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Remembering Irv Kupcinet (Nov 13 2003 00:51 GMT) - Nov. 12 - "Chicago loved Kup, because Kup loved Chicago," Mayor Daley said at a memorial service Wednesday for Chicago Sun-Times columnist Irv Kupcinet. |
Ones and Zeros
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The Big Picture (Nov 13 2003 00:51 GMT) - The National Beard Registry is pretty non-exclusive. You send them your picture and some information about your beard and they register it and put it on their beard registry web page. This is the kind of simple, utterly useless project that the web excels at. My picture was taken at my wedding. Ginger does not have a beard, and so she is not listed. |
Pretty And Fine
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Watch Paris Hilton Get Wild (Nov 13 2003 00:51 GMT) - The Paris Hilton XX video is now online. There's a short 3 min clip circulating. It's here: link 1 link 2 link 3 link 4 I'll bet her parents are proud! If you have the Edonkey file sharing client, use... |
The Pagan Prattle Online
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Bargain of the Day (Nov 13 2003 00:50 GMT) - It's not often we have Buddhist tat on offer, but today's special product is a DHARMA BEADS KIT: This $24.95 kit is new, in box, still in original cellophane. The kit contains everything you'll need to make three 27-bead malas. *27 carnelian beads to foster well-being *27 tiger's eye beads to inspire courage *27 sandalwood beads to promote compassion *3 head beads and 3 crown beads *6 separator beads *red elastic, symbolizing the bloodline of the Buddha INCLUDED is a DHARMA BEADS book with full directions, history of the use of beads for meditation and prayer,development of malas in Buddhist tradition, simple suggestions for beginning a spiritual practice using the mala, colorful photographs from around the world. |
Site Concept Scan
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Edwards hosting DARE tourney (Nov 13 2003 00:50 GMT) - (US) Edwards hosting DARE tourney Edwards hosting DARE tourney Jacksonville Jaguars' fullback Marc Edwards will host a billiards tournament on Monday.[$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(85%), $propaganda_theme2(50%), $use_is_abuse(85%), $propaganda_theme4(85%), $propaganda_theme5(60%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(95%), $prohibition_agency(100%), $various_drugs(95%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
Site Concept Scan
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Green's return with Browns murky (Nov 13 2003 00:50 GMT) - (US) Green was suspended by coach Butch Davis for last week's game in Kansas City "for conduct detrimental to the team" after being arrested on Oct. 27 for charges of driving under the influence and possession of marijuana. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(100%), $use_is_abuse(100%), $propaganda_theme4(100%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(90%), $drug_policy(100%), $cannabis(100%), $various_drugs(90%)] |
taliesin's log
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Night words and sublime sounds (Nov 13 2003 00:49 GMT) - Tonight she talks of the rage of desire. And of a man pursued, for his body: "But he finds it so very hard to keep it superficial." "Ah -- so he finds it very superficial to keep it hard?" "You should 'blog that, darling," she says. |
The Right Half of My Brain
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avast ye, dream skulls! (Nov 13 2003 00:49 GMT) - singeing the dryspell with all my hearty clavicals or rather watching that old match burn out while the toes writher and slithe... finally, there are some darling pots and kettles rattling around the neck. and only the lallygaggers--the ones lolling through the streets and dawdling over worthless trinkets left bobbling on the ground--will see the thing that's there to see... but what is that? only time will tell, that grand old sporting chance, that wracking pythagorean feverdream: |
self-aggrandizement
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listen here (Nov 13 2003 00:47 GMT) - "People are always telling me their life stories and they always tell me they have done so because I am... |
The Pagan Prattle Online
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Folklore of homeless children (Nov 13 2003 00:46 GMT) - United States: Redwolf points me at this interesting old article about the tales told by children in Miami's homeless shelters. On Christmas night a year ago, God fled Heaven to escape an audacious demon attack -- a celestial Tet Offensive. The demons smashed to dust his palace of beautiful blue-moon marble. TV news kept it secret, but homeless children in shelters across the country report being awakened from troubled sleep and alerted by dead relatives. |
dispatches
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Mao Waves Goodbye To Communism (Nov 13 2003 00:46 GMT) - The BBC reports on China's contradictory 'socialism': As [a local communist party official] popped a succulent chunk of honey-glazed ham... |
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