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hatch.org
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Retire the Retched Fax Machine (Dec 31 2003 18:59 GMT) - Please! Let's make 2004 the year we retire the retched fax machine! This is despite some of the valid points Paul Rubens of the BBC NEWS makes in his article Fax - the technology that refuses to die (via Gizmodo)... |
Outside the Beltway
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MISDIRECTED 'LANCHE (Dec 31 2003 18:59 GMT) - Just my luck: An InstaLink to a post I wrote this morning, but to the Command Post duplicate rather than the OTB original.... |
Funlog
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Planet Perplex (Dec 31 2003 18:58 GMT) - Planet Perplex offers a most amusingly amazing collection of optical illusory art. Some of which is not for kids. Which makes it all the more perplexing. Check out, for example, their collection of folding puzzles, and, for further example, ambiguous p |
Radio Free China
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CHINA ARRESTS HOUSE CHURCH LEADERS ... (Dec 31 2003 18:58 GMT) - CHINA ARRESTS HOUSE CHURCH LEADERS AND WRITER (ANS) The Voice of the Martyrs (VOM) urged prayers for a jailed Christian Internet writer Zhang Shengqi and other Christian contacts who were arrested amid a crackdown against house churches across China, ASSIST News Service (ANS) monitored Tuesday, Dec. 30VOM, a leading Christian human rights watchdog, said "10 Chinese Public Security Bureau (PSB) officers raided the house" last month of the writer's seriously ill fiancé Ye Jifei in the province of Jilin on the North Korean border. "She faced constant interrogation for more than 24 hours," after being taken into custody, VOM said. |
l o g os
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Sir Tim (Dec 31 2003 18:56 GMT) - Tim Berners-Lee, one of the web's godfathers, is knighted today. Read how the proud Britons Ben and Roger blog about it. |
TruerWords
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Back to Logan Again (Dec 31 2003 18:55 GMT) - Jed's flying back into Logan Airport this afternoon at 5, so I'm driving back up to Boston again to pick him up. We're hoping to make it back in time for the devotional and festivities, but it'll depend on the (never very good) Boston traffic, and his flight arriving on time. Happy New Year, everybody! See you in 2004!... |
Slashdot: Science
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Quadrantids Source Discovered (Dec 31 2003 18:54 GMT) - linuxwrangler writes "Man has observed the annual Quadrantid meteor shower since antiquity but its source has remained unknown. Astronomer Peter Jenniskens of ... |
bloggerApiTest News
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Blogger News Item (Dec 31 2003 18:53 GMT) - New Year's resolutions...you've tried the quiting smoking, lasted 3 days. Tried dieting, ate a whole Sarah Lee black forest cake after 13 hours. Tried giving up porn, ended up buying a separate server to store your nude midget MPEG files. What were you thinking?? |
Niutopia/Jouebs
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outilsfroids : 3 articles sur les logiciels sociaux (Dec 31 2003 18:53 GMT) - SocialSoftwareNetwork - SocialSoftwareEtBusiness 2 récents articles d'Eweek reviennent sur l'entrée des logiciels sociaux (SocialSoftwareNetwork)dans les entreprises. Le département le plus visé est évidemment celui des forces de vente mais plusieurs prestataires s'orientent également vers la gestion globale de la relation client (CRM) Are Enterprises Ready for Social Networking? Social Networking Vendors Aim for the Enterprise Pendant ce temps et après un an d'usage intensif Stuart Henshall, "early adopter" de ces technos à titre personnel, dit sa désillusion face à ces services qu'il a testé dans le détail et évoque les mobiles de sa déception: Mobility: These systems are static, don't integrate well with our cellphones and our SMS or what is to come in this arena. |
Niutopia/Jouebs
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lamuselivre : Fier comme pas deux (Dec 31 2003 18:53 GMT) - Pourquoi dit-on « Fier comme un pou » ? L'insecte est sans nul doute disgracieux et n'a rien pour être fier ! Tout simplement, mon cher Cécil, parce que dans ce cas-ci, pou est la déformation de poul, jadis utilisé pour désigner le mâle de LA poule. On dira donc fier comme un pou en pensant fier comme un coq. Et toc ! |
AndrewRaff.com
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2003 in Review (Dec 31 2003 18:52 GMT) - Where did 2003 go? It seems like just yesterday was the middle of the summer, and now we're on the doorstep of 2004. While I sit around and wait for OS X 10.3 (Panther) to finish installing on my laptop,... |
fullasagoog.com full roast blend
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Fonts for Programmers (Dec 31 2003 18:52 GMT) - Keith Devens has a nice list of Programmer Fonts. From his site: Programmers have very particular font needs. A font for programming must be monospaced, extremely readable, and must sharply distinguish between similar characters, such as capital O and zero... |
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