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- As many books as your CD can hold, 609 books, to be exact, are available for downloading and burning onto CD through Project Gutenberg's "Best Of CD" project. And if you have a DVD burner, the numbers are even more amazing. Today, at the Berkeley Public Library, they were giving away DVD's with the text of thousands of books on them. |
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- I think Waco Jesus13 and I'll have to see the Phoenix show together and get shit signed by the band. That'd be killer as FUCK! |
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- Team manager Shivlal Yadav said the off-spinner will play no further part in the tour of Australia after electing to have surgery on his injured finger. |
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- 'Alliances -- mutually advantageous or not -- will have to wait until the day the Congress rediscovers the vote in its internal workings and eschews dynasties.' |
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- Federal regulators accused Heartland Advisors Inc. of fraud Thursday, alleging that the Milwaukee mutual fund firm intentionally mispriced two troubled funds, and that Heartland executives used inside information to dump shares in those funds before they slashed their value. |
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- Washington - The rise of Democrat Howard Dean has spawned two different reactions from Republicans eager to re-elect George W. Bush. |
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- With less than a year until the 2004 election, slightly more than half of Wisconsin residents in a new poll give President Bush a favorable rating, but relatively few - about one in eight - have been paying significant attention to the candidates. |
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- Mandella School of Science and Math, a rapidly growing voucher school that has received more than $1 million in public money during the last year, appears to be in serious financial trouble, state officials and teachers at the school said Thursday. |
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- Milwaukee - On a day meant to celebrate the expansion of their successful Walker's Point restaurant, operators of Cielito Lindo scrubbed blood from the floors of their new tavern Thursday. |
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- The federal government has purchased a small supply of flu vaccine from manufacturer Aventis Pasteur that should start arriving in states over the weekend, health officials said Thursday. |
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- Menomonee Falls - Though others disagree, Village President Jefferson Davis said Thursday that he sees no need to alert the public when he meets socially with trustees and appointees, as they did Monday night for an invitation-only holiday party with talk of taxes and budgets. |
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- The Pettit National Ice Center has developed a business plan that will enable it to break even in 2004 and cover its $74,400 monthly lease payments to State Fair Park, its chairman told park board members this week. |
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- A 41-year-old Sheboygan County man was charged Thursday with second-degree reckless homicide while armed in the deer season shooting death of a friend, a 33-year-old West Bend man. |
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- Madison - Tax collections in the first four months of this fiscal year left state officials pleased by sharply higher corporate taxes receipts and solid sales tax payments, but worried about slower growth in the personal income tax. |
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- New Berlin - Two cases of whooping cough at a preschool have Waukesha County health officials warning parents to watch for the disease. |
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- Green Bay - Cornerback Al Harris has upheld his end of the bargain in his first season with the Green Bay Packers but he isn't about to seek recompense from them for his outdated but still valid contract stemming from his years with the Philadelphia Eagles. |
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- On the same Saturday that two of last year's NCAA tournament teams from Wisconsin play each other, the third one starts a home-and-home matchup at Arizona. If you'd predicted something like that at a cocktail party five years ago, you would have been standing alone by the end of the night. College basketball in our neighborhood has suddenly become star quality entertainment, and about the only way left to improve the show would be for everybody to play everybody else. |
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- St. Francis - Reserve center Joel Przybilla lives by two words as he languishes on the end of the Milwaukee Bucks' bench this season: |
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- At least Milwaukee Brewers general manager Doug Melvin has a sense of humor about the financial limitations he faces in trying to field a competitive team in 2004. |
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- It's not a midlife crisis kind of thing. That would have been a plausible explanation 20 years ago, but it's a little late now. |
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- Racine Horlick senior Homero Marquez didn't think it would end like this. |
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- Soldiers in Iraq 'did not have WMD protection' British forces went into battle in the Iraq war without protective equipment against weapons of mass destruction -- the very "threat" used by Tony Blair to justify joining the American-led invasion. |
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- Slashdot Dec 12 2003 0:49AM ET... |
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- Slashdot Dec 12 2003 0:49AM ET... |
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- exn.ca Dec 12 2003 0:47AM ET... |
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- exn.ca Dec 12 2003 0:47AM ET... |
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- AP via Florida Times-Union Dec 12 2003 0:32AM ET... |
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- I4U Dec 12 2003 0:14AM ET... |
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- Business Day South Africa Dec 12 2003 0:27AM ET... |
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- Mainichi Interactive Dec 12 2003 0:21AM ET... |
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- BBC Dec 12 2003 0:29AM ET... |
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- As has been mentioned on several sites now, this is another reason you should stop using Internet Explorer and switching to something better, like Mozilla Firebird. Test Exploit As you can see, you've just been redirected back here, but your URL will now point to Paypal instead. Can you say, easy scamming? On mozilla, it'll show up as http://www. |
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- The Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is stepping down. This news was greeted with sarcastic glee in some quarters.... |
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Flower (Dec 12 2003 06:26 GMT) |
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- Taken on the outskirts of the Dickens on the Strand celebration in Galveston, Texas. |
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>4 (Dec 12 2003 06:26 GMT) - Algonquin, Ontario, Canada |
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- Penguin Push is maddening. The first few levels are easy, but once you get up there a bit, just as you're figuring out how to solve the puzzle, you run out of time. Every single blessed time. Plus, it seems to have crashed my browser (Mac/Moz/1.5) a few times.... |
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- Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full-Text Documents Economics--United States Source: GPO New, GPO Now Offering Search/Browse Access to Economic Indicators Available from April 1995 forward, this monthly compilation is prepared for the Joint Econ |
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- Lynne Kiesling has a great post -- with more to come -- on water privatization and goes so far as to call it "one of the most inefficiently and abominably allocated resources that we have, which is appalling given its... |
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- Can’t find the perfect gift for someone special this holiday? Give them the gift of software freedom: Download the free GNU Knoppix and burn some yuletide cheer! ! |
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- Busted - lying through their teeth or clever public manipulation? Sometimes, the things you hear just don't seem to add up. But is this all bad? It certainly seems to have worked for British pop group Busted as we explain in this article. |
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- ZENFO have been busy recording for a January release (end of Jan). However! The boys will be making their first trip to Glasgow on the 15th December. Droppin' Manchester Rap @ 13th Note Cafe. |
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- Thurs 11th Dec: Paisley University (+ B*Movie Heroes) http://www. sneakattacktigers. com |
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- The chymes next album is ready to drop and is scheduled for release in January of 2004. As their previous output 'Analogue Resonance Parts I & II' the new album shall be released on the chymes own monophonic inprint. The new record entitled 'Written In Squares' shall consist of 8 new tracks plus a few hidden extras which the band hope will give the record a bit of depth allowing the listener to hear something new on each repeat play. The release will initially be a super limited numbered run of 100 copies with each copy having an individually hand painted sleeve - no 2 copies will be the same. The tracklisting shall be as follows ; |
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- Do you want to be in a music video? Diadem are shooting a video on Wednesday 17th December and the final shoot of the day is at the Soundhaus (on Hydepark Street, Glasgow) where a mock gig will be held to get the live parts of the video covered. After which, Diadem will play a free (real) gig to everyone who comes along to the shoot. Entry is by ticket only, but tickets are totally free and the Soundhaus will be running a bar. The video is being shot for the band's track, « |
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- I didn't even know Prince had released a new album, and now I know not to bother with it: "There was a time when Prince's every eccentric move was extensively documented, from his name changes to label battles that culminated in him scrawling the word "SLAVE" on his face to document the harrowing plight of internationally beloved multimillionaire pop superstars. Now, he's been reduced to a puzzling obscurity, as he self-releases a string of increasingly indulgent vanity projects to a tiny circle of loyalists. (Today, it's easier to find any of The String Cheese Incident's dozens of live albums than it is to track down a new studio album by Prince.) Remember when The Artist's "emancipation" from his record label meant fans would finally have the chance to crack open his mythical vault ... |
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