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White House Story Disputed (Dec 02 2003 19:59 GMT) - Kicking Ass notes that after President Bush's Thanksgiving trip to Iraq, a White House flak "told journalists of an unexpected encounter between Air Force One and a British Airways flight. Now, British Airways pilots say the incident never happened."... |
ZBORNAK
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All Z Can Do Is Step Back In Time (Dec 02 2003 19:59 GMT) - I got back yesterday from a nice long weekend at Mama's. Whilst I was there I found a bunch of old photos, which I am in the frame of mind to share... This used to be my favourite photo of... |
linkfilter.net
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Does Race Exist? (Dec 02 2003 19:59 GMT) - If races are defined as genetically discrete groups, no. But researchers can use some genetic information to group individuals into clusters with medical relevance |
LISNews.com
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It's About Time: Research Challenges in Digital Archiving and Long-term Preservation (Dec 02 2003 19:59 GMT) - The Library of Congress and the National Science Foundation hosted a workshop to identify specific research challenges associated with long-term preservation of digital content. As detailed in the published report, the workshop identified a number of priority areas for research into new models, methodologies, and tools for digital preservation. Download the Full PDF Here. |
gammatron (phase ii)
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40th Mersenne Prime Discovered (Dec 02 2003 19:58 GMT) - 40th Mersenne Prime Discovered See also: New Scientist Coverage UPDATE: Inquirer Coverage, which falsely labels this as a result of P2P computing. It's purely client-server. The work is distributed from a central machine to distributed clients all over the world, then results are sent back to the same primary server. |
Ken Hagler's Radio Weblog
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Evildoers. Remember how we weren't ... (Dec 02 2003 19:58 GMT) - Evildoers. Remember how we weren't supposed to worry about the rights of detainees at Gitmo because, after all, they were all Very Bad Men? Via Jim Henley, an ABC report tells us: According to Time, activities leading toward release of the 140 prisoners have accelerated since the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case. It said U. |
U.S. Newswire Releases
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Iraqi Women in New York on U.S. Tour (Dec 02 2003 19:58 GMT) - The Fellowship of Reconciliation, America's oldest international and interfaith peace and justice organization, is sponsoring a tour of the United States by two women from Baghdad, art and craft center director Amal Al-Khedairy and journalist Nermin Al-Mufti, ... |
Blogcritics
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Arrogance by Bernard Goldberg (Dec 02 2003 19:57 GMT) - Arrogance paints a picture of journalists living in a cultural and political bubble and too arrogant to step outside that bubble and challenge their own assumptions. |
Blogcritics
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The Merits of Stereotypes (Dec 02 2003 19:57 GMT) - Stereotypes invariably refer in a generalized manner to - often arbitrary - groups of people, usually minorities. Stereotypes need not necessarily be derogatory or cautionary, though most of them are. |
Jay Reding.com
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The Decline Of France (Dec 02 2003 19:57 GMT) - Christopher Caldwell has a serious and clear-eyed piece in The Weekly Standard on the continuing decline of French social and... |
El Centro & OMEGA
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JMS: More B5 Coming? (Dec 02 2003 19:55 GMT) - Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski told fans on a message board that he's working on a follow-up to the popular SF series, according to a report on the Dark Horizons Web site. Straczynski remained coy about the project, saying only that he'd hav |
linkfilter.net
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Hey Ho, Let's Go Downtown to Joey Ramone Place (Dec 02 2003 19:55 GMT) - Officials plan to unveil a sign proclaiming Joey Ramone Place on the Bowery at Second Street tomorrow to honor the lead singer of the Ramones, who was born Jeffrey Hyman in Forest Hills, Queens. He died of lymphatic cancer, at 49, in 2001. |
NOTBBC - The Comedy Forum
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Ross Noble On Room 101 (Dec 02 2003 19:54 GMT) - Last post by Simon IUFGN on 18:58 02/Dec/03 - I didn't think he was very good. He'd obviously just chosen his hates so he could 'riff' on them in his cuh-razy surrealistic way. |
Inspirational Technology
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O'Reilly Launches Per Chapter Book Sales (Dec 02 2003 19:53 GMT) - O'Reilly has added the ability to download individual book chapters to their Safari online service. What this really means is they're offering the ability to purchase books on a per chapter basis. You have to be a Safari subscriber to do this and the book has to be on your... |
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