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- The Texas Department of Transportation on Thursday unveiled a new anti-drunken driving campaign for the holiday season featuring Santa Claus and slogans based on Christmas carols. |
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- Exatamente, era uma mina aqui do trampo hahahahaha |
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- Ela já fez algumas coisas, né? Miki, dê o ar da graça aqui! |
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- Maurice, vc descobriu quem era a alma do seu BIP??? Era o pessoal do trampo? |
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- Acho que a Miki seria uma boa letrista. |
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- Just got back from the doc's, and we got some good news and ok news. On the good news front, all the really nasty stuff I was tested for was negative. ::whew:: On the OK news front, *everything* tested negative. |
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- Microsoft announced on Thursday that it is offering rebates to business customers who buy the new Office 2003 software package under its Software Assurance licensing program, a controversial plan that requires customers to pay in advance for periodic upgrades. Microsoft has promoted Software Assurance as way for businesses to manage expenses and ensure access to the latest technology, but many have balked at the plan. |
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- Over the past few months, as the shift in jobs to lower-cost countries like India has accelerated, there as been some concern in countries like the US. The Economist writes that offshoring "promises huge benefits to consumers everywhere." The main advantage of shifting business operations to India and similar low-cost countries comes from a combination of lower wages and the improvement in the quality and price of international telecommunications. A report by HSBC says that the cost of a one-minute telephone call from India to America and Britain has fallen by more than 80% since January 2001. With high-grade jobs, the saving on wages is not as high as with lower-grade ones. |
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- The text of Wednesday's Supreme Court decision, McConnell v. Federal Election Commission, upholding the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill (S.... |
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- eesh, i look so scaly! full hand shot. It's not |
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- Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates will address the RSA Conference 2004 in February. Gates will be a featured keynote speaker on the first day of the trade show in San Francisco. The show will focus on information security issues such as identity theft, hacking and computer network defenses, said Sandra Toms LaPedis, area vice president and general manager of RSA Conferences, which is part of RSA Security Inc. |
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- I was really struggling with what to get Merrin for Christmas. And then it hit me...jewelry! Every woman loves jewelry, right? So I got her a couple of bracelets. |
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- Whether your game is slots, blackjack, or video poker, the Burning Monkey Casino is open 24 hours a day. |
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- He characterizes the recent kerfuffle over replacing FDR on the dime with Reagan as "The Movement To Replace One Mass Murderer With Another". The title of his site is appropriate.... |
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- What is Reputation Management and how does it relate to web presence management? In life and in business, reputation is everything. So it goes on the web as well. Your web site is one of representations of your reputation. You are your web site. |
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- Here's my vote for the All Star Balloting 2004 |
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- Here's my vote for the All Star Balloting 2004 |
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- Recordings Show Nixon No Fan of Reagan (AP). AP - 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. [Yahoo! News - Politics] |
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- ~~~~~~~~~ GOLDEN ROADS Last night while we were asleep the air from the south reached with long warm fingers in among the cold mountains, bringing us a sunrise worthy of a very populous pantheon and covering all with a fine warm morning mist that |
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- Nintendo has today announced that Game Boy Advance shipments in Europe have exceeded 10 million units, three million of which were GBA SP consoles. The GBA SP currently sells for around 139 euros (US$170) in Europe, and is expected to be a big... (2 related) |
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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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- Best Celebrity Picture Ever: this one of professional widow Courtney Love. Heh.... |
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- http://news. bbc. co. uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3306443. |
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- zu später kinderstunde: die happy tree friends - hang in there, kids! [via saunabiber, ähem] |
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- The Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels, announced yesterday its show schedule for the 2004 show season. Following winter training, the team begins the season at Naval Air Facility El Centro, Calif., March 13, 2003, and concludes the season Nov. 13, 2003, at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Fla. The Blue Angels are scheduled to perform 69 shows at 35 locations throughout the United States and Canada during the 2004 season. |
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- Hundreds of Catholics in Vietnam have celebrated a Mass of thanksgiving, led by the newest cardinal appointed by the Vatican and approved by the communist government. The two-hour mass in Ho Chi Minh City was a hometown debut for Cardinal Jean-Baptiste Pham Minh Man. Reuters news agency reports he entered the French colonial-era Notre Dame cathedral wearing the red cap of his appointment, and was greeted with thunderous applause from a capacity crowd. Appointed by Pope John Paul in late September, Cardinal Man joins one other Vietnamese cardinal, Pham Dinh Tung, who lives in retirement in the capital, Hanoi. |
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- In 1973, Mr. Jernigan flew with a crew out of Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines with a special mission to accomplish--the removal of American prisoners from Hanoi. Though the war was basically over by 1973, Hanoi had been the capital of North Vietnam during the war. 'At that time, fighting was over. We had evacuated Saigon,' Mr. |
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- You’re Indiana Jones. Do you have what it takes to possess the mysterious “Heart of the Dragon? |
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- Sometimes being sick can make you appreciate everything you have... |
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Icarus (Dec 12 2003 01:36 GMT) |
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- Hooray! Nine new tour dates have been added to the Poodle Hat Tour. Not sure which ones are close to you? No problem! Just enter in your zipcode into the handy-dandy Yankovic ... |
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- here's an ebay deal I got for $50... |
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- I had a most interesting dream. I was shopping with Laura in JC Penneys and we were looking at the purses & stuff that have your initials on them. I found a ton of purses with my initial (something that doesnt happen in real life) but they were expensive. Anyhoo was looking at stuff and eventually dramaqueen088 and softballchic088 joined me. While we were venturing down the aisles, I spotted Stupid Jewish Kid & his mom so the rest of the dream was spent hiding from him and laughing. |
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- The Bluffer’s Guide to Fermat’s Last Theorem is brilliant! It’s not in the general bluffer’ |
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Katie John (Dec 12 2003 01:35 GMT) - The Thirty-nine Steps and Greenmantle. By the end of Greenmantle, I am ready to leap out of the trenches in a manly way, pale, biting my lip and refusing the love of an evil yet alluringly passionate woman, joining my manly brothers in a manly death in a hail of bullets while singing of the glories of eternal England. Also Maudie (more victorian porn). The Wind in the Willows. The Anatomy of Melancholy. |
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- After around 10pm I can't concentrate on any really thoughtful reading. Trash reading lately has been these vile and silly victorian porn books. I got a bunch of them for 50 cents each - all "wordsworth classic erotica". Teleny was really good and I would believe the rumour that it was written by Oscar Wilde. Two Flappers in Paris - ugh! |
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- The Thirty-nine Steps and Greenmantle. By the end of Greenmantle, I am ready to leap out of the trenches in a manly way, pale, biting my lip and refusing the love of an evil yet alluringly passionate woman, joining my manly brothers in a manly death in a hail of bullets while singing of the glories of eternal England. Also Maudie (more victorian porn). The Wind in the Willows. The Anatomy of Melancholy. |
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- I am also digging extremely the book In 1926 by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht. It is savory... a cool theory put into practice - i.e. why study any particular moment or time? |
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- After around 10pm I can't concentrate on any really thoughtful reading. Trash reading lately has been these vile and silly victorian porn books. I got a bunch of them for 50 cents each - all "wordsworth classic erotica". Teleny was really good and I would believe the rumour that it was written by Oscar Wilde. Two Flappers in Paris - ugh! |
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- Here's a new book that's making the rounds: Universal Principles of Design. Mike dropped by my office a couple days ago to show it to me, after having heard about it from Victor (who heard about it from Adam). |
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- Murder At Monticello, Rita Mae Brown and Sneaky Pie Brown |
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- check this out... the book's on amazon for pre-order..( here's the cover photo again: (front and back) |
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- A few years ago, I studied American Sign Language. I knew that one of my weaknesses was that I didn't have the nerve to just jump in and start talking to deaf people, and I knew that if I continued to study the language, that would be my biggest obstacle to fluency. In Camryn Manheim's book, she describes how she became a sign language interpreter. She had taken one semester of sign language, and found herself on the scene when a deaf man was injured. She ended up interpreting for the paremedics ... |
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