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- Rosa Parks' landlord has offered to let her stay in her apartment rent-free, two years after threatening to evict her when the owners said her caretakers missed rental payments. |
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- China is banning a Nike T-V ad showing basketball star LeBron James in a cartoon kung fu battle, saying it insults Chinese "national dignity." |
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- Do you know how to write a DHTML-based Web service? Here is a StockQuote demo you can play with. |
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- Do you know how to write a DHTML-based Web service? Here is a StockQuote demo you can play with. |
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- Do you know how to write a DHTML-based Web service? Here is a StockQuote demo you can play with. |
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- Sorenson Squeeze 4 does the trick for creating a high quality 15-megabyte QuickTime file with 512-pixel-by-288-pixel resolution from a 160-megabyte, 1024-pixel-by-576-pixel image, using Apple's Pixlet codec to render. [Filmmaker Slog: Mike Peter Reed's journal of the making of CROOKED FEATURES] [PubSub: pixlet] |
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- Gestern feierte Tom Waits seinen 55. Geburtstag. Zur Feier des Tages habe ich die neue CD "Real Gone" gekauft und genossen. Es war ein herrlich morbider Abend. Textkostprobe gefällig? |
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- The state parole board declined to commute Jack Kevorkian's murder sentence or grant the assisted suicide advocate parole, saying his claims of ill health mirrored claims he had made just a year ago. |
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- Earlier today I posted an off topic list of the best albums this year. Judging from the read count, lists are popular. I probably shouldn’t be surprised about this since: a) most people who read blogs are geeks; |
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- Dec. 7 - Chaos is looming in Sudan's western Darfur region. A new UN report says the number of people in need of humanitarian aid has climbed to almost 2.3 million. |
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- Magic is afoot in England, white slaves are held captive in the Sahara, sisters are haunted by a lost sibling -- and more literary feasts. |
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- Magic is afoot in England, white slaves are held captive in the Sahara, sisters are haunted by a lost sibling -- and more literary feasts. |
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- Magic is afoot in England, white slaves are held captive in the Sahara, sisters are haunted by a lost sibling -- and more literary feasts. |
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:o( (Dec 07 2004 23:25 GMT) - I'm feeling a little poorly today, must have been something I had to eat yesterday lunch time. |
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- With the exception of a few exuberant Washington war hawks, virtually nobody believed building a post-Saddam Iraq would be easy. But while President Bush sticks to sunny refrains such as "We're making progress" and "Freedom is on the march," evidence to the contrary keeps exploding in the administration's face. |
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- Harry Reid may be the Democrats' new Senate leader, but this week, blue eyes are on Howard Dean. |
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- With the exception of a few exuberant Washington war hawks, virtually nobody believed building a post-Saddam Iraq would be easy. But while President Bush sticks to sunny refrains such as "We're making progress" and "Freedom is on the march," evidence to the contrary keeps exploding in the administration's face. |
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- Harry Reid may be the Democrats' new Senate leader, but this week, blue eyes are on Howard Dean. |
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- With the exception of a few exuberant Washington war hawks, virtually nobody believed building a post-Saddam Iraq would be easy. But while President Bush sticks to sunny refrains such as "We're making progress" and "Freedom is on the march," evidence to the contrary keeps exploding in the administration's face. |
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- Harry Reid may be the Democrats' new Senate leader, but this week, blue eyes are on Howard Dean. |
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- Eight U.S. soldiers, among thousands who have been forced to extend their tours in Iraq, sue the Army for breach of contract. |
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- Here's a heartwarming story for the holidays: Military families, who clearly don't have enough to worry about, what with their loved ones being shipped off to fight in an increasingly bloody and chaotic war with no end in sight, and who already get a pittance for their troubles, also are prey for predatory lenders who have access to troops pretty much with the Pentagon's okay. From the Times: |
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- Eight U.S. soldiers, among thousands who have been forced to extend their tours in Iraq, sue the Army for breach of contract. |
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- Here's a heartwarming story for the holidays: Military families, who clearly don't have enough to worry about, what with their loved ones being shipped off to fight in an increasingly bloody and chaotic war with no end in sight, and who already get a pittance for their troubles, also are prey for predatory lenders who have access to troops pretty much with the Pentagon's okay. From the Times: |
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- Eight U.S. soldiers, among thousands who have been forced to extend their tours in Iraq, sue the Army for breach of contract. |
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- Here's a heartwarming story for the holidays: Military families, who clearly don't have enough to worry about, what with their loved ones being shipped off to fight in an increasingly bloody and chaotic war with no end in sight, and who already get a pittance for their troubles, also are prey for predatory lenders who have access to troops pretty much with the Pentagon's okay. From the Times: |
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- "The LC2100 arrived with Fedora Core 2 pre-installed. LinuxCertified told us that Fedora Core 3 will get pre-installed on the laptop later in 2005 after further testing will take place in their labs. The laptop came with preconfigured SoftwareSuspend2 (suspend to disk, via LinuxCertified's own kernel version). It takes about 25-30 seconds to wake up the laptop after suspension. Unfortunately, instant sleep/awake does not work. |
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- "The LC2100 arrived with Fedora Core 2 pre-installed. LinuxCertified told us that Fedora Core 3 will get pre-installed on the laptop later in 2005 after further testing will take place in their labs. The laptop came with preconfigured SoftwareSuspend2 (suspend to disk, via LinuxCertified's own kernel version). It takes about 25-30 seconds to wake up the laptop after suspension. Unfortunately, instant sleep/awake does not work. |
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- "The LC2100 arrived with Fedora Core 2 pre-installed. LinuxCertified told us that Fedora Core 3 will get pre-installed on the laptop later in 2005 after further testing will take place in their labs. The laptop came with preconfigured SoftwareSuspend2 (suspend to disk, via LinuxCertified's own kernel version). It takes about 25-30 seconds to wake up the laptop after suspension. Unfortunately, instant sleep/awake does not work. |
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- "After the third cup of coffee, we had it: Why not simply create an NFS-mounted priority queue and let nodes pull jobs from it as fast as they could? No scheduler, no process migration, no central controller, no kernel mods--simply a collection of compute nodes working as fast as possible to complete a list of tasks. But there was one big question: was accessing an NFS-mounted queue concurrently from many nodes possible to do safely? |
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- "After the third cup of coffee, we had it: Why not simply create an NFS-mounted priority queue and let nodes pull jobs from it as fast as they could? No scheduler, no process migration, no central controller, no kernel mods--simply a collection of compute nodes working as fast as possible to complete a list of tasks. But there was one big question: was accessing an NFS-mounted queue concurrently from many nodes possible to do safely? |
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- "After the third cup of coffee, we had it: Why not simply create an NFS-mounted priority queue and let nodes pull jobs from it as fast as they could? No scheduler, no process migration, no central controller, no kernel mods--simply a collection of compute nodes working as fast as possible to complete a list of tasks. But there was one big question: was accessing an NFS-mounted queue concurrently from many nodes possible to do safely? |
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- The Glasgow Daily Record reports that when Natasha Bedingfield's publicist was asked if the singer had a boyfriend, they insisted she was too busy - unlike Girls Aloud, often seen falling out of clubs. "She hasn't had time to meet anyone," a spokeswoman said. "If she was in Girls Alou... |
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- People can take everything away from you But they can never take away your truth... But the question is, can you handle mine? They say I'm crazy I really don't care That's my prerogative They say I'm nasty But I don't give a damn Getting boys is how I live |
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- Call it the Internet rumor heard 'round the world (for this week)....this week TVgasm, then Defamer, then pretty much everyone reported that The O.C. will feature lesbian action between two of its characters later this season: Not content with with... |
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