| 1. |  | Now everybody do the propaganda!  - Captured: 4-2-2005 14:49:31
The
February issue of The Reader’s Digest has an article entitled “
America
’s Worst Judges”.
It
begins, as many regressivist commentaries on a variety of subjects do, by asking you
to imagine that you’re the victim of a crime. Because
we all know how much that sort of imagery contributes to rational thought.
Then
it goes for the ...
From: Anomalous Data |
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| 2. | | The power, the absolute power! - Captured: 31-1-2005 6:13:44
I
was recently in an argument with a guy calling himself “Thomas”, who has
posted here several times, and on Rocky’s blog several times. Now,
Thomas seems to be a pretty smart guy, but he makes wild assumptions that, when challenged,
he is unable to support without any sort of coherence. An
example would be this quote below:
“The
Founding Fathers designed the system with the assump...
From: Anomalous Data |
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| 6. | | Overtaking An Elephant - Captured: 8-2-2005 12:59:00
Usually a driver takes me into work but over the weekend the company I work for had let me have one of the company cars so I could go up to Sigiriya. This meant I had the luxury of driving myself in. I had a meeting at our Katunayake factory in the morning and then I had to drive to our Wathupitiwala factory in the afternoon. And it was during this latter drive that I got to overtake an elephant, whilst I was driving, for the first time :-D Seemed a bit bizarre when I did it and I couldn't resis...
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| 7. | | Judge Notices SCO Doesnt Actually Have Any Evidence Against IBM - Captured: 10-2-2005 11:24:44
It's only been two years since SCO sued IBM over the Linux source code, and while it's been pointed out repeatedly in a variety of sources, it's only now that a judge has noticed that SCO seems to have no evidence at all, leading to a fairly scathing rebuke: "Viewed against the backdrop of SCO's plethora of public statements concerning IBM's and others' infringement of SCO's purported copyrights to the Unix software, it is astonishing that SCO has not offered any competent evidence to create a d...
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| 9. | | Music to my ears - Captured: 30-12-2004 8:07:52
A while
back I talked about some of my musical interests. This post prompted some
helpful comments that pointed me to some other artists. Here are some thoughts
on stuff I've been listening to lately.
Jeff - thanks for the pointer to Josh Rouse's 1972.
I love this album - right up my alley. The retro sound makes it such a period
piece - perfect when mixed in with some Neil Young and Carole King from 1972.
Mike - t...
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| 10. | | Lewis Black kicks ass!! - Captured: 14-2-2005 7:23:51
Lewis
Black kicks ass…Just got back from the “Rules of Enragement Tour”. Black
was his usual curmudgeonly, hand-waving, finger-pointing, talking-through-gritted-teeth,
f-bomb-dropping self…and it goes without saying he was funny as hell.
His
everyday Joe rationality…decent, hard-working, civil-minded, progressive mindset,
and raging wit made mincemeat out of what passes f...
From: Anomalous Data |
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| 11. | | Yet Another Study Misunderstands How People Work - Captured: 16-2-2005 17:55:54
It seems to happen at least every other month. Some "security" company comes out with a study making wild claims about just how much time employees are wasting at work... and, of course, announces that they have some sort of solution to lock down their email/phone/internet access to make sure that they're all work, all the time. The latest is some security company positively screaming that (oh my!) people use email for personal reasons while at work. We've gone over this before, but it seems ...
From: Techdirt |
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| 12. | | Im back. Kinda. - Captured: 17-2-2005 7:42:24
I just got discharged from the hospital! Six days of sheer...something or other.
Last Tuesday I left work early because I was sweating profusely, had an intense pain in my stomach, chest and shoulder, was dizzy, and very nauseated. Melinda picked me up, took me to a quick medical clinic and the nurses tried their best to stabilize me.
I thought I was having a heart attack. I'm very young for a heart attack, but the symptoms matched. They gave me this stuff called "nitro" that slows dow...
From: Paultastic Musings |
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| 14. | | Moral Values, Internet Spam, and Buying a Spouse - Captured: 17-2-2005 21:24:04
I am really shocked and surprised by the number of sites that link to my site just because I'm in cyberspace -- among them a pretty random variety -- from how to build engines to pretty obscene sites to German telephone deals...
I delete all of them, and ban their link -- but they do represent something -- a very large societal issue -- what are our values -- is the internet the Wild West, where values are swallowed by an indecent extreme strain that flood the market with spam and porn -- are...
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| 16. | | HUAC - Its not just the noise your cat makes before he lets loose a hairball. - Captured: 22-2-2005 4:41:24
I
have to wonder, Does
Ann Coulter know what McCarthyism means? I
got to this link through Oliver Willis…you can find a link to his blog over
there under blogroll on the right. I
do recommend reading the site regularly, although he is prone to wild overstatements.
(like saying that Negroponte oversaw death
squads in
Honduras
rather than the more accurate overlooked) -
so don’t get too carr...
From: Anomalous Data |
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| 17. | | Lifetime Personal Webspace - Captured: 23-2-2005 16:31:26
(via George
Siemens) Now I know I'm kinda strange, but the premise of this
article from Educause seriously gives me chills:
What
do we wish for? That every citizen, at birth,
will be granted acradle-to-grave, lifetime personal Web space that will
enable connections among personal, educational, social, and business
systems.
Ok, now I know that's a lot to wrap your
brain around, especially on a Friday afternoon. But if you are at all
interested in the potential of the rea...
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| 20. | | Mobile Phone Virus Found in United States - Captured: 27-2-2005 22:09:14
The world's first mobile phone virus "in the wild" has spread to the United States from its birthplace in the Philippines eight months ago, a security research firm said on Friday.
The virus, called Cabir, has spread slowly into 12 countries and marks the beginning of the mobile phone virus era, which could one day disrupt the lives of many of the world's 1.5 billion mobile phone users.
The biggest impact of the relatively innocuous virus, found in ...
From: A Telecom, Paging, Text Messaging and SMS Blog from NotePage |
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| 21. | | Charlie Sheen Is a moron?? - Captured: 4-3-2005 15:54:56
I think it was the infamous A.J. Benza that first said "show me a beautiful woman and I'll show you 5 guys who are tired of fucking her". A statement that I never had a full comprehension of until I reached my mid to late 20's. On to todays happenings...............
Former Bond girl and Wild Things hottie Denise Richards has filed for divorce from her husband Charlie Sheen on Tuesday. The actress is currently six months pregnant with their second child
From: Shazzbah |
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| 22. | | How to Solve a Wonderful Mystery - Captured: 5-3-2005 4:34:58
Before and after Acts 28:28 there are Gentile believers spoken of in the Bible some are called a wild olive branch while others are called The Church which is His Body, Why?
From: Good News Letter |
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| 23. | | Human Safety Against Economic Sense - Captured: 20-2-2005 7:12:34
This morning I woke up a bit early, I was a bit tired, I am not sure why. Maybe it???s the electric disruption that happens yesterday night. I woke up in the middle of the night, god knows what time and I feel my body was burning. It was strange, ???Am I right in the middle of fire of hell or what???, after briefly adjusting to the surroundings, I realize I was not, thank god, I am in my own room still snuggling beneath the comforter. I look up to the ceiling; there it was the air cond without ...
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| 24. | | Wow, land of smiles and beautiful women - Captured: 20-1-2005 8:27:13
I was reading one of my colleague blog, he is currently in Beijing. I think sometimes its fun to work in different countries and experience different culture. Back then there is no such thing as blog, no digital camera and even email is not so rampantly use. When I read his blog, it bring back some of those memories that I have in Thailand. I remember when I was told that I was assigned to Thailand, it was a feeling of ???Wow, land of smiles and beautiful women???, hahaha.
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