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 -> Solving baseball money woes is harder than being President of USA
Really, could Commissioner Bush have done a better job dealing with the Yankees than has Commissioner Selig?
1,632 views | 08 Aug 2003
 -> Al Qaeda threat is very real
Attorney General John Ashcroft warned Sunday of the "very real potential" of new terrorist attacks against United States targets.
13,459 views | 04 Aug 2003
 -> IBM Takes Linux To A New Level
IBM will build the most powerful supercomputer ever to run on the Linux operating system. The new computer, capable of more than 11 trillion calculations per second, will be used by Japans biggest research institute for biology research.
2,035 views | 01 Aug 2003
 -> Oldest living person?
The worlds oldest living person is believed to have been discovered in war-torn Chechnya...beating by nine years the current record holder from Japan who is 115! She has 7 great-great-grandchildren.
1,865 views | 31 Jul 2003
 -> Read books on wedgelight
Imagine a pane of bright, even light illuminating only the page you are reading. Thats the idea behind LightWedge?. No glare, no stray light to disturb others. Just rest it on the page and read. Now imagine what you could do with a light like that.
3,816 views | 29 Jul 2003
 -> High-Tech Vote Fraud? Oh, Yeah
Software flaws in a high-tech voting system could allow vandals to tamper with election results in several U.S. states Wired.
2,064 views | 27 Jul 2003
 -> Nigerian spam conference
As though all the Nigerian junk were not enough!
1,886 views | 26 Jul 2003
 -> Digital photography from a balloon
An interesting website from Stanford (a students own website?) that talks about taking aerial photographs with the help of a balloon.
2,268 views | 26 Jul 2003
 -> 4 Deceptions in 704 words
4 "deceptions" in 704 words from the Presidents 2003 State of the Union Address.
2,297 views | 26 Jul 2003
 -> Which one is (are) spinning?
Spin a Bach CD to give you some background music, then visit this website for a head spinning visual. Which ones are moving?
1,565 views | 26 Jul 2003
 -> Amazon Plan Would Allow Searching Texts of Many Books
Executives at Amazon.com are negotiating with several of the largest book publishers about an ambitious and expensive plan to assemble a searchable online archive with the texts of tens of thousands of books of nonfiction.
14,847 views | 21 Jul 2003
 -> Email or courriel?
The word "email" can now no longer be used in French official communication, including documents, memos, the internet and even emails themselves.
14,653 views | 21 Jul 2003
 -> A surfer and a...
....Dolphin. A fascinating, rare-moments photograph.
14,755 views | 19 Jul 2003
 -> Icebound telescope probes the Universe
A unique telescope, encased in ice at the South Pole, is recording the most violent events in the Universe.
13,812 views | 18 Jul 2003
 -> Japanese toymaker to create cat translator
Having deciphered dog barks and won 300,000 pet-lovers with its hit "Bowlingual", Japanese toymaker Takara Co. is planning a similar gadget for cats, "Meowlingual".
13,884 views | 18 Jul 2003
 -> Dumb laws in Florida (and around the world)
One of the many priceless ones, "You may not fart in public places after 6 p.m." or "The molestation of trash cans is prohibited". Hmm.
13,872 views | 17 Jul 2003
 -> Aussie rips her way to bikini wax record
An Australian woman has ripped her way into the record books by giving bikini waxes to 130 people in four hours without apparent mishap.
14,160 views | 15 Jul 2003
 -> Japanese icecreams
Having succeeded globally with cars, electronics and even fashion, it was only natural the Japanese turned their hand to trying to surpass the West with one of its favorite culinary delights - ice cream.
14,754 views | 13 Jul 2003
 -> Warner Brothers
Seen on Jay Leno. An interesting T-shirt.
10,412 views | 13 Jul 2003
 -> STC Font Browser
What a handy utility, see a list of all fonts on your machine with text samples.
1,792 views | 13 Jul 2003
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