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- German singer and actress Jeanette Biedermann sits in a big balloon during her performance at the charity circus gala night with VIP's as participants in Munich's circus Krone December 3, 2004. The well known TV gala 'Stars in der Manege' had been recorded and should broadcast at December 26 on German television. REUTERS/Michaela Rehle (Click for Large Photo) [yent: 5, +singer +actress +her +gala +stars] |
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- Supermodel Heidi Klum on the cover of her new book 'Heidi Klum's Body of Knowledge'. Klum said the book, which contains 400 pictures of the German temptress, is 'for guys who want to know more about girls and for girls who want to know more about guys'' She describes the book as the equivalent of her greatest hits album. (Crown Publishing/Reuters) (Click for Large Photo) [yent: 5, +++supermodel +heidi +her -guys +girls] |
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- German singer and actress Jeanette Biedermann looks out of a big balloon during her performance at the charity circus gala night with VIP's as participants in Munich's circus Krone, December 3, 2004. The well known TV gala 'Stars in der Manege' had been recorded and should broadcast at December 26 on German television. REUTERS/Michaela Rehle (Click for Large Photo) [yent: 5, +singer +actress +her +gala +stars] |
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- Lindsey Kildow of the USA soars down the mountain on her way to winning the Lake Louise women's World Cup downhill ski race in Lake Louise, Alta. (CP/Frank Gunn) (Click for Large Photo) [ytop: 4, +lindsey +her +louise +womens] |
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- French skier Carole Montillet poses with members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police while wearing a T-shirt marking her 100 World Cup downhill race following competition in Lake Louise, Alberta December 3, 2004. Montillet marked her 100th race with a second place finish. The Mounties are Constable Judy Devue (L) and Constable Brad Freer. REUTERS/Andy Clark (Click for Large Photo) [yworld: 3, +poses -police +wearing +her +louise +judy -brad] |
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- Anna Nicole Smith arrives at the VH1 Big in '04 Awards show at The Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2004. (FWDPhotos/Amy Graves) (Click for Large Photo) [yrate: 3, ++'anna nicole smith' +awards] |
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- America Online and WebEx Communications are evaluating ways to adapt some of the online meeting services they currently offer to business users of AOL's AIM instant messaging network to make these services appealing to AIM consumers. |
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- The weekend will be relatively mild and clear with temps in the 40s to 50s. However, Monday morning's commute might be tricky due to a wintery mix. |
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- Attorney General Richard Blumenthal asks state utility regulators Thursday to block a proposed 17 percent rate increase by CL&P. |
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- Gov. M. Jodi Rell finds herself in the middle of a burgeoning debate over the fate of convicted serial killer Michael Ross and the state's death penalty statute. |
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- The Pentagon confirmed that three U.S. soldiers killed in a plane crash high in Afghanistan's snow-covered mountains last weekend were from Schofield Barracks. |
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- There's exactly one U.S. Senator I'd say that about. (Even extending this to the House, the number probably still stands at one.) Anyway, he was already more responsible than any other single person for the partisanship behind all the draft... |
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- FEATURE: Unwieldy XML is giving way to new opportunities for vendors who want to improve Web services consumption. |
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- Film Reviews: Handsome French mini "Princess Marie" reps the first tube lead for Catherine Deneuve, as the granddaughter of Napoleon Bonaparte, whose 20-year friendship with Sigmund Freud (Heinz Bennent) moved from patient to protector. Early December U.S. preem at Washington D. |
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- Film Reviews: Memoirist Josh Kornbluth's monologue on being the son of eccentric American Communists makes a fine transition from stage to screen in heartfelt performance piece. Produced and shot for the Sundance Channel, pic will parlay Jewish fest rounds to airings on the cabler and future niche DVD success among the Kornbluth faithful. |
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- The Borderland Film/Arts Festival began on Nov. 29 with a series of interventions in San Francisco, and opened on Dec. 2 with a film festival, gallery reception and live radio broadcast. The Borderland Collective has gathered a diverse range of multi-disciplinary artists and participants to "share an understanding of both the physical Mexico/U.S border and the more implicit socially constructed borders that surround us all. |
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oh yeah (Dec 03 2004 23:17 GMT) - hot beaver seriously. beaver jokes will never not be funny.... |
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- The Edward Gorey House celebrates the life and work of Edward Gorey, and focuses on animal welfare and art education through an array of projects for people of all ages. Good gift shop for the twisted people on your list. Most people know Gorey for the animated opening sequence to PBS's "Mystery" series, or his twisted alphabet book "The Gashleycrumb Tinies". |
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- Most recent daily statistics ( 1 Dec 2004): Ranking: 1889, Activity percentile: 89.14%, |
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- Most recent daily statistics ( 1 Dec 2004): Download count: 19 |
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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 ( 1 Dec 2004): Commit count: 0; Add count: 0 [Web-based access to repository] |
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- Project administrators: akoese, artee, astronic, dangermaus, seeschloss, simbasabi, wppetersen |
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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 internet supercomputer |
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- (US) A 15-year-old boy was arrested for possession with intent to deliver marijuana within 1,000 feet of a school at Beloit Memorial High School Thursday . [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(80%), $propaganda_theme2(50%), $propaganda_theme5(80%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $cannabis(100%), $alcohol(50%), $police_related_news(70%)] |
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- (US) I urge the players and their association to emerge from this meeting ready to join me in adopting a new, stronger drug testing policy modeled after our minor league program that will once and for all rid the game of the scourge of illegal drugs." [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(65%), $propaganda_theme3(50%), $propaganda_theme6(65%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(95%), $various_drugs(95%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
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- Wow! It just hit the AP wire that in Washington "a flood of online contributions put the party over the top" in its effort to raise enough money for a hand-count of all ballots in the governor's race. You did... |
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- angryflute writes "Toyota has created a walker robot that the driver sits in and controls. It's meant for handicapped people to get around with, but you can easily see the potential for this technology to become the basis for a real-world version of an AT-ST Scout Walker or mobile suit Gundam -- just add guns!" Gizmodo has some more pictures. |
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- [JURIST] In Friday's environmental law news, John Thwaites, Minister of the Environment for the state of Victoria in Australia, announced that he will be calling on the national Environment and Heritage Protection Council(EHPC) to adopt a plan that would |
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- Techland the developer of Xpand Rally has published an addditional set of editing tools for its mod-friendly racer. |
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- As a homeowner with a nearly-due bill, I'm not a big fan of property taxes. One good thing about them, though, is that they're flat instead of progressive. That means that everyone gets hit with them evenly, and people realize... |
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- I was trawling through an ancient b3ta.com newsletter, as you do, earlier in the week, and came across these profundities. But since the profundities concern cats, I saved them until today, Friday being catblogging day, or so I seem to recall reading somewhere. Anyway, this is what b3ta.com says, so profoundly: |
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