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- Congress is inching closer to passing a bill that would limit class-action lawsuits and large damage awards against corporations, something big business has sought for years. The Senate has been the stumbling block, but a deal struck just before... |
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- [via Anil Dash] Excerpts from an IT Conversations interview with the creator Craig's List, the original social networking site (sort of): In a sense, we're a classified site along with discussion boards, on the 'Net, and people can advertise what they are used to advertising. There are some positive differences. People can write as much as they want. They can include photos and so on. |
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- Sierra and Vivendi Universal have now made the soundtrack to "The Hobbit" available to the public for free. You can download the music, along with the CD Artwork, from Sierra's FTP site: The Hobbit Soundtrack (MP3). |
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- 172. Head Smashed In With A Hammer |
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- The NBC News Investigative Unit obtained 90 tapes of then Gov. Howard Dean on a public affairs television show that aired in the United States and Canada from 1996 to 2002. "Dean comes across in these tapes as having a wide-ranging intellect, a sharp tongue, and shifting views on some... |
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- Wer kurz an Januar 2003 zurückdenkt, wird sich vielleicht noch erinnern können, dass uns Apple gerade nach der damaligen Keynote mit einem wahren Produktvorstellungsfeuerwerk bei Laune hielt. Auch jetzt spekuliert unter anderem AppleInsider auf eine PowerMac G5 Vorstellung möglicherweise noch im Januar ("on or after January 20th"): "According to new... |
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- Bush in 30 seconds: the finalists. Some of these are *really* good.... |
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- From The Economist: Babel's children. It is hard to conceive of a language without nouns or verbs. But that is just what Riau Indonesian is, according to David Gil, a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, in Leipzig. Dr Gil has been studying Riau for the past 12 years. |
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- From The Economist: Babel's children. It is hard to conceive of a language without nouns or verbs. But that is just what Riau Indonesian is, according to David Gil, a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, in Leipzig. Dr Gil has been studying Riau for the past 12 years. |
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- If you got a Media center pc, you might want to check this out for xbox. Quote: "The software will... |
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- FIRST and LAST: First best friend(s): Eze First break-up: First Form (Eleven). Sheldon. |
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- Sarah Carey, Irish colleague, political activist and recent mother, references a new section of the Fine Gael site (one of Ireland's two major parties, the other is confusingly named Fianna Fail). It lists, among other things, the price of bottled... |
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- ABC7 Eyewitness News has learned that one or perhaps two mountain bikers MAY have been attacked by a roughly 150-pound mountain lion in Orange County. According to the station, an Orange County Fire Authority helicopter is above the scene. |
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- Los Angeles police are searching for a possible murder suspect. The man was seen about 2 p.m. at Sawtelle Boulevard and Utopia Avenue, according to Los Angeles police Officer Jason Lee. |
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- A state commission sued Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante on Wednesday, alleging the recall election candidate took in $3.8 million more than state campaign finance laws allow. |
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- A woman who told police she bought and lost a lottery ticket worth $162 million all but admitted Thursday she made it up, saying tearfully: "I wanted to win so bad for my kids and my family. I apologize." |
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- Governor Schwarzenegger says he will protect education and today at a press conference at Sacramento's Sutter Middle School Schwarzenegger announced his two billion dollar agreement with the states key education groups. |
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- Harrison Ford is officially unhitched. |
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- These wide-open days at work are tiring. yeesh. I'm ready to go to bed at 7:00 every night. Last night on the way home, I was looking at the huge full moon that was off to my right. |
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- A Hubble Space Telescope study designed to study evolution in the stellar universe has taken a mosaic of photos that includes more than 40,000 galaxies in a patch of sky about the size of the full moon. |
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- This is the first in a series of essays on a simple but important question: Which new technologies will make it, and which will fail? The TPSM (Technology Predictor Success Matrix) attempts to approach this question systematically, by figuring out what the key success factors are for new technologies. The premise is that you use the past to predict the future. This introduction also serves as the Table of Contents. |
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- SpamSieve 2.1.1 increases speed and accuracy, fixes bugs, and tweaks the interface—the usual maintenance update stuff.... |
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- Teenagers reading the Los Angeles Times Business Section is an unusual site, but some students at El Nido Family Center in Compton chose to be in a class that only talks about finances. And it's a class that's held after normal school hours. |
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- Jan. 8 -- A 49-year-old music teacher is accused of having a sexual relationship with an 11-year-old former student. |
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- Jan. 8 -- Police in Georgia issue an Amber alert across the southeastern U.S. for a man accused of killing four people and kidnapping his three young daughters. |
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- Whois google.com? A new quicklink. |
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- The Dakar Rally starts today (New Year's Day) and will last for 18 days covering seven countries and almost 7000 miles. |
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- Nineteen-year-old Nicolas Lapierre has become the first rookie to win the Macau Grand Prix since David Coulthard in 1991. The Frenchman was utterly delighted as he took the spoils of victory with his main rival James Courtney being left devastated after picking up a puncture from some debris on the track. |
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- A delighted James Courtney came home ahead of Nicolas Lapierre, Richard Antinucci and Fabio Carbone to claim victory in the first leg of the 50th Macau Grand Prix. Courtney has looked like the man to beat all week and proved himself to be equal to the challenge of this incredibly demanding circuit as he set a blistering pace and recorded a best lap time that was over a second faster than anyone else out there! |
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- Fabio Carbone grabbed pole position for the 50th Macau Grand Prix from F3 Euroseries Champion Ryan Briscoe. Provisional pole man James Courtney was one of only 5 drivers not to improve on their first session times. |
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- The Canadian Grand Prix looks certain to go ahead next season, after organisers confirmed that a financial package had been put in place to compensate teams running outlawed tobacco sponsorship. |
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- The mere fact that there is going to be a 2004 for Champ Cars is a major kudos to Chris Pooke. From where the series was two years, when the rival IRL took Team Penski, Honda and Toyota away. Many thought the series would be out of business long before now. The year has been a struggle however the Series and the teams seem to be on better footing with new owners about to take over the Series. |
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- Japanese Formula 3 Champion James Courtney followed up his domination of the first Free Practice session by securing provisional pole position for the 50th Macau Grand Prix after a session long battle with Fabio Carbone and Pierre Kaffer. The three drivers were exchanging fastest laps all through the 45 minutes but it was the Australian who finally clinched the top spot with a lap time of 2 minutes 13.232 secs. |
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- The various Formula 3 Championships around the world may have finished but there is still a chance for the drivers to shine. This is the 50th running of the Macau Grand Prix and it promises to be a fierce battle between some of the best young drivers in the world and is a perfect opportunity for them to test themselves against each other on what is arguably the most challenging circuit in the world. |
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- Junqueira falls behind after delay; Hunter-Reay picks up 1st series victory. |
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- IRL IndyCarTM Series veteran Tony Renna suffered fatal injuries in a crash during Firestone tire testing Oct. 22 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. |
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- IRL IndyCarTM Series driver Kenny Brack remains in satisfactory condition at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, said Dr. Henry Bock, director of medical services for the Indy Racing League. |
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- JJ Lehto and Johnny Herbert scored a dominating win Saturday in the Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta, leading nearly all of the 1,000-mile American Le Mans Series sports car endurance race in the ADT Champion Racing Audi R8. |
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