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Microsoft has never made a good product , and is therefore a Bad Company, says baylink.
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Ted Nugent reccomends more guns for students. Through his new book, Nugent uses the Columbine massacre as a tool in pointing out the need for more people to be allowed to carry concealed weapons.
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When headlines go wrong... This ain't gonna leave a lot for the rest of us, is it? Seems to me that this ranks as the biggest acquisition in history.
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Contentville is selling copies of over 1.5 million college dissertations and theses published since 1871. Contentville claims that authors will be paid royalties if their works are sold, but somehow I don't think they contacted most of those authors for permission to put said works up for sale in the first place.
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Searches just got fun again.
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Microsoft Reader is out. Did MS finally make a decent product, to really spark ebooks. Or is it more of the same?
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Corporate Crackdown is Adbusters' cover article this month. The story exposes the development of these legal fictions that are becoming more powerful than nations and suggests ways to bring them back under civil control.
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This story isn't an excerpt from the new Tom Clancy novel; it just reads like it.
comment posted at 7:58 AM on Aug-14-00

Last One Standing. Now this is reality tv. Just came on at 8PST on USA. About 10 people have to keep a hand on a car in order to win it. After 3 days awake, they started losing their wits and begin to imagine that they're being plotted against. What Big Brother should have been.
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Crackers hack a webserver just to decry attrition.org who archives web page defacements. Wow, a defacement with a message other than "You suck" or so-and-so rules.
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Nader Reacts To Gore's VP Candidate Choice. "You want politically correct, top this..."
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Madonna has another child. Does anyone else think she's still pretty not-bad looking? A MILF in my book, at least.
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So you wanna be an indie-rock expert? [Courtesy of Peterme.]
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This is absolutely one of my favorite web sites. I've had this URL bookmarked on my computer for well over a year (maybe two?). It's simply one of those weirdass web things that defies explanation. It simply cannot be appreciated without seeing it. The page is truly demented. What are you waiting for? Geez!
comment posted at 8:17 AM on Aug-14-00

Disney found guilty of theft? The house that Walt built loses in court to a complaint that they stole an idea. Here's the backstory to the $1.5 billion dollar lawsuit.
comment posted at 2:25 PM on Aug-11-00

Convergence. Dave Barry does a bang-up job tying together the recent threads about Harry Potter and Stephen King.
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Man kills self and injures fiancée in wood chipper. (reg req) Phoenix police said Rodriguez told his new fiancée he had a surprise for her early Wednesday, drove her to the central Phoenix landscaping business where he worked and asked that she close her eyes and lie down. Then he lay down beside her, on what turned out to be a conveyor belt, and fed himself into a wood chipper .. more
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God Damn it, Clancy... I thought I told you to stop trying to buy football teams, and start *writing* books. And to let your editors edit...
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Would you believe...?
Considering the popularity of the "Get Smart" shoe phone at the exhibit, I'm surprised somebody isn't trying to market one today. It could be cooler than some of today's strangely designed phones... or shoes.
comment posted at 3:24 PM on Aug-10-00

Do you see what i see. Anyone work on web projects funded by the Department of Education, or any other organization which is now requiring websites be Bobby Approved?
comment posted at 8:27 AM on Aug-14-00

Ha ha.
comment posted at 7:35 AM on Aug-11-00

Craig Kilborn calls for the assassination of George W. Bush on national television. "Just a little joke, of course. huh huh huh." Yeah, sure, maybe, though not at all funny, and also wildly illegal. CBS and Worldwide Pants have been forced to apologize, and the Secret Service has an active investigation. It should be noted, though, that this aired last Friday, and CBS and Worldwide Pants said and did nothing until this got talked about on a New York radio show yesterday. Why do I get the feeling that if, say, Regis got on his show and made the exact same "joke" about Al Gore, he'd be fired before 10:30 am and be blackballed for the rest of his life?
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Google: advanced search — this is new, no?
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Study: Women Outnumber Men on the Web in America. I wonder in what ways will these changing demographics affect the web? And in the blog community, do women and men blog differently?
comment posted at 11:28 AM on Aug-9-00

I should like to purchase this sexy phone, but am I gonna get a brain tumor if I do?
comment posted at 2:23 PM on Aug-11-00

Cecil Adams on the pros and cons of municipal recycling programs.
comment posted at 11:31 AM on Aug-9-00

Ok, here comes the firestorm. Joel on Software has some very good things to say -- though, like most user-interface-design mavens, I think about 50% of the time that he hasn't comprehended what the problem really is... but in this piece, he's wrong.
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Well here's why Ralph is running. Do the other guys have anything this succinct and clear-cut? I can't find on the 'Net any page, nor have I heard in any of their speeches, where Bush or Gore come straight out and state exactly why they're running.
comment posted at 7:47 AM on Aug-8-00

Great headline, incisive commentary. The Welsh have all the luck.
comment posted at 8:53 AM on Aug-7-00

Go to this site repeat Go to this site
comment posted at 12:55 PM on Aug-8-00

I was astounded, but maybe I'm just naive. According to a Beyond 2000 article, low oxygen content in aircraft cabins, which contributes to the majority of air travel woes, is mostly due to penny-pinching. Great, skimping on air! What's next? ... umm ... ahhh ... Oh gee, I have nothing worse to compare it to!
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