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Ployer
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Microsoft ... so over Mac (Dec 19 2005 18:58 GMT) - Microsoft has announced plans to cut support for IE for Apple Macs. The software giant advised Mac users of Internet Explorer (IE) to switch to rival browsers such as Apple's Safari. Microsoft initially said it had stopped work on the... |
nef's blog
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?!?! Crafts (Dec 19 2005 18:58 GMT) - I know that most of you are seldom surprised by the things that I find and bring to you via my little corner of the web, but I have got a doozie for you today. Tampon Crafts. Yep, crafts made from tampons and tampon tubes. A star for the top of your tree, a menorah [...] |
Techdirt
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Everyone Wants To Build Their Own Google: Add Japan To The List (Dec 19 2005 18:58 GMT) - With the massive success of Google, it's been interesting to watch governments trying to get into the game themselves. Over in France, the fear that Google wasn't paying enough attention to French culture has the government there sponsoring their own versions of projects like Google's library scanning offering, and now the Japanese government is trying to jumpstart Japan's own search engine business. The government has organized a bunch of electronics, telecom and media firms, combined with Tokyo University and the Tokyo Institute of Technology to try to build their own Google. It's no surprise given the extent to which Japan has always tried to manage innovation from above -- but the stated goals of the project pretty much doom it to failure right now. The article claims that the want to "achieve equal footing with the US search engines Google and Yahoo! |
Bruce Landon's Weblog for Students
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eContent (Dec 19 2005 18:58 GMT) - Questions & Challenges Arising in Building the Collection of a Digital Library for Education - Kim Kastens et al; D-Lib. Education has long functioned as a cottage industry, in which individual craftspeople handcraft individual products for distribution to their local communities. The National Science Digital Library (NSDL) [1] and its component Digital Library for Earth Sy [Online Learning Update] |
Peaktalk
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OUR STRATEGIC INCAPABILITY (Dec 19 2005 18:57 GMT) - A series of related stories in the National Post this morning. The first, on the front page with a nice photo of a sub breaking through the ice, is a story about how a U.S. sub may have toured the... |
DN Ekonomi
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Extra bränsle till julhandeln (Dec 19 2005 18:57 GMT) - I dag får landets 1,2 miljoner barnfamiljer 750 miljoner kronor extra i barnbidrag. En stor del av pengarna väntas gå till klappar och julmat. |
This Blog Is Full Of Crap
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Sheba Faarms Cookies (Dec 19 2005 18:57 GMT) - What if Pepperidge Farms were actually Sheba Faarms? "I cannot legitimately resist the flavor of Pecan Shortbreads!" "The Geneva Accords mini-cookies are to die for!" "Brussels or Mint Brussels?The indulgence of the Belgian dhimmi is most sinful! |
The Daily Bubble
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Bush's Press Conference (Dec 19 2005 18:57 GMT) - There were two interesting moments during the couple minutes I could listen to the press conference: 1. Bush was justifying the NSA wiretaps with a story about tracking Osama bin Laden through telephones in the 90s. Halfway through he said something like: |
Paintball5
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Paintball Guns ? Tips to help you choose a marker (Dec 19 2005 18:57 GMT) - There are so many paintball guns for sale these days, it can be hard knowing just what sort of marker to buy. You want a decent gun for your money, but do you really need to spend a fortune on the latest technology to survive out on the paintballing field? When it comes to buying any kind of paintball gear, speaking to experienced players is a great way to get info on where to buy the best paintball stuff. The following information should also help you make the decision.When paintball games first took off, players had to make do with basic guns that could only shoot a single shot each time they were cocked. |
PoliWatch News
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Sunni leaders split on how to oust U.S. (Dec 19 2005 18:57 GMT) - The Washington Times: World: "Influential political and religious figures within the leadership of Iraq's minority Sunnis are displaying sharp divisions on how to end what they all agree is an unacceptable U.S. occupation of Iraq. |
Food Business Review Online
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Anticus to acquire Prolactis license (Dec 19 2005 18:57 GMT) - Anticus Corporation, a publicly traded Canadian company primarily engaged in the development of specialized educational programs for the foodservice industry, has announced that the board of directors has signed a letter of intent to acquire the worldwide exclusive license to a microbiological process known as 'Prolactis' for the production of yeast used in animal feed. |
binaryechoes
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Bringing FreeBSD to InstantNSM Last week David Bi? (Dec 19 2005 18:57 GMT) - Bringing FreeBSD to InstantNSMLast week David Bianco announced his InstantNSM project. The purpose is to automate Sguil distribution. At the moment InstantNSM works on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4, and geek00l has been blogging on InstantNSM using CentOS 4.2. I told David this afternoon that I plan to help him get InstantNSM working with FreeBSD. |
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