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- This hour's show is called Songwriter Spotlight (Singer-Songwriters). The main Whole Wheat Radio site is at: http://www. wholewheatradio. |
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- As the ranks of senior citizens grow, so does the need for help for the spouses and children taking care of them. That need is being met in part by elder care, the senior equivalent of day care for babies and young children. |
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- Actor and activist Shabana Azmi says her political views prevents her from being only an actor in search of strong roles. |
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- Karl*: Yeah, so my big brother had one of those vans, a 1974 Chevy Van with the big block engine, slicks on the back, carpet in the interior, the whole thing.nickjb: Did he have Humble Pie’s Rockin’ the Fillmore on 8-track? All of those guys did. |
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- The cornucopia of weirdness that is the Turner Prize never disappoints. This year's winner, a Harley riding, transvestite, pornographic, pedophilic,... |
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- Robert Baller is an American everyman. The earnest 40-year-old software engineer works out of his stucco-style home in suburban Sacramento, Calif. He has a wife, a 13-year-old daughter and an 80-pound Labrador. But inside his three-bay garage is nearly a hundred grand worth of heavy metal: a Honda Civic, a Toyota minivan and a racy Nissan 350Z. |
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- {This is not your grandmother's swing chair} http://www. eero-aarnio. com/index. cfm/page/23/title/Bubble_Chair htm |
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- NEW YORK (Reuters) - Forget puttin' on the Ritz. Try puttin' on the Mandarin Oriental. New York's new Mandarin Oriental 250-room hotel offers a suite with a $12,595 nightly pricetag, beating out the Ritz-Carlton by almost $100 as the costliest overnight lodging in the Big Apple. http://www. |
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- The city is full of people we can't reach. We pass them on sidewalks, sit across from them in the subway and in restaurants; we glimpse their lighted windows from our own lighted windows late at night. That's in New York. In most of America, people float alongside one another on freeways as they drive between the city and the places where they live. |
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- Hello, my name is Mike and I have a dream! My dream is to own the new Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren. I dream of this car every night! To get it I need your help, your money and your donations! Please donate as little or as much as you can. |
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- AUSTIN - After an onslaught of complaints, direct sales computer king Dell Inc. has stopped routing corporate customers to a technical support call center in Bangalore, India. http://www. miami. |
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- The two chief planners of September 11th have confessed, and the records of their interrogations can now be used to paint a precise picture of the events leading up to the terrorist attack. Their statements also reveal how Osama Bin Laden personally selected the suicide pilots from Hamburg. http://www. spiegel. |
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- If you were wondering why the words obesity and epidemic are increasingly paired together, wonder no more. Along with ingesting greater amounts of fattening food, Americans are increasingly choosing sedentary leisure activities over physically active pursuits such as swimming, gardening and fishing. http://www. alwayson-network. |
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GI Joke (Dec 09 2003 07:57 GMT) - Now with KungFu Grip!... |
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- Welcome to the world Ms. Carolyn Maxwell Meyer. I'm yer Auntie Molly, as Eric and Kat became your parents today. Carolyn, you can't possibly yet know how much loved and wanted you are, but one day you will. Read all... |
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- Keep your pink dollhouse -- my daughter's a muthafuckin *rockstar* |
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- The House of Too Many Lights |
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- It seems like there are new award shows popping up all over the place. Well in the last few days... |
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- Michael Wolff finds a moment of clarity in his column about political reversals: We--the people who cover politics, and the people... |
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- "You will never hear those words pass my lips again." The words in question: Howard Dean said he wanted to be... |
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- What was John Kerry thinking? From an interview in Rolling Stone: Did you feel you were blindsided by Dean's success? Well,... |
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- Ben Fritz is shocked to find political spin on the internet, but his current column does demonstrate a fact of life... |
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- I am pissed. That wasn't just my privacy that you violated, you incompetent fuckwit, but that of someone else who wasn't me. So I'm pissed on their behalf as well.Groveling apologies may be made, but may not be listened to until I calm down, which could take a year to forever. |
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- Slashdot Dec 9 2003 2:07AM ET... |
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- Slashdot | RSA-576 Factored. An anonymous reader writes "I thought Slashdot would have picked this up several days ago, but apparently not. Although you still won't see any mention of it on the RSA challenge site, Mathworld is carrying the news that a team at the German Bundesamt fur Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik submitted a factorization of RSA-576 on December 3. RSA-576 is the smallest challenge number that RSA Security offers a cash prize for, to the tune of $10,000" |
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- Slashdot | Biometrics: Prepare to be Scanned. npistentis writes "From an npistentis writes "From anarticle in the Economist: It has been a long time coming. But after years of false starts, security systems based on biometrics--human characteristics such as faces, hand shapes and fingerprints--are finally taking off. |
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- Economist.com | BIOMETRICS - Prepare to be scanned. Biometrics: High-tech security systems that rely on detailed measurements of the human body, known as biometrics, are taking off. But should they be? |
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- Slashdot | Yahoo! Develops Anti-Spam Architecture. prostoalex writes "Yahoo!, the owner of one of the largest e-mail systems in the world, is said to be developing a cryptographic product that will be offered freely to mail servers. 'Domain Keys,' according to the Reuters article, would require the message sender to authenticate in order for message to come across a trusted e-mail network. |
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- Reuters via iWon Money & Investing - Yahoo proposes new Internet anti-spam structure . Internet services company Yahoo Inc. (YHOO) on Friday said it is working on technology to combat e-mail spam by changing the way the Internet works to require authentication of a message's sender. Yahoo said its "Domain Keys" software, which it hopes to launch in 2004, will be made available freely to the developers of the Web's major open-source e-mail software and systems. |
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- Slashdot | Interviewing with the NSA. George Maschke writes "'Interviewing With an Intelligence Agency (or, A Funny thing Happened on the Way to Fort Meade)' is a humorous and entertaining account of one man's recent experience seeking employment with the National Security Agency (NSA). But this story, newly posted to the Federation of American Scientists website, is also one with a serious message. Written under the pseudonym 'Ralph J. Perro,' it includes discussion of the job interview, psychological testing, polygraph, and background investigation. |
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- "KShowmail has the potential to be a very powerful and useful tool for POP3 e-mail management. You can use it locally to weed SPAM from a remote POP3 (Post Office Protocol v. 3) server account..."... |
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- Boston Globe Dec 9 2003 1:53AM ET... |
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- Telecoms.com Dec 9 2003 2:12AM ET... |
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- New York Times Dec 9 2003 1:53AM ET... |
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- Washington Post Dec 9 2003 2:18AM ET... |
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- Jamaica Observer Dec 9 2003 2:08AM ET... |
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- Situação: entrega do holerite valendo uma cesta de natal para os funcionários da empresa. "Esse é o famoso Ho-Ho-Ho-lerite" - Cláudio |
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