Words just can't express the love of a rabbit for a stuffed bunny.

bunnylove

] Whatever happened to good old-fashioned courting?

] I'm talking about nervous invitations, being picked up at
] the front door, giggling over Blizzards and accidentally
] touching hands and embarrassing sideways glances.
]
] Complete with polite small talk, pleasantries and most
] importantly, a thing we used to call manners.

Oregon State Daily Barometer Online - Hooking up has taken over

Dolemite wrote:
] PhreakNIC, for those of you raised by wolves, is an annual
] technology and culture exhibition (the kinder, gentler name
] for "Hacker Convention") in Nashville, TN. This year's event
] is all over, except for a few blood tests that we're still
] awaiting results on, but if you missed it you can catch
] some of the events through the video feeds. Wilpig was
] nice enough to set up a recorder on ConTV, but unfortunately
] it crashed a couple of times. Some of the best attended talks
] were lost.
]
] Seriously, just download the .avi files, as they are smaller
] (DiVX Format) and have been edited. The raw .wmv files are
] labeled based on the original schedule, not the actual
] execution of such schedule. For instance, the cable feed
] wasn't set up for the Welcome, so if you download it you'll be
] cursing at the fact that you have an hour of Nashville Tourism
] commercials.

Not just crashed. But a little power outage caused a few to be lost. :( The crash claimed two the power outage claimed two or three.

RE: Videos from PhreakNIC 7 Online

] CONCORD, N.H. - If a married woman has sex with another
] woman, is that adultery? The New Hampshire Supreme Court,
] ruling in a divorce case, says no.
]
] The court was asked to review a case in which a husband
] accused his wife of adultery after she had a sexual
] relationship with another woman. Robin Mayer of
] Brownsville, Vt., was named in the divorce proceedings of
] David and Sian Blanchflower of Hanover.
]
] A Family Court judge decided Mayer and Sian
] Blanchflower's relationship did constitute adultery, but
] Mayer appealed to the state's Supreme Court, arguing that
] gay sex is not adultery under New Hampshire divorce law.

Court: Lesbian sex cannot be adultery - billingsgazette.com

] A Pennsylvania man created a phantom wife, claimed she
] died in the World Trade Center attacks and then staged a
] funeral - with borrowed kids - to scam more than $100,000
] from charities, authorities charged yesterday.

New York Daily News - News & Views - Fake dead wife, borrowed kids in 9/11 rap

] Intravenous doses of a synthetic component of "good"
] cholesterol reduced artery disease in just six weeks in a
] small study with startlingly big implications for
] treating the nation's No. 1 killer.
]
] "The concept is sort of liquid Drano for the coronary
] arteries," said Dr. Steven Nissen, a Cleveland Clinic
] cardiologist who led the study.
]
] Larger and longer studies need to be done to determine if
] the experimental treatment will translate into fewer
] deaths, but the early results are promising, said Dr.
] Daniel Rader, director of preventive cardiology at the
] University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
]
] The treatment used a laboratory-produced version of an
] unusually effective form of HDL, the good cholesterol
] that helps protect against heart disease by removing
] plaque, or fatty buildups, from the bloodstream.
]
] "This is clearly on the level of a breakthrough that will
] have far-reaching implications," pointing the way toward
] a rapid treatment for fatty buildups, said Dr. Bryan
] Brewer, chief of molecular diseases at the National
] Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.

New treatment works like 'liquid Drano for arteries'

] The marketing geniuses at Belkin, the consumer networking
] vendor, have dreamed up a new form of spam - ads served
] to your desktop, by way of its wireless router.

The Register

] Novell today announced it has entered into an agreement
] to acquire SUSE LINUX, one of the world�s leading
] enterprise Linux companies, expanding Novell�s ability
] to provide enterprise-class services and support on the
] Linux platform. With the open source expertise of SUSE
] LINUX and Novell�s world-class networking and identity
] solutions and support, training and consulting services,
] Novell will be able to deliver Linux and all its
] components � from the server to the desktop � and
] give organizations a secure, reliable and mature Linux
] foundation. Novell will pay $210 million in cash to
] complete the acquisition. The transaction is subject to
] regulatory approval and the winding up of shareholder
] agreements. Novell expects the transaction to close by
] the end of its first fiscal quarter (January 2004).

Had to add one more link to this:
http://www.suse.com/us/company/press/press_releases/archive03/novell_suse2.html

NOVELL: Novell Announces Agreement to Acquire Leading Enterprise Linux Technology Company SUSE LINUX

Dolemite wrote:
] ] But while there's nothing particularly bleeding-edge
] ] about eating the hamburger but not the bun, now that
] ] low-carb dieting has gone mainstream, the diet does
] ] appear to hold a special attraction for hackers,
] ] programmers and other close-to-the-machine dwellers. For
] ] some geeks, the low-carb diet is itself a clever hack, a
] ] sneaky algorithm for getting the body to do what you want
] ] it to do, a way of reprogramming yourself. Programmers,
] ] who are used to making their computers serve their will,
] ] are now finding that low-carb diets enable the same kind
] ] of control over their bodies.
] ]
] ] Doctorow, who lost 75 pounds by cutting out
] ] carbohydrates, sees a natural affinity between his
] ] brethren and the diet: "Read the
] ] alt.support.diet.low-carb FAQ, and you'll find people
] ] attacking their bodies like they would attack a logic
] ] board," he says. "Substitute 'faster bus speed' for
] ] 'metabolism,' and you've got something pretty close to an
] ] overclocking FAQ, he adds, referring to a practice
] ] popular with hardware hackers in which computer
] ] processors are tweaked so that they run faster than their
] ] out-of-the-box speeds.
]
] I've been trying to convince Dementia to join me on a revisit
] to the land of Atkins after I get back from China, because one
] thing you do need is moral support. You gotta have someone
] that's in it with you. Anyway, I thought this was a very
] interesting article in the fact that (1) Cory Doctorow wrote a
] story about hacking his body and now we learn that he has
] pretty much done that and (2) it's timely in accordance with
] what I've been doing and want to ramp up in another week.

I'm with ya fat boy. :)

RE: Hackers on Atkins

Go Elonka:)

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