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- "Arise, Sir Mick Jagger!" Did Prince Charles really use that formula today when he elevated the Rolling Stones' lead singer... |
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- At first glance, this stunt sounded rather funny: Germany's self-confessed cannibal killer Armin Meiwes has been sent a vegetarian cookbook and a Christmas hamper full of veggie burgers and tofu. Animals rights group Peta (People |
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- Komend weekend hopen de regeringsleiders van de EU-landen een besluit te nemen over een Europese grondwet. Een veel gehoorde kritiek op de Europese besluitvorming is het gebrek aan informatie richting de burger. Via nieuwsbrieven doen de EU-nieuwsuitgaven Euractiv en EUobserver hun best daar iets aan te veranderen. De uitgaven verzamelen het Europese nieuws en versturen dagelijks een e-mailnieuwsbrief. Feitenknuffelaars en letterspellers kunnen hun lol op bij 'Uw Europarl'. |
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- More nice stuff for 1.67 now on Pendragon: |
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- marti hearst: what is text mining? / queue txm |
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- lumpenlist Not being aware of any anarchist mailing list in Ireland concerned with Prisoners, Prisons and related areas, Dublin Anarchist Prisoner Support has decided to try and create some sort of place where information of this type can be exchanged. It has thus created the lumpenlist@anarchistps.org. We see no reason to keep this disscusion limited to Political or Pow's and would encourage posting & debate about all categories of Prisoners and Prisons. To subscribe to the list send an e-mail with the text ' subscribe lumpenlist ' to majordomo@anarchistps. |
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- »Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger has been knighted by Prince Charles - and played the honour down by saying he did not take it "too seriously". -- Wearing a black suit and leather jacket, he said: "You should wear [honours] lightly and not get carried away with your own self-importance."« [mehr bei BBC]. |
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- My friend Art Iger featured this water-resistant cordless phone from Uniden in his technology newsletter earlier this week. The phone handset floats and meets the JIS7 waterproof specification. This is a good phone choice for people who use the phone... |
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- MacZealots.com has now launched and is offering articles, tutorials, and reviews for everyone from users new to the Mac platform, up to enterprise IT managers looking for a thorough analysis of a potential solution... |
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- MacSoft today announced that Halo for Macintosh began shipping to retailers yesterday (December 11th) and is already available at some North American retailers... |
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- Okay I can tell I'm going to watch this about 100,000 times. |
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- "'In the past, we reported these attacks to the FBI. This time, we're working with the Secret Service,' said Jeff Carlon, SCO's worldwide information technology infrastructure director..."... |
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- Do these 30 companies really matter to you? |
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- Eight new stocks move into the Nasdaq 100. Eight old stocks move out. |
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- The Feature Dec 12 2003 8:38AM ET... |
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- BBC Dec 12 2003 8:39AM ET... |
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- Reuters Dec 12 2003 8:46AM ET... |
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- Reuters Dec 12 2003 8:46AM ET... |
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- Reuters Dec 12 2003 8:22AM ET... |
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- AP via ABCNEWS.com Dec 12 2003 8:42AM ET... |
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- I feel like crap. I have a head cold. I am in a bitchy mood. That is important to know. Later when I really start... |
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- Yay! All clean!!! Lotsa sludge... but all clean. Sure it cost me $140, but well, it had to be done.... |
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- Received a box from Marco Foellmer today. He is one of the authors of an upcoming Redbook on IBM Lotus Workplace. While he was staying with Lotus in Cambridge he got me this iTrip. So today was the big day to try it out. My first impression was that... |
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- (US) In August, Baylor President Robert Sloan said the committee had found evidence that two players' tuition for 2002-03 was paid and that staffers did not report some players' failed drug tests. [$drug_related(50%), $drugwar_propaganda(50%), $propaganda_theme2(50%), $propaganda_theme3(50%), $illegal_drugs(50%), $drugs(90%), $various_drugs(90%), $various_illegal_drugs(50%)] |
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- (US) Dennis and Raganyi were friends and had visited Maust in his second-floor apartment. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(70%), $propaganda_theme2(50%), $propaganda_theme5(70%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(95%), $cannabis(100%), $alcohol(100%), $various_drugs(95%)] |
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- Europsky Pakt stability a rastu nie je napriek vynimkam - hriesnikov Nemecka a Francuzska, ktore stale prekracuju povolenu 3-% hranicu na deficit rozpoctu, mrtvy |
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- About a dozen states, including Delaware, are exploring ways to buy cheap prescription drugs from Canada and make them widely available to Americans, even though importing the drugs is illegal. |
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- A fire chief credits a group of strangers for working together to pull an unconscious man out of a burning car following a head-on crash in Derry Township. |
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- Authorities say a Camden man stabbed his ex-girlfriend to death 55 times with a potato peeler. |
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- Two Philadelphia area men are being held in the Northumberland County jail, accused of stealing a funeral car that was left running in front of a Sunbury funeral home last summer. |
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- Federal authorities say Philadelphia police wrongly are barring a female officer from wearing a Muslim head scarf. |
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- An 11-year-old Woodbridge boy pleaded guilty Thursday to murder and kidnapping in the death of a 3-year-old last March. |
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- A Steinway piano reported missing from the Barnes Foundation has apparently turned up in the living room of an Ardmore couple who say they bought the 1916 instrument from the foundation a few years ago. |
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- Philadelphia police want you to take a good look at these surveillance images. |
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- (Beaver Falls) -- Police officers and firefighters are scouring the Big Beaver area this morning, looking for a 76-year-old man who walked away from a personal care home. |
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- New Jersey is a step closer to banning hand-held cell phones in cars and other vehicles. |
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- One month into a nurses strike, the Medical College of Pennsylvania has announced it is laying off about 200 workers. |
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- (Williamsport-AP) -- City police say ten Williamsport Area High School girls face criminal charges following a melee Wednesday at the school. |
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- Six companies have presented proposals for a contract to study the 25-mile stretch of the Delaware river in lower Bucks County with an eye toward redeveloping the waterfront. |
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- Officials at the Bucks County prison say they will try to figure out a way to allow Christmas Day visits for inmates rather than go through with plans to cancel all visits on the holiday. |
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- A group of Cubans failed to convince a jury they were taking a "freedom flight" with the crew's cooperation when they hijacked a passenger plane to Florida in March. |
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Run and gun (Dec 12 2003 14:32 GMT) - A stunningly detailed account of the push into Baghdad. Nine hundred and seventy-five men invading a city of 5 million... |
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- After reading this article about security on the Mac being no better than Windows, I can't help but note this recent vulnerability that allows a site visited in Internet Explorer to make a link appear to go to a trusted domain while actually transferring you anywhere it wants even in the status bar. I tried this out at work and it works quite well. Luckily, the fixes are easy and more satisfying.And Dave doesn't get the vulnerability at all. (Here's the original text for when he changes it to make him appear less thick: |
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- John Scoleri wrote in that he received his Code 3 Diecast X-Wing and display case yesterday. First report we've had. |
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- An British film producer has been fined more than £4,000 after being caught trying to smuggle 217 animals out of Australia. |
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