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- About 50 yards northeast of the ruined St. Catherine's chapel is this 4-foot tall standing stone, aligned east-west, marking the site of a Bronze Age burial. It's name means the 'Stone of Penance,' which W.J. Watson (1926) told was " |
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- 28th October 2004: IK Multimedia has announced that their Sonik Synth 2 plug-in synth workstation, a cooperative effort between IK Multimedia and Sonic Reality, will be available in stores worldwide on the 20th November... |
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- English elms could be descended from one tree brought here by Romans 2,000 years ago, scientists say. |
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- Newcastle scientists urge the EU to ban fishermen catching fish which are later thrown back into the sea. |
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- A team of astronomers steps up a project which one day could preserve the Earth from annihilation. |
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- Douglas Fisher writes that the Newsplex at the University of South Carolina and Cingular will again re-start its Wireless Election Connection student moblog to cover of the election. Doug writes... After a succsessful run at the February primary and the... |
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- Last post by moss on 00:56 29/Oct/04 - http://admin. |
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- A Consumer's Guide to the Polls - Read the ingredients before you buy.... |
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- Cory Doctorow: Becky Hogge has written an excellent piece in today's Guardian about the Creative Commons in honour of the upcoming Creative Commons UK launch. On November 1, a group of new copyright licences will be released in the UK, arriving from the US under the umbrella of Creative Commons (CC). The project is the brainchild of Stanford University's law professor Lawrence Lessig, and the licences allow artists to move away from traditional copyright's "all rights reserved" towards a more digital age-friendly "some rights reserved". The different types of licence allow artists to choose which rights they wish to maintain. |
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- A five-day series by Asbury Park Press's Paul D'Ambrosio, Jason Method, James W. Prado Roberts, Erik Shwartz and others from seven Gannett daily newspapers in New Jersey explores the players behind the scenes who control the state's politics. The reporters found the boss system has grown to such proportions in ... |
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- Walter: speaking of ME's improved defrag... i knew it would work with win98... but the other day i found out that it also works on a win95 installtion too (at least win95B) |
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- [ITN Online - World News] - US President George W Bush and his White House rival John Kerry have been racing from one Midwestern battleground state to another. |
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- People sacrifice their happiness for money.Sad thing is, they do it to be more happy.Men who drive their lives on things that are nice, have a tendancy to see the skyscrapers that scratch the skies...But not the holes opening on the inside. Back when I had next to nothing I was happy. |
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Nice timing (Oct 28 2004 23:55 GMT) - The FBI has begun investigating whether the Pentagon improperly awarded no-bid contracts to Halliburton Co. (HAL), seeking an interview with a top Army contracting officer and collecting documents from several government offices. The line of inquiry expands an earlier FBI investigation into whether Halliburton overcharged... |
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- Secretary of State Kevin Shelley predicts turnout will be 73 percent of registered voters, a record 12 million.... |
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- A sink hole has opened up in the Highland Village area. |
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- A couple of bank robbery suspects are in custody thanks to a quick-thinking HPD officer. |
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- Rigspolitiet indfører en praksis med, at alle bilister, der bliver standset af færdselspolitiet, skal blæse i alkometer, skriver metroXpress. |
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- An excellent video on a highly serious topic: The Choice. |
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- · Some dude took pictures of protest stickers during the RNC and compiled 'em into a book, and then decided... |
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- Cory Doctorow: Mark sez, "I run the web archiving programme at the British Library and I've just posted a tender for the development of a smart archiving crawler. The smart crawler is to be free software under the GNU General Public License (GPL). The project may be of interest to BB readers in the search, document classification and ranking, digital library, or archiving space." The British Library and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France are embarking on a programme to archive resources on the World Wide Web in their respective national domains. |
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- Google is famous for their hiring practices, it's apparently not a picnic to get hired there, and they clearly are looking for very specific things. Russell Beattie, who is pretty well known for his chops in the mobile space, writes from the heart about his decision to bail on the whole Google hiring process. Interesting to see how Google is being viewed by those who might join it.... |
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- Federal agents and international allies arrest 28 suspects thought to have traded in credit card numbers and financial information. |
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- The official campaign site for U.S. President George W. Bush appears to be blocking visitors from most locations outside the U.S. |
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- JazMuadDib writes "Scientists expected a few rough spots when their space drone snapped close-range images of Titan, Saturn's largest moon. Instead, the planetlike moon appears to have a bizarre, mysteriously smooth surface, and Tuesday's images have left them in a state of wonder. Read more at the Tucson Citizen." NASA's Cassini pages have a wide assortment of images and analysis. Cassini's data has already thrown scientists for loop. |
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- In a stunning achievement, Matt Fowles makes his debut as the new Perl 6 summarizer, covering all three major mailing lists through the first half of October. |
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- Though CPAN makes it possible to write large and powerful applications, distributing those applications can prove daunting. In the case of the Bricolage content management system, though, David Wheeler's installation guide here will walk you through the process. |
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- Last week, in part one of this two-part series of hack excerpts from Gaming Hacks , author Simon Carless showed you how to write your own MMORPG macros. This week, Simon is back, giving you the hacking tools you need to create your own animations. |
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- Design by Contract is a programming approach that formalizes the interface between callers and callees, leading to more robust and disciplined code. If your language lacks formal support for DBC, though, are you stuck? No--Charles Mills describes the design and implementation of Design by Contract for the C programming language. |
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- Right on schedule, the OpenBSD team plans to release version 3.6 on November 1. Federico Biancuzzi recently interviewed several members of the core team about new features and changes in the code and the project. |
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- Nearly every advance of Linux, open source, and free software on the desktop owes a debt to the X Window System. Too often, this debt goes unacknowledged. With the birth of X.org earlier this year, a foundational but once-stagnant project prepares to improve itself and its code to help free desktops everywhere. Andy Oram reports. |
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- The Associated Press By Alex Veiga... |
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- mike_at_genxweb.net (Oct 28 2004) |
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