ESPN Deletes Story About Wild LeBron James Party (Text) : Sportscasm
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 [...]
"The Buried Life" (1852) by Matthew Arnold
"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, [...]
The James Franco Project
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, [...]
Never Let Me Go – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 [...]
Everything you wanted to know about "Inception"
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 [...]
As Sumo Wrestles With Scandal, Its Fans Are Unbowed – WSJ.com
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 [...]
Calamaris Home Page
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.
(tags: @2search)
Squid access.log
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 [...]
Amazon.com: Zojirushi Micom 3-Cup Rice Cooker and Warmer, Stainless Steel:…
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 [...]
Squid Top-Site Report Generator | Personal website of Dave Hope
STSRG (Squid Top-Site Report Generator) is a Perl script to analyze the previous days squid access.log log file and produce a report of the most frequently visited URLs. It’s reasonably quick processing about 100,000 lines of log file in 12 seconds.
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Chapter 13. Remote and Local Management: The [...]
Taking a turn ‘in the woods,’ confronting the goalkeeper’s choice : The Global Game
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, [...]
Publications – ComReg
Response to Consultation and Decision – Scope of Premium Rate Services Regulation
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Size of Brazil's problems: vast distances, a lack of airports and crumbling stadiums
"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 [...]
KARATEEEEEEEEEE CHOP!
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Inside 'The Decision': Miami's coup was a 'surprise' built on long-coveted goal of James, Wade and Bosh
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, [...]
The Nona Tapes – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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). [...]
The League of Moveable Type
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, [...]
You were doing it wrong | Ask MetaFilter
"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 [...]
Gear4 StreetParty 3 iPod Speaker System – iWorld.co.uk
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 [...]
My Greatness May Be a Metaphor
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 [...]
Google Apps vs. Google Accounts Parity Coming | Smarterware
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 [...]
Publications – ComReg
ComReg publishes its Strategy Statement 2010 – 2012
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'Golden Pages' holding firm files for US bankruptcy – The Irish Times – Fri, Jul 02, 2010
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 [...]
VG Cats – Brogamers
"Total Brolocaust"
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