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Electrolite
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Your Monday morning dialogue. (Apr 26 2004 13:59 GMT) - Andrew Sullivan quotes a letter from "a military chaplain in Fallujah": This country became a welfare state under Saddam. If you cared about your well-fare, you towed the line or died. The state did your thinking and your bidding. Want a job? |
Gizmodo
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Classy Electronics from Lexon Design (Apr 26 2004 13:58 GMT) - Here's an age-old idea: take some shiny knobs, put them in a wooden casing, watch me giggle and clap and eat a cupcake. Designed by Marco Pulga and Luca Artioli, this clock and radio is part of a new collection of products from Lexon Design which includes a funky Sticksound... |
Actuarial Issues (BenefitsLink)
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Overview: Complying with New "Relative Value" Disclosure Rules (Apr 26 2004 13:58 GMT) - Excerpt: "We suspect that many plan sponsors will even want to consider changing their plans' actuarial assumptions for calculating optional forms, in order to ease calculation and disclosure obligations. We also suspect that many plan sponsors will be looking to their service providers for guidance on how to comply with the new rules. These new regulations apply to distributions beginning October 1 of this year." (Groom Law Group) |
The Iwon FeedRoom
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Pro-Choice Rally On Washington (Apr 26 2004 13:58 GMT) - Apr. 26 - Hundreds of thousands of supporters marched on Washington for a pro-choice rally, calling for an end to what they say see as the destruction of abortion rights. |
The Iwon FeedRoom
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Denzel Takes Top Spot At Theater (Apr 26 2004 13:58 GMT) - Apr. 26 - Denzel Washington, who sets out to rescue a little girl in "Man on Fire," pushed aside another little girl in the comedy "13 Going on 30" to claim the top spot at the weekend box office. |
The Iwon FeedRoom
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Stiller, Black Star In 'Envy' (Apr 26 2004 13:58 GMT) - Apr. 26 - You're best friend becomes rich with a product that you could have helped him create, but don't. That's how Jack Black became the 'Envy' of Ben Stiller. |
MyAppleMenu
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The Fast And The Furious (Apr 26 2004 13:58 GMT) - There is indeed a commnity of quite resourceful Apple users who tinker with the inner workings of their machines to squeeze out a few more megahertz of clock speed from the Power PC G4 processors. By Gregory Han, Unofficial Apple Weblog (via MyAppleMenu) |
MyAppleMenu
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Rivals Mix Up Digital Music (Apr 26 2004 13:58 GMT) - Apple dominates online music with an estimated 50% market share. Its iPod is the best-selling portable digital music player. But Internet analysts suggest the next year may not be as rosy as the first. By Jefferson Graham, USA Today (via MyAppleMenu) |
MyAppleMenu
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Apple Ramps-Up PowerBook Graphics (Apr 26 2004 13:58 GMT) - ATI has announced that Apple's newly upgraded 15- and 17-inch PowerBook G4 notebooks feature the Mobility Radeon 9700 graphics card, "the world's fastest mobile graphics processing unit." By Macworld UK (via MyAppleMenu) |
MyAppleMenu
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New iTunes DRM-Remover Emerges (Apr 26 2004 13:58 GMT) - FairTunes is a new application that strips the digital rights management protection from songs purchased at the iTunes Music Store. By MacNN (via MyAppleMenu) |
MyAppleMenu
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Apple's iPod Strategy Is Familiar Tune (Apr 26 2004 13:58 GMT) - It's unclear that working with Real and other music services would boost iPod sales. Googoo-eyed iPod users do not begin their testimonials by saing, "music downloads changed my life," or "I can't live without my MP3s." What they say is iPod, iPod, iPod. By Paul Andrews, Seattle Times (via MyAppleMenu) |
Fembat.Net :: Journal
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Storm (Apr 26 2004 13:58 GMT) - The approaching storm induced excitement, lifting my mood better than a gentle breeze on a hot day. I could hear the distant thunder rumbling in the sky. Despite a mound of work I grabbed my camera and stepped out of... |
Inoperable Terran
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Egon (Apr 26 2004 13:58 GMT) - I think Lileks has gone bye-bye. But it's still quite readable, damn him.... |
ПОЛИТ.РУ: НОВОСТИ
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Путин поговрил с Бушем о ситуации в Ираке (Apr 26 2004 13:58 GMT) - Владимир Путин обсудил по телефону с президентом США Джорджем Бушем ситуацию в Ираке и ситуацию в ближневосточном урегулировании. Об этом говорится в сообщении пресс-службы президента России. Беседа состоялась по инициативе российской стороны, передает РИА “Новости”. |
self-aggrandizement
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helpful note (Apr 26 2004 13:57 GMT) - If you have a female caller on a weekend evening, and she finds a business card on your desk with... |
go fish
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I am an antichrist while I rock your body (Apr 26 2004 13:57 GMT) - When I read that Johnny Rotten had hand picked Justin Timberlake to play him in a film on Rotten's life, my eyes damn near bugged out of my head and plopped onto my keyboard.The odd couple have met and Timberlake agreed to play Rotten as long as the former Sex Pistol stays away from the set.Rotten, now using his real name, John Lydon, said he felt sorry for the former *NSYNC star for being "Britneyised" and had the green light for the Hollywood version of his book, No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs.Can Justin Timberlake even act? I mean, he can act like a schmuck, but that's not quite the same thing. |
DFMoore: Pizzazz, a Yellow Jacket, and a Phoenix
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Some random notes (Apr 26 2004 13:57 GMT) - I'VE BEEN TESTING out this site monitor over the weekend. It's pretty nice, and invisible, unlike sitemeter. I found it through Rachel's "about" page. By the way, Rachel, I had one friend that once places a 3 foot bubble rule on another (slightly more intrusive) friend. No matter what was going on, if that rule was broken, my buddy would just start saying "3 feet! |
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