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Ypulse
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Cool Hunting Replaced by Teen Tapping (Dec 31 2004 18:17 GMT) - Fortune Small Business has an article suggesting that the practice of cool hunting (sending armies of edgy teens to come back with the next big thing) may be giving way to companies "tapping teens" by integrating them into the design... |
Hit and Run
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Decline of the West (Dec 31 2004 18:17 GMT) - OK, Gaius Marius, you're right. Western civilization is in a state of terminal decadence: Engineer Paul Cunliffe, from Manchester, arrived... |
Meerkat: An Open Wire Service
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Top Science Stories of 2004 (Dec 31 2004 18:16 GMT) - borkbot writes "New Scientist has several round-ups of 2004. They include one for technology , space and biology . There's also an interesting peice about the most popular stories of the year."... |
inkmusings
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Adieu to 2004 (Dec 31 2004 18:15 GMT) - Finally, this year is coming to a close. For many it’s been a year of triumph, for others tragedy. I won’t confess to how many... |
HotelChatter
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Have A Happy New Year (Dec 31 2004 18:15 GMT) - Hope you enjoyed our 2004 awards, we know it went on longer than the Oscars, but hey, cut us some slack. We will see you all in 2005. Looking forward to all your 05 hotel stories!... |
Shining Light in Dark Corners
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Bush Blinks (Dec 31 2004 18:14 GMT) - It seems Bush can learn from experience. Or at least someone in the Justice Department can. The Administration has backed off its assertion that the President can authorize torture. And they have broadened the definition of torture to be consistent with the US Law and at least closer to international law. CBS News | Bush Admin. |
Rick's Rants at www.lobrecht.com
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using wget to download an entire directory of files (Dec 31 2004 18:14 GMT) - This is as much a reminder for myself as it is help for someone else. Here's the situation, I had a directory that was being served by an Apache server, indexing was turned on, and there was no index.html. The directory had about 1000 files in it, and I wanted to download them all to my machine. It turns out there's a really slick way to do this with wget (I used version 1. |
Indymedia Barcelona
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Declaración de Guadalajara sobre el futuro de la ciudad (Dec 31 2004 18:13 GMT) - "DECLARACIÓN DE GUADALAJARA SOBRE EL FUTURO DE LA CIUDAD". UNA PROPUESTA 1.-Las tres cuartas partes de la población del mundo es ya urbana, y se puede prever la constitución de la Pantópolis universal. Los problemas del futuro de las ciudades son los problemas del futuro de la Humanidad. |
Off Wing Opinion
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College Football Art (Dec 31 2004 18:13 GMT) - Mike DeBonis of Slate has an excellent piece on artists inspired by American college football. And even if you don't... |
Deckchairs on the Titanic
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Hello, Goodbye (Dec 31 2004 18:13 GMT) - Goodbye: Crowded apartment full of books and computer parts, paper swimming amongst the magazines and toys. Crappy election year, full of spite and below the belt politics. Terrible twos. Non-product-oriented business opportunities (the sneak peak can still be had here). |
BetaNews.Com
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Passport Contracts to be Phased Out (Dec 31 2004 18:13 GMT) - Two days after eBay's decision to drop support for two key .NET applications, Microsoft continues to stand behind its single sign-on Passport service in comments to the media. But BetaNews has learned Microsoft has no plans to renew contracts for Passport with third-party sites. |
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