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- Japan, a tobacco bastion, now less tolerant of smokers. Antismoking efforts are moving forward as people grow less patient of Japan's nicotine-friendly culture. [Christian Science Monitor | World] Let's welcome Japan to the 21st century! If you think this is the only backward behaviour in Japan, don't get me started: you'll get an earful... |
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- In "Harper's Index" this month (June 2004): "Amount by which Social Security contributions since 1983 exceed total benefit payments since then: $999,059,000,000". Source (according to Harper's Magazine): Social Security Administration data researched by Harper's. |
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- En estos momentos la situación en Irak huele a posible retirada de tropas de forma gradual porqué la opinión pública se enfrenta a las actuciones de Bush. Su popularidad cae dia tras dia. |
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- Secretary of State Colin Powell told NBC's Meet The Press host Tim Russert that the U.S. will not 'cut and run.' |
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- May 17 - Chicago educators, judges, students and media outlets join forces for a 50th anniversary re-enactment. |
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- May 17 - About 100 protestors rally downtown holding signs claiming discrimination is un-American. |
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- Dan Pohlman came to Northwestern as a freshman ready to hit it big on the gridiron. Now, the catcher is poised to hit it big on a very different field. |
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- The Rush faced a desperate situation against the Dallas Desperados Sunday at the Allstate Arena -- Win or risk missing the playoffs. Chicago quarterback Raymond Philyaw's last-second pass assured one of the two outcomes. |
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- Right. So the Friday Five is being done on a Monday. My ability to use a calendar and do things on time has always been questioned. No reason to start making people think I've reformed by being so silly as... |
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- Forum: Canada Posted By: Suetaz Post Time: 05-17-2004 at 11:09 PM |
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- Welcome to the 'Smart Ploggers'. No, it's not a typo. A plog is short for 'project log' like a blog is short for 'weblog' or 'web log.' And plogs start to be used as tools to manage projects, especially in the IT world, as discovered Michael Schrage of the MIT. He reports his findings in an article published by CIO Magazine, "The Virtues of Chitchat. |
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- Most recent daily statistics (15 May 2004): Ranking: 1291, Activity percentile: 92.29%, |
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- Most recent daily statistics (15 May 2004): Download count: 16 |
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- Public mailing lists: gpu-world |
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- Public discussion forums: Help, Open Discussion, Developers, Network status |
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- Tracker description: Bug Tracking System |
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- Tracker description: Tech Support Tracking System |
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- Tracker description: Feature Request Tracking System |
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- Most recent daily statistics (15 May 2004): Commit count: 0; Add count: 0 [Web-based access to repository] |
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- Project description: GPU is a Gnutella client for sharing files and CPU-resources. Our objective is to develop a robust framework for distributed computing on a peer-to-peer grid. We hope to support peaceful, open and free research and to build a cheap supercomputer. |
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- Project administrators: akoese, artee, dangermaus, kuya_oso, seeschloss, simbasabi, wppetersen |
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- I had lunch today with a former Yahoo (Ray) and a few coworkers. That's odd for me because I usually eat lunch at my desk while catching up in NetNewsWire. Among the various things we talked about was the way Google add features that are useful to a very small fraction of their users. For example, the fact that I can plug N304GT into Google to lookup my glider's record in the FAA Aircraft Registration Database is cool. (The fact... |
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- Frontier kernel open-source. Dave Winer announced that the Frontier kernel—the C code, the internals of the application—will be made open-source. I’ |
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Summer Me (May 17 2004 23:57 GMT) - The Summer Me |
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- Why do they lie about everything? All the time? the road to surfdom: Judd Legum from the excellent Center for American Progress emails with this interesting comparison between Gonzalez's memo and an op-ed he (Gonzalez) recently wrote for The New York Times: Last week, White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales forcefully denied that the Bush administration failed to support the Geneva treaties. |
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- Why do they lie about everything? All the time? the road to surfdom: Judd Legum from the excellent Center for American Progress emails with this interesting comparison between Gonzalez's memo and an op-ed he (Gonzalez) recently wrote for The New York Times: Last week, White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales forcefully denied that the Bush administration failed to support the Geneva treaties. |
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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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- Most recent daily statistics (15 May 2004): Ranking: 3838, Activity percentile: 77.06%, |
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- Most recent daily statistics (15 May 2004): Download count: 18 |
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- Public mailing lists: sushiwiki-devel |
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- Tracker description: Bug Tracking System |
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- Tracker description: Patch Tracking System |
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- Most recent daily statistics (15 May 2004): Commit count: 0; Add count: 0 [Web-based access to repository] |
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- Canonisations: Le pape encourage à redécouvrir la beauté de la famille et de la vie religieuseSaint Nimatullah Kassab Al-Hardini, "amoureux de l'Eucharistie"Saint José |
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