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- When terror and anti-terror collide, do they cancel each other out? REUTERS: Israeli and Palestinian PM's to meet Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurie plan to meet this week, Israel Radio says. Palestinian officials said... |
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- Christmas is not all family, goodwill and joy, Robert Wiersema writes, and literature can offer a window on the darker... |
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- This is hardly news to faithful doublethink readers -- or bloggers, or anyone else who actually pays attention, for that matter -- but it's very encouraging that it's finally commanding some print in the Washington Post:White House Web Scrubbing: Offending Comments on Iraq Disappear From Site. It's not quite Soviet-style airbrushing, but the Bush administration has been using cyberspace to make some of its own cosmetic touch-ups to history. White House officials were steamed when Andrew S. |
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- The new M6 toll road has been built on two and a half million copies of old Mills and Boon... |
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- Zo, het was weer tijd voor de wekelijkse Idols-"avond" ... De uitzending - de derde van het seizoen - begint... |
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- Zo, het was weer tijd voor de wekelijkse Idols-"avond" ... De uitzending - de derde van het seizoen - begint... |
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- Each December, several thousand literature professors pry themselves away from the comforts of home and flock to the annual convention... |
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- http://coolstop.com/root/ And when Jenett redesigns his site...........Jenett is also the Guru for Jenett Radio, The Ageless Project (very cool), and a host of other projects . He is hard at work to promote diverse/personal sites and interesting places on the net to visit. |
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- http://www. infoworld. com/article/03/12/19/50secadvi html Here is another angle on IS security ( Via RootSecure ) The Trappist monk’s dismay was deep. His sorrow was so great it made me sad to listen to his story. |
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- http://www. securityfocus. com/news/7671 A comparison of old and new images posted on the government secrecy watchdog site Cryptome shows that portions of overhead color photos of the Capitol building and the grounds of the Naval Observatory, where the Vice President's residence is located, have been distorted -- pixilated into an digital blur. |
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Make over (Dec 20 2003 22:56 GMT) - What if they put Saddam on the "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy"??? |
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- http://www.shirky.com/ Some of you might know about this cool site. For those who do not: |
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- http://vyom. org/cat_programming/technical_ php Deepak has some good link and insite on Technical Debt and Craftsmanship : Amit sent me a link about this interesting concept called Technical Debt. This is from Martin Fowler's Bliki. |
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This sucks (Dec 20 2003 22:56 GMT) - A fever of 101. A cough that won't go away. Being tired.....ugh....I hope to be better tomorrow. |
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- CNN Dec 20 2003 4:52PM ET... |
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- CNN Dec 20 2003 5:08PM ET... |
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- Business Respect Dec 20 2003 4:10PM ET... |
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- The Golden Globes nominations have been announced. While the actual value of winning a Golden Globe is best shown by... |
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- Info-wrangling RSS channels I track -- Yeesh. And I thought I had too many. Still more Tufte Doc Searls - It's the Story, Stupid [Addendum 21 Dec 2003 -- link fixed to go directly to the article] and Seeing Through... |
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- Info-wrangling RSS channels I track -- Yeesh. And I thought I had too many. Still more Tufte Doc Searls - It's the Story, Stupid [Addendum 21 Dec 2003 -- link fixed to go directly to the article] and Seeing Through... |
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- Since I started making tasting notes on beer only after I moved to the west coast, I missed an opportunity to review one of my favorites. Fortunately, my loving wife informed my in-laws of my preference for Harpoon’s Winter Warmer before we got into town, and they had stocked up in anticipation of our arrival.The beer, a seasonal spiced winter ale from this Boston brewery, is a dark caramel in color with notes of orange. The citrus notes carry on in the nose, which is spicy with orange peel, and the spice notes, predominantly cinnamon and nutmeg, carry through to the finish. |
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- Cupertino (December 19, 2003) - Steve Mallett, Founder and Managing Editor OSDir.com, has notified Dr. Moshe Bar, openMosix Project Manager, of the 2003 OSDir.com Editor's Choice Award for Best of Linux. |
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- When I was in high school, I invented "Mlang", a nearly phonetic alphabet for representing English (standard Southern California TV accent (pre-ValleyGirl)). I took class notes in Mlang all through college, and I still write faster in its cursive form than in English. I also adapted Tolkien's Elvish letters (the Tengwar: http://hem. |
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- Is literature incapable of inspiring moronic acts of mayhem? (The Toronto Star)... |
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- The rubble has been sifted for what can be salvaged, and everything has been cleared away from the concrete foundation, which appears to be intact. If the county construction inspectors agree, this will give a head start to the rebuilding. Mom and Dad and the... |
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- Bekenntnis zum Leben: Ich will unter keinen Umständen ein Allerweltsmensch sein. Ich habe ein Recht darauf, aus dem Rahmen zu fallen - wenn ich es kann. Ich wünsche mir Chancen, nicht Sicherheiten. Ich will kein ausgehaltener... |
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- The notoriously right-ring American Family Association is running a poll on whether gay marriages should be allowed. Apparently, they're going to submit the results to congress. As I type this 53% favour gay marriage whilst 38% are opposed - not... |
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- Bekenntnis zum Leben: Ich will unter keinen Umständen ein Allerweltsmensch sein. Ich habe ein Recht darauf, aus dem Rahmen zu fallen - wenn ich es kann. Ich wünsche mir Chancen, nicht Sicherheiten. Ich will kein ausgehaltener... |
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- I'm very pleased to present the first annual OSDir.com Editor's Choice Awards in Open Source. As I'm sure you know, Dear Reader, it's always tough to sit down and choose a definite favorite application. There are usually many deserving projects in each category in which someone might ask you to recommend the absolute best. Myself... |
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- jvds writes "We managed to grab a quiet word with Jeff Dike over the future of User Mode Linux. Where it is and where it's going." |
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- Oh yay, oh joy! Everything is proceeding as I have foreseen and my journey to the Dark Side is complete.... |
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- Anonymous Reader writes "Eric Herman and MySQL's Brian "Krow" Aker have released code to allow the DBMS MySQL to run Java nativily inside of the Database. The code allows users to write functions inside of the database that can be then used in SELECT/INSERT/UPDATE statements." |
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- (Pakistan) 2 drug dealers sentenced LAHORE: Special Anti-narcotics Court Judge Pervaiz Ali Chawla on Saturday sentenced two drug dealers, Basharat Ali and Afzaal, to three years imprisonment and fined them Rs 50,000. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(100%), $propaganda_theme1(100%), $propaganda_theme2(50%), $propaganda_theme3(55%), $propaganda_theme5(60%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(90%), $cannabis(100%), $narcotic(100%), $various_drugs(90%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
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- (UK) IOC step up war on drug cheats Arsene Wenger said on Friday that he honestly believes “in England there is no drug problem”. In this case all he seems to understand is the fact that a player who doesn’t do dope has been given the legal equivalent of a broken leg. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(70%), $propaganda_theme2(70%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(95%), $various_drugs(95%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
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- (UK) IOC step up war on drug cheats The drug test was missed on September 23, punishment handed out on December 19, nearly three months later, and the ban doesn’t take effect until January 12. [$drug_related(100%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(90%), $various_drugs(90%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
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- The CIA says the latest Bin Laden remix tape is used goods: 'Bin Laden' Tape Airs; CIA Says Appears Old. Al Arabiya, always jumping at the chance to broadcast some ... |
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