Moon Farmer April 2002 Archive
« March 2002 | Main | May 2002 »To become a scientist is hard enough. But to become one while running a gauntlet of lies, insults, mockeries, and disapproval--this was what my mother had to do. If such treatment is unthinkable (or, at least, unusual) today, it is largely because my mother and other female scientists of her generation proved equal to every obstacle thrown in their way.
Posted by GeeTee at April 30, 2002 06:39 PM
Despite a ruling in a different federal circuit, U.S. District Judge Stephen Limbaugh last week said video games are not free speech and ruled that the county has a compelling interest to protect the physical and emotional health of children. He rejected the video game industry's attempt to throw out the ordinance, and the case is heading to trial.
Posted by GeeTee at April 30, 2002 02:00 PM
During a rare, personal speech to both Houses of Parliament she said, "I would like, above all, to declare my resolve to continue, with the support of my family, to serve the people of this great nation of ours to the best of my ability through the changing times ahead."
Posted by GeeTee at April 30, 2002 11:14 AM
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Posted by Shad Muegge at April 30, 2002 10:01 AM
Rather than being cheapskates, it turns out that regular readers of online newspapers are big spenders of sorts, spending more money and time online than people who don't read internet newspapers.
Posted by GeeTee at April 30, 2002 08:13 AM
Prosecutors in the case have painted ElcomSoft as a shadowy enterprise, a characterization that Katalov wants to dismiss almost as much as the criminal charges.
Posted by GeeTee at April 30, 2002 07:45 AM
Check the Grid - Movie Reviews via American Cynic
We've actually read 9,087 of the latest movie reviews from across the country and converted all the stars and thumbs to a simple rating system.
Posted by GeeTee at April 30, 2002 07:41 AM
Over the last seven years The Marsden Archive has become widely recognised as a unique picture library specialising in the fantastic and the supernatural.
Posted by GeeTee at April 30, 2002 07:36 AM
"Ira Magaziner was an idealist," commented Dyson, referring to the Clinton administration's Internet policy czar who advocated ICANN as an agency without direct government control. "He said that the domain-name system would operate worldwide and he wanted the Internet community to take care of it...But there really is no Internet community like that. We had engineers who thought ICANN was a plot to (give) certain companies control of the Internet, U.S. congressmen figuring it was a plot to (give) foreigners control, public interest people saying it should be run by a group of wise men, and people from Latin America and Africa who just assumed they would be left out again."
Posted by GeeTee at April 30, 2002 07:23 AM
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Posted by GeeTee at April 30, 2002 05:02 AM
Defence lawyer Michael Neville argued that the charges against Father MacDonald should be stayed because the charges were filed in 1996 and the case took 73 months to come to trial.
Posted by GeeTee at April 30, 2002 04:58 AM
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Posted by GeeTee at April 30, 2002 03:53 AM
CNN.com - Cardinals still working on priest abuse policy - April 29, 2002
"'Zero tolerance' is not our term; it's a term that's been given us, and, therefore, if you don't meet it, somehow you've failed," Cardinal Francis George, the archbishop of Chicago, told NBC's "Meet the Press" Sunday. "Zero tolerance in the sense that ... any possible kind of offense of this nature means ... you're ejected from the priesthood? There has to be some discussion."
Posted by GeeTee at April 30, 2002 03:44 AM
There doesn't seem to be much standing in the way of this transcendence of human nature occurring in your lifetime -- 20 to 50 years from now. That's the one thing on which everyone who looks at this compounding curve of change agrees. "The remaining human future is 25 years or 50 years," says Max More, president of the Extropy Institute, a pioneering explorer of the acceleration of technology and trans-humanism.
Posted by GeeTee at April 30, 2002 03:38 AM
Yet, while 59 percent of Americans believe that online publications provide more timely content than their offline counterparts, only 22 percent believe they offer higher quality content than print magazines.
Posted by GeeTee at April 30, 2002 03:29 AM
OrlandoSentinel.com: Central Florida News
With the power of the presidency behind it -- and the GOP intent on securing Florida for President Bush's brother in 2002 and for the president in 2004 -- half of the $10 million raised by the state party has coursed from out of state.
Posted by GeeTee at April 30, 2002 03:25 AM
Tom Waits (buy his stuff at amazon.com) has a voice like a sidewalk and a face to match. Self-deprecating, witty, stoic but hopeful, suitable for all occasions. Most anything by him is good, although his early work is a little weedy. Big Time (listen to samples, buy) is the live album to kick all other live albums. Most of all, no music collection is complete without Nighthawks at the Diner (listen to samples, buy). Nighthawks is funny, clever, wry and hip stuff -- could easily have come out today, not in 1975.
Posted by GeeTee at April 29, 2002 01:41 PM
Picture Yourself in Plastic via Kyle at kflood.net
Kyle also sent me a very good summer CD mix as part of burn, baby, burn. In fact, all the mixes I got were good, but I'm listening to Kyle's right now.
Posted by GeeTee at April 29, 2002 01:25 PM
The findings may come as a blow to Microsoft and AOL, which are attempting to drive customers to online authentication systems as the first step in establishing additional fee-based online services, such as Microsoft's .Net My Services plan. That plan, still on the drawing board, is intended to provide fee-based hosting and delivery of personal information while providing an array of services ranging from commerce to communication in partnership with Web retailers such as eBay. AOL is devising its own consumer Web services plan, code-named Magic Carpet.
Posted by GeeTee at April 29, 2002 01:13 PM
Andrei Knyazev, who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter this year in a Russian court, will head for a penal colony in Siberia after the May Day holiday. A panel of three judges took less than an hour to reject his lawyer's arguments that Knyazev's sentence should be suspended.
Posted by GeeTee at April 29, 2002 12:30 PM
To use toilet paper requires thought.
Posted by GeeTee at April 29, 2002 07:04 AM
"It has been noted that the electronic votes cast by the shareholders present with the largest number of votes were all systematically recorded as abstentions," the company said in a statement Sunday. "Verification with some of these shareholders, such as St Gobain, Societe Generale, Credit Agricole and BNP Paribas, has revealed that the abstentions recorded did not reflect the actual electronic vote, despite confirmation on their voting machine control panel."
Posted by GeeTee at April 29, 2002 06:25 AM
"Even one act of abuse is too much," said Monsignor Peter Schonenbach, general secretary of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops. "No one will say to a priest who has abused that it is fine to continue. If a priest abuses, his whole life changes with that. If a priest has abused and a complaint comes in and the bishop knows about the abuse . . . from that day on, the priest's whole life will be different. He may remain a priest but will never do ministry again."
Posted by GeeTee at April 29, 2002 05:51 AM
Madagascar has been in turmoil since Mr. Ravalomanana, mayor of the capital, Antananarivo, declared himself president in February. He alleged the election had been rigged and refused a court-ordered run-off vote, insisting he was the winner.
Posted by GeeTee at April 29, 2002 05:48 AM
Speaking at a news conference in London, Mrs Pretty's husband Brian criticised the ruling and urged the public to back a campaign to lobby the government to change the law to allow voluntary euthanasia.
Posted by GeeTee at April 29, 2002 05:41 AM
After several years of grandiose ambitions (and publicity), the producers of streaming media are trying to charge for content. But the dirty little secret is that few consumers are paying just for small and jerky images of ABC News' Peter Jennings and National Basketball Association stars on their desktops, as subscribers to RealNetworks' RealOne SuperPass get for just $10 a month. Many of them are more interested in fare like Jackin' Jill, another Vivid offering.
Posted by GeeTee at April 29, 2002 05:37 AM
Fully one-third of the somatosensory cortex, the researchers found, is devoted to the mole-rat's incisors. But perhaps that is not so surprising given that in addition to eating, the teeth are used for digging, moving objects and interacting with other mole-rats.
Posted by GeeTee at April 29, 2002 05:35 AM
BBC News | AMERICAS | Brazil cardinal questions celibacy
He pointed out that the first pope, St Peter, was married.
Posted by GeeTee at April 29, 2002 05:31 AM
Currently insulin, which is used to control blood glucose levels, has to be injected, as digestion of it would make it useless. Soon, however, it could be carried by an emulsion liquid, known as APSET, which is stable in the stomach's acidic conditions.
Posted by GeeTee at April 29, 2002 05:24 AM
The Seattle Times: Arts & Entertainment: Digital-movie contest
The Seattle Times and the Seattle International Film Festival are teaming up on a competition all you amateur Spielbergs won't want to miss.
What if I want to be an amateur Spike Lee? Do the right thing....
Posted by Shad Muegge at April 28, 2002 09:06 PM
Some seniors have already received eviction notices, according to demonstrators, despite assurances from the province that they would be consulted first.
Posted by GeeTee at April 28, 2002 10:58 AM
CBC News: Minister baffled by report Cdn. man sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia
Sampson's lawyers in Saudi Arabia say the legal process is ongoing, the minister said. The lawyers said a death sentence requires royal assent, and "this could not possibly have happened," Graham said.
Posted by GeeTee at April 28, 2002 10:01 AM
National Review Online | Saudi Telethon Host Calls for Enslaving Jewish Women
Muslim Brothers in Palestine, do not have any mercy neither compassion on the Jews, their blood, their money, their flesh. Their women are yours to take, legitimately. God made them yours. Why don't you enslave their women? Why don't you wage jihad? Why don't you pillage them?
Posted by GeeTee at April 28, 2002 08:54 AM
A Saudi official and a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration denied such a formal request was made, but another FAA official and an air traffic controllers' union leader said the request was conveyed to one airport and three FAA facilities.
Posted by GeeTee at April 28, 2002 08:35 AM
The review also showed that in 18 other states, where priests have not been taken off the job, dioceses still have responded to the crisis in a variety of ways. They include turning over allegations to prosecutors, scouring personnel records to see whether old claims were properly handled, and reviewing and publicizing policies for handling complaints.
Posted by GeeTee at April 28, 2002 08:30 AM
Constantine P. Cavafy (1917) via Literary Calendar
I never had you, nor will I ever have you
I suppose. A few words, an approachas in the bar yesterday, and nothing more.
It is, undeniably, a pity. But we who serve Art
sometimes with intensity of mind, and of course only
for a short while, we create pleasure
which almost seems real.
So in the bar the day before yesterday -- the merciful alcohol
was also helping much --
I had a perfectly erotic half-hour.
And it seems to me that you understood,
and stayed somewhat longer on purpose.
This was very necessary. Because
for all the imagination and the wizard alcohol,
I needed to see your lips as well,
I needed to have your body close.
Posted by GeeTee at April 28, 2002 08:09 AM
From The Globe and Mail -- Canada's Most Trusted News Source
Vicki Wentworth, 16, said it would drive her and her friends from smoking on the curb during their breaks into a nearby wooded area, away from the prying eyes of police.
Posted by GeeTee at April 28, 2002 07:41 AM
Whenever I hear Microsoft execs--meaning Bill and Steve--say they'd take Windows off the market if the Nine States prevail in the antitrust case, I want to throw all my support behind the states.
Posted by GeeTee at April 28, 2002 06:25 AM
From The Globe and Mail -- General Publishing's debts mount
Jack Stoddart, chairman of General Publishing, which owns General Distribution Services as well as Stoddart Publishing, acknowledged in an interview that the company owes a "clearly significant" amount of money to publishers. He did not put a figure on it.
Posted by GeeTee at April 27, 2002 01:06 PM
It was a thorough job: After they loaded the computers into a van, the alarm was also taken. The only equipment they left in the UOCT were the live cameras that show the way the traffic moves -- or, rather, does not move.
Posted by GeeTee at April 26, 2002 12:25 PM
In making the April 15 decision, the ruling's author, Mr Daniel Seng, said that MTV is "generic as it has entered the local Chinese language as an abbreviation for music videos."
Posted by GeeTee at April 26, 2002 12:05 PM
retroCRUSH: The barely legal pleasure palace
Hopefully the movie will go no further than this. I don't want to see the gay porn Frankenstein. I mean we don't know whose organ the doc gave him, but judging by the hands, feet, and head, the doctor had an obsession with size. No wonder the bride of Frankenstein looked all freaked out.
Posted by GeeTee at April 26, 2002 11:39 AM
Doucet added shipping companies have unanimously agreed to the change, and the transport department wants to consult with fishermen and others who use the Bay of Fundy.
Posted by GeeTee at April 26, 2002 11:32 AM
CBC News: Conflict accusations as lobbyists campaign for Liberal ministers
Records show that the four leading ministers in the race all have at least one lobbyist working on their leadership campaigns. But those same lobbyists also represent corporate clients who want access to the minister's department.
Posted by GeeTee at April 26, 2002 11:27 AM
His comment follows an incident last weekend when a Jewish student, in town for a Parliament Hill rally, was stopped, handcuffed and detained by mall security for carrying an Israeli flag.
Posted by GeeTee at April 26, 2002 10:08 AM
Desilets had been living and working in Rigaud, Que., after leaving Massachusetts in 1984.
Posted by GeeTee at April 26, 2002 09:53 AM
Jane's International Security News
However, Saddam's aim of portraying himself as one of the very few Arab leaders prepared to take practical steps, rather than issue statements deploring Israel's military operation in the West Bank, has met with some success. The speech in which he made the announcement was broadcast throughout the Arab world and reports suggest the move has been applauded by many ordinary Arabs who are becoming increasingly disillusioned by the obvious political impotence of most of their leaders.
Posted by GeeTee at April 26, 2002 07:55 AM
The only real difference being it would be quicker, easier and cheaper to have a barman, who would have to be present in order to collect money and put the beers on the bar in the first place, do it for you.
Posted by GeeTee at April 26, 2002 07:52 AM
But most news organizations have, it seems, deliberately refused to acknowledge the facts showing that a vast disproportion of the priests accused of abuse have been gay, and that their victims have with rare exceptions been pubescent and teenage boys, not prepubescent children, and that the rise of the lavender clergy over the last 20 years, to the point where between 20 and 50 percent of all Catholic priests now are estimated to be gay -- that this rise really has been disastrous for the church.
Posted by GeeTee at April 26, 2002 07:47 AM
The book of my enemy has been remaindered
And I am pleased.
In vast quantities it has been remaindered
Like a van-load of counterfeit that has been seized
And sits in piles in a police warehouse,
My enemy's much-prized effort sits in piles
In the kind of bookshop where remaindering occurs.
Posted by GeeTee at April 26, 2002 05:49 AM
The other tales kept from the jury were equally disturbing - from a fire at a jail warden's home, after she refused Boucher weekend leaves, to how the [Hells Angels] biker provided the materials for bombs left at police stations, to how he paid a visit to a witness against him.
Posted by GeeTee at April 26, 2002 05:23 AM
But more than the prospect of having their relationship legally recognized, Greenbaum is elated that the rights of their children, Leo, 3, and Simon, 2, will be recognized too.
Posted by GeeTee at April 26, 2002 05:18 AM
"As an example, there's certain information that we can gather and pass on to the Americans in the bill, but we can't pass it onto our own law enforcement people, so that's pretty stupid."
Posted by GeeTee at April 26, 2002 05:15 AM
Mr. Harris, who says he can't reveal exactly when or how long he was with CSIS, tells 60 Minutes that 50 terrorist groups — including Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network — are operating in Canada.
Posted by GeeTee at April 26, 2002 05:11 AM
Saudi Arabia has never officially notified Canada that Mr. Sampson had been brought to trial. In February, however, Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef told a Saudi newspaper that Mr. Sampson's case was before the judiciary. He provided no further details at the time.
Posted by GeeTee at April 26, 2002 05:08 AM
The name of the Spanish judge will come as no surprise. He is Baltazar Garzon, the magistrate who in 1998 sought the extradition from Britain of General Augusto Pinochet to answer charges that the old dictator ordered the murder of Spanish citizens, among the estimated 4,000 people who either disappeared or were killed after the September 1973 coup that toppled the elected civilian president Salvador Allende. The extradition request was finally denied by the Law Lords on the technical ground that the Chilean dictator, who by then had suffered at least one heart attack, was too old to face trial. But Garzon is no respecter of persons, and his tenacity is legendary. Pinochet was the prime mover behind Operation Condor %uFFD0 which, in addition to Chile, also covered Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil, Bolivia and Uruguay. Meanwhile, declassified documents released by the State Department and the CIA since his detention have strengthened suspicions that Kissinger, as Nixon's national security adviser and in effective full control of US foreign policy, was well aware of what was happening.
Posted by GeeTee at April 26, 2002 05:00 AM
"If a thing's not worth doing well, it's not worth doing..." is an observation from Mister Evelyn Waugh's most famous work, Brideshead Revisited. Waugh's dry humour and subtle characterizations make his books (available at Amazon.com) a fully realized experience that one feels one has lived through by the end -- even at their most bizarre. Picks: Scoop (read excerpt); Decline and Fall (read excerpt); The Loved One (read excerpt).
Posted by GeeTee at April 26, 2002 04:41 AM
The group, which called itself the Victoria Anti-Poverty Coalition-Kimberly Rogers Womyn's Brigade, hung signs in the windows and barricaded the door with boards and chains.
Posted by GeeTee at April 26, 2002 04:01 AM
''Homosexuality is not the issue. Celibacy is not the issue,'' Pruitt said. ''The issue is whether we will address the need in the church for an integrated, holistic theology of human sexuality and start discussing how you foster healthy relationships.''
Posted by GeeTee at April 26, 2002 03:54 AM
The report argues that legal issues involving the taking of prisoners while respecting the Geneva Convention were never worked out before Canada sent troops to Afghanistan, and raises the risk to Canadian values -- from bilingualism to the right of gays to serve in the military -- that could be threatened by greater integration with the U.S. military.
Posted by GeeTee at April 26, 2002 03:49 AM
Ananova - 'Mystery' Enron women pose for Playboy
A search by Playgirl to find Enron's sexiest man hasn't been as successful. Magazine bosses say they wanted to be politically correct by doing a feature on the company's men as well.
Posted by GeeTee at April 26, 2002 03:43 AM
washingtonpost.com: Prelates Back Ouster of 'Notorious' Clergy
As an example, Gregory cited a hypothetical case of a priest who has had only one known victim. The fast-track proceeding could begin "if a review of the history of this person leads you to believe that if he is not removed from the clerical state, you are facing a potential serial problem."
Posted by GeeTee at April 26, 2002 03:40 AM
Young Egyptians Hearing Call of 'Martyrdom'
One day recently, a 23-year-old Egyptian man, Milad Mohammed Hemeida, strode past Egyptian guards near the border with Israel, scattering them with a warning: "If anyone comes near me," he said, "I will blow myself up."
Posted by GeeTee at April 26, 2002 03:34 AM
Since 1993, the annual Ottawa Gala supported underprivileged kids. Organized by a dedicated group of young professionals (in their 20s and 30s) from Ottawa's private, public and university sectors, this semi-formal event is a fixture on the social calendar of tomorrow's leaders. Attracting generous corporate sponsors and over 1000 fun-loving attendees each year, the Gala has raised over $300,000 for charity.
Posted by GeeTee at April 26, 2002 03:31 AM
In 1976, fast-food ads showed lots of pictures of hamburgers and french fries. In 1992, they concentrated on the "fun" atmosphere at the restaurants. By 2001, the focus shifted to the value of larger "kid-sized" meals.
Posted by GeeTee at April 25, 2002 07:18 PM
BIBLIOTHECA ALEXANDRINA - Entry Point
The ancient city of Alexandria, one of the glories of antiquity, was at the beginning of the third century B.C. the birthplace of the great plan to build a library: the BIBLIOTHECA ALEXANDRINA. But the library, this vast storehouse of learning, was destroyed by a fire which ravaged Alexandria. The Egyptian Government, in close co-operation with UNESCO, has decided to build a new library in Alexandria to endow this part of the world with an important focal point for culture, education and science.
Posted by GeeTee at April 25, 2002 07:15 PM
WTN Online - Sunday Night Sex Show -
Sue Johanson is a straight-talking grandmother and registered nurse who has been talking to Canadians about sex for close to 30 years. No question is too bizarre or too naive for her. From revitalizing your sex life, pleasing yourself and your partner, to STDs and sexual disorders, Sue tackles all aspects of sexuality in an informative, non-judgmental and humourous way. Launched in 1995, Sunday Night Sex Show consistently draws a large audience of both women and men, proving that sex is as popular as ever.
Posted by GeeTee at April 25, 2002 07:11 PM
"Music sellers should devote their limited resources to online marketing and distribution - rather than eradicating the phantom threat of file sharing - if they truly wish to stanch the blood flow and turn the music market around," Sinnreich writes.
Posted by GeeTee at April 25, 2002 10:21 AM
Graham Greene (buy his work at Amazon.com) writes lovely little spy and military fairy tales. His style is terrifically simple, his plots complex but lucid, and his characters fully formed. He gratifies as a literary author and a page-turner. Picks: Loser Takes All (read excerpt); Doctor Fischer of Geneva, or The Bomb Party; The Comedians (read excerpt), and The Third Man.
Posted by GeeTee at April 25, 2002 09:50 AM
Everyone knows that the twelve months of the year never meet and that February never comes before January. But legend has it that a little girl saw all twelve months at one time.
Posted by GeeTee at April 25, 2002 07:40 AM
Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian
Brevity can produce addiction, and that is why publishing houses - at one time, places set aside for complex forms - while not completely refusing to print works by those such as Marcel Proust, set about capturing public interest by way of very short forms (books of aphorisms, striking jokes, and sayings that don't always make sense). In other words, repeated exposure through audiovisual media to the short forms can result in an addiction to their brevity and speed - and can remove the pleasure and gusto of engaging in the complex forms, which require time and mingling with the text and its cultural background.
Posted by GeeTee at April 25, 2002 05:39 AM
CBC News: U.S. Catholic leaders to propose sex abuse guidelines
U.S. Catholic leaders are expected to adopt a "one strike and you're out" policy Wednesday to expel priests the Church says are involved in sexual crimes against children.
Posted by GeeTee at April 25, 2002 04:34 AM
Across the province, 6,500 health care jobs will disappear over the next three years, one-third of them in the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority.
Posted by GeeTee at April 25, 2002 04:33 AM
FuckedCompany.com - The Dot-com Deadpool
If your position falls within the affected levels we are informing you withthis communication that your gross bi-weekly salary to be paid to you on the regular May 31 2002 and June 14 2002 paydays will be reduced by 50%.
Posted by GeeTee at April 25, 2002 04:15 AM
Economist.com | Food flavourings
Pure crystals of vanillin can be produced biologically by bacteria that munch plant waste. Only recently, however, have a few such processes been commercialised. Zylepsis, a private British company, has pioneered vanillin production using bugs and has obtained high-quality results, although its product remains relatively expensive. It also confounds current labelling rules. Zylepsis's vanillin is a natural product, rather than a chemical one, but it does not qualify as such in America because it contains no actual vanilla extract. Even more confusing, food companies often want to blend fully natural vanilla with the artificially produced, though technically natural, kind. How should such a hybrid be described?
Posted by GeeTee at April 25, 2002 04:04 AM
The Government of Canada - A World Leader in the Protection of Citizens' Personal Information
Ottawa - The Honourable Lucienne Robillard, President of the Treasury Board of Canada and Member of Parliament for Westmount - Ville-Marie, today announced measures to make Canada a world leader in the protection of citizens’ personal information. The Government of Canada’s new Privacy Impact Assessment Policy, which comes into effect May 2, 2002, enhances the government’s implementation of the federal Privacy Act by providing federal departments and agencies with a consistent framework to identify and resolve privacy issues during the design or re-design of programs and services.
Posted by GeeTee at April 24, 2002 08:56 AM
News - Montreal - canada.com network
It was not clear yesterday what immediate effect the judge's statement in Quebec court would have on the use and sale of medicinal marijuana in Canada.
Posted by GeeTee at April 24, 2002 08:10 AM
And this is in spite of the fact that more than half its population lives on less than $4.41 a day.
Posted by GeeTee at April 24, 2002 08:07 AM
City of Ottawa - Public Health Branch - April 2002
Anyone who feels they may be at risk of infection is urged to be tested for syphilis. Free confidential testing is available - no appointment or health card is required -- at the following locations. Please call ahead for the testing schedule.
Posted by GeeTee at April 24, 2002 05:43 AM
The 6.7 inch by 5 inch flat LCD screen folds along a central hinge and is much clearer than existing devices, display maker Samsung SDI said.
Posted by GeeTee at April 24, 2002 05:24 AM
Senator Laurier Lapierre says the move was spurred by CanWest Global's decision to publish national editorials throughout its Southam newspaper chain. All papers in the chain must carry the editorial and they're not allowed to write any of their own that take a different point of view.
Posted by GeeTee at April 23, 2002 10:46 PM
Fool.com: [Rule Breaker] April 23, 2002
In December 1999, Celera Genomics was the top dog in the important emerging industry of bioinformatics, but it failed to fulfill its promise. Yesterday parent Applera Corp. moved Celera's data business to sibling Applied Biosystems. As a genomics-to-drugs maker, Celera is far behind the leaders Millennium Pharmaceuticals and Human Genome Sciences. We will sell Celera in the next five business days.
Posted by GeeTee at April 23, 2002 07:34 PM
The next day, a large portion of the tinglers (who numbered over 30, I believe) visited Tijuana. Along the way, we stopped to do some shopping, where an interesting assortment of things were purchased, including a bullwhip, the ObSombrero and plenty of (cheap) liquor. A few people were tempted with Prozac, which was sold by the pound, almost, but we decided smuggling anything in across the border in spare body cavities wasn't a very palatable idea.
Posted by GeeTee at April 23, 2002 07:29 PM
Reagan Obituary Surfaces On Metafilter
The first page of the Reagan obituary was indexed Apr. 21 by the Google search engine and was available today through the search site's cache feature.
Posted by GeeTee at April 23, 2002 06:46 PM
Williams, his one-time colleague Sally Gardner, and an anonymous cameraman were part of the same production unit at CBC Television in Vancouver in the late 1970s; all worked with Michael J. Fox before he became a star; all four are now losing control of their bodies to a cruel, dehumanizing disease. Why? Williams, 64, directed Fox in an episode of a short-lived sitcom called Nellie, Daniel, Emma and Ben, which aired in 1979. It was Fox's second gig, after his debut in the CBC comedy Leo and Me. Today, Williams is able to joke about his debilitating affliction. "I often say it's because when Michael J. and I worked together, we had to work with terrible scripts -- it destroyed our brain cells."
Posted by GeeTee at April 23, 2002 01:44 PM
While Europe boasts some spaces devoted to new media art, the US has nothing comparable--that is the gap Eyebeam seeks to fill. Currently located in a temporary space on West 21st Street in Manhattan's Chelsea district, the site of the planned new building, Eyebeam is headed up by John S. Johnson, who founded the not-for-profit organisation in 1996. Along with a selection committee, Mr Johnson chose Diller Scofidio's design from after an 18-month competition of 30 architects; the winner was announced on 18 March.
Posted by GeeTee at April 23, 2002 11:16 AM
Take a soul-soothing journey as you enjoy a variety of superb, select teas. Six styles of tea are displayed in miniature glass-covered aluminum canisters. Rare White, Green, Oolong, Black and Pu-erh teas are included in this interesting and fun gift.
Posted by GeeTee at April 23, 2002 10:29 AM
Yahoo! News - Pope Says No Place for Pedophilia in Church
Officials said before the meetings they would seek Vatican guidance on whether pedophile priests can stay in the ministry or if a "one strike and you're out" rule should be applied.
Posted by GeeTee at April 23, 2002 10:05 AM
Pte. Simon Hughes retrieved the ring from Green's barrack box, tucked it in his pack and began a long journey from the coalition base in Kandahar, Afghanistan, to accompany Green's body home to his family.
Posted by GeeTee at April 23, 2002 07:05 AM
"I want you to find some clones for me," the anonymous, gravelly voice on the phone demanded.
Posted by GeeTee at April 22, 2002 02:56 PM
If there is a problem here, I suspect it's that there's a larger, darker, unspoken force in play. And naturally, there's a Hollywood vulgarism to describe it: Women fuck up. Men fuck anything.
Posted by GeeTee at April 22, 2002 12:39 PM
We called him Bacci because my older cousin called him that when she was very young. My grandfather died last week. In me he lives on, for I will try to always be a bit like the man who I always remember as happy, friendly, and accepting.
He also taught me how to gut a trout.
Posted by Shad Muegge at April 22, 2002 09:13 AM
"As such, we do not reject the concept that even opinions written on the Internet anonymously have a copyright," the judge said.
Posted by GeeTee at April 22, 2002 07:27 AM
Paquet, the former head of his university's centre on governance, believes Prime Minister Jean Chretien's government is actually involved in more patronage and corruption than ex-prime minister Brian Mulroney's government was between 1984 and 1993.
Posted by GeeTee at April 22, 2002 06:45 AM
When Toronto made a run toward the end of the first half, the crowd chanted "U.S.A., U.S.A.!"
Posted by GeeTee at April 22, 2002 06:14 AM
A Case Study of "Tina's Free Live Webcam"
In particular, such firms often offer pornographic or sexually-explicit images, advertising, or links or redirects to other commercial sites. The apparent expectation of such firms is that at least some users will request the web pages previously (before domain expiration) hosting other content; any such users will instead be shown this new content, likely creating profits for the firms that reregistered the expired domain names.
Posted by GeeTee at April 22, 2002 03:52 AM
Detainees to get flush toilets, sea views
"My expectation is that as the time goes you'll see more depression," Saiful-Islam said.
Posted by GeeTee at April 20, 2002 04:03 PM
"The value of celibacy as a complete gift of self to the Lord and his Church must be carefully safeguarded," John Paul told the Nigerians.
Posted by GeeTee at April 20, 2002 03:59 PM
"It's getting better and better and better," he says, "because several years ago -- and still is to a degree -- there's a lot of drinking involved with this sport. You know, the Canadians were famous for it."
Posted by GeeTee at April 20, 2002 02:03 PM
Fool.com: [Fool on the Hill] April 19, 2002
But the thing that got me, the item that made my head spin, was this little gem from Kirsten Campbell, another Merrill analyst: "if [this rating] means that we are putting half of merrill retail into this stock because they are out accumulating it then i don't think that's the right thing to do. We are losing people money and i don't like it. john and mary smith are losing their retirement because we don't want [the CFO] of GoTo to be mad at us."
Posted by GeeTee at April 20, 2002 10:41 AM
The Allergy and Environmental Health Association - Ottawa Branch
The effects of its toxicity are insidious; a user becomes "chronically maladapted" to it. The exposure is so constant that it can be difficult to connect the product with the signs of reactivity it causes. Neurostimulant/irritants and central nervous system toxins used in these products are known to produce an addictive-type response that may cause the user to experience a feeling of pleasure when the product is directly inhaled. Regular users of fabric softeners (and perfumes) also often claim they "can hardly smell it". This too is an effect of chemical ingredients on neural receptors.
Posted by GeeTee at April 19, 2002 05:25 PM
Tom Waits is set to release both of his new albums "Alice" and "Blood Money" simultaneously on May 7th, 2002. The art and track lists for both of these records have been completed and released.
Posted by GeeTee at April 19, 2002 04:25 PM
Just one floor above, nine meters underground, a moon shines down on a Ming Dynasty courtyard, complete with rocks, fake greenery, and the sound of chirping birds. During the day, the "sky" can be adjusted to show blue skies dotted with clouds, and tables can be set out for top-class entertainment amid the splendor of former days.The vaults are a part of China's state-of-the-art showpiece facility for the restoration and preservation of ancient artifacts. The VIP entertainment suite is the flip side of the dilemmas involved in saving China's ever growing list of cultural artifacts from the ravages of time and economic development - the temptation to cash-on on the relics they house to pay for the ever-growing bill for ongoing preservation efforts
.Posted by GeeTee at April 19, 2002 12:22 PM
From The Globe and Mail -- Canada's Most Trusted News Source
The gallery's technology was state of the art -- it used a process that literally lifted the ink off the poster and transferred it to the canvass. The gallery did not create any new images or reproductions of the work, since the poster paper was left blank after the process was complete.Mr. Theberge was nevertheless outraged -- he believed he had sold paper posters, not canvass-based reproductions -- and he proceeded to sue in Quebec court, requesting an injunction to stop the transfers as well as the seizure of the existing canvass-backed images.Although the Quebec Court of Appeal ruled in favour of the seizure, a divided Supreme Court overturned that decision, finding that the images were merely transferred from one medium to another and not reproduced contrary to the Copyright Act.
Posted by GeeTee at April 19, 2002 12:15 PM
CBC News: Bush, top U.S. general react differently to Canadians' deaths
At a media briefing Thursday, a clearly distressed chairman of the U.S. joint chiefs of staff, General Richard Myers, said the accident "is right up there with the worst news I've heard in my career."
Posted by GeeTee at April 19, 2002 12:13 PM
Cybersex Fans Say Computers Really Satisfy
Apart from the word's power of suggestion on chat rooms, the cyber sex users also transmit messages with the help of multi media -images and sounds- which are meant to generate a certain reaction in the virtual partner. For this, they can resort to adult sites or even web cameras that they install on their computers. But why would they give up the advantages and nice sensations offered by the human senses (eye contact, smell, touch, taste and voice sensuality) in favor of artificial incentives? Cristian Andrei, psychologist, blames it on the lack of self-confidence of the young generations in the Internet era. He also explains the mechanism of cyber sex: "Exchanging insinuating words, describing things about their sexuality, such as what they are wearing, how they look or feel, the virtual partners can use the Internet in order to induce sexual desire".
Posted by GeeTee at April 19, 2002 10:48 AM
He was paid $590 for his performance with the understanding his yodel would be used only for that specific commercial, he said. The company never told him his stylized vocal arc would be used in thousands of subsequent commercials, he said.
Posted by GeeTee at April 19, 2002 06:11 AM
"We have what in sociological terms we would call the perfect sample to project presidential elections. Each social class and group and age is proportionally represented," lead archeologist Guillermo Cock told a news conference at the National Geographic Society in Washington.
Posted by GeeTee at April 18, 2002 03:10 PM
Developed in the wind tunnel and built entirely from composite carbon-fibre reinforced material, it has a width of only 1.25 m and is just over a metre high. The body is unpainted to save weigh, and the reinforced plastic outer skin conceals a space frame constructed from magnesium, which is even lighter than aluminium.
Posted by GeeTee at April 18, 2002 02:45 PM
"It is their own business," Chretien said in the House of Commons. "The defence of Canada will be assured by the Canadian government and not by the American government."
Posted by GeeTee at April 18, 2002 02:30 PM
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports
"If he does not go, it would be a demonstration that he wants to avoid a justice system which, at the moment, is only asking him what he knows."
Posted by GeeTee at April 18, 2002 10:53 AM
U.S. officials said the pilot, believing he was under attack, was authorized to mark the target for a laser-guided bomb attack, but not to drop the bomb.
Posted by GeeTee at April 18, 2002 10:49 AM
Yahoo! News - US Pilot Erred in Bombing Canadians, Says Official
Stressing that reports from the desert training area near Kandahar were "very, very preliminary," the official told Reuters that at least one pilot of a flight of U.S. Air Force F-16s thought the planes had been shot at. The defense official, who asked not to be identified, said the pilot of the F-16 plane that dropped the laser-guided bomb in the "friendly fire" accident apparently received permission to do so before launching the strike.
Posted by GeeTee at April 18, 2002 10:04 AM
Here is the cover and tray liner of my burn, baby, burn blogger summer CD swap. I've received one from numbernine at complexnumber.net and hope he did well on his exams.
Posted by GeeTee at April 18, 2002 08:23 AM
Give Water is a website set up to raise money and awareness for WaterAid. A simple, free click on the homepage will count towards our current cumulative target of four million clicks. This target, launched in December 2001, will generate a further donation of £100,000 by Thames Water.
Posted by GeeTee at April 18, 2002 07:07 AM
Video, audio, photos, manuscripts, and biography representing the life of Allen Ginsberg.
Posted by GeeTee at April 18, 2002 06:19 AM
Though the ex-husband denied saying anything of the sort, the 1st District still found the phrase "big skank" too vague to be found true or false. It also declared the two other offensive descriptions not actionable because they were "unquestionably" statements of subjective judgment.
Posted by GeeTee at April 18, 2002 06:18 AM
Incidents such as this, sometimes called friendly fire and known to the military as "blue-on-blue" can happen for many reasons, military officers said. The pilot could have been off course because of a navigation error. Canadian tracer rounds -- bullets that leave a fiery trail -- might have ricocheted into the air and led the pilot to believe it was enemy fire.
Posted by GeeTee at April 18, 2002 05:34 AM
Yahoo! News - Canadian forces killed in errant U.S. bombing in Afghanistan
"How this can happen is a mystery to us. Without a doubt, there was a misidentification," Canada's defense chief, Lt. Gen. Ray Henault, told reporters in Ottawa.
Posted by GeeTee at April 18, 2002 04:21 AM
Economist.com | Internet advertising
In retrospect, more aggressive commercialisation of the Internet seemed bound to happen. As the thousands of dotcoms that have already gone to the wall discovered, making money on the Internet is not easy--especially from advertising. Yahoo! might be one of the biggest Internet portals with more than 230m users, but it is now desperately trying to reduce its reliance on ad revenues by providing new paid-for services and content. Last week, the firm posted its sixth consecutive quarterly loss. If users do not go to a special site in the next 60 days to change their "preferences", they are likely to be barraged by e-mails, telephone calls and other direct-marketing material.
Posted by GeeTee at April 17, 2002 07:23 PM
FEW things cause more trouble in the online world than lists. The body overseeing the Internet's domain-name system, ICANN, keeps making unfortunate headlines; recently, one of the group's own board members sued it to open its books. Now another electronic directory has become a bone of contention: ENUM, a way of turning telephone numbers into Internet addresses by converting the numbers into domain names ending in .arpa.
Posted by GeeTee at April 17, 2002 07:19 PM
The judge declared that Attorney General John Ashcroft (news - web sites) had overstepped his authority in trying to thwart the law, and he rebuked Ashcroft for trying to "stifle" nationwide debate on the issue.
Posted by GeeTee at April 17, 2002 06:21 PM
CNN.com - Cardinal Law returns from Rome with plans to stay in Boston - April 17, 2002
Law said he intends "to address at length" the way the archdiocese handled child sexual abuse cases "by reviewing the past in as systematic and comprehensive way as possible, so that legitimate questions which have been raised might be answered."
Posted by GeeTee at April 17, 2002 06:16 PM
NATIONAL POST ONLINE | News story
During his seven months in custody -- nearly half of which he said was spent in solitary confinement and often in shackles -- Mr. Baloch said he was not allowed to see his lawyer for weeks at a time, or speak to his family.
Posted by GeeTee at April 17, 2002 06:14 PM
"Messier gave the management 24 months to turn round the station's finances and fired them one month later.... How can we trust a guy who can't count up to 24?"
Posted by GeeTee at April 17, 2002 06:09 PM
"If you want a new piece of kit in the military and it costs any more than about $10.35, you have to go through this incredibly bureaucratic procedure, which literally takes years. And if this is a $100 million-plus bucks, I can guarantee you it would take years."
Posted by GeeTee at April 17, 2002 05:37 PM
"All I can tell you is the perception left by Svend Robinson's trip is in fact that the NDP has taken sides with the Palestinians on this issue and that's damaging and hurtful,"
Posted by GeeTee at April 17, 2002 05:35 PM
Internet to blame for marriage breakdowns
One in ten people approaching marriage guidance counsellor Relate claim surfing the internet has ruined their once blissful union.
Posted by GeeTee at April 17, 2002 10:28 AM
The Village Voice, by Dennis Lim
Given the unyielding laws of physics, it may come as a surprise that travel into the future--or at least a restricted form thereof--is a proven fact. Einstein shattered Newton's view of absolute time, "flowing equably without relation to anything external," by identifying a "time dilation" effect. Time is stretched by motion, Einstein theorized, and moving objects age more slowly. On a high-speed trip, clocks tick slower: An astronaut's wristwatch and biological clock, like his pulse rate, would slow down relative to someone who remains on Earth. The net effect is that he gains time on his journey. The higher the velocity, the greater the dilation factor. Consider an example given in Davies's book: A round-trip flight to a star 10 light-years away at almost the speed of light (180,000 miles per second) would take just over 20 Earth years, but the astronaut would age less than three years on the trip, so upon her return, she has effectively traveled 17 years into the future.
Posted by GeeTee at April 17, 2002 07:17 AM
``I don't have any motivation,'' said one employee, who asked not to be identified for fear she might be dismissed. ``I work in the corporate tax department, and no one here is willing to work late. We're just kind of in la-la land right now.''
Posted by GeeTee at April 17, 2002 07:13 AM
Cindy Cohn, staff director of the EFF, said that the Patriot Act and other attempts to define the regulatory issues that affect the Internet require an education campaign for Internet activists and online denizens in general to understand when they might cross over from legal expression into potentially illegal activities.
Posted by GeeTee at April 17, 2002 06:31 AM
Hidden bedroom cameras inspire privacy bill
The bill would also require Web sites containing pornography, hate speech or other material deemed harmful to minors to give up their ".com" Web addresses and register under an adults-only Internet domain such as ".prn."
Posted by GeeTee at April 17, 2002 06:29 AM
Yesterday's decision showed that the court is willing to forge ahead with an expansive First Amendment doctrine even in a technologically novel context in which public sympathy for the rights of those seeking free expression is probably low.
Posted by GeeTee at April 17, 2002 06:17 AM
Professor Allan Snyder and colleague Elaine Mulcahy say tests on 17 volunteers show their device can improve drawing skills within 15 minutes.
Posted by GeeTee at April 17, 2002 05:06 AM
"I think standards for admission of priests ... should be developed."
Posted by GeeTee at April 16, 2002 11:13 AM
The Chronicle: 4/19/2002: New Book Uses Statistical Methods to Analyze Avant-Garde Art
While it might offend mandarin sensibilities to point out the correspondence between long-term reputation and market value, that correlation is not especially surprising. But as he fine-tuned his statistical model, Mr. Galenson said, he found it possible to make informed guesses based on little more than numerical data. "I could put the prices of paintings into the computer," he says, "and from the results could predict what the artist said about his work and how he made preparatory drawings."
Posted by GeeTee at April 16, 2002 05:33 AM
Discovery suggests near limitless supply of clean fuel | canada.com
Hydrogen gas has been hailed as the ultimate clean fuel, as it produces only water when burned. Until now, however, moves to switch to a "hydrogen economy" have been dogged by the cost of making the gas. The two most common ways -- extraction from natural gas and sea water -- are expensive and create environmental problems. Now scientists at the American space agency Nasa have found that the Earth's crust is a vast natural reservoir of hydrogen which has become trapped in ancient rocks.
Posted by GeeTee at April 16, 2002 05:17 AM
An Israeli soldier, backdropped by armored personnel carriers, uses his mobile phone at Salem village in the outskirts of the Jenin refugee camp area in the northern West Bank, Monday, April 15, 2002. Palestinian medics accompanied by Israeli troops began searching for bodies […]
Posted by GeeTee at April 16, 2002 05:06 AM
U.S. Conference President Wilton D. Gregory, the bishop of Bellevue, Ill., met with the pope and other church leaders Saturday in Rome and said the sex scandal was the topic of "considerable discussion."
Posted by GeeTee at April 15, 2002 06:34 PM
"I called them on April Fool's Day -- I didn't even think about it," he said.
Posted by GeeTee at April 15, 2002 06:32 PM
Attention all bloggers: please send in the URL of your favorite 9/11-related posts from ANY blogger at ANY time (since 9/11 obviously) for consideration for inclusion in the new Warblogger's book - proceeds going to charity. Let's put our best feet forward, having washed them, and take another step toward blogging hegemony. Thanks and tell your friends.
Posted by GeeTee at April 15, 2002 06:28 PM
Silicon Alley News: Amazon to Author's Guild: Back Off!
"...when someone buys a book, they are also buying the right to resell that book, to loan it out, or to even give it away if they want. Everyone understands this," he said in an e-mail distributed to sellers of used books on the Amazon site.
Posted by GeeTee at April 15, 2002 02:29 PM
"It's a black Mac," said Damer, in reference to the black helicopters used by shady government agencies. "We don't know who used it -- the CIA, the Department of Defense -- or where it came from."
Posted by GeeTee at April 15, 2002 02:24 PM
In a Forceful Speech, Gore Criticizes Administration
Mr. Gore even dared to do what many Democrats had said he was afraid of doing in the 2000 campaign: embrace President Bill Clinton.
Posted by GeeTee at April 15, 2002 08:41 AM
He says he had to take extra time off work and can't have sex with his wife. The hospital says it was an unfortunate accident.
Posted by GeeTee at April 15, 2002 08:23 AM
If you think putting corporate-sponsored tattoos on boxers and basketball players is going too far, wait 'till you see logos fluttering around on butterfly wings. Antonia Monteiro, a researcher at the State University of New York in Buffalo, has been working with genetically modified butterflies. Her goal is to figure out how the insect's genes determine the distinctive patterns of colors and markings on its wings. Monteiro predicts that the method she has developed, which involves splicing a heat-sensitive gene into butterfly DNA, will appeal to advertisers looking to place their message in an exotic venue.
Posted by GeeTee at April 15, 2002 07:57 AM
Q. What is this?
A. Short answer: it's a one-way mailing list. Long answer: it's a diary; it's erotica; it's love letters; it's daily explosions of lust and longing.
Posted by GeeTee at April 15, 2002 07:45 AM
The intent of detailing and naming these insidious tactics is so that the reader may AVOID USING THEM, to quickly recognize if someone else is using them, and for fun. There is much humor in the way people (consciously or unconsciously) conversationally cheat.
Posted by GeeTee at April 15, 2002 07:23 AM
CNEWS Law & Order - Saskatoon police encounter girl pimps too young to be charged
For six months Const. Tim Korchinski and the Saskatoon vice unit heard stories about an 11-year-old girl running a prostitution ring.
Posted by GeeTee at April 14, 2002 04:05 PM
Associated Press Writer - from Tampa Bay Online
The reason the penalty was so harsh is that traffic fines in Finland are based not just on the severity of the offense, but on the offender's income. Vanjoki is a senior executive of Nokia, the world's largest cell phone maker, and his fine was assessed on a 1999 income of $5.2 million.
Posted by GeeTee at April 14, 2002 04:02 PM
We will relaunch a new and improved AdCritic in the near future....
Posted by GeeTee at April 14, 2002 02:31 PM
The IEEE produces 30 percent of the world's published literature in electrical engineering, computers and control technology, holds annually more than 300 major conferences and has more than 860 active standards with 700 under development. Hence, the IEEE's decision to require authors to adhere to the DMCA has the potential to restrict research and discussion of security matters worldwide due to the 1998 U.S. law.
Posted by GeeTee at April 14, 2002 10:39 AM
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Posted by GeeTee at April 14, 2002 10:34 AM
When asked what the MPs might accomplish with their trip, Mr. Gallaway said: "Accomplish? Accomplish is a big word."
Posted by GeeTee at April 14, 2002 09:59 AM
CBC News: Kyoto not top priority: Anderson
David Anderson said there are a host of other environmental issues that deserve immediate attention, such as unsafe drinking water and health problems caused by toxic chemicals.
Posted by GeeTee at April 14, 2002 03:16 AM
Vlajko Stojiljkovic, 65, was Serbia's interior minister in charge of police under Milosevic. He was indicted by the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands. Stojiljkovic shot himself Thursday on front of the federal parliament, just hours after deputies passed an extradition bill for suspects sought by the court.
Posted by GeeTee at April 14, 2002 03:14 AM
Norfolk's judges want to see a detailed plan, and they reserve the right to say no. They say they relied on R.M.S. Titanic's no-sales promises when they granted salvage rights in 1994. But on Monday, R.M.S. Titanic argued that its promises were never ironclad, that they were merely business plans that could change, and that Norfolk's judges have no power to stop the artifact sale.
Posted by GeeTee at April 14, 2002 02:54 AM
[…] even the widespread use of the Internet has not eaten significantly into TV time. “In most cases,” says Betsy Frank, head of research and planning at MTV Networks, “what MTV viewers do less of, now that they are spending more time on the Internet, is sleeping, talking and personal hygiene.”
Posted by GeeTee at April 13, 2002 03:56 PM
Yahoo! News - Cardinal: 'Mistake' Not Disclosing Priest's Past
The leader of the largest U.S. Roman Catholic archdiocese said he made a mistake by transferring a priest accused of child molesting to a hospital and failing to inform the hospital of the charges, the Los Angeles Times said Saturday.
Posted by GeeTee at April 13, 2002 03:52 PM
European Union flatly rejects Canada's bid for clean fuel credits
While the Canadian government has said it intends to ratify Kyoto, opposition is mounting from provinces and business groups who say signing the deal will cost thousands of jobs and billions of dollars.
Posted by GeeTee at April 13, 2002 03:50 PM
The space-time continuum is a key aspect of the buffet: when you really try to pack the food in, you run out of time (and space) in a hurry. When I worked in Edmonton a few years ago, a photographer taught me that it takes 20 minutes for your stomach to tell the brain that it's full -- giving you a 20-minute window to stuff yourself. As he tossed back shrimp after shrimp, I learned how important that rule can be to some people. The fear and regret in his eyes at the 15-minute mark when he realized he hadn't even got to the shanghai noodles, said it all.
Posted by GeeTee at April 13, 2002 02:58 PM
In the radio conversation, McKinney delivered a stinging attack on the administration. In 2000, she charged, Bush forces "stole from America our most precious right of all, the right to free and fair elections." With the September attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and in Pennsylvania, McKinney said, "an administration of questionable legitimacy has been given unprecedented power."
Posted by GeeTee at April 13, 2002 02:38 PM
Last year, President Vladimir Putin introduced a flat tax on income of 13 percent -- the lowest rate in Europe -- designed to draw more Russians out of the "shadow economy" and make them honest taxpayers. The results have been dramatic. Revenue from personal income tax shot up nearly 47 percent last year, and tax revenue overall rose 50 percent, according to government figures. Early results from 2002 look even better.
Posted by GeeTee at April 13, 2002 02:35 PM
When I got down to business the first time, my experience was almost identical to Grant's. But while he was able to maintain steady pressure on his perineum until his pulsating prostate gave up on trying to give forth, I got nervous, eased up the pressure after about ten seconds and let the love juice fly. (This was mostly because, somewhere in the back of my mind, I could hear my horrified mother's reaction to my future inability to provide her with grandchildren: "What do mean you broke your penis?")
Posted by GeeTee at April 13, 2002 02:22 PM
Bishop won't accept MP's apology
"As a minister of the Crown I have great respect for the clergy, and the followers of the faith," Mrs. Nelson wrote in a letter released yesterday. "I regret that my comments could have offended you or members of your church, and for that, I sincerely apologize."
Posted by GeeTee at April 13, 2002 05:37 AM
The myths also state that a large city once stood here which was so beautiful the gods became jealous and sent a flood that swallowed it up entirely in a single day.
Posted by GeeTee at April 12, 2002 05:53 PM
While IRC networks are sometimes used for trading pornography, Taliban IslamicIRC users have their virtual wrists slapped if they attempt to connect to any chat rooms with titles that include the following words: sex, hardcore, xxx, horny or erotic. The program will refuse to connect and instead will print the message, "Plzzz don't use it for anti-Islamic invitings!"
Posted by GeeTee at April 12, 2002 04:27 PM
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Posted by GeeTee at April 12, 2002 04:25 PM
There is always one seemingly ubiquitous artist at every fair and this year it was Sarah Morris with her paintings, as well as much jokey art-about-art, the same John Currin image being teased by both Matthew Higgs at Murray Guy and Kakanias at Rebecca Camhi. But most noticeable of all was the aforementioned sexualised work, a typical showstopper being the DVD video "Fucked" proudly on display at Modern Culture at the Gershwin, featuring a 19 year old female artist trying to apply make-up while being firmly boffed from behind. Lasting three minutes and in an edition of nine, they had all rapidly sold out at prices from $550 to $1,200.
Posted by GeeTee at April 12, 2002 04:18 PM
The central bank also maintains that the notes are cleaner and more hygienic, and can be recycled at the end of their useful life. Once taken out of circulation, the bills are ground up and turned into products such as compost bins and plumbing fittings.
Posted by GeeTee at April 12, 2002 04:00 PM
Part of the appeal challenges the incompatibility of Ontario traffic laws with Russian laws. Knyazev's lawyer, Andrei Pavlov, said the trial was "very unusual, to say the least" because Knyazev committed the offence in Canada and was tried in Russia.
Posted by GeeTee at April 12, 2002 03:08 PM
CBC News: Klein hot over Greenpeace stunt
The environmental group, which often resorts to attention-grabbing stunts, climbed onto the roof of Klein's house Thursday with a couple of solar panels.
Posted by GeeTee at April 12, 2002 02:55 PM
Can you sue someone for not using your logo without your permission? The owners of a building situated on Manhattan's Times Square think you can. Their complaint has to do with several sequences in the new Columbia Pictures movie "Spider-Man," starring Toby Maguire. In the scenes, the superhero, web-slinging his way across the city, swings past the facade of 2 Times Square, which in real-life bears a giant electronic Samsung billboard. The filmmakers, however, digitally replaced the ad with one for USA Today--which, unlike Samsung, isn't a direct competitor of Columbia Pictures owner Sony. Sherwood 48 Associates, the owners of the building, have filed suit against Columbia Pictures, arguing that it was "inappropriate" to change the billboard, according to the New York Daily News.
Posted by GeeTee at April 12, 2002 02:28 PM
Lawyers for the girl argued against the treatment, calling it a violation of her religious freedom because she is over 16 and able to make her own decision.
But Kent ruled that Alberta's legislation defining anyone under 18 as a minor is valid even if other provinces set a lower age limit.
Posted by GeeTee at April 12, 2002 01:43 PM
Franklin Society: Cell Research Petition
We the undersigned--many of us conservatives, some of us scientists, all of us concerned for the future--want it known that therapeutic cloning has supporters from across the political spectrum. To halt this research would be a terrible blow to science and public health.
Posted by GeeTee at April 12, 2002 01:17 PM
As a 50-year old, I experienced the Segway as I experienced getting reading glasses: A way to augment my body back to a healthy youth. I can carry heavy loads that would hurt my now-sensitive back. If my knees or heart get worse, I can still run or go distances on a hike with younger loved ones. This will be a very big hit with the 45 and over crowd. If somebody bumps into Grandpa with it, it will be Grandma, and she votes. For younger people, the Segway opens up new areas that are now within "walking distance", for older people it restores old areas that are missed. People with all sorts of disabilities (MS, Parkinson's, knee injuries, etc.) are begging the Segway company for units. They know it will change their lives, restoring some normalcy.
Posted by GeeTee at April 12, 2002 10:28 AM
CBC News: African leaders welcome Canadian leadership role: PM
K.Y. Amoako, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa, says he feels Canada has empathy for Africa. "Africa was colonized by either the British or the French. Canada had a distinction of having been colonized by both."
Posted by GeeTee at April 12, 2002 07:34 AM
As a concession to Oregon, where people vote exclusively by mail, and Washington state, where more than half the ballots are cast by mail, people registering for the first time by mail and who vote by mail could provide their driver's license number or the last four digits of their Social Security number on the registration form. They would then not be required to include a copy of their identification papers when they mailed in their ballot.
Posted by GeeTee at April 12, 2002 07:32 AM
This last right guarantees your ability to exercise your other rights. Certain recent copyright laws have paradoxical loopholes that claim to grant certain rights but then criminalize all technologies that could allow you to exercise those rights. In contrast, this Bill of Rights states that no technological barriers can deprive you of your other fair use rights.
Posted by GeeTee at April 11, 2002 06:34 AM
"There are plenty of different cities and countries that have gone from a high degree of corruption to a low degree of corruption," Hammond says. His A-society suggests that in such a transition, the fear of being caught may be at least as important as the odds of actually being caught. To test that possibility, Hammond re-ran his simulation, but this time he allowed all the agents to know not just how many of their friends were in jail but how many people were jailed throughout the whole society: in other words, the agents knew the odds of arrest as well as the police did. Sure enough, fully informed agents never got scared enough to reform. Hammond's A-society seemed to have "grown" a piece of knowledge that many law-enforcement agencies (think of the Internal Revenue Service, with its targeted, high-profile audits) have long intuited--namely, that limited resources are often more effectively spent on fearsome, and fearsomely unpredictable, high-profile sweeps than on uniform and thus easily second-guessed patterns of enforcement.
Posted by GeeTee at April 11, 2002 06:32 AM
"There's no doubt Bert had a role in JFK's assassination," Fitzgerald said. "But I don't think Bert did it because he's gay. He had deeper, darker motivations and the folks at Sesame Street can't keep this conspiracy covered up forever."
Posted by GeeTee at April 11, 2002 05:47 AM
The lip-glossed and lacquered world of beauty pageants is looking distinctly smudged in Spain, where an undercover television reporter who can barely walk in high heels recently bought herself the title Miss Alicante — and a spot in the Miss Spain competition — for a little under $24,000.
Posted by GeeTee at April 11, 2002 05:45 AM
The IFJ says that Israeli forces have launched an indiscriminate series of attacks on Palestinian media houses, wrecking offices and destroying equipment. "The aim seems to be to wipe out the infrastructure of all Palestinian media," said White, "Even the media that have established a voice independent of the Palestinian Authority are being wrecked. It is a senseless assault on media freedom."
Posted by GeeTee at April 11, 2002 05:40 AM
The growing number of civil suits comes as prosecutors in several cities across the country are looking at possible criminal action against church officials. At the same time, some states are considering rolling back statutes of limitation on child-sex-abuse crimes -- a key impediment to prosecution in such cases.
Posted by GeeTee at April 11, 2002 05:37 AM
The experts also objected that the diagrams show the purpose of many rooms, from art storage to bilateral meetings. The main summit room, with a circular, 14-foot-diameter (4.3-metre) table in the middle, is described in enough detail for anyone to build the kind of scale model necessary to practise a commando raid.
Posted by GeeTee at April 11, 2002 05:33 AM
After party election, Canadians have less faith in politics | csmonitor.com
Van Die says many Canadians view religion as "divisive." In contrast, she says, many politicians in the United States see religious symbolism as a unifying force. "For better or for worse, [Canada's] ceremony [after Sept. 11] had absolutely no religious symbols in comparison to the one that was held in Washington Cathedral," she says. "The religious rhetoric that people like George W. Bush use ... is something Canadians haven't had much of in the past."
Posted by GeeTee at April 11, 2002 05:30 AM
"It's up to all of us to make buying music about as easy as stealing it," Williams said.
Posted by GeeTee at April 10, 2002 08:27 PM
First, let me say that my redneck neighbor is not destitute or under-privileged. The guy owns a business, drives VERY nice new cars, he just doesn%uFFD5t care about his house. In order to protect the ignorant, we'll call him John Doe # 8 or JD8 for short.
Posted by GeeTee at April 10, 2002 08:12 PM
Welcome to this special interactive program, developed in conjunction with the exhibition Ansel Adams at 100, on view at the Museumthrough January 13, 2002. Focusing on seven keyworks, this program provides insights into the historyand world of ideas behind Adams' photography.
Posted by GeeTee at April 10, 2002 07:44 PM
If the Court of the General Synod finds against Dean Furlong, it has the power to suspend him, sack him or defrock him. His legal representative, Joe Revington, asked the Court for the adjournment saying the matter was very serious and substantial.
Posted by GeeTee at April 10, 2002 07:39 PM
Those who left newsrooms included 1,101 reporters, 437 supervisors, 225 copy editors, and 216 photographers and artists. America's largest newspapers -- those with circulations of more than 250,000 -- lost 144 people, while 1,203 people left newspapers with circulations between 50,001 and 250,000.
Posted by GeeTee at April 10, 2002 07:36 PM
Bush long has opposed human cloning. When he announced his decision in August to restrict but not forbid federal financing of so-called embryonic stem cell research, he said: "We recoil at the idea of growing human beings for spare body parts or creating life for our convenience."
Posted by GeeTee at April 10, 2002 07:35 PM
[…] the problem is that this means that there's nothing feeding the public domain. And if there's nothing feeding the public domain then other creators won't have stuff to build on the way Disney, for example, built on the Grimm Fairy Tales. And so Eldred is a constitutional challenge of this process.
Posted by GeeTee at April 10, 2002 07:17 PM
"Who Controls New Media" examines the historical roots of this shift, from Bertold Brecht's emancipatory theory of radio in the 1920s to Nam June Paik's Participation TV in the 1960s to the rise of Internet art in the 1990s. Following this analysis the participants present a number of contemporary attempts to reassert open protocols in what many artists see as an increasingly closed society. The discussion is punctuated by audiovisual documentation of artwork from such historical figures as John Cage as well as cutting-edge artworks from today's Internet.
Posted by GeeTee at April 10, 2002 07:15 PM
We believe the compromise is simple and straightforward: restrict the blue-box link to out-of-print and collectible books and list all used book offerings after all new versions of a title are listed. Our members want nothing more than a fair opportunity to earn royalties for their book sales whatever the sales outlet. We hope that Amazon will respect this very reasonable professional goal.
Posted by GeeTee at April 10, 2002 07:12 PM
The sideshow/circus freak element was well represented by Raina Tera, who put nails through her nose and darts in her back, and hula hoop expert Kalki (from the Bindlestiff Family Circus), who kept four hula hoops spinning as she took off her clothes. Dillon exclaimed, "That is the best hula strip ever!" There were also an extraordinary belly dancer, a vaudevillian magician-stripper well over 65, and public-access cable queen Miss Kitty taking it off to Carmen (when was the last time you heard opera music at Scores?).
Posted by GeeTee at April 10, 2002 07:04 PM
Mr. Schmidt, who is 46, makes clear that managing Google's cocky culture is one of his tasks. "It's easy for companies like ours to get arrogant," he said. "That makes people get madder as you are winning. I think you need to win, but you are better off winning softly."
Posted by GeeTee at April 10, 2002 06:55 PM
Rev. Bernard Pinet said the Winnipeg-based order is being bled dry by legal fees because of the residential-school-abuse claims and won't be able to support its aging members, who take a vow of poverty when they join. The order has 58 members, about 30 of whom are over the age of 70, and has assets, including two apartment complexes, valued at $7.2-million.
Posted by GeeTee at April 10, 2002 06:51 PM
Ms. Copps disclosed that the government is considering approving an expansion of the National Gallery of Canada on Sussex Drive. Gallery officials want to take over a heritage building next door that now serves as home to the Canadian War Museum, she said.
Posted by GeeTee at April 09, 2002 06:28 PM
Association for Competitive Technology
In the written comments, ACT voiced its concerns about the potentially devastating effect of current proposals regarding digital music to innovation and the already thriving digital rights management marketplace. ACT opposes government-mandated and managed technology standards, for the following reasons:
Posted by GeeTee at April 09, 2002 02:45 PM
"The Supreme Court concludes that the law enforcement need for the book purchase record in this case was not sufficiently compelling to outweigh the harm that would likely follow from execution of the search warrant, in part because law enforcement officials sought the purchase record for reasons related to the contents of the books that the suspect may have purchased," the court said.
Posted by GeeTee at April 09, 2002 02:28 PM
The meteorite, found near a mausoleum for the Yellow Emperor in the Shaanxi province county of Huangling, may lie behind the cataclysmic shattering of land that historical records say killed China's enigmatic first emperor, the official China Daily said.
Posted by GeeTee at April 09, 2002 02:13 PM
(Book Clubs') Life After Oprah
"Oh no!" wrote one visitor, "The only way I know what to read is by reading Oprah's selections. I am very disappointed."
Posted by GeeTee at April 09, 2002 02:11 PM
From The Globe and Mail -- Canada's Most Trusted News Source
"The catechism accepts homosexuals as persons who should be treated like any other person . . . with respect, compassion and sensitivity. At the same time, however, the catechism notes that homosexual behaviour is unacceptable and cannot be approved," board chairwoman Mary Ann Martin said.
Posted by GeeTee at April 09, 2002 07:01 AM
CBC News: Harper, Clark set to talk conservative co-operation
"We will never abandon our principles and policies. They are what make us relevant," said Harper.
Posted by GeeTee at April 09, 2002 06:29 AM
There may be, in fact, a tension in the video game universe: technological powers are courted for their possibilities and resisted for their fetishistic demands. Technology's greatest achievement may be in the improvements in racing games, shooting games and fighting games. There, the simulation of realism is most important because the very point of the games is to create a physical sensation, an anxiety, punctuated by shocks and cries. An advertisement for a game called "Mike Tyson Heavyweight Boxing" boasted about the game's sophisticated "facial damage engine," calling it "brutal beyond belief."
Posted by GeeTee at April 08, 2002 05:32 PM
By and large, as Ms Shakeshaft points out, institutions protect the adults and not the children. At worst, fearing legal liability and damage to their reputations (and often prodded by lawyers and insurance companies), they come to a private settlement with the offender. "The first instinct is to get them out of your organisation," says Mr Allen. As in the case of Mr Fry, the perpetrator is sent away with nothing but praise in the personnel file. Such cases are so common that educators have coined the term "passing the trash". A 1995 study of 225 cases in which pupils were sexually abused by teachers or other staff members found that in only 1% of the cases did the school-district superintendent attempt to revoke the culprit's teaching licence.
Posted by GeeTee at April 08, 2002 04:34 PM
Hockney, David (1937- ). British painter, draughtsman, printmaker, photographer, and designer. After a brilliant prize-winning career as a student at the Royal College of Art, Hockney had achieved international success by the time he was in his mid-20s, and has since consolidated his position as by far the best-known British artist of his generation. His phenomenal success has been based not only on the flair, wit, and versatility of his work, but also on his colorful personality, which has made him a recognizable figure even to people not particularly interested in art: a film about him entitled A Bigger Splash (1974) enjoyed considerable popularity in the commercial cinema.
Posted by GeeTee at April 08, 2002 03:17 PM
Only five feet tall, with red hair, changeable green eyes, and a melodious voice, Edna Millay had, as Edmund Wilson remarked, and "intoxicating effect on people"; Wilson proposed marriage to her and would later make her the heroine of his novel I Thought of Daisy. With the publication of A Few Figs from Thistles (1920), Edna St. Vincent Millay became the spokesman for a younger generation exuberantly defiant of convention. For young women, especially, her irreverent wit and satiric cynicism made her a "symbolic figure - 'the free woman of her age."
Posted by GeeTee at April 08, 2002 03:02 PM
Now the average consumer can pick up the DVD marketed as a "bootleg" cut of Cameron Crowe's "Almost Famous," which includes a half-hour of additional footage, some of which requires interactivity. An outtake scene without a soundtrack instructs the viewer to cue a CD of Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven" to the picture. This was Crowe's way around the fact that he ultimately couldn't get the rights to the song and had to remove the scene.
Posted by GeeTee at April 08, 2002 02:57 PM
Computer security expert Richard Smith explained that with such downloads, "You don't even know why you're getting this program, and the people who do (pop-up downloads) are relying on the fact that people tend to say 'Yes.'"
Posted by GeeTee at April 08, 2002 12:56 PM
Then on Tuesday, Israeli soldiers came to the four-story Medical Professions College building, where our studios are located, and began destroying what we have worked to build. Every office in this educational facility was broken into, equipment was destroyed. Our two remaining staff members manning the broadcast were arrested and held for four hours before being released.
Posted by GeeTee at April 08, 2002 11:10 AM
Stephen [Hawking] likes the tug of the philosophical, and he seemed amused by the notion that universes are simply one of those things that happen from time to time.
Posted by GeeTee at April 08, 2002 10:21 AM
Tennis star Martina Navratilova, for example, has put her name to a series of ghostwritten mystery novels about a crime-solving female tennis player. And the post-"Star Trek" career of William Shatner -- Captain James T. Kirk of the Starship Enterprise -- provides a glimpse of what could be the literary world of tomorrow. A 1997 profile in London's Daily Telegraph recounted that Shatner's "Los Angeles office turns out to be the nerve center of a fiction factory," in which he keeps four writers on staff. "Shatner sketches out ideas and characters, sends the memo to his writers and they produce a 40-page synopsis for his approval." The employees then write the novel, which Shatner vets. "I have some great writers," Shatner told the Telegraph reporter, graciously.
Posted by GeeTee at April 08, 2002 10:16 AM
Gaming industry insiders say organised criminal syndicates, often from Russia or Indonesia, steal credit card details by hacking into online retailers' or banks' data.
Posted by GeeTee at April 08, 2002 09:17 AM
Upcomingmovies.com: Good Omens
Cast: Johnny Depp (in talks), Robin Williams (in talks); other cast not announced yet;
Posted by GeeTee at April 08, 2002 07:18 AM
[…] Just a snip in a membrane and the tongue is supposedly longer, more flexible and - some South Koreans believe - better able to pronounce such notorious English tongue-teasers as "rice" without it sounding like "lice."
Posted by GeeTee at April 08, 2002 06:36 AM
He says he's still in counseling for his trauma. He says his wife has been giving him small tasks around the house. "Wife say, 'Okay, water the pots and flowers,' " he says.
Posted by GeeTee at April 08, 2002 06:31 AM
Regarded as one of former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's most powerful cabinet ministers, Olson had the challenging task of selling Trudeau's national energy program to Canada's western provinces.
Posted by GeeTee at April 08, 2002 06:27 AM
Yahoo! News - Iraq Says Oil Exports Suspended for One Month
Saddam said that after 30 days, "we will further decide or until the Zionist entity's (Israel) armed forces have unconditionally withdrawn from the Plestinian territories."
Posted by GeeTee at April 08, 2002 06:26 AM
Although freedom of speech is protected by the Constitution, Mr. O'Connor says, "Claiming our verbal privileges as American citizens is often nothing more than an excuse to be lazy about how we speak."
Posted by GeeTee at April 08, 2002 06:13 AM
Report: MS Foes Bribed Attorneys
In his column, which appears in the Washington Post, Novak pointed out that the attorneys general who have refused to settle the case have received tens of thousands of dollars -- each, in some cases -- from Microsoft enemies including Oracle and Sun Microsystems.
Posted by GeeTee at April 07, 2002 10:11 AM
"We can export our people," Museveni said, adding, "Even the market for nurses is abundant in the US."
Posted by GeeTee at April 07, 2002 06:30 AM
In 1984, when the first Charter appeals began to trickle in, Brian Dickson, then chief justice, described it as a "living tree" that would be nurtured in order to shield individuals and minorities from the tyranny of the majority.
Posted by GeeTee at April 07, 2002 06:28 AM
While Mallett acknowledges that sending a person through time may require more energy than physicists today know how to harness, he sees it merely as ''an engineering problem.'' If it's possible to use light to send a neutron through time, a feat that doesn't require as much energy as sending a human, he believes it wouldn't be long before engineers figure out a way to send a person.
Posted by GeeTee at April 07, 2002 06:20 AM
Mr. Harper is as little known now as Mr. Day was two years ago. Throughout his campaign, he took a hard-line position against co-operation with the Progressive Conservative party. It is not clear whether that was driven by personal ideology, or simple expediency. When I first proposed a meeting, hours after his election, his initial response was positive but cautious, and his press spokesperson then told The National Post such a meeting could not occur before mid-May. He has now changed his position and we will meet to begin discussions on Tuesday afternoon.
Posted by GeeTee at April 06, 2002 04:05 AM
After spending 24 hours on a gurney in an emergency room hallway, Prime Minister Jean Chretien's 90-year-old brother has called on the PM to work harder with the provinces to fix the ailing health care system.
Posted by GeeTee at April 06, 2002 04:02 AM
The Globe and Mail: Anderson says bill for Kyoto could top $10-billion
The estimate arises in part from the fact Canada could be forced to spend billions of dollars to buy international emission credits to meet as much as half its Kyoto target if it doesn't manage to cut emissions more significantly at home. This credit trade is basically paying for emission-abatement measures taken elsewhere in the world to lower one's own emissions balance sheet.
Posted by GeeTee at April 05, 2002 05:32 PM
Join Matt Frondorf as he drives from the Statue of Liberty to the Golden Gate Bridge, his camera clicking at every mile. Retrace his trip through the Picture Viewer (Flash 4.0 Plug-In Required), and don't forget to write home along the way --very picture can be sent as a postcard. Or view the movies (QuickTime 4.0 Plug-In Required) to experience the whole journey.
Posted by GeeTee at April 05, 2002 05:20 PM
Podany took Shanks' yearbook photo and placed it on a picture of the body of a nude woman. He then put the picture on the free website Geocities in February with the words "This is the stupid b****! She is a liar and she cheated on me. So you see my anger."
Posted by GeeTee at April 05, 2002 04:58 PM
[…] Sharon suggested Bush seek approval from Arab nations by blowing up Arab nations, while Arafat suggested the President could get his way by blowing up himself.
Posted by GeeTee at April 05, 2002 02:35 PM
Silicon Alley News: United Virtualities Preps "Ooqa Ooqa"
The customized browser can be configured to revert back to usual when users leave the site where they activated it, or until users quit their Web sessions altogether. United Virtualities said it has no plans to permanently rebrand users' browsers -- they must still download the enhancement during each browsing session.
Posted by GeeTee at April 05, 2002 02:25 PM
Silicon ~ silicon.com - the who, what, when, where and why of ebusiness
John Moore, director of Exponential, said in a statement: "One of the most interesting findings is that women managers consistently score on average three to five per cent above their male counterparts, and this became more noticeable for managers over 39 years old."
Posted by GeeTee at April 05, 2002 12:25 PM
eBay item 2013558768 (Ends Apr-05-02 18:58:06 PST ) - Rare 4 letter dot com domain name!!
Domain Name XRCH.COM for sale. Marchfirst used to have this as their Nasdaq symbol.
Posted by GeeTee at April 05, 2002 10:40 AM
straitstimes.asia1.com.sg - APRIL 5, 2002
'An addictive drug should not be masked by sweeteners and sold as a lollipop without a thorough review by FDA and strict safeguards to prevent inappropriate underage use,' he wrote in a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson.
Posted by GeeTee at April 05, 2002 10:15 AM
Australian IT - (Tracy Peacock, APRIL 03, 2002)
"Some universities did exceptionally well, but as a rule universities are missing out," he said. "I can also argue that some universities are cleaning up because they are doing such a good job."
Posted by GeeTee at April 05, 2002 07:45 AM
Mercer and Co. top comedy awards
Mercer got the nod for best male performer in TV for the series, about the Machiavellian goings-on behind the scenes at a Canadian TV network. As well, series writer Bob Martin took an award for episodic series writing and Henry Sarwer-Foner won a directing award for the Made In Canada episode Damocles: What A Doll, while Sarwer-Foner, Jerry Ciccoritti, Stephen Reynolds, Michael Kennedy and T.W. Peacocke shared the directing award for the entire season of Made In Canada.
Posted by GeeTee at April 05, 2002 04:15 AM
Economist.com | The Middle East
One question must be: has Mr Bush waited too long to intervene? What is now happening looks, feels and smells like war. It involves the largest call-up of Israeli reserve soldiers since the Lebanon war; the invasion and re-conquest of all but two -- Hebron and Jericho --of the eight main cities in the West Bank; Mr Arafat held captive in his Ramallah headquarters; skirmishes on Israel's northern borders; Israeli and Palestinian civilians killed in their dozens, by suicide-attacks or by military attacks of great ferocity.
Posted by GeeTee at April 05, 2002 04:13 AM
Yahoo! News - Auditor of Penthouse's Publisher Warns Company May Go Out of Business
The company has experienced a steady decline in the number of newsstand copies of Penthouse magazine and its affiliate publications sold over the past several years. Penthouse circulation averaged 652,000 copies last year, down from a recent high of one million in 1998 and 779,000 in 2000. Newsstand revenue for Penthouse and the affiliated publications fell 15% in 2001 to $33.8 million.
Posted by GeeTee at April 05, 2002 04:03 AM
The 2001 World Press Photo Contest winning picture was not an image of the September 11 attacks on America, nor of the subsequent military reprisals, but a quiet and dignified photograph depicting the burial preparations for a one year old Muslim refugee who died of dehydration.
Posted by GeeTee at April 04, 2002 03:04 PM
IMRA - Saturday, March 30, 2002 IDF soldiers didn't broadcast pornography on Ramallah TV
The IDF Spokesperson denies any publications regarding IDF soldiersbroadcasting pornographic and racist films from the television station they took over in Ramallah.
Posted by GeeTee at April 04, 2002 11:04 AM
politechbot.com: DOJ, ACLU relied on junk science: N.J. racial profiling a myth?
According to a new study, black drivers on the New Jersey Turnpike are twice as likely to speed as white drivers, and are even more dominant among drivers breaking 90 miles per hour.
Posted by GeeTee at April 04, 2002 11:01 AM
But Wright's system is the first that can block out a particular source of noise to produce a personal "sound shadow" in which everything but the unwanted noise will still be audible.
Posted by GeeTee at April 04, 2002 10:19 AM
Back in 1999, Washington's mayor, Tony Williams, promised to liberate citizens from the tyranny of the government queue. Things have got a bit better, but the 20-minute task of renewing a driver's licence can still take days. Hiring an expert to confront the bureaucratic beast on your behalf takes care of that.
Posted by GeeTee at April 04, 2002 07:00 AM
From The Globe and Mail %u2014 Canada's Most Trusted News Source
"It does appear, on the surface at least, that e-commerce will cause the world of taxation to spin out of control," says a draft discussion paper by the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency, the country's tax authority.
Posted by GeeTee at April 04, 2002 06:58 AM
From The Globe and Mail -- Canada's Most Trusted News Source
The commissioner's finding suggests that opt-out is very much "out" in his view, as he goes so far as to argue that inviting a person to opt-in was "simply a matter of basic human decency." While he acknowledged that the statute contemplates the use of opt-out consents, he warned that he intends to ensure that their use remains limited.
Posted by GeeTee at April 04, 2002 06:56 AM
Fool.com: [Fool on the Hill] April 3, 2002
A company can effectively reprice options without having to recognize the cost by canceling existing ones and then issuing new ones, but there's a catch -- it has to wait six months before setting the strike price for the new options. Companies like Sprint, Qwest, i2, Inktomi, RealNetworks, Commerce One,and WorldcCom have all taken advantage of this, but it creates truly bizarre incentives: If a company expected its stock price to go up in the next six months, would it offer such a plan? It's unlikely, as employees would be furious that they'd been forced to wait rather than take advantage of the current low share price. Worse yet, employees actually have an incentive to keep the share price down until after the new strike price is set.
Posted by GeeTee at April 04, 2002 05:39 AM
"It doesn't matter whether the site is funny or uses the Bible differently than Falwell would," said Paul Alan Levy, an attorney with the Public Citizen Litigation group who filed the response for Cohn. "What's important here is that Cohn has every right to use Falwell's name when he is criticizing him, and he has every right to do that on the Internet."
Posted by GeeTee at April 04, 2002 05:37 AM
Jeff Anderson, the plaintiffs' attorney in both lawsuits, said the Vatican had issued a policy for bishops and dioceses to cover up sexual misconduct cases.
Posted by GeeTee at April 04, 2002 05:11 AM
Farrell's neighbors have filed several complaints with the neighborhood association stating that the spinning heads of Colin Mochrie are a disconcerting replacement for aluminum siding.
Posted by GeeTee at April 04, 2002 05:10 AM
Chicago Tribune: U.S. convicts Canadian of Cuba business trades
Cuba is Canada's largest trading partner in the Caribbean. Trade between the two countries exceeds $435 million a year. Canadians living in Canada are prohibited by law from complying with the 40-year-old U.S. embargo.
Sabzali, who moved to Philadelphia in 1996, was convicted of at least seven violations that occurred while he was still living in Canada.
Posted by GeeTee at April 04, 2002 05:06 AM
AfricaOnline.com - Zimbabwe: Head of ZBC caught with man, resigns
President Robert Mugabe has repeatedly voiced his distaste for homosexuals, calling them, in his words, "worse than pigs."
Posted by GeeTee at April 04, 2002 05:01 AM
AfricaOnline.com - Introduction of Sharia triggers constitutional crisis in Nigeria
In both cases the evidence of guilt was that the women gave birth while divorced. In each case the men thought responsible for the pregnancies were acquitted for lack of evidence on the basis that under Sharia there must be four witnesses to prove guilt. This has given rise to the view, also shared by Tunga-Tudu, that the legal code is biased against women and the poor.
Posted by GeeTee at April 04, 2002 04:59 AM
washingtonpost.com: 'He Kept Bleeding'
Lahham said many people around the world are concerned about the fate of the Church of the Nativity, worried that one of Christianity's most sacred shrines might be damaged in the standoff between Palestinian fighters inside and Israeli soldiers at the door. But Lahham said he is more concerned about the injured who were prevented from getting medical attention.
"For me, the dignity of human beings is even more important," he said. "People are bleeding to death. This is more important than the Basilica of the Nativity."
Posted by GeeTee at April 04, 2002 04:56 AM
In other words, our temperaments are like flower bulbs. Whether they blossom or wither depends on the type of garden they grow up in, but nothing can change a tulip into a rose.
Posted by GeeTee at April 04, 2002 04:48 AM
Ottawa Sun: PCs willing to drop the P
Fending off a rumoured breakup with the seven MPs who call themselves the Democratic Representative Caucus, Clark emerged from a six-hour meeting to announce he supports running a "conservative," not Progressive Conservative, candidate in federal ridings in the next federal election -- a stand that flies in the face of longtime Tory party policy.
Posted by GeeTee at April 04, 2002 04:44 AM
Royalty Free Stock Photography
Via Fred Lapides at GoodShit, who is hung like one of these.
Posted by GeeTee at April 04, 2002 04:35 AM
"[The Queen Mother] then did one of her vanishing-in-a-shimmer-of-emeralds-and-osprey-feathers tricks and was no more. We were left thinking how sage and wise this saintly old woman was, and I have been wondering ever since what on earth she was talking about."
Posted by GeeTee at April 03, 2002 07:01 PM
Unfortunately, the project ran out of money and Professor Gigante died in November. All that now remains of the exploration is a huge waterlogged hole in which float the syringes of local heroin addicts.
Several of the experts involved in the campaign to save the villa agree there may be lost plays by Sophocles, Euripides and Aeschylus, or even the lost dialogues of Aristotle, as well as works by many other Greek writers, in the lower level.
Posted by GeeTee at April 03, 2002 06:57 PM
"What does the plan call for," you ask? Well, I figure it this way: You've got two groups of people, each believing in a different false god, and fighting to the death over the same barren armpit of a useless plot of land that doesn't even have any oil under it. Both sides are so worked up, they can't even admit it when one of their own kind screws up. And that got me to thinking - it's all kind of like how the coloreds here in America got after OJ Simpson went and gouged out the jugular of that blonde girlie with the fake hooters.
Posted by GeeTee at April 03, 2002 06:50 PM
Good NY Times story on the mad success of the hilarious "Osbournes" on MTV. Man, I
never thought I'd be anything but mildly repulsed by Ozzy Osbourne, but now I want him to adopt me. What a show. What's most hilarious about the article is how, in true NY Times style, the writer is forced to refer to Ozzy and Sharon as "Mr. Osbourne" and "Mrs. Osbourne." Like when they write about Meat Loaf and call him "Mr. Loaf."
Posted by GeeTee at April 03, 2002 06:20 PM
The Effects Of Cannabis On A Web-Based Lifestyle
Posted by GeeTee at April 03, 2002 05:56 PM
These elegant bottles make great gifts, fantastic classroom displays, and inferior mouse-traps. With its circle of singularities, an Acme Klein Bottle can be said to exist inside of itself -- especially handy during time-reversals.
Posted by GeeTee at April 03, 2002 04:25 PM
"We are desperate for news and constantly flipping channels and get these terrible pictures instead," adding that videos of the intifada were also shown backwards with "ideal terrorism" written in red across the screen.
Posted by GeeTee at April 03, 2002 02:32 PM
[…] Mercury, Venus, Mars and Saturn all grouped within the span of 10 degrees of the sky, or about the width of a fist held at arm's length.
Posted by GeeTee at April 03, 2002 12:39 PM
By placing SUVs in the same category as cars, manufacturers will be forced to produce vehicles that conform to higher emission standards.
Posted by GeeTee at April 03, 2002 10:20 AM
NATIONAL POST ONLINE | Printer Friendly | News Article
Separate federal departments handed out a total of $2.3-million in grants and funding for six projects and centres in Jean Chretien's riding intended to boost the Prime Minister's popularity, Mr. Williams said.
Posted by GeeTee at April 03, 2002 10:14 AM
News - Montreal - canada.com network
"What do you mean? They're still going to be here next year, guaranteed," said a scalper named Dave, who added he's been selling tickets outside the stadium for nearly 20 years and expects to be back in 2003.
Posted by GeeTee at April 03, 2002 07:28 AM
Economist.com | The South Atlantic
The fisheries money has transformed life in the Falklands. Though the islands are two-thirds the size of Wales, there were until recently few roads outside Stanley. Now 550km of roads have been built and another 300km are planned. Housing is subsidised. Health care is free. Twenty years ago, few children other than those of landowners completed their education. Now there is a big new secondary school in Stanley and its primary school has been refurbished. The islands' government pays for increasing numbers of youngsters to attend university in Britain. And, these days, most come back afterwards.
Posted by GeeTee at April 03, 2002 06:00 AM
International Netforce Launches Law Enforcement Effort
In another initiative, Netforce partners tested whether "remove me" or "unsubscribe" options in spam were being honored. From e-mail forwarded to the FTC's database, the agencies culled more than 200 e-mails that purported to allow recipients to remove their name from a spam list. The agencies set up dummy e-mail accounts to test the pledges, but discovered that the vast majority of addresses to which they sent the requests were invalid. Most of the "remove me" requests did not get through. Based on information gathered by the Netforce, the FTC has sent more than 75 letters warning spammers that deceptive "removal" claims in unsolicited e-mail are illegal.
Posted by GeeTee at April 03, 2002 05:55 AM
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"Damn computer," Mr. Audette said in Mr. Chretien's voice. "Who's the idiot that invented Windows 95?" Windows is Microsoft's main product.
Mr. Trudel said later: "There was silence but Bill Gates didn't hang up."
Posted by GeeTee at April 03, 2002 04:02 AM
Day of Silence Project - Soon to be silent in a school near you! - GLSEN & USSA
"Please understand my reasons for not speaking today. I am participating in the Day of Silence, a national youth movement protesting the silence faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and their allies. My deliberate silence echoes that silence, which is caused by harassment, prejudice, and discrimination. I believe that ending the silence is the first step toward fighting these injustices. Think about the voices you are not hearing today. What are you going to do to end the silence?" - Quote from "speaking cards" passed out by participants during the Day of Silence.
Posted by GeeTee at April 03, 2002 03:53 AM
Ananova - Priest demands brides have virginity certificate
Catholic priest Natal Antonio Mella, from Petrolina of Goias, only accepts certificates from doctors he appoints.
Posted by GeeTee at April 02, 2002 04:42 PM
The court heard that Wallace, described as extremely drunk, then went to the Cowes police station where she became abusive to Pc David Harry and threw the iguana at him, missing and causing the animal to hit a filing cabinet before falling to the floor.
Posted by GeeTee at April 02, 2002 04:41 PM
Technology - story - canada.com network
Lovelace, for example, was an early pioneer of computing. The daughter of poet Lord Byron, Lovelace was born in 1815, and more than 150 years before Gates would incorporate Microsoft she predicted computing machines would one day be able to compose complex music, produce graphics and find practical and scientific applications.
Posted by GeeTee at April 02, 2002 03:32 PM
And the blitzkrieg, combined with cut-rate prices (cameras sell for less than half of what competitors charge), does seem to be paying dividends. "X10 certainly took away business from us and everyone else," says Alex Montgomery of Phoenix's Hidden Camera Solutions. Yet it's unclear whether results are showing up on the bottom line: The privately held X10 doesn't disclose sales, but documents filed in conjunction with a canceled IPO show a loss of $8.1 million in the first nine months of 2000.
Posted by GeeTee at April 02, 2002 03:30 PM
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Posted by GeeTee at April 02, 2002 03:28 PM
The Copyright Office is required by Congress to decide whether to accept, reject or modify the CARP's recommended rates by May 21, 2002. If they accept the CARP panel's recommendation, most observers believe that the decision will effectively kill Internet radio as an industry, as the decision could bankrupt all but the three or four largest webcasters.
Posted by GeeTee at April 02, 2002 02:17 PM
To sum up, here we have a statement beginning with a thesis that had been disproved before it was uttered and ending with a palpable untruth. The logic meanders. The ideas are banal. The text exhibits a remarkable prolixity, considering that it's only 284 words long. Is this the best that 103 Nobel Prize winners can do?
Posted by GeeTee at April 02, 2002 02:01 PM
In selecting The Bottom 5, quotes were taken from ads placed in the New York Times for only the most unrelentingly mediocre movies. Points were awarded for: use of patently false hyperbole, number of exclamation points, obscurity of media outlet, and weakness of cliches. Here, then, are the most tasteless critics in America:
Posted by GeeTee at April 02, 2002 01:48 PM
Reuters | Breaking News from Around the Globe | Internet Spoof, Soon Denied, Hits Canadian Dollar
"While no one has any reason to believe the rumor, the story has a lot of credibility given Martin's continued problems in claiming any high ground -- versus (Prime Minister Jean) Chretien -- within the Liberal Party," said David Ebata, managing analyst at Thomson IFR in Boston.
Posted by GeeTee at April 01, 2002 07:13 PM
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Posted by GeeTee at April 01, 2002 01:13 PM
Netscape employees who wish to join up with alien spacecraft areadvised to do so during late evening hours, so that the cleaning crewswill be able to dispose of the empty container before it begins tocreate a hostile work environment. As a courtesy to Netscape staff,the Engineering Pit in building 685-2 will be set up with properfacilities (apple sauce, pudding, phenobarbitol and opiates, andpurple triangular shrouds) to help the spiritually worthy traveler tobegin his or her journey.
Posted by GeeTee at April 01, 2002 12:30 PM
The Village Voice: Nation: Press Clips
Until last fall, Pontorno worked at WNYW, Fox television's affiliate in New York. At lunchtime, the guys would slip into the office of his boss, Greg Franchuk, who was then vice president of operations and engineering. Sitting around a conference table behind closed doors, they watched porn videos that Pontorno described to the Voice as "the kind you would expect to find in a video store." Oral? Anal? Virgins? Beasts? He declined to give specifics.
Posted by GeeTee at April 01, 2002 09:20 AM
When his daughter Shireen isn't contemplating being a suicide bomber, she works hard at school -- math is her favorite subject -- in the hope of becoming a doctor. Medicine is her fallback option, she says, should she fail to become a "martyr." For her, Ayat's act is "sensational, it's awesome, it makes me think anyone would love to be in her place."
Posted by GeeTee at April 01, 2002 08:47 AM
Mr Caine has fashioned myriad variations of his own, in the spirit of what he calls Bach's playfulness and interest in dance forms. The result is a zestful cornucopia of idioms: jazz styles of all kinds, Latin, rock, electronics, adroit imitations of classical masters, even a quasi-Samurai setting. Again, whatever the style, the playing is first-rate, and Mr Caine's aim is clearly to pay homage to music that he admires and understands.
Posted by GeeTee at April 01, 2002 08:26 AM
News - Montreal - canada.com network
Police say a youth strutted into a north-end police station last year, went directly to the desk person and loudly proclaimed the station was on Bo-Gars turf and the officers inside would have to move or suffer the consequences.
"They've got a lot of nerve, that's for sure. A lot of these guys have the attitude that, 'Hey, I'm 22 and I'm probably not going to live to see 30, so I might as well do what I want and get as much as I can now,' " Gauthier said.
Posted by GeeTee at April 01, 2002 08:09 AM
Microsoft Directory - Help Central
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Posted by GeeTee at April 01, 2002 06:50 AM
SatireWire | "Egan's Law" Passed
That statement, however, angered Vatican spokesman Edgar Palowski, who said it propagated a common misconception about the church. "This doesn't get reported enough," he said, "but it's a fact that our priests abuse just as many girls as boys."
Posted by GeeTee at April 01, 2002 05:43 AM
The second act opens in the smoke-free environment of a vegetarian restaurant. Carmen and ethnically-diverse friends are enjoying whole-meal buns and spring water when they are interrupted by the wicked Escamillo, a rich and famous bullfighter. Escamillo sings an aria in praise of wine, cigars, thick steaks, and women. This disgusts the young people, although Carmen is strangely attracted to the bullfighter. Don Jose arrives and, alone at last, he and Carmen vow to live together. They will respect the importance of protected sex and acknowledge each other's unique cultural identity. Don Jose will do the ironing.
Posted by GeeTee at April 01, 2002 05:38 AM
BOURQUE NEWSWATCH - TOMORROW'S NEWS NOW !
Bourque has learned that longtime Finance Minister Paul Martin has decided to quit his Cabinet position, resign his seat in Parliament, and leave the world of politics. The dramatic announcement will come sometime late today (Monday), affording the Liberal Party favourite enough time to work the phones to personally thank longtime supporters across the country for their loyalty. Until then, nobody is saying anything publicly. But according to key insiders who spoke only on condition of anonymity, Martin has determined that the leadership of his Party and the Office of the Prime Minister are no longer within his reach. It is expected that his sudden exit will rock Official Ottawa. It is understood that Prime Minister Jean Chretien has been made aware of Martin's decision and is said to be preparing a dramatic overhaul to his Cabinet where a bedrock Chretien loyalist will take over the Finance portfolio, while others known to be Martin pilot fish are expected to be dropped from Cabinet altogether. Within the Liberal Party, one insider predicted mayhem "from the riding level on up". Indeed, with a Martin leadership candidacy wiped from the horizon, so-called "Martinites" can expect a devastating purge not to their liking. As for Martin himself, a successful businessman, it is said he will retire to a quieter life outside of the limelight to devote greater time to his wife and to a burgeoning hobby interest in the breeding of prize Charolais cattle and handsome "Fawn Runner" ducks which he hopes to show this fall at the Brome Lake & Havelock fairs. Developing.
Posted by GeeTee at April 01, 2002 04:09 AM
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