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- Alex Belth has another in a long line of great interviews over at Bronx Banter, this time with Pat Jordan. My favorite bit: BB: You like Schilling? PJ: |
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- All Hallows Eve, Hallowtide, Halowmass, Hallows, The Day of The Dead, All Souls night, All Saints Day or Samhain. The day directly between the fall equinox and the winter solstice known in America as Halloween means, especially to those of the... |
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- From This is Scunthorpe Today is Halloween - and a North Lincolnshire couple will unite in a traditional pagan ritual. The couple are ditching the traditional white wedding to make way for a Wicca ceremony. PJ Wells and David Campbell-Hooton, of... |
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- From News Miner Real witches dont fly about scaring little children on Halloween. More likely they have spent the day preparing for Samhain, (a Gaelic word pronounced SOW-wen), by cleaning and ritually cleansing their living spaces with burning incense. |
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- Somebody once mentioned to me that the first year living in a foreign country is like boot camp. Everyday is training. You scratch the surface of understanding the culture, and your surroundings. You get used to things in your second year and start finding yourself. Your voice gets louder. |
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- This is Chris Buell with Friday's media law update.... Several Nigerian political parties have spoken out against a ban on newspaper coverage of the State House. According to the parties, the ban was put in place by Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo. |
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- I have found four different types of spammers: 1) Stupid: (all of they are but...) they post dozens of links in the same comment (even images), in addition they can post the same comment many times. They copy & paste... |
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- Blogcritics has a Halloween post round-up for your reading pleasure. There is a Halloween short story collection over at William's... |
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- And therefore, this qualifies as a Halloween post. Yea, another 80's lyrics quiz. My sister always told me that knowing Poison lyrics would come in handy some day. stolen from keith... |
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- Joe hopes to save Halloween from the ugly-minded and crack-brained: So who’s going to save Hallowe’en from demented, murderous parents and demented, murderous Xtians? I don’ |
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- Como ya todos deben estar enterados Apple tiene un serio problema entre su nuevo sistema operativo 'Panther' y los discos externos Firewire, los cuales son comúnmente utilizados como back ups en varios sistemas.. Para resumir el problema podemos decir que... |
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- Tackle Beijing on Religious Persecution, Group Urges Gov'ts (CNSNews.com ) A group that campaigns for religious freedom Monday urged democratic governments to protest against abuses in China, where authorities have detained 12 Roman Catholic clergymen. |
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- AdWeek: Yahoo! Moves Media to Minshare Yahoo moved its media account to WPP shop MindShare from IPG's Initiative Media. The move comes after the web portal moved its creative account to a startup agency, Soho Square this past summer.... [summary] |
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- Nous avons reçu ce texte de Zardoz. Nous vous invitons, comme toujours, à nous faire parvenir vos textes pour publication... |
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- An interesting opinion piece about P2P file sharing. "Let's say that somebody shoveled candy into a bag and left without paying for it, then brought it out onto the street, laid it on a table, and then just walked away. It's there. It doesn't belong to you. It belongs to someone else. |
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- In many cases, the functionality users are looking for has simply been moved or renamed. Below are a few of the most commonly "missed" utilities; this is not an exhaustive list, but it should solve some mysteries for a few users. (MacFixIt via MyAppleMenu) |
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- Based on the new 7457 processor, the new PowerForce 1.4GHz upgrade draws 40 percent less peak power than previous processors. By Peter Cohen (MacCentral via MyAppleMenu) |
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- A copyright law designed to curb the unauthorized exchange of music, film and software on the Net takes effect in Britain, reigniting the debate over the proper way to tackle digital piracy. |
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- [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] - Personal Computer World Oct 31 2003 10:05AM ET... |
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- Also ThermographX, new 'Book bags, PowerCube enclosure, USB JumpDrive for music and data, Packard Bell's 64-bit laptop, and bargain 'Books from $50 to $2,499. |
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- Looking back at a legendary Mac on its tenth birthday. |
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- Although Kaleidoscope doesn't exist for OS X, there are ways to personalize your Mac's look and feel. |
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- 93: Colour Classic II - 98: The Revision C iMac - 00: Put a PC monitor on your Mac - 01: The digital hub gets rolling - Two years on a $5 Mac - 02: |
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- Sushi Fest #6 is coming up on Friday, November 21st in Cambridge. Invitations will go out to past attendees,... |
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- "Judges sentence outside the box; Punishment to fit the crime beats jail time": The Atlanta Journal-Constitution today contains this very interesting article. For example, the article reports that "Georgia law prohibits judges from banning people from t |
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- From: Hampton Roads Daily Press, VA - Oct 31, 2003 Task force backs new building 7-5 By Hugh Lessig Daily Press October 31, 2003 RICHMOND -- Virginia should close its historic schools in Hampton and Staunton that serve special-needs kids... |
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- Nothing better than waking up excited to celebrate "satan's holiday." My mom gave my kids a book called "why we... |
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- BELLEFONTE, Pa. - Authorities are trying to refile charges against a Hollidaysburg orthodontist in a fatal crash last fall, but the doctor's attorney says he will file a motion aiming to quash the charges. |
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- yossarian (Oct 31 2003) |
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- Happy Halloween Kiddies! |
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- The Devil intended the stone on top of this lump of earth to land on Evesham Abbey and all its pesky monks. He stood on Meon Hill and gave it a gigantic kick. Luckily the monks got wind of his plan (while it was sailing towards them?) and by a speedy bit of prayer and ringing of the Abbey bells they managed to deflect it. Evelyn Colyer and John Lane at http: |
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Heh... (Oct 31 2003 15:42 GMT) - I just watched a fifty-something woman in a color-coordinated tracksuit and sandals trying to parallel park her Jaguar XJE. She changed from D to R to no less than seven times, still managed to curb up her tires and leave too much space between her car and the next one up, and all for a space that she could have simply driven into without using reverse. Evidently, having money enough for a stupidly overpriced car doesn't endow one with the good sense to be able to drive it correctly. PS: Superchic[k] rocks.... |
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- In short: designers talking about taxonomies, or business people talking about objects is a good thing, even though they may seem rather uninformed about it to us (you) experts. (You social science folk, please correct me if I strayed too far from common wisdom here) Boundary Object: "Artifacts, Documents and perhaps even vocabulary that can help people from different communities build a shared understanding. Boundary objects will be interpreted differently by the different communinities, and it is an acknowledgement and discussion of these differences that enables a shared understanding to be formed. |
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