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| What are you gonna do, play with your prick for another 30 years? ... George Carlin |
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A Russian view of the Supreme Court Decision |
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| Topic: Society |
10:52 am EDT, Jul 2, 2004 |
] And so it's come to this. The American people -- proud
] heirs of a bold revolutionary spirit now marking the
] 228th anniversary of its fiery eruption into the world --
] have been reduced to thanking the robed Olympians on the
] U.S. Supreme Court for preserving a few crumbs of the
] nation's once-vast ancient liberties. Damn... A Russian view of the Supreme Court Decision |
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| Topic: Computers |
3:24 pm EDT, Jun 24, 2004 |
Camino version 0.8 was released tonight. In addition to performance, stability, and rendering improvements inherited from Mozilla 1.7, Camino 0.8 adds a Google Search bar in the toolbar, a more-compact download manager, an entirely rewritten bookmark system, capable of importing Safari, IE, and Mozilla bookmarks, with Rendezvous and Address Book integration and multi-level undo support, session history on back/forward buttons, greatly improved cookie management, and many more changes. Since the last release of Camino, the following upgrades have been made to the underlying Gecko engine, and are now available in Camino: incremental, type-ahead find in the content area, automatic size-to-fit for image images larger than the viewable content area and numerous performance and web page rendering enhancements, XSLT support, as well as a large number of bug-fixes. Camino 0.8 Released |
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Music Recommendation System for iTunes |
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| Topic: Music |
12:53 am EDT, Jun 24, 2004 |
The Music Recommendation System is an automated system that provides music recommendations specifically tailored to each user to find new music that they might like. This system, designed by students at the University of Illinois (Champaign-Urbana), operates by taking ratings from your own iTunes playlists and comparing them against other users who have used the recommendation system. Right now we have a very small number of users, and so the recommendations will most likely be laughable. However they will get better over time as more people enter into the system; meanwhile, enjoy while the numbers grow. Also cool. Music Recommendation System for iTunes |
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musicplasma : the music visual search engine |
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| Topic: Music |
12:12 am EDT, Jun 24, 2004 |
Really pretty cool. Type in a band, and a visual graph of similar groups appears with indicators for popularity. musicplasma : the music visual search engine |
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BBC NEWS | World | Americas | US war crimes immunity bid fails |
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| Topic: Current Events |
3:11 pm EDT, Jun 23, 2004 |
The US has given up trying to win its soldiers immunity from prosecution at the new International Criminal Court. United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan had warned the Security Council not to renew the measure, partly because of the prisoner abuse scandal. BBC NEWS | World | Americas | US war crimes immunity bid fails |
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Teleportation breakthrough made |
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| Topic: Science |
6:48 pm EDT, Jun 22, 2004 |
Scientists have performed successful teleportation on atoms for the first time, the journal Nature reports. Teleportation breakthrough made |
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Wired News: Nano Killers Aim at Mini Tumors |
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| Topic: Technology |
5:08 pm EDT, Jun 22, 2004 |
A company called Kereos is developing a pair of nanotechnologies to identify tumors that measure just 1 mm in diameter, then kill them with a tiny but precise amount of a chemotherapy drug. The technologies, if approved by the Food and Drug Administration, would not only find cancers in their earliest stages before they can do damage or spread, but also deliver a small amount of a drug targeted directly at tumors, which would cause little or no side effects. Pretty neat. Wired News: Nano Killers Aim at Mini Tumors |
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CNN.com - Keeping name private can be crime, court rules - Jun 21, 2004 |
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| Topic: Society |
2:39 pm EDT, Jun 21, 2004 |
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Supreme Court has again given police greater power to stop and question suspects, ruling Monday that a Nevada cowboy could not refuse to give his name to officers who tried to question him along a roadside. I was hoping he'd win this. CNN.com - Keeping name private can be crime, court rules - Jun 21, 2004 |
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Hotmail giving cold shoulder to Google mail? | CNET News.com |
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5:54 pm EDT, Jun 15, 2004 |
Receiving a coveted invitation to open a free e-mail account on Google's Gmail is a thrill that's literally lost on Microsoft. At least it was for Joel Johnson's girlfriend, whose MSN Hotmail account (a rival free e-mail service) bounced invitations to join Gmail twice last Wednesday. That day, Johnson was given the chance to dole out two accounts for Gmail to friends before the high-profile service is widely launched, per Google's policy of limiting membership to friends, and friends of friends, while it works out the kinks. "The e-mails actually never went through, but I was able to...send them to her" via instant messenger, said Johnson, who wrote about the incident on his Web log, Gizmodo. Hotmail giving cold shoulder to Google mail? | CNET News.com |
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