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- In the latest twist over snowmobiling in Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks, a federal judge has agreed to revive a court case that challenged a Clinton administration ban on snowmobiles four years ago. |
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- Plastic::SciTech::Space: "Amid the usual torrent of troubling news, today there is a spark that may feed our hopes. It can be expressed in a word: |
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- si.. ho avuto qualke prob col mozilla pre-installato su linux... ora sembra di nuovo tornato a posto... e quindi ancke PI...... |
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- Review of American Jesus: "This boiling down of Christianity reached the point, in the 1960s, during which the only important thing was to have a personal relationship with a hippie Jesus, the rebel with a cause. Both 'Godspell' and 'Jesus Christ Superstar' propagated Jesus-piety and a disdain for 'Churchianity,' an attitude reflected today in nondenominational megachurches that focus on Jesus and, in some cases, replace the symbol of the cross with a dove." |
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- The New York Post reports: ALFRED Hitchcock's classic "The 39 Steps" is set to get a makeover. Carlton America, which owns rights to the flick, has hired Robert Towne to rewrite and direct the 1935 thriller which starred Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll and Lucie Mannheim. Towne's credits include "Mission Impossible: 3" and "Chinatown. |
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- Police in Montgomery County, Md., are investigating the shootings of four people Monday night. |
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- Arlington County police are asking for help as they investigate the suspicious death of a man on New Year's Eve. |
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- Getting rid of your old Christmas tree doesn't have to be a burdon on the environment. Liz Crenshaw shows us how to dispose of your tree safely. |
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- Was it the paparazzi? Prince Philip? Osama bin Laden? Two British inquests are supposed to find out who caused the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, and Dodi Al Fayed. Conspiracy theorists have their own ideas. |
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- FuhQuake: Quake with "stunning visual effects and eyecandy". FuhQuake is a project to hack "stunning visual effects and eyecandy" into the open-source Quake engine. Does this mean that everyone who's made Quake machinima can now re-render their movies and get Moore's-Law improvements in the quality of their SFX?Link(via Wonderland) [Boing Boing Blog] |
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- Comments from around the country about Pete Rose's admission that he bet on baseball while coaching the Reds. |
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- Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions. ~ Albert Einstein |
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- "Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw. Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand." (Rev. 1: |
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Groundglass (Jan 06 2004 13:35 GMT) - For the first photoblog review of the year I wanted to select something brand spanking new. I'm sure many of you have not heard of, but definitely a site worth seeing. I'd like to introduce the photoblog of Jonathan Day-Reiner,... |
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Groundglass (Jan 06 2004 13:35 GMT) - For the first photoblog review of the year I wanted to select something brand spanking new. I'm sure many of you have not heard of, but definitely a site worth seeing. I'd like to introduce the photoblog of Jonathan Day-Reiner,... |
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etc (Jan 06 2004 13:35 GMT) - Washington Post :: (January 6, 2004) The latest purported audio tape of Islamic fundamentalist Osama Bin Laden is "likely" authentic,... |
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- Ecco cosa mi ha portato la Befana: un nuovo forno a microonde. Lo avevo chiesto a Babbo Natale ma,... |
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- Kuleshov and reframing: is it illegal to frame a picture?. My co-worker Jason Schultz has written a great LawGeek article about the way that copyright and the Kuleshov effect (in which art can be made to mean opposing things throught framing or recontextualizing) interact. The US courts have handed down some jaw-droppingly stupid rulings on this matter, as it turns out, in relation to a company called  Albuquerque ART. |
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- Luis Boa Morte and Lee Clark both return for Fulham's Premiership visit to Middlesbrough tomorrow night. |
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- Slate runs a good synopsis of Howard Dean: A Citizens Guide to the Man Who Would Be President. "The book is written by 'a team of reporters for Vermont's Rutland Herald and Times-Argus' who purport to know Dean best."... |
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- Burning Man + MSFT Flight Simulator = Duuuuude. Bay Area-based artist Andrew Johnstone has created a digital, virtual, and three-dimensional Black Rock City for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002 and 2004 platforms. [I]n the spirit of Burning Man's no-commerce, gift economy philosophy, he's making his project available for free. One of Burning Man's mottos is "participants only," and, fittingly, Johnstone's Virtual Playa rewards active involvement. On his site, he provides free 3D building tools that Burners can use to model a version of their own camp or art project, which they can then upload and incorporate into the complete Virtual Playa version available to everyone. |
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Baseball (Jan 06 2004 13:34 GMT) - Considering that my hometown Phillies are the losingest franchise in the history of baseball, there's not much to talk about when it comes to their "glory days" but if you had to say when that was, it would be the late 70's and early 80's.... |
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- Bush in 30 Seconds finalists. The Bush in 30 Seconds finalists are posted. This was the competition to come up with a 30-second, Creative Commons-licensed political ad exposing the Bush regime's failings, with the winning spot to be aired in commercial slots bracketing the State of the Union address. Here's my favorite, but the other 14 finalists are also very good.Link(via Lessig) [Boing Boing Blog] |
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- Flowers From Alice published, soon to appear in a year's-best. I've just gotten back into the office and discovered a copy of the new Mike Resnick anthology, "New Voices in Science Fiction," a Science Fiction Writers of America-sponsored book showcasing new, noteworthy writers. Charlie Stross and I wrote a story for it, called Flowers from Alice, a pervy piece of post-Singularity erotica. I'm happy to say that the story was also selected for the inaugural volume of Jonathan Strahan and Karen Haber's new Best of the Year anthology.Link [Boing Boing Blog] |
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- Once he decides, it could be a big deal for the outcome of the caucuses, given his popularity in the state: Harkin yet to make endorsement choice. My guess is that he'll endorse Dean, especially given the Gore and Bradley... |
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- Finally, at long last, as promised: It's Drivetime! (.mov, 3mb, Quicktime required) More to come...... |
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- The transport secretary defends the use of sky marshals ahead of a meeting with airline pilots. |
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- The new Bishop of Reading says he hopes to be a "focus for unity" following an earlier row over the nomination of a gay cleric to the post. |
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- "Missing, Martin said, will be the sexual overtones and easy access to liquor that he says have plagued many nudist colonies of late. As he sees it, it's nothing radical. He just wants to return American nudism to its roots. "'Everyone seems to be losing their standards,' he said." |
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- Ontology 101: A Guide to Creating Your First Ontology, by Natalya F. Noy and Deborah L. McGuinness. This is an excellent guide to help you create your first ontology. |
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- Two convicted killers - one of whom has been forcibly medicated at times to maintain his sanity - awaited lethal injection Tuesday night in back-to-back executions in Arkansas. |
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- "Municipalities, schools and hospitals have realized significant benefits from access to global information. Broadband proves valuable in areas such as homeland security, distance learning and telehealth. However, the Yankee Group report, 'Municipalities, Schools and Hospitals Reap Broadband's Benefits,' finds many areas still have poor access to information infrastructure and broadband services."'The emergence of the Internet can help narrow the information gap between rich and poor, and urban and rural areas. The public sector's growing interest in broadband communications is driven by a desire to make information available everywhere,' says Lindsay Schroth, Yankee Group Broadband Access Technologies analyst. |
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- Share and map your RSS reading list. Dave Winer's created a service that maps out who reads what RSS feeds -- just upload the OPML file from your RSS reader and it will add your name to the list of subscribers for all the feeds in your rota. Cool to see who's reading you, and who you're reading. Made me remember that I have a bunch of blogs in my bookmark group that I haven't entered into my RSS reader...Link(via Battelle) [Boing Boing Blog] |
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- (US) Authorities are holding an 11-year-old girl who allegedly dealt in the heroin trade.[$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(60%), $propaganda_theme1(60%), $propaganda_theme2(50%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(90%), $prohibition_agency(100%), $narcotic(100%), $opiate(100%), $heroin(100%), $various_drugs(90%)] |
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- (US) The cantankerous former farmer, who ruffled a lot of feathers with his opposition to Tulia's school drug-testing program and the controversial 1999 drug bust, said Monday that he is trying to toss his hat in the ring for county sheriff. [$drug_related(50%), $drugwar_propaganda(60%), $propaganda_theme3(50%), $propaganda_theme5(60%), $illegal_drugs(50%), $drugs(90%), $alcohol(100%), $various_drugs(90%), $various_illegal_drugs(50%)] |
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- Request For Comments: Synchronization of Information Aggregators using Markup (SIAM). Dare, Brent, Kevin, myself and others have been discussing a standard to exchange subscriptions and item-states between aggregators. A standard like this would not only allow you to for instance sync up different SharpReader instances on different PCs (say one at work and the other at home), but would also work across aggregators so you'd even be able to for... (95 words) [Luke Hutteman's public virtual MemoryStream] |
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- Is my weblog really slow, or is it just my connection? If it is slow, I will make some adjustments. |
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- Jan. 6 - Jury selection is set to begin in the Martha Stewart insider trading scandal. Stewart is charged with securities fraud and obstruction of justice. |
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