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Pong: The Text-Based Game |
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5:28 pm EDT, May 26, 2002 |
Your opponent, the Left Paddle, Has bounced the ball back to you.
It looks like it's going to go above your paddle. What do you do? - Move your Paddle Up - Don't Move your Paddle - Move your Paddle Down Pong: The Text-Based Game |
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Military Bids to Postpone Iraq Invasion (washingtonpost.com) |
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3:44 pm EDT, May 24, 2002 |
The uniformed leaders of the U.S. military believe they have persuaded the Pentagon's civilian leadership to put off an invasion of Iraq until next year at the earliest and perhaps not to do it at all, according to senior Pentagon officials. Tommy Franks told the president that invading Iraq to oust Saddam Hussein would require at least 200,000 troops ... The administration is focusing more on undermining Hussein through covert intelligence operations ... The Pentagon debate is only part of a larger discussion of Iraq that also involves the White House, the State Department and the CIA, among others. One top general said the "Iraq hysteria" he detected last winter in some senior Bush administration officials has been diffused. ... There is no evidence that there is a clear successor who is any better, and that there are significant risks that Iraq may wind up with a more hostile, activist regime. Military Bids to Postpone Iraq Invasion (washingtonpost.com) |
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Read Darwin -What Are the Dangerous Technologies? - Technology Fear Factor: Part 1 |
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3:22 pm EDT, May 24, 2002 |
"These biotech terrors are far more likely to be unleashed in a world where the positive powers have relinquished biotech research and development. A society that's full of vibrant, productive and creative biotech companies is going to be far more alert to potential threats. " An intelligent discussion on the threats and risks posed by new technologies. Its one sided discussion, and there are points I agree with and points I disagree with. Whats most interesting about this discussion is the perspective it offers on the effect of corporate globalization. Read Darwin -What Are the Dangerous Technologies? - Technology Fear Factor: Part 1 |
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Will Gamers Buy What Game Sells? |
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2:38 pm EDT, May 24, 2002 |
"He and two partners are chipping in $300 each to purchase prime real estate on Calypso, Project Entropia's virtual world. And then they'll rent out space in these pixilated buildings to players who want to set up their own in-game stores. "The whole idea is to get people to work for me. I want to be the head honcho," said Quackenbush, who lives in St. Paul, Minnesota, and pulls 10-hour shifts at the local Ford Ranger plant. " Don't want a "real" job? Soon, you won't have to... Will Gamers Buy What Game Sells? |
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News: Record labels offer MP3 test for 99 cents |
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2:32 pm EDT, May 24, 2002 |
"In what may be a first for the recording industry, Maverick Records and Vivendi Universal's online division are asking listeners to pay just under a dollar for an unprotected MP3 version of a new single." Universal puts its toe in the water. News: Record labels offer MP3 test for 99 cents |
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From The Globe and Mail; Microbiologists dropping like flies... |
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5:20 am EDT, May 24, 2002 |
"Eleven microbiologists mysteriously dead over the span of just five months. Some of them world leaders in developing weapons-grade biological plagues. Others the best in figuring out how to stop millions from dying because of biological weapons. Still others, experts in the theory of bioterrorism." Well, here is a nice can of fuel for your conspiracy theories... This would make for one hell of a movie... From The Globe and Mail; Microbiologists dropping like flies... |
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Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | The end of pregnancy |
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5:08 am EDT, May 24, 2002 |
"In the Brave New World, erotic sexual activity is encouraged and freely practised but completely divorced from the process of reproduction. Huxley wrote his novel in 1932, before the contraceptive pill had arrived. By the 1970s, however, sex and reproduction had branched into two separate realms, thanks, in large part, to the pill. It is also interesting to note that the pill made its debut at about the same time that researchers first began to use artificial insemination on a wide scale. While the pill revolutionised sex, removing it from the process of reproduction, artificial insemination, then later in vitro fertilisation, egg donation, surrogacy and, soon, cloning further separate the components of reproduction from the biological act of mating. The artificial womb completes the process. " Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | The end of pregnancy |
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all the news thats not fit to print |
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5:04 am EDT, May 24, 2002 |
"all the news that nots fit to print" This is a fairly good blog for strange news stories... all the news thats not fit to print |
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4:55 am EDT, May 24, 2002 |
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