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- Non ho niente da dire sull'asilo: c'è il cretinetti che gioca nella sabbionaia, c'è lo stronzo che ti prende a botte, c'è la preputtana in erba che strizza l'occhio, c'è il bilioso, c'è il biliare, c'è l'atrabiliare, c'è il ciccione:... |
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- i sleep in the darkness of my room, my body buried between the sheets, tense, tired, anxious, and waiting. tears soaked my pillow, my hair disheveled, i suck a finger, like a child, and fall asleep. waiting. he comes, opens the door, enters the room, finds me in the dark, and lies down next to me, and licks the tears off my face, and strokes my hair, and blows gentle kisses, all over my arched, my tense, my tired, my waiting body. |
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- i sleep in the darkness of my room, my body buried between the sheets, tense, tired, anxious, and waiting. tears soaked my pillow, my hair disheveled, i suck a finger, like a child, and fall asleep. waiting. he comes, opens the door, enters the room, finds me in the dark, and lies down next to me, and licks the tears off my face, and strokes my hair, and blows gentle kisses, all over my arched, my tense, my tired, my waiting body. |
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- Chicago police arrested almost a dozen gang members in one Southeast Side neighborhood after a four-month sting and have warrants for six others. |
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- The cafeteria at Lane Tech High School is closed because of a rodent problem. Students are getting box lunches. |
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- A soldier killed in action during the Korean War receives a long awaited military funeral. |
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- The woman accused of abducting her own child, a ward of the state, was arrested Thursday. Angela Gerontakis faces a child abduction charge for taking her son, Tashon Phillips, across country. Now her bond is set at $100,000. |
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- Rapper 50 Cent, pop singers Justin Timberlake and Beyonce and the hip-hop group OutKast were favorites to grab Grammy Award nominations this year. |
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- The Lord of the Rings films, as millions of fans around the world know, are all about saving the world from an evil power, bound to a magic ring. |
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- Ray Romano, the Emmy-winning star of CBS' "Everybody Loves Raymond," is writing a children's book. |
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- Gwyneth Paltrow and boyfriend Chris Martin are expecting their first child next summer, her publicist said Wednesday. |
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- Something borrowed, something blue and a lawsuit, too, for bride-to-be Trista Rehn of ABC's "Bachelorette." |
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- Importing and exporting bookmarks to and from your UpSave account and Internet Explorer has been improved. Not only has the process become more reliable but the usability has been improved. You can read more about the UpSave improvements or login to your UpSave account and go to the "Tools Page" Basically all you need to do now in order to upload your IE favorites to your UpSave account is click on " |
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- A BigAdmin reader provides a how-to for setting up and using the KDE desktop environment on Solaris systems. |
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- AP via Newsday Dec 4 2003 5:08PM ET... |
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- Infomatics Dec 4 2003 5:03PM ET... |
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- MCPmag.com Dec 4 2003 5:25PM ET... |
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- PC Magazine Dec 4 2003 5:44PM ET... |
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- Personal Computer World Dec 4 2003 5:55PM ET... |
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- My first picture I uploaded with my cameraphone. I'll be doing this more often as I find interesting stuff... |
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- Researchers at Cornell University have tapped a pair of unlike sources -- on-line journalism and computational biology -- to make it possible to automatically paraphrase whole sentences. The researchers used gene comparison techniques to identify word patterns from different news sources that described the same event. The method could eventually allow computers to more easily process natural language, produce paraphrases that could be used in machine translation, and help people who have trouble reading certain types of sentences. Full Story, or Read The Paper. [Via Slashdot] |
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- While it is typical for electronic journals to offer conventional search features similar to those provided by electronic databases, a select number of e-journals have also made available higher-level access options as well. In this article, we review several novel technologies and implementations that creatively exploit the inherent potential of the digital environment to further facilitate use of e-collections. We conclude with speculation on the functionalities of a next-generation e-journal interface that are likely to emerge in the near future. read the PDF of New Age Navigation: Innovative E-Journal Interfaces. |
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- Government minister Stephen Timms opened today's Wi-Fi 3G summit in London by listing the achievements of the "light touch regulatory policy" he's been able to put in place since taking over at the Department - and confirmed that his plan to put an open Wi-Fi hotspot in every public library was "going ahead". "I'm very keen on the idea that every public library should be a Wi-Fi hotspot," he said. "Already 90 per cent have broadband, and my department is now working up that idea." Full Story. |
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- Fang-Face writes "Wired.com has an article by Ryan Singel dated 24 Nov. in which he reports that the vampiric PATRIOT Act II has had the stake pulled out of its heart and is going to be implemented piecemeal. A provision of an intelligence spending bill will expand the power of the FBI to subpoena business documents and transactions from a broader range of businesses -- everything from libraries to travel agencies to eBay -- without first seeking approval from a judge. [... |
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- “Damn the United States! I wish I may never hear of the United States again!”<?xml: |
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- Weird rules spin your creativity. |
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- “Damn the United States! I wish I may never hear of the United States again!” |
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- QUOTE (Slothmania @ Jul 29 2003, 06:00 PM) best way to quite smoking is to stop doing it Sloth's right, it's like smoking weed, you just gotta stop and that's that. No special classes, patches or gum'll do that for you. |
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- The $50 million in federal funding to twin the Trans-Canada Highway between Castle Junction and the B.C. border is only one-third the amount needed and may only pay for one-third of the distance. (Rocky Mountain Outlook - December 4) |
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- Review of Water and Our Way of Life, by Bob Sandford, Canmore author and chair of Canada's United Nations International Year of Fresh Water and Wonder of Water Initiative. (Rocky Mountain Outlook - December 4) |
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- Banff artist Michelle Henderson-Topp's exhibition "See Yourself as Wondrously Made" opens Friday, December 5 with a reception from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Banff Public Library. (Rocky Mountain Outlook - December 4) |
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- The Living Room Theatre company is launching into its Christmas production of the dark comedy Absurd Person Singular, by Alan Ayckbourn. The play will be held at the Banff Voyager Inn December 19 to 21 and January 2 to 4. (Rocky Mountain Outlook - December 4) |
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- A one-hour meeting with the woman behind a non-existent writers' conference in Banff is no longer up for auction on eBay. Elisabeth von Hullessem was offering people the chance to pay a minimum of $10,000 for a chat, an autographed copy of her book and an excerpt of her autobiography. The online auction service has since pulled her ad, which received no bids (CBC Calgary - December 4) |
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- The son of a woman killed on the treacherous stretch of Trans-Canada Highway near Lake Louise says he's "extremely disappointed" in the justice system after minor charges against the man accused of causing the fatal crash were stayed. (Rocky Mountain Outlook - December 4) |
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- Elisabeth von Hullessem says she is neither a scam artist nor a con artist - just a fool. (Rocky Mountain Outlook - December 4) |
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- Make those billboards big and graphic.... Post a huge sign reading: "You are now entering one of the deadliest stretches of road in Canada. Please slow down." Or, "The next 34 km of road has seen 24 deaths in the last five years. |
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- Lake Louise was undoubtedly the centre of the skiing universe last weekend (November 29-30), and Canadians, including Banff's Jan Hudec, were major players. (Rocky Mountain Outlook - December 4) |
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- Speaking of Dean, his new pamphlet, appropriately called Common Sense is worth reading. It's got a definite Paine look and feel (especially the pdf). Over two hundred years ago, Thomas Paine wrote a pamphlet that would light the fire that forged our nat |
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- Dizzy Rascal joined other celebrities shunning OBEs tonight when I asked him at the underground music awards if he would accept an OBE if it were offered. "What's that?" he replied dismissively. So there you have it. The show was... |
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- United States: Religious groups are battling it out in the courts over whether health insurance plans that provide prescription drug coverage must also include coverage for prescription contraceptives. The idea of what's come to be called contraceptive equity wasn't even on the national agenda until 1996, when Viagra came along. Within seven weeks of that drug's approval by the FDA, more than 90 percent of insurance plans covered it. The birth-control pill, in comparison, had been around for more than 40 years — |
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- Another reason to love living in Boston: The inevitable gorgeousness of the venerable Newbury Comics, who this week released another $5 rawking late-70s/early-80s punk-pop compilation. They sure know how to make a good mix-tape.... |
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- Open Source DTP: there's now a nice-looking Linux app called Scribus which offers the features of Quark or InDesign on the Linux platform. Output is to PDF, and it looks very interesting. Am downloading to the Linux box as we speak... |
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