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- The leaders of the nationalist Rodina bloc, which gained a surprise 10 percent of State Duma seats, said Tuesday they would push for a state program of "social responsibility" and a redistribution of the wealth currently concentrated in the hands of big business. |
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- Abu-Supyan Gatsayev's change in careers, from Chechen school teacher to senior lieutenant on Chechnya's embattled police force, is as dramatic as the changes Chechnya has seen in recent years. |
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- A day after waking up to life outside the State Duma, Yabloko leader Grigory Yavlinsky was adamant Tuesday that he would preserve his party and its ideals, however "difficult and unusual" that might be. |
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- U.S. Embassy officials started taking fingerprints of Russians hoping to visit the United States on Tuesday, in a security measure that might exacerbate an already tense issue in U.S.-Russian relations and raises the specter of a tit-for-tat response. |
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- Two groups of observers said the State Duma elections were prone to numerous violations at separate news conferences Tuesday. |
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- A woman who posed as a lawyer to help immigrants from Russia and Eastern Europe obtain permanent resident status in the United States has pleaded guilty to two felony charges of defrauding clients, a prosecutor said Tuesday. |
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- Georgia accused Russia on Tuesday of meddling in its internal affairs in the run-up to next month's early presidential elections, protesting a decision that allows people from an independent-minded region to travel to Russia without visas. |
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- Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore threw his support to Howard Dean for the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday, adding momentum and political prestige to the antiwar candidate's front-running campaign. |
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- A suicide bomber blew up a car packed with explosives at the gates of a military barracks early Tuesday, wounding 41 U.S. troops. |
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- French anti-terrorist police arrested a man described as the top military commander of the armed Basque separatist group ETA on Tuesday, dealing a massive blow to western Europe's most active guerrilla force. |
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- Japan's Cabinet approved a plan Tuesday to dispatch troops to Iraq, a landmark decision setting the stage for what is likely to be the nation's biggest and most dangerous overseas military mission since World War II. |
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- Four South Koreans swam through icy waters and huddled for hours in a hut before being rescued after their boat capsized in an incident near their Antarctic base in which a fellow researcher died, officials said Tuesday. |
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LoewyDesign (Dec 09 2003 23:17 GMT) - Une agence élevée au design, la stratégie et la technolgie [USA]. Trois tê |
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- That Outkast track is growing on me, it has to be said. But Song Of The Moment is still very definitely Gary Jules' version of Mad World. |
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- Microsoft announces no security bulletins for December. "In response to extensive customer feedback, Microsoft is implementing changes in the way security bulletins are released. These changes will help enhance the manageability and predictability of the patch management process for customers. Security bulletins will normally be released on the second calendar Tuesday of every month. However, the first monthly bulletins will be released on Wednesday, October 15, 2003. |
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- Venant de m'acheter des mini CD 8cm, dans le but d'avoir un Linux sur CD qui tienne dans la poche, je me suis mis en recherche d'une distribution ... Je pensais trouver essentiellement des distributions orientées rescue (comme la Tomsrtbt) ou spécialisées dans un domaine (comme la sécurité réseau avec la Trinux), et j'ai été très content de découvrir qu'une Slackware était carrément disponible ! Et ce n'est pas simplement une adaptation de la ZipSlack, qui tient sur les 100 Mo d'une disquette Zip : c'est une distribution à part entière, un peu dans le style de la Knoppix, qui remplit bien les 185 Mo du mini-CD. Une Slack qui tient dans la poche, et voilà un dino heureux : |
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- Jonathon Delacour schreibt einen interessanten Eintrag über Information Overload (via Lilia Efimova). Er führt aus, wie das Schreiben eines Weblogs die Überlastung noch verstärken kann: [...] Having a weblog turns... |
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- Le goût est l'ennemi de la créativité [Pablo Picasso]. Sur ce site vous ne trouverez que des fonds é |
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- The beauty of RSS is that it's not instant Paolo Valdemarin: Paolo's Weblog: "I like RSS because it's slow. In his this morning's rant on RSS, Dave mentions polling frequency for aggregators and the usual pull vs. |
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Gigs (Dec 09 2003 23:15 GMT) - Had an AWESOME gig with my band Glance last night at the Annandale. I have to say it was the most fun gig I can remember having! It was waaaay loud on stage (which is not necessarily a good thing), but the energy level was just wicked and I had an absolute blast. Big shout out to y'all that came down. Can't wait for our gig on Friday at the Pavilion at Bondi! |
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- Very interesting site. I have an 8032 which looks just like the 4032 and nothing like this machine. This is wild. I have run Vic-20 and C64 software on it. It will not read the sounds but it will run basic programs. |
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- Lots happening tonight, so much that we need bullet points: Governor Dean will Vice President Gore in Iowa today (photo: R. Witt) You've raised $160,884 for the bat dedicated to Al Gore, the latest to join the ranks of Dean... |
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Puntoos (Dec 09 2003 23:15 GMT) - Agence basée à Valence [Espagne], une interface toute en douceur : transitions et présentation des ré |
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- Once upon a time, on Suns (and X-terminals) in a land far, far away, the “Control†key was underneath the... |
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- Automatic teller machines at two banks running Microsoft's popular Windows software were infected by a computer virus in August, the maker of the machines said on Monday. The ATM infections, first reported by SecurityFocus.com, are believed to be the first of a computer virus wiggling directly onto cash machines. (Meryl) |
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- The Ultimate Memory Guide |
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