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- Political correctness is one of those morbidly facinating topics that... |
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- p. Political correctness is one of those morbidly facinating topics that seem to always exist, seething away in the background. You can forget about them for a little while, sure,... |
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- DAWG project The goal: write a cool, easy to use, easy to install, attractive, and VERY flex... |
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- Badmash has gone and upped the ante. Their latest installment is a riot. The Singhsons is a spoof on the hit animation series The Simpsons. It was created for The Funjabis, a UK-based comedy group. You will need Flash Player and a fast connection to see the one minute creation.... |
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- Nachdem wir im letzten Monat unser neues Heimkino-Forum auf www.heimkino.net freigeschaltet haben, öffnet nun auch der eingegliederte Heimkino Shop seine Pforten. Damit ergänzen wir unser Online-Angebot, das unter der Internet-Adresse www.beamer. |
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- Aktualität des Inhalts, volle PC-Funktionalität und die hohe Attraktivität machen unsere info.tainment Säule ideal für Ihren Empfangs-, Bewirtungs- oder Konferenzbereich. Als virtueller Verkäufer und Informationsterminal entlastet sie Ihr Personal, belebt Ihren Geschäftsraum und ermöglicht so eine direkte und erinnerungswirksame Ansprache ihrer Zielgruppe. |
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- Badmash has gone and upped the ante. Their latest installment is a riot. The Singhsons is a spoof on the hit animation series The Simpsons. It was created for The Funjabis, a UK-based comedy group. You will need Flash Player and a fast connection to see the one minute creation.... |
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- Occasionally, I get mail: Hi James: I have been doing a petition (to make) the Islands of Turks & Caicos Canada's 11th Province. It is worded the same as MP Peter Goldring's Motion and will accompany the Motion to the... |
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- Guverner Madarskej narodnej banky (MNB) Zsigmond Jarai bude zastancom neskorsieho vstupu krajiny do mechanizmu vymennych kurzov ERM-2, pokial vlada oddiali svoj ciel vstupu do Europskej menovej unii (EMU) |
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- Kevin McGeehee finds Disney’s choice as new chariman somewhat amusing. I don’t know—many have argued that the U. |
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- The Fed that librarians love to hate, John Ashcroft, has been hospitalized with pancreatitis. story here from Reuters News Service . Ashcroft is in intensive care for a case of what doctors call a "severe case of gallstone pancreatitis." |
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- Libraries and privacy is a short editorial from The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner on Alaska Senate Bill 269, to give a child's parents or legal guardian access to that child's library records. They say parents should know what their child is doing, who their child is hanging out with, what their child is reading. It's that last one, though, that has drawn a bit of attention lately in the Legislature. |
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- Story From Queen's College in Canada says there has recently been a sudden increase in thefts at Stauffer. “During the first two weeks in February, we had a rash of thefts,†Musgrave said. She said there were between 10 and 12 reports of theft during the two weeks. Musgrave said incidents of theft are an ongoing problem, but the increase is unusual. In other news from Queen's, Rick Mercer is coming to campus! |
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- ffirehorse writes "The San Francisco Library Commission will consider spending $1 million to adopt RFID technology for library books at its meeting tonight, according to the San Francisco Chronicle: Here's The Story" The story says critics fear it could plunge the library's customers into Orwellian quicksand, allowing everybody from government investigators to computer hackers to peek into the sacrosanct privacy of the book bag. Word From The Meeting. |
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- 8-year-old Jason Goldsberry went to use the downstairs men's room at the Council Bluffs Public Library. "My son came upstairs and had a shocked, unbelievable look on his face like something was wrong," his dad said. "He said he had a problem, that there were papers laying on the floor with naked people on them and stuff." In her first week as the new library director, Barbara Peterson has found herself in the middle of a long-running local as well as national debate over filters. Full Story |
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- Charles Davis writes Story from BBC NEWS The world's smallest book just one millimetre square is among a number of unusual volumes on display at Aberystwyth to mark World Book Day. Old King Cole, a 12-page book of the famous nursery rhyme, is part of an exhibition at The National Library of Wales at Aberystwyth. The miniscule volume is one of only 85 copies printed by Scottish publishers in 1985 and can only be read using a microscope. Among the other rare books on public view are the oldest book printed using moveable type in the 15th Century, the first printed book in Welsh, and also the smallest book in Welsh. Sion Jobbins, marketing officer at the library, said the books would be on display for the next two weeks. |
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- nbruce writes "Today's Wall Street Journal refers to a press release by Stanford's HighWire Press when discussing the problem of rising costs of scholarly journals. I can't be positive this link is the exact one, but it should be close.WSJ reported that Stanford is taking a stand against rising costs through its online publishing service, HighWire Press, a division of the library.Faculty are encouraged not to peer-review or publish research in exploitive, for-profit publishers.Also, The foundation for the Public Library of Science (PLoS) is described thus: |
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- Several Queens University students have had belonging stolen from libraries across the campus, resulting in the increase in an increase in security. Read the full story in The Journal |
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- U.S. Feb. Payrolls Rose 21,000, Less Than Forecast March 5 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. |
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- All the action as Jo Pavey and Jason Gardener lead the British medal charge. |
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- A British man is killed in an avalanche in a mountainous area of Turkey. |
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- Three fishermen escape a blaze aboard the fishing boat Elegance off the coast of Orkney. |
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- Microsoft plans to deliver the first service pack for Office 2003 in late June. The company released the date recently in an announcement about feature changes coming in SP1 for the InfoPath 2003 component, a forms client intended primarily for use within XML-based business processes. According to Microsoft, the late June delivery date for Office 2003 SP1 applies both to United States and international customers. |
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- Looking at the divide between silly America and serious America. by Hugh Hewitt JOHN EDWARDS had one thing right: There... |
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- Wanted: Washington insider with affection for film industry: It's one of the most prestigious and powerful lobbying positions in the... |
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- And why I want WiFi. lying on my futon on a sunday afternoon -- surfing the web and watching match play between tiger and davis love III....no wires and total relaxation. [Eric Norlin's Weblog] |
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- Libraries that let patrons photocopy their holdings are not automatically violating copyright law, says the Supreme Court of Canada. CNews, March 4, 2004 |
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- Project administrators: davide178 |
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- Project description: Sushi is a suite of GNOME application that allow people to play a pen-and-paper game across the Internet. |
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- Der Proust-Spleen vieler meiner Lieblingsweblogschreiber macht mir langsam Komplexe. (9 wörter) |
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Friday Five (Mar 05 2004 15:57 GMT) - It is a typical rainy, gray early spring day outside. The sadness of the weather combined with the joys of PMS makes me want to spend the day in bed with a good book. But, I feel awful taking time... |
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