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- · New runway by 2011 at Stansted · Heathrow expansion if noise levels met · No new airport in Rugby |
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- Cater Allen Private Bank has introduced a new multi-currency account which gives regular international travellers more control over their finances. |
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- Mission: Space, the new thrill ride at Epcot Center, has begun to provide barf-bags to riders. ... ... Several theme park consultants told Local 6 News that it is the first time "motion sickness" bags have been made available on a theme park ride. |
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- Susan Ross' roommate from college. Wanted to become an actress, but broke through and got her own tv special with 'the one wowan show' entitled "Jerry Seinfeld is the devil". A crazy woman who just wouldn't stop talking. Maybe the most annoying character in the Seinfeld history. Seen (and heard) in both The Doll, and The Cartoon.... |
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- A WHILE BACK, I challenged FCC Chair Michael Powell to get the FCC to stand up for a free and open Internet. Judging by this piece by FCC Commissioner Michael J. Copps, it's not happening: This Internet may be dying. At the behest of powerful interests, the FCC is buying... |
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- A WHILE BACK, I challenged FCC Chair Michael Powell to get the FCC to stand up for a free and open Internet. Judging by this piece by FCC Commissioner Michael J. Copps, it's not happening: This Internet may be dying. At the behest of powerful interests, the FCC is buying... |
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- Can it only be TEN years since the irival of id Software's ground breaking FPS Doom? A lot has happened in the FPS genre since then, but no game has had me hooked like doom. I've even recently installed Doom Legacy for a 'blast from the past' I've also ... |
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- David Dickson, The challenges of 'e-science', SciDev.Net, December 15, 2003. Excerpt: Everyone, in his or her own way, is in favour of the widest possible access to scientific information; that is not in dispute. |
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- Brent Simmons on two frequently asked RSS questions. 1. About using HTML in titles and descriptions. 2. Should link elements be permalinks or should they point to an external page? |
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- Brent Simmons on two frequently asked RSS questions. 1. About using HTML in titles and descriptions. 2. Should link elements be permalinks or should they point to an external page? |
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- Today is Victory Day in Bangladesh. It's a day when Bangladesh achieved its independence from Pakistan after a valiant nine-month... |
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- Yes, in World of Warcraft you'll be able to play an orc in a dress with a two foot long pink goatee. (via this report)... |
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- i have a request of the credible news organizations. i say credible because, i do not believe that any news source that gives us news from only the left, or from only the right, is really a news source, they... |
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- i have a request of the credible news organizations. i say credible because, i do not believe that any news source that gives us news from only the left, or from only the right, is really a news source, they... |
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- Sometimes, bizarre way my mind works (if you can call it that) disturbs even me. Working on a sermon, pondering ... |
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- They've got Saddam. The interesting thing is, it really hasn't changed much. People are still dying, there's still unrest, and ... |
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- New category: Technology/UserLand/Management [Scripting News] |
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- New category: Technology/UserLand/Management [Scripting News] |
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- This Slashdot post has a a nice roundup of novelty USB-powered devices:... ... ... ... USB... |
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- Has anyone else noticed a sudden upswing in the quantity of spam they're receiving? I was getting them off and... |
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- I've always assumed that spicy foods are most often found in cultures centered in hot areas because that's where the ingredients are most easily found. (As far as I know, chile peppers don't grow in Scandinavia.) But could there be another reason? Eating spicy food makes one perspire. Perspiration lowers the body's temperature. |
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- They may look glamorous and beautiful now, but what did your favorite celebrities look like in high school? It's time to pull out the old yearbook. |
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- Steven Levy in Newsweek has an excellent and scary column on why Big Forces want to lock down the Internet and how they're doing so under the guise of "trusted computing" and other industry efforts. Here's the John Walker he talks about. And Jon Husband points us to this Paul Hughes piece on VoIP's challenge to the telcos. Eric is pissed by the Levy article. I really disagree with Eric's argument that DRM, "trusted computing," et al. |
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- Providing context in programming (part 1). Bryn Keller is right, my previous post needs a bit more explanation. The point Sean McGrath was making is that a number is as good as meaningless without context. XML nicely provides this context. I want to translate that to programming. |
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- Providing context in programming (part 1). Bryn Keller is right, my previous post needs a bit more explanation. The point Sean McGrath was making is that a number is as good as meaningless without context. XML nicely provides this context. I want to translate that to programming. |
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- Travis Smith's sub-blog has some cool/quirky links. |
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- Two directors resign from HealthSouth board; first of five These guys were supposed ot step down as part of a... |
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- OMG. Is that a--why, yes! Yes, I do believe that that is a poem. Impressive. |
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- Pills for Problems: The British have taken steps to restrict the use of some antidepressants. Breggin and others have been warning us for some time now about the many problems with medicating behavior. The Big Picture: Aren't " |
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- As expected, three collector's edition blank CD-Rs that feature scenes from "The Lord of the Rings" are now available for purchase... |
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- The OECD is an organisation with a bright future and a key role to play, as long as it carries out some serious reforms. A difficult, but necessary challenge, says Jorma Julin, Ambassador of Finland to the OECD. |
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- After a drawn-out period of fits and starts, a palpable recovery has finally taken hold across the OECD. Yet, the persistence of very large current account imbalances at this early stage of the recovery may complicate the encouraging outlook. |
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Rising sun? (Dec 16 2003 14:56 GMT) - Japan’s economic recovery has been the highlight of 2003, with strong growth particularly in the second quarter. But as Randall Jones of the OECD’s Economics Department explains, challenges remain. |
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- Reforms that instil greater coherence in social and economic policies would help Chile build on its successes and get the economy back on to a stronger growth path. |
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- Constance Morella has taken up the post of US ambassador to the OECD, succeeding Jeanne Phillips. Mrs Morella was the first woman member of the Maryland state legislature to be elected to the US Congress, where she represented Maryland in the House of Representatives from 1987 until January 2003. |
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- Alberta Iraqis rejoice in Saddam's capture [CBC Edmonton] |
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- Alberta Iraqis rejoice in Saddam's capture [CBC Edmonton] |
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- "i am the spider hole king, i can do anything."... |
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- "i am the spider hole king, i can do anything."... |
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- I am interested in a direct show filter for a simple encryption of a media (mpeg or divx) file, and another direct show filter to decrypt this encrypted file on a real-time basis. My desire is that (more...) Keywords:Windows,Graphics / Art / Music,C++ / C, MultiMedia, Platforms, Music, Video Editing |
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- I need a theme for a survey aimed at gamers. The emphasis is on fun for the user so I need different images for each radio button, checkbox etc. Ideally the images should be supplied as separate fl (more...) Keywords:Web,Flash,Graphics / Art / Music,MultiMedia,Art (Misc. |
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- I am looking for someone to code an application for remote administrating multiple Microsoft SQL servers from VB.NET.The application must be able to:* import via a specified te (more... |
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- Looking for expert MS Access programmer, based in Bucharest, to add advanced functionalily to an existing applications. Keywords:Database,SQL Server,Access |
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