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links for 2010-07-29

30-Jul-10
  • Toward the end of the night, Boston Celtics forward Glen Davis walks past James’ party and looks at the scene up and down several times like a painting in a museum, soaking in the images of the go-go dancers, the “King” sign and the costumed man delivering bottles of champagne.

    Davis shakes his head and walks on.

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links for 2010-07-28

29-Jul-10
  • "But often, in the world's most crowded streets,
    But often, in the din of strife,
    There rises an unspeakable desire
    After the knowledge of our buried life;
    A thirst to spend our fire and restless force
    In tracking out our true, original course;
    A longing to inquire
    Into the mystery of this heart which beats
    So wild, so deep in us–to know
    Whence our lives come and where they go.
    And many a man in his own breast then delves,
    But deep enough, alas! none ever mines."
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  • I went through my old recipe binder and sure enough, there was the recipe, lying sweetly in wait to be welcomed back into the fold again. And really, it is so good. The tomatoes, roasting under their garlicky-cheesy cap, collapse and go all sweet and sticky. The breadcrumbs get toasty, the cheese melts and browns, the garlic infuses everything with this savory, mouthwatering scent. You mash everything together loosely, adding some olive oil for moisture and aroma, and torn basil leaves for flavor. Then in go the cooked pasta (penne are nicest, I find, but spaghetti works wonderfully, too). You can dish it up into plates, then, or, if you're eating alone just fork it up out of the serving dish (the little crusty bits in the corners are especially good). And that's it. Obsession-worthy, no?
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  • # xfs_repair /dev/hda3
    Phase 1 – find and verify superblock…
    Phase 2 – using internal log
    – zero log…
    – scan filesystem freespace and inode maps…
    – found root inode chunk
    Phase 3 – for each AG…
    – scan and clear agi unlinked lists…
    – process known inodes and perform inode discovery…
    – agno = 0
    (…)
    – process newly discovered inodes…
    Phase 4 – check for duplicate blocks…
    – setting up duplicate extent list…
    – check for inodes claiming duplicate blocks…
    – agno = 0
    – agno = 1
    – agno = 2
    – agno = 3
    Phase 5 – rebuild AG headers and trees…
    – reset superblock…
    Phase 6 – check inode connectivity…
    – resetting contents of realtime bitmap and summary inodes
    – traversing filesystem …
    – traversal finished …
    – moving disconnected inodes to lost+found …
    Phase 7 – verify and correct link counts…
    done
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  • The following are suggestions for the best magazine articles (in English) ever. Arranged in chronological order. Stars denote how many times a correspondent has suggested it. Reader notes are in italics. For a great way to read long-form magazine articles on a tablet device see my review here.
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links for 2010-07-27

28-Jul-10
  • It was interesting timing. As soon as Franco decided his Hollywood career wasn’t enough, his Hollywood career exploded—which meant that his intellectual pursuits got picked up on the radar of the A-list Hollywood publicity machine. Which was, of course, baffled by all of it. Plenty of actors dabble in side projects—rock bands, horse racing, college, veganism—but none of them, and maybe no one else in the history of anything, anywhere, seems to approach extracurricular activities with the ferocity of Franco.
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  • But whatever his personal feelings, Wylie has decided to embrace the brave new world of virtual books – sparking a bitter backlash from some of the world's largest publishers and prompting talk of nothing less than the demise of 500 years of publishing history. The reason? A deal between the American agent and Amazon to sell electronic versions of works by an array of literary superstars.

    Under a new digital-only imprint, Odyssey Editions, Wylie has arranged to sell 20 contemporary classics such as Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children and Martin Amis's London Fields exclusively through Amazon.com – and in so doing cut the recession-hit original publishers of those books out of a potentially lucrative source of income.

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  • That guy. You know him. Utterly geeky, yet walking hand-in-hand with an impossibly beautiful Japanese girl. Holding the native populace in awe with a barely coordinated swoop of his chopsticks and his “nihongo jozu.” The dude whose crash-and-burn pickup line actually worked. Yeah, that guy. Beginning in 1998, he had a name. He was Charisma Man.
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links for 2010-07-25

26-Jul-10
  • Never Let Me Go (2005) is a novel by Japanese-born British author Kazuo Ishiguro. It was shortlisted for the 2005 Booker Prize (an award Ishiguro had previously won in 1989 for The Remains of the Day), for the 2006 Arthur C. Clarke Award and for the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award. Time magazine named it the best novel of 2005 and included the novel in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005.[1] It also received an ALA Alex Award in 2006.
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  • Jamie Reidy is to the pharmaceutical business what Jerry Maguire was to professional sports and Frank Abagnale (Catch Me If You Can) was to bank fraud. He's the guy who's been there, done that, and walked away with the insider stories. You'll find yourself rooting for Reidy and at the same time, you'll be shocked by the realities of the world that paid his salary.

    Hard Sell is a witty exposé of an industry that touches nearly everyone in contemporary America. It reveals the questionable practices of drug reps, nurses, and even physicians. Reidy traces his ups and downs as a rep for giant drug manufacturer Pfizer, maker of some of the most widely prescribed and used drugs in existence, including Viagra.

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  • The Accidental Tourist is a 1985 novel by Anne Tyler that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction.
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  • The plaintiff (Anglo) seeks summary judgment against each defendant in the sum of €21,460,077.38 inclusive of interest up to 29th June, 2010. It is also claiming continuing interest.
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links for 2010-07-24

25-Jul-10
  • Even before it hit theaters on Friday, Christopher Nolan’s "Inception" was one of the year’s most talked-about movies, and one of its most argued-over. But before you can form an opinion, you need to know what’s going on, something even a few seasoned critics seem to be having trouble with.
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  • Win roundtrip airfare for two, three complimentary nights in a wrap around terrace suite with a one-of-a-kind view of Las Vegas, a $1,000 resort credit and 2 VIP tickets to our exclusive New Year's Eve Social in The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas' I Gotta Go Sweepstakes. And while you're there, enjoy a first-of-a-kind restaurant collection, meticulously appointed residential-styled rooms with private terraces, and thoughtful touches & people at every turn.
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  • My friend Peg recently gave me some sweet pickled jalapeño chili peppers that she made using my bread and butter pickle recipe and oh my gosh, I couldn't stop eating them. So of course I had to make my own batch the very next day. Ay caramba they are good, and oddly not as spicy as you would expect. Certainly not as hot as my regular jalapeño pickles. Just a little bit hot. Perky hot. And sweet and crunchy the way a bread and butter pickle should be.
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links for 2010-07-22

23-Jul-10
  • In Nagoya, a nondescript, industrial community 160 miles west of Tokyo, fans resolutely march toward the monolithic venue under the blazing sun. Sumo matches are an all-day affair: the doors open at 8:15 a.m. and the wrestling continues until 6 p.m. The highest-ranked wrestlers, or the makuuchi, wrestle during the last two hours of the day, which is when the level of excitement reaches a fever pitch. Until then, sumo is a languid affair, with observers munching on their bento box lunches, sipping beer and napping in their masuseki, or box seats, waiting for the real action to begin.
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  • There are quite a few news apps already, but the whole experience has been far from optimal. There are visually pleasing magazine apps, which ask you for $5 every month (or every week), and then there are RSS-based news aggregators that look like your second inbox.

    Pulse, developed by two Stanford graduate students, hopes to fill this void by providing the flexibility of news aggregators while maintaining solid aesthetics. It incorporates colorful panning story bars and fills them with content from your favorite websites. What it doesn’t do is tell you that you have 397 items left to be read, and that you can only read this edition of the magazine.

    While a traditional RSS reader is usually about consuming as much content as possible, Pulse is all about leisurely enjoying your daily news, with a cup of coffee.

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  • I do both actually. My friend, Miss Tina, says I have a "high level of expressed emotion"!! You know when I am happy, you now when I'm sad, and when I am angry you will think I'm sad, because I cry then too.
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  • Turning the other cheek turns out to have selfish advantages. Someone who does you an injury hurts you twice: first by the injury itself, and second by taking up your time afterward thinking about it. If you learn to ignore injuries you can at least avoid the second half. I've found I can to some extent avoid thinking about nasty things people have done to me by telling myself: this doesn't deserve space in my head.
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  • You get a cow. You can click on it. In six hours, you can click it again. Clicking earns you clicks. You can buy custom "premium" cows through micropayments (the Cow Clicker currency is called "mooney"), and you can buy your way out of the time delay by spending it. You can publish feed stories about clicking your cow, and you can click friends' cow clicks in their feed stories. Cow Clicker is Facebook games distilled to their essence.
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links for 2010-07-21

22-Jul-10
  • parses logfiles from Squid, NetCache, Inktomi Traffic Server, Oops! proxy server, Novell Internet Caching System, Compaq Tasksmart or Netscape/iplanet Web Proxy Server and generates a report. Written in perl5.
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  • Information to each access to the Cache

    Native Format (emulate_httpd_log off)

    Timestamp Elapsed Client Action/Code Size Method URI Ident Hierarchy/From Content

    Common Format (emulate_httpd_log on)

    Client Ident – [Timestamp1] "Method URI" Type Size

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  • The past two years have taken the shine off Piniella's tenure, and now the team needs a new voice. Forget Joe Torre, they also need continuity. I think Sandberg is the guy, but we'll see how the search shakes out.

    While Piniella's eventual retirement was the biggest news of the day, the confirmation that Hendry is going to be leading the search for the Cubs' next manager was the most important.

    "He will be leading the effort to find our new manager for next year and will be our general manager going into next year," Ricketts said.

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  • We're currently using Antigen for Exchange version 9 with SP1 (9.1) on several clustered and standalone Exchange 2003 servers. We would like to upgrade to SP2 asap to address the issues with some of the engines being deprecated.

    Where can we find the download for the SP2 update or the complete Antigen for Exchange version 9 with SP2 (9.2) package ?

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links for 2010-07-20

21-Jul-10
  • Producing restaurant-quality rice at home is practically foolproof with this 3-cup electric rice cooker and warmer. Multi-menu selections using micro-computerized Fuzzy logic technology control the temperature for efficient cooking of many different types of rice including white, sushi, porridge, brown, and quick cooking. The unit's automatic keep-warm function keeps rice at an ideal serving temperature until it's ready to be served. For added convenience, the appliance comes equipped with an extra-large colored LCD display with clock and timer function, a spherical inner nonstick cooking pan and heating system, a convenient detachable inner lid for easy cleaning, and a built-in retractable cord to help keep countertops tidy. Accessories include a measuring cup, nonstick rice spatula, and spatula holder. With its durable clear-coated stainless-steel exterior, the 450-watt rice cooker measures 11-1/2 by 9 by 7-1/4 inches and carries a one-year limited warranty.
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  • The cachemgr.cgi utility program, which is available by default when you compile and install Squid into your system, is designed to run through a web interface, and outputs various statistics about Squid configuration and performance. This program is located under the /usr/lib/squid directory, and you must put it in your cgi-bin directory (eg, /home/httpd/cgi-bin) to be able to use it. Follow the simple steps below to use this program.
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  • And, most curious of all, they have worked together for an unbroken run of 35 years yet, even now, they appear utterly incompatible: the tall shouty one who thinks and laughs; the small quiet one who feels and cries. “We are artistic and business partners, not primarily friends,” Teller says. “When we look at each other, we don’t think: 'Now there’s a likeable chap!’ We think about the projects we are doing and how we will get them done. When we were first working together, we didn’t have such thick skins. But we recognised how useful we were to each other. And that prevailed.”

    Penn says we should compare their relationship not to a loveless marriage but to that of “two guys manning a 7/11 down the street. If they aren’t best buddies what do they care, as long as the coffee machine is working and the shelves are stacked? Teller and I work together every day, but socially we go out together maybe only once a year.”

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  • Due to popular demand, the Periodic Table of Swearing is now back in a new colour edition.

    Signed Giclee print in limited edition of 300.
    Blind stamped.
    Dimensions: 42 cm x 59.4cm
    Delivered in flat package to size of print.

    Order now for delivery in 10 working days!

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  • The Bulls still believed they were strongly in the bidding for James. They met him on July 2, and for all the discussion later about the belief that Chicago wouldn’t give jobs and access to members of James’ inner circle, the issue had never been raised with team executives.

    For everything the Bulls tried to sell – from owner Jerry Reinsdorf to GM Gar Forman to coach Tom Thibodeau – there had been one thing that troubled James’ about the Bulls pitch: Derrick Rose never called and tried to recruit him.

    Chicago officials never directly requested Rose to reach out with a call, and the young point guard felt James could’ve always reached out to him had he wanted to discuss the possibility of playing together. James needed to be courted, needed to be wooed and apparently it surprised him there was a star who wasn’t falling over himself to do that.

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  • Find a place to stay.

    Rent nightly from real people in 6000 cities in 150 countries.

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  • What's worse than hearing someone talk about their fitness program? You may as well sit me down for home movies and tell me stories about how great your aunts, uncles, and boring family vacations are. I'm out. And yet, since I already wrote an entry outlining my goals before starting p90x, I felt like it was time for an update. Feel free to sneak out the back door now.
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  • He is one of the greatest comic actors alive. A man who's navigated his career with a peerless instinct for quality and self-respect. The man behind movies—from Caddyshack to Stripes, from Rushmore to Lost in Translation—that seem to have defined a dozen different moments in our cultural life. But he is also a man beholden to no one, not the studios, not the audience, not even an agent. And as he sits down with Dan Fierman to discuss everything from the lameness of Ron Howard to the genius of Kung Fu Hustle, you can be pretty sure he's going to tell you exactly what he thinks
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links for 2010-07-19

20-Jul-10

links for 2010-07-15

16-Jul-10
  • As with folded arms I leant my back against the left goal-post, I enjoyed the luxury of closing my eyes, and thus I would listen to my heart knocking and feel the blind drizzle on my face and hear, in the distance, the broken sounds of the game, and think of myself as of a fabulous exotic being in an English footballer’s disguise, composing verse in a tongue nobody understood about a remote country nobody knew. Small wonder I was not very popular with my teammates.
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links for 2010-07-14

15-Jul-10
  • Response to Consultation and Decision – Scope of Premium Rate Services Regulation
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  • "I've always said that the 2014 World Cup faces three major problems," said Ricardo Teixeira, the long-term president of the CBF (Brazil's FA) at an event last week to launch the tournament logo. "The first is airports, the second is airports and the third is airports."
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  • One night in the early 1990s Nash Edgerton, about 20 years old and struggling as an electrical-engineering student, awoke with an inspiration.

    “I should be a stunt man,” Mr. Edgerton recalled thinking.

    It was the beginning of Blue-Tongue Films, one of the unlikelier phenomena in the unpredictable world of independent film.

    Blue-Tongue, a loose-jointed Australian moviemaking collective, is now flooding American festivals, the awards circuit and those who look for Hollywood’s next big thing with its rough-and-tumble fare, and can now add an Oscar nomination to its résumé.

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links for 2010-07-12

13-Jul-10
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  • Riley really put the plan into action last November. During a Cavs visit to Miami, Riley arranged a get together with Michael Jordan and James. Jordan, who was in town to do some Nike work with Wade, at the time did not own a majority of the Bobcats.

    During the meeting, Riley talked to James about how more modern players should pay homage to Jordan. Riley always had led this effort, retiring Jordan's No. 23 in the rafters at AmericanAirlines Arena even though Jordan never played in Miami.

    The Cavs knew about it, and while it seemed like it could be classic tampering, they decided not to make an issue of it — mostly because the meeting technically wasn't about free agency.

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  • I can hardly tell one bourbon from another, unless the other is very bad. Some bad bourbons are more memorable than good ones. For example, I can recall being broke with some friends in Tennessee and deciding to have a party and being able to afford only two-fifths of a $1.75 bourbon called Two Natural, whose label showed dice coming up 5 and 2. Its taste was memorable. The psychological effect was also notable. After knocking back two or three shots over a period of half an hour, the three male drinkers looked at each other and said in a single voice: "Where are the women?"

    I have not been able to locate this remarkable bourbon since.

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links for 2010-07-09

10-Jul-10
  • The Nona Tapes follows aspiring journalist Nona Weisbaum (played by guitarist Jerry Cantrell) on her quest to "find some Seattle rock stars" for a breakthrough story. Throughout the video, Weisbaum scours the streets of Seattle and eventually finds and interviews all members of Alice in Chains (besides Cantrell). Entwined between Nona's segments are interviews revealing the lives of the band members, and interview footage regarding the self-titled album. It also includes the video clip for "Grind", and outtake footage overdubbed with "Heaven Beside You".
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  • Throughout the year, the Nitrous Mafia travels from state to state, selling balloons at concert sites. The scene in Williamsburg is only a small preview of what happens in summer, when the outdoor festival season kicks into gear. During these campground events, which last two to four days, the Mafia, which is divided into two rings, based in Boston and Philadelphia, can burn through hundreds of nitrous tanks. With the ability to fill up to 350 balloons per tank, which they sell for $5 and $10, they can bank more than $300,000 per festival, minus expenses. Year after year, security guards at these events attempt to crack down on the illicit business, but, in most cases, they're outmatched by a phalanx of menacing gas dealers who have little regard for unarmed concert personnel.
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  • This website must have been designed with ADD sufferers in mind. Great googly moogly.
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  • If you’re a longtime reader of Internet nonfiction, you might know that I like to celebrate our nation’s birthday by blowing things the fuck up. And you also might know that you should never try this at home. In fact, it’s safest if you stop reading right now.

    OK, now that all the pussies are gone, let’s fucking do this.

  • If you look up 'tea' in the first cookery book that comes to hand you will probably find that it is unmentioned; or at most you will find a few lines of sketchy instructions which give no ruling on several of the most important points.

    This is curious, not only because tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country, as well as in Eire, Australia and New Zealand, but because the best manner of making it is the subject of violent disputes.

    When I look through my own recipe for the perfect cup of tea, I find no fewer than eleven outstanding points. On perhaps two of them there would be pretty general agreement, but at least four others are acutely controversial.

    Here are my own eleven rules, every one of which I regard as golden:

links for 2010-07-08

09-Jul-10
  • No more bullshit. Join the revolution.

    We're done with the tired old fontstacks of yesteryear. Enough with the limitations of the web, we won't have it. It's time to raise our standards. Here, you'll find only the most well-made, free & open-source, @font-face ready fonts.

    Like any revolution, we aim to make progress, and we need help. If you want to be a part of this free, open-source type movement, you should join us and contribute. If you have any questions about The League or the movement,

    Read Our Manifesto

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  • The bodybugg is a weight-loss aid that became popular after appearing on NBC's competitive reality series The Biggest Loser. It is manufactured by a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based company BodyMedia, Inc. and distributed in the United States via Apex Fitness Group, a subsidiary of 24 Hour Fitness. Virtually identical devices are marketed by BodyMedia directly to customers and distributed via various channels (including Amazon.com) under the name GoWear Fit, and marketed to healthcare providers under the trademark SenseWear.
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links for 2010-07-07

08-Jul-10
  • "Crap, I've been doing it wrong." We've all had those sudden epiphanies where we realize we've been doing something incorrectly, ineffectively or just suboptimally our whole lives, in domains from handicraft to human relations to technical stuff to personal grooming. What have you spent large portions of your life doing wrong?
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links for 2010-07-06

07-Jul-10
  • Take your music with you anywhere you go with the Gear4 StreetParty 3 iPod Speaker System. This speaker system is the ultimate accessory to take with you when out on a picnic or hanging around outside with your friends as it can be operated on batteries. And the StreetParty 3 delivers great sound, looks fantastic and will literally give you the ultimate street party!
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  • # Navigate 4 way to control the cursor arrows
    # Conveniently access the PC digital entertainment
    # Includes all of the buttons and functions necessary for Microsoft MCE
    # 2.4GHz RF technology with an operating range of up to 10m
    # Mini USB dongle style receiver
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  • While working on Lynx, I was heavily involved with the development of HTTP and HTML, and was responsible for innovations such as web proxying. That time period was one of most exciting and fast paced periods I can remember. Innovations that are completely ubiquitous now, were proposed and implemented in incredibly fast cycles. It wasn't until the later days at Netscape that we coined the term "Internet Time". I recently came across archived messages of the original WWW-Talk mailing list and found the thread that sparked the creation of forms on the web.
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links for 2010-07-05

06-Jul-10
  • Like many of you, except that in my case it’s actually deserved, I’ve learned from playing Football Manager that I am the greatest football manager in the history of the world. It’s true that my abilities have, unaccountably, failed to create much of a stir in the outside world. Relatively talentless men like Brian Clough and Bill Shankly continue to win plaudits while my achievements are ignored (usually) or reviled (because I was late for dinner). But I know the truth, and I’m telling you, the truth is sensational.
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  • Quality sound does not stop at your headphones – a quality set of iPhone speakers can make all the difference to your sound experience. Our iPhone speakers (that can be connected via the dock or via Bluetooth) are selected for their ability to enhance and expand your listening experience.
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  • And so, whether you were aware of it or not, the purpose of your having been at this university was to give you a glimpse of the Athenian way, to interest you in the Athenian way. We cannot know on this day how many of you will choose that way and how many will not. You are young and it is not given to us to see your future. But I will tell you this, with which I will close: I can wish for you no higher compliment than that in the future it will be reported that among your graduating class the Athenians mightily outnumbered the Visigoths.
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  • TV Trade are specalists in Satellite Television Equipment with our background in the wholesale area of supplying SKY installers, we now have expanded to offer heavily discounted prices direct to our end users and free information on how to save money by installing the Satellite TV equipment yourself.

    We aim to offer a professional, fast and friendly service so that you can get the products you need without hassle.
    View our range of Satellite Dishes, TV Aerials, Sky Boxes and then the Cables to connect it all together.

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links for 2010-07-04

05-Jul-10
  • Here's what that means. If you have a Google account for sue@example.com as well as a Google Apps account for sue@example.com, after the transition you'll still be able to sign into your Google account using sue+personal@example.com. It's a bit confusing, and a little more work than the one-click account merge we'd hoped for. However, thanks in large part to Google's internal Data Liberation Front, many of Google's tools offer data export features. So, while it'll take some time, it shouldn't be difficult to export your data from your Google account and import it into your Google Apps account after this transition is done.
    (tags: @2read)

links for 2010-07-02

03-Jul-10
  • ComReg publishes its Strategy Statement 2010 – 2012
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  • TRUVO USA, the holding company for the Golden Pages and Truvo.ie directory site in Ireland, has filed for US bankruptcy protection with a plan to turn the company over to senior lenders, including AIB, according to court documents. The company publishes and distributes the Eircom phone book under contract.

    The recent recession accelerated a shift among advertisers away from Truvo’s printed yellow- and-white-pages directories in Belgium, Ireland and Portugal to the internet, it said yesterday.

    Truvo USA filed for bankruptcy with a proposal that would transfer ownership of the reorganised company to holders of its €777.6 million ($964.2 million) of senior loans.

    (tags: @2read)

links for 2010-07-01

02-Jul-10