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Judge Cuts Ex-Leader of Costa Rica's Term (Dec 31 2004 22:29 GMT) - A judge on Friday reduced to three months the amount of time that ex-President Rafael Angel Calderon must remain in jail while authorities investigate him on illegal enrichment charges, a court ruled Tuesday. |
Flashes of Panic
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Erosion (Dec 31 2004 22:28 GMT) - Sometime last summer, an enterprising (and somewhat mean-spirited, I think) graffiti “artist” used a stencil to apply a slogan to a number of spots on Amherst’s downtown sidewalks. The message, applied in red, was something like, “ |
Republican National Convention Blog NYC 2004
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USAID: Earthquake and Tsunami Relief (Dec 31 2004 22:28 GMT) - The most effective way people can assist relief efforts is by making cash contributions to humanitarian organizations that are conducting relief operations, such as the ones on our List of Relief Organizations. List of Relief Organizations Working in the Disaster Area USAID's Guide to Effective Giving/ Volunteer Information Center for International Disaster Information Field Operations Guide USAID encourages cash donations because they: allow aid professionals to procure the exact items needed (often in the affected region); reduce the burden on scarce resources (such as transportation routes, staff time, warehouse space, etc); can be transferred very quickly and without transportation costs; |
Ensight - Jeremy C. Wright
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The 2005 Business Blogging Awards! (Dec 31 2004 22:28 GMT) - Well, the site is finally live! Welcome to the 2005 Business Blogging Awards, presented by InsideBlogging! As business blogging has taken off in 2004, and looks to explode in 2005, we figured it was time to inaugurate some fun awards to reward all those hard-working business bloggers. After all, we can’t ... |
psychicboysnetwork
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Well that was unexpected (Dec 31 2004 22:27 GMT) - Too many experiences to even bother trying to put into words. Suffice it to say that I couldn't have guessed that I'd be tripping at 4am on new year's day, while playing scrabble with groob and his flatmates. Enough acid.... |
linkfilter.net - fresh links
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Powabyke Electric Bikes (Dec 31 2004 22:27 GMT) - Continuing the trend towards efficient and greener transport, the electric Powabyke has been designed to give all the benefits of traditional cycling without the effort. Thousands of Powabykes have already been purchased by ordinary people, plus sales to many local authorities and Police forces, who use them as a practical alternative form of transport. |
Hammer of Truth
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More on the Political Flogging of the Tsunami (Dec 31 2004 22:24 GMT) - With one hand in the cookie jar of sympathy and the other firmly stroking his enormous... ego, WizbangBlog dives to new depths in the political discourse: comparing blog coverage frequency on the tsunami of righty and lefty blogs and using it as a metric for compassion. Just when it seemed the blogosphere could collectively look upon the swinging dick contest of altruism -- the tit for tat millions donated by western governments -- in disgust and contempt, this moron has to fuck it all up and post this drivel (the left/right comments are a lesson in partisan trash-talk as well): Still I have to wonder... |
Paul's Time Sink
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After-market navigation with XM data (Dec 31 2004 22:24 GMT) - In a previous post, I mentioned that XM is delivering navigation data in their stream, and the Acura RL is using this data in its navigation stystem. I was hoping that someone would come out with an after-market system that uses this data. This post at Droxy mentions that Pioneer has announced their AVIC-NC2. The AVIC-NC2 will pull down the navigation data from XM and Navteq and display it on the screen. This will come with a 6. |
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