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- OSX/Panther Fans: update and security fixes ahead, CNET says. |
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- OSX/Panther Fans: update and security fixes ahead, CNET says. |
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health (Dec 19 2003 06:59 GMT) - Heart Disease Linked to Pollution. Cancer researchers studying air pollution say they are surprised to learn that breathing polluted air is twice as likely to cause death from heart disease than from respiratory disorders. [Wired News] |
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- a little ludwig goes a long way: Carrying around gigabytes. John’s right, there is going to be essentially unlimited storage sitting in your pocket. What would you do with it. |
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- A Love Story I SHALL SEEK AND FIND YOU... I SHALL |
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- Is Motorcycling become too "in" ?... |
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- Is Motorcycling become too "in" ?... |
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Some Stuff (Dec 19 2003 06:58 GMT) - Finals are now completely over, and I just got ten hours of sleep. All in all, a good day. There are going to be a lot of new words on the blog this break, stuff that's been piling up while... |
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- Tablet Fans, here's a cool Calculator: xThink. |
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- Tablet Fans, here's a cool Calculator: xThink. |
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- Last time I left we learned about syntax and tags, and how tags look and how to use them. Now we learn what types of tags there are, where they belong, how to use them, and more importantly fullfilling our... |
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- a little ludwig goes a long way: Small Form Factor Comparisons. I’m on my fourth small form factor PC buy right now. They are certainly the way to go. |
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- This is more than a doctor's office for Trisha Russo. This is where she had plastic surgery. |
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Statement: (Dec 19 2003 06:55 GMT) - Michael is innocent... |
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Statement: (Dec 19 2003 06:55 GMT) - Michael is innocent... |
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- Group in Israel caters to "terror tourists," equip[ping] ordinary American men and women with military survival skills in the event of a terrorist attack on their homes or neighbourhoods [u]... |
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- Voter lists on sale for anyone who wants them [u]... |
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- Good video summary of insidious power of the unregulated Carlyle Group [cryptogon] 48 mins., starts briefly in Dutch then English.... |
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- White House sanitizing government sites of inconvenient quotes and uncomforatble facts [drudge]... |
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- A new book sends you on a trip through the rabbit hole with notorious Prankster and proto-Discordian Kerry Thornley: The Prankster and the Conspiracy: The Story of Kerry Thornley and How He Met Oswald and Inspired the Counterculture Publisher's page with link to Robert Anton Wilson's foreward. Quite a while back I posted a link to Thornley's testimony before the Warren commission, but my blog search isn't finding it. Back then this site which is Kerry's own story (supposedly) was unavaila... |
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- End of capitalism as we know it file Largest US pension fund sues NYSE & 7 trading firms for trading abuses... |
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- You can't make this stuff up file 2 Chinese sentenced to life in prison for organizing an orgy last September for 400 Japanese tourists apparently in celebration of the Japanese invasion of China in 1931 I never heard about this, sorry if this is old news, but I just had to post this. What the fuck?... |
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- Iraqi reactionDemonstrators took to the streets in almost every major city north and west of Baghdad, where support for Saddam, himself a Sunni, remains strong, and where attacks against U.S. soldiers have been fiercest. The capture of Saddam has churned up strong emotions. Some Iraqis have expressed delight and have called for an immediate public trial. |
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- "$110,000 in illegal contributions" Ashcroft's 2000 Senate campaign violated federal election lawsThe National Voting Rights Institute yesterday charged that the $37,000 fine was inadequate, amounting to a "tax" on illegal activities. "The Federal Election Commission's action in this case is a farce," said Bonnie Tenneriello, an attorney with the Institute. "John Ashcroft's political committees, and possibly John Ashcroft himself, engaged in serious violations of federal campaign finance la... |
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- Remember that King of the Hill where Hank & Bobby go "hunting" where you can walk up to the animal and shoot it? Vice Emperor Cheney slaughters dozens of fowl captive-bred for canned hunts... |
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- Palast on The CaptureFormer Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein was taken into custody yesterday at approximately 8:30pm Baghdad time. Various television executives, White House spin doctors and propaganda experts at the Pentagon are at this time wrestling with the question of whether to claim PFC Jessica Lynch seized the ex-potentate or that Saddam surrendered after close hand-to-hand combat with current Iraqi strongman Paul Bremer... |
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- shrubco Good Buddy SSA Marine and the plundering of Umm QasrIn 1958, Iraqi nationalists and radicals threw out the king imposed on them by the British after World War One. Over the next five years of relative freedom and democracy, Iraq began putting together a nationalized, planned economy, based on its oil wealth. Hundreds of factories were eventually constructed, making it the most industrialized country in the Middle East. A new deepwater port was built on the Persian Gulf, Umm Qasr, whic... |
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- Sam Smith on Gore/DeanThe Dean campaign has raised a serious challenge to the insider losers of the Democratic party. Whereas Clinton was selected by a small group of Washington establishment figures after scores of private meetings - at which Gore was interviewed as well - the Dean campaign is the product of what some cyber theorists call a stupid network (or what the non-technological would call a movement), one that, like the Internet, forms and reproduces itself without a strong hierarchy... |
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- Microbiologist studying cruise ship sicknesses killed in a hit and run [Urban Survival] Background on series of suspicious microbiologist deaths since 9/11.... |
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Nice Zippy (Dec 19 2003 06:55 GMT) - Nice Zippy... |
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- Surprise surprise file: Hundreds of articles in medical journals claiming to be written by academics or doctors have been penned by ghostwriters in the pay of drug companies [u]The journals, bibles of the profession, have huge influence on which drugs doctors prescribe and the treatment hospitals provide. But The Observer has uncovered evidence that many articles written by so-called independent academics may have been penned by writers working for agencies which receive huge sums from drug... |
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- Executive Chef Michael J. Pivoney shares a recipe for Roasted Duck with cranberry glaze that is on the Signature Room's Christmas menu. |
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*sigh* (Dec 19 2003 06:53 GMT) - [/MJ-free zone violation] Just as charges were filed against him for child molestation, Michael Jackson found time to join the... |
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*sigh* (Dec 19 2003 06:53 GMT) - [/MJ-free zone violation] Just as charges were filed against him for child molestation, Michael Jackson found time to join the... |
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- Good photos. I like this camera from Olympus a lot:"http://www. olympus. |
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