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- REUTERS: Dollar Falls, Greenspan Heart Attack Rumor The dollar weakened broadly on Wednesday after rumors that Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan had suffered a heart attack roiled the markets, traders said. The Fed declined to comment on the rumors. And... |
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- Canadian RBC Royal Bank has launched a new no fee Visa rewards card that gives consumers the ability to earn points towards travel, merchandise and gift certificates. |
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Pop ups??? (Mar 31 2004 15:59 GMT) - I first saw this in a Kos diary, but without a link I was not willing to believe it. Now... |
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- Other World Computing offers its new OWC Mercury G4/500-600 ZIF for the Blue & White G3 PowerMacs and G4 "Yikes& |
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- Alabama takes Croom's name off spring award The University of Alabama football team gives out awards for spring practice. (Which, contrary to the ravings of various basketball pundits last week, is over.) They're named after former players. One of the... |
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- Alabama takes Croom's name off spring award The University of Alabama football team gives out awards for spring practice. (Which, contrary to the ravings of various basketball pundits last week, is over.) They're named after former players. One of the... |
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- John Jakala analyzes the problems with Scholastic pulling Shonen Jump from their sales list. |
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- There isn't enough good writing about the craft of comic art. Artist Steve Lieber is filling that gap with some great stuff about panel rhythm. |
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- A fascinating exploration of the politics of Kirby's New Gods. |
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- My list of what I'm looking forward to from the April Previews Catalog, with links and snarky comments, plus tracking average comic prices from DC and Marvel. |
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- Tokyopop has gone exclusive with Diamond for comic market distribution and raised their discount to retailers. |
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- One Bad Day, a light-hearted crime thriller by Steve Rolston, is the newest Comic Worth Reading. |
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- The death toll has reached 105 as scientists try to pinpoint what is killing bottlenose dolphins off the Florida Panhandle. Most of the deaths have occurred in and around St. Joseph's Bay in Gulf County, but the last two carcasses were discovered Tuesday west of here in neighboring Bay County at Mexico Beach and Panama City Beach. |
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- The North Texas Daily has one on a lecture on the history of banned books and information given by Frances May, Coordinator of User Education and Outreach. The presentation, hosted by the Texas Academy of Math and Science, gave brief background information about the beginnings of censorship and detailed what May feels are the positive aspects of books challenged mostly by concerned parents. |
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- The Jerusalem Post has an opinion piece by Daniel Pipes, who says books make up the heart of the scholarly enterprise. Articles disappear, media analyses vaporize, and classroom lectures effervesce; books endure. They build the edifice of knowledge and potentially acquire an influence across the generations. He asks: |
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- The largest supplier of books to Dutch libraries, NBD/Biblion, is going hi-tech and is planning to replace the bar code on its books with an RFID chip. A supplier of some 2.7m books annually, NBD/Biblion hopes to use this technology to streamline its own business processes. It should also help libraries locate and track their books more effectively, make checking-in and -out of books easier and improve the quality of (self-) service. Full Story. |
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- News Out Of Australia where Education Minister Paula Wriedt will not restrict access to a controversial book which is in Tasmanian school libraries and details suicidal thoughts in explicit language. Ms Wriedt said yesterday the novel Dear Miffy, written by acclaimed children's author John Marsden, should not be subjected to censorship. The book is based around the letters of angry teenager Tony, who pours out his desperate suicidal thoughts to his former girlfriend Miffy. The book is loaded with expletives, and Internet references note that its contents are confronting and may offend some readers. |
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- The Ontario government is looking into whether it can use public libraries across the province as a way to provide people with better access to government services and information. Finance Minister Greg Sorbara said the idea was brought forward by a library association during the recent budget discussions. Libraries eyed as services provider is from the London Free Press. |
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- Kathleen de la Pena McCook sends this article from the St.Peteresburg (FL) Times about a citizen who was told his grassroots group could no longer circulate petitions during meetings at Citrus County (FL) libraries. "If there is a remedy for this, I would think it might start with small groups of Americans gathering in the community rooms of public libraries. Even if their purpose isn't 'neutral.' No, especially if it isn't. |
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- Here comes another "newly formed" group, calling itself 2004 Racism Watch, demanding that President Bush pull his campaign ad that contains a partial face shot of a man who could possibly be construed as "Middle Eastern:" Bush campaign asked to pull 'offensive' ad. (Hat tip: Tim Rosnau.) That darned "truth" ... |
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- Name, Kreditkartennummer, Telefonnummer - die USA ziehen nach einem Abkommen mit der EU-Kommission Daten von Einreisenden aus Europa ein. Erneut hat sich das EU-Parlament gegen diese Datenübermittlung ausgesprochen und Brüssel zu Änderungen aufgefordert. EU-Kommissar Bolkestein reagierte verärgert. |
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Wimber (Mar 31 2004 15:58 GMT) - Posted by pastor paul 3/31/2004 |
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- Posted by Baptist Renegade 3/31/2004 |
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- Posted by The Good Doctor 3/31/2004 |
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- Posted by Jack Hyles 3/31/2004 |
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- danbri: I only just read about this (via maxf). Paper deadline is April 1st. Hurry!; danbri: |
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- peepo: Semantic Web: e-government case study within a major Integrated Project; (2004-03-31 13:07) |
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- This has been one long extra week. I am glad to be going home tomorrow, if only for 8 days. Ick! 8 days off in seven weeks! You can bet I won't be working the trucks this time home. |
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- This has been one long extra week. I am glad to be going home tomorrow, if only for 8 days. Ick! 8 days off in seven weeks! You can bet I won't be working the trucks this time home. |
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- UtahPolitics.org is proud to announce a virtual gubernatorial candidate debate. Starting next week, we will regularly present participating candidates with questions provided by you. This is a great opportunity to get detailed answers to your questions about candidate views. As... |
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- You have probably heard about the launch of this new progressive radio syndicate. The first broadcast of the O'Franken Factor will be at 9:00 am PT, with other quality liberal-focused programming for the rest of the day; the goal is to to have all Democratic-talk, all the time. Let's give them good ratings, so that other markets will pick up the shows before the year's end... |
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- Some of you may have noticed that from time to time I talk about our foster cats here—I do a teeny-tiny amount of work with our local, new humane society, and take in kitties now and then and care for them until someone wants to adopt them. We had a monthly meeting last night, and I got elected to the humane society board, so now I suppose I'm going to have to start doing a little... |
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- Six men were arrested today by police investigating the murder of a pensioner in Northern Ireland. |
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- The Department of Foreign Affairs has confirmed that the number of people queuing for passports in Dublin has doubled due to the postal dispute. |
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- Pupils at over 100 Northern Ireland schools are to get healthier school meals. |
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- Two Filipino couples were today considering leaving their home in Northern Ireland after it was attacked for the second time in a week. |
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- Life imprisonment faces those convicted of terrorist offences against shipping under a tough new Bill being introduced by the Government in the aftermath of the Madrid attacks. |
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Surf Titan (Mar 31 2004 15:57 GMT) - Now that the Cassini probe is nearly to Saturn, some scientists decided to see just what an ocean would... |
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- This is looking to be a "cheerleading" day, so the Yellow-Dog Peanut Gallery may just want to... well, now... |
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- Robert H. gets a giant robotic no-prize for bringing us Vehicle to autonomous biped robot conversion for the Mini... |
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- The kids apparently took the body down and dragged parts of it to two separate locations in the nearby... |
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