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MacRumors
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Safari compatbility for GMail (Apr 26 2004 14:59 GMT) - MacCentral interviews Google co-founder Sergey Brin who promises Safari support for Google's newest service, Gmail, before it is publicly released. ... |
rodneycroome.id.au
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Sexual apartheid (Apr 26 2004 14:59 GMT) - Three same sex couples recently married in Canada are planning to ask the Federal or Family Courts to recognise their union under those provisions of the Marriage Act dealing with the recognition of foreign marriages. Australia has some of the most liberal foreign marriage recognition laws in the world, although according to some experts (see "Our day in court" below) same sex couples face an uphill battle thanks for to the continued influence of common law definitions... |
BugPowder
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Chris Reynolds Photo Strip (Apr 26 2004 14:59 GMT) - Marc Bains writes in to inform that he's hosting a Chris Reynolds photo-story on the Kingly Books gallery as a suitably eccentric "taster for a book length collection of Chris' comics 'The Dial And Other Stories' that Kingly is publishing in the summer, hopefully coinciding with an appreciation of his comics in the Comics Journal by Seth." Reynold's Mauretania Comics were some of the most beautiful, understated and mysterious comics to come out the early 90s UKSP scene so a forthcoming collection is good news indeed! |
linkfilter.net
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Eaters Talk Consumes Yale Students (Apr 26 2004 14:59 GMT) - Three professional eaters; the 340-pound world matzoh ball eating champion Hungry "Godfather" Charles, 400-pound Eric "Badlands" Booker, and world oyster eating champion, Crazy Legs Conti ("who is thin"), addressed attentive Yale students at the year's final Branford Master's Tea. The students watched clips from an upcoming documentary on the life of Conti (sorry for the bad pun) and teamed with the competitive eaters in a hot dog speed eating contest. |
rodneycroome.id.au
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White knight (Apr 26 2004 14:58 GMT) - Strange Bedfellows is badly acted, badly written and badly produced. It’s plot is predictable, its message shallow and its characters boring. I particularly disliked the simple-minded Priscilla-style myth that all Sydney-siders are wordly bohemians and all small-towners ignorant and/or bigoted. Are there really any Australians who still believe this outside the script writing studios of Sydney’s... |
Utah Government Information
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Chuck-A-Rama vs. Atkins (Apr 26 2004 14:58 GMT) - The recent story about an Atkins-dieting couple at a local buffet being turned away for eating too much roast beef has legs. Here's the report from the Scottish Daily Record. |
miette
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The Command Post
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Fog of War shrouds Wazirya Blast (Apr 26 2004 14:58 GMT) - Updating a previous post, from the AFP via the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) : “A huge explosion occurred and four Humvees were set ablaze after US soldiers entered a chemical lab,” witness Salah al-Abed said.Shortly after the explosion in two chemical laboratories in the northern neighbourhood of Waziriyah, US troops were seen removing two bodies in body bags. |
Government Forge News
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German court upholds open source licence (Apr 26 2004 14:57 GMT) - Open Source Software News A German court has ordered a company to stop selling its wireless router because the company was not complying with the terms of the General Public License - which underpins the distribution of most open source... |
GromBlog
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Science Fiction Word Game (Apr 26 2004 14:57 GMT) - I managed to waste a while on this Sci-Fi themed anagram game that anistropia pointed me to. It's quite addictive. |
Government Forge News
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What would make Linux mainstream? (Apr 26 2004 14:57 GMT) - Open Source Software News Linux backers foresee desktop gains -- optimistic Linux will reach mainstream status, typically defined as 10 percent market share or better, within the next five years. To get there, analysts say, developers and businesspeople behind Linux... |
Walloworld
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Don't Burst My Bubble (Apr 26 2004 14:56 GMT) - Joanne Jacobs quotes an editorial from the L.A. Times by Jonathan Zimmerman that decries the intellectual dishonesty of most history... |
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