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- Dark horse contenders Michael Andrews and Gary Jules squeezed ahead at the last minute tonight to beat British retro rockers The Darkness to the coveted UK Christmas No 1 spot. |
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- Friends and relatives of troubled pop star Michael Jackson descended on his Neverland Ranch in a show of support for the entertainer who is facing child sex abuse charges. |
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- Last post by Brig Bother on 22:27 21/Dec/03 - Bastards. |
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FAT IDOL (Dec 21 2003 22:59 GMT) - Last post by 'An Actor.' on 22:15 21/Dec/03 - Is this the headline in the News of the World this morning? |
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- Hi All, Jnelson, There's a few things that Raech totally overlooked ( including |
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- If you're baffled by Tom Ridge's Christmas present to beleaguered merchants, visit our old friend The Raven for the complete rundown on what the colors really mean... |
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- After waiting a half-hour on the phone, I finally got through to a tech support specialist at Sprint and they tell me that I'm not alone in being unable to access the internet on my Treo 600. Apparently they're having a network problem nationwide, so if you are also getting the "network 130" error message, you'll just have to keep trying. Most interesting, though, is the specialist's assertion that the problem is bandwidth. He said so many people are trying to get online because it's a holiday weekend that it's overloading the network. |
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- Biggest ever quarter for notebooks. |
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- RAAF spied on Iran for US without approval. The US military have reportedly ordered Australian military aircraft to spy on Iran without the prior approval from the Federal Government. The Sun Herald newspaper has reported that Defence Minister Senator Robert Hill is allegedly angry that the RAAF deployed Orion aircraft in a mission to spy on Iran without asking his permission first. ... The newspaper quoted a what it called a senior defence source as saying: |
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- May the Gods grant you a happy and healthy holiday season that last throughout the next year! And for anyone curious about the roots of some of our modern "Christmas" decorations, here's an article you might want to check out... |
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- A chunk of lamb-thing, plated, with roasted potatoes, green beans and country ham.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn: |
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- he is sharp his teeth filed on the hard bones of life fangs which pierce the soft exterior of our self perception wounds inflicted with words penetrate the armor of a dominant psychology a psychology seeped in illusion, abandonment, betrayal do we sacrifice the prophets to our fear is the messenger anything more than the vehicle of spirit giving himself in service to his society moved by the numen that possesses his soul educating through the fires of a life lived as outsider madmen one we will worship another we kill how we dismiss he who is born from the victimization at that hands of those we emulate and represent we are they in our coverings of modern culture we protect them, bathing our fears in the labels we assign an attempt to distance ourselves from a child an offspring of our uninvestigated assumptions a prodigy of our efforts and those of our ancestors better perhaps coddling our ignorance to name him murder, rapist and thief to give him the crimes of our genesis our crimes which birthed these bones he was raise on the scraps of this culture which sharpen these teeth who puncture the safety of our societal myths we have created a prophet who tends to our wounds he removes the ancient denial encrusted upon the exterior of our minds and we in return murder him for his compassion. © november 1999 |
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- Dairy Queen is making this Christmas a special one. Run, don't walk, to the nearest DQ to get yourself a peppermint blizzard laced with tons of dark chocolate chips. I tried it Saturday, it was awesome. I hope to make this treat a significant part of this Christmas season. You should, too. |
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Stop Words (Dec 21 2003 22:56 GMT) - When search stop words get you in trouble. (68 Words) |
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- OfficeMax.com - Fuji FinePix A205 2.0 Megapixel Digital Camera $119.98 Shipped. |
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- OfficeMax.com - Fuji FinePix A205 2.0 Megapixel Digital Camera $119.98 Shipped. |
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- Why is the feeling of being in love, however vapid and amorphous, the same feeling you get when you have to vomit? Or is that just me?... |
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- BG. Military plans to put original video reports on satellite for news organizations. Although this is likely |
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- I just returned from a really pleasant five days with my sister, her family, and my parents. I drove down to Maryland on Wednesday, picked up some last-minute Christmas gifts, mailed a few more, and then went to the... |
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- From "Kean Says 9/11 Attacks Could Have Been Prevented," by Dana Milbank, in Friday's Washington Post: The chairman of the commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks said he believes that the strikes could have been prevented.... In an interview with CBS News broadcast Wednesday night, Tom Kean, the former Republican governor of New Jersey who was chosen by Bush to head |
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- Faulk runs for 2 TDs; Cincinnati falls out of first in AFC North |
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- So they won't say exactly why, and they won't say exactly what they're doing as a result of it, but the terror alert level has been raised to "high." Tom Ridge, chief Dept of Homeland Security dude, was on the tube saying absolutely nothing, over and over again. It was all very surreal. Like a chapter in a book... (called 1984). |
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- So they won't say exactly why, and they won't say exactly what they're doing as a result of it, but the terror alert level has been raised to "high." Tom Ridge, chief Dept of Homeland Security dude, was on the tube saying absolutely nothing, over and over again. It was all very surreal. Like a chapter in a book... (called 1984). |
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We're back (Dec 21 2003 22:52 GMT) - Thanks for all the fine folks who emailed hostsave in our defense. We're proud to be a host to the virus known as "inappropriate material" since 1988. So there. Nyah! |
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- ! Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge today raised the nearly-meaningless "Homeland Security Advisory" level to "High," or orange, saying that there may be more indicators now of a terrorist attack than at any time since September 11. Jesse says the adminstration and its rhetorical friends will use this to take credit or avoid blame for any economic problems in December. Atrios says that Tom Ridge must hate America, because "much like Howard Dean (and every 5 year old with a modest level of intelligence), he doesn't think that capturing Saddam has made us any safer from terrorists. CONDITION ORANGE!!!" (Also, under an Atrios proposal, the new alert level would really be "Ernie", one level above "Bert" but not yet reaching "Elmo. |
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Finally... (Dec 21 2003 22:51 GMT) - US President George W. Bush told an Israeli journalist that "we must get rid of" Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, the mass-circulation Yediot Aharonot daily has reported. Bush's comments came in... |
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- maradong schreibt "Als erst mal die Quellen die eine solche Ueberlegung όberhaupt erst rechtfertigen: Bei Apple werden Leute gesucht, die an der nexten Generation des weit verbreiteten mp3/mp4 player arbeiten sollen. Interessanterweise brauchen die Interessenten unter anderem grundlegende Kenntnisse im Videobereich. |
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- gecko2 schreibt "Ich weiss nicht wie sehr es anderen schon aufgefallen is aber die Deutsche Sprache erfδhrt in der Computerwelt immer mehr verstόmmlungen. Aus einem "Funktioniert" wird ein kurzes "funzt" oder aus einem "bin mal kurz wech" bleibt nur noch ein "afk" όber." |
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- maradong schreibt "Wie die ARD-Tagesschau zu berichten weiί ist die Kazaa Tauschbφrse in den Niederlanden legal. KaZaA sei nicht fόr die Urheberrechtsverstφίe verantwortlich, die die Kunden mit Hilfe des Tauschprogramms begingen, entschied der Oberste Gerichtshof der Niederlande in Den Haag. Die Richter lehnten es ab, eine entsprechende Klage der mit der deutschen Gema vergleichbaren niederlδndischen Verwertungsgesellschaft Buma neu zu verhandeln. Die KaZaA-Internet-Plattform biete lediglich Software fόr den digitalen Austausch von Dateien, hieί es in der Begrόndung." |
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- ΤΡΙΑΝΤΑ ΧΡΟΝΙΑ ΜΕΤΑ ΤΗΝ ΕΞΕΓΕΡΣΗ ΤΟΥ ΠΟΛΥΤΕΧΝΕΙΟΥ Ή Η ΙΣΤΟΡΙΚΗ ΜΝΗΜΗ ΕΝΑΝΤΙΑ ΣΤΗ ΛΗΘΗ, ΤΗΝ ΥΠΑΚΟΗ, ΤΗ ΣΙΩΠΗ, ΤΗ ΣΥΝΕΝΟΧΗ, ΤΟΝ ΕΞΕΥΤΕΛΙΣΜΟ ΚΑΙ ΤΗ ΣΥΝΤΡΙΒΗ |
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- Ενα αποκαλυπτικό άρθρο από τον εκδότη μεγαλης εφημεριδας. Που λέει πολλά σημαντικά αλλα... κανενός το αυτι δεν φαίνεται να ιδρώνει |
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- Note to myself: custom corners mit CSS. |
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