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Diamond Talk
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Green Diamonds (Dec 04 2003 23:17 GMT) - How do you tell the difference between [COLOR=green]green diamonds[/COLOR] and |
Associated Press headlines via GoUpstate.com
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64 Die in Congo From Anti-Sorcery Potion (Dec 04 2003 23:17 GMT) - Congo health officials on Thursday were investigating the poison deaths of 64 people, allegedly from a potion used to ward off evil spirits. The Roman Catholic priest who allegedly administered the drink fled the village of Bosobe early last week after people started falling ill, Health Minister Yagi Sitolo told The Associated Press. |
A blog doesn't need a clever name
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Technology Review: The Myth of ... (Dec 04 2003 23:16 GMT) - Technology Review: The Myth of Doomed Data. Simson Garfinkel. This ironic death of Domesday has been taken as a rallying cry for an increasingly vocal group of computer scientists and archivists who argue that we are in danger of losing our cultural heritage--or at least that part of our cultural heritage that we have been foolish enough to commit to electronic storage devices. There's just one problem with this reasoning: |
Kingdom Come
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UK/Personal: The Body Divided (Dec 04 2003 23:16 GMT) - I'll be honest, sometimes writing for this blog is a depressing experience. It was founded on a simple principle, which can be summed up thus:"Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it. " 1Cor. 12: |
EQuake
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3.1 - Central Alaska (Dec 04 2003 23:16 GMT) - TIMESTAMP (UTC) LAT LONG DEPTH MAG COMMENT 2003-12-04 05:23:20 63.57 -146.97 1 3. |
Ryan Lowe's Blog
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CD Wishlist (Dec 04 2003 23:15 GMT) - Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism Pilate - Caught By The Window Hot Hot Heat - Make Up the Breakdown Ministry of Sound - The Annual 2004 Evanescence - Fallen Doves - Lost Sides The Vines - Highly Evolved Bassment Jaxx - Kish Kash Outkast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below Lamb - What Sound: Deluxe Edition ... I'll probably add to this. |
Ravenwood's Universe
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1984: UK police want to see your goodies (Dec 04 2003 23:15 GMT) - Kevin at The Smallest Minority notes that the U.K. is planning on using roadside scanners to detect people carrying firearms and knives around town. It's those same scanners that allow police and airport security to see right through the clothes... |
Malins blog
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Rafflande hemfärd (Dec 04 2003 23:14 GMT) - Efter en något skakigt flygning hem, med flygvärdinnor liggandes i gången på planet, kan jag konstatera att online konferansen var... |
Stageleft
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Hearts & Minds (Dec 04 2003 23:14 GMT) - Civilian deaths raise Iraqi fears, angerIt was a fateful turn in the road: Traveling home one night from a local farm, where the al-Jumaidy family had bought live chickens for their store in town, the driver turned the pickup truck onto the highway to Fallujah, which has been the flash point for anti-American attacks for months. Fifteen minutes later, the driver and four passengers lay dead in the vehicle, their bodies bullet-riddled by a volley of heavy fire from an American tank, which... |
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Pretty funny (Dec 04 2003 23:14 GMT) - Go to Google, type in the words 'miserable failure', click "I'm feeling Lucky". |
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Who would have thunk it? (Dec 04 2003 23:14 GMT) - Israeli intel 'exaggerated' Iraq WMDsISRAELI intelligence overplayed the threat posed by Iraq and reinforced an assumption by American and British counterparts that Saddam Hussein had large caches of weapons of mass destruction, a retired Israeli general said today, after studying the run-up to the US-led invasion of Iraq. The Israeli assessment may have been coloured by politics, including a desire to see Saddam Hussein toppled, said Shlomo Brom, once a senior Israeli military... |
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This doesn't look good (Dec 04 2003 23:14 GMT) - Chinese Officers Warn That Taiwan Referendum Could Lead to WarChinese military officers said today that Taiwan's leadership had pushed the island toward the "abyss of war" with its independence drive, making clear that China would consider a popular vote on Taiwan's political status as cause for war. [ ..... ] "Taiwan independence means war," Mr. Peng said. "This is the word of 1. |
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Only christian civilizations count (Dec 04 2003 23:14 GMT) - [ via Eschaton ]A seventh-grade social studies teacher in Presque Isle who said he was barred from teaching about non-Christian civilizations has sued his school district...It seems that in Presque Isle Maine they don't want kids learning anything about religions, societies, and civilizations that are not christian - does the christian right really expect that this sort of brainwashing will do any good? How are they going to teach things like philosophy or the evolution of democracy if... |
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