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New Mersenne prime found (Dec 11 2003 18:46 GMT) - I love stories about big prime numbers. More than 200,000 computers spent years looking for the largest known prime number.... |
L.A. Observed
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Bob Hope's airport (Dec 11 2003 18:45 GMT) - Bob Hope never lived in Burbank, Glendale or Pasadena -- the cities that own Burbank Airport -- but they have renamed the airport for him anyway. The Times story says the family received the honor with "dead silence..." You have... |
PalmInfocenter
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Hit the High Tech Links (Dec 11 2003 18:45 GMT) - IntelliGolf v7.0 golf scoring software for Palm Powered handhelds has been released today. Version 7.0 includes support for the satellite-based Global Positioning System (GPS), Bluetooth, WAAS/SBAS, more golf statistics, new putting screens, and more. |
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire
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Beyond Red and Blue (Dec 11 2003 18:43 GMT) - "Since more than 40 percent of voters in the blue states backed Bush and more than 40 percent of voters in the red states backed Gore, doesn't the red vs. blue model seem, well, a bit black-and-white?" Commonwealth asks. To fix the problem, the magazine made a new map that... |
dcthornton.com
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The 411 on Dean (Dec 11 2003 18:43 GMT) - In light of Howard Dean's recent anointing as The Chosen One, Frank J's crack team of researchers dig up some... |
dcthornton.com
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The 411 on Dean (Dec 11 2003 18:43 GMT) - In light of Howard Dean's recent anointing as The Chosen One, Frank J's crack team of researchers dig up some... |
Simply American
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Eurofighter vs Ferrari (Dec 11 2003 18:42 GMT) - Schumacher and his Ferrari were no match for the Eurofighter, Europe's new fighter plane. The Eurofighter's top speed when airborne can reach almost 1400mph. Note that this is slightly faster than the American JSF, which will be designed for a top speed of 1360mph. Not that 40mph will make a lot of difference in a stealth vs. no stealth combat. |
Eightlinks
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In the Capital of the Car, Nature Stakes a Claim (Dec 11 2003 18:42 GMT) - In the Capital of the Car, Nature Stakes a Claim - "Paul Weertz lives less than 10 minutes from downtown, but the view from his window is anything but urban. On a warm day this fall, the air was ripe with the smell of fresh-cut hay and manure. In the alley... Posted by abursey at 12:42 PM |
politX
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Sullivan: another rant (Dec 11 2003 18:42 GMT) - I've tried not to say anything, really I have, but I just can't keep my mouth shut about Andrew Sullivan's... |
SHITHAPPENS
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The Saudi Connection (Dec 11 2003 18:42 GMT) - How billions in oil money spawned a global terror network. The CIA's Illicit Transactions Group isn't listed in any phone book. There are no entries for it on any news database or Internet site. The ITG is one of those tidy little Washington secrets, a group of unsung heroes whose job is to keep track of smugglers, terrorists, and money launderers. In late 1998, officials from the White House's National Security Council called on the ITG to help them answer a couple of questions: |
Diary Of A Madman
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well I?ll be damned... (Dec 11 2003 18:42 GMT) - IE connected to ASP which hosts a WebClass which uses business objects in a COM+ .DLL that rely on a remote COM+ storage manager to pull data from SQL Server 2K.It?s damn fast, too. |
AnalogousMember
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SQL Identity (Dec 11 2003 18:41 GMT) - I was looking for a way to INSERT INTO a table in a Microsoft SQL Server 2000 database that has... |
WJRT Front Page headlines
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High speed chase ends in crash (Dec 11 2003 18:41 GMT) - A police chase in Genesee County leads to the injury of one man and the closing of a portion of I-75. A 20-minute chase through Mt. Morris and Vienna Townships ended with a rollover crash early this morning. |
WJRT Front Page headlines
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Police make arrest in arson (Dec 11 2003 18:41 GMT) - In Owosso today, authorities will announce an arrest in an arson case that left the State Police Post there destroyed. The arrest comes a year and a half after that fire destroyed the state police post and other, nearby businesses. |
Gizmodo
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64-bit PC from eMachines (Dec 11 2003 18:40 GMT) - Emachines, which surprised us early this year by becoming one of the first PC manufacturers to come out with a widescreen laptop, stuns us once... |
Peter Van Dijck's Guide to Ease
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Through the Eyes of Children: ... (Dec 11 2003 18:40 GMT) - Through the Eyes of Children: "Through the Eyes of Children began as a photographic workshop in 2000, conceived by photographer, David Jiranek, and inspired by the founder of the Imbabazi Orphanage, Rosamond Carr - an American woman living in Rwanda for over 50 years. Using disposable cameras, the children originally took pictures for themselves and to share with others, exploring their community, and finding beauty as the country struggles to rebuild. " |
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