Topic: COMPUTER - on April 10, 2004 at 12:38:00 PM CEST
Monitor pages, extract new information
WatchThatPage is a service that enables you to automatically collect new information from your favorite pages on the Internet. You select which pages to monitor, and WatchThatPage will find which pages have changed, and collect all the new content for you. The new information is presented to you in an email and/or a personal web page. You can specify when the changes will be collected, so they are fresh when you want to read them. The service is free!
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Topic: SCIENCE - on April 10, 2004 at 12:33:00 PM CEST
Causes of Colors - Why are things colored?
Repeated over and over, in innumerable variety, they create our colorful world. Light is made in the yellow glow of a candle. Light is lost when sunlight filters through stained glass. Light is moved when sky turns crimson sunset.
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Topic: ART - on April 10, 2004 at 12:30:00 PM CEST
Kinetic Sculpture
No batteries, No electricity!
I built my first kinetic sculpture back in 1975. It was inspired by a sculpture built by my wife, Marji, while she was in college. Since then I have been fortunate enough to work full time at developing my art and craft into what you see today. Over the years I have explored many aspects of motion, sound and wood. I have blended these explorations with a healthy dose of computer design and animation to arrive at my current series of kinetic sculptures.
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Topic: ART - on April 10, 2004 at 12:27:00 PM CEST
The 100 Most Important Art Works of the Twentieth Century
Art is the whole point of civilization. [n.1]
Yet in all the Turn of the Century hoopla -- as one best-of list after another hit the airwaves -- the most noticeable gap was the absence of awards for best 100 art works. Of course, this shouldn't be a surprise. Rigidly hierarchical standards of excellence are to the art world as salt is to a slug. If we could objectively state that one painting is better than another, then the art world would be thrown into chaos.
So let's get right to it!
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Topic: GOOGLE - on April 10, 2004 at 12:24:00 PM CEST
How to Choose a Search Engine or Directory
- Fields & File Types
- Search Logic
- Search Options
- Search Results
- Specialty Searches
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Topic: COMPUTER - on April 10, 2004 at 12:20:00 PM CEST
Widgetopia
Collection of Widgets and UI elements from various websites, with notation of their sterling or plate metal qualities.
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Topic: NATURE - on April 10, 2004 at 12:13:00 PM CEST
The bear is back -
right outside the window!!
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Topic: COMPUTER - on April 10, 2004 at 12:12:00 PM CEST
How Microsoft Is Clipping Longhorn
To get the already-delayed follow-up to Windows XP out the door by 2006, it has decided to omit some of the most ambitious features. Never in its history has Microsoft (MSFT ) had to wait so long between Windows releases. When Windows XP launched in October, 2001, researcher Gartner Inc. expected the software giant to gin up a new version within two years. But Microsoft's ambitious follow-up to Windows XP, code-named Longhorn, has bogged down in delays. The company rarely discloses timelines for products, lest it miss its targets. But in copies of two e-mail messages obtained by BusinessWeek, Microsoft lays out a roadmap that shows Longhorn debuting in the first six months of 2006.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on April 10, 2004 at 11:51:00 AM CEST
Whiskey Swigging Bride Wants Photo Killed
Woman Sues to Get Picture of Her Drinking and Smoking in Wedding Dress Off Store Shelves
Most women are eager to show off their wedding photos. But Michele Hemphill is suing to get a picture of her drinking whiskey and smoking a cigarette in her wedding dress off store shelves.
The photo was taken 22 years ago while Hemphill was with her bridesmaids before her wedding. It's featured on a greeting card with the caption: "Intoxicating Love." Inside it says, "Isn't love intoxicating? Congratulations on your special day."
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Topic: W A R - on April 10, 2004 at 11:40:00 AM CEST
100 SUNS
Between July 1945 and November 1962 the United States is known to have conducted 216 atmospheric and underwater nuclear tests. After the Limited Test Ban Treaty between the U.S. and the Soviet Union in 1963, nuclear testing went underground. It became literally invisible - but more frequent: the United States conducted a further 723 underground tests until 1992.
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Topic: NEWS english - on April 10, 2004 at 11:36:00 AM CEST
The Zone, Chernobyl , Ukraine
There was a distinctive buzz around town this morning, and it had nothing to do with radiation. At least not directly. Things were bustling along Kirova Street. Men were huddled at the bus stop. Alongside it was the main kiosk, and it was doing brisk business. No more than a square metallic shack, it had a window opening large enough only to thrust out its stock of cigarettes and chocolate bars. A rickety old school bus heaved to a stop to pick up its load of workers and cranked down the main road until it disappeared from sight.
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