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- Interesting insight into the House of Saud's burgeoning internal battles against a foe they created: Same Tactics, New Target |
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- Ich versteh ja nix von Fußball. Aber heute Abend ist wieder Länderspiel. Du guck ich dann doch mal. Der Ballack, der läuft auch mit. Der soll ja die Ideen bringen, das Spiel gestalten. |
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- Um dem Bildungsauftrag des Beutels einmal mehr nachzukommen: Die Stringtheorie versucht ja seit geraumer Zeit das Kleine und das Große miteinander in Einklang zu bringen. Quanten- und Astrophysik sollen gefälligst endlich auch gemeinsam einen Sinn ergeben, statt sich weiterhin standhaft zu wiedersprechen. Dumm für uns Außenstehende, dass die Sprache, in der die Gelehrten sich auszutauschen pflegen, ärgerlicherweise höhere Mathematik ist. Daher können die Meisten von uns mit den... |
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- Amid voter apathy that doomed two previous efforts, Serbians on Sunday will try for the third time in a year to elect a president. Failure this time could leave the republic politically hamstrung. |
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- na gut. bevor uns jetzt noch die letzten treuen leser abhanden kommen erzaehlen wir kurz die waschmaschinengeschichte: die wohnung haben wir incl kaputter waschmaschine bekommen. nur das die waschmaschine dann nicht kaputt war. freude. |
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- Two years ago, Muslim students at the University of Knoxville, TN decided... |
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- It's that time of year again when American Muslim households are deluged... |
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- In an age of digital art and laser printing, few Muslims have bothered to... |
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- Yesterday, a Canadian Muslim who was deported to Syria while traveling... |
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- Posted by The Happy Tutor That many Christians gloat to think that their fellow citizens are Left Behind -- that is the state of our Polity. Not love, but rancor, resentment. For this Christ died on the Cross? I can understand that many Evangelicals are poor and ignorant, but having read the Bible, how can they be so un-Christian? |
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- SHANGHAI, China - In a striking scene of cooperation, China and India united Friday for joint naval exercises off Shanghai - the latest sign that the one-time enemies are abandoning decades of tense relations. |
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- LYON, France - Thousands of dog droppings littered the sidewalks of the French city of Lyon Friday. But lucky for pedestrians, they were plastic. |
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- TBILISI, Georgia - More than 10,000 people marched toward President Eduard Shevardnadze's office in the Georgian capital Friday, calling for his resignation in the seventh day of protests. |
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- BERLIN - In a rare penalty aimed at ending an anti-Semitism scandal, Germany's conservative opposition party expelled a lawmaker from its group in parliament Friday after he made remarks comparing Jews and Nazis. |
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- JERUSALEM - Four former Israeli security chiefs sharply criticized Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's policies toward the Palestinians on Friday, warning in unusually bold terms that Israel is headed for catastrophe if it does not reach a peace deal soon. |
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- BEIJING - Each story is ghastlier than the last. A shop owner poisons the snacks at a rival's store, and 38 people die. A widow spikes the lunch at her husband's funeral, killing 10. A man seeks vengeance against his married lover by targeting her children. |
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- COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - Norway announced Friday that it was suspending efforts to broker an end to Sri Lanka's 20-year-old civil war until the island nation resolves a deepening power struggle between its president and prime minister. |
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- TangoBlog ist tatsächlich ein deutsches TangoBlog :) Willkommen im Netz. Geniales Layout, gute Links und Texte... ab auf meine Linkliste mit dir. Apropos TangoBlog. |
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- Saint Nocholas has arrived and all the children get presents in their shoes tonight. That is, if they sing a special song near the fireplace and put a carrot and some hay for the horse in their shoes before going to bed. I went out with my collea... |
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A New TV (Nov 15 2003 18:57 GMT) - Aldi had a great offer this week. We bought a 82 cm wide screen 100 Hz tv from Medion. It's a huge 50 kg tv, but it's worth it. Maurits got up at 5:30 to queue up in front of the store. |
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- Gore VS. Big Brother - "I'm no fan of Al Gore. But, like him or lump him, he was one of the first Democratic politicians to put together a cogent critique of George W. Bush's Iraq policy. In a speech yesterday, Gore offered (what seems... |
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- [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] - I flunked Statistics, but I kept the books, and studied the subject later when I had a use for it. Especially useful (yes, I worked in PR and advertising) was the classic How to Lie With Statistics. Well, David Weinberger has found a classic case example of the How to Lie with Charts points in that book, with InformationWeek's two-chart comparison of "Windows Worries" |
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- [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] - CNET Nov 15 2003 12:45PM ET... |
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- [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] - ZDNet Nov 15 2003 12:53PM ET... |
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- Been talking with Kristin over at GalaxyGoo, and came up with a possible useful feature - having parental control in Central. For example, you would have to enter a password to 'finalize' installing an app. This could also be used... |
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- Anyone know of a media player(/skin) that will preferably run with the screen turned off on a laptop that will stop or start the audio stream by pressing any key on the keyboard (preferably the space bar). That way I can listen to mp3 cd's in the car....... |
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- Netpia Offers Non_English Search Toolshttp://www. reuters. com/newsArticle. jhtml? |
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- C/Net Buys MP3.com + GameSpotDLX [DailyWireless] All existing (and legal) mp3.com content is said to be going to be destroyed. mp3.com has provided a great way for little known artists to distribute their music. |
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- I flunked Statistics, but I kept the books, and studied the subject later when I had a use for it. Especially useful (yes, I worked in PR and advertising) was the classic How to Lie With Statistics. Well, David Weinberger has found a classic case example of the How to Lie with Charts points in that book, with InformationWeek's two-chart comparison of "Windows Worries" and " |
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- Scott Simon, my formerly favorite Saturday Morning radio show host, devoted his audio essay this morning to blogs. You can listen here, if you like.At the 2001 PopTech, Bob Metcalfe chided David Weinberger and his fellow Cluetrainers for indulging in "the seven worst words on the Net"... You just don't get it, do you? |
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- a sea of ugly banal objects - "'If you go into any high-street retailer and look at the consumer electronics, you are confronted by a sea of banal, ugly products which relate to nothing in the world except the other products next to them on the shelf,'... Posted by abursey at 12:52 PM |
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- Steam News has word that the new beta 1.1 of Half-Life Day of Defeat is now available. The Day of Defeat Update History has details on all the changes, including three new maps, a new menu system, a new in-game browser, a new map marking system, a... |
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- Totally disregarding the earlier gold announcement, Tecmo made the surprise announcement today that Monster Rancher 4 has shipped for the PlayStation 2. Originally set to ship on November 17th, Monster Rancher 4 is based on the anime of the same n... |
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- The Japanese manga 'zine Weekly Jump has a few images from Final Fantasy XII, a full week before Square's intended announcement of the first details about the game. Oops. You can check 'em out (with various different translations of the same text)... |
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- This InterActive Vision Games Downloads Page features a new demo for Pacific Warriors II: Dogfight (A.K.A. Dogfight: |
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- Developer Visual Impact updated its website recently with an all-new official game page for its upcoming Game Boy Advance title, Corvette. In development for TDK Mediactive, the page states that the Game Boy Advance version of Corvette will featur... |
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- Surreal Software, developer of The Suffering for the Xbox and PlayStation 2 for Midway, hasn’t updated in sometime, but it appears the company has more planned than just an action/adventure title on today’s consoles. Today, while check... |
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- GameSpot is reporting on more bad news for the N-Gage...the last major discount was the drop to $199 at specialty retailers EBGames and GameStop, but they've just added yet another in incentive: you can now choose three games to go with that syste... |
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- A new movie trailer for Unreal Tournament 2004 is now available, showing off a few minutes of the vehicular action found in the upcoming Unreal Tournament game. The 55 MB Windows Media Player version is mirrored on 3D Gamers, Filerush, FileShack (... |
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- Black Isle Studios updated the other day with a bit of new information on the weapons of Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II. Mostly focusing on “Hand Weapons”, Black Isle started the push of information with a bit on the one-handed blades... |
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- PC.IGN took Far Cry's multiplayer support for a little spin:Multiplayer was fast-paced and frenetic, with people coming at you from multiple directions and elevations. You got snipers pecking at you from a distance, someone behind a wall tossing g... |
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- 1UP has posted a news story reporting on Sega's new Game Honpo service which will launch in Japan next week. For about $9, Japanese gamers will be able to download an unlimited number of 16-bit games to play on their PCs. Some 30 games are going t... |
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- A new version 2.0 of the Battlecraft 1942 editor for Battlefield 1942 is now available on EA's FTP server (direct link). The read me file offers details on what's new and changed, as well as technical issues users may encounter. The 19 MB download... |
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- Goblin Commander: Unleash The Horde shipped the other day for the Xbox and PlayStation 2 and, with those two copies out and the GameCube version following soon, Jaleco has announced a marketing initiative for the game. According to Jaleco, a trail... |
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- Having already confirmed that Microsoft isn't releasing an Xbox Live version of Halo, Computer and Video Games has posted a string of quotes from a Prima Publishing representative. While their Halo "Deluxe Edition" strategy guide isn't for a new p... |
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