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Thursday, August 1, 2002 |
"Quick, the boss is coming, put the joint away and pretend we were looking at this PC."
7:39:51 PM 
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Is your IT department full of dope smokers?No wonder they call it high-tech...
Forget dot-com - it's all gone dot-bong as a new survey reveals that one in three marijuana users is employed in the high-tech sector. Of the 72 per cent of respondents who admitted to sampling waccy baccy, an astonishing 32 per cent work in the IT and telecoms industries - a far higher proportion of pot-puffing professionals than the population as a whole.
Yeah, man, I knew that...What?
[From Faisal.com]
7:37:02 PM
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Glenn Reynolds acknowledges a factual error, then asks a poignant question. "What would things be like for Palestinians now, if Israelis or Americans thought like Arabs? They wouldn't be like anything at all, of course. There wouldn't be any Palestinians." Bada-boom. [Scripting News]
1:12:12 PM
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Macintosh poses fewer problems than Windows With a Mac, programs and peripherals install without fuss, and there are no more missing .dll files, hardware or software conflicts, system slowdowns or surprise crashes. The last time I was forced to reboot my Macintosh was eight months ago, and it was my fault that it crashed. When I use a Windows machine, I have to reboot two or three times a day. Though Macs are the computer of choice of most creative professionals in the art, advertising, music, movie and publishing worlds, it seems to me that home users need them the most.
1:06:49 PM
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Vegas Braces for the Hackers. It's time once again for Defcon, the infamous hacking convention where mysterious incidents -- like smoking swimming pools and FBI arrests of Russian programmers -- are more commonplace than not. Michelle Delio reports from Las Vegas. [Wired News]
8:44:59 AM
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In Hebron, Death and Life. The rocks that the Arabs hurled from nearby rooftops on the funeral procession of Elazar Leibovich fell like sparks on a keg of gasoline. By June Leavitt. [New York Times: Opinion]
This are the feelings of war and hatred. Will there ever be peace between Israel and Palestina?
8:42:16 AM
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