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Jack Bog's Blog
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Not in the eyes of Uncle Sam (Mar 04 2004 23:34 GMT) - While my gay friends are still thinking about why their partner hasn't popped the question yet, I've been getting ready to field the inevitable tax questions that will come my way once they tie the knot. The most obvious one... |
The Daily Herald
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UTOPIA gets green light from Utah Legislature (Mar 04 2004 23:34 GMT) - State legislators passed legislation on Wednesday that would allow cities to use tax dollars without the need for taxpayers' approval to back bonds to fund wholesale telecommunications networks including the controversial $540 million UTOPIA. By a vote of 22-5 the Senate approved an amended version of Senate Bill 66 that would allow 17 of the 18 member-cities of UTOPIA |
The Daily Herald
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SCO sues AutoZone, DaimlerChrysler (Mar 04 2004 23:34 GMT) - The SCO Group Inc. kicked off its planned legal offensive against thousands of Linux corporate users and licensees it claims violated its copyrights and software agreements with the filing of two lawsuits Wednesday against AutoZone Inc. and DaimlerChrysler Corp. |
The Daily Herald
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0304 business briefs (Mar 04 2004 23:34 GMT) - EconomyUtah's consumer confidence, job advertising tops nation -- The Rocky Mountain region, which includes Utah, scored the biggest gains in consumer confidence, with Salt Lake City posting the largest increase in help-wanted job advertising, according to an industry report. |
The Daily Herald
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Judge orders SCO to show code (Mar 04 2004 23:34 GMT) - A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the SCO Group and IBM each to produce more evidence of the alleged copyright infringement, including code that was allegedly contributed to Linux.SCO had accused IBM in March 2003 of violating its software licensing contracts by contributing Unix code into IBM's Aix and Dynix software. |
The Daily Herald
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0304 National Briefing (Mar 04 2004 23:34 GMT) - Shell chairman resignsLONDON (AP) -- Sir Philip Watts, the beleaguered chairman of Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Cos., has resigned in the wake of a shareholders' revolt over the company's overstatement of its oil and gas reserves.In a surprise announcement, Shell spokeswoman Bianca Ruakere said Wednesday that Watts' decision to leave was reached "by mutual consent. |
allconsuming.net
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This Is My House (Mar 04 2004 23:33 GMT) - This isn't my house New York schools will continue to stock a book that implies the average American family is homeless. This Is My House pictures houses in countries around the world with a few sentences of text. The Washington Times reports:"This is where I live right now. My family is staying in our car," reads the text by author Arthur Dorros. |
allconsuming.net
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Anti-Rationalists and the Rationalists (Mar 04 2004 23:33 GMT) - More "Search Credit Cards" January 17, 2004 learnadsonar_pid=2305;adsonar_ adsonar. com';Anti-Rationalists and the Rationalists$94.95by Nikolaus Pevsner, JM Richards, DENNIS SHARP Average customer rating: |
allconsuming.net
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The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus (Mar 04 2004 23:33 GMT) - On the way home from work I heard this piece from NPR, on Owen Gingerich's The Book Nobody Read. Gingerich has tracked down about 250 copies of Copernicus's On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, including those read and annotated by Galileo and Kepler. I am at a loss for words—but I learned from the interview that the bookworm is the larva of the death-watch beetle. There's a poem there, when I get over the awe. |
allconsuming.net
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Local Visitations: Poems (Mar 04 2004 23:33 GMT) - SISYPHUS AND THE SUDDEN LIGHTNESSIt was as if he had wings, and the windbehind him. Even uphill the rockseemed to move of its own accord.Every road felt like a shortcut.Sisyphus, of course, was worried;he'd come to depend on his burden,wasn't sure who he was without it. |
miss-information.net
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Twisted Google competition (Mar 04 2004 23:33 GMT) - Only the French could come up with this idea! A competition to create a web page that will come up first on Google's results for "mangeur de cigogne" (loosely translated by stork eater). |
Heretical Ideas
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STUPID PARTISAN WATCH (Mar 04 2004 23:33 GMT) - Somebody put this kid in the time out corner.U-S Representative Tom Cole might have stirred up Democrats by saying a vote against the re-election of President Bush is like supporting Adolph Hitler during World War Two. Or supporting Osama bin... |
As deep as a puddle after a hard rain
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And I say I'm not delusional (Mar 04 2004 23:33 GMT) - I know this is all shades of wrong, but I can't help but feel like a reimbursement check from work is like found money. I feel a shopping spree (albeit a small one) coming on. Let's see... should I buy books or music, books, music, books--- oh who am I kidding. We all know what's coming home with me.... |
Site Concept Scan
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San Diego doctor surrenders license (Mar 04 2004 23:33 GMT) - (US) She admitted taking sample boxes of a form of Vicodin from her office for self-use and admitted using marijuana a few times from April to November of 2000. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(70%), $propaganda_theme2(70%), $propaganda_theme3(50%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(90%), $cannabis(100%), $narcotic(100%), $opioid(100%), $various_drugs(90%)] |
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Giants' Tyree found with marijuana (Mar 04 2004 23:33 GMT) - (US) Giants' Tyree found with marijuana Fort Lee, NJ (Sports Network) - New York Giants receiver David Tyree faces drug charges after his arrest Tuesday for possession of about a half-pound of marijuana. Horton then smelled what he believed to be marijuana, and after further interrogation o...[$drug_related(100%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(90%), $cannabis(100%), $various_drugs(90%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
TWiki.Plugins
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PageStatsPlugin (Mar 04 2004 23:33 GMT) - PageStatsPlugin Displays page statistics log (viewing and saving the page) Syntax Rules Write PAGESTATS or PAGESTATS{ parameters } to display the statistics of topics ... |
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