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- Courtesy of Literary Saloon comes this link, Tibor Fischer's review of a new translation of Bla Zsolt's contribution of Holocaust literature, Nine Suitcases. |
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- Fischer's fiction is a decidedly mixed bag - his debut Under the Frog was a promising, if conventional, first novel based on the heady days of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution; after that came my favorite of his books, The Thought Gang, a wooly, hilarious shaggy dog romp that he's never quite surpassed; then some duds, The Colllector Collector and his collection of short stories. I've just started reading Voyage to the End of the Room, so I'm reserving judgement. But I do admire his tireless prom ... |
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- Fischer's fiction is a decidedly mixed bag - his debut Under the Frog was a promising, if conventional, first novel based on the heady days of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution; after that came my favorite of his books, The Thought Gang, a wooly, hilarious shaggy dog romp that he's never quite surpassed; then some duds, The Colllector Collector and his collection of short stories. I've just started reading Voyage to the End of the Room, so I'm reserving judgement. But I do admire his tireless prom ... |
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Knight Life (Jan 12 2004 18:34 GMT) - Knight Life by Peter David - my favorite of Star Trek novelists....I figured I'd try one of his non-ST novels. |
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- Spiegel ist eine tolle Seite. Ich habe heute wieder soviel verlinkt, aber heute war auch echter Scheiss dabei. DROGEN: "Triebtter im Blumenbeet". Ach Gott ja. |
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- It's available for pre-ordering at amazon.com. |
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- The Atlasphere has a fascinating interview with Sabine Herold, the French intellectual activist for Liberté J'écris Ton Nom, a French think-tank dedicated to fighting for individual rights in France. Mlle. Herold speaks out on everything from the Iraq war and... |
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- This is a table about Texas Asian Produce Market Update |
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- This is a table about Texas Tropical Produce Market Update |
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- This is a table about Texas Fresh Herbs Market Update |
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- This is a table about Texas Fresh Fruit Market Update |
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- This is a table about Texas Fresh Vegetable Market Update |
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- This is a table about Texas Onion and Potato Market Update |
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- This is a table about Missouri Edible Nut Terminal Market Update |
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- This is a table about Philadelphia Edible Nut Terminal Market Update |
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- This is a table about Boston Edible Nut Terminal Market Update |
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- From Actual Comments Overheard In A Poetry Workshop By A Fiction Student In An MFA Program:This poem read like it... |
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- China.org.cn reports that a new film, "Cellphone," has triggered domestic strife over the possibility of checking cell-phone recent call records for evidence of cheating. (Thanks, GrimJim!) |
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- Yesterday Lew Rockwell blogged this latest political cartoon by Ted Rall. Rall appears to be Rockwell's favorite commie, he's even promoted an article by Rall advocating the nationalization of higher education. I'm sure you understand the message of the cartoon: Bush stole the 2000 election with the help of the Supreme Court and he's prepared to do so again in 2004. That's certainly a consistent position for Rall. |
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- In my last post I asked why, in the wake of the Hoppean Revolution, Lew Rockwell routinely publishes anti-immigration arguments which Hoppe dismisses as wrongheaded. I had not checked today's articles at LRC when I wrote that. Predictably he's published another such article today. Marcus Verhaegh nods in the direction of Hoppe:Those familiar with the work of Hans Hoppe and like-minded Rothbardians already know that libertarianism, understood as a doctrine concerning the primacy of... |
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- Lew Rockwell writes:How can even left-libertarian warmongers think that "open borders" mean freedom? As Hans-Hermann Hoppe reminds us, borders are the essence of private property, and therefore freedom. It takes a huge state to maintain open borders. Here is the original, revolutionary Hoppe article on immigration, which changed the movement. |
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- Lew Rockwell has chosen to publicly construe a couple of cartoons as death threats. It's pretty clear that the links to the source of these "death threats" have been passed around at LRC - Marcus Epstein found his way to the source to comment and Karen DeCoster found it too. But the LRC bloggers don't supply readers with a link to the source. If LRC readers find their way here they can judge for themslves whether these two posts by John Sabotta constitute death threats... |
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- As a short response "Borders = Liberty" I simply point out that Rockwell's position on immigration cannot be squared with pro-market/anti-state libertarianism. How is it any of Rockwell's business if a Mexican agrees to work at my house? What is the pro-market objection to that private arrangement? What is the anti-state objection to that private arrangement? (And why doesn't anyone at LRC ask these questions publicly? |
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- In a comment responding to Sabotta Marcus Epstein writes:Tell me if I am misinterpreting your attack. I approvingly cite Jared Taylor, who publishes a newsletter that has an article by a man who wrote a book (which was not entirely sympathetic by the way) about a man who is a allegedly a neo-Nazi.Mr. Epstein, I didn't know Jared Taylor from a hole in the ground before I read Sabotta's piece but it's clear that you're quite familiar with Mr. |
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- Long time comrade from the dynamic payments market of the Netherlands, Simon Lelieveldt, runs a blog on Dutch retail payments at http://www. simonl. org/blogger. htm to brand and establish his growing consultancy business.... |
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- This is a short column in the Washington Monthly that details the saga of the non-binding DC primary (which is tomorrow). Of the major candidates, only Dean shows on the ballot there, due to the collective gutlessness of the establishment candidates. Chec |
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Iron Maiden (Jan 12 2004 18:33 GMT) - Daleee puuuuto sagçame una foto bigoteee, dale putoo bigote sagçame una foto, dale la consha de tu hermana puto sagçame... |
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- EmbedBibPlugin This is a plugin that you can use to embed BibTeX entries in TWiki webs. It uses http://lml. ls. fi. |
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Inert bomb? (Jan 12 2004 18:32 GMT) - The US airforce drop a practice bomb, but its' ok - it was inert........still caused an 18" crater though! |
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- '... behavioral intrusion prevention system' http://www.cylant.com/ Cylant a commercial version of fupids, based in NYC. |
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- CHIBA Tatsuo, former Hansen's disease patient who won a 2001 landmark court ruling against the Japanese government over its segregation policies, has passed away. submitted by Ana at 2004-01-12 18:45:08 |
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- Os operários brasileiros no Japão nunca ou quase nunca são contratados diretamente pelas empresas onde trabalham, sempre tem uma empresa intermediaria, as chamadas "empreiteiras", onde muitas se disfarçam de Haken para enviar trabalhadores em setores que até abril deste ano era ilegal. submitted by Ana at 2004-01-12 14:49:31 |
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- TIME Magazine: Sexual Healing |
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- I'm glad to see Sabine Herold continues to be in the press. The more people hear from her, the better. Via Glenn |
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- Norwegian Bank DnB NOR has chosen to base its equity brokerage business on TietoEnator's solution, ProBroker. The solution includes functionality for order management, trading, clearing and settlement. |
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- falstaff schreibt "Soeben habe ich in einem Artikel auf heise.de von einem Projekt mitbekommen, bei welchem es darum geht, Gestein vom Mars zur Erde zu bringen. Es handelt sich um ein europäisches Projekt (also von der ESA) und ist sogar auf deutsch beschrieben. Ganz extrem finde ich diesen Satz (Zitat): 'Die Kontamination der Erde mit mglichen marsianischen Lebensformen gilt es unter allen Umständen auszuschließen'. |
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- Die Liste ist endlich fertig geworden und dürfte vorerst die Referenz für jegliche Problembehandlung werden. Sicher auch bald irgendwo in deutscher Fassung zu finden... Momentan noch im Original bei macosxhints, ein klares bookmark-Muss! Kleiner Vorgeschmack: FIRST AID 01 Restart 02 Check/fix the filesystem 03 Make sure you're not running out... |
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- Late Friday night Beelz pointed me to this really great New York Times article on the growing fad/phenomenon that is weblogging (Requires free registration). It mostly addresses the popularity of blogs among adolescents and how it impacts the expression of... |
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- Thanks to "CPE-203-45-129-54. qld. bigpond. net. au" for being my 10,000th visitor. |
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- El espacio cultural de la biblioteca Koldo Mitxelena de San Sebastián acoge, desde hoy, a más de treinta artistas digitales internacionales en la exposición 'La Conquista de la Ubicuidad', que revisa la historia del net-art. El director de Cultura de... |
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- Bill Hobbs, of HobbsOnline, a really great blog by the way, has recently posted a semi-rebuttal / semi-building from a post I referenced earlier today. He makes some very good points, even if I don't entirely see the game playing out that way: Cornwall is right to fret that going public may mean Google's corporate culture - the very recipe for its amazing success - is at risk of change. And it could change Google for the worse. On the other hand, it could change Google for the better. |
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- I needn't have fretted about my doctor's appointment. She just... |
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- Holy Macaroni, I love Google! They have two new features. First... If you're curious about the airport status and travel information, type in the airport code (JFK, DTW, SEA, etc.) and then "airport". |
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- Holy Macaroni, I love Google! They have two new features. First... If you're curious about the airport status and travel information, type in the airport code (JFK, DTW, SEA, etc.) and then "airport". |
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- Over the past two years, the Legislature has passed "tenants rights" bills that force landlords to go through more hoops when using a security deposit to pay for cleaning or repairs after a tenant moves out. The Bee reports this... |
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