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Tony Blair's bookmarks
Nineteen labels visible in Tony Blair's portfolio yesterday provided a tantalising glimpse into the topics his staff expected would be asked at question time.
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A whole new reason NOT to go to war!
Protests of war in Iraq cost S.F. $3.5 million. Police overtime takes biggest chunk
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A second Honda ad
As fabulous as the first version.
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For sale: a cell phone plus wrist watch
Visions of the comic strip detective Dick Tracy talking into his wristwatch phone have titillated imaginations for decades. But now, Japanese phone giant NTT DoCoMo is selling the real thing.
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Astronomers discover color of universe
What is the color of the Universe? This seemingly simple question has never really been answered by astronomers. It is difficult to take an accurate and complete census of all the light in the Universe.
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Changes in Internet Explorer for Windows Server 2003
Rob Franco and Brian Countryman (Microsoft)discuss changes in Internet Explorer for Windows Server 2003.
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Forget Earthquake, Let's Gamble
A Vice Governor resigned Friday following revelations that he had continued to play pachinko even after a major quake struck his prefecture and other parts of northeastern Japan on Monday. (Typical "mature man" from Japan)
536 views | 31 May 2003 | Email this using SiphsMail
Ebay to pay 35 million US$ in settlement
Will they be sending the money through PayPal?
520 views | 29 May 2003 | Email this using SiphsMail
Want to write a virus?
Another Canadian quirk! While many students would be expelled from their computer science programs for writing a virus, the University of Calgary plans to make writing such malicious programs a part of the curriculum.
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Frog's Leap
Well done site from a Winery.
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Less Play, more Station
Sony Corp. unveiled a "crossover" PlayStation 2 video game console with a built-in DVD recorder and hard drive for storing data.
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As seen from Mars
The first images of Earth taken from another planet, with a digitally created reference to show the Earth's position.
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A "kilogram" by any other name..
The kilogram is defined by a platinum-iridium cylinder, cast in England in 1889. No one knows why it is shedding weight, at least in comparison with other reference weights, but the change has spurred search for a more stable definition.
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Supercomputers out of playstations?
Another use for gaming consoles? The National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) has assembled a supercomputer from an army of Sony PlayStation 2's.
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Broadband through balloons?
A UK company called SkyLinc has found a happy medium in base stations, floating 1.5km above the surface of the Earth on balloons, or tethered aerostats as they are more technically known.
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The Semantic Web
Required Reading. "Properly designed, the Semantic Web can assist the evolution of human knowledge as a whole."
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Nice memorial page
Some of the best war-related quotes and pictures I've heard/seen of late. Including, "Leaders who make war should be required to have participated in one".
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N.Korea in threatening mode
Japan will "meet a fatal fiasco" if it continues to blindly follow U.S. policy, Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said Tuesday.
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Even faster than 3G!
NTT DoCoMo, the Japanese company that introduced the first third-generation digital mobile phone service in the world, is preparing to pioneer wireless services that are at least 40 times as fast.
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Bye bye to PDAs?
GPS, Java, and push-to-talk give smart phones a clear edge over PDAs, says Scwartz from InfoWorld.
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