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- Dec. 5 - Student safety concerns have arisen in Dallas after an incident at Hillcrest High School. |
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- Ellen DeGeneres' talk show's second season has been picked up by all of NBC's owned and operated local stations. |
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- The Associated Press reports: quot;The U.N. culture agency has asked Egypt's Alexandria Library to respond to complaints of anti-Semitism surrounding the library's display of the 'Protocols of the Elders of Zion' a work long dismissed as an anti-Semitic tract. |
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- Secretary of Defense Aims to Privatize the U.S. Military |
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- Baltimore's No. 1 investor is backing a bold bid by Kodak executives to rescue the company from its long slide |
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- November level is nation's lowest in eight months; Employers added 57,000 jobs, falling below expectations |
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- Cocaine and ecstasy not only cause addiction and raise the risk of cancer but also provoke genetic mutations "These drugs, on top of their toxicological effects, attack DNA provoking mutations and altering the hereditary material. This is very worrying for the effects it could have on future generations," |
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- A Texas woman was sentenced to 10 years in jail for running over the manager of a McDonald's with her car because she wanted mayonnaise on her cheeseburger. |
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- our goal is nothing less than the reinvention of Sci-Fi Television. With those words leading the way, I turned in the final draft of Battlestar Galactica. Bold words, perhaps. |
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Bon Voyage (Dec 06 2003 00:58 GMT) - Here's the most beautifully written little bon-voyage I've received so far in preparation for my upcoming trip to India: have a good time in india and may the words flow like the ganges, strong and rich and full of souls.... |
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All gone (Dec 06 2003 00:57 GMT) - Well almost anyway. Only snow which was lucky enough to land in shadowy places are still here *pout* Ahh well it's still early in the season so who knows... Wish I could find another job for hubby. One that pays... |
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- When David Czarnecki recently announced the FreeMarker dispatcher for blojsom, I mentioned to him that I have been thinking about creating an iCite dispatcher as well. The idea is simply that an iCite (er, should one ever go live) could be a source for a blojsom blog. One thing about this that I thought might be cool is that iCites can aggregate content from remote sources. So, I realized, if such a dispatcher existed, it would effectively act as an aggregator. And, so, I thought a similar RSS / Atom aggregator dispatcher would be neat. |
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- Walking out of the subway last night I passed a medium brown-skinned woman who was whistling, very clearly, in a rather stately tempo, the Rodgers & Hammerstein tune "Surrey With the Fringe on Top," from the musical Oklahoma! |
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- Caroline Glick asks: Who speaks for Israel? Whether he knows it or not, Beilin serves anti-Semites in Europe and the Arab world as a fig leaf. It is he who ... |
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- Little Fayoumis wants a double-bladed red lightsaber, and a Dark Jedi costume, just like Darkside. He says that he and Darkside are twins. He asked permission to call Darkside, and did so. He got to talk to Darkside's mom, and left a message saying that he wanted to be on Darkside's team. I called back a bit later and let Darkside's mom know that yeah, that was the Little Fayoumis who called, and by the way, my holiday schedule is doing interesting things, as votania's work schedule has been taken and shaken and turned upside-down because of personnel shufflings. |
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- China gets ready to host the annual Miss World pageant on Saturday - the first time the show is staged there. |
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- International opera star Dame Kiri Te Kanawa shocked staff at a city centre hotel when she asked where she could store her guns, it emerged tonight. |
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- Actress Jessica Alba (C) portrays dancer/choreographer Honey Daniels in the new film 'Honey' in this undated photo. The film, about a music video choreographer who shakes up her life after her mentor gives her an ultimatum -- sleep with him or be blacklisted within their industry -- opens December 5, 2003 in the United States. Photo by Reuters (Handout) (Click for Large Photo) [yworld: 7, ++'jessica alba' ++actress +portrays +dancer -daniels +video +her] |
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- Uns' Maol gerade bei Symlink (wo sonst?) einen Hinweis einen auf Vorschlag zu einem wirklich ntzlichen Bildschirmhintergrund bei kde-look entdeckt, schauen wir uns das mal nher an |
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ICANN Can't (Dec 06 2003 00:54 GMT) - But the United Nations can? ... 15 comments so far |
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JPEG 2000 (Dec 06 2003 00:54 GMT) - As promised yesterday, here comes an comparison for traditional, Fourier transform based JPEG compression versus all new and exciting Wavelet transform based JPEG 2000 compression. I found it quite hard to come up with a decent comparison. To begin with, in this exciting age of digital cameras, I simply don't have high-quality photos. And photos taken in poor light conditions or with JPEG artifacts already in them may make bad material for a comparison. Thus I settled for a bit of a screen shot to do this as this was easy to achieve, it contains subtle details (X. |
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- CNN's congressional correspondent Jonathan Karl is moving from CNN to ABC, according to reports. |
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- Genome institute opens behavioral, social branch. The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) has formed the Social and Behavioral Research Branch (SBRB) to develop ways to translate discoveries from the Human Genome Project into methods of health promotion and disease prevention, and to counsel patients coping with genetic disorders. [InfoWorld: Top News] |
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- To: Monroe Stevenson OOPS! Sorry for butchering your name in that last post. |
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- Women's studies conference, Wizbang blog award polls are up |
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- List of patents frequently violated by websites, including most of the ones I've worked on |
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- Change that ccc to a 333 |
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How I Tawk (Dec 06 2003 00:53 GMT) - Harvard Dialect Survey results are in, new one's coming, everyone's doing the Geography Name Game in the mean-time |
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- Whether you're designing a new home theater, an observatory or security software, this issue has something for you. |
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- Here's your chance to review, comment on and help develop proposed legislation for international use. |
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- Well, ok, not quite that bad, but still! Jeez! I had no clue this was coming. "What?" you say... |
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- This two-part article introduces you to an important mobile Java technology: Java Card support for programming smart cards. |
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- One of CLDC's innovations is the Generic Connection Framework, a flexible approach to networking. This article explores the GCF in detail, describing both its place in the Java world and details about its use. |
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Radiwhoa (Dec 06 2003 00:52 GMT) - Dave Slusher just punched through with RIAA, Radio and Hurting your Customers. Great read. He nails it.He also turned me on to WBZB/1090, a little daytime AM station out of Selma, NC, Southeast of Raleigh, but with a signal on the Web as well. So I'm listening right now. |
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- Adds improved Java applet support for Safari and other web browsers; many other enhancements. |
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