The book by Stephan Paternot, co-founder of Theglobe.com, is an interesting, yet unpolished, tale of the community Web site.

Posted by at July 31, 2001 04:24 PM

HANKY-PANKIW WOULD BLOC STRAHL'S REBELS ?

Oh dear God, no, say it ain't so ! Just when you thought things couldn't get more twisted for members of the Canadian Alliance, along comes a reminder that CA dissident Jim Pakiw has moved to both create and block the legitimacy of the so-called DRC (Democratic Representative Caucus), a mongrel caucus that eschewed efforts here to provide it with a catchy name. To wit, none other than Mr. Pankiw has a private members' bill tabled in the House of Commons that would not allow the DRC to obtain official party status & cash. What an ignominious turn of events. As Jim aptly pointed out in a recent press release, "Nobody can predict with certainty the twists and turns which may lie ahead". Indeed.

Posted by at July 31, 2001 10:44 AM

She says a country's national anthem should never be viewed as a fixed symbol, and thinks it's time that Canada's be updated to recognize half of the country's population: women.

Right on, sisters!

Posted by at July 31, 2001 10:42 AM

blogdex is a system built to harness the power of personal news, amalgamating and organizing personal news content into one navigable source, moving democratic media to the masses. at current, blogdex is focused on the referential information provided by personal content, namely using the timeliness of weblogs to find important and interesting content on the web.

Posted by at July 31, 2001 05:22 AM

There's been a wild party at the New York City Board of Elections.

Posted by at July 30, 2001 08:25 AM

Wearable PCs, led by Xybernaut's MA IV, already are redefining productivity in a variety of industries by allowing people to perform a wide range of mobile tasks more easily, more safely, and more efficiently than ever.

Posted by at July 29, 2001 02:14 PM

Send an e-card and enter to win a signed copy!

also...

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Sent in by a Moon Farmer reader asked "funny, sad, or sign of the times?"

1) I generally find the National Post so ignorantly opinionated and trashy that I don't read it; every time I have read it I've wanted to go to Toronto and burn the editors.

2) Since it happened in Quebec, the parents may win the case. It depends if they're bonne Quebecois who happen to be living in Ontario or filthy Anglos who have helped repress the French people for hundreds of years and therefore need no consolation. If you think I'm exaggerating, consider the number of contests you've seen that say void in Quebec. This is because if you live in Quebec, and enter a contest, and lose, you can get the Quebec government to sue on your behalf.

3) Canada partly lost its spot as UN rated best country in the world because education was slacking off. I am presently residing a stone's throw from the highest ranked university in Canada and I've seen a lot of ignorant, obnoxious, filthy, venal little thugs that I'd be all too happy to plug between the eyes. Provided I didn't have to get close enough to smell them. The others seem blandly cheerful; neither worth a bullet nor my time.

Posted by at July 29, 2001 11:52 AM

Why sponsor the naming of a baby? It will be years before your company gets the kind of publicity you're looking for! I'm available now! Think of the audience you'll reach. If your target market is young, educated, upwardly mobile professional single women, I am your ideal marketing tool. In exchange for your renumeration, I will promote your company for the REST OF MY LIFE. I will legally change my name to add your company name to the beginning of my name. Also, I will tattoo your corporate logo on a 1"x1" area of my shoulder. You could not ask for a better representative of your company. I am intelligent, and poised for success. I have no criminal record, or morally questionable activities of any kind on my record. I have a bachelor's degree, with honours. Be on the cutting edge of a new kind of advertising. Act today!

Posted by at July 28, 2001 05:23 PM

Sales Event: Dot-Com Exchange V (Including assets from AllAdvantage.com, Appareon, burst.com, FairAir, HAL/Fujitsu Computer Systems, Kozmo.com, Masters Institute of Technology, & OrderFusion)

Posted by at July 28, 2001 07:02 AM

Heck, Blogspot was an example of what that could do, we bought a $400 low-end celeron PC, put some RAM into it, and 25,000 sites with millions of pageviews to date ran on it with very little effort. Did no one else see that and figure out how it could benefit their hosting business?

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The Dalai Lama has sent the republic a Shaddin (high) lama called Telo Rinpoche, a 24-year-old American of Kalmyk ancestry from, naturally, Philadelphia.

Posted by at July 28, 2001 05:19 AM

A legal market is the best guarantee that drug-taking will be no more dangerous than drinking alcohol or smoking tobacco.

Posted by at July 28, 2001 05:13 AM

Hey, you!

Please send a get well soon card to Bryan Murray who is in the hospital. That's Bryan Murray (bryanmurray@canoemail.com).

Here're some online card sites:

User Friendly Postcards
Corbis E-cards
Electronic Postcards
MIT's electric postcard rack
Regards.com

Thanks for taking the time to wish him well; after what he's just been through he needs it.

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...companies bringing the lawsuit zero in on Neulevel's application procedures in place around the new TLD, which they charge amounts to an "illegal lottery enterprise."

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The creatures at the end of A.I. were robots (Mecha) not aliens. To paraphrase, "They hate use because they know we will still be here when they are gone."

I am! I was?

Posted by at July 25, 2001 07:16 PM

Guy Kawasaki delivered his top 10 list for revolutionaries to a packed house.

ITBusiness.ca: Xerox uses molecules to grow toner particles

EA technology works in a manner opposite to conventional toner in that it grows toner particles from molecules rather than breaking down larger particles of toner into smaller ones.

Posted by at July 25, 2001 05:25 PM

Give us your shipping information and start your account with 30 FREE condom points automatically!

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Health Canada has approved the contact lenses made out of collamer, porcine collagen, which are biologically compatible with the human eye when they're implanted.

Posted by at July 25, 2001 06:49 AM

World - Ottawa Citizen Online - Zimbabwean president Mugabe vows to keep only 'real men' in his cabinet

Oh, they're stronger than a sheet of metal
And they're in the rugby club reserves
They buy the wife a birthday kettle
These are strong men getting on my nerves
Real men, real men from hell

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Trend Micro uses this dynamic map to analyze worldwide virus trends in real time and to predict virus outbreaks and prevent them proactively.

Posted by at July 24, 2001 11:03 AM

It is worth noting, as well, that in the original coffeehouses nearly everyone smoked, and nicotine also has a distinctive physiological effect. It moderates mood and extends attention, and, more important, it doubles the rate of caffeine metabolism: it allows you to drink twice as much coffee as you could otherwise. In other words, the original coffeehouse was a place where men of all types could sit all day; the tobacco they smoked made it possible to drink coffee all day; and the coffee they drank inspired them to talk all day.

Posted by at July 24, 2001 08:14 AM

"It was incredibly scary to turn that switch," she said. "But the reality is, we weren't going to be here if we couldn't find a way to generate revenue."

Posted by at July 24, 2001 08:09 AM

"People who play games regularly seem to develop a mental state that we have seen before only in serious athletes or professionals such as astronauts, whose life depends on concentration and co-ordination," said Jo Bryce, who led the research. "Their minds and bodies work together much better than those of most other people."

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"This is a big secondhand bookstore."

Posted by at July 23, 2001 04:17 PM

The Monkey's Mask Movie

Dorothy Porter's The Monkey's Mask is stunning: a novel written entirely in poetry

My heart is decked out in bright-pink tracksuit pants.

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In August, Grove Press, the original American publisher of the book, will release Naked Lunch: The Restored Text.

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"We are in the terrifying situation in which a few billionaires colonize the minds of millions of people, teach people to hate where they live, worship McDonald°Øs, and trust corporations."

Posted by at July 22, 2001 04:51 PM

Click here to turn your harddrive into a prayer wheel.

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In case you wondered where my house is at-- it's somwhere under the red star.

Posted by at July 22, 2001 02:07 PM

Numbers like these put into perspective exactly who lost the $5 trillion in stock-market value since the Nasdaq crashed last year.

Unfortunately, I'd bet the majority of that $5 trillion came from retirement funds and mutual funds of the not quite so well off. This guy can go back to work making 100 grand a year.

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Later he tells Marlowe, "Say, I'd like to read up on that Cassidy case. . . . Sounds interesting. Must have been before my time."

"It was a long time ago," Marlowe says. "And it never happened. I was just kidding."

But neither Marlowe nor Chandler were kidding.

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That felt like another earthquake up here in Washington State.

Posted by at July 22, 2001 08:17 AM

The next G-8 should be held in Shawinigan to let them pay back the millions upon millions of dollars in graft they've gotten by being the Prime Minister's riding. Some graft is to be expected. Too much is simply tacky.

Hon. Jane Stewart (Minister of Human Resources Development, Lib.): The real issue here is that day after day the Reform Party stands up and undermines the effect of the transitional jobs fund and the Canada jobs fund, but day after day I received phone calls from the offices of individual members and letters from the offices of individual members. The Reform Party cannot suck and blow at the same time.

Mrs. Diane Ablonczy: Speaking of sucking and blowing, Mr. Speaker, this minister is very good at--

(Canadian politics really are more fun than American politics.)

Posted by at July 21, 2001 04:12 PM

With this upgrade, I could record 160 hours of teevee...

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Here's a Code Red Worm update from sonic.net:

Code Red" worm foiled. The "Code Red" worm was supposed to flood www.whitehouse.gov at 5pm PDT. Sonic.net staff was standing by waiting for any sign of trouble -- and encountered a non-event.It turns out that, to foil the worm, www.whitehouse.gov's IP address was changed, and some backbone providers filtered the old IP address at their borders. (A traceroute showed the old address being blocked at the other end of our UUNet T3.) Since the worm couldn't contact the web site, the denial of service attack never happened.

Posted by at July 20, 2001 07:57 AM

...Strahl, who stressed that while his group has enough members to qualify as an official party in the House of Commons, "we are a caucus, a parliamentary party". The "Democratic Representatives" (DRC, or let's just call them "Dirks") boldly expect official recognition in Parliament, the right to ask questions in the House, places on Parliamentary committees, and access to sufficient budget (re-deployed from the CA) to operate with.

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"Surprisingly, it's not the volume of email that causes stress for people, but the kinds of messages people receive on a daily basis," says Christina Cavanagh, professor in the Richard Ivey School of Business at Western.

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Artificial intelligence is the ability of a computer to perform activities normally thought to require intelligence. CAT and JAT assist human journalists in performing vast publishing and news reporting tasks.

Posted by at July 19, 2001 06:46 AM

Let's hope that's true. Mike Harris is a... person with whom I have many issues.

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A leading woman member of Malaysia's ruling party has asked the government not to validate divorce declarations sent by text message over mobile phones.

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The U.S. tracks its nuclear weapons and materials inventory with software from Microsoft. That software, it turns out, has a gaping security hole.

Posted by at July 18, 2001 08:10 AM

Cliches aren't necessarily false. Some are simply meaningless. Perhaps art does capture the eternal human spirit (No. 2), but what, exactly, is the human spirit, why is it eternal, and how does art "capture" it (the way a vacuum cleaner captures dust)? Our cliches about art can also be radically contradictory. Compare the cliches about critics (No. 48): We despise them, and look to them for endorsement. Or the role of violence in art (No. 42).

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This code is all Unix/Linux-specific: the DNA Lounge is a No Microsoft Zone and proud of it.

Posted by at July 17, 2001 02:19 PM

A report from tobacco giant Philip Morris that cigarette-smoking saves governments millions because smokers die earlier than non-smokers has outraged anti-smoking groups around the world.

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"Monday came, and company-wide layoffs came with it -- save a very small skeleton crew," said a network engineer. "No paychecks; and by filing bankruptcy so quickly [the company] protected itself from labor law violations we could have [sought] protection with. This was of course about a month after the CEO purchased a Ferrari, and the CTO a Dodge Viper.

Posted by at July 17, 2001 08:25 AM

Slowing a beam of light to a halt may pave the way for new optical communications technology, tabletop black holes and quantum computers

Posted by at July 17, 2001 07:26 AM

Content providers have been warning Net users for years that we'll eventually have to pay for this stuff, although few of them have made the threat stick. It was a thrill in 1995 to know that your words or your voice were reaching Kathmandu and Sydney and Dakar simultaneously. But, as in so much else in life, when the thrill has gone, only the money remains.

Posted by at July 17, 2001 07:15 AM

To see the video, click...

Posted by at July 17, 2001 05:28 AM

...harnessing the power of Lava Lite? lamps to generate truly random numbers since 1996.

As mentioned in finer editions of the American Cynic everywhere.

Posted by at July 16, 2001 07:42 PM

Meet the Tele-Actor, a human robot. Your wish is its command. This system combines five million years of human evolution with a new approach to audience participation. This new breed of robot will debut at the Webby Awards but you can try its interface now.

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The Peekabooty software will circumvent filters designed to block access to Web sites by going around them, using a distributed privacy network....

Maybe the Internet is going to turn out to be a tool for freedom.

Posted by at July 16, 2001 06:25 PM

°ƒThe children often use swearwords with little thought as to what they mean and to whom they are offensive. The class makes them aware of what they are saying. They are surprised at what some of the words mean.°±

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But most Taliban decisions and edicts on conduct are ruthlessly enforced by their powerful religious police working under the Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice.

Ruthless promotion of virtue seems like just one good reason for separation of Church and State. Doesn't it reminds you of those well intentioned people who want internet filters be added to library and school computers?

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I want a little sugar
in my bowl
I want a little sweetness
down in my soul
I could stand some lovin'
Oh so bad
Feel so lonely and I feel so sad

Posted by at July 15, 2001 05:29 PM

Copps was also jeered when she talked about Canada's history of English and French communities living side by side, as well as their future together.

That'll teach English Canada to foot most of the bill. What happened to dancing wit'te date what brung'ya?

Posted by at July 15, 2001 03:45 PM

The revelation that sin is widespread in the ranks of judgmental politicians prompted the Rev. Barry Lynn of the Americans United for Separation of Church and State to caution that "Congress should probably spend more time obeying the Ten Commandments and less time trying to exploit them for crass political purposes."

The Second Commandment

Traditional: Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.
BCP Traditional: Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vain.
BCP Contemporary: You shall not invoke with malice the Name of the Lord your God.
Alternative: You must not misuse your God's name.

Q. What does this mean?

A. We must respect and love God, so that we will not use God's name to curse, swear, cast a spell, lie or deceive, but will use it to call upon God, pray to God, praise and thank God in all times of trouble.

My advice is to forget all the rules and just love everyone.

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Environics asked 1,970 Canadians if [Stockwell] Day can rebuild his credibility and challenge the Liberals: 20 per cent said yes, 72 per cent said no.

Posted by at July 12, 2001 04:06 PM

The ruling came in the closely watched copyright case Random House Inc. v. Rosetta Books, 01 Civ. 1728, in which Rosetta Books argued it could not be blocked from publishing, in digital format, several works by major authors such as William Styron and Kurt Vonnegut.

Posted by at July 12, 2001 08:09 AM

This is a list of books that I am aware that are being circulated in the IPB format.

[...]
Lolita  Vladimir Nabokov [...]
Fight Club  Chuck Palahniuck
[...]
Divine Invasion  Philip K. Dick

Among others.

Posted by at July 12, 2001 08:07 AM

Somebody sent me photographs of the inside of Kozmo.com just before they closed. I put those up, and the guy who'd sent them replied back to me and said he was trying to get fired. And he got fired when I put those up, so he was really happy. But I appreciated it. He wanted to get fired so he could get severance, as opposed to just quitting.

Posted by at July 12, 2001 07:37 AM

Hear 360 degrees of sound on this Buddah Records sampler!

Posted by at July 12, 2001 07:30 AM

Click the map for a state-by-state guide to who's getting locked up -- and at what price.

Posted by at July 11, 2001 05:38 PM

Worms that can be targeted to take over specific systems and report back once they succeed may be developed. Programs similar to the original concept of a worm--called a "tapeworm" in John Brunner's 1970s science-fiction novel "The Shockwave Rider"--that have a limited number of infected computers linked together could stealthily wend their way through the Internet.

Brunner was goddamn brilliant, and his extremely visionary work has mostly been either ripped off by inferior hacks like William Gibson (one of the lousiest authors I've ever had the misfortune to encounter) or ignored because it was 'genre fiction'.

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This is going to be a very interesting time because many experts are saying that the home electronics system of the future is going to be built around these high-end video-game consoles. They'll be the heart of the home network and the glue that holds your stereo, television, computer, and even your appliances together.

Posted by at July 11, 2001 01:45 PM

A small assortment of astonishingly loud brass instruments raced each other lustily to the respectiveends of their distinct musical choices as the gates flew open to release a torrent of tawny fur comprised of angry yapping bullets that nipped at Desdemona's ankles, causing her to reflect once again (as blood filled her sneakers and she fought her way through the panicking crowd) that the annual running of the Pomeranians in Liechtenstein was a stupid idea. -- Sera Kirk

Posted by at July 11, 2001 11:19 AM

A Boxboro high-tech firm was evacuated yesterday morning after a caller believed to be an employee told police that a trenchcoat-clad disgruntled worker entered the building carrying a duffel bag.

Posted by at July 11, 2001 09:17 AM

Friday, a European Moon Farmer reader asked, "The Canadian Alliance mentioned in the piece [Journey into darkness: Covert research in the Canadian racist underground ]; they used to be the Reform Party right? Were they the ones that had some major leadership fighting and had started to gain ground? Did they continue to do so or are they still a marginal force only?"

My response: The Rise of the Rebel Alliance

Alliance numbers are now exceedingly poor (Stock [Stockwell Day] having a 16% approval rating), whereas Tory numbers are climbing reliably. Joe [Clark] amuses himself in public by commenting that he refuses to comment on how big an idiot Stock is, but he says he's willing to take any Alliance guys that come over and are willing to talk sense. He has an approval rating -- today at least -- of a whopping 60%.

Posted by at July 11, 2001 06:04 AM

Mark Malloch Brown, head of the UN Development Fund says there's a view that the history of development is a history of technology's failure.

Posted by at July 11, 2001 04:25 AM

What language do you use to develop web-based client applications?

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MarketWatch.com Inc., owner of the CBS MarketWatch.com financial news Web site, said it will quit giving reports to advertisers on their ads' ``click-through'' rates, a common measure of effectiveness for online ads.

Tracking the number of consumers who click on an Internet ad makes online advertising appear less effective than it actually is, MarketWatch.com Chairman and Chief Executive Larry Kramer said in an interview. The company now will provide click- through rates only to advertisers who specifically request them, he said.

Concern that online advertising is ineffective has contributed to a decline in ad sales on some Web sites, analysts have said. Ad sales at San Francisco-based MarketWatch.com declined by 41 percent to $5.18 million in the first quarter.

``The click-through rate is almost meaningless to most advertisers,'' Kramer said in an interview. ``The value of online advertising is getting your name in front of 9 or 10 million people a month. That's what we're selling.''

Posted by at July 09, 2001 02:46 PM

A Welsh cyberpunk who claimed he hacked with only the best of intentions has been sentenced to three years of community rehabilitation and psychiatric care. Nineteen-year-old Raphael Gray called himself the "saint of e-commerce", and his shtick was breaking into internet companies' networks to demonstrate the fragility of their security. Gray seems to have made his point. He hacked into thousands of networks, including those of FeelGoodFalls.com, MoStorefront.com, Albionsmo.com and the American Society of Clinical Pathologists. Gray drew the FBI's attention after he got his hands on 23,000 personal credit-card numbers. He posted many of them online, including one that purportedly belonged to Bill Gates. Reports state that Gray used the number to ship Gates a big batch of Viagra, although there is evidence that this never happened. Gray entered guilty pleas to charges of theft and hacking, as well as to deliberately accessing sites with credit card information.

Posted by at July 09, 2001 07:26 AM

Within a year or two of his paper's publication, however, Shannon was horrified to find that information theory was becoming -- well, popular. People were saying ridiculous things about the amount of information coming out of the sun, or even the information content of noise. Scientists were submitting grant applications that referred to "information theory" whether their proposals had anything to do with it or not. "Information theory" was becoming a buzzword, much as "artificial intelligence," "chaos" and "complexity" would in the 1980s and 1990s. And Shannon hated it. In a 1956 paper entitled "The Bandwagon," in the journal Transactions on Information Theory, he declared that information theory was being greatly oversold. "It has perhaps ballooned to an importance beyond its actual accomplishments," he wrote.

Posted by at July 09, 2001 05:50 AM

Squirmy.

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Squirmy.

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Tropic of Cancer is best known, of course, not for the picture of underground Paris it paints (brilliant though that is) but for its sexual content. Joe and his mates, hahitus of the brothels, have a lot of sex in this book. For this reason Tropic of Cancer has the reputation of being a dirty book. This is puzzling. Whatever else it is, it is definitely not classic pornography in the sense that it would stimulate anyone before sex (which is what pornography is supposed to do).

Posted by at July 07, 2001 04:17 PM

Electronic reusable paper is a display material that has many of the properties of paper. It stores an image, is viewed in reflective light, has a wide viewing angle, is flexible, and is relatively inexpensive. Unlike conventional paper, however, it is electrically writeable and erasable. Although projected to cost somewhat more than a normal piece of paper, a sheet of electronic reusable paper could be re-used 1000s of times. This material has many potential applications in the field of information display including digital books, low-power portable displays, wall-sized displays, and fold-up displays.

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After the meeting, Lemire introduced me to David Duke and Don Black.

Posted by at July 06, 2001 03:38 PM

I want to go to Tesco's store
and buy some drink and fall on the floor

Posted by at July 06, 2001 03:34 PM

As for "boycott," however, meaning to ostracize or refuse to patronize a person or business to coerce a change in conduct, we do know exactly where the word came from. Back in the mid-1800s, Captain Charles Boycott was the local agent for a British landlord in County Mayo, Ireland. He was also a royal jerk. Boycott was so inflexible and cruel to the poor farmers who rented land from him that they decided that no one would deal with him, not even to sell him food or harvest his crops. The farmers made Captain Boycott so miserable that he eventually gave up and fled back to England. Thus the term "boycott" was born, meaning to organize with your neighbors to "ice out" and refuse to deal with a person or business until they change their attitudes or practices.

Posted by at July 06, 2001 12:16 PM

Rheal Mathieu will spend one month in jail for targeting the coffee shops in Montreal for having English-only names on their signs.

Mathieu was a member of the Front de liberation du Quebec, FLQ, during the 1960s. In 1967, at the age of 20, he was sentenced to nine years in jail for two bombing deaths. He has since received a pardon.

So remember, if you want to burn down your store/house/car and collect the insurance money, hire a French separatist and have them claim it was politically motivated. Doesn't even matter if someone gets killed in the process!

Posted by at July 06, 2001 10:16 AM

"It's the eBay for people."

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"It is inappropriate for judges to engage in personal attacks, and Judge Jackson has got to be some kind of moron for doing so," wrote Edwards.

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Roxanne
you don't have to put on the red light
those days are over
you don't have to sell you body to the night
Roxanne
you don't have to wear that dress tonight
walk the streets for money
you don't care if it's wrong or if it's right
Roxanne
You don't have to put on the red light
I loved you since I knew you
I wouldn't talk down to you
I have to tell you just how I feel
I won't share you with another boy
I know my mind is made up
so put away your makeup
told you once I won't tell you again
It's a bad way
Roxanne
you don't have to put on the red light
Roxanne
you don't have to put on the red light

no matter what may.

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