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Dave Kopper's Weblog
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Purpose Driven Life? (Nov 13 2003 18:59 GMT) - Our Sunday School wants to study The Purpose Driven Life by Rich Warren and they've all committed to doing homework. Ok - so I figured I would find out more about it. I found a gazillion different perspectives on it. Here's a pointer (Porpoise Driven Life, or diving through the flaming hoops of PowerPoint Theology) to a whole collection of reviews and ideas. I hav reservations about it... |
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Congressional bargainers allow first step for Nixon presidential library (Nov 13 2003 18:59 GMT) - House-Senate bargainers agreed Wednesday to let the government take the first steps toward establishing a formal Richard Nixon presidential library. Until now, the late President Nixon has been the only president without his own federal library since the National Archives presidential library system began with President Hoover's library in Iowa. Full Story |
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The $60 million Drip Bucket (Nov 13 2003 18:59 GMT) - The Salt Lake Tribune Reports Salt Lake City's new $60 million glass edifice is leaking. Like a lot of other folks who have leaky roofs, the library staff scrambled to put out buckets to catch the water. The timing of the recent series of storms provided them an opportunity to solve the problem while the building is still under a one-year warranty by the contractor, Big-D Construction. The library opened in February. "I must confess we were not all that concerned" about the leaks that sprang in the library's atriums," said library Director Nancy Tessman. |
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Wanted: world records about books, periodicals or libraries (Nov 13 2003 18:59 GMT) - Godfrey Oswald writes "Are you in possession of the smallest book in the world? Do you know about a library that has the largest books on law in South America?? Do you have proof regarding the largest book published in Asia? Have you information on the biggest fines ever paid for an overdue book in U.S. |
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Write-once plastic memory demonstrated (Nov 13 2003 18:58 GMT) - "A combination of a plastic material and a thin film of silicon has been demonstrated by researchers at Princeton University and Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) as an inexpensive method of storing digital information. Researchers at the Princeton, New Jersey school and Palo Alto, California-based company, were able to develop a write-once memory cell that can hold gigabytes of information and be produced very inexpensively from a commonly used plastic substance and a small amount of silicon, they said. "The plastic polymer is known as PEDOT, a shortened version of the chemical name for the substance. PEDOT conducts electricity at low voltages, but is a semiconductor at higher voltages, said Craig Perlov, a scientist with HP Labs, in an interview with the IDG News Service. |
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I am Nelson Muntz (Nov 13 2003 18:58 GMT) - Poor old Roy Moore. Boo hoo hoo. He willfully disobeyed an order from a federal judge and now he's whining because he's been removed from office. He's already set the stage for his lawsuit.Moore said he was not surprised by the decision, which he called a step toward "prohibiting the public worship of God. |
Loosely Coupled
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.Text Web Services (Nov 13 2003 18:58 GMT) - Has anyone successfully consumed these services from .NET? When I add a reference, it doesn't work - I'm getting a message saying An unhandled exception of type 'System. InvalidOperationException' occurred in system.web. |
Judicious Asininity
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The Voodoo Lounge (Nov 13 2003 18:57 GMT) - The Voodoo Lounge has an excellent collection of links and words related to the negative reporting we are getting out of Iraq. While there certainly negative events occurring daily over there and the task we face is not an easy one, there is quite a bit of good news and progress that needs to get out. Head on over and take a look around at this good reading blog. |
Judicious Asininity
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No Diversity Allowed in Democratic Party (Nov 13 2003 18:57 GMT) - Ellen Ratner starts her article "Diversity of Ideas vs Democrats" with this quote from a 'disillusioned Democratic voter': There's no such thing as a big tent in the Democratic Party. Many stripes make up the Democratic fabric and if you are missing one stripe, you can't be a Democrat. The problem is that this fabric does not leave a garment that the American public is comfortable in. After explaining the hatred shown towards any Democrat, such as Alan Colmes and Joe... |
Judicious Asininity
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Booby-trapped Korans (Nov 13 2003 18:57 GMT) - It looks like nothing is sacred to terrorists, even their own holy book: Muslim militants planning attacks in Saudi Arabia's holiest city, Mecca, booby-trapped copies of Islam's holy book, the Koran, to kill and maim pilgrims, a leading Saudi-owned newspaper has reported. The London-based daily Asharq al-Awsat on Wednesday quoted Saudi security sources as saying that this novel weapon was discovered in the arms caches police found after raiding militant hideouts in Mecca and the... |
Judicious Asininity
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Hard Business of War (Nov 13 2003 18:57 GMT) - Austin Bay has some words of advice for all of us: Self-critique is one thing, the acid of self-doubt spurred by lies is something else. It's time for every American to be a leader, to bury these lies -- from unilateralism, to quagmire, to "no one told us" -- and get on with the hard business of winning the War on Terror. Head on over and read it all. Bay debunks such lies as 'unilateralism', 'rush to war', 'the iminent lie', and the whiney 'no one told us it would be tough... |
Judicious Asininity
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Military Can Bypass Environmental Laws (Nov 13 2003 18:57 GMT) - It appears that some common sense has been found in Congress as it tries to allow our military to train without worrying about such things as snail darters: A defense bill that would let the U.S. military bypass key environmental laws to conduct training is a dangerous assault on endangered species and mammals, environmentalists said Wednesday. The Senate approved the measure Wednesday, and it now goes to President Bush for his signature. |
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Cleaning Clark's Clock (Nov 13 2003 18:57 GMT) - Andrew Sullivan takes a look at Wesley Clark's positions and reaches this conclusion: What we know about Wesley Clark from this brief extract is therefore quite damning: His logic about the differences between Iraq and Kosovo is illogic; his own position on both wars has been contradictory and confused; his fundamental argument is based on an unsubstantiated conspiracy theory that even he admits he cannot prove. |
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Humane Liberals (Nov 13 2003 18:57 GMT) - Sterling Rome adds some insight into this from Walter Cronkite: When asked to address the question of liberal bias among members of the news media, Walter Cronkite responded with the following in Time magazine: "They're on the humane side, and that would appear to many to be on the liberal side." He went on to add, "Their sentimental feeling towards their fellow man is interpreted by some less-sensitive people as being liberal." As Mr. |
Judicious Asininity
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Getting Tough in Iraq (Nov 13 2003 18:57 GMT) - It appears that U.S. forces in Iraq may be beginning to get more aggressive in fighting the terrorists, malcontents, criminals, and Saddamites: U.S. |
Mark's Blog
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Link of the Day (Nov 13 2003 18:57 GMT) - How to be a Bible Apologist An Eight-Step Guide to Bible Literalism through Christian Apologetics... |
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unconfirmed buzz (Nov 13 2003 18:57 GMT) - waiting for substantiation is overrated. sent to me by Master Higgins:Britney Spears, the pop music diva, was rushed to New York Cornell Medical Centre early this morning with symptons of an apparent drug overdose, sources said. Ms. Spears, 22 years old, |
Ecademy: user blogs
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Coma [John Joint] (Nov 13 2003 18:57 GMT) - I'm looking for other people interested in the field of people in coma and their recovery. Please contact me if that is you. |
Ecademy: user blogs
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Coma [John Joint] (Nov 13 2003 18:57 GMT) - I'm looking for other people interested in the field of people in coma and their recovery. Please contact me if that is you. |
Diet Blog
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Plus-Size People, Plus-Size Stuff (Nov 13 2003 18:57 GMT) - CBS News: "Increasingly, companies are making bigger products for America's bigger people, customizing everything from caskets to seat belts. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 20 percent of Americans are considered obese. While some researchers say the... |
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Alabama Chief Justice Removed From Office (Nov 13 2003 18:57 GMT) - Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore was removed from office Thursday for refusing to obey a federal court order to move his Ten Commandments monument from the rotunda of the state courthouse. The state Court of the Judiciary unanimously imposed the harshest penalty possible after a one-day trial in which Moore said his refusal was a moral and lawful acknowledgment of God. Prosecutors said Moore's defiance, left unchecked, would harm the judicial system. |
vowe dot net
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Quote of the day (Nov 13 2003 18:56 GMT) - I like this Ambuj Goyal quote: It is to Microsoft's advantage to say Notes/Domino is dead. We would need to have an intelligence test if we were going to take a 110 million-user base and screw that up. Why? Because it is very straightforward. |
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