links for 2006-11-16
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The star wars trilogy (the orginal and best three), all done in asciimation goodness!
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Inclues interviews with Billy Bragg and his manager.
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This uis cool! A guy collects cheesy souvenirs, then travels to where they are, and takes a photo of them superimposed over the actual place. Wikkid!
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Any Bank of America customers – read this. Please, if you can, find alternative banks, and let the BOA know WHY you are choosing to go elsewhere.
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The company that makes the “uncola” is accused of telling an untruth in a new marketing campaign that touts 7UP as “100% natural.” The nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) will sue 7UP’s manufacturer, Cadbury Schweppes, unl
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Baen Books (www.baen.com), a publisher of science fiction, will provide its books to fans who are blind, paralysed, or dyslexic, or are amputees, in electronic form free of charge, effective immediately.
Baen Books is making this offer in recognition of
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A school has cancelled a “sponsored kidnap” event in aid of Children In Need, after protests by the family of a pupil allegedly abducted last month.
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Pakistan’s lower house of parliament has voted to put the crime of rape under the civil penal code, curtailing the scope of Islamic laws that rights groups have long criticised as unfair to women.
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From the article: “I really couldn’t believe the tip a reader sent in earlier this month that Microsoft’s Zune MP3 player would be incompatible with Windows Vista. November 14, Microsoft rolled out the Zune player, which doesn’t work with Vista.”
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Maybe useful in my quest to acheive hibernate and suspend!
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handy ubuntu docs
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Top 12 weirdest yet useful USB Accessories that you can actually buy…
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Brilliant story:)
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Its a bit of on ad, but still funny stories – data recovery woes, the top 10 that ontrack have dealt with this year.
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For those who like that sort of thing.
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“A new name has joined SimplyMEPIS as one of the first Ubuntu-derived Linux distributions: Linux Mint, which features a 2.6.17 kernel and the GNOME 2.16.1 desktop.”
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a naked zune! MEEP!
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with the answer to the problem – it hates networked files.
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BAD media!
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its not the ipod killer. duh.
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“Microsoft’s attack on the Apple iPod began with a whimper Tuesday as Zune players made a lackluster debut in US stores. ” well..yeah.
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gosh, the cia acknowledges an open secret.in the meantime, the horror continues unchecked.
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The ancient chestnut tree that comforted Anne Frank while she was in hiding during the Nazi occupation of Holland must be cut down, the Amsterdam city council said Tuesday. This is so damned sad.
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YAY! You go, guys!
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and a coalition of non-profit organizations asked the U.S. Supreme Court Monday to hear a case challenging a secret law governing travelers in American airports. -
with pocketpc/smartphones.
