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- Paul Allen Confirmed as SpaceShipOne's Sponsor [Slashdot] |
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Break Down (Dec 20 2003 02:59 GMT) - Wednesday I had the first mechanical failure in one of my Alfas that wasn't my own stupid fault. Coming home from work on the parkway East (I376), as I was passing the last exit before entrance to the Sq Hill tunnel (over 2 miles ahead) I hear the radio traffic report warning all traffic away from the parkway due to a massive accident that closed the tunnel. A few hundred feet ahead I'm at a dead stop in a sea of traffic. We inched along for a few minutes, covering only a few car lengths. While my foot was on the clutch... |
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- Lembrei de uma vez q olhei pra cara de um homem e naum conseguia parar de rir..........foi sufocante |
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- Aqui no Rio o grande lance de esquisitices é andar de ônibus. Rapaz, é uma verdadeira experiência antropológica. |
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- ei, eu sou um cara q se intromente nas conversas dos outros no metrO, qdo estaum falando d algo muito conhecido meu. ou quando eu estou muito, muito bebado mesmo. |
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- On Tuesday an FDA advisory panel recommended that Plan B should be ade available without a prescription. [*]. Plan B (also called the "morning after pill") is basically a high dose oral contraceptive that prevents implantation even when taken after... |
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- BBC News: Legal terror blow for Bush hailed "Civil rights campaigners have welcomed court rulings against US administration efforts to curtail the rights of those it accuses of involvement in terrorism. The two rulings said the US Government could not detain suspects without granting them access to lawyers. They show the president cannot step above the law, said American Civil Liberties Union head Anthony Romero. Amnesty International urged Washington to abandon "wrong" practices following the court decisions. |
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- tech news world "The decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia reaffirms my belief that the solution to the challenges facing the recording industry will not be solved primarily through litigation," said U.S. Sen. |
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- Reuters Chinese court has ordered an online video game company to return hard-won virtual property, including a make-believe stockpile of bio-chemical weapons, to a player whose game account was looted by a hacker. Li Hongchen, 24, had spent two years, and 10,000 yuan (750 pounds) on pay-as-you-go cards to play, amassing weapons and victories in the popular online computer game Hongyue, or Red Moon, before his "weapons" were stolen in February, the Xinhua news agency said on Friday. Li asked the company, Beijing Arctic Ice Technology Development to identify the player who stole his virtual property, but it declined, saying it could not give out a player's private details, it said. ... |
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- Filmmaker's Alternative Learning Website, the Activist Pages on Data Mining & the Chaos Connection. This is a couple of web pages proposing a "Global Data Mining CookBook" that could be turned over to a Human Rights Committee at the U.N. that makes studies and resolutions concerning human rights and advancements in science and technology. "Three Tiers of Tyranny", the Report, explains that this committee hasn't examined the issues of privacy and human personality affected by new technologies since the 1970's. |
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- Under U.S. pressure to help curb the spread of long-range missiles, China says it has issued rules restricting exports of missile, nuclear and biological technologies that can be used to make or deliver weapons of mass destruction. |
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- Yaaay! I broke 100 hugs! (It's up to 105!) Mmmmm.... Thank you to all who contributed some ... |
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- Apple has released a 2003-12-19 Security Update in your Mac OS X Software Update. This update is recommended for all Macintosh users: This update ... |
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- Well, they went out to get milk in the 4wd Vue |
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- I agree with Mary- seeing vendors on DT is very good |
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- This ad is really funny. Two hockey players bust through the wall of the rink and continue their offensive/defensive battle on the streets (of Toronto?). Great stuff, visually and conceptually. Oh, and the reason you've never seen it? |
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- Verteidigungsminister Struck hat angeblich zwölf der insgesamt 16 umstrittenen Beraterverträge der Bundeswehr mit der Firma Berger abgeschlossen. Das meldet die "Bild"-Zeitung. Bisher hieß es, die Verträge seien mehrheitlich von Struck-Vorgänger Scharping auf den Weg gebracht worden. |
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- Ben Stein: "As I sat there, I knew I was part of the in-crowd. After all, how many other former trade-regulation lawyers from the Federal Trade Commission get to have plaster casts of their heads made for a big-budget movie?" |
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- Activision has today announced that it will be working directly with DreamWorks to develop and publish games based on the upcoming Shrek 2 movie. Today's announcement follows Activision's termination of its previously announced co-publishing and... (2 related) |
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- Acclaim Entertainment has today announced that 'The American Dream' Dusty Rhodes will appear in Showdown: Legends of Wrestling, which is currently scheduled for release in April 2004. A professional wrestler for over 30 years, Rhodes was a... (2 related) |
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- Which tree are you? Which tree does your birthday fall under? December 23 to January 1............ Apple Tree January 2... |
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- Á Íslandi í dag búa margir hópar fólks, þjóðflokkar ef svo mætti kalla. Við höfum t.a.m. ríkt fólk og fátækt fólk, innfædda og fólk af erlendum uppr.. |
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- Each day when Katrina Hannum rises, she cries. When the sun sets, she fears sleep - worried that the visions of her mother being shot in the head in a brightly lit parking lot will visit her again. |
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Open Thread (Dec 20 2003 02:55 GMT) - So how much longer 'till baseball returns? Oh, and if... |
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- Just a week or so ago, Eric Alterman defended Kerry's... |
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- Bush is peddling shit again:Democratic presidential candidate Gen. Wesley Clark's... |
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- Unlike in 2001, when there were several competitive House seats... |
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- QUOTE (Waco Jesus13 @ Dec 19 2003, 09:26 PM) QUOTE (Impaled-Head @ Dec 19 2003, 09:23 PM) The ones I hate are those vivid nightmares that make no sense that would put the most fucked up horror movie to shame. Those freak me out sometimes. I dont know maybe I'm weird but I love a good nightmare specialy those ones that are so scary that you are tring to wake up but cant I never had any of those, Waco... |
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- QUOTE (Mutilated1 @ Dec 19 2003, 09:15 PM) Here is the one I like best... I know you've all seen it before. notice the R on the headstock that is a handmade with cutaway. |
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- From a long-dead website. Jess gave me a cat calendar. Yeee!... |
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- Internet Watch ã« 10月ã‹ã‚‰é€£è¼‰ã•ã‚Œã¦ã„ã |
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- This list is a wonderfully categorized list of VERY useful web design links and resources from all over the web. From Fixing Your Thinking to Standards and Your Business to XHTML Fundamentals to CSS Hacks and Typography, Fonts and Stock Photography its got EVERYTHING ;D Here are some other cool CSS/Web Design links: CSS Valut The Noodle Incident The Layout Reservoir has a few really good examples common CSS layouts Web Patterns has a lot of awesome site patterns (like for example a website’s homepage . |
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- Tool in Moline(Quad Cities) with Tomahawk opening for them |
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- ESUG Academic Track 6-10 september 2004 Koethen, Germany http://www.esug.org The European Smalltalk User Group is proud to announce that it will organize an academic track for the 12th year of existence of the ESUG Conference with an excellent program committee. Scope: |
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- Doctors have continued to look to animals as a source for organs, tissues and cells to treat various diseases. Here's a look at the controversy surrounding cross-species transplan, also known as xenotransplantation. |
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