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us and them (Nov 30 2003 14:23 GMT) - zur präzisierung der euopäischen wahrnehmung: es gibt reflektierende us-menschen. auf www.usandthem.org werden vier missons via bildbeiträgen aufgelöst. |
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- UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw is hopeful that a deal can be done by the end of the year over Europe's new constitution. |
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- Scottish youngsters are among the fattest in the developed world, according to new figures. |
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- While I was configuring my partner's new iBook G4 the other day, I was musing over the list of software that just had to be installed on her laptop to get it up and running. By Chris White (Computerworld New Zealand via MyAppleMenu) |
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Free Music (Nov 30 2003 14:23 GMT) - While legal downloads are selling well, Internet music merchants are not making money. By Eugene Wee (Straits Times via MyAppleMenu) |
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- The scene is Santa Clara Valley, California, in 1976. Two Steves are busy at work in the garage. Their goal: the world's first personal computer. By Christoph Dernbach (South Africa Independent via MyAppleMenu) |
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- As the number of online music stores grows, carving out their own niches may get tougher. By Jon Healey (Los Angeles Times via MyAppleMenu) |
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- The iPod became an instant classic by combining high design and powerful technology. But as Apple has learned before, that formula alone doesn't keep you on top. By Rob Walker (New York Times via MyAppleMenu) |
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- In the encounter that followed, a soldier and a policeman were killed while ten others, including six policemen, were injured. |
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- Relaunch postponed. Next try: Wednesday night. |
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weird dream (Nov 30 2003 14:22 GMT) - I was playing golf last night in my sleep. I was at the Lost Plantation course, just down the road... |
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- Shee I should have read this before I lost $9 to the uncles...Uncle Domingo and Uncle Albert took all the nieces/nephews' $$ |
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- WooHoo! Weddings = Receptions = hot, drunk bridesmaids!!!! Luv ya Voodoo! Mango is dayam lucky |
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- Remember Bubble Shooter? Very similar. Highly addictive.... |
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Court News (Nov 30 2003 14:20 GMT) - Pa. was sentenced to imprisonment in the Bradford County Correctional Facility for a total minimum term of 30 days and a total maximum term of 23 months.[$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(50%), $propaganda_theme2(50%), $propaganda_theme3(50%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(90%), $prohibition_agency(100%), $cannabis(100%), $alcohol(50%), $various_drugs(90%)] |
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- eu ia achar... ele usa heroína e daí? o que ele escreve continua sendo legal... :) |
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- kahdklashdklahd. Esse Thiago... |
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- [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] - San Jose Mercury News Nov 30 2003 8:34AM ET... |
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- [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] - Chicago Tribune Nov 30 2003 8:40AM ET... |
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- Normally I just filter and delete the spam but I've received a particularly distasteful one (Brazilian kiddie porn) which I'm going to file a complaint about. You can follow along... |
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- Normally I just filter and delete the spam but I've received a particularly distasteful one (Brazilian kiddie porn) which I'm going to file a complaint about. You can follow along... |
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- Will new lottery be the ticket? Now with the Power-Ball-Play for the struggling Texas Lotto. Yet-to-be answered questions: Will players be turned off by the new game's better-chance-to-be-devoured-b odds of winning a jackpot? And what's to become of the 11-year-old Lotto Texas game already plagued by falling sales? |
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- Yet another Hitler book It seems every historian in the world has to write their own Third Reich book. Can there really be anything more to say about Nazi Germany and Hitler? Neal Ascherson ponders this question as he reviews yet another book in the crowded field, Richard J Evans' The Coming of the Third Reich. The standard bibliography of works on the Nazi period stood at more than 37,000 entries in the year 2000, having increased from 'a mere 25,000' in 1995. |
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clay (Nov 30 2003 14:19 GMT) |
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school (Nov 30 2003 14:19 GMT) |
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- "Student's suit may shift line on religion": The Seattle Times today provides this preview of a case in which the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral argument on Tuesday. And The Hartford Courant this past Thursday contained an article headlined "Court To |
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- Thursday - Updated the http://edublog.com server to OS X 10.3, in anticipation of moving all the services from the http://projectachieve. |
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- Thirty five bloggers, assorted members of the commentariat and sundry camp followers descended on Samizdata.net HQ with wild gleams in their eyes (and not just Andrew Dodge) last night and the final hard core did not slither out into the damp London daylight until about 9:00 am this morning! I shall post more images of the proceedings but for now... Update: |
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- Remember that what you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to another , but what you are will be yours forever. Store up for yourselves treasures in heaven. . . where... |
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Nichts (Nov 30 2003 14:17 GMT) - zu bloggen heute. |
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- Nice approach to promoting an interesting book: Nonzero by Robert Wright. Path dependent complexification is |
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- Another monster sighting |
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- Some weeks back I shortly analyzed the Taiwanese venture scene as less developed. This might have been a bit overstated. Zeevo - a provider of Bluetooth System-on-a-Chip just received another $ 20 million (summing up to $65.5 million since founding). Zeevo is based with several R&D facilities in Taiwan, thenew investor China Development Industrial Bank is one of the biggest VCs in the country. |
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- My wife has been doing Weight Watchers for most of this year, with truly great results. (Maybe 2004 is the time for me to join her - as I said the other evening, a copywriter's lifestyle can get worryingly like... |
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- Jessica Litman, Sharing and Stealing, a preprint posted to SSRN. From the abstract: "The purpose of copyright is to encourage the creation and mass dissemination of a wide variety of works. Until recently, most means of mass dissemination required a significant capital investment. The lion's share of the economic proceeds of copyrights were therefore channeled to publishers and distributors, and the law was designed to facilitate that. |
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