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- Today in adventure history.... |
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- Today in adventure history. |
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- Full article by Anthony Colpo: The Omnivore... |
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- Plasma and DLP technologies are all the rave for home theater televisions these days. But, if you really want to get the best in home theater for years to come, you probably want to wait for LCD. Here's an article that talks about why LCD will pass plasma as the buyer's choice in the near future. Sure, LCD is currently very expensive and does not offer the largest of screen sizes. But those issues should be history within the next 12 months (the huge price reduction is primarily based on an increase in the number of LCD raw material manufacturers). |
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- a shirt! and someone whose lj you should read, too. |
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- Hi, I think I figured out a solution to my problem. It's not as elegant as I w |
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- Because the US is chock full of people who amuse themselves like this. Good Morning Silicon Valley always has a quirky or humerous link at the bottom nder the label "Off topic" which is something that will amuse the geeks... |
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- Field trips are always a breeding ground for stories. Today's field trip was no different. We had a full schedule. To start off the day we headed over to UMR to Castleman Hall to see a performance of two of the stories from Arabian Nights (The Ebony Horse and The Fisherman and the Jinni). The actors were from a group called Scales and Stories. |
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- Changes abound. They are everywhere. At times it seems that I am being bombarded with changes. Some big, some small. I'm actually becoming a little gun shy about change. |
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- Anna V. Bradshaw, the former correspondence supervisor at the White House, died on April 22 from a heart ailment. She was 88. Bradshaw began her professional secretarial career as a stenographer and typist for Lansburgh's Furniture Store and St. Thomas... |
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- Wired Magazine, January 2003Brin was no expert on international diplomacy. So he ordered a half-dozen books about Chinese history, business, and politics on Amazon.com and splurged on overnight shipping. He consulted with Schmidt, Page, and David Drummond, Google's general counsel and head of business development, then put in a call to tech industry doyenne Esther Dyson for advice and contacts. Google has no offices in China, so Brin enlisted go-betweens to get the message to Chinese authorities that Google would be very interested in working out a compromise to restore access. |
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HateDell (Apr 30 2004 06:58 GMT) - If you own any Dell computers, or have ever had the misfortune to need Dell customer service then you owe it to yourself to take a stroll over to I Hate Dell which is a site run for disgruntled current & former Dell employees. It makes for fascinating, if depressing, reading. |
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- Actually, eclipse is often mistaken as a Java IDE. No doubt, the Java IDE that it comes with is great, but there's a lot more to eclipse. E.g. if you're working with XML-based document formats, there are multiple plug-ins which allow you to create documents and validate them as you write. |
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- What are hieroglyphs? What was the role of a pharaoh? Who were the gods and goddesses the ancient egyptians worshipped? What was life like for the average Egyptian citizen? How did Egyptian civilization originate? |
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- It sounds like it was a fairly elaborate funeral at that! |
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- D&D players might appreciate this. It's a list of songs that make good themes for the different classes. One of my favorites is "It's a Kind of Magic" by Queen, a song for Wizards. |
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- Keeping Wi-Fi zone up to date |
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- At EMC's annual user conference, company executives disclosed long-term development plans that include a unified user interface for its various software products and an all-in-one product for information life-cycle management applications. |
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- Sensitivity vs. Usability Will our over-sensitive nature be the ruin of true usability, or will it push us further into a good experience by providing an enlightening moment of how others view the world? |
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- "How much weight does a bearded mullah carry in a freewheeling liberal society like Norway's? The country's well-known Muslim comic, Shabana Rehman, decided to find out Tuesday when she lifted the founder of Iraq's Ansar al-Islam terrorist group off the ground before a startled audience. The cleric, known as Mullah Krekar, did not find the stunt funny. He went up smiling but was sputtering with rage by the time Ms. Rehman set him back down. |
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- "Far from the madding crowd of the Indian elections, away from the high-profile glare of the twin core issues of Kashmir and cross-border terrorism that more often than not divide India and Pakistan, a beautiful old house in Mumbai's plush Malabar Hill area patiently waits for the hammer of history to write yet another chapter in the relationship of the two nations ... Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf wants India to "give" Pakistan the house as an outright gift, or perhaps "lease" it in perpetuity, as a symbol of New Delhi's faith in the new peace initiative with Islamabad." |
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- Unfortunately I can no longer bear the bandwidth cost of running this service so I'm turning it off. There's a mirror at http://www. wcc. vccs. |
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- In other news : Watchdog smashes $100m scam A MULTI-million dollar international mail scam has been cracked and its mastermind indicted by United States authorities after an investigation aided by an Australian consumer watchdog. |
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- Mark Lawrenson's tips for the weekend's Premiership games. |
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- The car firm meets angry shareholders to talk about its heavy losses and debts, after being left in the lurch by DaimlerChrysler. |
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- В районе города Поти и в его морской акватории в пятницу начались крупномасштабные учения грузинской армии "Диоскурия - 2004". Как сообщил в пятницу представитель Минобороны Грузии, учения должны были начаться в 8:00 с выхода в море корабельной группировки, однако из-за плохих погодных условий план изменился: маневры начались с командно-штабных учений, в ходе которого на картах отрабатываются основные тактические решения. По его словам, действия войск начнутся в 14: |
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- Компания “Сахалин Энерджи” обявила о пересмотре графика строительства подводных трубопроводов на Пильтун-Астохском месторождении. Как сообщает Газета.Ру, это было сделано в целях минимизации негативных последствий для популяции серых китов, обитающих в Охотском море. C учетом внесенных в график изменений в 2004 году большая часть строительных работ будет проводиться на Лунском месторождении и южнее, в заливе Анива. Ранее, отмечает источник, эти работы планировались к выполнению на более позднем этапе строительства. |
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Zines (Apr 30 2004 06:56 GMT) - ZINES... |
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- "Pakistan's decision to grant amnesty to a group of tribal outlaws has shaken Afghan and western officials' confidence in General Pervez Musharraf's resolve to purge the lawless tribal region ahead of a new deadline to hand over hardline militants today. Abdullah Abdullah, Afghan foreign minister, said he was "confused" by the amnesty offer, even though his government welcomed Pakistan's efforts to drive militants from the region, which borders Afghanistan." |
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- "Pakistan, India and Taiwan are at risk of a banking crisis unless the authorities push through reforms in the industry, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) warned on Wednesday. Seven years on, India, Pakistan, and Taiwan ?Dmay face one if the authorities are unable to forestall a crisis using pre-emptive financial reforms,?D the ADB said in its annual economic outlook report." |
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