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- Taiwan's first SARS case in five months was caused by a torn trash bag that leaked contaminated liquid.... Up to one in 100 long-haul fliers risk developing blood clots.... the CDC gears up for the flu.... and more. |
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- A tiny British spacecraft named Beagle 2 is on its way to search for life on Mars. The umbrella-size craft, packed with state-of-the-art scientific instruments, is scheduled to land on Christmas morning. |
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- The Spitzer Space Telescope fires up its infrared detectors, and the wonders of the universe pour down to scientists in a different light. By Erik Baard. |
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- Sun releases its Java Desktop System, which is its answer to Windows. It's billed as Linux for the masses. We shall see. By Michelle Delio. |
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- MacResQ.com - Current Promotional Links. The following promotions expire 12/23/03. 20 Gigs in your Pocket! Save $5 this week on the Archos Pocket-Size FireWire drive! |
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- If its an authentic Gibson Flying V, it'd be foolish to replace them. If its just an Epiphone, just about anything will sound better. EMGs would be a good choice, but keep in mind its not a simple drop in replacement with the active pickups since they need a battery compartment, and the pots currently in your guitar won't work best with them. |
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- Brent Simmons: NetNewsWire and NetNewsWire Lite 1.0.7fc1 have been posted to the betas page. This is a final candidate release: |
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- SIIA's Financial Information Services Division has released a beta version of "FISD's XML Messaging Specification: fisdMessage Reference Guide", together with Appendices and Enumerations. The fisdMessage specification defines a standards-based protocol for delivering static XML content like Market Data Definition Language (MDDL) information between a data provider and consumer. The protocol optimizes updates using minimum bandwidth. |
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- Sun Invites IBM, Cray To Work On New Computer Language. via Java Lobby... |
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- "The health club's 12 B.C. locations and its head office move to a Linux-based server environment connected to workstations. A system administrator tells us why he's not sweating the cost..."... |
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- AFP via Yahoo! Dec 19 2003 3:13PM ET... |
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- Next July 26-30,in Portland, Oregon, O'Reilly & Associates will host their annual O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON). Organizers are now accepting proposals for topics of interest to the open source community and in line with the convention's theme: "Opening the Future: |
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- Spam gets called a lot of things under the breath of frustrated users and network administrators, but “product of the year” typically isn’t one of them. |
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- Though the IT industry seemed unable to deliver the next killer app in 2003, its executive management produced more than its usual share of comments whose hyperbole, wrongness or general disconnection with reality make them worth repeating. The industry giants that dominated the headlines -- Microsoft, Oracle, and of course would-be giant-slayer, The SCO Group -- also made an impressive showing in this year's list of comments that weren't quite on the mark. |
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- Marvel comics is great. But I really liked Spawn when I was younger. |
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- Although I receive hate mail on a daily basis, I don't post all racist, intolerant, threats I receive from Islamofascists,... |
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- The San Jose Business Journal reports that Marci O'Kelly, a former Apple employee, was indicted this week by a federal grand jury on charges that she defrauded the company, and engaged in interstate shipment of stolen property... |
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- It's always great to be able to attend CeBIT - and this year there's an extra reason to go: SAP are hoping to have a new Linux 6.40 evaluation WAS system available. Continued ... [From SAP Developer Network SAP Weblogs by DJ Adams] |
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- Margie just got two rolls of film B&W film developed. Some random shots in this group: bridges, snow, fire escapes, a Paris carousel horse, me. (Click on any picture for a larger resolution)... |
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- YAY! I don't have to get up super early during the next two weeks! Well, except Christmas morning. Other than... |
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eaten (Dec 19 2003 21:56 GMT) - breakfasted i proceed to slice up some stories and make a lovely salad that sell well on critics' parties. i don't get very far and retreat to open a tin.... |
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- It's confirmed that LF's little friends, the rude ones with no visible parental oversight, have moved out of the apartment complex, though they're still in the area. |
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- hurrah! the jak brothers are back!!!!!!!!! i made a date with five very awesome boys tonight. at first we were going to go the hip hop bar, but when jack arrived, the bouncer guy told him that the police were... |
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- got something different from the tip today, no computers a garbage bag of Lego, about 20lbs of the stuff!! Mostly the Technic stuff. just thinking, has anyone seen those Lego robotics kits? In the early 90s there was an add on for the Atari ST computers to do robotics with Lego, was these kits available for PCs or any other system? |
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- New Zealand is becoming something of a fantasy island. First LOTR and now Narnia. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the beloved fantasy novel by C.S. Lewis, will be made into a film in New Zealand, a newspaper reported Friday. |
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Test Post (Dec 19 2003 21:55 GMT) - I’ve install w.bloggar on my desktop. It’s set up to post to a number of blogging clients: |
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- Rory makes some good points about poorly written code... |
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- http://internetworld. idg. se/articlepages/200312/18/2003 dbp. asp... |
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- they say pleasant things about me, as far as i can tell. cool. |
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- Kona have been playing around with prototype suspension designs - that now come with less - suspension that is... 2003-12-19 13:20:30 |
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- Grueller said, 'Any plug would be most welcome and could give us some form of vague legitimacy to what will probably be a rum-looking bunch of bikers posing in a car-park.' 2003-12-19 12:53:36 |
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- Full Story @ CNET News.com update A federal appeals court on Friday handed a major setback to the record industry's legal strategy of tracking down and suing alleged file swappers. Reversing a series of decisions in favor of the Recording... |
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- "The admission may not earn me any points in politically correct audiophile circles, but Apple's cute little iPod was the product I most enjoyed using this past year," writes John Atkinson for Stereophile. [MacCentral] |
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- Remember the "Angry Demorats Ads" that Chris pointed out? Here's a video of the entire Dean speech from which those clips of the furious Dean were taken, and here is a a transcript. He is most furious at the end, but the content of his comments aren't as bad as you'd think. There was a reason that the Bush team only took clips of Dean saying things about fundamentalist Preachers and "thank you very much" -- the other comments during his climax weren't that crazy:I want my country back! |
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Model Talk (Dec 19 2003 21:55 GMT) - The women who walk the runways also walk away with a lot of freebies. See what your favorite supermodels strut away with. |
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- Dec. 2 - The Victoria's Secret fashion show in New York City was a hot ticket. The event had the sexiest supermodels unveiling the latest in lingerie. |
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- Dec. 2 - At fashion shows around the globe the designers from Hong Kong have been making the biggest splash proving that Hong Kong is the fashion stop in Asia. |
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- Dec. 2 - The Metropolitan Museum of Art's opening of the goddess exhibition brought out the brightest stars and hottest fashions. The event was hosted by Nicole Kidman. |
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- Donatella Versace has designed a colorful collection for spring, with a return to prints, reaching fifty-five different nuances, both ultra feminine and sexy. |
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- Oct. 2 - Emporio Armani showed off their summer 2004 collection during Milan's Fashion Week. |
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- Meet 21-year-old Russian beauty Euguenia Volodina who is taking the fashion world by storm. |
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Donna Karan (Dec 19 2003 21:55 GMT) - Although she consciously departs from past collections, Donna Karan continues to provide women with workable wardrobe staples, but with a fresh, new style. |
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- Meet Elise Crombez, hailed as high-fashion's top model of the moment. The Belgian beauty dabbled with academics before committing full time to the catwalk. |
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- While backstage bursts with energy, the audience at Narciso Rodriquez' highly anticipated show teems with celebrities eager to enjoy his elegant, sensual collection. |
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- Dec. 19 - U.S. civil administrator L. Paul Bremer survived an insurgent attack this month on his convoy in Baghdad, U. |
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