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October 2005

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Why the Right Was Wrong - New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/28/opinion/28hewitt.html?ei=5088&emc=rss&en=b8a30523f6872872&ex=1288152000&pagewanted=print&partner=rssnyt
"The right's embrace in the Miers nomination of tactics previously exclusive to the left ... will make it immeasurably harder to denounce and deflect such assaults when the Democrats make them the next time around."
#bush #miers #politics #republicans
archive.org #5720

CBS News | FEMA Extends Ex-Chief's Contract | October 26, 2005 20:30:06

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/10/26/national/main983246.shtml?CMP=OTC-RSSFeed&attr=Politics_983246&source=RSS
Doesn't resignation mean... er... "I quit" and then you find a new job? "The former head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency on Wednesday defended the agency's decision to keep him on the job another 30 days as a "completely legitimate thing to d
#bush #disaster #fema #katrina
archive.org #5694

Boycott Starforce

http://www.glop.org/starforce
"I will provide a list of games that install the Starforce device drivers, as well as a list of publishers that incorporate Starforce. "
#gaming
archive.org #5665

NASA - How We'll Get Back to the Moon

http://www.nasa.gov/missions/solarsystem/cev.html
Finally waking up from the shuttle disaster? (The whole program, that is.) "Building on the best of Apollo and shuttle technology, NASA's creating a 21st century exploration system that will be affordable, reliable, versatile, and safe."
#moon #nasa #space
archive.org #5663

EducationGuardian.co.uk | Worldwide | Intelligent design opponents invoke US constitution

http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/worldwide/story/0,9959,1595143,00.html
"Anti-evolutionists claim that the site breaches the American constitution on the separation of church and state because it links to religious organisations which believe faith can be reconciled with Darwin's theory of evolution, reported the website Insi
#christianity #creationism #kooks #morons #religion
archive.org #5636

Unhappy Birthday

http://unhappybirthday.com
"Unhappy Birthday is a grassroots project run by citizens who are outraged by rampant copyright infringement in today's society particularly in relation to the song Happy Birthday."
#copyright #happybirthday
archive.org #5634

Tripoli: FAQ

http://tripoli.sourceforge.net/faq.html
"It has the special property that you can ask to inspect or remove a triple before it has been added, and the triplespace will supply you with the triple you asked for when it becomes available."
#dev #programming #python #rdf #tuples
archive.org #5608

Apple Matters | One More Thing Dissected

http://www.applematters.com/index.php/section/comments/one_more_thing_dissected
"Instead of poisoning, asphyxiating, or manually chomping their dinner to death Komodos rely on a filthy toxic bacterial stew that festers constantly in their cesspool of a mouth to do the dirty work."
#apple #ipod
archive.org #5602

Bandai Space Warp -- Level 2 ~ 9000mm Rail

http://jbox.cybrhost.com/PRODUCT/KB260
"With this set you can build a special world where a steel ball shoots up an elevator and travels around a track, often jumping from track to track and doing loop-de-loops making its way downwards until its journey ends and it shoots up the elevator to be
#toys #wishlist
archive.org #5592

What is conversational implicature?

http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsConversationalImplicatur.htm
"Conversational implicature is a nonconventional implicature based on an addressee's assumption that the speaker is following the conversational maxims or at least the cooperative principle."
#cogsci #linguistics
archive.org #5574

TechFreaks v2

http://www.techfreaks.org/articles/modxbox.shtml
"Using code exploits in certain games, a user is able to load a phony gamesave that will boot into a Linux based operating system and allow a user to mod his Xbox... in under ten minutes."
#hacking #hacks #xbox
archive.org #5548