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- First John F-word Kerry dropped the F-Bomb in reference to the President and now General "Sierra Hotel Indigo Tango" Clark... |
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- Don't make the same mistake the Greenbergs made. Get the widescreen edition. And don't buy your kids CDs. |
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- Relatives of people killed in the terrorist attack on Pan Am Flight 103 gathered at Arlington National Cemetery Sunday to mark the 15th anniversary of the plane's downing. The plane bound from London to New York blew up in midair over Lockerbie, Scotland, on Dec. 21, 1988. Eleven people on the ground and 259 people on the plane were killed. |
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- Crowds at a Christmas toy giveaway surged out of control, and a 7-year-old girl was killed and about 80 other people were injured, police said Sunday. The crowd at National Stadium was larger than expected and thousands of children came to Saturday's event without parents, authorities said. |
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- Edward Cone had written a very thorough overview of the Howard Dean campaign and the people and technology behind it, including my first introductions to Convio, a company serving non-profits, and Drupal, an open-source content management system. Highly recommended. |
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- God bless Dana Millbank. Read to the end where a gratuitous lie is piled on.... |
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- hahahahahaha! eu nunca ri tanto na minha vida! hahahaa! o pior é que essas merdas acontecem comigo também...mas num é com bêbado... |
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- I was keeping my Top 20 Movie list at Your Movie Database (YMDB) but they have become a victim of their own success. The site has become a read only site. I can't make changes to my list. What's the point in that. So here is my new revised list: |
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- Question I would like to add an event time and then be able to set alarms to go off at a time before that (and send, presumably, and email alert). Is this possible ... |
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- It seems for police constables and officers, Khulna, Bangladesh, is a dead-end town. And since no one wants to be... |
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- From wibbble, a fun holiday game not for those without soundcards nor for those who can't stand swearing. I'm hooked. |
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Nederlander (Dec 21 2003 20:56 GMT) - De Nederlander van het Jaar.... |
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- Useful Fools has raised the Democratic Candidate Opportunism Threat Level to Orange. This is due to increased threat of both terrorism, increase chatter by the candidates and expected cynical use of any resulting terrorist event by them. Click image for full size.... |
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- Around the blogs this afternoon, Halley Suitt over at Halley's Comet lists "Ten Reasons I Can't Have a Dean House Party But I'm Having One Anyway." Check out her list, then set up a New Year's Party (on December 30th)... |
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- Fox News was doing a profile of some prominent DC crminal attorney and referred to his use of "scorched earth tactics" which they glossed thusly: "It means that in a town known for sharp elbows, Sullivan fights his opponents every... |
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- My online shopping experiences in the past have been pleasurable. Point, click, buy and wait for the mail man to arrive with my stuff. This season has been hellish, not only with Kitbag but Buy.com also has a problem updating... |
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- In addition to its awesome landscapes, The Return of the King conveniently demonstrates that my policy preferences on all major political issues are, in essence, correct. Seriously, though, why didn't Frodo just fly on the giant eagle in the first... |
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- Slashdot Dec 21 2003 2:08PM ET... |
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- Slashdot Dec 21 2003 2:08PM ET... |
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- Slashdot Dec 21 2003 2:08PM ET... |
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- floridatoday.com Dec 21 2003 2:02PM ET... |
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- Search Guild Dec 21 2003 2:05PM ET... |
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- Reuters Dec 21 2003 2:35PM ET... |
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- Chronicle: "A massive San Francisco power outage on one of the busiest shopping days of the year turned the normal chaos of the Saturday before Christmas into surreal confusion -- disrupting traffic, shutting down two transit stations and disorienting thousands of suburbanites who visit the city only a few times a year."... |
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- BizReport.com Dec 21 2003 3:13PM ET... |
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- Korea Herald Dec 21 2003 2:05PM ET... |
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- New York Times Dec 21 2003 2:53PM ET... |
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- Korea Herald Dec 21 2003 2:36PM ET... |
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- Korea Herald Dec 21 2003 2:05PM ET... |
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- Clearly an off day here at Samizdata. So maybe today is the day for a question which I found via b3ta.com. This is a question that has always troubled me, ever since I first encountered the problem. Warning. |
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- Mind-numbing but fun lightgun gameplay. |
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A Note (Dec 21 2003 20:54 GMT) - As posted about previously: In a gwbush-bashing mood? Please check out our website. Jonathan Soros, Eli at moveOn.org, the musicians Moby and Laura Dawn and I started up this organization recently. |
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- Reading Hasan Cemal's "Kürtler" Hasan Cemal's new best-seller "Kürtler" (Dogan Kitap, 13th printing, April 2003, 588 pages) is not a comfortable read. There is not a single page in which one does not feel the pain and anguish that Turkey went throug |
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- Michael Graham will be filling in for Glenn Beck this Monday and Wednesday.... |
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- Ney says nay: The Ohio House member wants the public kept in the dark, an editorial in the Akron Beacon Journal for December 16. Excerpt: "The trouble is, the public cannot gain access [to these taxpayer funded research reports]. Essentially, the decision was made by Bob Ney, a Republican from St. |
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- OfficeDepot.com cuts 10% off a furniture or office supplies purchase of $100 or more via coupon code "15813940". This offer excludes...(more) |
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- WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, N.J. - Operators of the Garden State Parkway plan to correct a longtime inaccuracy by renaming the Hillsdale toll plaza in Bergen County. |
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- RALPH NADER IS THINKING OF RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT and he's asking for your advice.... |
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- RALPH NADER IS THINKING OF RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT and he's asking for your advice.... |
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- Some code that used to work in Python 2.0 that uses the restricted execution module prompted me to investigate rexec.py doesn't work in Python 2.3: the answer was because of enhancements to Python 2. |
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- Just back from spending the weekend with the in-laws in Wiltshire. It could have been worse and has been worse in the past. Apart from anything else, we ate well and drank lots. Nermal may disagree with me here but... |
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- About the time news starts to leak out that we didn't capture Saddam after all, Uncle Tom Ridge pulls the "Orange Level Terror Alert" rabbit out of his ... uh ... hat. |
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- From the Toledo Blade: A repressive embarrassment Anyone who thinks the administration and its law enforcement chief, Attorney General John Ashcroft, aren’t out to impede a free press need only hear how the federal government is treating foreign journalists coming to this country on assignment. Without notification to foreign media outlets, the immigration and customs people are arresting, detaining, and deporting journalists arriving here without special visas. This is so even when... |
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