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- Sometimes there are amusing searches that land here. Looking into the referrer logs can be enlightening. For example. This Google Search for "jay paterno bus hit by a" listed us at #14 . Not sure if that's wishful thinking by a PSU fan after reading th |
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- PatriotAct "2":http://www. wired. com/news/politics/0, 1283, 57636, 00. |
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- JoshMarshall "is":http://www. talkingpointsmemo. com/archives/week_2004_11_21. |
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- RepublicanParty members of the UsCongress tried to sneak a "clause":http://www. talkingpointsmemo. com/archives/week_2004_11_14. |
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- Audioblog.com (bad branding - never choose a descriptive name!) now lets you videoblog supereasily: it uses Flash and your webcam. Click record and go. |
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- The Real Caption President Bush and handlers keep a tight hold on “Biscuits” the turkey during the Pardoning of the National Thanksgiving Turkey ceremony in the Rose Garden of the White House, Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2004. After the ceremony,... |
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- I've made a rough version of a TouchGraph browser for Google Scholar. Use this ->GraphScholar<- bookmarklet to launch it from any 'Cited By' page on Google Scholar - like this example page, or a direct link to the graph if you just want to see how it works. Double clicking on any of the nodes will load a new set of papers which cited the selected paper - in other words, opening up new nodes moves forward in time through citations. |
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- "I've been hit by a car."She's okay.She was out for a bike ride yesterday and had just made a turn onto the road that would take her past Arundel Mills Mall when she was hit. |
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- On Saturday, Kevin Ritchie described the situation of a South African newspaper having a complete sellout two days in a row. The Diamond Fields Advertiser had all ~8,000 copies of its print edition purchased by 7am last Tuesday, one day after drug charges were filed against five individuals. This created a huge amount of interest in the newspaper's "disappearance," leading to Wednesday's edition to be a sellout as well due to people wanting to know why there were no newspapers available to them the day before. While this article alludes to the possibility as to why the Tuesday edition was sold out, it was reported that "the vendors had been told that the buy-out was part of a competition to find out who could buy the most copies of the DFA, with the person buying the most set to win a scooter," according to the paper's editor, Johan du Plessis. Fortunately, an updated article appears today in the Pretoria Times, where it is apparent what was behind the scenes in this "sellout. |
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- for some reason or other we keep getting these swanky-ass mail-order catalogs -- apparently we're on somebody's list of suckers -- and today's mail brought one i hadn't seen before called harmony, hawking "unique and eco-conscious gifts." as i lamely... |
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- If Google is indeed sandboxing new sites for a period of 6 months or more, then what is that costing... |
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- Tami Thomsen is my newest, bestest friend. She sent me a big ol' bag of goodies and I could... |
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Mmm... (Nov 22 2004 19:50 GMT) - Emerald of California's Glazed Walnuts are surprisingly good. Basha's has them. |
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- Live Fire #55, 1st Hr.... - You Broke My Sci-Fi - You Bastards! Hour 1 |
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- Labour Youth has overwhelmingly rejected the party leader's electoral strategy. At its annual conference in the Mansion House, Dublin, at the weekend, the majority of delegates backed a motion opposing any "rigid pre-electoral pact or voting arrangement" which would compromise the party's core values. ... |
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- A Nottingham school is piloting the country's first mobile phone text messaging scheme to deal with bullying, reports the BBC. Pupils at River Leen in Bulwell are able to send an anonymous text if they are being bullied. Posters are being displayed around the school giving details of the text message number. It is part of the first anti-bullying week in which the government is joining forces with children's charities to tackle the problem. |
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- Pocket Informant (http://www. pocketinformant. com/p_pocketinformant. php) 5. |
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- The [Mac] Geniuses - tech support staffers clad in black, offering free advice from behind a sleek, barlike counter - were an afterthought... |
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- Cover to Cover #141... - |
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BCS Moving (Nov 22 2004 19:41 GMT) - Fox has bought the rights to the BCS Bowls. FOX Sports and the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) announced today that they have reached an exclusive four-year agreement covering all media distribution and sponsorship rights for the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl, Fed |
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- Due to a huge amount of comment spam that resulted in my acount being suspended (and yes, I do have... |
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- Online Publishers Association reported that Web surfers spent $853 mln in the first half of 2004 on paid content. That was a 14% increase from the same period in the previous year. The increase was due in large part to a surge in music downloads. Subscription fees for business investment content fell 6% in the same per More on this story at www.ITfacts. |
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- Horrific scenes from the ashes of Fallujah |
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- Anna May Wong. Paul Robeson. Walter Benjamin. All heroes, all previously mentioned right here. In one of those wonderful treats occasionally offered up by the otherwise gloomy stretch of human history, it seems they all knew each other. |
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- The international glamrock superstar fantasies are coming thick and fast for some reason - probably some weird return-of-the-repressed inversion having to do with how terribly serious and depressed I've been since Election Day. At any rate (it occurs to me), wouldn't it be nice to have this meet your private scramjet on the runway at Chep Lap Kok? A boy can dream, right? |
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- The guy behind Masamania shot this on a tokyo street. The guy is a street performer. |
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- My camblog has more photos from the Doo Dah parade, including an Edsel police car... |
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- Having literally sprung-up as a new cellular technology overnight, the popularity of CDMA450 is growing, according to In-Stat/MDR. The high-tech market research firm reports that, as a result, the number of CDMA450 subscribers will increase from approximately 1 mln by the end of 2004 to over 2.5 mln by 2009. Because of the lower propagation loss at 450 MHz, only one CDMA450 base station provides the same coverage of approximately 25 WCDMA base stations operating at 2.1 GHz. |
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- In an article describing TiVo's moves in DVR advertising, Reuters mentions TiVo boasting 2 mln paying subscribers. Subscriptions start at $13 a month. More on this story at www.ITfacts.biz |
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- Just in case you missed it, here are comparison pics that were pointed to at Treocentral about a month ago. |
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- Looks like our wishful thinking has born fruit, at least sort of. The SOLIO, from UK-based Disruptive Technology Channels, serves as a battery backup for your iPod, holding sufficient juice to keep you fully charged. You can load it up by plugging it in to a wall outlet for four hours (UK style, naturally—adapters for us Yanks can be had online for less than $10) or, more importantly, you can let the sun do the work thanks to SOLIO's integrated solar panels. The solar option takes about twice as long, however. |
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- Looks like our wishful thinking has born fruit, at least sort of. The SOLIO, from UK-based Disruptive Technology Channels, serves as a battery backup for your iPod, holding sufficient juice to keep you fully charged. You can load it up by plugging it in to a wall outlet for four hours (UK style, naturally—adapters for us Yanks can be had online for less than $10) or, more importantly, you can let the sun do the work thanks to SOLIO's integrated solar panels. The solar option takes about twice as long, however. |
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- Are you a master at identifying story hooks? Here's a chance to prove it and win something at the same time! Today, November 22nd, is the official launch date for Corporate-Gift-Baskets.com This new company is designed to help businesses differentiate themselves with their customers by giving heirloom-quality gifts that the... |
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- It's official: The Montreal Expos will be known as the Washington Nationals next year, restoring to D.C. the name that the Minnesota Twins had before they were the Washington Senators. Now they just need an owner, so that they can start rebuilding from the dismantling that the MLB group ownershp has done to cut costs. |
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- James from Orlando wrote to pose this question: "I might have a chance to teach English in Spain. I will... |
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- palmOne's Treo 650 is now available through Sprint, and it will be released by many other wireless carriers in the coming months. While this is an eagerly-awaited smartphone, the first people to receive them have discovered that the Treo 650 can hold fewer applications and files than they expected. SOURCE: <a href=" |
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- Sicherheit, Wiederaufbau, Aufständische: Die Themen der Irak-Konferenz in Scharm al-Scheich sind hoch brisant. Und es ist das vermutlich letzte Treffen vor den Wahlen. |
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- Updated the search engine I use for this weblog: MT-XSearch Updated MT-Enclosures. I used first release, needed to be updated. I only need to check how to enable MP3 only.... |
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- Congratulation: you're the dumbass of the week! (Seriously, folks; you started shooting over a tree stand?!?!)... |
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- A study that showed that students who used computers more often did better has been re-interpreted to show that computer use may harm performance. Sound sketchy enough? Basically, it sounds like the stats were re-analyzed, taking into account the fact that more affluent students often had access to computers, and somehow tried to correct for that. When they normalized for that, they found that computer use could do harm to performance. Of course, that somehow seems to assume that more affluent students are somehow naturally smarter. |
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- We learned two things last night, but nothing surprising. First, the Lakers are no more capable of maintaining a big lead against the league's winless team than they are against a division leader, proving that the problem lies with themselves. Second, Kobe's foot is hurting him. He's just not scoring well at all, to the point where he missed both jumpers and free throws too much last night. A win's a win, though. |
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- News Article From: NFL News 2004-11-22 |
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- The Grand Rapids Institute for Information Democracy has announced a campaign to challenge the upcoming FCC license renewals this summer. |
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- This happened a couple of weeks ago and I forget to mention it. At work I was stuck with this annoying guy. He wasn't annoying in a really bad way, but I wasn't looking forward to working with him for another day. He had that inane chatty thing going on and after a while the desire to shout "oh, shut the fuck up!" was overwhelming. |
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- Bundesfamilienministerin Renate Schmidt hat den Startschuss für das neue interaktive Jugendportal netzcheckers.de gegeben ("Geld und Recht" hier). Das Portal ermöglicht... |
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- "Entertainment Tonight" and "Today" personality has genetic disorder, prognosis is excellent |
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- New York WeddingsOnline guide for all aspects of planning a successful new york wedding. |
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