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Pittsfield shoe manufacturer gives thousands to employees (Dec 13 2003 19:59 GMT) - PITTSFIELD - Instead of an end-of-the-year Christmas turkey bonus, Lawrence Wyman opened up a letter from his employer Friday afternoon and found a $19,000 check.Standing beside him was his wife, Charlene Wyman...She also got $19,000. Called together a |
Meerkat: An Open Wire Service
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Phoenix School to Install Face Scanners (Dec 13 2003 19:58 GMT) - Slashdot | Phoenix School to Install Face Scanners. I'm Spartacus! writes "CNN reports that a Phoenix middle school is intstalling face recognition scanners to help locate missing children and identify sex offenders. Civil Libertarians are justifiably concerned." |
Meerkat: An Open Wire Service
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School face scanner to search for sex offenders (Dec 13 2003 19:58 GMT) - CNN.com - School face scanner to search for sex offenders. Civil rights groups raise concerns PHOENIX, Arizona (AP) -- Face-scanning technology designed to recognize registered sex offenders and missing children has been installed in a Phoenix school in a pilot project that some law enforcement and education officials hope to expand. Two cameras, which are expected to be operational next week, will scan faces of people who enter the office at Royal Palm Middle School. They are linked to state a... |
linkfilter.net
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16-Bit Metropolis (Dec 13 2003 19:58 GMT) - Create your own urban empire in the glory of 256 colors. I remembered this from a while back and I found it again recently. It was fun then and still is now. |
R. Robot: The first self-writing weblog
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And the Chris award goes to... (Dec 13 2003 19:58 GMT) - When bizarrely ultra-crepidarian people resort to that most sneeringly puerile refrain of "no blood for oil," are they insinuating that oil isn't worth dying for? Oh? Isn't it clear by now we deposed a psychopath who has thwarted weapons inspectors?... |
R. Robot: The first self-writing weblog
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The apologists revisited (Dec 13 2003 19:57 GMT) - In the mind of Chris McNeil, it's always George Bush's fault. Last week Chris McNeil went so far as to leave the mainstream completely and enter a kind of mollycoddling alternate universe of internecine spin. The partisan anti-Americanism of the... |
Veer: The Skinny
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The Skinny: The Particles of Star Trek (Dec 13 2003 19:56 GMT) - For those of you who can't tell your dilithium crystals from an antichroniton, may I offer The Particles of Star Trek. It the one-stop shop for all your speculative physics needs. An oldie but goodie pried from the dusty crevices of my personal bookmark f |
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But no! Ten! Commandments!! (Dec 13 2003 19:56 GMT) - Judge rules Islamic education OK in California classrooms: "Requiring seventh-grade students to pretend they're Muslims, wear Islamic garb, memorize verses from the Quran, pray to Allah and even to play 'jihad games' in California public schools has been legally upheld by a federal judge..."[It isn't clear what they mean by "jihad games", but yelling "God is great" is exactly what Islamist terrorists have been known to do. Was there a mass continental lobotomy procedure that I managed to miss?] |
Daily J
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Tidbits: 'NYT' does Smoking Gun (Dec 13 2003 19:54 GMT) - Always past-due with what's hip, The New York Times profiles The Smoking Gun in Sunday's paper, revealing such intricacies of the site like FOIA requests and watching Fox News.... |
brendoman-dot-com
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We are all Nerds Now (Dec 13 2003 19:54 GMT) - Check out this article about Geekdom's rise to the mainstream. LOTR, Harry Potter, Ain't It Cool News, Kevin Smith, and Quentin Tarantino are all mentioned. "These are a few of my favorite things....."... |
Halley's Comment
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Three Pair of Pants (Dec 13 2003 19:52 GMT) - Three Pair of PantsNote to self: ask parents of girls if they are as messy as boys and as messy to be NEAR as boys. It's not even 3:00pm yet and my 8-year-old has now caused enough catastrophic mess near me that I've changed into a third pair of pants since this morning -- rather typical Saturday -- and I wonder why I feel like I spend a lot of time doing laundry. One pair of black corduroy jeans at the bottom of washer covered with yellow mustard. |
NOTBBC - The Sports Forum
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Ah! Peter Willey (Dec 13 2003 19:51 GMT) - Last post by Mr Shadrak on 19:25 13/Dec/03 - I had been wondering for ages why Peter Willey wasn't on the ICC's list of elite umpires, when mugs like A-Shock-a De Silva can get on. I would shake my fist at an ethereal imagining of the ICC for being so stupid. |
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