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- Venäjän rekisterissä oleva henkilöauto suistui tieltä lauantaina Rajajoosepin tiellä noin 30 kilometrin päässä Ivalosta. |
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- Girls are rushing to get operations to "enhance" their breasts- before they have grown up! Their moms are, too. |
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- Tim Burton is selling off items he and his ex owned. |
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- One of the most popular shows in Japanese history is THE VIOLENT SHOGUN. The star portrayed a super masculine type anti- hero. He is now on stage in a kimono dancing the samba, and the Japanese can't get enough of his new drag show! |
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- The Bush administration has adopted a new counterintElligence strategy that calls for pre-emptive action against foreign intelligence services viewed as threats to U.S. national security, officials said on Saturday. The first national U. |
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- Steroids are becoming an increasingly untenable option; the drugs have a chemical profile that can be readily detected by simple tests. In a decade, a quarterback might have muscle cells removed from his legs. |
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- Despite recent appearance to the contrary (see Talon News, Jeff Guckert, Armstrong Williams), most credible journalism organizations endorse ethical values and practices in their newsgathering and editorial activities. Herein, in PDF format is the official "Ethical Journalism: A Handbook of Values and Practices for the News and Editorial Departments" of the New York Times. |
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- It's ironic that a company as innovative as Apple Computer could have such a regressive view of the changing world of American media. The company, led by Chief Executive Steve Jobs, won a round in its quest to force three Apple-enthusiast Web sites to disclose their sources on articles they published regarding unannounced Apple products. In court filings the company argued that the Web sites were not protected by free speech because they are not legitimate members of the press. |
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- Project description: A Gnutella client for sharing CPU-time and a framework for distributed computing on a P2P grid. We support peaceful and open research and hope to build an internet supercomputer. Right now, we are able to render videos on a cluster of about 10 computers. |
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- Project administrators: akoese, artee, dangermaus, seeschloss, simbasabi, wppetersen |
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- Im Abstiegsduell mit dem FSV Mainz hat der SC Freiburg nach dem 0:7 im DFB-Pokal gegen Bayern München die nächste Schlappe kassiert. Die Breisgauer fielen damit auf den letzten Tabellenplatz zurück. |
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- Project description: SushiWiki is a WikiWikiWeb like Web application running on .NET platforms. It is written in C#, uses ASP.NET features and stores data in SQL databases or flat XML files. |
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- Project administrators: egroise |
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- But alas, I'm not in love - which is probably a good thing since I can't swallow either. (Warning: this is the mandatory bloggers' "I'm feeling so ill, sooo ill" type-post. Feel free to ignore.) |
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- In Swansea, a city not exactly renown for good race relations, a Bangladeshi baby was refused a free St David's photo on the grounds it was wearing a yellow daffodil, and not a red Welsh rugby top. The council's response is priceless in its sneering attitude, and inability to understand just what the problem is - "The decision she made is a matter for her." If you're offering free photos for kids on St. Davids Day, then surely having a daffodil is just as justifiable (and a damn site cheaper) as a red Welsh rugby top? I really can't see the problem the council would have had in taking one more picture of a baby wearing a daffodil instead of a rugby top. |
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- One time, my flatmate put on a Swedish teenage lesbian melodrama, which was utterly predictable - and also totally emotionally squirmy. So much so, that I had to leave the room. There was no "hot" lesbian action in the film - just two teenagers from different sides of the popularity tracks slowly fumbling towards their feelings for each other. But for some reason, the sheer emotional nudity on show - plus all that mawkish teenage sentiment really had me on edge. It's been the same with pretty much all films with teenagers in a high school - even the comedies. |
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- I don't know why I bothered owning a car. I just don't. I had to renew my car tax. Which unfortunately involves presenting your car insurance and MOT (car roadworthiness) documents. This sorry saga starts when I realise that despite diligent paperwork filing procedures (it all goes in a huge pile), I had lost said documents. |
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- Once in a while, when I feel like I know what I'm doing (or it's a special day like today - St. Davids Day, patron saint of Wales etc.), I'll occasionally dare to utter a sentence or two in Welsh instead of English when speaking to an appropriate person who would understand what I'm saying. And then I'll get th impression that I sound a tad pretentious, presumptious and silly. After all, if someone dropped a Chinese phrase into a mostly-English conversation, my head would jerk back and I'd be mildly annoyed or piqued. |
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- Just get Sky to outbid the BBC for the rights to the Oscars, and then pretty much ignore the entire awards ceremony, in favour of: - constant plugs for the Scissor Sisters and Elton John - not coincidentally, Sky's pathetic presentation of the Oscars is brought to you from Elton John's party - The most exciting thing about the Oscars this year was that Chris Rock was presenting it. So what do Sky do? Cut down his witty bits to a three-minute opening prologue, and leave him out of the rest of the show. - have presenters who are far more obsessed by the parties and the costumes than the films and the awards - put Amanda Byron on the pink carpet for the party, and have her ask all the actors and actresses what they're wearing. |
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- (Yet another bloody meme about compiling the greatest album list of all time. Although of course consuming music via albums is merely a commercial/technical hangover from the 1950s-1990s. We're all now getting to grips with an era of consumer choice when we can get just the song we want for 79p each - hell, I just showed one of my computerphobic but muso-obsessed friends the power of iTunes UK. There won't be a similar list circulating the galaxynet in 2047...) Anyway... |
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- I am paying very serious attention to the idea of going to the United States between 11 and 24 March, mainly to get rid of all the leave I still have outstanding. I've already been quasi-invited to San Francisco and Sarasota to see some old friends (well, not that old) ... but if you're feeling bored during that time period and want to hook up / offer me your sofa to sleep on / go for wild nights on the town / offer me marriage (or anything really), then please please feel free to let me know :-) |
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- Never mind global warming, the war on Iraq, the rise of religious fundamentalism or the fact we'll all be under house arrest soon. UK Star Trek fans are planning to hold a rally to try and save Star Trek: Enterprise. Even though it's already been cancelled for good reasons. Even I stopped watching it (that theme tune really got on my nerves). |
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- One of the things drilled into me (not by choice) during my Louisiana State University journalism course was that for a feature story, an opening paragraph should ease you into the article in a warm cozy manner, emphasising the human interest angle. To me, that comes at the expense of the story itself - or "burying the lead" to use the American media parlance. This CNN.com story shows what I mean. (Spotted via Boing Boing) There's a huge 2,000-ton pile of cow manure in Nebraska that self-ignited and has been burning for three months now. |
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- It was just another normal dull Sunday afternoon. I'd come back from Cantonese class, and was making a stab at the washing-up, when suddenly the doorbell rang. Outside the door was a long-time e-friend, who I shall name Arizona Gal. I was delighted to see her, and knew she was in the country, but obviously wasn't expecting to see her. Especially in Cardiff. |
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- Thanks to the UK Weblogs Aggregator, I occasionally skim past the latest entry from Smoking Women Are Sexy, about the exploits of a "non-smoking teenager trying to get to grips with my (his) smoking fetish". He'd occasionally sneak pics of women smoking via his cameraphone, and upload them onto his blog - which of course leads to non-hilarious consequences when he gets caught, never mind the moral/ethical implications of what he was doing. Usually, I'd catch the latest entry, smirk snobbily at the boundary-less limits of human sexuality and fetishes thanks to the Internet, and move on. It's now the blog's first birthday and he's managed to do something that somehow doesn't work for me - he got a date with a smoking woman via the blog. She even let him light a cigarette. |
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- During the occasionally-traditional Friday night drinks, I end up at the award-winning Toucan Club at their Welsh-language music evening, watching The Gogs doing their energetic head-moshing rock thing. And watching the crowd, because I've had way too much drink at this point (4 pints, probably) to do much but observe. At one point, a short girl with shockingly pick bouffant hair comes in. Which makes a huge change from the uniform of skinny dyed-blonde-hair girls with handbags and boys with short hair, shirts and trousers at the club. (Not that I'm any different of course). |
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