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Snopes.Com (Dec 05 2003 16:37 GMT) - Snopes is a website devoted to confirming or denying a lot of the crap you see flying around the internet and arriving in your inboxes. You know the stuff...the stories that are so heart-warming but that seem too good to... |
PoliBlog
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Bush Appoints Baker to Deal with Iraqi Debt (Dec 05 2003 16:37 GMT) - Interesting: Yahoo! News - Bush Names James Baker as Envoy on Iraq Debt. This is a very good choice, although the spin will likely be that the Bushes always call in Baker when they have a mess to clean up.... |
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Not Goodbye after all to the Columbus Mockingbird ... (Dec 05 2003 16:37 GMT) - Not Goodbye after all to the Columbus Mockingbird!Though no thanks to the NAACP. (Previous Mockingbird material: December archives passim.)The set-up, from Joanne Jacobs, where one sees more qualifications to the wrongly-so-called right to free speech than hanging on the walls of the entire Harvard faculty combined: |
Peppermint Patty
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Offensive Christian trees must come down (Dec 05 2003 16:36 GMT) - Tree display vexes law school They've lost their minds. A tree is put up with no decoration but some fake snow, but it's been called a religious symbol at the Indiana University School of Law. I am a devout Catholic,... |
HOG ON ICE
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Steve Who? (Dec 05 2003 16:36 GMT) - Tell him I'm Busy and Send him an Eight-by-Ten Aaron the Rantblogger is really flipping out lately, which is like... |
Gothamist
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Mandler's Original Sausage Co. (Dec 05 2003 16:35 GMT) - After merely seeing NYC Eats' photograph of a photograph being taken at Mandler's Original Sausage Co., Gothamist was intrigued. We love meat, and what could be better than meat, wurst-style? So when Ronnie Mandler invited us to try some of his food and learn more about wurst, we headed to Union Square tout de suite. |
Netlex Blogs
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5+5 summit : calls for mediterranean cooperation (Dec 05 2003 16:35 GMT) - Colin Powell in Tunisia : the country needs a "political reform" on December 2, 2003, Colin Powell called on the country to facilitate political reforms and a free press, and told journalists that Tunisia needed to focus on "political reform". "People are expecting more to happen with respect to political reform ... |
thetwiggs
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der freitag... (Dec 05 2003 16:35 GMT) - wieso hat der ralf so ein tolles auto? der ist doch blo streetworker und bringt obdachlosen ihr essen. wie kann das sein, dass so ein mann ein wohlhabenderes auto fhrt, als ich es tue? das ist doch verkehrte welt. der wohlstand gehrt mir. |
Morfablog
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Adlais adlais adlais (Dec 05 2003 16:35 GMT) - the echoist - prosiect newydd gan Pat Fieldmethods i'w helpu gda ei Gymraeg - cyfieithu cofnodion o weflogiau yn yr... |
Kurt's Journal
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Snow! (Dec 05 2003 16:34 GMT) - We Baltimoreans have fallen prey to an abnormal early-season snowstorm. Oh well. My PowerBook G4 is going to have to go in for service soon; I suspect logic board damage. I certainly won’ |
Blog for America
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Silberman's Seven Days (Dec 05 2003 16:34 GMT) - The Dean campaign's National Meetup Coordinator, Michael Silberman, is profiled in the latest issue of Seven Days, Burlington's local alternative weekly. Some excerpts: “The whole meetup organization is totally new. It’ |
Making Sense of It All!
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Power to Women! (Dec 05 2003 16:34 GMT) - The Land of Goddesses of Wealth, Power and Education, India is now a proud host to Five Women Chief Ministers. While participation of the farer sex is not upto the mark in grassroot levels of politics, the recent election witnessed the truth that in India, Sex is not a barrier to politics. Beling a women has many disadvantages, but the picture that Indian traditional society is somehow biased against women just received a huge blow.Regal formal Diva, Jayalalithaa in Tamil Nadu, The meek and homely, rustic Rabri Devi in Bihar and now, Motherly Shila Dixit in Delhi, the Sanyassin Uma Bharati in Madhya Pradesh, and the Royal Vasundhara Raje of Scindia family in Rajasthan: Five women of different hues, all in power. |
Film.Ru
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Катавасии и коты (Dec 05 2003 16:33 GMT) - В Москве в Центральном доме предпринимателе прошел традиционный 37-й фестиваль японского кино. После появления первой и второй "Королевской битвы" новое японское кино начали называть самым кровавым в мире. Похоже, 37-й фестиваль, в этом году проходящий... |
Scripting News
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Talking with my brother last ... (Dec 05 2003 16:33 GMT) - Talking with my brother last night we hummed a few bars of an old New Orleans favorite. "I went on down to the Audubon Zoo and they all aksd for you. The monkeys aksed. The tigers aksed and the elephants aksed me too." It's a silly little song, that's why it's so much fun. |
Obsolete Computer Museum Helpline
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Helpline Comment (24645) (Dec 05 2003 16:33 GMT) - For the SCSI stuff: I do this all the time with my Mac's: I use a separate 200W power supply to power up the hard drives, not the one in the computer case. Having all your drives in separate case(s) is probably the best approach. About viewing CD-ROM sectors: |
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