Tuesday, 15. March 2005

Wiener dog ad space available!


Hot Dog for hire! Are you looking for great advertising space for your company? My miniature Wiener dog 'Peanut' will be your billboard. She loves taking walks and meeting new people. Everyone that sees a Wiener dog can’t help but look. Peanut is a 1 ½ year old, 8 pound miniature Dachshund. She attracts attention wherever she goes. She is long so she can display a lot of information.

ebay

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Writer issues published apology for secret recordings of Bush


The writer who secretly recorded phone conversations in which then-Texas Governor George W. Bush appeared to suggest past illegal drug use, issued a public apology to the president.

afp

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DEVA Blooms 2005


DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK — The wettest year on record here has transformed this forbidding wilderness of scruffy mountains and buckled earth into a vividly unfamiliar world of wildflowers and reflecting pools, triggering ecological cycles not seen before on so large a scale.

seattletimes flickr.com

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Microsoft to unveil own search engine ads


Microsoft will on Wednesday signal a direct assault on one of the main profit-generators of Google and Yahoo when it unveils an advertising service that lets users link their messages to the results of Internet searches.

msnbc.msn

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Weekend Hack Infects Hosting Servers


The Internet Storm Center (ISC) tracked a large-scale hack over the weekend that infected site-hosting servers, which in turn transformed all the hosted sites into distributors of malicious code.

techweb.com

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300gig ipod


flamingballofwreckage sent us a link to instructions for using a standard 3.5” hard disk with your ipod. after making the adapter, there is another howto for formatting the drive so that it will be correctly recognized by the device.

‘but j,’ you say, ‘that 3.5” drive would make my ipod simply ginormous!’

hackaday.com

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How to install Linux on a PS2


Linux, Linux, Linux. Linux everywhere. We have put linux on our Xbox, we have a linux distro running on our Wireless routers,our hardended firewall, and of course our tivos. So what is left, how about your PS2? Here is step-by-step instructions of getting Linux on your Playstation 2!

How to install Linux v1.0 on PlayStation 2

i-hacked.com

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Can Firefox outfox IE?


Battling browsers are back. Just as in the 1990s, when Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Netscape's Navigator fought each other for supremacy, today Mozilla's Firefox browser is trying to gain traction over IE.

This latest skirmish, however, goes beyond just browsing the Web. Microsoft's security problems have left an opening for upstarts like Firefox and could lead to other products taking market share from the software giant, say experts at Wharton.

news.com

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Großkonzern macht Schneiderin ihren Namen streitig


Auch süße Sachen können sauer machen: Eine Französin unterlag jetzt in einem Rechtsstreit mit einem Lebensmittelhersteller. Die Frau trägt den Namen einer sehr berühmten Schokolade - und darf den jetzt nicht mehr in ihrer Webadresse führen.

spiegel

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Pi Day


March 14, written 3/14 in the USA date format, is the official day for Pi Day derived from the common three-digit approximation for the number π: 3.14. It is usually celebrated at 1:59 PM (in recognition of the six-digit approximation: 3.14159). Some, using a twenty-four-hour clock rather than a twelve hour clock, say that 1:59 PM is actually 13:59 and celebrate it at 1:59 AM or 3:09 PM instead. Parties have been held by mathematics departments of various schools around the world.

wikipedia.org

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Mussolini's Granddaughter on Hunger Strike


The granddaughter of Italian wartime dictator Benito Mussolini went on hunger strike on Monday after being barred from next month's regional elections over signature forgeries.

Alessandra Mussolini, founder of the far-right Social Alternative movement, is appealing the ban in a Rome court.

reuters

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73-year-old backcountry skier survives five days lost in Austrian Alps


A 73-year-old man is recovering in a hospital after surviving five days in the open on a mountain, a news agency reported Monday.

Canadian Press

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