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DECU (Apr 16 2004 04:59 GMT) - I woke up late today but didn’t rush because I was going to be participating in the 8:30am bridge call... |
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- What does Bush have to apologize for? And more in Thursday's QuickLinks. (150 words) |
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- search engine web writes "Stanford Builds Valuable Persian Collection for New Islamic Studies Dept. Banani, who earned a doctorate from Stanford in 1959, donated his professional library of more than 2,000 items, including Persian literature published in Iran and abroad, contemporary Iranian history, literary journals and manuscripts. The collection adds to more than 7,000 items recently donated by Ali Djalali, former editor of Kayhan, a Tehran newspaper, who left Iran around the time of the Islamic Revolution. That collection includes ephemera such as posters and handbills from anti-Shah rallies in this country, Eilts said." |
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- Fang-Face writes " This is how easy it is. And this sort of loss is something that makes me feel ill. Five years of writing by fifteen women wiped out by neo-fascists AND the hard drives seized as if deletion simply wasn't good enough. Keep your e-books, Dave, I'll stick to hard copy. Burning real books is no less heartbreaking, but it's nowhere near as easy as this. |
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- Pete writes " The BBC reports that the inventor of the world wide web, Tim Berners-Lee, has won a prestigious award which comes with a prize bag of one million euros (£671,000).The "Father of the Web" was named as the first winner of the Millennium Technology Prize by the Finnish Technology Award Foundation.The famously modest man never went on to commercialise his work. Instead he worked on expanding the use of the net as a channel for free expression and collaboration." |
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- Steffers writes "Yahoo! is reporting that Purdue Univ. researchers have developed a 3-D search engine. The idea is that search engines are limited by only being able to search with words; whereas a 3-D search engine could search for 3-D objects. |
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- Here are news stories from a few public libraries about planned activities for National Library Week, April 18-25 (or as some say it starts on the 19th and ends on the 24th). Plans of course, run the gamut from computer classes, kids programs, quilting, picnicing and read-a-thons. from Guam ; Arkansas ; Missouri ; |
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- From Managing Information: The Endangered Archives Programme is the largest of its kind ever undertaken in the world and will be administered by the British Library's archives team in conjunction with a panel of international experts. The programme will be formally launched in the autumn and the first grants are expected to be made next year. Initial funding will enable the programme to run for about eight years, but it is hoped that this can be extended ... The Programme is a response to world-wide threats to historical and cultural records from wars, natural disasters, ignorance and neglect. |
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- This New York Times story was forwarded on to me by a law librarian that has to work with tax protestors on a daily basis. The protestors try to use the law library to show that old cases and statutes say that you do not have to pay your taxes. In a Lawsuit, U.S. Accuses a Tax Adviser of Fraud This is library related in that libraries can be used to provide good information to people so that they stay on the correct side of the law. |
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- Nokian merkitys Suomen kansantaloudelle on vähentynyt. Elinkeinoelämän tutkimuslaitoksen Etlan alustavien laskelmien mukaan Nokia ei viime vuonna kasvattanut Suomen kansantuotetta enä |
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- sun rays : richmond, va : 15 April 2004 |
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- The Beeb reports a £671,000 award for Tim Berners-Lee. |
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- Peachpit has released the first Apple-certified training 'courseware' for the popular new GarageBand... |
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- i've found it's a good way to take care of one's mental health. best of luck. |
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- Most recent daily statistics ( 9 Apr 2004): Ranking: 774, Activity percentile: 95.29%, |
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- Most recent daily statistics ( 9 Apr 2004): Download count: 20 |
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- Public mailing lists: gpu-world |
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- Public discussion forums: Help, Open Discussion, Developers, Network status |
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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: Feature Request Tracking System |
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- Most recent daily statistics ( 9 Apr 2004): Commit count: 0; Add count: 0 [Web-based access to repository] |
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- America's largest talent search, the 22nd Annual Colgate Country Showdown National Final airs on April 17 at 12 p.m. on ABC 7. It will feature six regional winners, each competing for the grand prize of $100,000 and the coveted title "Best New Act in Country Music." Billy Ray Cyrus, country music artist and actor, and Kassie DePaiva, star of "One Life To Live", co-host the event from Walt Disney World Resorts. |
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- Some of the world's elite figure skaters will be in Chicago on Sunday for the John Hancock Champions on Ice show. Michelle Kwan and Elvis Stojko are among the headliners who will skate in more than 30 cities in the next few weeks. |
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- One of the most important things to remember when ordering prom flowers is that today's prom goers are far savvier than their parents were at the same age. They are very interested in achieving an overall polished look that is completely their own. Everything from the clothing style, to the professionally done hair and make-up shows attention to detail that is amazing and ahead of their years. The style focus is on individuality and sophistication. The goal, with flowers, is to enhance the look of the ensemble. |
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- Project description: GPU is a Gnutella client for sharing files and CPU-resources. Our objective is to develop a robust framework for distributed computing on a peer-to-peer grid. We hope to support peaceful, open and free research and to build a cheap supercomputer. |
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- Project administrators: akoese, dangermaus, seeschloss, wppetersen |
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- "Government at all levels is stampeding towards open source software but should not be blinded by popular myths, say analysts..." |
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- Wfaa.com - Apr 16 2004 8:24:0 GMT |
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- Sacbee.com - Apr 16 2004 8:23:0 GMT |
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- Chron.com - Apr 16 2004 8:21:0 GMT |
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- Wvgazette.com - Apr 16 2004 8:12:0 GMT |
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- Fox8wghp.com - Apr 16 2004 8:11:0 GMT |
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- Channelcincinnati.com - Apr 16 2004 8:7:0 GMT |
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- Knoxnews.com - Apr 16 2004 8:6:0 GMT |
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- Project description: SushiWiki is a WikiWikiWeb like Web application running on .NET platforms. It is written in C#, uses ASP.NET features and stores data in SQL databases or flat XML files. |
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- Project administrators: egroise |
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- Most recent daily statistics ( 9 Apr 2004): Ranking: 4448, Activity percentile: 72.91%, |
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- Most recent daily statistics ( 9 Apr 2004): Download count: 13 |
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- Public mailing lists: sushiwiki-devel |
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