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- Congress is right: eliminating cable packages would help intensify competition. |
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- Karzai makes serious efforts to wean Afghanistan's economy off of drugs. |
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- Bush should not have used Federal employees to look over Kerry's tax plan. |
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- Foreign policy - and Bush's record - should be brought into discussions. |
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- A church-state connection may lessen the degeneration of Iraq and Afghanistan. |
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- The fight for women's rights continues despite an increasing amount of violence towards activists. |
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- Militant attacks have killed 42 people so far, rocking a key ally in the US war on terror. |
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- Despite a recount agreement, the pro-China Kuomintang party is beginning to prepare itself for a loss, analysts say. |
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- Hopes are high that train line will boost trade with Asia. |
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- Bush made major changes to his predecessor's list of foreign policy priorities, as all new administrations do. |
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- As OPEC decides to cut production, Bush and Kerry trade barbs over prices and energy policy. |
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- To crack down on white-collar crime, US has beefed up sentencing guidelines. |
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- Although tight budgets have significantly limited coverage, states' insurance programs persist. |
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- States have begun to use |
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- Homeless shelters are setting up voter registries. |
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- With schools facing tightening budgets, several university presses close. |
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- A simple air-sampling device is empowering communities to take polluters to task. |
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- My teenage son notices certain changes coming over me with the advent of spring. |
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- We worried that the cockroach trio would make too much noise or leave a bad odor. |
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- Discover the origins of 'April' and 'to wing it' in this occasional Word Chase feature. |
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- Today's article on Christian Science. |
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- When I was a kid, my mother often commented that she was frustrated that no doctors would give the smallpox vaccine. It wasn't available because smallpox had been eradicated, and smallpox only existed in two places on earth - at... |
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- The GOP is accusing the Kerry campaign of illegally using soft money to buy ads in key markets by coordinating with groups like MoveOn.org in ad buys. One third-party ad focused on Kerry's economic plan, despite the fact that Kerry... |
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- Ein in deutschen Landen nicht ganz soooo bekannter Schriftsteller ist William Faulkner. Geboren wurde er am 25.09.1897 in New Albany (Mississippi, USA). Er stammte aus einer Pflanzerfamilie aus den Südstaaten und lebte ab 1926 bis zu seinem Tode al... |
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- Over the years, commentators on media et al (Marshall McLuhan among them) have offered their opinions on the way we perceive ideas. Here's a reminder about the physicality of books from an author at Michigan Technological University and how they change our perception of our universe. John Holmond's concern is that "It is important to ask what is lost by using computers because there is a chance that what is lost may be lost forever." |
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- Wired Is Running A Piece in which Viet Dinh is interviewed. They say he has been called a "political pit bull" and "a foot soldier" for Attorney General John Ashcroft. But the 36-year-old author of the Patriot Act prefers to be called an "attendant of freedom." "I have the utmost respect for those who engage in this (national conversation), even when I am unfairly maligned because those persons are willing to engage in order to advance the national conversation and contribute meaningfully to our process of governance. Somebody once said that democracy is not a spectator sport. |
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- An Anonymous Patron sends us this story cluing us in that Bangalore is a haven for book-lovers. The article mentions the legendary book fair, Kolkata Boi Mela, and discusses several excellent bookstores in depth. I think we all need to check this story out for ourselves... |
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- search engine web sends us info on Google's new search tools, including Personalized Web Search, Web Alerts, and Numrange Search (enables you to pull up relevant results that fall between any two numbers you choose). There are also a number of new wireless options. See http://www. google. |
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- MSNBC Reports from yellow pages with just Christian vendors, to gyms where members pump iron with God’s word as inspiration — in a country where at least 40 percent of Americans claim they read the Bible at least once a day — religion sells. More popular than Harry Potter in some parts of America, “Glorious Appearing” is a work of fiction, based on Scriptures in the bible. This book, the final in a series of 12, was once considered part of a niche market. But now, with more than 40 million sold, Tuesday the books went on sale at that most mainstream of stores, Wal-Mart. |
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- On History channel at 7:00EST it is about Diamond mining Here is |
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- A substitute teacher is under arrest accused of assaulting a seven-year-old boy. Police say the teacher slipped a string around the child's neck and drew it tight because the boy didn't do his homework. |
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- Most recent daily statistics (26 Mar 2004): Ranking: 0, Activity percentile: 0.00%, |
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- Most recent daily statistics (26 Mar 2004): Download count: 0 |
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- Tracker description: Bug Tracking System |
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- Tracker description: Patch Tracking System |
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- Project description: Dawn of the Titans is a project to provide basic softcode/hardcode snippets, advice, and documentation for BattleTechMUX players and staffers alike. This is of particular interest to BTMux coders and admins. |
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- Project administrators: grantblackman, patrickblackman |
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- International Comment Week Up til friday it's international comment week apparently.... come on join in... it'll be fun DJ... |
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- International Comment Week Up til friday it's international comment week apparently.... come on join in... it'll be fun DJ... |
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- Web & Internet Technologies Content Management Systems I been a user, designer and developer of Content Management Systems (CMS) for years and have recently been investigating the current "Open Source"market leaders. The following 4 CMS's have similar levels of functionality. Drupal postnuke phpnuke ezcontents These are all open source LAMP systems using Apache MySql & PHP. You can check these out at http://www. |
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- Web & Internet Technologies Content Management Systems I been a user, designer and developer of Content Management Systems (CMS) for years and have recently been investigating the current "Open Source"market leaders. The following 4 CMS's have similar levels of functionality. Drupal postnuke phpnuke ezcontents These are all open source LAMP systems using Apache MySql & PHP. You can check these out at http://www. |
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