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- Jan. 6 - A defiant Crocodile Hunter, Steve Irwin, says he would be a bad parent if he didn't teach his kids how to be around animals, including large crocodiles. |
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- Jan. 6 - In a new autobiography, Pete Rose has admitted to betting on baseball games. Will this be enough to get the All-Century Team member into the Hall of Fame? |
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- Jan. 6 - According to a new study, Catholic bishops are following the new sex abuse policy set forth by the church, but more still needs to be done. |
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- Jan. 6 - Legendary pitcher Tug McGraw has died. McGraw played for both the Phillies and the Mets in the 60s and 70s. He died of brain cancer at the age of 59. |
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- I was thinking about voting for Bush, until I saw these photos, then I realized I'd better not. Yeesh. Jack's right. People need to do... |
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- This one was so good, I had to steal it from one of my favorite sites on earth, memepool! These 9 drawings were done by an artist under the influence of LSD -- part of a test conducted by the US government during it's dalliance with psychotomimetic drugs in the late 1950's. The artist was given a dose of LSD 25 and free access to an activity box full of crayons and pencils. |
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Spank Bush (Jan 06 2004 13:32 GMT) - Cute animation to help Democrats vent their frustration, courtesy of Ben & Jerry. Like everything Moveon.org does, this won't help... |
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- A Craftsperson can turn a tool's constraints into advantage. [SOURCE: McGee's Musings] - As always, McGee nails it in 2004 just like he did in 2003 and previous years!QUOTE...Yes, what the tools can and can't do matters. |
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- Web Page Design for Developers. I endorse all of the recommendations on Web Page Design for Developers (via Mac Net Journal). Now if only I could practise what I preach on my own blogs! [Roland Tanglao's Weblog] |
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- Nystartad svensk blogg: Notiser från en ö. "Agnes bor i Berlin sedan 1994 men längtar ibland ut till skären. Hon skärskådar gärna samtiden och historien, inte alltid skarpsinnigt, men åtminstone med intresse." |
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- The Green Bay Packers haven't forgotten about their 17-14 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles on Nov. 10 at Lambeau Field. |
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- ``The evidence is quite strong that regular coffee is protective against diabetes,'' said one of the researchers, Dr. Frank Hu of the Harvard School of Public Health. . |
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- Your total score: 27 out of 40. The red bar in the chart above pinpoints where your score falls. I just took the project risk test and scored a 27. Seems about right for my current project. |
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- As an analyst, you typically work on a project where someone else is the "project manager", or PM. Your work, your problem solving, is part of a bigger plan. But that doesn't mean you have no PM responsibilities. Analysts can and should be a QA check on the PM's plan. Because they're paying you to pay attention to detail, because you have the subject matter expertise, you will probably see things that the PM won't. |
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- While thinking about a new client project involving search technology, I stumbled onto Vivisimo. I tried their clustering engine, and I really like the results. It's promising, and it makes sense. Google finds and ranks lots of pages for a search, and tools like Vivisimo organize the results. |
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- Thanks to Jerry Lawson for including Inter Alia among the list of law-related weblogs honorably mentioned in his post for the 2003 site of the year. If the other weblogs mentioned in his post aren't already a part of your Favorites folder or newsreader, what are you waiting for? |
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- Reuters has an article discussing a new website set up by the Santa Barbara County District Attorney to provide online access to documents in the Michael Jackson case. The article quotes "others" as saying this website "would undermine the spirit of the law and court proceedings, creating even more... |
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- How true: Lawyers Don't Get It is a new blawg from a New York lawyer, who believes (quite rightly) the practice of law would greatly benefit from the intelligent application of information technology. |
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- In preparing for a presentation this weekend, I did a search on Google for a smartphone. At the top of the results were links from Froogle with prices for the phone. Here's an example for the Treo 600. Has Google been offering this feature long?... |
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- When Ari Paparo started his weblog, he wanted to submit it to weblog search engines, but he couldn't find a good site listing them. So he created his own. |
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- Thinking of using one of the many toolbars now available from most of the major search sites? Read Toolbars: Trash or Treasures? first. |
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- Speaking of old news, online medical information services provider Ovid recently announced it would begin to offer a PayPerView service for the full text of medical journals. This new plan is designed to give non-subscribers access to previously restricted databases. |
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- A few weeks ago, I read a notice that the terrific open source encyclopedia Wikipedia was having some financial problems, and I resolved to encourage readers of this weblog to help out in some way. By the time I got around to mentioning it (today), I notice that the site has already raised $31,326.38, way more than the original $20,000 goal. Congrats! |
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- It seems that "Cyber-blackmail" is on the rise -- this usually occurs when the victims receive an e-mail from someone threatening to delete computer files or install p*rn on their computers unless they pay up. I know most who read the newsletter and blog already know better, but maybe you know someone who doesn't, so pass this on. If you ever... |
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- For those of you who haven't gotten around to setting your resolutions for 2004 (or weren't planning on setting any to begin with), try the suggestions on ABC's Technology To-Do List. If you only accomplish a few of these goals during 2004, you'll be ahead of a lot of people. |
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- ...the Internet Legal Research Weekly is up and available for your review. Highlights: -- News Update -- Help Desk -- Cleaning your keyboard --... |
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- Iran Van Jahan has a number of good links related to the Bam earthquake. Here are a few: On Jan. 2, AP reported: Hardliners Criticize U. |
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- I'm pleased to announce the launch of www.fantasyref.com, a fantasy sports site featuring football, baseball, basketball, racing, hockey, fantasy leagues and more. Fantasyref. |
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- Interesting Blog Entries •From 2flower - check out Monday's entry to learn how to make salt dough ornaments. I can't... |
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- Society: More than a third of the pre-1919 terraced houses in Stoke on Trent are set to be demolished within 15 years, under a government-backed plan to regenerate the area. |
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- Jamaica Gleaner, Centrist daily of Kingston, Jamaica |
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- Mainichi Daily News, Centrist daily of Tokyo, Japan |
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- The Sydney Morning Herald, Centrist daily of Sydney, Australia |
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- Pravda, Liberal daily of Moscow, Russia |
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- Jerusalem Post, Conservative daily of Jerusalem, Israel |
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- schamanistische zeremonielle Workshops |
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- schamanistische zeremonielle Workshops |
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- Rep. Danny Davis (D-Ill.) has issued a call for President Bush to launch a national commission to study the problems of the African-American male. Davis said that a commission is needed because of concerns that were raised at the recent Status of the African American Male Initiative that was recently held in Washington.''Based upon statistical data, it is my contention that conditions relating to African-American males are continuing to decline and thereby require intervention,'' the letter said. |
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- Joi Ito: "New technologies disrupt our habits and our norms and what we feel comfortable with." |
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- Like a few million others, I'm reading The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown.US News & World Report did a cover story a couple of weeks ago titled Jesus in America that details the phenomenon around the book. (Full text no longer available for free there but it can be found on Dick Staub's site.) Staub's site has plenty of quotes and links that trash the book, and one source that's frequently quoted is Dismantling The Da Vinci Code by Sandra Miesel.I'm enjoying the book as a thriller and it does make me curious about the historical research that Brown used. |
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