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- The Beta 7 of Domino and Notes are out now. |
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- MAYBE HE'S OUT AT A BAR DRINKING HIS WORRIES AWAY? I'VE BEEN THERE, LOL........ |
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- Korean appliances manufacturer Samsung Electronics is reportedly prepared to use Linux as the major operating system in its products. |
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- Last post by 'Dylan Moran appears in Shaun of the Dead' on 00:49 19/Apr/04 - Just got back. Better not ruin it for you by telling you who won though. |
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- Last post by Andrew Collins on 00:36 19/Apr/04 - Just got back. Better not ruin it for you by telling you who won though. |
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- Last post by 'B. Bradley' on 22:59 18/Apr/04 - Both SuprNova and UkNava seem to have fucked off. |
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- ... Und dann kamen die Annahmen, und die Annahmen waren nicht fundiert, und der Plan war völlig ohne Substanz; und Zweifel lagen auf den Gesichtern der Projektmitarbeiter, und sie redeten und redeten miteinander und sagten: "Das ist ein Haufen Scheiße und er stinkt!" und die Projektmitarbeiter gingen zu den Teilteamleitern... |
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- On April 20, 1999, in the small, suburban town of Littleton, Colorado, two high-school seniors, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, enacted an all-out assault on Columbine High School during the middle of the school day. The boys' plan was to kill hundreds of their peers. With guns, knives, and a multitude of bombs, the two boys walked the hallways and killed. When the day was done, twelve students, one teacher, and the two murderers were dead. The haunting question remains: |
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- As anti-semitism rises in Europe again and the left glibly makes Israeli-Nazi comparisons, the Israeli National Holocaust Remembrance day is an important opportunity to remember what happened 60 years ago. The Nazis were not defending themselves from suicide attacks from... |
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- NOT A LOT....CHILLIN, JUST WOKE UP......HOW ARE YOU, TANYA? |
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long ride (Apr 18 2004 23:57 GMT) - I rode 82 miles yesterday, averaging around 12 mph-- 11.7 IIRC. Yow, my muscles are tired; just going up a flight of steps causes me to feel like my legs are rubberbands. The Schmidt Dynohub continues to be cool--- I was out between Carlisle and Chelmsford at 9-10pm on a Friday night, and my headlight was all the light I could see in some places-- 40 feet or so ahead of me, and plenty of light to see by for cycling. |
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- Apple today announced Shake 3.5, featuring new shape-based morphing and warping tools for advanced compositing and new "shape shifting" special effects. Designed for major motion picture studios and leading visual effects houses, Shake has been used in the production of every Oscar-winning film for Best Visual Effects over the past seven years, including this year’s winner “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.” Fine-tuned to take advantage of the incredible performance... |
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- From Henri Nouwen's Daily Devotional: The Spirit Will Speak in Us When we are spiritually free, we do not have to worry about what to say or do in unexpected, difficult circumstances. When we are not concerned about what others... |
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- Last night I read Down and Out in Shoreditch and Hoxton by the author-provocateur Stewart Home. It is the latest in his long line of novels, all of which I have read, none of which I have understood. There is always a lot of sex and violence in these books. I don't know why. It bores me. |
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- His latest venture, the Soup Line, is typically vague yet sweeping. Drummond has drawn an imaginary line from Belfast to Nottingham and all points beyond in Britain and Ireland, and — if asked — will come to one household in each town on that line and make a hearty vegetable broth he calls big pan soup. The Irish leg runs from April 30 to May 6, when he is based in Belfast as part of the Cathedral Quarter arts festival, but he is also prepared to visit towns such as Maghera, Dungiven and Carrigen with his soup tureens should his services be required. It may sound arch and knowing but for Drummond it was an impulsive idea. He had already made soup for a bunch of artists and students in Belfast in 1998, an incident detailed in his riotous memoir, 45. |
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- Despite his star power, none of the major studios wanted to be involved in The Passion, assuming that, like John Travolta’s ill-fated, Scientology-inspired vanity project, Battlefield Earth, it would be box-office poison. (There was also obvious concern among studio heads, a number of whom are Jewish and lost family in the Holocaust, that the film might fuel anti-semitism.) Now we know how wrong they were. Having taken $360m in America, The Passion is the eighth-highest-grossing film of all time and could overtake Titanic, the most lucrative film ever. In the past quarter of a century, an apparently unbridge-able social and cultural divide has opened between Hollywood and the generally liberal, certainly Mammon-focused executives who control it, and what might now be called the Gibson-Americans, the 40% of citizens who are church-going Christians, most “born again” (the USA is easily the most religious country in the developed world). |
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- As the Iraq war enters its second year, it has already barreled through at least four movie plots. What began as a "High Noon" showdown with Saddam Hussein soon gave way to George W. Bush's "Top Gun" victory jig. Next was the unexpected synergy with "The Fog of War," Errol Morris's Oscar-winning documentary underlining how the Johnson administration's manipulation of the Gulf of Tonkin incident was the ur-text for the current administration's hyping of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. And then Fallujah: |
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- Mel Gibson, a conservative Australian Catholic actor and the director who won the Best Picture Oscar for Braveheart, was reportedly on a personal mission when he poured $30 million out of his own pocket into his new highly controversial film -- the first-ever dedicating its full length to a relentless, gory depiction of the torment of the last 12 hours of the life of Jesus Christ. "I wanted to overwhelm people," Gibson proclaimed. Gibson has done so, if only judging by the tears and weeping the film has elicited among Christian believers. The Passion has immediately proven a box-office blockbuster, not only in the United States but the world over. Egypt was no exception. |
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- zoe heller's notes on a scandal is a dark, disturbing tale about loneliness and power games in relationships. beautifully written but utterly depressing. |
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- mark haddon's the curious incident of the dog int he night-time is last year's great adult/kid cross-over, telling the story of a kid with asperger's syndrome and the fracturing of his parents' marriage. beautifull told, it leaves you with that strange, warm and fuzzy feeling inside that so much proper adult lit totally misses. |
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- chuck palahniuk's choke is another on the assembly line of books that have followed fight club, and if you've read any one of chuck's, you've read em all. but as a no committment, pick it up for one night and forget about it the next morning read, it's ideal. oh and this one is worth it for chapter 27 alone. read in a bookshop one day and you'll see for yourself. |
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- darian leader's stealing the mona lisa is more pointless psychobabble full of implausable theories inadequately argued. i started reading this some time last year, got to a point with it where i threw it across the room in frustration, finally returned to it, finished it, and again flung it across the room in frustration. |
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- not feeling like facing into a re-read of the first of philip pullman's his dark materials trilogy, i cheated and got hold of the bbc radio adaptation of the book and listened to that instead. only to realise that it really is only in the second book of the trliogy that the plot takes off. |
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- another peter f neumeyer and edward gorey story, again with beautiful drawings from gorey and again with deadly dull prose from neumeyer. if gorey wasn't dead and getting famous it's hard to iamgine anyone wanting to re-issue these books. |
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- peter f neumeyer and edward gorey's donald and the ... is one of a series of donald books the two co-produced, gorey as ever providing beautiful drawings but neumeyer's text being deadly, deadly, deadly dull of free of wit or intelligence. |
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- jacques derrida's on cosmopolitanism and forgiveness is one of those pieces of psycobabble that you feel is telling you something uselful and maybe even important, but derrida wraps his delivery in so many sub-clauses and qualifications that you wonder if he's actually saying anything at all. strip away the verbiage and what have you got? |
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- ws harding king's mysteries of the libyan desert is an early c20th tale of travels in the wilderness of the libyan desert. marvelously un-pc and very typically english in its view of the natives, it makes for an amusing read if you have a knowledge of the places he's taking about. |
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- ahmed fakhry's bahariya and farafra is one of those rare things, a book about egyptology by an egyptian egyptologist. this one concentrates on the two oasis of bahariya and farafra, which we visited last month. |
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- Most recent daily statistics (15 Apr 2004): Ranking: 4343, Activity percentile: 73.20%, |
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- TV News: Boxing skeins duke it out -- Fox and Endemol USA are teaming up with WBC super-welterweight champ Oscar de la Hoya for what's being tentatively called "The Next Great Champ." Weekly reality skein is designed to find a boxing superstar -- and possibly give NBC's star-powered pugilism program a run for its money. |
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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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- "Supreme Court to hear Guantanamo cases": This article will appear in Monday's issue of Financial Times. |
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- Eric Gunnerson has an interesting post about the efficiency of iterating over an array using different methods. The three methods listed are: foreach over an int array Simple for over an int array for over an int array, hoisting out... |
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