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- Dec. 10 - With warmer temperatures and rain in the forecast Rhode Island is bracing the possibility of serious flooding. Brian Crandall reports. |
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- Dec. 10 - Fire sweeps through a triple-decker in Fall River leaving several families homeless. |
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- Let's put together.... Let's put together a calendar for next spring in Iraq. Under the current plan, the US occupation authorities will hand over sovereignty to an Iraqi government on July 1st 2004. It seems reasonable to suspect that the month or two... [Talking Points Memo: |
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- More than 200,000 computers spent years looking for the largest known prime number. It turned up on Michigan State University graduate student Michael Shafer's off-the-shelf PC. "It was just a matter of time," Shafer said. |
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- According to folklore: During the 1952 presidential campaign, Adlai Stevenson was approached byan admirer. "Governor," she said, "every thinking person will be voting for you." "Madam, that is not enough," Stevenson replied. "I need a majority! |
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- An Apache helicopter that crash-landed near the northern city of Mosul might have been hit by ground fire while making a low pass over the area, U.S. soldiers said Thursday. A military spokesman insisted that Wednesday's incident was caused by mechanical failure and that the crew, who were uninjured, reported no ground fire. |
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- From the good folks at... wait for it... Rum and Monkey! |
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- If there was a Weblogger of the Year Award, I would give it to Jeff Jarvis. And I just might make up such and award and give it to him. For all he has done to help make blogs recognized... |
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- While the Supreme Court has ruled that the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform law is constitutional, the problems caused by money in politics will not end. Money always finds a way around the rules. But parties are in the process of... |
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- This is now the official new home of bechurch.blogspot.com. I just set up a redirect at the old set so I guess this is it. I'm officially moved! |
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- A'ight, I suck. I actually have been watching the games... |
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- [source, source] Noam Chomsky was asked in the Independent on the 4th of December Where is the “silent genocide” you... |
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- Yosvany Terry Quartet is at the Jazz Gallery this Friday and Saturday, 12/12 and 12/13. $15 cover. Featuring Yosvany Terry - saxophones / chekere, Jason Lindner - piano, Junior Terry - bass, Dafnis Prieto - drums, Ambrose Akimusire - trumpet, plus special guest Jonathan Finlayson. Event info |
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- Taiwan vows to press ahead with referendum Chen Shui-bian, Taiwan's president, on Wednesday defied both China and the US and reiterated plans to hold an "anti-war, anti-missile" referendum next March and draw up a new constitution. |
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- i was just curious if ne one happened to be selling a hard drive for a DELL LATITUDE CPX....my hard drive right now is 6gb...i would LOVE to have a bigger one....so if u happen to be selling one....plz let me know ASAP and we could work things out! |
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- Cindy L. Chick recently introduced LawLibTech, her blog focused on law library technology and knowledge management. Chick is co-founder, along with Sabrina Pacifici, of LLRX.com, although Chick is no longer affiliated with LLRX. |
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- The December 2003 issue of the http://www.linux-mag.com/ Linux Magazine has an interesting article on "The other open source OS" by Steven J Vaughan-Nichols. It gives ... |
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- I still love the BUSHNOCULARS! |
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- QUOTE (Lord Azazel @ Dec 10 2003, 11:29 PM) QUOTE (BUZZWORM @ Dec 11 2003, 04:27 AM) QUOTE (Lord Azazel @ Dec 10 2003, 11:25 PM) QUOTE (BUZZWORM @ Dec 11 2003, 04:22 AM) QUOTE (BitterSweet @ Dec 10 2003, 11: |
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- Court struggles on definition of gerrymandering The US Supreme Court struggled to decide yesterday whether and how US courts should intervene in the drawing of electoral districts to make sure the process is not too nakedly political. |
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- Jeremy Zawodny has posted predictions for 2004. I think the predictions about personalized search are interesting. I'm not sure what Jeremy is thinking about personalized search, but I have a few ideas of my own. What if I published... |
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- BusinessWeek looks at different aspects of the "broadcast flag" proposed by Federal Communications Commission in November. The flag would limit the way consumer's can record and view digital TV broadcasts.. |
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Low Planes (Dec 11 2003 03:30 GMT) - HOUSTON CHRONICLE: Low planes: Houston, we don't have a problem A pair of NASA aircraft prompted a flurry of calls to local law enforcement today as they flew low over the city at mid-day. The NASA Boeing 747 jumbo jet,... |
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- Users could be lulled into providing sensitive information through a browser vulnerability that allows fake URLs to obscure the real domain. |
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- Newly released White House tapes show President Nixon apparently didn't think much of fellow Californian Ronald Reagan, though he later offered advice to the nation's 40th president. |
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- QUOTE (BitterSweet @ Dec 10 2003, 11:23 PM) no shit.. i shoulda gone to college JUST COME CHAT WITH ME DAMN IT |
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- SF Weekly's Lessley Anderson does a very nice profile of Justin Raimondo and the gang over at Antiwar.com. Though Reason has occasionally been dinged in what Anderson describes as the "flamboyant" column Raimondo writes thrice weekly, it's good to see them getting some love from the media in San Francisco, and the following list of people pledging they've never/rarely read/heard of the site confirms my suspicion that reading Antiwar and masturbation are the two most frequently denied activities in America: Although writer and editor Tom Englehardt, who runs the popular political blog TomDispatch.com, says he reads Antiwar. |
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- QUOTE (BUZZWORM @ Dec 11 2003, 04:27 AM) QUOTE (Lord Azazel @ Dec 10 2003, 11:25 PM) QUOTE (BUZZWORM @ Dec 11 2003, 04:22 AM) QUOTE (BitterSweet @ Dec 10 2003, 11:17 PM) hahaha uh huh, i haev read every book in teh house, baked a pan of brownies tonight taken a shower wash and waxed my hair.... |
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- Well, mt-blacklist lasted a good month or so. I'm now getting hit by a clever guy who figured out that... |
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- FreeLinux writes "With not much SCO news today, it seemed that this story was needed - Reuters is reporting that, SCO is again suffering under a DDoS attack ... |
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- I'm writing a simple path balancing program for fibrechannel attached disks at the moment. It calls $SET_DEVICEW to perform the path switch. The strange thing is that it runs just fine on development and two of the production clusters, but on one cluster, I get a %SYSTEM-F-SSFAIL exception. |
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- Eibar 12, 13 y 14 de diciembre. Bilgune Feminista abordará en su próximo encuentro las futuras líneas de trabajo. Estos encuentros feministas de mujeres quieren ser un medio para todas las mujeres y para aquellos sectores que quieran luchar a favor de los derechos de las mujeres. Quieren ser un medio para las mujeres feministas porque tendremos la oportunidad de intercambiar nuestras ideas y nuestros proyectos. Serán un medio para aquellos que desean construir unas relaciones basadas en la equiparación y la justicia entre sexos, porque podremos debatir el modelo de construcción social necesario para que se le haga frente al sistema patriarcal desde las empresas, desde la calle, desde las instituciones o desde nuestras propias casas. |
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Quarashi (Dec 11 2003 03:27 GMT) - So, ever hear of these guys from Iceland? They ROCK. Go here and check out the video for Wierdo. I'm updating the "listen to" on the blog for their album that I just bought. Ok, so the album was out last year... |
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- Irish Report Says UK Forces May Be Linked to Bombs Protestant paramilitaries who killed 33 people in a day of bombings in the Irish Republic in 1974 may have had help from British security force members, a long-awaited report said on Wednesday. |
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- QUOTE (Lord Azazel @ Dec 10 2003, 11:25 PM) QUOTE (BUZZWORM @ Dec 11 2003, 04:22 AM) QUOTE (BitterSweet @ Dec 10 2003, 11:17 PM) hahaha uh huh, i haev read every book in teh house, baked a pan of brownies tonight taken a shower wash and waxed my hair.... nothing left to do but either go to bed or sit on line and its too early for bed so here i be THEN COME AND CHAT................ |
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