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- Allah, Exalted and Sublime, is the best of planners. History abounds with examples of the whimsically unexpected or of counterintuition. Senegal, for example, is today known as a bastion of Islam in West Africa. Yet, when the French began to colonize the place, it was largely animist. Islam entered the hearts of the majority of Senegalese whilst they lived under the imperial boot of France. |
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- In death penalty-related news: The Salt Lake Tribune today contains an article headlined "Firing squad 'circus' assailed." The News and Observer of Raleigh, North Carolina reports that "Lawsuit challenges N.C.'s lethal injection. |
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- BBC:The Capitol building in Washington - which houses the US Congress - has been evacuated after a "possible hazardous substance" was found in its basement. Several dozen people were led out of the building without incident, a police spokeswoman said.... |
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- BBC:The Capitol building in Washington - which houses the US Congress - has been evacuated after a "possible hazardous substance" was found in its basement. Several dozen people were led out of the building without incident, a police spokeswoman said.... |
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- Lawrence F. Kaplan says that, his supporters' protests notwithstanding, Howard Dean really is another McGovern. Here's a sample: |
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- I say ... and you think ... ? Exchange:: Parental Advisory:: |
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- I have that and when I first started feeling weird and |
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- here's an excellent source on Iraq news, that Ray just sent me, with a story of how US military is trying to block access to critical news sites! Iraq Diaries: US military personnel blocked from accessing Electronic Iraq |
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- The oddest smell wafting towards my nose from outside this morning. It smelled kind of like coffee but at the same time kind of like frangipanis. It reminded me of the Marquesas.The Marquesas were a mass of green. Islands of green, more green, and yet more green. |
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- I've posted a new Python module: id3reader.py. It reads ID3 metadata tags from MP3 files. I've tried all the other Python modules out there that claim to do this, and each failed on one of the few MP3 files I tried it on. |
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- It would like to collaborate with the JDBase? |
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- China's stock market watchdog has seized control of the nation's fifth-largest brokerage to protect investors as it investigates whether the firm broke the law. |
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- Just received a tip that Roku, the maker of the HD1000 high-definition digital media adapter, plans to introduce a couple of nicely designed digital audio... |
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- Just received a tip that Roku, the maker of the HD1000 high-definition digital media adapter, plans to introduce a couple of nicely designed digital audio... |
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- (Again, from theferrett's Squick Stories marathon.)I'm not entirely fond of strawberry milkshakes to start with, and this makes me avoid them entirely. Year: 2001. Setting: |
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- It would be possible to make 3 copies of the ring, |
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- The NASA “Spirit†rover, one of two landing this month, has landed successfully on Mars and it seems to be working - wow. It amazes me that we (humanity) can pull something like this off.  |
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- The NASA “Spirit†rover, one of two landing this month, has landed successfully on Mars and it seems to be working - wow. It amazes me that we (humanity) can pull something like this off.  |
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- ConTEXT is a small, fast and powerful text editor, developed mainly to serve as secondary tool for software developers. It offers syntax highlighting support for the most popular scripting languages,.... |
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- StockBuddy is an agent application that sits in your Windows 2000 system tray and monitors your stock portfolio via quote information from the Yahoo.com servers. A unique touch is that the tray icon.... |
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- TinyUpLoader is a small FTP program that is intended to upload selected files to pre-defined locations on a regular schedule - e.g every 5 minutes or so. You can select multiple files, different dest.... |
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- FreeRip MP3 is a tool that can record digital audio tracks directly from compact discs, without going through your sound card (this process is known as "ripping"). You can save tracks as CD-quality W.... |
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esperanza : (Jan 04 2004 00:54 GMT) - Vous faites chier les gens à toujours vous énerver Vous faites chier les gens à toujours m énerver Vous faites chier les gens à être si exigeants pour tout et tout le monde Vous faites chier les gens à me demander des trucs trop forts pour moi Vous faites chier les gens à avoir l ai si heureux Vous faites chier les gens à être si égoïstes Vous faites chier les gens à être réalistes et terre-à-terre et matérialistes Vous faites chier les gens avec vos questions à la con Vous faites chier les gens à m étouffer comme ça Vous faites chier les gens à me laisser être dépendante de vous Vous faites chier les gens à pas penser comme moi Vous faites chier les gens à pas penser à moi Vous faites chier les gens à jamais être contents Vous faites chier les gens à rien comprendre du tout Vous faites chier les gens à me trouver compliquée Vous faites chier les gens à être compliqués Vous faites chier les gens quand vous parlez du bonheur Vous faites chier les gens à mettre la barre toujours trop haut Vous faites chier les gens à m empêcher de rester toute seule tranquille Vous faites chier les gens à mettre tout le monde dans des cases Vous faites chier les gens avec vos principes que j arrive pas à ignorer Vous faites chier les gens Vous faites chier |
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- 2004 est déjà la, est qu'est-ce qui a changé ??? ...ben rien, et c'est peut-être ca le problème... Utopique, moi sûrement oui. J'aimerais tant que tout change, que tout s'arrange, que tout devienne rose pour tous le monde.... |
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- On December 31, 2003, from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. in the midst of Boston’s New Year’s festivities, a group of about forty people held a vigil near the Park St. |
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- Everybody knows that UPS is known as "Big Brown." But do you know what the name of the trademark color... (62 words) |
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- A lot of helpful tips and advice make up for a few shortcomings. |
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. (Jan 04 2004 00:52 GMT) - So I'm back. Brand new year and all that. At some point maybe I'll type up stories of my trip to El Salvador, but right now I'm too homesick to bother. I never cry about leaving the US. I've always thought it was because I know I'm coming back. |
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- David of Diamonds by Lauren sells a LOT of radiants. You |
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- Oh yes, you will find lots of good things at the |
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- I thought is was much bigger~ like 2! It looks lovely on |
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- "You're either for us or against us. There's no two ways about it." - Colonel Cathcart, Catch 22 I thought that sounded a little too clever and pithy to come from Bush or his speechwriters.... |
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- SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt (AP) - A charter jet full of French tourists returning home from Egyptian vacations crashed into the shark-infested Red Sea early Saturday, killing all 148 people aboard. Officials blamed mechanical failure. Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher said the crash, which came as nations heightened security at airports and... |
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- I forgot to tell you, but Kurt Nilsen the world Idol from Norwegian is the World Idol. If you have... |
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- Regular readers of this blog know Tim the Soldier. Here's my question. What farm animal or marine lifeform will Tim fancy next? We all know... |
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- Ever since Wizards of the Coast relicensed Advanced Dungeons and Dragons under the terms of the Open Game license, third parties have been able to add their own rulebooks to the game-universe. Now there's a book of ules for integrating sex into your RPGs. ... ... The first chapter discusses handling sex in a mature way, and provides an overview of various facets of sex such as humor, sexual orientation, fetishes, prostitution, pornography, commitment and infidelity, chastity, pregnancy and childbirth, and taboos. |
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MIA on DVD (Jan 04 2004 00:49 GMT) - My first Netflix selections are scheduled to arrive tomorrow [imagine the cinetrix rubbing her hands together in glee like Mr. Burns], but already I've been frustrated to discover that some films I wanted to add to my queque are not available on DVD. How will I ever achieve my dream of becoming a shut-in? A recent Times article explains why this is.SOMETIMES films are not on DVD for less Byzantine reasons. |
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