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- Goodbye Girl Todd Wallack: "After more than seven years of captivating a widespread Internet audience, JenniCam is finally going off-line." |
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- [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] - Canadian Press via Canada.com Dec 12 2003 2:18AM ET... |
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- reuters France should ban Muslim veils, Jewish skullcaps and large Christian crosses from its public schools, but also create new holidays to respect holy days of its minority religions, an official report said on Thursday. The long-awaited report on church-state relations, the center-piece of a national debate over integrating Muslims into French society, advised Paris to stand firm against militant Islamists trying to undermine official secularism. At the same time, it urged traditionally Catholic France to respect "all spiritual options" in a society becoming ever more diverse through immigration. |
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- Yahoo An irate Filipino housewife sliced off her husband's penis while he slept after she discovered text messages from another woman on his mobile phone. A local radio station reported the woman rushed her husband to hospital in Manila Thursday when large amounts of blood flowed from his wound, but that she forgot to bring the severed piece of flesh. ... |
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- Popular, Racy Restaurant Chain Makes It’s Way to Lubbock It had to happen eventually: Hooters is coming to the home of the Cult of the Dead Cow: The Old Gateway Country store on the South Loop may be the future location of Hooters restaurant. For the past two years Lubbock has lobbied to have one of its own and next year this popular hang out will open its doors here in Lubbock. When pressed for comment cDc Foreign Minister Oxblood Ruffin testily replied: |
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- internet.com On the heels of an announcement from Microsoft (Quote, Chart) that it won't be issuing December security patches under the new monthly release cycle, a security researcher has gone public with a new Internet Explorer vulnerability that could be used by 'phishers' to perpetuate on line fraud. The latest IE flaw carries a 'moderately critical' rating and is the second major vulnerability in the world's most popular Web browser that remains unpatched. Late last month, Chinese researcher Liu Die Yu warned of five serious IE vulnerabilities that could be exploited to take over a vulnerable system. |
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- sf Spammers, beware - organised criminals are positioning themselves to take a slice of your business. Virus writing - once the sole province of hooligans - has edged itself into the arena of organised crime with viruses like Sobig-F that are capable of setting up a spam-sending proxy network. According to Eugene Kaspersky, head of anti-virus research at Kaspersky Labs, criminal interest in spamming is growing with the advent of forthcoming laws that make spamming illegal. "If you hava a profitable, illegal business sooner or later you will pay taxes to the Mafia," said Kaspersky. "We're seeing a joining of the virus, hacker and spam scenes under the aegis of organised crime. |
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- fpmag Almost 20,000 men and women - twice the number reported by al-Jazeera - marched across central Baghdad, while others repeated the move in different cities of Mesopotamia yesterday. The demonstrators, from all walks of life and from all religions and ethnicities of Iraq, shouted one slogan in Arabic: "La' la' lil irhab. Na'am, na'am lil dimucratiya." That is: |
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- A denial-of-service attack has rendered SCO's Web site inaccessible for the third time this year For the third time this year, unknown attackers have deluged the SCO Group's Web site with enough data to make it inaccessible. The company, known for its claim of ownership of critical pieces of code in the Linux operating system, said the attack started on Wednesday at 3:20 a.m. (PST) |
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- DECAPITATED IS OFF: SKINLESS IS ON. FUCK YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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- Design Within Reach is holding an interesting compition. They are giving out $1000 gift cerfitcates to the two “best designed miniature chairs”: built solely from champagne cork hardware. Sounds like fun. |
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- The clarity of this realization has set me free. Not long ago, I too scoffed at Nelly, and I scoffed at the St. Lunatics. Even after Snoodmonger bequeathed upon me a bag of Rapsnacks over the summer, I was still only "pretending" to like Nelly with smirking hip-hop head irony.... |
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Um.... (Dec 12 2003 08:23 GMT) - And why is her nose dripping? |
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- Tim Rutten of the LA Times has big problems with the new ombudsman at the New York Times. Rutten's objections put public editor Daniel Okrent on the couch. "Narcissism" |
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- ask metafilter is just kicking ass all over... |
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- Läkarundersökningen är gjord, summan förhandlad och kontraktet påskrivet. Nu är Kim Källström klar för franska Rennes. |
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- Denna gång handlar det om slagsmål, Jarome Iginla och Markus Näslund. Vissa frågor kan vara något kortade eller omskrivna. |
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- Torontos bortamatch mot Minnesota under natten till fredagen blev en målsnål tillställning i ishockeyns NHL. I mitten av första perioden kom matchens enda mål efter skott från Tom Fitzgerald. |
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- thanks in advance for repolling the repaired feed 39754: http://www.syndic8.com |
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- This was the view 100' from my house the night the fire was the closest. Luckily, the wind was fairly calm that night as there was a very real threat that the fire could sweep through homes here if the winds became violent. |
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- Skirt-twirling - the way a skirt will rotate around your waist to right or left as you walk - is one of those annoyances I had never thought to discuss with anyone. Grumpygirl has though. She not only did an... |
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- (Posted 12 Dec 2003 by solrac) |
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- ISEDB Dec 12 2003 2:44AM ET... |
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- Canadian Press via Canada.com Dec 12 2003 2:18AM ET... |
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- A new study says that yelling at your children -- even if you're trying to protect them -- is "psychological aggression."
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- Yes, Virginia, there is a sweatshop in China! |
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- Bush has accused Dean of "shooting from the hip" -- a phrase that aptly describes what the Pentagon did today. |
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- "Cold War Strategies on the Highway," or "Outspent Into Oblivion" -- a diatribe in six panels. |
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- Just months after Zeferino Colunga Sr. lost his GI son in Iraq, the government arrested him and sent him back to Mexico.
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- Free trade may help struggling economies -- but the trucks and planes needed to move goods around the world will flood the atmosphere with carbon dioxide. |
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The Fix (Dec 12 2003 08:21 GMT) - The cheerleader marries the fireman, Robbie Williams takes off his clothes (again), and Liza has a brand new gig. Plus: Viggo speaks out on leadership. |
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- Every year I remember my first erotic encounter with a Christmas Tree Boy.
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Shafted (Dec 12 2003 08:21 GMT) - J. Steven Griles, the No. 2 man in Bush's Interior Department, has spent a lifetime undermining the federal government on behalf of Energy Inc. |
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- We are platonic friends, but I get jealous when he tells me about his girlfriends and happy when he breaks up with them. |
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- America held hostage, Day 5: The college football championship crisis. The readers write. |
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- It's time for a malpractice complaint against "ER." Plus: Trista and Ryan's big pink fiasco. |
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- I can feel a redesign of this blog coming on. What do you guys think of the MiniBlog? It is good to have the links seperated or should everything be mixed together? I was also thinking that if I did mix short and long posts together I could take advantage of MoveableType's "more..." link like Andrew does quite often. |
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- I feel old: I've taken a nap after work twice this week. And by "nap", I mean "collapse on the couch after not really remembering driving home." Getting more sleep is a Pri 1 scenario. |
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