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- Tehran to file case against Saddam Iran is preparing a criminal complaint to present at any international court that may try former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein over the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war. Government spokesman Abd Allah Ramazanzadeh said on Monday that... |
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- UK Delivery in time for Christmas is still available on many items at Amazon.co.uk uptil the 20th of December, so now you have one less excuse for not getting the ideal gift. |
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- of the horrors of capitalism. Not as good as getting an extra roll of toilet paper from the "worker's paradise... |
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- I have yet to see any of Jeffrey Sturges' pictures in person, but seeing some images on the Web has whet my appetite. New York ArtWorld has a review of his 2002 show; "Jeffrey Sturges operates outside of purpose.... |
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- Irish, don't apologize. When there is a prize at stake |
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- US singer blasts Catholic Church at Vatican Christmas concert Tell us how ya really feel Macy. For the record, I think it took balls to do what she did. The best part was the response from the Vatican. They pretty much sum up their position with this statement from an aide to Cardinal Ruini, Bishop Rino Fisichella who described the singer's speech as "a rash outburst. An uneducated act showing a lack of respect for the place she was a guest and for those who invited her. |
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- I just heard "Psychotic Precision" from The Wretched Spawn! Let me tell you guys, this album is the best Cannibal Corpse album to come out yet! Makes " |
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- Brian Tiemann has a nice essay based on a recent B.C. rant on the Rott about the French mandated 35-hour work week. I don't recall if I posted that here or not, but it's a brilliant rant that in turn... |
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- Computerworld: "Two months after announcing a deal to buy content management company Documentum Inc., storage vendor EMC Corp. today made another acquisition by unveiling plans to buy virtualization software company VMware Inc. for $635 million. |
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Dean Indeed (Dec 15 2003 23:32 GMT) - Porter just sent me a link to the Presidential Selector, which takes some basic information about my beliefs and shows me the candidate who (ostensibly) suits me best. This was interesting, as I wondered if someone like Carol Moseley-Braun or... |
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- Last post by Beelzebub on 22:05 15/Dec/03 - These two TV specials look like essential Christmas viewing, catching up with and reuniting the casts. |
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- Last post by Jon on 21:46 15/Dec/03 - http://advision. |
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- Last post by Jon on 17:22 15/Dec/03 - Saw this yesterday. I liked it. |
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- Last post by Barrabus on 16:38 15/Dec/03 - http://www. |
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Santarchy (Dec 15 2003 23:32 GMT) - "No force on earth can stop one hundred Santas!" |
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- Check Point to buy Zone Labs for $205 million. Looking to diversify, firewall maker Check Point Software Technologies plans to acquire the maker of security software for desktops. [CNET News.com - Front Door] |
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- Citing heavy customer demand for embedded Linux, QuickLogic Corp. says it has partnered with TimeSys to offer ready-to-run Linux RTOS software development kits (SDKs) for its QuickMIPS family of programmable system-on-chip (SOC) processors. The QuickMIPS SOCs target networking, communications, telecom, and industrial control applications. The TimeSys Linux RTOS Professional Edition SDKs for QuickMIPS include a real-time Linux distribution for QuickLogic's QuickMIPS chips, along with TimeSys's eclipse-based TimeStorm graphical Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and TimeTrace diagnostic tool. |
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- Winter is the best season to collect... |
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- Granma, Communist Party Weekly, Havana, Cuba |
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- The Straits Times, Pro-government daily of Singapore |
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- Le Monde, Liberal daily of Paris, France |
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- The Scotsman, Centrist daily of Edinburgh, Scotland |
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- Jerusalem Post, Conservative daily of Jerusalem, Israel |
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- Last post by Gypsum Fantastic on 22:40 15/Dec/03 - That's the South Wales Echo headline today. |
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- Barry is teasing or calculating. My heart is racing and |
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- You have my humblest of apologies. You were right... but |
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- Barry are you finding this entertaining? Ha !!! It |
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- .....instead, I did it 10 days ago and it's for life - my life! I deliberately decided not to wait until the traditional time of year to give something up - e.g. as a New Year's resolution as I have often failed on that particular occasion and therefore it had become a mental failure before even attempting to give up. So, earlier this month, I posted this blog requesting your support in my give up smoking campaign. |
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- .....instead, I did it 10 days ago and it's for life - my life! I deliberately decided not to wait until the traditional time of year to give something up - e.g. as a New Year's resolution as I have often failed on that particular occasion and therefore it had become a mental failure before even attempting to give up. So, earlier this month, I posted this blog requesting your support in my give up smoking campaign. |
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- News.Com: "Check Point Software Technologies plans to buy Zone Labs, which makes security software for desktops, for $205 million, an effort to broaden its product line." |
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- I received this from someone in my office today. I couldn't stop laughing. I hope you all enjoy this as much as I am... did... where... |
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- I did the drawing over the weekend, but the whole process for scratching 20 gift cards, recording 20 numbers, drawing 20 names, then emailing 20 people 20 different numbers took a few days. However, with the help of my lovely wife, we managed to get it done. Here are the winners: canadapocketpc, ronaldb1, mcrobin, sjmcloughlin, Bruce Babcock, shawnc, Rajeev, draklava, crashmore, Drlbg, msprague, bcappell1, TheWolfen, QNelson, Sprite Software, cml, karinatwork, pcraigmile, egads, and xoiph. All winner have been sent an email to the email address listed on their subscriber account. |
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- SharperImage.com - Sharper Image Electric X2 Scooter $44.95 + Shipping. (repost) Sharper Image has the Factory Reconditioned Electric X2 Scooter Start with this $15 off $50 coupon link (exp. |
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- I read form Blabbermouth that Exhumed was replacing them |
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- In Name That Despot we will give you ten clues and then it’s your job to guess which despotic ruler we are referring to. Ready? Ok. Begin... - This despot has been loathed for decades by many world leaders -... |
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- Kudos to Ben for all of his hard work on the Journal of Words and Images (otherwise known as Jowai). This is the first print publication out of our Outside Circle Art Collective. The cool thing is that it has been designed for cheap distribution - via copy machine, or printer. |
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- Napster's back. Or rather, the Napster brand name is back, this time serving as the public, commercial facade of a massive, soul-less, RIAA-approved corporate conglomerate. Nonetheless, they have some pretty hysterical flash animations on their site. C |
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- Bruce Schneier, in today's CRYPTO-GRAM, on electronic voting, with a mess o' links: My suggestion is simple, and it's one echoed by many computer security researchers. All computerized voting machines need a paper audit trail. Build any computerized machine you want. Have it work any way you want. |
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- PromoGuy dot Net: Monday Mission 3.50 What in your life used to be fun, but eventually just became a chore that you didn't enjoy? Bowling is the one that stands out. I was in a junoir league, and had fun until I got to be one of the older members.... |
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- Joel Pobar: "Yes, there is going to be a Rotor Whidbey that's based on the Whidbey CLR sources. Yes, there is a team of people dedicated to shipping and supporting Rotor. Yes, the CLR team owns it." |
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