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Beowulf (Dec 31 2003 13:24 GMT) - Our long-awaited Longman Cultural Edition is imminent. Link to Amazon... |
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Maladroit (Dec 31 2003 13:23 GMT) - Pour cette fin d'année, un exercice de style... Je n'ai pas l'habitude d'écrire. Je ne sais pas. J'aimerais bien écrire... |
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- Je zou maar PvdA'er zijn, zo op de laatste dag van het jaar. Je leest via Nu.nl dat VVD-fractievoorzitter Van Aartsen is geïnterviewd door de Telegraaf. En je leest bovendien wat hij... |
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Office Pals (Dec 31 2003 13:22 GMT) - These are my office companions who sit on top of my computer all day. As you can see I have a purple theme going on! * Photographs taken with a Canon A80... |
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- The Inglehart Values Map visualizes the strong correlation of values in different cultures. Countries are clustered in a remarkably predictable way. From the World Values Survey |
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- Just wanted to post a quick link to WindsofChange.net which has compiled a list of various ways people might wish to contribute to either coalition troops and/or the Iraqi people. |
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- Shop window, Marunouchi, last night. |
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- Kiina on ilmoittanut, että terveysministeriö lähettää |
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Leaving (Dec 31 2003 13:21 GMT) - Well Kevin, Nikki and I are leaving today for Texas. I will miss you all but we will be back... |
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- This slashdot article promises that in ReiserFS 4 "file corruption will be a thing of the past". Too damn late, Hans-baby. You are gone gone gone from spies and you are staying gone. |
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Subversion (Dec 31 2003 13:20 GMT) - Tom Lord, author of arch, wrote an interesting message about where he thinks the Subversion project went wrong. I confess to being curious about this question myself. I've tried several times to switch to subversion, all unsuccessfully. The first few times, the installation was just so painful that I decided it wasn't really for prime time. Most recently, it was because of unacceptably horrible subversion performance with specific repositories on a system that had been running CVS quite happily on the same repositories. |
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- Jason Bell's new P900 has arrived. *drool* |
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Predictions (Dec 31 2003 13:20 GMT) - Here are my predictions for 2004. I make them just because I like making them. We'll review next year to see how we did (I'll... |
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- Liquid layouts - the easy way, by the most excellent Russ Weakley.... |
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- GeeXboX HomePage : The question you may wonder is probably : "Dude, what's exactly the GeeXboX project I've just heard about ?" ;-) If so, you're at the right place ! |
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- GeeXboX HomePage : The question you may wonder is probably : "Dude, what's exactly the GeeXboX project I've just heard about ?" ;-) If so, you're at the right place ! |
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- If Ben Kingsley doesn’t win an Oscar for his portrayal of an exiled Iranian in House of Sand and Fog, then there is no justice. I cried through the entire last half hour of that film. |
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- We have been discussing here possible reasons why Americans don't text as much as mobile users in Europe and Asia. Russ Beattie decided to move from theory to action and just posted a phone number where his blog readers (and now you smartmobbers) can send him text messages to practice before start texting regularly. I just sent him a Happy 2004 message and I encourage you to do the same. (Via Russ Beattie Notebook)Send a message to 415 994 7917, which is one of my extra mobile phones which is now turned on and powered up waiting your messages. As the messages come in I'll post them to the weblog. |
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- With the click of a key, bullies are humiliating their peers. What are schools doing to tame this behavior? "For one middle-school girl it was a rumor, circulated via text messaging, that she had contracted SARS while on a trip to Toronto. She returned to school and found nobody would come near her. For an overweight boy in Japan, it was cellphone pictures, taken of him on the sly while he was changing in the locker room and then sent to many of his peers. |
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- (US) A Nebraska football player was arrested early Tuesday in San Antonio on marijuana possession and other charges after the Cornhuskers' 17-3 win over Michigan State in the Alamo Bowl.[$drug_related(100%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $cannabis(100%), $police_related_news(70%)] |
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- (Barbados) UNITED States (US) drug enforcers are worried about the multi-hundred kilogramme quantities of cocaine they estimate is transiting Barbados annually. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(100%), $propaganda_theme1(100%), $propaganda_theme3(50%), $propaganda_theme5(70%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(95%), $prohibition_agency(100%), $stimulant(100%), $cocaine(100%), $cannabis(100%), $narcotic(100%), $opiate(100%), $heroin(100%), $various_drugs(95%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
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- Isn't it a little bit of an oxymoron or something, to sing Silent Night? When we're singing, it's not very silent. |
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- Evening Telegraph: News: "An eleventh-hour rethink on proposed changes to out-of-hours GP cover in Angus has been urged by Montrose councillor Terry Wood and local health campaigner Anne Whyte" |
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- I subscribe to the conservative -- fair enough, I think -- Christian American Family Association's (AFA) Action Alert e-mail list.... |
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Rush (Dec 31 2003 13:16 GMT) - Gone to Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Be back Saturday evening. Tata.... |
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- Evening Telegraph: News: "A motorist had an amazing escape today after her car was in collision with a train at the Forteviot level crossing, some six miles south-west of Perth." |
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- The BBC notes that Professor Martin Evans, the chief architect of modern stem cell research, has received a knighthood in honor of his work. It is very gratifying to see this research - now a field promising cures for Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, nerve damage, heart disease, cancer, diabetes and many more conditions - lauded rather than attacked by a governmental institution. The UK is currently one of the more hospitable locations for stem cell research, and government officials take a much more pro-research and pro-medicine line than their counterparts in the US, Germany or other European nations. |
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- The New York Daily News takes a look ahead at the pace of medical science in just a few of many fields. Researchers are making amazing progress in the fight against the most common diseases and conditions of aging: heart disease, Alzheimer's and diabetes are amongst those mentioned in this article. Improved therapies are expected in the next couple of years, followed by impressive leaps in medical science over the next decade. One rather important omitted detail is the dependency of many of these new medical technologies on political battles currently underway. |
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- TBL gets a knighthood TBL gets a knighthood as a recognition for his contribution to our culture, science, politics, business, spirituality......as i wrote to an email i sent Sit Tim a few years ago: many thanks for making the Web part of our public heritage, and thank you because since the mid-1990s i know that my voice is as powerful as ever. A true knight indeed, as TBL, is not afraid of sharing and giving away what others would seek to capitalise upon. |
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- Posledny den roka prezila slovenska koruna pokojne |
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- Private sector borrowing in Ireland is continuing to rise, according to statistics published today by the Central Bank. |
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- The intellectual property rights to cloning technology that helped spawn Dolly the sheep changed hands today in a £760,000 (E1.1m) deal. |
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- Parents lament how video games prevent kids from getting in shape. But not anymore. |
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- Two years after GTA III's release, somebody realizes the series doesn't espouse good morals. |
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- David Byrne turns PowerPoint into art, moving away from the vision of Edward Tufte. |
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- Public's appetite for weight-loss, energy-boosting remedies spurs new products that pose significant challenges for FDA regulators |
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- Two soldiers head in different directions after a bloody attack along a road in Iraq. One is staying in the Army; the other is getting out. |
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- Authorities in Baltimore carry out 202 internal checks; 2 are indicted; 'Waste of time' or 'necessary'? |
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- Illinois federal prosecutor is named special counsel |
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