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- right wing lunacy watch 2. Via Calpundit, we find this: Asked whether he favored any policy changes in Iraq, Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) responded: |
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- JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER SELECTS GREAT PERFORMANCES AS EXCLUSIVE CATERER FOR FREDERICK P. ROSE HALLWorld’s First Performing Arts Facility at the Time Warner Center Designed Specifically for Jazz to open Fall, 2004 [PRWEB Oct 29, 2003] |
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- Napster 2.0 :Here's a list of just a few things Napster 2.0 can't do, and that iTunes can:Import CDsGet CD track namesEQSmart PlaylistsVisualizerConvert many sound formatsPlay WAVs and AIFFsListen to net radio for FREEOn launch searchs for music on your computerAnd many more. |
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- I was half-watching a Charlie Brown special last night, and damn. Lucy van Pelt is a fucking bitch on wheels, inn'she? I swear, if she... |
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- An online Musical Instrument Encyclopedia, providing a description, an image and a sound clip per instrument. |
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- Oct. 29 - California Governor-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger visited Washington D.C. seeking aid for the victims of California's massive wildfires. |
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- Oct. 29 - One person is dead and another injured after a fire in a South Side high rise building. Firefighters found the fatality lying in his bed. |
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- Oct. 29 - Firefighters in Southern California continue to battle flames that have burned more than 300,000 acres and so far killed 16 people. |
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- Oct. 29 - Two more U.S. soldiers were killed in Iraq when their Abrams tank was attacked by Saddam loyalists. This sparked more criticism of the Bush administration. |
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- Oct. 29 - WGN terrorism analyst Tom Mockaitis talks about the recent suicide attacks in Iraq, and how it seems to be showing all the makings of al-Qaida. |
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- Oct. 27 - Strike teams battled to extinguish pockets of wildfires along the Ventura and Los Angles county lines. |
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- Oct. 27 - Firefighters couldn't hold the wildfire back near Devore as flames consumed some homes and closed I-15, the main route to and from Las Vegas. |
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- Oct. 27 - Wildfires fed by hot Santa Ana winds flared into gigantic waves of flame that devoured neighborhoods, choked skies with ash and killed at least 13 people. |
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- Oct. 27 - Exhausted firefighters around San Bernardino say they are "just trying to keep up with Mother Nature" until a break in the weather can help quell the flames. |
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- As devastating wildfires rage throughout Southern California, the American Red Cross is on the scene providing relief for residents who are evacuating and for those whose homes have been destroyed by the inferno. The Red Cross is urging those who live in vulnerable ... |
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- All of you know that San Diego has been aflame for the past week or so. Here are some pretty cool pics from space. As you can see, PV is all but engulfed in the san bernadino flames, and boy,... |
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- Daily Nation, Independent daily of Nairobi, Kenya |
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- Reforma, Independent daily of Mexico City, Mexico |
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- The Straits Times, Pro-government daily of Singapore |
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- The Sydney Morning Herald, Centrist daily of Sydney, Australia |
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- Interfax, Government-owned news agency, Moscow, Russia |
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- Ha`aretz, Liberal daily of Tel Aviv, Israel |
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- I started using an unordered list, the HTML ul tag, for the main navigation of a webpage since I learned the output could be tamed by making |
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- Click here for Netscape's article. |
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- Het BIPT heeft het experimentele 3G-mininetwerk goedgekeurd dat Mobistar in het Brusselse uitbouwde. Daarmee leeft de operator de voorwaarden van zijn UMTS-licentie na en kan het beginnen aan de verdere uitbouw. |
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- Een groep die de Amerikaanse universiteit van Wisconsin vertegenwoordigt, heeft een klacht ingediend tegen Sony en Toshiba. Concrete details ontbreken nog, maar wat wel vaststaat is dat de instelling de twee Japanse bedrijven beschuldigt van patentschending bij het bouwen van de Emotion Engine. |
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- Chinese ontwikkelaars werken aan de ontwikkeling van een nieuwe standaard, EVD genaamd. EVD zou een beeldkwaliteit hebben die vijf keer beter is dan DVD. |
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- Microsoft heeft opnieuw zes rechtszaken geschikt. Ditmaal kwam het tot overeenstemming met de staten Kansas, North Carolina, Tennessee, North Dakota, South Dakota en het District of Columbia. |
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- Media2Go van Microsoft is toe aan een nieuwe naam. De software voor mobiele toepassingen, zoals draagbare muziekspelers, zal vanaf nu door het leven gaan als Windows Mobile Software for Portable Media Centers. |
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- Todays Prayer Request from Pray For China Guangzhou International Christian Fellowship (GICF) received their permit after procedural delay. In several larger cities, foreign Christians conduct their services in the meeting hall of the hotels, but local Chinese are forbidden to attend. Let us remember the ministry of these churches; some are large with 2000 people and fulltime pastoral staff. |
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- I started using an unordered list, the HTML ul tag, for the main navigation of a webpage since I learned the output could be tamed by making |
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- Oct. 29 - California Governor-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger visited Washington D.C. seeking aid for the victims of California's massive wildfires. |
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Adieu IDS (Oct 29 2003 20:00 GMT) - Site Closed, says the Conservative Party website. IDS lost 75-90. Look for announcements from David Davis and Michael Howard soon.... |
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- Free fragrance samples - I love them, which is odd because I'm not big on wearing scent and very rarely remember to use any. I just love the little bottles. Only, they don't come in decent bottles anymore, do they? They're those silly little stoppered vials where by the time you've got the lid off, most of the perfume is scattered across the carpet. The bottles I used to love were the ones I had as a kid. |
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- So, to no great surprise, IDS has lost his confidence vote and there will now be an election for a new leader of the Conservative Party. I hated it in the 1980's when Tories used to lecture the Labour Party... |
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- LabourStart headline - Source: Toronto Star |
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- LabourStart headline - Source: UCCO-CSN |
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- LabourStart headline - Source: UCCO-CSN |
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- LabourStart headline - Source: USWA |
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- LabourStart headline - Source: PSAC |
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- Hasbro has made a new nice spot with action figures and vehicles from the Clone Wars line. Click here to watch it in streaming format. Thanks to 4-inches.de for the info. |
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- This month: Code work, known bugs, rating stats, and good CMF news. |
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- I would like to propose a change. This change would be very large, yet not difficult. It would dramatically reduce the stress in our lives during the most stressful months of the year. It would save us money where money would normally be thrown away to debatable purposes. It would save gas, electricity, paper, plastic and, on some level, your soul. |
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- Although I'm filing this under Meta it is not a specific suggestion for immediate changes to Scoop. Rather, it is a set of ideas I've been mulling over based on what e-community engines like Scoop, Slashcode, and various web BBS packages are all trying to become, and how the next generation might do it even more effectively. |
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- If you program or play computer games or even recently attempted to purchase a video card, then you will have no doubt heard the terms "Vertex Shader" and "Pixel Shader". What do they mean, other than that marketdroids will never cease to invent crappy technology jargon? Hear all the noise about "Hardware T&L" a couple of years ago? It's all related and this article will attempt to describe it all neatly for you. |
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- The annual Arkansas Poll from the University of Arkansas shows... |
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