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Byzantium and the Crusades (Dec 03 2003 04:34 GMT) - Well, I know what to do with my $40.00 birthday money now.I don't know why I allow myself to mope even for a moment. This is my life; I should just keep going. |
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The Herbert Huncke Reader (Dec 03 2003 04:34 GMT) - Well, I know what to do with my $40.00 birthday money now.I don't know why I allow myself to mope even for a moment. This is my life; I should just keep going. |
Advanced Combo Tricks
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Dollar General goes small to become one of fastest growing U.S. retailers (Dec 03 2003 04:34 GMT) - Detod: Dollar General goes small to become one of fastest growing U.S. retailers Dollar General is sometimes mocked as the low-rent Wal-Mart, an even cheaper version of the world's largest retailer. But Dollar General has quietly used a very different business model to become one of the fastest-growing retailers in the United States, opening more than half its 6,653 stores in the past five years. |
Drug WarRant
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The Great Debate (Part 2) (Dec 03 2003 04:34 GMT) - Part 2: Each debater was given 2 minutes to rebut the first round comments. What to watch for: William Bennett: Trying desperately to dump his debating partner, and clinging to his one-statistic argument. |
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Bogliolo [bó|glio|lo] (Dec 03 2003 04:34 GMT) - Io spero che The Petunias' non se la prenda se copio pari pari un suo post prendendomi la libertà di cambiare il link originale. “Andate a vedervi questo sito ‘parodistico’ |
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Paging Dr... (Dec 03 2003 04:33 GMT) - I was having a busy and awful time tonight at work. I had a double, and then a mini-birthday party for an 84-year-old who was hard of hearing. One of my other tables made up for it when I swiped their credit card: Dr. Richard Weiner. |
Advanced Combo Tricks
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Pentagon freezes Boeing contract (Dec 03 2003 04:33 GMT) - BBC NEWS: Pentagon freezes Boeing contract The US military has put an $18bn deal to buy Boeing tanker aircraft on hold. The Defence Department said the deal would be frozen pending an inquiry into Boeing's links with a former Pentagon procurement official. The official, Darleen Druyun, discussed a possible job with Boeing before she had disqualified herself from government service. This is the " |
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S&P raises Pak rating - Business Standard (Dec 03 2003 04:32 GMT) - "International rating agency Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services today revised Pakistan’s outlook on long-term sovereign credit ratings from stable to positive, citing the country’s improved fiscal and macroeconomic performance. At the end of June this year, S&P had retained India’s sovereign rating at junk grade and maintained a negative outlook for the country." |
Steve's No Direction Home Page
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The King of Lowbrow?. From ... (Dec 03 2003 04:32 GMT) - The King of Lowbrow?. From [Hit & Run] comes this excellent discussion of the recent literary brouhaha around Stephen King and the National Book Award. I'm a little late with this, but has anyone caught the controversy over Stephen King's National Book Foundation medal for distinguished contribution to American letters -- the latest in the other culture wars? (Highbrow vs lowbrow, Jonathan Franzen vs Oprah, etc. |
Unbound Spiral
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The Computer Becomes the Phone. (Dec 03 2003 04:32 GMT) - This article in Time examines the world in which the phone becomes a computer, and the computer becomes a phone."Eight years after its introduction, VOIP is having its moment. Indeed, 2004 is sure to be the year in which... |
Dean Nation 2004
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Daily Review (Dec 03 2003 04:32 GMT) - Dean, Gephardt Battle for Lead in Iowa Dean Looks for New York Love Dean pushing Democratic Congress Dean Records May Remain Sealed |
Judicious Asininity
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Foot in Mouth (Dec 03 2003 04:32 GMT) - John Hawkins at Right Wing News wonders whose foot is where regarding giving Rumsfeld the Foot in Mouth award: Here's the statement that won the award for Donald Rumsfeld... "Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me because, as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. "We also know there are known unknowns; |
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Russia sinks Kyoto (Dec 03 2003 04:32 GMT) - The tide is finally turning against Kyoto. On one front, the underlying "science" is being discredited. The infamous Mann hockey stick graph is going the way of Bellesile's study on gun ownership in early America. On the other, countries other than France are discovering the economic costs that Kyoto would impose; costs that would only delay the impact of global warming by a few years, even assuming the worst case scenarios propagated by the Kyoto lobby. |
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Bucking the Ayatollah (Dec 03 2003 04:32 GMT) - One Iraqi Governing Council member explains why the best course of action for a future provisional government is contrary to the wishes of Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, "who has insisted that a provisional government be chosen through a national election". The council's apparent steadfastness stems from a desire among Sunni Arabs, Sunni Kurds and secular Shiites that an ayatollah not be given veto power over political decisions. "We cannot deny there is an attempt to set... |
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Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Force (Dec 03 2003 04:32 GMT) - Amir Taheri offers the Coalition some advice: What the coalition needs — and has failed to establish — is a counter-terrorism force that can hunt down the remaining Fedayin and the criminal gangs that work with them. This is not a task for the conventional war machine which the coalition has assembled. This sounds reasonable and leads one to wonder whether or not some type of such a force may be in place, albeit, in the beginning phase or underground. Most of the current force is... |
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2003 Weblog Awards (Dec 03 2003 04:32 GMT) - Kevin at Wizbang has a contest going on called 2003 Weblog Awards and it consists of various categories. There is still time to get your blog nominated and join in the fun. Check it out and get in before the voting starts. |
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Totalitarian Theocracy in Canada (Dec 03 2003 04:32 GMT) - The Canadian Thought Police are on the march. So says, David E. Bernstein in an NRO article where he warns, "Look at what's happening in Canada. If we don't watch out, we're next." Even the most zealous advocates of freedom of expression often feel uncomfortable defending the right to engage in Holocaust denial or to propagate degrading pornography. |
Programmers Heaven latest articles and tutorials
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Ports Tricks (Dec 03 2003 04:32 GMT) - One of the many reasons to love FreeBSD is its ports collection. Nearly 10,000 applications are available, and any installation is a mere make install clean away. In today's article, I'd like to share some of my favorite ports tricks. |
SecurityFocus News
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Infocus: Exploiting Cisco Routers: Part 2 (Dec 03 2003 04:32 GMT) - This is the second of a two-part series that focuses on identifying and then exploiting vulnerabilities and poor configurations in Cisco routers. This article will look at what we can do once we've gotten in. |
Jim's Pond - Exploring the Universe of Ideas
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Technology Review Every month I ... (Dec 03 2003 04:30 GMT) - Technology Review Every month I look forward to the day when my MIT Technology Review arrives. This month did not disappoint. I spent just enough time in the office yesterday to sign a few purchase requests, review a couple of late-breaking e-mail messages and grab my copy of Tech Review. I was especially interested in the Corporate R&D Scorecard 2003. It was packed with loads of great information and thought provoking facts. |
WIFLblog
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Leica Digilux 2. Leica today ... (Dec 03 2003 04:30 GMT) - Leica Digilux 2. Leica today announced the Digilux 2, a five megapixel compact digital camera with a 3.2x optical zoom lens. Leica are promoting this camera as the "analog" digital camera, in essence this is driven by the camera's design and control layout which is almost identical to a standard manual film camera (such as aperture ring, shutter speed dial etc.) The lens is also pretty special, a 28 - 90 mm equiv. |
Ted Ritzer: Digital Photography
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Leica Digilux 2. Leica today ... (Dec 03 2003 04:30 GMT) - Leica Digilux 2. Leica today announced the Digilux 2, a five megapixel compact digital camera with a 3.2x optical zoom lens. Leica are promoting this camera as the "analog" digital camera, in essence this is driven by the camera's design and control layout which is almost identical to a standard manual film camera (such as aperture ring, shutter speed dial etc.) The lens is also pretty special, a 28 - 90 mm equiv. |
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