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- Retailing: Shoppers Ring Up $8.5B in November 2003 : Shoppers got busy during November 2003 by spending 55 percent more online than they did in the same period last year. Among the most popular items consumers spent their $8. |
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- The HlV/AIDS Pandemic is considered as one of the most serious problemsconfronting man today world wide, having continued to pose problems not onlyto medicine and humanity, but devastating socio-cultural and economicavtivities. |
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- "A decision by authorities in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, to remove a life-size model of the country's nuclear-capable ballistic missile, Ghauri, from display in Islamabad has stirred bitter controversy in political circles. Officials say the move is part of a beautification plan for the capital, and is not linked to a planned visit by the Indian prime minister and other south Asian leaders for a summit meeting early next month." |
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- A new industry group has proposed a new way to share digital content across multiple networks and services (peer-to-peer, music... |
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- As iTunes records 20 million downloads, Steve Jobs sits down with Rolling Stone magazine to discuss Apple's quest to change... |
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- With this simple, yet addictive game. From an effects persepective, I like the lighting/shadowing effect.... |
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- Tag to help restore Saturn V To raise funds for the restoration of the Saturn V rocket at Huntsville's Space... |
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PSA (Dec 11 2003 20:37 GMT) - If you're printing a black and white document, please don't use the farqing color printer. There's a huge black and... |
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- How the hell does it take three years for Illinois to pick a poet laureate?... |
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- Despite reports to the contrary, Dennis Kucinich is actually getting more air time.... |
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- LookSmart today announced that it has added three new partners to its bid-for-placement distribution network. SearchFeed, myGeek and ABCSearch will join existing sites such as CNET, Road Runner, InfoSpace, LookSmart.com, Cox Internet, Mamma.com and Alltel. Condesa, my company, has a... |
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Peter R. (Dec 11 2003 20:35 GMT) - Peter R. moet getuigen.... |
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- The case against Capt. James J. Yee, the former Muslim chaplain at Guantanamo Bay, seems to be dissolving before the government's eyes. Originally accused of espionage, he was held in the brig for 76 days, after which he was charged only with mishandling classified material, plus some minor offenses having nothing to do with security, including adultery and keeping pornography on his government computer. Now it turns out the classified material he supposedly mishandled may not have been classified after all. |
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- Lynda Barry writes some of the most poignant stories I've ever read in her comic strip "Ernie Pook". In this one which had appeared in 1991 (bulls win!), Maybonne, the big sister of Marlys (in pigtails) finds out that her beloved Uncle John is gay. Maybonne's grandma is upset about the revelation... In this next one, Marlys lays down her queer manifesto: |
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- If there's one thing I really hate doing, and the hatred of doing it has only grown worse over the years, it's answering phones. I hate answering phones at work, I hate answering phones at home... and I'm not really all that inclined to answer phones for PBS, either. But I do it anyway. Last night's Doctor Who marathon at the "other" PBS station was very nice. |
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- If there's one thing I really hate doing, and the hatred of doing it has only grown worse over the years, it's answering phones. I hate answering phones at work, I hate answering phones at home... and I'm not really all that inclined to answer phones for PBS, either. But I do it anyway. Last night's Doctor Who marathon at the "other" PBS station was very nice. |
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Space (Dec 11 2003 20:34 GMT) - Nun ist es beileibe nicht so, dass ich wunschlos glücklich bin. Wünsche für 500 Euro? |
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31 Songs (Dec 11 2003 20:34 GMT) - At the moment, I'm listening to a gorgeous pop dirge for wasted teenage summers, 'Ghostworld' by Aimee Mann. This reminded me of Nick Hornby's (author of such entertaining British books as Fever Pitch and High Fidelity) enjoyable little book on 31 of his favourite pop songs, inventively titled 31 Songs. Hornby, also the pop music columnist for The New Yorker, writes wonderfully about pop music. As anybody who read High Fidelity knows, he shamelessly loves the stuff. |
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- Purchased at the office used book sale:Jitterbug Perfume - Tom RobbinsHard Boiled Wonderland at the End of the World - Huraki MurakamiCocaine Nights - J.G. BallardChoke - Chuck PalahniukBilly - Pamela StephensonJames Herriot: The Life of a Country Vet - Graham Lord (which I picked up for K, who is a big 'All Creatures Great and Small' fan. |
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Billy (Dec 11 2003 20:34 GMT) - Purchased at the office used book sale:Jitterbug Perfume - Tom RobbinsHard Boiled Wonderland at the End of the World - Huraki MurakamiCocaine Nights - J.G. BallardChoke - Chuck PalahniukBilly - Pamela StephensonJames Herriot: The Life of a Country Vet - Graham Lord (which I picked up for K, who is a big 'All Creatures Great and Small' fan. |
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- Nearing completion of his cabinet, Gov. Schwarzenegger has appointed San Bernardino County Supervisor Fred Aguiar as his secretary for State and Consumer Services. Aguiar, a former assemblyman, was a lieutenant to Jim Brulte when Brulte was Republican leader in the... |
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- that is totally right....BUT....it depends on whether the bride has OCD...like |
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- Enterprise users have embraced GNU/Linux. But the very aspects that make Linux desirable, its low cost, Open Source nature, and the way it gives customers more control over their software, are under attack by Linux vendors bent on increasing shareholder value. Businesses are paying more as Linux distributions demand a per-seat cost and service lock-in for software that they didn't develop and that others support. Many of the early adopters of Linux are small but profitable industries with extremely sophisticated needs, and commercial Linux distributors simply can't afford to pay much attention to them while larger markets are waiting. |
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- Bush in london Video 3.20 (article 1) - www.indymedia.org:8080 |
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- Feature of the last referendum - www.indymedia.org:8080 |
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- De Gelderse politiek en Omroep Gelderland komen met elkaar in aanvaring over een Gelderse smartlappenzender. Een werkgroep uit Provinciale... |
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- Bad Product">When Good Design => Bad Product: This is a pretty humorous examination of of massive usability and quality control problems in Dish Network receivers. It must be a nightmare for a Public Relations department to have a world-reknowned... |
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- Trying to sneak in a case that uses their tough anti-spam laws before a weak national spam (note: not anti-spam) bill becomes law, Virginia is ready to indict some spammers. Since certain spamming activities can be considered a felony under the Virginia law, which means that they can seize assets and potentially throw the spammers in jail for up to five years. Not many details are coming through, but I'm sure there will be plenty of press coverage once they announce the indictments. Update: |
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- Costa Tequise, Espanja: |
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