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- "A Middle Ground: Leave 'under God' in the pledge--and Howard Stern on the air." Alan Bromley has this essay today at OpinionJournal. |
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- In a city of 8 million, why narrow your selections? (I ask this with affection, and as someone who was born in Brooklyn, grew up in the Gothamic shadowlands of New Jersey, lived in Queens, and toiled for some years in Manhattan.) The NY Press is back with its annual list, many of which are on-target and many of which are not. What the hell, it's comforting to read a newspaper that uses the word douchebag as a spacefiller. Here's a rundown of some of the media types who got a Bronx cheer: |
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- "Numbers don't tell Mac's story", AL FASOLDT, The Post-Standard Your neighbor drives home with his new BMW and the first thing you say to him is a wisecrack about his car's low market share. You'd never do it. Nobody would. Most people drive Toyotas or Hondas or Fords, but that means nothing to the people who own BMWs. Right? |
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- TUCSON - Twenty-three suspected undocumented immigrants became robbery victims while trying to sneak into the United States, authorities said. |
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- Creating Sustainable Performance Improvement is not interesting because it is impossible. We would all love to do it, we would all love to operate business's where our staff cared about what they did and were proud of the result. But we know that making that change is a stupid dream. Or is it? |
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- Creating Sustainable Performance Improvement is not interesting because it is impossible. We would all love to do it, we would all love to operate business's where our staff cared about what they did and were proud of the result. But we know that making that change is a stupid dream. Or is it? |
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- the IBM websphere micro environment with support for MIDP 2.0 has now been officially released on the palmone website. it runs on Palms with OS 5 and and ARM processor, specifically the Treo 600, and the Tungsten and Zire lines. i'm not crazy that the VM isn't bundled with the Palm OS...that seems like it would have been a better deal for both palm and ibm. |
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- AP: World Court: U.S. Violated Mexicans' Rights The International Court of Justice on Wednesday ruled that the United States violated the rights of 51 Mexicans on death row and ordered their cases be reviewed. |
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- "A Federal Appeals Court Bars Release of 'Partial Birth' Abortion Records, And Offers an Interesting Perspective on Privacy Rights": Law Professor Michael C. Dorf has this essay today at FindLaw. |
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- UN strebt Frьhwarnsystem fьr regionale Konflikte an |
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- Air America starts airing today in major markets, here in the New York area on the perfectly named 1190 AM WLIB. |
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- O нndice S&P 100 iniciou a sessгo de hoje, dia 2004-03-30, sem alteraзхes face а cotaзгo de fecho da ъltima sessгo registando o valor de 550,46 pontos. |
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- A abertura de hoje no нndice S&P 500 realizou-se em tendкncia indefinida com a cotaзгo a atingir os 1.122,47 pontos. |
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- O нndice VOLAT. INDEX abriu hoje, dia 2004-03-30, com tendкncia de alta e registando uma subida de 1,09%, ao cotar nos 16,68 pontos. |
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- Can you be an AOL junkie? I'm dating a guy who has to be online 24/7 and its annoying me. How can I stop him? ~ Drake, 32, Omaha ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Do you like chocolate? How can I stop you from eating it everyday? |
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- I inattentively connected to one of our PIX firewalls yesterday from my Mac rather than the normal Citrix session, and while I'm sure in the past I've tried and failed, this time the PDM (PIX Device Manager) app started just ... |
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- Posters, sounds and some video are available at the Cold War Era Civil Defense Museum.... |
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- Posters, sounds and some video are available at the Cold War Era Civil Defense Museum. |
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- Listening to Al Franken on Air America Radio this morning, and it's really funny. That said, the streaming is really sucking for me, and is no doubt overloaded. I'm having to repeatedly connect because it keeps dropping me... you'd think it would at least stop for awhile and buffer instead. I checked the URL to see who is hosting the audio feed, and the link goes to: |
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- Drug agents broke up what they called a major ring distributing marijuana and ecstasy in 18 U.S. cities and Canada. Arrest warrants were issued for more than 150 people in the two countries, officials announced. The alleged ring leaders, Ze Wai Wong, 46, a Chinese national, and Mai Phuong Le, 38, a Vietnamese national, were taken into custody. |
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- MonthlEnewsВ® - Wednesday, 31 March 04 Dear Ecademist The March newsletter from Ecademy http://www.ecademy.com - Connecting Business People Contents: 1. |
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- MonthlEnewsВ® - Wednesday, 31 March 04 Dear Ecademist The March newsletter from Ecademy http://www.ecademy.com - Connecting Business People Contents: 1. |
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- I think MSN is having problems again, since I've had 18 new comments posted to the MSN Typo article in the past 3 hours, all from people who cannot connect to the MSN Messenger service. No word from Microsoft about... (106 words, 3 comments) |
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- E perchè sto cominciando a incazzarmi (e pesantemente) con certa sinistra... Scusate, supponete di essere sotto una minaccia seria, una spada di Damocle. |
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- Unfortunately I can no longer bear the bandwidth cost of running this service so I'm turning it off. There's a mirror at http://www. wcc. vccs. |
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- Число материалов о действующем президенте и о других кандидатах на пост главы государства в СМИ в период предвыборной кампании соотносится как 70 к 30, заявил сегодня на заседании "круглого стола" генеральный секретарь Союза журналистов России Игорь Яковенко. Он сослался на данные исследования Союза журналистов, которое финансировалось Еврокомиссией. Согласно исследованию, на федеральных телеканалах России число материалов о Владимире Путине составило 47% от общего числа материалов о кандидатах на пост главы государства ("Первый канал" - 37%, РТР - 52%). На НТВ количество материалов о В.Путине составило 56%. |
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- Sudan Detains Islamic Opposition Leader KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) - Security police detained Sudan's leading Islamic opposition leader early Wednesday, three days after members of his party were accused of conspiring to topple the government, his wife said. |
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- Throughout my viewing [of The Passion of the Christ], two young children screamed, as the audience implored their parents to remove them from the theatre, which they did not. Why anyone would take children to see this movie is beyond... |
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- Throughout my viewing [of The Passion of the Christ], two young children screamed, as the audience implored their parents to remove them from the theatre, which they did not. Why anyone would take children to see this movie is beyond me. People have no common sense. |
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- George Bush pops off about John Kerry, and John Kerry responds. Dick Cheney lobs an attack at John Kerry, and John Kerry responds. Condoleezza Rice tosses a grenade at John Kerry, and John Kerry responds. Colin Powell levels criticism at John Kerry, and John Kerry responds. Bill Frist snarks at John Kerry, and John Kerry responds. |
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- In today's edition of The St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Today's newspaper contains articles headlined "High court overturns adoption of Internet twins" and "Lawyers profit most in suit, defendant says." |
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- Modern Russia has entered a new revolutionary phase that is witnessing the consolidation of power, with the surviving revolutionaries and representatives of the old regime re-adjusting their positions. |
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- Last night, the Museum of Modern Art gave Sofia Coppola a lifetime achievement award for her decades of work in... |
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- Abzьge bei Faulheit im цffentlichen Dienst |
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- Thanks to Jason at the South Dakota Politics Blog for this one… “EMILY’s List is not a pro-abortion organization.” |
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- Sudan: humanitarian crisis in Darfur deteriorating, UN agencies say. United Nations Mar 31 2004 0:18AM GMT [Moreover - Human rights news] |
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- Islamic Activists Pressure Students at Iraq's Universities Religious student groups – some backed by political parties – are attempting to enforce strict Islamic standards of behaviour at Iraqi universities and are intimidating anyone who tries to stop them, lecturers and other students say. |
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- Canadian authorities laid their first terrorism charges under Canada's new post-September 11 anti-terror legislation Tuesday after RCMP officers arrested the Canadian-born son of Pakistani immigrants in an operation in Ottawa. Mohammad Momin Khawaja, 24, |
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- HSBC wrote to me a few months ago asking me to pay a debt of £1200. I told them that I work part time three days a week (my grades are seriously suffering and i've already failed a module) for... |
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- Today is the day of last days. The last day of this quarter (with its inevitable administrative burdens, tax forms). It's also the last day that the Postbank m-phone solution (in cooperation with Telfort) will be operational. And my goal is to be actually the very last customer that has made a transaction with the system. Today also marks the end of an era (1992-2004) in which drs. |
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- Time Inc. to Launch ALL YOU -- Source: PRNewswire, March 29, 2004. "ALL YOU will be a newsstand publication initially... |
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- Someone famous once said that youth is wasted on the young. That's not far from the truth. Even though wisdom gained in later life could have been put to good use when young, age is not the limiting factor it used to be, provided we take care of the hardware along with the software. |
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- Update on an earlier story: A Taliban spokesman says Mullah Omar was not recently injured in an American airstrike. |
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