Topic: COMPUTER - on November 22, 2003 at 10:53:05 PM CET
Computers 'hamper the workplace'
Computer systems at work are not working as they should, despite costing millions, a report says.
The problem lies with people rather than the systems themselves, concludes the iSociety think-tank.
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Topic: DOPE HEAD - on November 22, 2003 at 9:47:04 PM CET
Man beats own record for sticking rattlesnakes in his mouth
A Texas has man stuffed the tails of nine live rattlesnakes in his mouth, besting his own record of eight. In a field behind his mobile home in Whiskey Flats, a community about 40 kilometres southwest of Fort Worth, Jackie Bibby banded nine snakes together by their rattles and wedged the tails into his mouth.
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Topic: W A R - on November 22, 2003 at 9:45:33 PM CET
US Army to Keep 100,000 Troops in Iraq to 2006-NYT
U.S. Army officials plan to keep 100,000 troops in Iraq through early 2006, reflecting concern that stabilizing Iraq could be more difficult than originally planned, The New York Times reported on Saturday.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on November 22, 2003 at 9:43:48 PM CET
Presenting the top 10 personal computers of all time
Nothing brings home how important the personal computer has become than having teenagers in the house. As I watch both my daughters work four or five instant messaging windows at once -- and knowing that the friends with whom they're chatting are doing the same as well -- I realize that the home computer has changed a major aspect of middle-class American life.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on November 22, 2003 at 5:42:14 PM CET
Gates tops generosity list
Magazine says Microsoft chairman and his wife have given away $23B, half their net worth.
In the magazine's second-annual ranking of the top 50 philanthropists in the United States, the Gates' are worth a net $46 billion -- the rough equivalent of Hungary's entire gross domestic product. With the couple's having donated 54 percent of their net worth, Business Week dubbed them "the reigning royalty of a new class of self-made superphilanthropists."
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on November 22, 2003 at 5:27:37 PM CET
Who invented the paper clip?
Up until the 19th century, stacks of papers were bound with ribbons, strings, straight pins, or even clothes pins. All that changed in the late 1800s and early 1900s, when several patents for the fastening device were filed.
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Topic: NATURE - on November 22, 2003 at 5:23:08 PM CET
Northern Lights appear over Scotland
A solar storm has hit Earth's outer defences, generating colourful northern lights in Scotland.
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Topic: DRUGS - on November 22, 2003 at 5:07:37 PM CET
Beer hides drugs
U.S. Border Patrol agents in Wellton found 428 pounds of marijuana hidden by several pallets of beer Thursday night while working a checkpoint east of Yuma.
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Topic: DRUGS - on November 22, 2003 at 5:06:28 PM CET
Police Intercept Package of Pot
More than 20 pounds of marijuana that was to be delivered via FedEx to a Lakeland home was intercepted by police, according to a Lakeland police report.
A Lakeland man who accepted the marijuana from an undercover officer Thursday now faces a felony drug possession charge.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on November 22, 2003 at 4:07:03 PM CET
How much $$$$$ are you worth
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Topic: COMPUTER - on November 22, 2003 at 1:20:31 PM CET
MSN NEWSBOT Beta
A new way to find news
MSN Newsbot (beta) is an experimental, automated news service. We gather news from over 4,000 sources on the internet and speed your discovery of news stories. News headlines are clustered together to allow you to compare coverage from multiple sources and each story links to the publisher's site where you can read the full article.
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Topic: NETZ Tools - on November 22, 2003 at 1:15:49 PM CET
Retooling Slashdot with Web Standards
Ask an IT person if they know what Slashdot’s tagline is and they’ll reply, “News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters.” Slashdot is a very prominent site, but underneath the hood you will find an old jalopy that could benefit from a web standards mechanic.
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