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- In a total reversal to the open-door policy Jets GM Terry Bradway and coach Herman Edwards subscribed to when they came to power, both men have cut off media access by declining to return phone calls or make themselves available... |
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- Joe Wilcox, who does most of the blogging over on the interesting Microsoft Monitor weblog: the Mind of Microsoft. Yeah, Joe's right. And he knows Microsoft better than I do. He's been covering the company for quite a few years now (used to write for CNET news. |
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- Could well be the case, Ruud. I exited out of IE6, but it was still quirky when I reloaded. So, I ended up having to reboot. There's no way JavaScript can do that, so I'm sure it was just a coincidence. |
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- Rafer Alston and many of the players on the And 1 street basketball videos have become popular because of the series being played on ESPN. Fans get the chance to see the best street ballplayers and learn the latest ballhandling... |
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- Shiite politician's relative mourned by Iraqis |
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- News Flash: The Friends, Volume II of The Interregnum, Rick Sutcliffe's Christian SF series, has won the 2004 EPPIE for the best science fiction novel of the year past. |
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- Surely a great tool, but is RSS any good for keeping up to date with weblog entries? In my experience very few bloggers have any idea on how to use the title/subject area to make their content any interesting. On Ecademy I had to resort to scanning the "full text" pages, as 99% of the titles appears as enticing as the dullest blog in the world (and they aren't even that funny) Well, in fact, what can we ask of non-professional-writers? Blogging is by its nature not only for the eye-catcher. But then, doesn't that make RSS good only if the source IS a professional content-maker? |
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- Surely a great tool, but is RSS any good for keeping up to date with weblog entries? In my experience very few bloggers have any idea on how to use the title/subject area to make their content any interesting. On Ecademy I had to resort to scanning the "full text" pages, as 99% of the titles appears as enticing as the dullest blog in the world (and they aren't even that funny) Well, in fact, what can we ask of non-professional-writers? Blogging is by its nature not only for the eye-catcher. But then, doesn't that make RSS good only if the source IS a professional content-maker? |
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- You know that idiot on the freeway who was driving with his pickup truck full of ladders? And they all flew off onto the road, obstructing like, 8 lanes of traffic? Well, I didn't quite do that, but it was... |
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- I know people by names, not by cute or totemic names for their things. So, would you be so kind as to include your name in your feed title or description, so that repetition will eventually pound it into my thick skull? Just seeing it in your copyright statement at the bottom of the page the rare times when I leave my aggregator isn't quite enough. |
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- Mortal love is but the licking of honey from thorns. --Anonymous woman at the court of Eleanor of Aquitaine, (1198), in Helen Lawrenson, Whistling Girl (1978) One must desire something, to be alive; perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name... |
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- One of the items on our shopping list for the next Great Grocery Adventure is "Lunch meat (uncivilized)". You see, the trunk of Votania's car, Angel, eats things, especially lunch meat. The last few times we've gone shopping and bought lunch meat, it's been swallowed up by the trunk. Votania hasn't discovered it until it had been there for a while, at which point it had developed a civilization. We need to do two things, here: |
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- I almost skipped the accessibility panel but I'm glad I didn't. As usual Jeffrey Veen did a great job of putting the current web practices into perspective with stories from the old school of web design. It used to be that every day was a battle with designers who were taking what they learned from the print or traditional multimedia worlds and trying to stamp it on to web design, whether it fit or not. But the new crop of designers look at building for the web as a craft. Veen says it's about "designing for the web natively. |
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- I almost skipped the accessibility panel but I'm glad I didn't. As usual Jeffrey Veen did a great job of putting the current web practices into perspective with stories from the old school of web design. It used to be that every day was a battle with designers who were taking what they learned from the print or traditional multimedia worlds and trying to stamp it on to web design, whether it fit or not. But the new crop of designers look at building for the web as a craft. Veen says it's about "designing for the web natively. |
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- The next 12 months are going to be a watershed in the way the world behaves, for in the next 12 months Russia, Germany, Spain, Malaysia, USA, UK, and we here in Australia, go to the Polls. |
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- My boss met Orkut the other day (the real one who works at Google, not the social software service). I'm so jealous. That reminds me, I gotta catch up on adding people to Orkut (sorry for being lazy). Lenn told me he asked about Marc Canter being put in Orkut jail. I hope I'm not speaking out of turn, but from what I heard Marc won't be put in jail anymore. |
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- That's like my new found interest, after just one script. It's a really good time pass, especially when it's a script that hasn't been made into a movie yet, in which case it'll probably never be made into a movie,... |
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- Dawn Of The DeadThis looks absolutely fucking cool. I can't wait to see it. |
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- The birds routinely fly to 10,000ft at night-time, around 4,000ft higher than previously thought. Swifts are also able to navigate through different wind speeds while sleeping, automatically adjusting their flight to stay on a specific course. The astonishing findings form part of new research conducted by Dr Johan Backman, a specialist in bird migration at Lund University in Sweden. |
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- Extensive resource which features tons of rare pictures, audio files and unique content on Charles Manson and the family's victims. |
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- Frequently asked questions of the IRS which will hopefully help you at Tax Time. Sorted by category and sub-category. |
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- A super website devoted to Microsoft's Age of Mythology game. Has links to the other "Age of ..." games. |
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- I thought about tacking this onto the last entry, but I actually like each entry being one a single topic (even if that topic is pretty broad), so I decided to create a new one for this rather short entry. My blog. My rules. Bleeach! Bleaach is pretty close, actually. |
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- sometimes I smoke cigars. I really, usually, don't inhale. [I must be a Clinton relative] |
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- Maybe it's me. Maybe it's this site. Maybe it's because this site is about advertising and the readers are hip to the click....so they don't. When Google AdSense text ads were added to this site, it turned out to be a very profitable venture. |
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- While we Americans are getting all up in arms about 9/11 imagery in presidential ads, a candidate in the Taiwanese presidential election ran an ad that compares the sitting president to Hitler. The ad appeared in three of the nations largest daily newspap |
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- The man most famous for his incoherent mumblings wants to be your pitchman. That's right. Marlon Brando has a demo tape on CED Voices, a voice talent search engine. Listening to the demo, you can just picture him gasping for air between every utterance as |
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- Pop hottie Britney Spears has signed a deal with Elizabeth Arden to develop and market a line of fragrance, skincare and color cosmetics. In an effort to change its luck with teenage appeal, Elizabeth Arden is tapping Spears to get the cobwebs out of the |
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- The Apple iPod has taken over the St. George subway station in Toronto. Basically everything in the station has bee grafted with Apple iPod imagery even the staircase which was turned into a gigantic version of the print campaign. While expensive, these r |
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Friday Five (Mar 14 2004 05:52 GMT) - Day late. 1. What was the last song you heard? Listening right now, Itchycoo Park by the Small Faces. 2. |
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- The stuff we mentioned above, especially the hidden links stuff are things that Google specifically are against. |
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- As sitcom stars go, Larry David's about as unlikely a hero as you could get. In "Curb Your Enthusiasm" - the hit HBO comedy which has its season finale tonight - his character is an obnoxious, bile-spewing misanthrope with serious... |
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- The horrific bombings in Madrid has an Al-Qaeda m.o but I wouldn't rule out some ETA involvement. Still, there are plenty of Moroccans in Spain. One of them stole my passport some years ago. |
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- Home tonight because i'm in pain from rock climbing (ouch) and Sheila's in pain because of a slipped disc or some such thing (she'll find out monday when they examine her mri). She keeps singing "I haven't got time for the pain" and she's on many muscle relaxents. It's quite funny actually - though probably not to her at this moment and I feel bad for her so I made her chocolate chip carmel cookies and gave her some milk to help. We're both hoping she's better for the st. patrick day festivities - but the big day will... |
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- HUm...Inferno pra mim tem buzina, sapato apertado, e a Simone cantando qualquer coisa... |
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- Cavs management will soon crank up a promotional campaign to draw NBA postseason award votes for Paul Silas (Coach of the Year), Jim Paxson (General Manager of the Year), LeBron James (Rookie of the Year), Carlos Boozer and Zydrunas Ilgauskas... |
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