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- New addition to the solar system. Is it a planet or isn't it? Today, CalTech astronomers announced the discovery of a "planetoid" eight billion miles from Earth, or more more than three times the distance of Pluto. With a size approximately three-quarters that of Pluto, it is very likely the largest object found in the solar system since the discovery of Pluto in 1930. Link [Boing Boing] |
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- Be at your hostly best! Here are some tips on how to be a superlative Meetup Host. Get there 5-10 minutes early and be on the lookout for people in your group. Let the bartender/host/manager of the Meetup venue... |
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- I don't think I have a theme today, which would not leave me in good stead with my 7th grade |
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- Most recent daily statistics (21 Feb 2004): Ranking: 0, Activity percentile: 0.00%, |
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- Most recent daily statistics (21 Feb 2004): Download count: 0 |
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- Public mailing lists: sushi-devel |
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- Public discussion forums: Open Discussion, Help |
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- Tracker description: Bug Tracking System |
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- Tracker description: Tech Support Tracking System |
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- Tracker description: Patch Tracking System |
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- Tracker description: Feature Request Tracking System |
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- Most recent daily statistics (21 Feb 2004): Commit count: 0; Add count: 0 [Web-based access to repository] |
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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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- Project administrators: davide178 |
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- Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, the Spanish Prime Minister-elect and new herald of European degeneration, resorts -- I like to think of myself as creative; I could not make this up -- to Maoist rhetoric in distancing himself from the policies of Bush, Blair |
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- black girl showing pussy in public old slut sucks and fucks at once redheaded teen masturbating on bed Babes showing their delicious tits Blonde fucked hard and jizzed on Leggy luscious MILF getting nailed Soapy asian teen rubs her fine... |
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- Skip Perry has setup a tournament pool & has invited bloggers/readers to participate, so join in! There is no entry fee, which also means no payout, but of course there's blog bragging rights on the line. If more than 10 people get in, I'll post the top three finishers & |
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- The International Council of Museums (ICOM) is a non-governmental organisation with formal links to UNESCO. It serves as an international organisation for museums and museum professionals, providing information and guidelines relating to heritage conservation, and promoting awareness of museums. The ICOM web site explains the remit of the organisation, and provides news, policy documents, and museum directories. Recent press releases may be read online, and a calendar of ICOM meetings and events publicises forthcoming activities. International Museum Day is promoted, and there are pages devoted to past such days, explaining the chosen themes, reporting on activities, and providing annotated bibliographies of publications relating to each day. |
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- Mom sends me this site which includes judge recommendations if you are trying to decide who to vote for tomorrow.... |
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- The National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH) is a collaborative project of The American Council of Learned Societies, the Coalition for Networked Information, the Getty Information Institute, and other non-profit arts, humanities, and social science organisations. NINCH assures leadership in the development of a digital environment to serve the 'cultural community', by promoting the idea of a connected, distributed, and accessible collection of cultural knowledge. It also seeks to create a collaborative network for sharing ideas and experience, and to offer a framework for developing projects and resources. The NINCH web site explains the work the organisation undertakes, and provides access to reports, guidelines, and tools for those involved with humanities computing and the development of web resources for the arts and humanities. Forums, meetings, and conferences are publicised on the site. |
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- The CH Working Papers (or Computing in the Humanities Working Papers) web site hosts a number of essays about various aspects of humanities computing. The essays are refereed and freely available online. They are grouped into several categories: articles appearing for the first time; postprints of articles originally published in print format; |
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- Red Clydeside is written by academics and published as part of the Glasgow Digital Library at the University of Strathclyde. Red Clydeside provides a mixture of narrative material and primary sources on the Scottish labour movement in Glasgow, from 1910-1932. The site is split into five sections, key political figures, timeline of events, political parties and organisations, literature and propaganda, and images. The first four sections are text-based, providing information about different aspects of labour activity in Scotland, whilst the last is a list of all the digitised material included in Red Clydeside. Included here are photographs, diagrams, letters, cartoons, articles, leaflets, manifestos, and election ephemera. |
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- E-DOCS is an email discussion group for academics involved in editing and publishing historical documents on the Internet. It is intended to foster information exchange between those engaged in such projects or with views on such topics as access, transcription, quality control, copyright and other legal problems, document markup and annotation, teaching applications, and textual analysis. The list has been used to: announce new projects, publications, and funding; to advertise job vacancies; |
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- Conner Prairie is a living history museum in the U.S state of Indiana, which aims to educate people on the history of the Midwest during the nineteenth century, focusing particularly on Frontier life. History Online is part of the Museum's web site, and it features many well-written articles on life in Indiana from 1830-1890. The bulk of the articles can be found in the sections 'Life in the 1830s' and 'Life in the 1880s', in which many topics are covered, including religion, politics, agriculture, society, and medicine. There is a separate section on the Lenape Indians and Captain John Connor, and a small collection of primary documents. |
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- The People's History Museum is the national centre for the collection, conservation, interpretation and study of material relating to the history of working people in Britain. On this web site users can access information about the museum and it's collections. Amongst the resources available is the Labour History Archive and Study Centre (LHASC), which holds records for working class political organisations from the Chartists to New Labour and is managed by the John Rylands University Library of Manchester. The most useful section of the web site is the searchable database of the museum's collections. This enables access to a wide range of material, including individual objects as well as special collections, and it combines a good number of digitized materials accompanied with explanatory text. |
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- This site provides an online facsimile of the Edward IV Roll (Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Books Department, MS Lewis E201). This roll, an illustrated history of the world with a genealogy of Edward IV, was produced circa 1461. This site provides a good introduction aimed at the general public. It begins with an historical overview, setting the scene of the Wars of the Roses. Following this there are discussions of heraldry, banners and badges. |
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- More information on the positive impact of ginseng on diabetes here and here. And of course there is my previous post on Ginseng and obesity here.... |
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- Matthew writes: “We have a winner!” announced DARPA officials. “For the first time in a military project, the tax payers have not borne the cost for a failed weapons system development program. Rather, we’ve offloaded those massive losses onto civilian contestants whose ability to project costs and deliver projects appears to be about equal to major defense contractors. |
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- He had better melodies than JB, and generally far more interesting lyrics. Sly was about something. |
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- SoCal city falls victim to Internet hoax, considers banning items made with water A cautionary tale of believing everything you read on the web. Think something might be a hoax? Run it through one of these hoax databases Source: ResourceShelf... |
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XM radio (Mar 16 2004 03:55 GMT) - Came across this article on XM Radio in a magazine at the gym, and it's pretty interesting. The XM folks... |
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- Elsewhere in Monday's newspapers: The Los Angeles Times reports that "Outdoor Church Going to Court in Land Fight; Huntington Beach cites zoning rules as Praise Christian seeks approval for indoor quarters." An article reports that "Man Died of Neglect, |
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- Arrest warrant filed for Charles McCoy Jr. |
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- This post on the DSCC blog stirred up some chatter... |
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- The Illinois Senate primary is tomorrow, and Obama and Ryan... |
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Open Thread (Mar 16 2004 03:55 GMT) - Wow. $12,000 raised in a single day and counting. Almost... |
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- Well, well... Kerry never talked about "foreign leaders" supporting him.... |
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- Last week, we covered the Senate candidacy of Inez Tenenbaum... |
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- (Updated post again, 5 p.m. PST.) Lots of you are... |
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- Tired of fighting Bush's War, Spain's new government has announced... |
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