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- Jupiter Research today announced that it forecasts U.S... |
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- The Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) is an open specification that addresses wireless network characteristics by adapting several data-handling approaches already in use by Web protocols, and introducing new ones, where appropriate, to the spe... |
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- Justice Minister Michael McDowell has said today he does not agree with calls for gang-related court cases to be tried before the non-jury Special Criminal Court. |
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- Der "Buena Vista Social Club" hat ein weiteres Mitglied verloren. Pianist Ruben Gonzales ist im Alter von 84 Jahren gestorben. |
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- Fan-generated Peter Jackson Hobbit trailer. This is a bloody good fan-generated trailer for a notional Peter Jackson film adaptation of The Hobbit, cleverly remixing found footage and footage from the LOTR discs to make a kind of "draft Jackson" piece that shows how good this movie could be.Link(via Kottke) [Boing Boing Blog] |
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- Output of ICT (information and communications technology) by Chinese companies will triple by 2010, taking it past Japan and the U.S. to become the world's leading ICT producer, the Xinhua news agency reported Monday, quoting the official People's Daily newspaper. |
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- Kiistassa Euroopan unionin turvatakuista ratkaisuksi odotetaan kompromissia, jonka kaikki maat voisivat hyväksyä. Turvalausekkeessa aiotaan viitata joko valtioiden omaan perustuslakiin tai tiettyjen maiden turvallisuus- ja puolustuspolitiikan erityisluonteeseen. |
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- Hiljaiseloa syksyn viettänyt entinen pääministeri Anneli Jää |
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- Did another Steady run last night - I think most of my weekday runs will be until I get to the stage were I can run a few miles without feeling like I'm going to collapse! Exe.Time = 21:07.45 HRmax... |
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- Interesting threadSome Lotus Notes bashing on slashdothttp://slashdot. org/articles/03/12/09/1455215. shtml?tid=126tid=95 |
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- Caen el Nº 1 y los responsables del área militar y logÃstica de la organización. |
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- Dr. Charles Scott is strictly rationing his remaining doses of the influenza vaccine. He said he has no choice. |
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- Mobile user undoes traffic ticket before the tow truck arrives!. Here's a terrific Smart Mobs story (albeit with a "mob" of two): Driver gets pulled over for expired tags, and while the officer is writing out the ticket phones a friend who renews his vehicle registration over the Web. The transaction is complete and the ticket invalidated before the tow truck arrives! Thanks to Cory and Boingboing! |
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- c|net is reporting that Apple has sold over 20 million songs from its iTunes Music Store since the service was launched in April 2003. Peter Lowe, director of marketing, also said that 45 percent of music purchases have been full albums rather than individual songs. In addition, Russ Cripnick vice president of NPD Group, released research that shows iTMS customers purchase more music than the average offline consumer. |
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- Britain became a more racist place last year after almost two decades of decline, according to a detailed study. |
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- [QUOTE][url="http://www. diamondtalk. com/forums/showthread. php? |
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- Quality and Price Wise! |
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test... (Dec 09 2003 12:36 GMT) - test... |
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Snow (Dec 09 2003 12:36 GMT) - It started snowing heavily here this morning. I think we might already have an inch or so on the ground—we're supposed to get a few. I posted a picture of snow-covered pine trees close to where I live.... |
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- I'm hoping to enter the Hastings Weekend Chess Congress at the first weekend after the New Year. I have never previously been to the entry point to the UK of Perry de Havilland's marauding ancestors. They were among the (so far) most successful gang of 11th century "asylum seekers". In order of Anglosphere fame I suppose Hastings ranks as: The place where the Norman Conquest happened. |
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Tasty links (Dec 09 2003 12:36 GMT) - Down on the right is my del.icio.us linkblog. Its a bookmark replacement, and a place to find great links, as you can see other people's links and categories too. |
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- The town councillor who said homosexuality is no different from paedophilia and bestiality has resigned from the Liberal Democrats, but has refused to apologise. |
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- Despite being seen as one of the more progressive Asian countries with regards to gay rights, a leading Taiwan politician has told the country that AIDS is a "punishment on homosexuals". |
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- The controversy surrounding the appointment of Gene Robinson shows no signs of abating this week, with Irish Evangelicals protesting a bishop's supporting stance and pleas for more acceptance. |
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- A gay Bangladeshi couple that were refused refugee status in Australia have set an international legal precedent by receiving the right to appeal the decision, according to their lawyer. |
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- A coalition of African-American GLBT leaders announced on Monday a major new mobilisation to fight the Federal Marriage Amendment. |
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- Robbie Williams has told reporters he is willing to do anything to prove he is not gay, after rumours regarding his sexuality continue to surface. |
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- The US Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) reported on Monday that the grades and college aspirations of GLBT students are directly linked to whether they are harassed in school. |
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- At root the global environmental crisis is a result of over-population and excessive wasteful consumption by the rich. BBC NEWS... |
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- [via boingboing] following this crack and that crack comes the save disney site.... |
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15 (Dec 09 2003 12:35 GMT) - I got up this morning to a large red envelope... |
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- Yahoo! develop email authentication software, called 'Domain Keys'. |
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- The CSS layouts are based on an excellent 3 column CSS layout designed by Douglas Livingstone. The generator will create a CSS layout that has fixed width left and/or right columns with a dynamic width center column, all the same height with header and... |
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- From: CMU Shine, the TV production company founded by Elisabeth Murdoch, has announced it has produced a new programme about... |
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- And while I'm in this ranty mood... will the idiots who keep going around making sure all the books by... |
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- And while I'm in this ranty mood... will the idiots who keep going around making sure all the books by... |
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- Non-profit group plans web services certification program - Web Services Journal |
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