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- A photo project called A Day in the Life: New Year's Eve '03. From 12 Noon New Years Eve 'til 12 Noon New Years Day... we want to see how you celebrate. Take a photo an hour to illustrate your day. |
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- Here's an article about common phobias and how to conquer them: 10 Terrors. For example, Fear of Terrorists... "During certain periods the world goes through, there's an increase in specific fears,'" Elpers says. "Like now . |
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- Introducing the world's first fully automated domestic assistant: The NS-5. We can only hope that this robot is less annoying than their Web site. Permalink Created Mon, 22 Dec 2003 ### |
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- The truth about Santa: The psychedelic secrets of Santa Claus. Although most people see Christmas as a Christian holiday, most of the symbols and icons we associate with Christmas celebrations are actually derived from the shamanistic traditions of the tribal peoples of pre-Christian Northern Europe. The sacred mushroom of these people was the red and white amanita muscaria mushroom, also known as "fly agaric." These mushrooms are now commonly seen in books of fairy tales, and are usually ass... |
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Daily Jason (Dec 22 2003 15:28 GMT) - Daily Jason is another one of those "take a photo of myself every day and post it to the Web" sites. Permalink Created Mon, 22 Dec 2003 ### |
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- Little Marcy... a musical legend. The worlds of Christian music and children's records have commingled for ages, and certainly both have seen their fair share of imaginative gimmicks and bizarre channels of creative expression. Few, however, can equal the legacy of Little Marcy. I first heard of this amazing talent while listening to Whole Wheat Radio. |
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- Buy a Soundbug, and you can turn any surface into a speaker. Olympia's Soundbug is a highly-portable, revolutionary alternative to headphones or loudspeakers. Soundbug connects to items such as portable CD players, MP3 players, Minidiscs or cassette players via the headphone socket, and 'suckers' to any hard, glossy surface. Once connected, the Soundbug takes the signal from the audio device, and - using world-first technology - creates a sounding-board out of the surface to which it is attac...[MORE] |
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- Get some insights as to what really goes on in the White House: White House Tapes: The President Calling. Three of America's most compelling presidents - Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon - bugged their White House offices and tapped their telephones. They left behind thousands of secretly recorded conversations, from momentous to mundane. |
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- If you create web sites, you may find this interesting: Martijn van Welie's Web Design Patterns. (via Muxway) Permalink Created Mon, 22 Dec 2003 ### |
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- Two interesting paper-related links: Gallery of Paper Automata Modern Japanese Origami The example below is called Icarus, and it's from the Japanese Origami site. Permalink Created Mon, 22 Dec 2003 ### |
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- Rage Against the Machine: Wake Up (WMA: 28k / 56k / 100k - G2: 28k / 56k / 100k) Although... |
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- I took a stack of used CDs to my corner record store this weekend and traded them in for a bunch of new music. Here are the picks of the litter:... ... ... Deep Note: |
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- As evidenced by today's Chicago Tribune story, The Bat has evolved far past its roots as a hickory stick used for whacking baseballs, and morphed into the year's premiere political icon: Each time the campaign launches a fundraising challenge, [Webmaster... |
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Progresser (Dec 22 2003 15:27 GMT) - Quand on atteint un objectif qu'on s'était fixé, on ressent un sorte de bien être. Ce Week End, j'ai franchi une marche, une marche de plus dans ma vie privée. J'en ressent une joie profonde surtout que je sais que ça va me combler encore plus, que ça va me ... |
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- Two other soldiers wounded in Baghdad attack; Former intelligence officer arrested; Polish president makes surprise visit to peacekeepers |
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- When it was Kathleen Willey reporting stuff like this, it was the other side that made a big deal out of it. |
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- Well this sounds promising. Nathan Fillion says: “I would cancel dialysis to be in” a big-screen “Firefly”. I certainly wouldn't... |
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- He reportedly said that at least two prominent Karnataka politicians were involved in the stamp scam. |
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- V Thulasidas, an officer of the Indian Administrative Service of Tripura cadre, on Monday, took over as the chairman and managing director of Air-India. |
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- "A U.S. Border Patrol agent accidentally drowned moments after rescuing an immigrant from a swift-moving portion of the Colorado River, |
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- (Via the Imperial Linkmaster General) Hootinan has a heart-warming story about a EUnuch doofus (and, redundancy alert, reader of al-Ghardiyan)... |
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- Apple has issued security updates for Mac OS X. These fix several vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious people to perform a variety of attacks. ... |
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- Charles Ill sell you a 21 inch monitor I have for 150.00 :>) (Comment references www.microcorecomputers.tk) |
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- Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez pose for photographers as they arrive at the premiere of their film 'Gigli,' Sunday, July 27, 2003, in the Westwood section of Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Rene Macura) (Click for Large Photo) [yahoo: 2, -ben +jennifer +pose +premiere] |
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- Entertainer RuPaul and Tammy Faye Baker enjoy ice cream cones at Cows in Park City, Utah, Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2000, during an ice cream social at the Sundance Film Festival. (AP Photo/Salt Lake Tribune, Rick Egan) (Click for Large Photo) [yahoo: 2, +tammy +festival] |
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- A woman who gave her name as Begona, celebrates outside a lottery office where she bought a 1st prize winning ticket in San Sebastian, Spain, Monday Dec. 22, 2003. The annual Christmas lottery known as 'El Gordo, or 'The Fat One', billed as the world's richest is based on a complex system of number-sharing that shuns jackpots and seeks to spread wealth among millions of people. The first prize landed in San Sebastian and other places across Spain. (AP Photo/Jon Dimis) (Click for Large Photo) [yworld: |
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SQLite (Dec 22 2003 15:25 GMT) - "SQLite is an embeddable SQL database engine which can perform upto two times faster than PostgreSQL and MySQL for many common operations. With a small memory footprint and support for databases upto 2 terabyte, its an ideal option for embedded and small to medium-scale deployments." Read More . . . |
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- [SourceForge.net Project News] - dĆ%@dĆ%@ November tournament period now over it is time for the NetHack DevTeam to release NetHack 3.4.3, the third bugfix release for NetHack 3.4. |
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- [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] - SCO is celebrating the end of one year and the start of the next with a new twist in its long, ever-changing, and never substantiated legal saber-rattling against IBM and all things Linux. In this latest turn, they have embraced the DMCA, claiming in a news release today that "Distribution of the copyrighted ABI code, or binary code compiled using the ABI code, with copyright management information deleted or altered, violates the Digital Millennium Copyright Act codified by Congress at 17 ... |
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- RealClear Politics has an interesting commentary on the Al Sharpton campaign. Only in America can a person with no political experience and no qualifications declare... |
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- "Pot Luck: A victory for federalism." On Friday, Reason posted online this essay from Jacob Sullum. |
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- Back in my Special Forces days when we didn't have something we were always told to "Improvise and Overcome." In other words, to make due with what you have or make something that will work from materials available. It was a sort of motto used rather liberally in the days of the Clinton Army. The 428th Transportation Co. has done just that. |
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- Back in my Special Forces days when we didn't have something we were always told to "Improvise and Overcome." In other words, to make due with what you have or make something that will work from materials available. It was a sort of motto used rather liberally in the days of the Clinton Army. The 428th Transportation Co. has done just that. |
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- Why shouldn't we uproot things a bit? Why should we remain committed to France, Germany, and Russia, who seem far more comfortable with Chinese interests than American interests? I'm not saying that we need a major international shakeup, of course. The Cold War was a BIG DEAL. It required serious alliances, out in the open for the appearance of strength. |
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- The United Nations put its security staff on "high alert" Monday following the U.S. government's decision to raise the threat of a terrorist attack to its second-highest level. |
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