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Ray-Gun (Jul 07 2004 23:17 GMT) - Today Ronald Reagan died at age 93. Although my friend Donny Burkman met Mr. Reagan once upon a time, I never did, although I shot him the bird one evening, which could have got me shot by secret service guys, but it didn't. I recall little of ... |
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- The "Svoboda Slova" political debate show hosted by Savik Shuster, and three other NTV programs with a political bent, seemed slated Wednesday to be pulled off the air by the station's newly installed, Kremlin-friendly executive team. |
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- Amid a cellphone boom that is expected to see more than 60 million users in Russia this year, it's perhaps no surprise that that the devices are constantly popping up as filthy lucre in scams and robberies. |
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- His extraordinary height trapped Leonid Stadnik in a tiny Ukrainian village for years, but now the 2.53-meter man is seeing his horizons expand to match his size. |
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- Georgian police stopped a column of 10 Russian military trucks carrying Russian servicemen, missiles and other military equipment to the capital of breakaway South Ossetia, and South Ossetian forces on Wednesday detained the commander of Georgian peacekeepers in the tense region. |
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- In response to the recent attacks in Ingushetia, the Justice Ministry is spearheading an effort to draft legislation that would provide a clear definition of what constitutes terrorism and allow law enforcement agencies to assign grades to terrorist attacks that specify the appropriate response to each attack. |
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- The French Embassy resumed issuing visas and accepting visa applications Wednesday after closing for one day in solidarity with an injured consular worker. |
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- Austrian President Thomas Klestil, who helped restore the presidency's image after a Nazi-era controversy that dogged his predecessor, died late Tuesday at age 71 on the eve of his departure from office. |
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- Insurgents battled U.S. troops and Iraqi security forces in central Baghdad on Wednesday as the interim government signed into effect a new security law giving itself wider powers to combat militants. |
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- The Detroit Tigers have ended their five-game losing streak in a big way, beating the New York Yankees 9-to-1. |
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- Questions about Edwards experience for VP, really for prez, in case of JFK re-run. Why not ask if Bush was / is qualified for being president. What was his experience for running a country when he assumed power after Y2K? |
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- Having a tough day? Watch what you eat. It has been well established people often eat to relieve stress, but now a new study says even after the stress is over, women are apt to pig out on more fatty foods. |
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- The American Civil Liberties Union on Wednesday sued the city of Baltimore and four Maryland counties for the right of same-sex couples to marry. (See here also.) The lawsuit was filed in Baltimore Circuit Court on behalf of nine couples... |
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18 Tir (Jul 07 2004 23:16 GMT) - This cartoon was directly inspired by a quote in this AFP article from today: Iran Bans Commemorations of '99 Unrest. (Iran Va Jahan) Iranian authorities signaled yesterday they had banned any commemorations marking this week's fifth anniversary of violent... |
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- Release date confusion mounts |
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- Music, video, maps et al |
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- Remember those "16 words"? 16 words about which the DNC said "Bush Administration Knew Claim Was False" The source of so many "Bush lied, people died" screeds? Well, here's another 16 words for you.... ...Britain's spies were correct to say... |
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- Bloglines cumplió un año y lanzó un nuevo diseño, que suma funcionalidades como la publicacion de weblogs en la misma cuenta, mejor organizacion del directorio por usuario o por feed y los "clippings" que me parecen interesantes. Sin embargo el... |
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- Citing death threats, Saddam’s defense team has called off a trip to Baghdad. Mohammad Rashdan, co-ordinator of a 21-strong team, said “the threats we are getting from senior Iraqi officials who say they will tear us to pieces” are the reason preventing a trip to Baghdad. |
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- A draft specification for "Web Forms 2.0" has been released by the Web Hypertext Application Technology (WHAT) Working Group. The draft seeks to standardize and codify current practice. It provides new strongly-typed input fields, new attributes for defining constraints, a repeating model for declarative repeating of form sections, new DOM interfaces, new DOM events for validation and dependency tracking, and XML submission and initialization of forms. |
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- A draft specification for "Web Forms 2.0" has been released by the Web Hypertext Application Technology (WHAT) Working Group. The draft seeks to standardize and codify current practice. It provides new strongly-typed input fields, new attributes for defining constraints, a repeating model for declarative repeating of form sections, new DOM interfaces, new DOM events for validation and dependency tracking, and XML submission and initialization of forms. |
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- A draft specification for "Web Forms 2.0" has been released by the Web Hypertext Application Technology (WHAT) Working Group. The draft seeks to standardize and codify current practice. It provides new strongly-typed input fields, new attributes for defining constraints, a repeating model for declarative repeating of form sections, new DOM interfaces, new DOM events for validation and dependency tracking, and XML submission and initialization of forms. |
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- A draft specification for "Web Forms 2.0" has been released by the Web Hypertext Application Technology (WHAT) Working Group. The draft seeks to standardize and codify current practice. It provides new strongly-typed input fields, new attributes for defining constraints, a repeating model for declarative repeating of form sections, new DOM interfaces, new DOM events for validation and dependency tracking, and XML submission and initialization of forms. |
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- Skytrax, the big British airline-quality research firm, sent teams of inspectors aloft - on its own dime - to test... |
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- Activision's Spider-Man 2 game tries to capitalize on the popularity of both the movie and the previous games in the series. Unfortunately, at best it's uninspired, and at worst it's too buggy to play. By Lore Sjöberg. |
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- Radio-frequency chips are retail nirvana. They're the end of privacy. They're the mark of the beast. Peek inside the tag-and-track supermarket of the future. By Josh McHugh from Wired magazine. |
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- Activision's Spider-Man 2 game tries to capitalize on the popularity of both the movie and the previous games in the series. Unfortunately, at best it's uninspired, and at worst it's too buggy to play. By Lore Sjöberg. |
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- Radio-frequency chips are retail nirvana. They're the end of privacy. They're the mark of the beast. Peek inside the tag-and-track supermarket of the future. By Josh McHugh from Wired magazine. |
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- Activision's Spider-Man 2 game tries to capitalize on the popularity of both the movie and the previous games in the series. Unfortunately, at best it's uninspired, and at worst it's too buggy to play. By Lore Sjöberg. |
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- Radio-frequency chips are retail nirvana. They're the end of privacy. They're the mark of the beast. Peek inside the tag-and-track supermarket of the future. By Josh McHugh from Wired magazine. |
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- The blog represents free speech in excelsis. Or does it? If the blog accepts advertising or maintains ties to institutions -- like, say, the Democratic Party -- then the freedom to say whatever you like can be sharply curtailed. Commentary by Adam L. Penenberg. |
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- Browsing the Web with Mozilla can be pretty bare-bones, but there are tons of software components available to extend its capabilities. By Michelle Delio. |
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- The blog represents free speech in excelsis. Or does it? If the blog accepts advertising or maintains ties to institutions -- like, say, the Democratic Party -- then the freedom to say whatever you like can be sharply curtailed. Commentary by Adam L. Penenberg. |
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- Browsing the Web with Mozilla can be pretty bare-bones, but there are tons of software components available to extend its capabilities. By Michelle Delio. |
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- The blog represents free speech in excelsis. Or does it? If the blog accepts advertising or maintains ties to institutions -- like, say, the Democratic Party -- then the freedom to say whatever you like can be sharply curtailed. Commentary by Adam L. Penenberg. |
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- Browsing the Web with Mozilla can be pretty bare-bones, but there are tons of software components available to extend its capabilities. By Michelle Delio. |
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- Gracenote, maker of the leading tool for identifying music tracks, has become a powerhouse in the digital music biz and is building its reach in consumer electronics. The firm's humble origins, however, began with the sweat of music fans worldwide. By Katie Dean. |
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- Northwest passengers on Wednesday can begin skipping parts of the airport security check in the Twin Cities, but only if they have signed up for fingerprinting and a background check. By Ryan Singel. |
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- Gracenote, maker of the leading tool for identifying music tracks, has become a powerhouse in the digital music biz and is building its reach in consumer electronics. The firm's humble origins, however, began with the sweat of music fans worldwide. By Katie Dean. |
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- Northwest passengers on Wednesday can begin skipping parts of the airport security check in the Twin Cities, but only if they have signed up for fingerprinting and a background check. By Ryan Singel. |
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- Gracenote, maker of the leading tool for identifying music tracks, has become a powerhouse in the digital music biz and is building its reach in consumer electronics. The firm's humble origins, however, began with the sweat of music fans worldwide. By Katie Dean. |
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- Northwest passengers on Wednesday can begin skipping parts of the airport security check in the Twin Cities, but only if they have signed up for fingerprinting and a background check. By Ryan Singel. |
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- continued ... It is upto the maturity of networkers to see whether the network generates value or it generates noise. Here's a good story on how improving the quality of the network, infact, helps you: There was a farmer who grew award-winning corn. Each year he entered his corn in the state fair where it won a blue ribbon. |
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