon.com: Books: Sams Teach Yourself Movable Type in 24 Hours |
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- Zeyad's been posting up a storm over at Healing Iraq. It's not all good news, but it certainly appears better than you'll see in most of the press or on the 'angry left' blogs. A few excerpts: Are these people... |
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- Lisa wants to get more Watertownians blogging: I would love it if I could organize a group of people in Watertown politics -- elected officials, civil servants, and civic-minded citizens -- to such a training session to explain to them... |
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- Klaus Graf, Wissenschaftliches E-Publizieren mit 'Open Access'- Initiativen und Widerstände, Zeitenblicke, October 2003. In German but with this English abstract: "In the sense of an 'Open Access' movement this article is an appeal for making scientific publications accessible in Internet free-of-charge and worldwide without any restrictive 'permission barriers'. It presents projects and initiatives in both the United States and Germany and advocates a stronger reception of American approaches here in Germany. |
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- Our third issue of the term is now online. Contents include an interview with a condemnation of the delivery policy by FIRE's Harvey Silverglate, why freshmen should rush the field, and more. |
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snow (Oct 24 2003 03:03 GMT) - first boston snowfall of the winter do the tiVo time warp.more: lovely redesign over at uncapitalized.net. this has been my favorite so far.... |
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- Vending machines at the zoo |
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- Today at Behavior, we finally got a majority of the office running iTunes, thanks to the Windows version of this excellent music management, shopping and playing software that was released recently by Apple. This means both the Windows machines and the Macintoshes were all working together without a hitch, and much more seamlessly than just about any other cross-platform technology I’ve ever used. This is all thanks to Apple’s superb implementation of the Zeroconf technology standard — |
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- A home-brew supercomputer, assembled by technicians and students at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University from 1,100 off-the-shelf Apple Macintosh computers in just one month at a cost of slightly more than US$5 million, is about to be ranked... |
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- W. Baltimore boy, 10, hit with stray bullet on stoop in July 2002; Judge calls crime 'vicious'; Spain had 2 trials; Key witness killed |
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- The BBC has launched the beta of iCan, its service for enabling Britons to act collectively to participate in their governments... |
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- Reporters Without Borders has just published its second world press freedom rankings. Forget Laos, Burma and North Korea — they don't want to know. Cuba is also cited for locking journalists up. Finland, Iceland, Norway and the Netherlands are the... |
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- Bill Gates has slammed moves by political parties in Australia and elsewhere to legislate the adoption of open-source software, claiming the open-source system was 'inferior' and said it represented a false economy in relation to lost opportunities to improve productivity... |
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- Quick note: The Ticket, in the form of Bob Sturm(inator), mentioned weblogs. Bob is easily the most technologically advanced of that bunch of Luddites, so it's no big thing, but it's still kind of funny. It was only in passing, and nobody else on the air had any earthly idea what he was talking about it, but still. This is a bunch of talking to another bunch of schmoes (like me) for whom the online bulletin board is considered way out there, 21st-century-wise. |
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- !Gritty Marlins Even Series That's nice. I guess. I went to sleep sometime in the 10th and missed the fireworks from Gonzales. How come nobody writes stories decrying late start times that result in old farts falling asleep in their La-Z-Boys and missing the ending? Your Ex-Ranger Moment from yesterday: |
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- TONIGHT ON NBC 26 AT TEN: KRISPY KREME IS COMING |
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- Well I'm getting a new type of spam, comment spam. Asshole spammers leave comments in old entries of my weblog... |
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- Santiago Calatrava talks about his vision for the transit hub he's designing for the World Trade Center site. I'm a fan, although there doesn't seem to be a lot of design meat here. And the New Yorker's Jane Kramer gets Berlin artists/memorial designe |
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Psy-Ops (Oct 24 2003 03:01 GMT) - Opinion Journal's Best of the Web links a humorous item... |
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- New XML Tool [Content Wire - Home - Fresh Picks] |
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- New XML Tool [Content Wire - Home - Fresh Picks] |
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- John Hawkins of Right Wing News has an interesting table showing the electoral breakdown of the last four elections and some thoughts on 2004. Interesting, if a bit early. |
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- "Enterprise IT administrators holding a Linux certification are in possession of a coveted confirmation of their skills with the operating system..."... |
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- "But here I am, in my nation's capital, and it's hard not to start thinking about laws and lawmakers. Since I'm here at a Linux show, it's hard not to think of that, too..."... |
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- "Scalia Ridicules Court's Gay Sex Ruling": Anne Gearan of The Associated Press provides this report. (Of course, he has nothing against metrosexuals [or should that be metrosexuals'?].) |
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- This hour's show is called Disputable Distance (Variety). The main Whole Wheat Radio site is at: http://www. wholewheatradio. |
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- Rising Tide is a group of, erm, activists who are, erm, concerned about climate change. You have to check out their Hall of Shame, which is a pretty long list if this is the skeptical fringe, for this particular classic:... |
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