] The fledgling romance between Nick, a playboy bachelor,
] and Suzanne, a divorced mother of two, is threatened by a
] particularly harrowing New Year's Eve. When Suzanne's
] work keeps her in New York City for the holiday, Nick
] offers to bring her kids to the city from Washington D.C.
] The kids, who have never liked any of the men their mom
] has dated, and are determined to turn the trip a
] nightmare for Nick.

Ice Cube has fully and totally sold out. In my mind Anaconda represented the lowest of the low... apperently I was wrong. Thank you hollywood. Thank you very much.

Are We There Yet? (2005)

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]
] Researchers from the Japanese National Institute of
] Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) have
] added water to the standard method of manufacturing
] carbon nanotubes to produce tall, dense,
] vertically-aligned stands of pure nanotubes. The
] researchers' demonstrations have yielded stands of
] single-wall carbon nanotubes as tall as 2.5 millimeters
] and 99.98 percent pure. Individual nanotubes range from
] one to three nanometers in diameter.
]
] The purity of the nanotubes makes the usual post-growth
] purification process unnecessary. This makes the method
] quicker, less expensive and less likely to damage the
] nanotubes than existing processes, said Kenji Hata, a
] senior researcher at the Japan National Institute of
] Advanced Industrial Science and Technology. Nanotubes
] produced using the method are orderly and pure enough for
] use in many fields, including biology, medical implants,
] chemistry, electronics and magnetics research, he said.

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A freaking *8.9* earthquake hit yesterday, causing honest to gosh tsunami to sweep all along the coast for hundreds of miles, wiping out just about everyone in the way. Sunbathers, scuba divers, fisherman, _entire vacation parks with 200+ bungalows_, you name it, it wound up either in the ocean or back out of the ocean yesterday.

News reports are still working their way around to this side of the planet, but expect CNN to be all over this eventually.

See also http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsww/Maps/region/Asia.gif (before it changes) to see some of the biggest shake boxes ever...

God Smites Asians, All At Once, For Not Celebrating Christmas

Please send aid to these people.

Tidal Waves Kill More Than 5,300 in Asia

] The purpose behind the buyout was to convert as much
] Linux code over as possible to another open source
] operating system project which is sponsored at
] www.gadugi.org. This project is hosted by the Cherokee
] Nation and is sovereign under US Federal Laws. This
] project is merging the Linux Kernel with the Open Source
] NetWare project and distributing the operating system.
] The site is operational and the full code repository will
] be posted with the merged operating system after the
] Cherokee Nation Public License is published in January.
] Anyone who wishes to participate can email the site and
] get an account.

Jeff Merkey has lost most of his brain.

MARC: msg 'Linux 2.6.9 and the GPL Buyout'

] The Eskimos, or Inuit, about 155,000 seal-hunting peoples
] scattered around the Arctic, plan to seek a ruling from
] the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights that the
] United States, by contributing substantially to global
] warming, is threatening their existence.

Eskimos Seek to Recast Global Warming as a Rights Issue

] Wehner runs the White House Office of Strategic
] Initiatives (or the Office of Strategery, as it is known
] inside the building after a "Saturday Night Live" skit
] spoofing the president's mangling of the English
] language). The OSI was Rove's idea, created shortly after
] President Bush was elected in 2000. It is the smallest
] unit in the Rove empire, with six employees, and
] represents the closest thing the White House has to an
] in-house think tank.

In this Bush whitehouse Peter Wehner one of those unheard of super powerful people. And yes the word is ``Strategery''.

Resident Thinker Given Free Rein In White House

] New tests conducted last night at a hospital in Vienna
] confirmed that Viktor A. Yushchenko, the Ukrainian
] opposition candidate, had been poisoned with dioxin,
] providing an explanation for a broad array of painful and
] disfiguring conditions that plagued him during the past
] three months of the campaign.

Poisoned! They tried to poison the man! Tell me how their elections aren't a sham. Well now all that's left is to find the person responsible for poisoning him.

This is political dirty tricks to a whole different level.

Poison Found in Candidate From Ukraine

] Our goal here is to provide you information on who gave
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When I first saw this I kind of blew it off, but they have put together a fairly interesting list here. I recall a conversation with JLM years ago about political soft drinks. It begins.

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