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- Here is a perfect example of why the UN needs to be, well, "un". Glenn Reynolds looks at this as being the response of elites to the unfettered free speech on, and the "bullshit detector" side effects of, the Internet.... |
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- AUSTIN – Gov. Rick Perry announced today that he has asked the Small Business Administration (SBA) to declare Harris County a disaster area following tornadoes, heavy rain and flooding Nov. 17 and 18. If the SBA disaster declaration is gr... |
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- I'm still not over this from last year. I hate snow. I hate that people are assholes in it. Even if it is the first of the year, I'm not happy about it. I still have to go to work. |
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- There has been a major break in the case of the missing New Jersey school teacher. Overnight, police found the body of 36-year old Deana Banks in a shallow grave in Bernards Township. |
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- There has been a deadly crash on route three, in Clifton, NJ, that will affect your Friday morning commute. |
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- Halfway through his nearly 5.5-hour stint in the grand jury room, Barry Bonds popped his head into the hallway and asked: "Is my mother here?" |
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- Drinking red wine may reduce the risk of heart disease but it may also protect against breast cancer. |
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- Blog editing: There's a good discussion over at Geoff Bowers' place about editorial choice in deciding which blogs to feature in a serverside aggregation. I'm pro-choice on this stuff... each blogger can choose what they write, each editor can choose... |
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- although authorities are still investigating the issue, serious doubts were cast on walmart stampede store when it was discovered that the woman has filed 16 previous claims, 9 at wal-mart stores . so rather than the good-old-fashioned 'frenzied shoppers' story, we really have a good-old-fashioned story about fraud. i think the more interesting back story can be found the annual rush to get out the first 'feeding frenzy' story out to press. |
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Danko Jones (Dec 05 2003 14:15 GMT) - Voor de Groningers die vanavond gn sinterklaas vieren, of vroeg klaar zijn: Danko Jones in de Vera! Gaan! Effe een partijtje vrolijke rock vol vuur! |
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- Chancellor Schröder wrapped up his Asian tour with a visit to Kazakhstan. The ink is now drying on half a billion euros worth of business deals in Astana, a city dubbed the capital by an authoritarian president. |
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- Dec. 4 - The best of 2003 lists have already begun. Sam Rubin takes a look at the National Board Of Reviews top movies of the year. Find out what's on top. |
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- Going along with our holiday theme around here of late, I thought I'd interject some holiday outrage: Indiana U Law... |
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- Going along with our holiday theme around here of late, I thought I'd interject some holiday outrage: Indiana U Law... |
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- Vladivostok, here I come Just now I was checking out Hotels.com for a hotel for XML 2003 next week (I'm presenting a half-day tutorial on Web Services security on Monday, and then speaking on Securing a Services Oriented Architecture on Tuesday). As you can see in the screengrab below, I spelt "Philadelphia" incorrectly, and look at the single destination which Hotels.com helpfully suggests for me. Actually, with the current weather in Philadephia , maybe I might as well go to Vladivostok. |
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- QUEER ALLIES: THE LITTLE-NOTICED ALLIANCE BETWEEN GAY MARRIAGE OPPONENTS AND ALLEGED TERRORIST SYMPATHIZERS is the rather improbable title of an article published Tuesday by Jewish... |
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- ! This weekend, Houston will have runoff elections to select a new mayor for the city. Lee Brown is out *wild cheer from the crowd* and either Bill White or Orlando Sanchez will be in. Of course there are commercials running this time around, but they are trying to court the voters that voted for Sylvester Turner in the November elections, so they have been pretty low key. I've been really bummed and upset that I haven't seen the one with Orlando Sanchez glowing like Jesus on Easter morning. Fortunately, I was able to snap the above photo of it off the Tivo to preserve a memory. |
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- This weekend, Houston will have runoff elections to select a new mayor for the city. Lee Brown is out *wild cheer from the crowd* and either Bill White or Orlando Sanchez will be in. Of course there are commercials running this time around, but they are trying to court the voters that voted for Sylvester Turner in the November elections, so they have been pretty low key. I've been really bummed and upset that I haven't seen the one with Orlando Sanchez glowing like Jesus on Easter morning. Fortunately, I was able to snap the above photo of it off the Tivo to preserve a memory. |
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- Tycho: They're not joining together in any visible way, and we must continue to endure their combined editorial output, so the announcement that GameSpy and IGN are merging is just like seeing Gamespy ste... |
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- I find out if I still have a job or not. I thought that everything was going well, but then... |
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- Ack! The awful hateful word "masstige" is snowballing. From today's NY Times article about stupid fig-scented candles which are evidently... |
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- Dems want inquiry into reports of Medicare bribe Democrats and a legal watchdog group have asked Attorney General John Ashcroft to investigate allegations that Republicans offered a House member $100,000 in contributions for his son's election campaign if he would... |
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- The BLS numbers-- although the alternative "Household Survey" continues to give a completely different message of high job growth. Part... |
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- Well, I didn’t win anything in the 2003 Warblogger Awards (hey, it was a clean sweep - in the Colesian... |
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- EU:n neljä liittoutumatonta maata, Suomi, Ruotsi, Irlanti ja Itävalta jättivä |
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- Sami Seliön voitontoiveet F1-moottoriveneiden MM-sarjakauden toiseksi viimeisessä kilpailussa hupenivat moottorin hyytymiseen kahdeksan kierrosta ennen maalia. Seliö johti Arabiemiraattien Sharjahissa ajettua kisaa yli 30 kierrosta, mutta moottori ei kestä |
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- Hexin kokoamien tietojen mukaan osakkeiden hinnat Helsingin pörssissä kallistuivat marraskuussa 2,8 prosenttia. Vuoden alusta pörssin yleistä |
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- HARD DAYS LIGHT :DJs: Puls Eryca Peter Tlpel |
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- Een herder hoedt zijn kudde schaapjes op een veld ver en verlaten als hij een nieuwe blinkende BMW in een stofwolk ziet naderen. De bestuurder, een jongeman elegant gekleed in een pak van Versace, schoenenvan Gucci, een bril van Serengeti en stropdas van Yves Saint Laurent, stopt en leunt uit het raam: "Als ik jou precies vertel hoeveel schapen je hebt, krijg ik er dan eentje van je?", vraagt hij aan de herder. De herder kijkt de yup aan en zegt "Oke, waarom niet". |
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- First snow of the season hit last nite, not bad for maryland in fact about 5 inches of slushy stuff, when i shoveled this morning. I only had a real shovel because coworker don had to go to home depot... |
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- If you're lucky enough to get your hands on the copy of GoMINI, the new bi-monthly MINI magazine, be sure to check out the "Log On" section. There you'll find a handful of screenshots and reviews of some of the better sites on the web dedicated to MINIs. I' |
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- Remember how I wrote about the woman who was trampled by other Wal-Mart shoppers over a cheap DVD player? well looks like the trampled' Wal-Mart shopper has history of injury claims. I am so tired of people like this. If... |
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- Kevin of Wizbang has done some very neat development work on his own for blogging.He's out of work now. I know how it feels, even though I didn't blog about it much (consciously) in the two years I was out... |
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Lakers (Dec 05 2003 14:10 GMT) - Don't forget their victory against the Pacers was the 25th consecutive win at home for the Lakers. Good things are happening in the city of angels. |
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- I think they are very cool looking, but for a ring |
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- For most people, being mentioned in the New York Times is a dream, as it signifies having made it in some way. The Post starts off its article about how the Times mistakenly published an obituary for a very much living woman (Katharine Sergava, ballet dancer and Greta Garbo's Hollywood "rival") with, "Many status-conscious New Yorkers dream of having their obituary run in The New York Times." Gothamist was amused because the only other democratic/selectocratic way to be mentioned, without infamy or some new patent or restaurant to speak of, is to have your wedding announcement run in the Times. How to submit a wedding to the Times. And Times wedding cachet was captured well by Sex and the City with two prime examples: |
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- Urban Music Stars Shine at Grammy Nominations LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Destiny's Child singer Beyonce Knowles, rapper Jay-Z, flamboyant hip-hop... |
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