|
|
|
|
|
|
- The positive HIV test was a surprise. The boy let's call him Sipho never had a blood transfusion. He did not inject drugs or have unprotected sex. He died when he was just seven months old, yet another South African victim of AIDS. |
|
|
|
- The Seven Dealy Sins are those transgressions which are fatal to spiritual progress. You probably commit some of them every day without thinking about the rich tradition of eternal damnation in which you're participating. Welcome to your source for history and current information on the Seven Deadly Sins and the Seven Heavenly Virtues |
|
|
|
- U.N. weapons inspectors are planning for possible monitoring of Iraq's biological, chemical and missile programs despite being barred from the country by the United States, according to a report to the U.N. Security Council. |
|
|
|
- An Anonymous Patron wants us to read a brief piece about an exhibition of the work of artist Steve Wolfe, who creates three-dimensional replicas of the real books he owns and has read multiple times: The Abrams monograph on Mondrian is slightly off-kilter (too much time spent leaning on the shelf); Raymond Chandler's Farewell My Lovely appears so well thumbed that it's falling apart. The Vintage paperbacks of Proust, faded in Wolfe's fake sun, bear the imprint of years passing. How long did it take to re-create them? |
|
|
|
- Fresh from VALISblog comes this item from Vermont's Battleboro Reformer: Public libraries, once considered solely as book-lenders, are beginning to supplant town halls, churches and schools as the main gathering place of local communities, say officials from the Vermont Department of Libraries. But this change, brought on in part by the advent of the Internet, requires a new way of looking at what libraries are expected to offer. "For a time, small libraries didn't have to provide so many services, but the reality now is that no library is too small to use, for example, inter-library loans," said Grafton resident and librarian Amy Howlett. "We need a good conversation in Windham County on what a good library is. |
|
|
|
- As promised the homepage has been updated for compatibility with Firebird and Opera. Let me know if you are still experiencing erratic horizontal scrolling issues. I'll write a piece about Dreamweaver's awesome optional regions soon as a lot of issues that previously required multiple templates can now be dealt with in just one file.Topic: Sitenews |
|
|
|
- Crap. I ordered a new 1 GHz iBook last week and according to the ever immaculate Crazy Apple Rumors site it suffers from stainable situations. I'm hoping the lack of airport in my configuration will shield me from the worst of this problem. In happier news I think I have finally "tracked down" the oddness on this here front-page, seen most often when using Firebird or Opera. It's all very comp'licated stuff having to do with margins, widths, percentages and long words, quite hard to put an exact finger on it, but I've figured out a new design for the frontpage that will remove the right column, move it's contents down into the left column and make everybody happy. |
|
|
|
- Photo: Reuters/Thierry Roge... |
|
|
Zahnfleisch (Dec 03 2003 21:58 GMT) - Orgus Begeisterung, die BE wieder in voller Größe erleben zu dürfen, hielt sich doch sehr in Grenzen. Die vergangenen beiden Tage hat Bernhard ihn offenbar durch „emsiges Longieren“ unterhalten, wie Anja sagte. Kurzum: Zwei Tage richtiger Arbeit lagen hinter dem Pony, also beschloss ich etwas Nettes zu machen. Na ja, mehr oder minder nett. |
|
|
|
- A Little More Agitprop, Then Back To Food… In case the overwhelming stench of absolute corruption emanating from the recent passage of the Medicare Bill was not enough to knock you out, here’s a couple more follow-ups. But first, let’ |
|
|
|
- AP via Seattle Post Intelligencer Dec 3 2003 3:15PM ET... |
|
|
|
- ABCNEWS.com Dec 3 2003 3:25PM ET... |
|
|
|
- MSNBC Dec 3 2003 3:42PM ET... |
|
|
|
- Science Blog Dec 3 2003 3:54PM ET... |
|
|
|
- SiliconValley.com Dec 3 2003 4:14PM ET... |
|
|
|
- Ananova Dec 3 2003 4:19PM ET... |
|
|
|
- Scotsman Online Dec 3 2003 4:19PM ET... |
|
|
|
- Nature Dec 3 2003 4:22PM ET... |
|
|
|
- AP via New Jersey Online Dec 3 2003 4:23PM ET... |
|
|
|
- New Scientist Dec 3 2003 4:34PM ET... |
|
|
|
- New Scientist Dec 3 2003 4:34PM ET... |
|
|
|
- Houston Chronicle Dec 3 2003 4:42PM ET... |
|
|
|
- LLRX.com Dec 3 2003 3:17PM ET... |
|
|
|
- CPU Review Dec 3 2003 3:23PM ET... |
|
|
|
- PC Magazine Dec 3 2003 3:06PM ET... |
|
|
|
- Here's the actual Python implementation of the generation algoritm I described in the earlier post. Things you need to know to understand this algorithm: "w" is a dictionary, keyed by coordinate tuples, mapping those coordinates to integers representing the age of the cell. The locals l, r, u, d represent the matrices shifted left, right, up and down respectively. The first shifts, l and r, result in lists, the second shifts, u and d, are dictionaries, because I needed to accumulate the neighbor counts. |
|
|
|
- uMonitor will appear on World Business Review Television series hosted by Alexander Haig. The episode airs on U.S. public television stations, regional network affiliates, and independent carriers in over 200 major U.S. |
|
|
|
- Buzz word. Le nouveau buzz word. Qui aurait cru que Patapouf, clown cinglant de profession, épouse de Michou, pichou par... |
|
|
|
- "A brain is a terrible thing to label, drug and electroshock" |
|
|
|
- The Indianapolis Police Department is running short on traffic tickets. The Marion County Superior Court apparently underestimated the number of citations that would be handed out when placing its order... |
|
|
|
- The president of America's largest greyhound protection organization today urged the Rhode Island Department of Business Regulation to launch an independent investigation into allegations that Lincoln Park officials attempted to bribe state lawmakers in order ... |
|
|
|
- My latest column is up on MSDN, Extreme XML: EXSLT Meets XPath. |
|
|
|
- Police also found a major arsenal. The Baathist Broadcasting Company (BBC) has this report. |
|
|
|
- They have tried aerial assaults and stiff jail sentences. Now Colombian officials have a new and unlikely weapon to combat the cocaine trade: push-up bras and thongs. |
|
|
|
- Thème: Forum Social Mondial, Forum Social Européen,… Des lieux de rencontre, de foisonnement intellectuel où prennent forme des propo... |
|
|
|
- Bohlen is an interesting "artist" and technology phanatic. As a self-described "tracker of obscure mysteries that exist between the cracks," Bohlen's business is to raise questions most people don't raise, and then answer ... |
|
|
|
- EverQuest is an online game from Sony that features a huge world with a lot of monsters and civilians. One of the monsters was intended to be unkillable, the god of all monsters in that virtual world, but a team of 170 to 180 EverQuest civilians have... |
|
|
|
- Vanessa Redgrave accepts her Tony award for best actress at New York's Radio City Music Hall in June. (CP Archive/AP/Richard Drew) (Click for Large Photo) [yahoo: 4, +vanessa +her ++actress] |
|
|
|
- Australian actress Nicole Kidman(L) and Danish director Lars von Trier after the screening of their film "Dogville" at the 2003 Cannes Festival(AFP/File/Boris Horvat) (Click for Large Photo) [yahoo: 3, ++actress +nicole -director +festival] |
|
|
|
- Anyone know that stats on the ring or have pics? I'm |
|
|
|
- VOA Three Rwandan journalists were found guilty Wednesday of using broadcast and print media to help inflame Rwanda's 1994 genocide. Two men were jailed for life and the third for 35 years. ... The prosecution argued that the men, in their capacities as media practitioners, successfully encouraged Hutus to kill Tutsis. Of particular concern was a list of what was called the ten commandments for Hutus, written by the editor of the extremist magazine Kangura. |
|
