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- Children's books feature high adventure for protagonists ranging from animals to teenagers, often told with breezy prose and imaginative illustrations. They are divided here into picture books for younger children and chapter books for more advanced readers... Salt Lake Tribune, December 21, 2003 |
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- New 4GB version of Creative's Nomad MuVo2 MP3 player. The MuVo2, which uses a 4GB CompactFlash Type II microdrive, is just 2.6" by 2.6" by... |
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- New 4GB version of Creative's Nomad MuVo2 MP3 player. The MuVo2, which uses a 4GB CompactFlash Type II microdrive, is just 2.6" by 2. |
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- Try this test if you're really bored today. If you get all 10 questions correct, you are one sick geek,... |
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- Varning för biljettbluff när du köper din resa till fotbolls-EM. Reseföretagens biljettgarantier är falska. - Uefa har förbjudit försäljning av biljetter till kommersiella reseföretag, säger Jan Larsson på Svenska fotbollförbundet. |
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- Aaron Haspel points to recent studies showing that students who graduate from elite colleges do not earn higher incomes than their peers who could have... |
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- Santa came. Santa came!!! With bells on!!! I got a new skin for Christmas done by the lovely sphinxy and blogmoxie. It's a Keith Haring skin, who is one of my favorite artists. |
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- Qui no recorda aquells primerencs jocs de LucasArts on els protagonistes principals eran aprenents de pirates, tentacles, gossos i conills o el propi Indiana Jones? Doncs bé, quan ja sembla que poca gent els recorda, he pogut trobar ScummVM com a un dels projectes de SourceForge.net ScummVM ens permet gaudir d'aquelles mÃtiques aventures grà fiques altre cop i en diversos sistemes operatius (això sÃ, heu de disposar dels jocs, doncs ScummVM només és un programa que els executa). Per a saber quins jocs funcionen sobre ScummVM i quin grau de compatibilitat hi tenen, podeu fer click aquÃ. Bones festes a tothom. |
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- Via CMU The Isle of Wight Festival 2004 is stacking up to be quite an event. Following the news that... |
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Spirals (Dec 22 2003 16:18 GMT) - I'm in another downward spiral type funk on UB. I haven't won much lately. I haven't been losing a ton but I can't move forward. My account has been drifting down and it's discouraging. So I tend to play less.... |
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- 3 days left... that's it. The sad thing is that I just have no real excitement or anticipation for it. I tried to do the advent thing hoping that it might make it easier for me to keep the focus and maybe get more excited about it this year, but it didn't work. It's not that I hate Christmas (although... |
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- "Souvenir hunting thieves have stolen part of an ancient fresco from the Israeli archaeological site of Masada, Israeli officials said." |
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- Chine : 33 millions de nouveaux syndiqués dans les cinq prochaines années BEIJING, 22 décembre (XINHUA) -- 33 millions de personnes devront adhérer aux syndicats entre 2004 et 2008, soit 6,6 millions par an, a déclaré dimanche Zhang Junjiu, vice-président... |
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- (UK) Police have busted an internet drugs operation estimated to have made around half a million pounds using password-protected websites for selling cannabis. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(55%), $propaganda_theme1(55%), $propaganda_theme2(50%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(95%), $cannabis(100%), $various_drugs(95%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
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- Proposed: Separate TWiki System Preferences and Site Preferences for ease of upgrade TWiki has three documented levels of preferences settings: 1 Site-level settings ... |
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- So let's pretend you are installing Workplace on a machine that had WebSphere Portal already installed. In your magic thinking it would skip the necessary install of Portal because it says it find... |
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- So let's pretend you are installing Workplace on a machine that had WebSphere Portal already installed. In your magic thinking it would skip the necessary install of Portal because it says it find... |
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- Homeland security director seeks to reassure holiday travelers day after raising nation's terror attack warning; 'Be vigilant'; But Ridge also affirms 'most significant threat' since 9/11 |
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- Members of the Royal Ballet perform during a dress rehearsal for the company's Christmas production of Cinderella at the Royal Opera House in London, December 22, 2003. REUTERS/Stephen Hird (Click for Large Photo) [yent: 2, +perform +dress] |
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- A woman who gave her name as Begona, celebrates with her grandson, no name given, beneath the winning number 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 amoung millions of people. The first prize landed in San Sebastian and other places acrossSpain. (AP Photo/Jon Dimis) (Click for Large Photo) [yworld: |
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- Come on Brian... I see your sorry ass logged on... get into chatYou too Fart face |
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- barry ritholz beat me to the punch on the story (i'm gonna blame the flu). there's not a lot i can add - in classic barry ritholz-fashion, it's well-documented and well-sourced and even his spin pretty much echoes the spin... |
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- My co-worker Fred von Lohmann writes: "Wal-Mart launched a music download site today. Notice the rather breathtaking EULA terms (much more onerous than the Apple terms) -- Fair Use, First Sale, all other copyright exceptions are swallowed up by contractual prohibitions. Just as with software, these restrictions will almost certainly be selectively enforced against reverse engineers, would-be competitors, and tinkerers who disrupt the biz model. All backed up by WinMediaPlayer technical restrictions. |
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- "A top cardinal [at Vatican City] said in an interview published Sunday that anti-Semitism was on the rise in Europe, and he urged constant vigilance to avoid setting out on 'the path to Auschwitz.'"In related and surely schizophrenic news, "Pope John Paul has seen Mel Gibson's controversial film The Passion about Christ's final hours and was moved by it, a Vatican source said."I see... Let's not take the path to Auschwitz, but let's celebrate a film which fans the flames of hatred by reiterating the misleading contention that the Jews killed Christ.Brilliant! |
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- Mythic Entertainment Files Suit Against Microsoft for Trademark Infringement is the press release with word that Mythic Entertainment is suing Microsoft over the title Mythica, MS's upcoming MMORPG.... |
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- I can't convince her to go bigger. She wants to |
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- CMU reports: Celebrity friends of Michael Jackson have shown their support for the singer post-child abuse charges by attending a... |
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- Though 99% of the population of Hong Kong have cellphones, the latest craze sweeping the city isn't video calling. |
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- Verizon Wireless and Vodafone are introducing transatlantic text messaging. This collaboration will enable their respective customers to send and receive text messages between the Verizon Wireless CDMA network and Vodafone's GSM networks. |
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