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Moormerland
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Flash Spiele (Oct 28 2004 18:59 GMT) - 30 Online – Flash Games bietet http://www. kostenlose-flash-spiele. de/play. htm Spiele, die einfach und schnell erlernbar sind, bleiben doch die besten. |
Jessica's Journal
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For Sale (Oct 28 2004 18:59 GMT) - We are selling our pool table in our apartment. If anyone is interested please email me. You will have to pick it up and find a way to manuver it out of the apartment. You can view it a few threads down in some pictures. We are selling it for $250 or best offer. |
Indymedia Athens Newswire
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ΝΑ ΚΤΥΠΗΘΕΙ Ο ΡΑΤΣΙΣΜΟΣ ΣΤΑ ΑΙΤΙΑ ΠΟΥ ΤΟΝ ΠΡΟΚΑΛΟΥΝ! (Oct 28 2004 18:59 GMT) - Για άλλη μία χρονιά γίναμε μάρτυρες του ίδιου φαιδρού σκηνικού με τους αλλοδαπούς σημαιοφόρους που ξαφνικά έγιναν «αριστούχοι» και ως εκ τούτου «δικαιούνται» να σηκώσουν την Ελληνική Σημαία στην μαθητική παρέλαση, ανήμερα της Εθνικής μας Επετείου. Ακούστηκαν πολλές απόψεις, άλλες ψύχραιμες και νηφάλιες και άλλες γραφικές και εξωπραγματικές. |
Geek News Central
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ICANN expands Top Level Domains (Oct 28 2004 18:59 GMT) - ICANN approved the use of two new TLDs .post and .travel. I can sort of understand the need to limit the number of domain extensions as many companies have to rush out and purchase all of the new extensions to cover their brand... [eWeek] |
PULSE
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Trends in Health Insurance Coverage and Access Among Black, Latino and White Americans, 2001-2003 (Oct 28 2004 18:59 GMT) - A "Tracking Report" from the Center for Studying Health System Change - " Overall health insurance rates changed little among nonelderly black, Latino and white Americans between 2001 and 2003, according to new findings from the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC). But sources of coverage shiftedespecially for Latinosfrom employment-based insurance to public coverage, suggesting the economic downturn took a greater toll on Latinos. Low-income Latinos and whites were particularly hard hit by declines in employer coverage. |
The Mayor Speaks
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Mainstream media falling apart (Oct 28 2004 18:59 GMT) - The mainstream media stranglehold on the delivery of news is falling apart. Fox News, conservative talk radio and the Internet have proven that there are alternative means to deliver new information. Fox regularly attracts more viewers than CNN, MSNBC and... |
Bill Davis: US News
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Trends in Health Insurance Coverage and Access Among Black, Latino and White Americans, 2001-2003 (Oct 28 2004 18:59 GMT) - A "Tracking Report" from the Center for Studying Health System Change - " Overall health insurance rates changed little among nonelderly black, Latino and white Americans between 2001 and 2003, according to new findings from the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC). But sources of coverage shiftedespecially for Latinosfrom employment-based insurance to public coverage, suggesting the economic downturn took a greater toll on Latinos. Low-income Latinos and whites were particularly hard hit by declines in employer coverage. |
PULSE
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Medical journal to be available online (Oct 28 2004 18:57 GMT) - Seattle Post Intelligencer story - "A new online medical journal will make its research articles available to the public free of charge and accessible through the Internet. The Public Library of Science Medicine (PLoS Medicine) was launched earlier this month and will be available to physicians, patients, scientists and anyone with Internet access. ... Readers will be able to copy and distribute the articles for teaching or personal purposes and thereby further expand the reach of the research. The directors hope that people in poor countries or scientists at small research colleges will be able to benefit from medical research that otherwise would be unavailable without an expensive subscription. |
Bill Davis: US News
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Medical journal to be available online (Oct 28 2004 18:57 GMT) - Seattle Post Intelligencer story - "A new online medical journal will make its research articles available to the public free of charge and accessible through the Internet. The Public Library of Science Medicine (PLoS Medicine) was launched earlier this month and will be available to physicians, patients, scientists and anyone with Internet access. ... Readers will be able to copy and distribute the articles for teaching or personal purposes and thereby further expand the reach of the research. The directors hope that people in poor countries or scientists at small research colleges will be able to benefit from medical research that otherwise would be unavailable without an expensive subscription. |
Judicious Asininity
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The New Soldier by John Kerry (Oct 28 2004 18:57 GMT) - Read Preston's great post in full. He closes with a list of questions that Kerry can never publicly answer:Why did John Kerry collaborate with the North Vietnamese and Vietcong during and after he met with them in Paris in 1971? Why did he smear all American soldiers who fought in Vietnam as "war criminals?" Why did he favor nuclear freeze and oppose peace through strength? |
Hammer of Truth
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Word of the day… (Oct 28 2004 18:57 GMT) - Every Christmas my Mother-in-law buys me a desk calendar as a gift. These thick little calendars have ranged from "Far Side" comics to trivia to "The Onion" excerpts. The last one she purchased was a "word of the day" calendar. I like it because it explains the origin of these odd and never before heard of words on the back of each sheet. Yesterday's word was ROORBACK: |
lily of the valley
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go figure! (Oct 28 2004 18:56 GMT) - mere weeks after I finally get myself an ipod... ...they break out with the news of a phatty photopod |
Wynton Marsalis fan club
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Video and photo from the New Orleans-style second-line parade (Oct 28 2004 18:56 GMT) - On October 18 2004, at 10 am Wynton led a swinging group of musicians down Broadway, on their way to the new Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center. Those in the New Orleans-style parade, as well as citizens of Manhattan and tourists belted out "When the Saints Go Marching In." Office workers clapped from open windows. Some even started to jitterbug on the street as the musicians paraded from Lincoln Center's Josie Robertson Plaza to the new Jazz at Lincoln Center marquee located on Broadway at... |
Awake
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Lunar Eclipse on a Full Moon (Oct 28 2004 18:56 GMT) - Alan M. MacRobert (Sky and Telescope) writes, "The only slightly problematic area will be near the West Coast of North America, where the partial phase of the eclipse will begin just a few minutes after sunset and moonrise. But... |
The American Mind
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I Am Sick (Oct 28 2004 18:55 GMT) - Yesterday, I wondered if I was coming down with something. This morning I woke up with a sore throat and... |
Broadbandreports
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Broadband TV (Oct 28 2004 18:55 GMT) - Companies springing up all over. The Washington Post has a run-down of the various internet television options now on the market, spearheaded by the recent launch of the Akimbo service. DaveTV, RipeTV and TimeshifTV are also in competition to take advantage of the millions of new b.. |
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