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- In the State of Washington, a young man is forcing the authorities to contrast the rights of privacy with advanced technology. He used his cell phone to take pictures under the skirt of a woman shopping in a grocery store. The woman didn't know what was happening and only by being told by a bystander did she learn of it. |
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- BBC NEWS | Health | Climate change 'will harm health' etc. etc. This is the bloody WHO who should know better, but let me remind you: Today malaria is a tropical disease, but until the 1920s it was endemic all... |
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- The blog Sadly, No has a great post today about what is referred to as The "Besides That" syndrome in which "a writer, while pretending to offer criticism of a loved person or pointing out something negative, claims that besides... |
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- I'm now the proud owner of Apples Mpeg2 playback component for Quicktime. I purchased this hoping that I would be able to convert some DVD formated mpeg2 files that I captured on my Windows box into a format that I could use in iMovie to edit, the finally in iDVD to burn. Well I guess i should have done some more research because this works great for video, but not for audio, which is turning into a common problem for me. I'm sure I'll get some other uses out of it. I just need to read up on some of the de-muxing audio, then rejoining so I can edit it. |
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- UZBEKISTAN: Death row prisoners denied clergy access (Forum18) Uzbekistan is denying clergy access to death row prisoners, Tamara Chikunova, head of the Uzbek NGO Mothers Against the Death Penalty and Torture, has told Forum 18 News Service. This denial violates two articles of the Uzbek Criminal Code, which specifically allow those sentenced to death the right to meet a member of the clergy. Fr Nikolai Rybchinsky, of the Central Asian diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church, told Forum 18 that in the case of two death row prisoners "so far at least, Orthodox priests have not been allowed access to these prisoners. |
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- With the latest batch of polls showing Howard Dean ahead nationally, as well as in Texas, Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania, George W. Bush has been informed by his staff of newspaper-readers that he may face off in 2004 against the... |
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- Vanns.com offers the Meade DS-60 Telescope for $69.88. With free shipping, it's the lowest total price we've seen by $40 and among the least...(more) |
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- Bei naked-i.com/flash/winter kann man seinen eigenen Schneemann basteln oder einfach nur die kreativen Leistungen anderer bewundern. Gefunden (mal wieder) beim WannabeGirl. |
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- Reports of my cellphone's death seem to have been premature. A day near a radiator dried it out nicely, and it seems to work now. Too bad I already filed a replacement claim for it with the cellphone people. |
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- 'Tis the Season offers suggestions for Christmas presents that cost hardly anything at all . There are some great ideas ... |
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- Now I wanna see y'all on your baddest behavior Give me some sugar; I am your neighbor. For everyone feeling Outkast, "The Love Below/Speakerboxxx" is their fifth album, not counting their best-of CD. The older stuff is worth checking out, especially ATLiens. |
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- This article is interesting if only for the fact that it is an article about marching band shoes (yes, that's right, shoes, not shows) that happened to appear in the New York Times of all places.... |
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- My computer at home pretty much died the other day. Or at least the Windows installation did. It boots up... |
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- My computer at home pretty much died the other day. Or at least the Windows installation did. It boots up... |
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- This morning I'm revelling in the style, quality, and overall coolness of OS X. The whole experience, especially on Panther. Exposé is way better than any of us imagined it would be. iTunes 4.1 (especially with the music store) can be relaxing, or exciting, or depressing, or whatever you want. |
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- Hibernate 2.1, the open source persistence framework, has been released. Hibernate 2.1 features support for native SQL queries, full Criteria query API (with support for associations), integration of OSCache, SwarmCache, JBoss TreeCache, as well as Easy Hibernate Cache (EHCache), and more "cool" |
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- What would you like to see at JavaOne San Francisco 2004? The JavaOne program committee is currently working on selecting sessions and BOFs and would like to know what types of sessions will attract you to attend next year. |
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- The Woods Hole Oceanographic... Institution (WHOI) has announced a new type of... underwater... robot they're calling the Hybrid Remotely Overated Vehicle (HROV). In... |
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- Dell Outlet offers $100 off its factory-refurbished Inspiron notebooks via the link in this post. A best bet: the Inspiron 8500 Pentium 4/2.2GHz...(more) |
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- Well, Matt Drudge thinks these photos are revealing.... |
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- Responding to this post from yesterday, Christopher Smith sends, via e-mail, a link to this article from Tuesday's Guardian:The government should not approve an EU constitution drawn up by a self-selected European elite, Labour's representative on the convention that drew... |
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- MONGOLIA: NO CHANGES TO RELIGION LAW - FOR NOW (Forum18) At present there are no official plans to change Mongolia's 1993 religion law, Forum 18 News Service has been told. Some of its existing restrictive provisions are apparently unenforced, such as the article prohibiting religious activities organised outside Mongolia "to introduce foreign religions within Mongolia." Reportedly Buddhist-backed proposals, however, have included a ban on all unregistered religious activity and authority given to local councils to determine the percentage of minority religious organisations in relation to Buddhist organisations. Concerns have been expressed about Christian activity in Mongolia, partially due to suggestions from some Buddhists that "Christians teach that if someone commits suicide they receive eternal life. |
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- Karl Harrison, Oxford University reports in a Virtual Talk on the Cheminformatics Hub on the drug research they have carried out using a Grid computing approach on a massive scale. This Oxford University/UD.com Project has covered three areas: anti-cancer drug... |
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- I'm a firm believer in the fact that being too skinny looks painful and unattractive. If I can see the outline of your liver, you're too fucking thin: eat a cookie. And now there's documented truth in the form of Renee Zellweger. As a scrawny girl she looks like a walking skeleton. |
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- Please click here for Picturephoning and Ringtonia. |
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- Mies loukkaantui Pyhäjärvellä torstaina iltapäivä |
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- Grad student finds largest prime number on his Dell PC:A prime number is a positive number divisible only by itself and one: 2, 3, 5, 7 and so on. Mersenne primes are a special category, expressed as 2 to the p power minus 1, where p also is a prime number. In the case of [Michael] Shafer's discovery, it was 2 to the 20,996,011th power minus 1. |
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- Company hints at new 'bolt-on' purchases ... 1 comments so far |
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- What a coincidence: David Pogue and Walt Mossberg both have columns about Windows Mobile smartphones today. Mossberg (who rather seems... |
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- The Moonies The Rock And Roll EP (Tri-tone Recordings) This is the cheery, bouncey end of punk. Reminiscent of The... |
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- Looksmart, the troubled search engine that lost its major account weeks ago when Microsoft dropped out as a distributor, will cut about half of its staff. It will also close its U.K. offices and renegotiate its leases over the next four months. DM News reports. |
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- I am a peasant. I am only a peasant. I know this. But, damn, it’s irritating to see things I’ |
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- I am a peasant. I am only a peasant. I know this. But, damn, it’s irritating to see things I’ |
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Ceramic Art (Dec 11 2003 14:54 GMT) - "My approach to making ceramic art has been profoundly shaped by over fifteen years of experience living and traveling throughout the polar regions - "(Kent Swanson: Works inspired by polar terrains) "There is a greater understanding of the Korean aesthetic. The beauty of 'naturalness', those characteristics unique to clay as a material and the clays essence as part of nature; and the beauty of aliveliness' that passes from the potters to the viewer. Using these qualities of clay without exaggeration or over-extension. |
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- A U.S. congressional committee plans to visit Syria to press President Bashar al-Assad to cooperate more in the war on terrorism at a time when Was... - www.indymedia. |
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- A Texan man with ties to white supremacists has pleaded guilty to possessing chemical weapons in one of the most serious cases of domestic terroris... - www.indymedia.org:8080 |
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