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- It is not just software that can be open source. Slashdot writes about an open source chip design. Well, it is still related to software, but it is a step further.Imagine for a moment the not-too-distant future when cheap nanotech matter compilers are available that can build stuff from basic atoms. It then becomes all-important to have easy access to good design blueprints for the stuff we need and want. |
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- Both the NY Times and the WashPost are gloating this morning over the Supreme Court's decision yesterday upholding the atrocious... |
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- It's that time of year again - herein are collected various posts on the holidays, including music, movies, gifts, TV,... |
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- Ronald Schills politischer Amoklauf |
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- Activated Wednesday, Rice saves the day ESPN.com Dec 11 2003... |
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- ...but the porn cannot be displayed. |
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- Dec. 11 - A 67-year-old Staten Island man has been arrested on charges that he killed his wife, who was found dead in the basement of the couple's home. |
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- Dec. 11 - A dog that was rescued from a garbage trailer about to be dumped into a pit at a Middlesex County landfill also survived a botched try at euthanizing her. |
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- French Report Backs Ban on Veil, Kippa, Cross The French have an odd concept of tolerance. It seems to be... |
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- Last week I wrote that this remake of the 70's turd Battlestar Galactica should have never been done. I believe my words were "once a turd is flushed, it should remain flushed." After watching both nights of the SciFi Channel's... |
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- Being the first in line at the Tokyo store was something of a coup for the pair. As an astonishing video shot by Masanori Fukumoto attests, interest in the new store was unprecedented, even for shopping-mad Tokyo-ites. The video shows the amazing number of people who waited patiently to get inside on opening day. The line, which Allen estimated to be 2,500 at its height, takes a full 10 minutes to traverse from beginning to end. It stretched for about 10 Tokyo city blocks, according to a map created by Allen. |
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- From our recipe database, Foodfinder, comes today's recipe: Goat's Cheese and Rocket Salad. Visit http://www. readersdigest. |
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- Troubled Co-op Dairygold is understood to have reached its target of 500 redundancies, without major compulsory layoffs. |
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- Al hilo de mi historia de ayer, me desubren una nueva bitácora matemática, en bitácora de matemáticas. |
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- One more thing: I just tried posting a previous image and it worked just fine, but when I tried the "Snowbush" image again, no luck. Any idea what's going on. And by the way, I did find the "events" folder, which says only one event since midnight (but I guess it should should be two). |
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- Estaba en el metro, leyendo y sin meterme con nadie, cuando un tipo barbudo, cuarentón y feúcho se me ha acercado y me ha dicho al oído: "Tú |
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- Poorer nations want their share of the information technology pie, and a three-day summit in Geneva is designed to point the way. But richer nations, conspicuous by their absence, don't appear to give a damn. [Wired News] |
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- The new home of the RSS Bandit project is on SourceForge. Various things precipitated this move with the most recent being the fact that a Passport account was needed to download RSS Bandit from GotDotNet. I'd like to thank Andy Oakley for all his help with GotDotNet Workspaces while RSS Bandit was hosted on there. The most current release of RSS Bandit is still v1. |
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- Gwen Stefani of No Doubt performs Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2003, during the Billboard Music Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.(AP Photo/Joe Cavaretta) (Click for Large Photo) [yrate: 3, +gwen +stefani +performs] |
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- Canadian singer Shania Twain, winner of the Country Artist of the Year award, poses backstage at the 2003 Billboard Music Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, December 10, 2003. REUTERS/Steve Marcus (Click for Large Photo) [yrate: 2, +singer +poses] |
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- Spoons has an excellent post on the ramifications of yesterday's decision, including a redacted version of the Bill of Rights.* He also links a large... |
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- U.S. bombs never hit Saddam Hussein's grandiose presidential palace in Baghdad, making its ample meeting rooms and vast conference tables an ideal headquarters for U.S.-led occupation authorities after the war. |
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- Bush's Advisers Focus on Dean as Likely Opponent Next Year - "President Bush's political advisers are now all but certain that Howard Dean will be the Democratic presidential nominee and they are planning a campaign that takes account of what they see as Dr. Dean's strengths and weaknesses, Republicans with ties... Posted by abursey at 09:41 AM |
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- PC Micro Store offers the Western Digital Caviar 120GB IDE 7200 rpm drive with 8MB cache in the Triumph Sapphire 3.5-inch FireWire/USB 2.0 enclosure...(more) |
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- PC Micro Store offers the Western Digital Caviar 120GB IDE 7200 rpm drive with 8MB cache in the Triumph Sapphire 3.5-inch FireWire/USB 2.0 enclosure...(more) |
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- Being the first in line at the Tokyo store was something of a coup for the pair. As an astonishing video shot by Masanori Fukumoto attests, interest in the new store was unprecedented, even for shopping-mad Tokyo-ites. The video shows the amazing number of people who waited patiently to get inside on opening day. The line, which Allen estimated to be 2,500 at its height, takes a full 10 minutes to traverse from beginning to end. It stretched for about 10 Tokyo city blocks, according to a map created by Allen. |
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- With the announcement of the completion of sequencing the chimp genome, the era of comparative genomic anthropology has arrived. American scientists have completed a draft of the chimpanzee genome, aligned it with the human genome sequence, and deposited the raw data into computer databases that can be accessed online by researchers worldwide. Next year the results of a side-by-side analysis of the two genomes are scheduled for release. "We're looking forward to talking more about the findings once we have the whole story," says researcher Kerstin Lindblad-Toh. "Today we just want people to know that the data are out there and that they're useful. |
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- From an NIH press release: Three new studies conducted in animals, published in the December issue of the journal Biological Psychiatry, provide evidence that misuse of the stimulant methylphenidate (Ritalin) may have long-term effects on the brain and behavior. While methylphenidate and other stimulant medications are the recommended treatments for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), based on the more than 150 controlled studies demonstrating their safety and efficacy when used as prescribed, these three studies showed changes in the brains of young (adolescent or pre-adolescent) animals that persisted into adulthood. In both animals and humans, the brain continues to develop throughout adolescence. If the current studies are applicable to humans, they could have important implications for young people who use stimulants for recreational purposes. |
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- Prime numbers are positive integers that can only be divided without a remainder by themselves and one. Far from being a useless mathematical curiosity, large prime numbers are the bedrock foundation of most current encryption methods used to protect financial transactions, government secrets and media files such as cable television pay-per-view programming. Many mathematicians also believe prime numbers are clues to some as-yet-undiscovered key insight into the very nature of physics and reality. Now a 26-year-year-old student has found the largest prime number yet, one that would take well over a thousand sheets of paper just to write out. From a Michigan State University press release: |
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- The Lebanese universities youth, engineers, physicians, lawyers, teachers and all society members are leading a peaceful revolution to implement th... - www.indymedia.org:8080 |
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- Lordy, I know people are going to start screaming about this article on Apple and ShopperTrak. Wow - Apple is... |
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- Can't wait to see them! I also have to look |
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- [QUOTE][url="http://www. diamondtalk. com/forums/showthread. php? |
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- I'm on the same boat as LittleMagpie, I also pm'd Wink |
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- They're here!. :) As promised, pictures coming up soon as a |
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- The rotunda of the American Fork Public Library is taking on the flavor of the holiday season and will be the site of several Christmas events next week... New Utah, December 11, 2003 |
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- "This reader will read (using digital voices) the electronic version of books...to you. The E-Text Reader can read any document in Standard Text, MS Word, RTF...and HTML formats. This E-Text Reader will help anyone who needs documents read to them. |
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- Referring to the judge by a fowl name: Back on September 26, 2002, I had a post reporting on a passage found in an opinion issued that day by Seventh Circuit Judge Richard A. Posner. For some reason, the headline to this article published today in The C |
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- Cet article de The Register se fait l'echo des recommandations relatives à l'utilisation de camera-phones au sein de l'entreprise émises récemment par le Meta Group. Jack Gold, consultant dans cette société y voit (évidemment) un véritable problème pour la sécurité des données des entreprises. Mais le problème viendrait aussi du moblogging, cette activité qui consiste à partir d'un téléphone-appareil photo à mettre en ligne des clichés directement sur des blogs spécialisés. Imaginez Camera-Café à l'échelle de toute une société! Voir aussi ces précédents posts: |
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