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October 31, 2003
Shotglass Chess, The Ultimate Skill Equalizer
The more pieces your opponent takes, the drunker they get
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Catholic school girls beat up pervert
Being a perv, he probably liked it, but it is a nice ‘man bites dog’ story
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Photos: Northern Lights caused by recent sun activity
Incredible displays, including one shot from here in Georgia
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October 30, 2003
Dear Insurance Company...
Jim fisks a policy cancellation, in a most excellent manner
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October 29, 2003
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Coach Reeves wants QB Vick back now; Vick says he isn’t ready
Why risk rushing Vick back into this abortion of a season, when he’s a franchise player?
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October 28, 2003
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HTML House of Horror: Things That Go <BLINK> in the Night, and the associated demo,
Page of the Damned
Mighty fine HTML humor, and on the demo page, Mozilla users will see the blink and marquee tag combined in their full glory.
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Convert your Canon D30 or D60 to full time infrared
Those who’ve upgraded cameras ought to think about this conversion
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October 27, 2003
“Last week ... we witnessed a food photo shoot in action” ... and it was like watching grass grow, right?
A half dozen people primping a plate for half a day, in the name of commerce
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Big White Guy on CNN
‘It’s very strange from a Western point of view to see someone order a pizza with thousand island dressing’
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An intriguing look at how the New York Times edits “Letters to the Editor”
A bit heavy handed, when you’re changing the words of someone not in your employ. Do they all get this treatment?
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October 25, 2003
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October 24, 2003
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Pop-under ads can make you bankrupt
They’re just really bad for your karma
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The Democratic Party is on the verge of foreiting Zell Miller’s Senate seat
It looks like no one wants to run, while the Republicans have already raised millions.
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Man uses tricycle in carjack attempt, falls off it, and shoots self in foot.
When he ran from the police, he covered his face with his hand so they couldn’t see him
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October 23, 2003
Photos: Whoa! Emese shoots the Blue Angels
I know from shooting the Thunderbirds, it is no simple task shooting 500 mph formation flight
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October 22, 2003
Inside Joe Lieberman’s Kamikaze Campaign
The phrase “the soporific drone of Joseph Lieberman” sums it up pretty well for me
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Apple tweaks iTunes for Windows
A wise man always waits for the “point one” release
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“Pakistan, Saudi Arabia in secret nuke pact”
“nuclear-weapons technology in exchange for cheap oil”
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October 21, 2003
Mariane Pearl’s Determined Heart
For Mariane Pearl, the anger remains ever-present
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Photo: New weapon in the War on Terror: Flying Dogs
The doggie joy of ‘head out the car window’ must pale by comparion to this
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Dynamic Population Pyramid for United States
At least when we get old, we’ll have a lot of company.
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October 20, 2003
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“Down this tiled corridor, light does muscular, noisy work...”
“this is the world’s most powerful solid-state laser. Its invisible beam drilled Yamamoto’s inch-thick steel plate in two seconds”
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October 19, 2003
Zeyad reports, “An anatomy of attacks against Americans”
Plus, an illustration of the “media coverage” of something that happened in his front yard
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October 18, 2003
A Polaroid within a Polaroid within a Polaroid...
A fascinating and fun little photo project with an SX-70
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October 17, 2003
Deb’s Historical Research Page
An amazing collection of links on a wide array of historical subjects
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Bush’s order to ‘stop the leaks’ gets, um, leaked
The President’s frustration level with his own people seems to be rising
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The Automatic Tech Support Excuse Generator
You have a permanent, unreplicatable library problem due to a deprecated, static request interrupt
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Web Design Practices
”...a site devoted to helping designers understand what design practices are currently in use on the Web...”
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Floatutorial: simple tutorials on CSS floats
Where you’ll also find the Listamatic and Listutorials
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October 15, 2003
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QuickTime movie on The BeltLine
An excellent illustration of the concept
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Mozilla Firebird 0.7, now available
version 0.6.1 was *just* shy of stable enough to make it my full time browser
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Photo: A beautiful shot, paired with a really odd caption
How does one photo-illustrate an apology for cannibalism?
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October 13, 2003
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Atlanta
Border agent Barry Carter, making friends for America
“a German customs officer warned Beate many Germans have been returned from the Atlanta airport in recent months”
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MT-Blacklist - A Movable Type Anti-spam Plugin
Finally, comment spammers get a software smack down
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Help the Google ‘bot understand your web site
Forget the meta keywords tag ever existed. Really. It’s meaningless.
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October 12, 2003
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Photo: Gleaming chrome
The grill of a Buick, and they don’t make ‘em like that anymore
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“The Marsh Arabs” finally get their marsh back
A dozen years after Saddam drained them, life returns to the swamp
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October 10, 2003
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October 09, 2003
The BMLwalker; simple, yet addictive
Try the settings ‘female, light, nervous, happy’
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Leslie Harpold: How to Road Trip
“On the road even the most meticulous must let go of the expectations they have of their hair”
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Photo: Arnold begins the transition of governors
Might as well get the jokes in before they get old ... oops, too late
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October 08, 2003
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The Clark Campaign is showing some cracks
The next Clark ‘Meetups’ could be interesting
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The farcical attempt to get help from UN members in Iraq is over
Gee, I guess we’ll *have* to live up to our commitment, now. As we should have from the beginning.
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Up to 200,000 Confederate descendants, way way down South
Descendents of Confederates who fled to Brazil to preserve traditions even today
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October 07, 2003
Madonna directly rips off 20-30 year old photos by Guy Bourdin
The Material Girl sure knows how to market, but originality isn’t her strong point.
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October 06, 2003
Operation Give: Sending smiles to Iraq one toy at a time
A good cause, and a reason to put partisan beliefs aside
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Dave Barry hits the Telemarketers where it hurts ... again
They had to disconnect their number after his last column, so now he’s working on their new one
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Net Archaeology: “The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine”
“In this paper, we present Google, a prototype of a large-scale search engine...”
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A good essay from Matt Haughey on Google’s AdSense
...which also violates about half the clauses in their terms of service
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October 05, 2003
Timeline Of A Leak
Just the facts, ma’am
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October 04, 2003
Photos: Geek Vortex
Have you ever seen so many laptops and gadgets in one small space?
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Mimicking Magazines with CSS
Some cool details inspired by magazine layouts
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October 03, 2003
A Photo Manipulation feud at Sports Illustrated
The photo department is mad at the art department for altering images.
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FBI Probes Spreading Saudi Fundamentalism in U.S.
“On the night of Sept. 10, 2001, Hussayen stayed at a Herndon hotel that also housed three of the Saudi hijackers...”
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October 02, 2003
Is Google Playing Games with AdSense?
Whatever you do, don’t click the ads! Talk about self-defeating policies...
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A Complete Venn Diagram of Strange Persons
The intersection of Linux Users and Robot Fetishists is unexpected
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GI wins $89 million while home on leave
“Bush needs to call my house and tell me my baby don’t have to go back to Korea”
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October 01, 2003
Brit Toby Harndon on leaving the US: “Farewell to the nation that lives the ideal.”
“Driving across America last month ... I was struck by how a country can be so misunderstood when so much about it is known.”
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DPReview detailed preview of Photoshop CS
“there are many more reasons to upgrade to Photoshop CS than there were to upgrade to Photoshop 7”
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