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- Behold the Left's sole post-9/11 victory: From this day forth, I will refer to George W. Bush as a Miserable Failure at least once a day. Why, you ask? Well, someone came up with this great idea to link George W. |
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- Brrrr! New Yorkers greet the first major snowstorm of the city with excitement – and caution. Ralph Penza reports. |
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- Let it snow? Brian Thompson measures up snow accumulations in northern New Jersey. |
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- Snow in Westchester County is causing major traffic headaches. John Noel reports from White Plains, N.Y. |
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- Snow-busting supplies are in high demand in Long Island, as residents prepare for a white weekend. Greg Cergol reports. |
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- I Find Your Love "I'll catch your smile on someone's faceYour whisper in the wind's embraceThrough diamond stars and songs and dreams I find your love in everything" Beth Nielsen Chapman |
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- Norway's Mayhem and Poland's Decapitated are the first two bands confirmed for the 2004 installment of the Inferno Metal Festival, set to take place April 8-10 at the Rockefeller and John Dee venues in Oslo, Norway. Limited three-day passes for th... |
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- Methinks someone with some tech savvy is screwing with the Wizbang Weblog Awards. Some blogs that I've never even heard of are running away with... |
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- Sharp explained general blight as the deterioration of the surrounding communities -- broken down cars, beer bottles littering the streets, drug paraphernalia litter -- "just making the town look dirty," he said. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(70%), $propaganda_theme2(50%), $propaganda_theme3(60%), $use_is_abuse(60%), $propaganda_theme4(60%), $propaganda_theme5(70%), $drugs(90%), $paraphernalia(100%), $various_drugs(90%)] |
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- The U.S Consumer Product Safety Commission Released It's List of Recalled Toys The Consumer Product Safety Commission Also Gave Tips For Buying Safe Toys United States Launches the Mother of All Recall Sites www.Recalls.gov The U.S Consumer Product Safety Commission has released it's list of recalled toys as well as tips for purchasing safe toys. |
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Damnation! (Dec 06 2003 02:17 GMT) - Right We Are is no more :( I'm going to pout now.... |
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- Is Dean's World eligible to join Bloggers With Boobies? See, it's not an entirely snarky question, since my wife is my co-blogger and I have... |
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- EnhancedImage provides advanced features to the classic <asp:Image> - Tag, such as creating on-the-fly images from memory without using User Controls or another aspx-file, specify the outputformat, protect your image against leeching or using the built-in Leech-system. |
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- "Ever since Bush was unable to unearth a single weapon of mass destruction in Iraq, he has shifted p... |
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- After three years of existence and two albums via France's Osmose Productions, Mexico's Ravager (formerly Domain) have officially split up. According to the label, the cause of the break-up is "musical and personal differences" between the bandmember... |
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- You would think that four or five big holiday movies would be opening every week, but this is probably the last week of relative calm before the storm. |
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- The US says the Middle East peace plan still has "primacy" at talks with the authors of an unofficial peace initiative. |
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- A panel set up by Kofi Annan meets this weekend to map out a new role for the United Nations in the 21st Century. |
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- Think you're a gifted wrapper? Watch the Today In New York gang take on last year's winner of the America's Gifted Wrapper contest! |
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OWikiFork (Dec 06 2003 02:15 GMT) - A fork of TWiki. Not really a fully FriendlyFork, but hopefully not an UnfriendlyFork. See http://www. thwackety. |
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- The 2003 Weblog Awards are now open for voting.... |
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- i got a jump on things this month: my monthly charitable contribution is in the mail to operation give. the organization actually started from the blog of a member of the army national guard who is stationed in iraq. the spokesman for operation give is gail halverson, better known as the “candybomber†for dropping candy to german children during the berlin airlift. |
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- People who suffer from the crippling condition may not have to have surgery or wear a cumbersome brace. It seems lasers are now being used to treat just about every kind of ailment. Now, carpal tunnel syndrome joins the list. |
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- Hello all. I'm pretty new to this website but not at all new to the tactics of the UFCW. A few months ago, I emailed Michael Moore, director of such films as 'Roger and Me' and 'Bowling for Columbine' requesting his help. I never had the pleasure of his getting back to me however, I do not take it personal as he is indeed a very busy man. I did email him again today regarding my frustrations with the union. |
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- For FAO Schwarz, who doesn't own the trademark rights to its name - it makes selling the company that much harder. (WSJ.com sub req'd)When FAO, which filed for bankruptcy-law protection Thursday for the second time this year, is desperately seeking a buye |
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- [D'oh. Didn't see the breaking news update from the Tribune. See the bottom of this item for the updated details.] |
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- The left-wing government of the Brazilian megacity Sao Paulo is offering its poorest communities an opportunity to evolve from just mobs to smart mobs. The government-sponsored 'telecenters' allow free use of Linux-based computers with broadband connection. Besides the free access to the computers, locals are also given basic training that includes practical courses featuring website creation GNU/Linux. The project allows every citizen to surf around the worldwide web, to have a personal e-mail address and to use top-notch information equipment for work, Internet search or simple leisure. I'd love to see a blog created by one of the telecenters users. |
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- This Slashdot article on Moore's Law has some interesting discussion about how synthetic diamonds may affect chips in the future.... |
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- After completing 31 dates with Six Feet Under, Skinless and As I Lay Dying in North America, Canada and Mexico, Polish black/death metallers Behemoth have taken a two-week break in L. A. to prepare themselves for the last three shows they will do on ... |
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Iraq's Debt (Dec 06 2003 02:13 GMT) - President Bush appointed James Baker as the point man in restructuring Iraq's debt. Why should Iraq even bother paying back... |
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- Chancellor Gordon Brown gives his strongest support yet to controversial plans for university funding. |
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- Environmental groups tell Chancellor Gordon Brown to increase air passenger duty in his pre-budget report. |
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- Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy site details a large number of hoaxes, misconceptions, and bad science in movies, news, and on TV. Some people don't believe that the Apollo landings happened, some odd people believe that there are plumes of smoke arising from the moon, and some people believed that the Galileo spacecraft would ignite Jupiter into a nuclear holocaust.... |
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- Werden Datenträger für Kopien verwendet, für die der Urheber seine ausdrückliche Einwilligung erteilt hat, besteht der Rechtsanspruch auf Rückerstattung der beim Kauf eingehobenen Urheberrechtsabgabe. Darauf hat der österreichische Verein zur Förderung freier Software (FFS) http://www.ffs.or. |
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- Egypt: The stylised fish, long a symbol of Christianity amongst Egypt's Coptic minority, has started a local war of bumper stickers in Cairo. The Copts imported their tacky fish stickers from the United States, while some of the wags in the Muslim community counteracted by selling shark stickers. If you're after the car emblems, which are the metal car badges rather than the dodgy holographic stickers, Evolve Fish sell a wide range, including the legendary Darwin Fish. Christian Fish, Muslims Shark Swimming Through Cairo Traffic in War of Stickers - SFGate. |
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- Interesante reflexión la de Scott Rosenberg en Salon, de la que pasteo varias frases : RSS delivers a long-promised Internet dream -- getting you the information you want from the people you want without hassle or bother. What if someone... |
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- Portland, Oregon's Agalloch will be main support on The Gathering's upcoming North American tour, which is tentatively scheduled to kick off on February 12, 2004. Among the cities the band are tentatively planning on hitting during the trek are New Y... |
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- Eh... my PC cannot handle the size of the photo I'm working on, so it's on hold until I get a new harddrive and general snazziness thrown into my PC... But I have started a doll for her... Come fly... |
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- Brazilian Diamonds arranges $3.5 million dollar placement. Excerpt:Brazilian Diamonds has arranged the placement of 6,000,000 new shares totaling approximately US$3.5 million following the recent decision to list its shares on... |
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- Finland's Impaled Nazarene will film a promotional video for the track "Armageddon Death Squad" beginning on December 11. "Armageddon Death Squad" (mp3 clip) comes off the group's eighth album, "All That You Fear", which was released in November thro... |
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