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- Well, our daughter is famous. She signed her first autograph this morning, putting pen to a copy of our Baltimore Magazine article. To celebrate, we have leftovers! |
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- To get to the following text, you must first navigate to zappa.com, and watch a 15-second flash animation before choosing your bandwidth. Then you must click on the carefully-hidden “FZ” at the bottom of the snowflake peace reigns page, go to videos, choose “Baby Snakes” at at the same URL, then scroll unintuitively past the cover picture in the pop-up. Maybe they want to hide this high-energy text, but runswithscissors suggested that I post it here so Zappa fans can read it without a pilot’s license (“I respect our President because he’s a pilot.” – “Yeah, but so is John Travolta. |
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- The Greensboro Parks & Recreation Commission's "task force" on the future re-use of War Memorial Stadium held its first real meeting last night. This committee has been charged by the City Manager's Office with determining how the historic structure and surrounding property will best serve the community after minor-league baseball vacates the stadium in 2005. Many things were discussed as being suited for the facility but mainly it was agreed that the main tenants should be college and amatuer baseball teams. |
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- This announcement hit my email box today. It's from the United Educators Association announcing the naming of the new Stated Education Commissioner by Governor Rick Perry of Texas. >From the United Educators Association January 13, 2004 New State Education Commissioner Named; |
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- What every household needs (I wonder what it does to Velveeta!)... Researcher finds cheesy use for laser. CNN Jan 13 2004 2:23PM ET [Moreover - Offbeat news] |
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- Eternal Chili<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com: |
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- Say it isn’t so, Silvio!<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com: |
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- The US Air Force today expanded on the reasons behind its shockpre-emptive strike on Yorkshire, claiming that it was a "hotbed of terrorist activity". [More] |
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- A spokesman from the Department of Health Scares has advised the public to think twice before clenching salmon under their armpits as it may make them ill. The spokesman indicated that the problem is mainly to do with farmed salmon but hinted that salmon living in the city may also be an issue. The salmon industry immediately hit back at the claims. The President of the Salmon Producer's Guild, Douglas Ramsbottom, paraded his young daughter in front of the media with a salmon firmly wedged under each arm. "My family have always put salmon under our armpits and it's never done us any harm," said a clearly exasperated Mr Ramsbottom. |
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- The Catholic Church is to re-categorise rumpy-pumpy, declaring it a virtue rather than a vice. The move comes after Professor Simon Blackburn of Cambridge University thought deeply about the vice and came to the conclusion that it wasn't so bad after all. The philosopher, best known for his work on rude things, is said to be pleased with the Church's decision. [More] |
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- Building on its success in reality programming, Fox TV announced the creation of a new show called "American Comeback," which Newscorp Chairman Rupert Murdoch loosely described as "American Idol meets The Apprentice." The show will feature a cast of has-beens, burn-outs, and washed-upped artists, including Mariah Carey and Michael Jackson, desperately competing to get back into the music business. [More] |
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- Remarks in a new book by Bush Administration insider Paul O'Neill have drawn considerable ire from several handicapped organizations. The former U.S. Treasury Secretary says the President's cabinet meetings, during which plans for regime change in Iraq were put in motion a mere ten days after Bush's inauguration, resembled "a blind man in a roomful of deaf people." The National Association of Blind and Deaf Americans issued an angry statement this week, saying, "The NABDA resents any comparison between our membership and the incompetent moron President. |
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- aprosexia—An abnormal inability to pay attention from Weird and Wonderful Words... |
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Frífréttir (Jan 13 2004 23:59 GMT) - Fríið gengur vel. Okkur líður vel. Garpur saknar mömmu sinnar (lýsir sér í því að hann vill ekki fara að sofa á kvöldin). Góð tengsl að myndast smátt og smátt milli hans og ömmu og granddad. Göngutúrar eru góðir. |
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Mystery Bag (Jan 13 2004 23:59 GMT) - Try not to think about this kind of thing and maybe you'll manage to sleep well tonight.... |
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- FogBUGZ for Unix and Macintosh. Whoo hoo! There's nothing better than shipping a new product. |
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- Ungern kommer troligtvis inte att kunna anta euron 2008 som man hoppats, eftersom budgetunderskottet blir mycket större än man trott. |
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- Det trängda riskkapitalbolaget Ledstiernan hävdar att IT- och telekombranscherna är på väg upp igen. Nästa år ska hälften av bolagen som Ledstiernan äger vara lönsamma. |
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- imagine it : you are masturbating, doesn’t matter with what – a cored apple, a stalk of asparagus, and from your juices emerges a great white swan. now you have a lover, someone to go to the theater with. |
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- According to the ISM e-mail newswire, Tom Hurndall finally died. Good riddance. May his fellow brain-dead comrades soon join him.... |
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- I hadn't realized that Eugene Volokh wrote the amicus brief for the McFarlane/Tony Twist case that the Supreme Court refused to hear. |
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- The City Council today moved forward with a development project at Hollywood and Vine, which includes affordable housing, a swanky hotel and jobs for low-income residents. |
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- Search and rescue crews from four counties are scouring the slopes of Mount Baldy looking for 51-year-old Ali Aminian of Newbury Park. |
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- The same Supreme Court that unlawfully interfered in the presidential electoral process in 2000 has now ruled that police can set up roadblocks to seek information about crimes. You can read the ridiculous decision here (13-page PDF file). God save... |
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- Got this recipie from some cook book and they've quickly become Bubu's favorite cookies! Then again, she likes anything that's crispy crunchy and burnt! Ingredients: 1 cup(2 sticks) butter, at room temperature 3/4 cup sugar 3/4 cup brown sugar 1... |
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- Propane tanker falls off overpass onto several northbound vehicles; Highway shut in both directions at I-195; 'I don't believe there are any' survivors |
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- Meeting tonight will address layoffs, possible salary reductions; System grappling with $58 million deficit |
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- Tobacco use declines by 14% for teens, more than 9% for adults over past two years, study finds |
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- I live in a small town in Northern Indiana and even |
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- [QUOTE][url="http://www. diamondtalk. com/forums/showthread. php? |
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- Why don't you propose to her in the US? It's |
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- [QUOTE][url="http://www. diamondtalk. com/forums/showthread. php? |
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- [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by JD [/i]I had my original engagement ring for |
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- Hi Reese Glad to make your aquaintance. Have you posted your |
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- I have a short feature about elephant polo in the January 2004 edition of Conde Nast Traveler. Entitled "A Jolly... |
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- FeedDemon and well-formed Atom feeds, Part II. Last night I stated my position on well-formed Atom feeds, but I'm not sure I did a good job of explaining myself. The point here isn't that I'm trying to save myself time by requiring well-formed Atom feeds - I've already written a forgiving RSS parser which could easily be adapted to handle Atom, so this will actually take me more development time. And while I agree 100% with the position that users don't care about well-formed XML, the point is that parsing malformed feeds will require users to care later on. With both HomeSite and TopStyle, I've seen first-hand the problems that customers deal with due to the way different browsers handle HTML and CSS. |
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