Friday, 7 February 2003
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Woman Broils Apple PowerBook 'As it turns out, she baked the PowerBook in the oven for 20 minutes.'
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The Onion | North Dakota Found To Be Harboring Nuclear Missiles 'The man at the center of the controversy is North Dakota's leader, Gov. John Hoeven. Having risen to power in 2000 after amassing tremendous wealth in the private sector, Hoeven lives a life of comfort and excess inside the heavily patrolled North Dakota governor's mansion, a lavish dwelling paid for entirely by the state, while many of his people engage in subsistence farming.'
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PeachPit's Cliff Colby notes the publication of a new book for Apple switchers - Mac OS X for Windows Users: A Switchers' Guide - authored by long-time PC writer David Coursey [Macintouch]
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Powell's evidence fails to sway most of Security Council
The evidence Colin Powell presented Wednesday, intended to convince
members of the UN Security Council that a war in Iraq is necessary,
instead convinced most members to improve the UN weapons inspections.
F U L L S T O R Y [CBC News]
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The Register: Floppy disks face extinction 'Analysts have said that Dell's decision is probably a precursor to a strategy that most PC makers will embark upon in the next couple of years. It has been almost five years since Apple Computer Inc stopped including floppy disk drives in Macintosh computers.'
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Iraq dissects, dismisses U.S. case to UN
The United States used fabrications and misquotations to try to persuade
the United Nations to take action against Saddam Hussein, Iraq said
Thursday.
F U L L S T O R Y [CBC News]
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Peter Black's column for 3/10/00
An old but very funny article. Bush - in the primaries - falls for Prime Minister Poutine. Also talks about This Hour . . .
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"The Poutine, She's Delicious" [Daypop Top 40]Canadian cuisine? Québecois.
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Guardian Unlimited Observer | Comment | Terry Jones: I'm losing patience with my neighbours, Mr Bush 'For some time now I've been really pissed off with Mr Johnson, who lives a couple of doors down the street. Well, him and Mr Patel, who runs the health food shop. They both give me queer looks, and I'm sure Mr Johnson is planning something nasty for me, but so far I haven't been able to discover what. I've been round to his place a few times to see what he's up to, but he's got everything well hidden. That's how devious he is.'
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Writing Posts From Radio's Outliner.
For the last week I have been writing all of my posts from an outline in Radio and loving it. It turns out to be pretty easy to set up, if you are reasonably comfortable with working in Radio. I still have some additions I want to make to the framework and hope to tackle some of these additions in the weeks ahead. [On The Mark]
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Ashcroft pushes for more death sentences. World: The US attorney general has overruled his own federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty for 28 defendants. [Guardian Unlimited] The evil in America
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Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | US is told: turn on us and you get total war 'Washington is seeking to focus US and international attention on Iraq, in preparation for military action. To admit it is facing a separate crisis with a second "rogue state" - this one almost certainly possessing nuclear weapons - would only heighten already profound anxiety over the wisdom, morality and repercussions of an invasion of Iraq.'
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UK war dossier a sham. British 'intelligence' lifted from academic articles, say experts. [Guardian Unlimited]
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Virex 7.2 available to .Mac members [The Macintosh News Network]
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The Outlook for Suicide Bombing in the U.S.. A&E's "Suicide Bombers" documentary about the possibility of suicide bombings in America is a low-budget thriller with minimal reporting and haphazardly arranged interviews. [New York Times: Arts]
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Is That Legal: "North Carolina congressman Howard Coble has gone public with his support for the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II." Ed Cone is calling this Coblegate. Coble is chairing a House subcommittee on crime and terrorism. Coble was one of the supporters of Howard Berman's bill that would make hacking users' computers legal for the entertainment industry. [Scripting News] The evil in America.
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Ooooh ooooh hot product alert. According to Gordon Mohr, Sony is coming out with a 20GB hand-held WiFi file server. Think about it. Hehe. Hey that's awesome. [Scripting News]
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"Powell's intelligence dossier "plagiarised"" [Daypop Top 40] 'The government's carefully co-ordinated propaganda offensive took an embarrassing hit tonight after Downing Street was accused of plagiarism.'
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