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- Oops.NBC's "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno":"President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites) answered questions before the 9/11 commission ... They did not testify under oath, there was no videotape, no audiotape, not even a stenographer writing down the questions or the answers; there's no record of any kind; |
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- My hometown claims the title of "Onion Fried Burger Capital of the World," as if such things are regularly measured, and this Saturday is the annual Burger Day festival. The highlight, of course, is the cooking of the world's largest onion-fried burger on a giant grill downtown. I love the local newspaper's page advertising this:Saturday, May 1, 2004Downtown El Reno, OK10 a. |
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- When you start overthinking whether to report a spam notification as spam, it's time to just give up on email. |
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- Four men are arrested after police find what they believe is a dissident republican bombmaking base in Tyrone. |
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- Eight American soldiers have been killed and four wounded in a car bombing in south of Baghdad, the US military says. |
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- Reported car bomb claims lives of 8 GIs in Baghdad area, following earlier RPG strike on patrol |
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- AP Zeth Supusepa, an Indonesian Christian, is in no mood for forgiveness as he explains how suspected Muslim attackers hurled a bomb at him outside a church in the eastern (...) |
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- Dnešek vìtšina z nás vážnì nebere, ale kdo rád recesi, tomu doporuèuju být opravdu IN! Abyste byly opravdovými èarodìjnicemi, mìly byste, milé dámy, vlastnit letecký øidièák. K veèeøi se servírují speciality dle jídelního lístku. |
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- Surging violence in Thailand's Muslim south is the work of a growing but still shadowy movement that wants to carve a separate Islamic homeland out of the mainly Buddhist nation, a senior government adviser said Friday. |
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- Welll. I got phoenixed and my backup is somehow (despite the fact that I did it this morning!) a few days old... hmmm... so apologies to your aggregators... |
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IRAQ POLL (Apr 30 2004 06:29 GMT) - Quotes from here. "[...] 61 percent of respondents said Saddam's ouster made it worth the hardships they had endured." This... |
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updates (Apr 30 2004 06:29 GMT) - so wednesday evening i took care of some errands for dandroid6000, of which one was a super cool trip to guitar center... ok i know what you're thinking.. "cool trip to guitar center?!?" - well yeah. the intention was that we would go test drive some gibsons and some schecters to see what they sounded like - in order to better make a purchase decision online. |
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- ABC News announced they would conduct a reading of servicemen names that have given their lives in Iraq. The show to be aired on Friday night has prompted a rebellion by one group of stations. NYT reports that some cities... |
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- El Grup de Recerca en Ensenyament i Aprenentatge Multimèdia de la Universitat de Barcelona nos comunica que se ha publicado el número 8 de la revista on-line Interactive Educational Multimedia, dedicada al ámbito de las tecnologías multimedia aplicadas a la educación. Esta nueva edición de IEM incluye los siguientes trabajos: Monographic Articles : - Literacy. An introduction, by André Mottart & Bart Bonamie - Learning by design: |
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- La UNED (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia de España) organiza el IX Congreso Internacional de Informática Educativa (información en el sitio web de Informática Educativa de la UNED; no hay una dirección específica para el congreso). Las cuatro sesiones de trabajo girarán en torno a los temas siguientes: -Comunidades Virtuales de Aprendizaje. -Educacion On-Line. |
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- La Universidad de Extremadura organiza las XII Jornadas Universitarias de Tecnología Educativa JUTE 2004. Se trata de unas jornadas de periodicidad anual donde los profesores universitarios dedicados a la Tecnología Educativa abordan temáticas relacionadas con la docencia y la investigación «con el objeto de coordinar esfuerzos, aportar innovaciones didácticas y compartir experiencias de buenas prácticas.» El plazo para enviar comunicaciones finaliza el 11 de junio. Su contenido debe debe inscribirse en uno de los dos ámbitos siguientes: -Docencia: |
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- La Comunidad eLearning WORKSHOPS ha presentado una nueva sección, la Academia de eLearning. La Academia arranca con una oferta de dos cursos gratuitos sobre la norma SCORM y algunos materiales formativos sobre Moodle, el Software Libre utilizado como plataforma. |
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- NEW FIGURES SHOW GOVERNMENT IS STILL LOSING WASTE BATTLE |
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- A genetically modified crop already rejected by Europe as not good enough to be fed to animals is being put forward as a potential food for humans. |
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- Building Wealth on the NET |
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- A pen? Isn't that a distant cousin to the typewriter? :) While I appreciate the clever lead to an important concept, because planning *is* important, I don't see any valid reason we should purposely handicap ourselves in the process. Writing by hand is too slow, too cumbersome, and far too difficult to easily modify. |
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- Yesterday, I had written about Forrester's survey that portal failed to deliver enterprise benefits. If you have not gone through that, you can read that here. Forrester has also come up with some reasons for failure. But I found a different prime reason for failure. After that the question arises, is portal a safe technology for your enterprise? |
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- Ðàâíûé äîñòóï ê íåôòåïðîâîäàì â Ðîññèè ìîæåò îáåñïå÷èòü òîëüêî ãîñóäàðñòâî, çàÿâèë â÷åðà âèöå-ïðåçèäåíò ãîñóäàðñòâåííîé íåôòåòðàíñïîðòíîé êîìïàíèè "Òðàíñíåôòü" Ñåðãåé Ãðèãîðüåâ. Ïðè ýòîì îí íå èñêëþ÷àåò âîçìîæíîñòè ó÷àñòèÿ ÷àñòíûõ èíâåñòîðîâ â ãîñóäàðñòâåííûõ ïðîåêòàõ. "Ïîêà ó íàñ íåò ïðèìåðîâ òàêîãî ñîòðóäíè÷åñòâà, íî â ïðèíöèïå îíî âîçìîæíî è äàæå ïåðñïåêòèâíî", - ñêàçàë Ãðèãîðüåâ. |
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- Cellular Automata Parity Rules as art (enable java to see this) This courtesy of the nice people on the Visionary Plant List who suggested this is virtual DMT.... |
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- I found out today that Lance Armstrong and Sheryl Crow are an item. Boy, I'm slow. Anyway, I was reading... |
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- Saturday 8th May 2004 Team Plastique, nAM sHUB Of eNKI, Molliger, White Virus (puzaki), Toxic Lipstick, Death:Wolf, Live: The Fancy Boys, Briztronix vs Simulcast DJs: Miss P. Leisure, Jamie W, Axel F Performers: |
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- The Unesco site offers some photos of illuminated manuscripts from Eritrea. I'm partial to the decorated page from a "Gadla Sama'etat" (Acts of Martyrs), of which the details page says this: Manuscript of " |
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- The Unesco site offers some photos of illuminated manuscripts from Eritrea. I'm partial to the decorated page from a "Gadla Sama'etat" (Acts of Martyrs), of which the details page says this: Manuscript of " |
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- En effet, depuis une dizaine de jours déjà, le gouvernement togolais a pris un ensemble d'engagements auprès de l'Union européenne. Dans ces engagements qui sont au nombre de 22, le gouvernement togolais s'engage par exemple à "garantir sans délai l'action libre de tout parti politique à l'abri de tout acte de harcèlement". |
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- La prochaine réunion de l'Organisation de la conférence islamique, OCI, se tiendra en 2005 en Côte d'Ivoire. C'est l'importante information que le Président Laurent Gbagbo a communiquée hier, en fin d'après-midi, à l'Ambassade d'Iran en Côte d'Ivoire. |
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- Comment faire pour freiner ou arrêter la circulation illicite des armes légères ? |
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- D'heureuses perspectives pour les populations riveraines après l'adoption de la Déclaration de Paris. |
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- Un scénario à la Eyadéma se dessine à Cotonou. Le Président béninois, Mathieu Kérékou, qui aura 73 ans à la fin de son mandat actuel, en 2006, se prépare à une «présidence à vie» dans le feu des critiques de l'opposition, des organisations syndicales et de la société civile, alors que l'actuelle Constitution l'élimine de fait. |
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- Eugène Djué rencontre le premier ministre demain pour débattre de l'organisation pratique |
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- Depuis sa disparition, des médias locaux et étrangers ont fait état de sa mort et des tortures qu'il aurait subies |
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- A la faveur des 2e Rencontres internationales sur la culture de Ouagadougou (RICO), un colloque international se tient du 26 au 30 avril 2004, sur le thème : "Nature et fonction du masque en Afrique". |
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- Le Centre international des conférences de Kléber à Paris, a abrité les 26 et 27 avril derniers, un sommet des chefs d'Etat et de gouvernement ayant le fleuve Niger en partage. Sous l'égide du président français, Jacques Chirac et en présence des partenaires au développement du continent africain, neuf pays (Burkina Faso, Bénin, Cameroun, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinée, Mali, Nigeria, Tchad et Niger) ont planché sur les voies et moyens de viabiliser et rentabiliser ce fleuve, vital pour leurs économies. |
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