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- Steve and I went to Blogforum both Friday and Saturday (in parts). It was great to meet local bloggers, and... |
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- Google Monster CV DatabaseI was thinking that Google and Monster.com should set up a CV database that lets you pull together a pool of people based on certain unique life experience criteria. For instance, when I wrote this post the other day and asked "who were the five reporters, five photographers, camera crew and producer that went to Iraq with the President?" I got thinking it would be interesting to "reverse engineer" an employee or pool of employees. So you could ask questions just like that -- who was in Iraq w/Bush -- very unique experience. |
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- Taiwan's Chen hails new vote law. President Chen Shui-bian raises the possibility of holding a referendum on sovereignty next March. [BBC News | Asia-Pacific | World Edition] |
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- as brought to you by the folk at NASA. Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. |
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- The Great Helmsman goes hip hop. As China becomes ever more capitalistic and obsessed with "hip Western culture," how can the CCP keep today's young people interested in stodgy old Mao? Easy! Turn him into a rapper: In a desperate appeal to China's fashionable youth, the... |
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- See also: PhpWikiSites --[ck|CarstenKlapp] |
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Wild Ginger (Nov 30 2003 01:56 GMT) - Bad dinner, spank it hard. |
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- The deaths of seven Spanish military intelligence officers made this: Deadliest month since Iraq invasion "Seventy-five soldiers from other allied nations - including 52 from Britain and 17 from Italy - also have died, bringing the total number of coalition deaths since the war started to more than 500." |
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- Mr. President, You're No Moses "It takes stunning arrogance for a President to invade an oil-rich, politically strategic country on the basis of demonstrable lies, put his favorite companies in control of its economic future, create a puppet regime to do his bidding and then claim …" |
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- Feds Abuse Patriot Act in Non-Terrorism Investigations "Yet Operation G-String shows how the Feds are using their new powers in cases that have nothing to do with terrorism, something most members of Congress never anticipated." |
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- Gov.'s Cuts to Hit Poor, Universities Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is expected today to propose $3.8 billion in budget cuts over the next 19 months, including reductions in services to the poor and disabled, as well as in higher education programs. |
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- No more fireside kumbayas for Camp KEEP Sierra For years, thousands of Kern County students have explored the Sequoia National Forest during weeklong visits to Camp KEEP Sierra. But this year, the camp is quiet. |
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- Fresno Zoo backers await report “… said the society put up $10,000, while the city paid the remainder, of a $50,000 fee to Philadelphia-based Schultz & Williams, a consultant that serves nonprofits and has an expertise in zoos.” |
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- Libraries Compete for Scarce Funding "Built in 1966, the library has squeezed so many bookshelves into its cramped building that a wheelchair cannot fit in its narrow aisles." |
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- See Davis would have known that .. no one ever questioned his in-depth knowledge of state law ... not that he was perfect, or anything. Davis never groped any ladies, either .. not that he was perfect, or anytjing. |
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- State Spending Cap Detailed SACRAMENTO Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger asked legislators Tuesday to approve a constitutional cap on state spending that would greatly expand the governor's power over the budget and eliminate the long-standing guarantee that roughly half of all new state revenue go to public schools and community colleges. |
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- Strike could take toll on goodwill bell ringing "Such a loss could mean the reduction or end of tutoring for low-income families, youth scouting activities and hot meal programs for seniors." |
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- Job Woes in the Nation That Made Sam Walton Wal-Mart is now directly responsible for the loss of American manufacturing jobs and the subsequent lessening of quality of those products and this is bad corporate policy. |
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- Medicare folly to be written into law A Medicare bill, moving closer to passage as this is written, that includes a new, open-ended entitlement paid for from general revenues, whose cost nobody can predict with any reliability, confirms that there is no effective force in the nation's capital working on behalf of fiscal restraint. The politics of spending now lean in the direction of expansion of government spending and power until some kind of breaking point is reached. |
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- The Guards Own the Gates "Their jobs, however, are made tougher by the union's knee-jerk opposition to therapeutic and educational programs, like those in other states, that also reduce prisoners' fury and make them more controllable." |
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- U. S. must follow Europe's lead and turn its back on oil Nowhere was this emerging reality more apparent than in Johannesburg, at the world summit, when the EU pushed for a target of 15% renewable energy by the year 2010 for the whole world while the US fought the initiative. |
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- 2 Bills Would Benefit Top Bush Fundraisers "More than three dozen of President Bush's major fundraisers are affiliated with companies that stand to benefit from the passage of two central pieces of the administration's legislative agenda: the energy and Medicare bills." |
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- I love it!! And no reserve!!!! |
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- After seeing this pic(Thanks to Buzzworm) my friend and I have decided to post this up as our top banner on mp3.com along with a few songs we have recently recorded and I hope it pisses everyone off,and I hope mp3.com allows it. I play guitar one song and he plays guitar a song,he does vocals and we both use a drum machine. Now Playing: |
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- Buy Nothing Day in the Philippines |
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- After seeing this pic(Thanks to Buzzworm) my friend and I have decided to post this up as our top banner on mp3.com along with a few songs we have recently recorded and I hope it pisses everyone off,and I hope mp3.com allows it. I play guitar one song and he plays guitar a song,he does vocals and we both use a drum machine. Now Playing: |
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- We finished the Two Towers appendices today. Holy crow, there is a lot of stuff there. Very interesting, too; I do enjoy hearing people who take pride in their work talk about how they do it. I don’ |
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- We finished the Two Towers appendices today. Holy crow, there is a lot of stuff there. Very interesting, too; I do enjoy hearing people who take pride in their work talk about how they do it. I don’ |
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- After seeing this pic(Thanks to Buzzworm) my friend and I have decided to post this up as our top banner on mp3.com along with a few songs we have recently recorded and I hope it pisses everyone off,and I hope mp3.com allows it. I play guitar one song and he plays guitar a song,he does vocals and we both use a drum machine. Now Playing: |
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- Just posted! Olympus E-1 full review. Just posted! Our full in-depth review of Olympus's first lens interchangeable digital SLR, the new E-1. The E-1 marks the first digital SLR of the Olympus 'E system' and is also the first digital SLR compatible with the 4/3 imaging standard and helps to launch a whole new lens mount and sensor size. |
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- The man who is taking IBM and the Linux community head-on with claims of copyright infringement talks with internetnews.com about his fight. |
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- Beyonce, Bono Top S. African AIDS Benefit (AP). AP - Beyonce Knowles, Bono, Peter Gabriel and other musicians from around the world took to the stage Saturday for an AIDS benefit concert hosted by former South African President Nelson Mandela. [Yahoo! News - Top Stories] |
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- Beyonce, Bono Top S. African AIDS Benefit (AP). AP - Beyonce Knowles, Bono, Peter Gabriel and other musicians from around the world took to the stage Saturday for an AIDS benefit concert hosted by former South African President Nelson Mandela. [Yahoo! News - Top Stories] |
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- Beyonce, Bono Top S. African AIDS Benefit (AP). AP - Beyonce Knowles, Bono, Peter Gabriel and other musicians from around the world took to the stage Saturday for an AIDS benefit concert hosted by former South African President Nelson Mandela. [Yahoo! News - Top Stories] |
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- I found this interesting word doc on There written by Don Carson, the Sr. Art Director. This page is called Notes on designing in-world content. Its a cool read. I don't have any big stories from last night. |
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- Internet Sex Column Thrills, and Inflames, China [New York Times: Technology] |
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Why IGI ?? (Nov 30 2003 01:51 GMT) - I was in one today while wating for some names |
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- Thank you again Amatrine! I got the stones today. They are |
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- Unter Leitung von Parteichefin Angela Merkel treffen Präsidium und Vorstand der CDU heute in Leipzig letzte Vorbereitungen für den am Montag beginnenden Parteitag. Im Mittelpunkt dabei: Reformkonzepte für die sozialen Sicherungssysteme und das Steuerrecht. |
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- Via The Smoking Gun, a copy of the Trademark Office's Preliminary Refusal to register KABBALAH RED STRING for Kabbalah Red Strings. Apparently adherents to the Kabbalah, a Jewish form of mysticism made trendy recently by Madonna, wear red strings on their wrist to ward off evil. |
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- (US) It's a book that, in its scope, ambition, and intellectual rigor seems modeled on Blood Rites, though it has nothing to do with war; it deals with communal ecstasy. [$drug_related(60%), $drugwar_propaganda(70%), $propaganda_theme1(55%), $propaganda_theme2(70%), $propaganda_theme3(55%), $propaganda_theme5(60%), $illegal_drugs(60%), $drugs(90%), $hallucinogen(60%), $MDMA(60%), $various_drugs(90%)] |
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