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- M. Philippe Martin has released IC-Switch 1.4. IC-Switch is a menubar app that lets you choose which application should handle a given protocol, such as http, ftp, or mailto. New in 1. |
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- B.C. church closed for refusing to marry gays. |
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- An explosion rocked a dairy Tuesday, blowing the roof off the center section of the plant, starting a fire and injuring two people. Fire officials said a boiler apparently blew up at about 7 a.m. in the Foremost Farms USA dairy, which stretches for several blocks in an area that includes homes and industrial buildings. |
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- Gang Rule has a great cross-indexed list of gangsters and mafia families, as well as an excellent photo gallery.... |
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- Gang Rule has a great cross-indexed list of gangsters and mafia families, as well as an excellent photo gallery. |
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- This very special holiday release from 8bitpeoples features an allstar cross-platform lineup that is sure to make yours a truly chippy christmas indeed. Brought together from all corners of the globe, these 8 amazing tunes were composed by 8 dedicated chiptune maniacs on 8 different videogame consoles and homecomputers! Featuring the sounds of Yerzmyey on the Spectrum, Nullsleep on the NES, Vim on the VIC20, Paul Slocum on the Atari 2600, Bit Shifter on the GameBoy, Goto80 on the C64, Dma-Sc on the Atari ST, and Hally on the X68000, there is only one way to celebrate the holidays right this year, and this is it. Falls also ein Geek oder Nintendo-Jünger da draußen noch ein Geschenk braucht ... 8bitPeople ist die richtige Adresse - via BoingBoing... |
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- Having bosses who know that cash is the perfect holiday gift.... |
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- The J2SE 1.5 (Tiger) release is drawing closer. JSR 176: J2SE 1.5 Release Contents has just gone into community review. |
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- Ok, we're almost at the end of the road. Dick Clark will apply the magic faerie dust...the ball will drop... |
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- My mom got me a Sony CLIÉ handheld for Christmas. Whee! It's so cute, I want to play with it all morning. Unfortunately, there's that whole 'work' thing going on. |
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- Happy holidays everyone, assuming your religion is following the same schedule as the Western World's majority. (I'm not religious, still I appreciate the gifts and the food.) Anyways, fun and sunshine to all of you. Even the new folks among us who don't have a Shift key on their keyboard. And less keys. |
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- From Newsday, via Drudge: A Brooklyn cop is being investigated for Internet postings in which he brags about beating suspects, writing phony tickets and ignoring calls to his precinct. The officer, identified by Internal Affairs investigators as a patrol cop who works in the 75th Precinct, uses the pseudonym "Brooklynbacon" and posts his messages on a site accessible through Xanga.com. Alongside pictures of motorcycle trick riders, naked women, photographs with comical captions and pictures of human oddities, he posts messages supposedly about his job and, in some instances, his own misconduct. |
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- PC Magazine: "For those who want to talk on the phone hands-free in the car but don't want to wear a headset or earpiece of any type, the Sony Ericsson Bluetooth Car Kit HCB-30 is an intriguing option." |
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- Unexpected twists in Internet law. Legal analyst Doug Isenberg finds that the last year in Internet law was marked by a common theme: surprise. [CNET News.com - Front Door] |
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- Poxa.......vc revirou o baú agora....... |
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- Crimestoppers. The Dick Tracy Museum. Great. |
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- Final arguments will be given today in the redistricting trial. I'm not sure if the judges will have a ruling... |
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- DNA evidence has led to rape and murder charges against a new defendant in a 1984 killing for which another man already is serving a life sentence. It is not yet clear how the arrest will affect Darryl Hunt, 38, who has been imprisoned for about 18 years in the attack on Deborah Sykes. |
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- It almost seems fitting that greed would screw over production of Seinfeld DVDs. The NY Times reports that Jason Alexander, Julia Louis–Dreyfus, and Michael Richards have refused to participate in "Making of" featurettes for the upcoming Seinfeld DVD because they've been unhappy with their profit particpation from syndication; Alexander, Louis–Dreyfus and Richards have only been receiving $100,000 year since the show ended. |
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- A few weeks ago, I had the privilege of reviewing the design specs for a new Application Block being produced by the Patterns and Practices team. This block is called the "Smart Client Offline Caching Block" and will provide an extensible set of classes for building online/offline systems. They have just published the spec and some early code for review on a GDN Workspace. Check it out. This is one of many new App Blocks and code samples being produced by the P& |
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- Well, this is one of the awkwarder positions I’ve found myself in. And I suspect it’s one that won’t lend itself to the usual length of a single CavLec blog entry. |
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- Well, this is one of the awkwarder positions I’ve found myself in. And I suspect it’s one that won’t lend itself to the usual length of a single CavLec blog entry. |
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- Mac eye for the Windows Guy. I like how Carson has the belt-buckle Apple logo. *laughs*... |
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- No, I'm not talking Starcraft, though I heard the words often enough over Thanksgiving break... The upgrade to MT 2.65 seems to have gone swimmingly on all my sites. And I personally can't wait for 3.0.... |
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- xPad. Great little app, $10, well worth the price. I've been looking for something like this, and since I couldn't find anything for a long time I was about to write a solution myself. Now I don't have to, so... |
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Lutefisk (Dec 23 2003 14:56 GMT) - Never eaten it and after reading The Power of Lutefisk I don't think I ever will. Funny writing in a... |
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- Whenever someone walks in off the street (or, over from the bar with their too-drunk-to-drive ass), I of course have to get some info before handing over a room key. It ain't the Do Drop Inn, y'know?... |
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- Lontoolainen jalkapalloseura Tottenham toivoo saavansa osakeannilla kasaan 15 miljoonaa puntaa eli noin 21 miljoonaa euroa pelaajahankintoja varten. Valioliigaseurat voivat ostaa ja myydä pelaajia kuukauden ajan, kun siirtoikkuna avautuu tammikuussa. |
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- Kroatian uusi hallitus on vannonut virkavalansa saatuaan maan parlamentin, saborin, tuen luottamusäänestykses Uuden keskusta-oikeistolaisen hallituksen pääministeriksi nimitettiin konservatiivipoliitikko Ivo Sanader, 50. |
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- Euroopan suurin alumiiniyritys Hydro Aluminium on ostanut enemmistön alumiinin jatkojalostusta tekevästä forssalaisesta Salko Aluminiumista. Hydro Aluminiumin osuus Salkosta nousee aiemmasta 25 prosentista 63 prosenttiin. |
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- oh man, this track is soooooooooo great. consists of three parts, and I guess 'Inner City Life' is the most well-known part. but this 21 minute track is just soooooo amazing. |
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- Our car smells like food. Yes, you read that right. Our car, we discovered this morning, smells like onions and salami and oil and ham. This is a new feature that our car is displaying as it did not smell this way yeterday. We opened up the trunk when we got in to work this morning, but found nothing. |
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- Working paper. Excerpt: "What enables some employee ownership firms to overcome the free rider problem and motivate employees to improve performance? This study analyzes the role of human resource policies in the performance of employee ownership companies ... Between-firm comparisons of 11 ESOP firms show that an index of human resource policies, nominally controlled by management, is positively related to employee reports of co-worker performance and other good workplace outcomes ... |
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- Bella, check posts 1 and 2 ! |
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- Thanks for the additional replies! I spoke with a bluenile rep |
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- Has anyone worked on Covast, the adapter to convert EDI to XML, in BizTalk Serv |
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- This Al Jazeera headline provides more evidence that the West is winning hearts and minds in the Middle East: Obese at greater risk from prostrate cancer How else to explain everyone's favorite Arab news service reporting on such a quintessentially Western obsession as obesity and its various possible health effects? Who knows, pretty soon they'll even hire a better proofreader who will note that it's prostate cancer, not prostrate. We'll know the Rubicon--er, the Tigris?--has been crossed when Al Jazeera runs with this related story. |
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- Dr Madsen Pirie at the Adam Smith Institute is worried about his Brazil nuts. He blames the EU for banning them. Strangely the International Tree Nut Council make no mention of such a ban. Now I believe in blaming... |
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- http://www.stanthecaddy.com |
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- Working paper. Excerpt: "We combine administrative and self-reported pension data to measure the retirement response to actual and perceived financial incentives. We find that well-informed individuals are five times more responsive to pension incentives than the average individual when knowledge is ignored. We further find that the ill-informed individuals do respond to their own misperception of the incentives, rather than being unresponsive to any incentives. |
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- IT Management Computerworld, 12/22/03: Ten Stories That Rocked (OK, Touched) Your World Story by Marc Ferranti After a three-year roller-coaster ride, the IT industry settled down a bit in 2003. The year seemed to provide a respite from history-making corporate scandals, monopoly-busting, and the exhilarating but scary boom-and-bust cycle. Not that anyone was operating on cruise control, as this roundup makes clear. |
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- Labour leader Pat Rabbitte has asked the Government to raise the plight of Irish emigrants in the UK with the relevant British ministers. |
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- The Small Firms Association's End of Year Statement on Jobs has described Irish employment prospects as being in a "perilous state" and "in free fall". |
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- Armed raiders have held up a post office in Co Westmeath. |
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