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- Mucking About Revisited Axis again but this time on Oracle9iAS 9.0.3 as mothership Oracle9iAS has more nobs and dials to play with than stand-alone OC4J. Updated my |
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- Shortly after President Bush unveiled a radical new immigration policy, Wall Street powerhouse Goldman Sachs announced that it would begin to fill its first-year financial analyst class with illegal immigrants. "We[base ']ll get exponentially more bang for our buck from migrant Mexican raspberry pickers than the traditional pool of Ivy League graduates," explained Goldman Chairman and CEO Hank Paulson. [More] |
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- The Famous Face on Mars has had a face-lift, a startling new photo taken by a NASA space probe reveals! Images beamed back to Earth earlier this year by theMars Global Surveyor are radically different from those taken when the mysterious monument was first discovered in 1976 and even from high-resolution photos taken just two years ago. "There are signs of a chin implant, the jowls have been tightened up, the nose is more aquiline and aristocratic -- even the eyes appear less cavernous," declares Dr. Robert Preakwood. "I would stake my reputation as a plastic surgeon on the statement that work has recently been done on the face -- and by very skilled hands. |
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- Carpet salesman Martin Janowski, 53, was able to forget about carpeting for just a little while Monday after consuming a fifth of Jim Beam Kentucky bourbon. "For a few glorious moments, I cleared my mind of Anso II Stainmaster Plus and Bigelow Dura-Plush carpeting," said Janowski, a 26-year employee of CarpetMart in Houston. "The bourbon made the floor coverings go away." To help him forget about carpeting tomorrow night, Janowski said he will likely employ Southern Comfort, Wild Turkey, or some combination thereof. [The Onion] |
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- Documents, bearing Halliburton's crest, reportedly exonerate the company of all wrongdoing: "Not only did Halliburton not charge excessive fees for gasoline supplies in Iraq during 2003, it may in fact have substantially undercharged the Army, considering the unique logistical challenges of operating in a post-conflict environment in Iraq." The challenges cited include "a large number of widows escorted across the street, literally hundreds of kittens rescued from trees, and two babies rescued from wells." [More] |
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- While the U.S. space program is still celebrating its most recent success, protests have already erupted decrying the American occupation of Mars. "This is just another attempt by the war mongers in the Bush administration to import its ideals onto a society that doesn[base ']t want them," said protest organizer Janine Garofalo. "I am sure that Wolfowitz and Rumsfeld are behind this. |
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- Donald Hartman, a 36 year-old Philadelphia man suspected of killing five people last night in a grisly street shootout, is pleading for a pardon from his crime due to the fact that he consumed a healthy Subway sandwich earlier in the day, an act he claims compensates for the murders. There are currently several commercials in rotation for the sandwich chain detailing how negative behaviour can be offset by eating at Subway; a man dresses up as a cheerleader in front of his house, for example, horrifying his wife but becoming immune to her reproach due to his consumption of Subway earlier in the day. Hartman claims his case is simply no different. "I ate a BMT earlier before my murders, and I have the receipt to prove it," he said firmly, waving the receipt in the air as he was taken into custody. |
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- With the United States still under high alert for terror attacks, the Bush administration launched a controversial security program Monday requiring foreign travelers arriving in the country by air and sea to be fingerprinted and caricatured. "It is a very unobtrusive change," said U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge. "We're going to ask visitors to leave two digital finger scans, and while they're doing that a quick sketch will be completed by a qualified caricature artist. |
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- Princess Diana was pregnant at the time of her death in a road accident in Paris six years ago, a French media report said, quoting a senior French police official who said, "I can tell you that she was pregnant." The policeman claimed that there was "a cover-up of sorts" in the days following the crash, because medical reports, which have never been made public, showed that Diana was pregnant at the time of her death. Unconfirmed reports that Diana was pregnant, first alleged by her friend Dodi al-Fayed's father, the controversial zillionaire businessman, Mohammed al-Fayed, soon after her death have been seized on by conspiracy theorists as a motive for an assassination plot by the Royal Family and the British Government. "The real cover up was that Strom Thurmond was the father, not Dodi," said the policeman. "Diana found Strom irresistible, as did thousands of other women. |
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- Turnabout... Justified In Sacking Anti-Gay Worker. RainbowNetwork.com Jan 8 2004 7:29AM ET [Moreover - Gay news] |
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- The U.S. Department of Agriculture has once again widened its recall of beef products linked to mad cow disease, this time to all 50 states, every Arby's outlet and your refrigerator. "There's no need for you to panic," Ken Petersen of USDA's Food Safety Inspection Service told you. "The risk to you is essentially zero because all the infected parts were removed before you bought your beef. |
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- Democratic Presidential frontrunner, Howard Dean, is getting religion just in time for his swing through the Southern states where voters pay attention to candidates' religious beliefs. The former Vermont Governor, who does not attend church, says he prays everyday. "I pray that I win the nomination," he said. Dr. Dean said he plans to make more references to Jesus in his speeches in the South. |
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- Money will be paid to tither within 180 days of the Lord Jesus' actual return to Earth and the fulfillment of all of the catastrophes itemized in Revelation. [Landover Baptist] |
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- Most people know by now that the best father in the world (next to me of course) got me a digital camera for Christmas. I'm still experimenting with how I want to arrange pictures and such of my family and... |
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Armageddon (Jan 09 2004 00:47 GMT) - Could the US's crazy overspending without taxing their own citizens appropriately cause glocal economic meltdown? (NYT links, reg required) I... |
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- Several Internet software and service providers are developing viable solutions for spam and pop-up ads. Spam solutions: Major ISPs and email hosts will soon introduce... |
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- Several Internet software and service providers are developing viable solutions for spam and pop-up ads. Spam solutions: Major ISPs and email hosts will soon introduce... |
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- http://searchwin2000. techtarget. com/originalContent/0, 289142, sid1_gci943463, 00. html |
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- I recently discovered a site that offers a social bookmarking tool. Del.icio.us enables to create bookmarks easily. After registering on the site, you use a simple bookmarklet to add sites to your list of bookmarks. |
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- (US) Investigators say a Crimestoppers tip led them to find $200,000 dollars in drugs including two kilos of cocaine and eight pounds of marijuana. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(50%), $propaganda_theme2(50%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(95%), $drug_law(80%), $stimulant(100%), $cocaine(100%), $cannabis(100%), $various_drugs(95%)] |
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- Jedi/Sector One (Jan 08 2004) |
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- Dani Wuck (Jan 08 2004) |
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- Nico Golde (Jan 08 2004) |
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- Lachniet, Mark (Jan 08 2004) |
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- Mandrake Linux Security Team (Jan 08 2004) |
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- SGI Security Coordinator (Jan 07 2004) |
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- Russ Allbery (Jan 07 2004) |
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- Tri Huynh (Jan 08 2004) |
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- Vladimir Katalov (Jan 08 2004) |
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- Matt Zimmerman (Jan 07 2004) |
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- Cisco Systems Product Security Incident Response Team (Jan 08 2004) |
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- SAN FRANCISCO - Verizon Wireless Inc. is promising a summer of speed to wide-area wireless data users in major U.S. cities. |
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- a leftwing view of the day's news & the way it is presented in the media |
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- Probably the first blog I ever read and I still read it everyday. So I figured I would make this my first post. |
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- For those who are into this Swing Club Listings Travel and Resorts Publication Listings Conventions & Special Events |
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- a nice tutorial, just in case ... |
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- The website companion to the best-selling job-hunting book in the world. I don't know what color my parachute is...I'm just hoping it opens before I hit the ground. |
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WebWader (Jan 09 2004 00:46 GMT) - It is a tool designed to check rapidly the content of a whole web site. A single click on a button and you start a slideshow presenting all the pages of the site of your choice ! It is not a new browser. |
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- Speaking at a State Department news conference, Powell openly disagreed with a private think tank report which maintained that Iraq was not an imminent threat to the United States. And the secretary defended the case he made before the United Nations for a U.S.-led war to force Saddam from power. |
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- I'm not usually one for American cars, but the 2005 Ford Mustang is really hot! The design combines the shell of a late 60s muscle car with an ultra sleek and modern interior. There will be 2 models, a 300hp V8 GT and an under $20,000 V6. google for more... |
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