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OUTDOOR FUN - Go Ape! (May 15 2005 23:59 GMT) - My sister recently took a trip to the Lake District in England and visited the Go Ape! forest adventure in Grizedale Forest. There's a few such attractions across the country, and the company website www.goape.co. |
Blogator.com
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What We Need Is a Cartoon (May 15 2005 23:59 GMT) - [GrokLaw] - What we need is a good laugh, and Sunday is a good day for the comics. I laughed at General Protection Fault's strip today on a Linux version of Monopoly. UserFriendly made me laugh today too. Here's more from UserFriendly that I enjoyed too, some from the Australian collection:http: |
IMAO
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Walmart: We think less. (May 15 2005 23:57 GMT) - Walmart seems to be taking cues from the Democratic underground playbook which actually has only one play by the way,... |
BAD ATTITUDES
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Troll’s Lair (May 15 2005 23:57 GMT) - From Jim Fallows’s technology column in the New York Times today: Now, a promised final word about Google’s aerial views. Last month, I mentioned that one small part of the American land mass was obscured in an unusual way. It’s... |
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Forbes: TV for your cell phone (May 15 2005 23:56 GMT) - Its no secret that cellular operators and titans of the entertainment world are rushing to produce and deliver mobile media content to your cell phone. Forbes asks the question, "Whatever happened to good old-fashioned chitchat?"Erika Brown's article, " |
Anti Spyware News
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[ eChannelLine USA ] (May 15 2005 23:54 GMT) - NEWS BRIEF: Trojan revives software piracy war 15 May, 2005 Malware creators seem to have started a battle against piracy on the Internet. After recently reporting the appearance of the Nopir worms, whose aim is to deleted all of the MP3 and COM files from the computer, leaving [...] |
Anti Spyware News
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Adware targets Kids - Research - www.itnews.com.au (May 15 2005 23:54 GMT) - children were the biggest target for spyware makers, by far. The trip to several kids' sites installed a whopping 359 pieces of Adware on Symantec's PCs, five times more than the nearest category rival, travel. "That makes sense when you think about it," said Lane.Original Story |
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Xinhua - English (May 15 2005 23:54 GMT) - BEIJING, May 16 -- Software giant Microsoft is launching a new security product, which offers virus and spyware protection, a new firewall and various tune-up tools for Windows PCs. A pilot version of Windows OneCare is scheduled to be available by the end of this year. It marks the company's long-awaited [...] |
Anti Spyware News
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Slashdot | Australia Says No To Spyware (May 15 2005 23:54 GMT) - People seem to assume that laws should only be enacted if they can "perfectly" prevent what is made illegal. Murder, for example, is commonly prevented because of the consequences of the laws against murder, not purely because of the existance of the law itself. The significant punishment for murder hopefully makes people think [...] |
Chief Blogging Officer
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top 40 radio (May 15 2005 23:52 GMT) - I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower... habakkuk all along the watchtower, princes kept the view... dylan Think Hendrix, sliding those rising chords up along the neck of that impossible guitar. |
globalvalueconnect.blog-city.com
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Wireless operators - good news, bad news (May 15 2005 23:52 GMT) - The good news is that wireless telephone subscribership continues to grow - the bad news is that margins continue to shrink. This according to a published report entitled "Telecommunications Service Providers Subscriber Growth 2005-2010" by Insight Research and highlighted in an article by |
The Urban Grind
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Newsweek Backtracks on its Koran Desecration Story (May 15 2005 23:51 GMT) - Newsweek magazine is now saying it erred in its May 9 report that interrogators at Guantanamo Bay were flushing Korans down the toilet. "We regret that we got any part of our story wrong, and extend our sympathies to victims of the violence and to the U.S. soldiers caught in its midst," Whitaker wrote [...] |
Cox & Forkum
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Flushed (May 15 2005 23:51 GMT) - From Reuters (Via YahooNews): Newsweek says erred in Koran desecration report. Newsweek magazine on Sunday said it erred in a May 9 report that said U.S. interrogators desecrated the Koran at Guantanamo Bay, and apologized to the victims of... |
Column of the Wolf
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Blood-Powered Fuel Cell (May 15 2005 23:51 GMT) - A Japanese research team has developed a fuel cell that runs on blood without using toxic substances, opening the way for use in artificial hearts and other organs. The biological fuel cell uses glucose, a sugar in blood, with a non-toxic substance used to draw electrons from glucose, said the team led by Matsuhiko Nishizawa, bio-engineering professor at the graduate school of state-run Tohoku University |
Column of the Wolf
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Blood-Powered Fuel Cell (May 15 2005 23:51 GMT) - A Japanese research team has developed a fuel cell that runs on blood without using toxic substances, opening the way for use in artificial hearts and other organs. The biological fuel cell uses glucose, a sugar in blood, with a non-toxic substance used to draw electrons from glucose, said the team led by Matsuhiko Nishizawa, bio-engineering professor at the graduate school of state-run Tohoku University |
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Palenque (May 15 2005 23:51 GMT) - Ich finde Flickr immer cooler. Soeben hab ich diese Fotoserie von Manjana entdeckt, einfach herrlich. Gestochen scharfe Bilder von den Ruinen in Palenque. Besser als alles was ich bisher gesehen hab. |
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Idea Push Economy (May 15 2005 23:50 GMT) - Mark Pincus writes: it's becoming apparent that we are entering a new era in information consumption. we have gone from extreme pull with huge friction both in money and hassle around info consumption (remember nexis lexis and sweet talking the company librarian?); to the huge open pipe, where useful information was a needle in a haystack of noise; |
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Bolton Mania (May 15 2005 23:50 GMT) - Condi Rice introduces John R. Boltonto a dismayed planet "There is no such thing as the United Nations..if the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference. |
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Relationship with Saudis needs dose of reality (May 15 2005 23:49 GMT) - Saudi Arabia's head of state is a prince of a fellow and is obviously a really swell guy in President Bush's estimation, what with all the hand holding. But Abdullah and his central government are only part of the story. Inside Saudi Arabia people with very different ideas about the West, especially the U.S., go [... |
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire
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Bonus Quote of the Day (May 15 2005 23:47 GMT) - "I think Tom DeLay ought to go back to Houston where he can serve his jail sentence." -- DNC Chairman Howard Dean, quoted by the Metro West Daily News, at a gathering of Massachusetts Democrats. Update: The Boston Globe has Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) condemning Dean's comments.... |
Health Talk
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Health Tip: Facing Acne (HealthDay via Yahoo! News) (May 15 2005 23:47 GMT) - Health Tip: Facing Acne (HealthDay via Yahoo! News) (HealthDay News) -- While acne is often associated with the onset of puberty, it can affect people of all ages. It's not uncommon for acne to occur in people in their 20s and 30s, and for some, in their 40s and 50s. http: |
Tiffinbox
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Photo Columns, A Primer (May 15 2005 23:45 GMT) - Melissa Lyttle mentioned The St. Petersburg Times as a paper that is photo-friendly because several of the photographers working there have their own photo-driven columns and upper management is visually savvy. Gerik Parmele who runs the terrific website ? photocolumn.org ? |
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eEye Digital Security has discovere... (May 15 2005 23:45 GMT) - [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] - eEye Digital Security has discovered yet again more potential vulnerabilities in Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Outlook software. Users running Windows NT 4.0, fully patched Windows 2000 and Windows XP (even with Service Pack 2 installed) are all vulnerable, the security-research firm told Microsoft. www. |
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Is Piracy Good? (May 15 2005 23:44 GMT) - I’ve just been reading How Battlestar Galactica Killed Broadcast TV and I must say it’s an intriguing read. I glanced over the background of BitTorrent as I’m quite well versed in how the protocol works including the ins and outs of it — |
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