Posted on November 25, 2006 by vimto1
Setting out, it’s 6.30a.m, and I’m looking forward to driving through Shropshire to Shrewsbury. As I set out it’s dark with a cloudless sky and the temperature is a little above zero. I travel down single roads that meander around the boarder hills and hug the contours at each twist and turn. Some parts of [...]
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Posted on November 24, 2006 by nuke
nite y’all.
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Posted on November 24, 2006 by nuke
Is the L.A. Times reporting unconfirmed enemy propaganda from an Iraqi stringer with ties to the insurgency? Or is the paper simply misreporting the facts, and failing to seek out and report the military’s side of the story? You be the judge. (h/t SwampWoman) The [L.A. Times article] is an example of why you [...]
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Posted on November 24, 2006 by nuke
Update: Thank you readers; this post is now #2 on the front page at NowPublic.com Mark Schneider, Editor of NowPublic.com is reporting a developing story of peaceful protests which are underway in Bagdhad, and have received little if any reporting from the Green Zone Media. In a series of photographs received from Citizen Journalist “Woodkern,” [...]
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Posted on November 23, 2006 by nuke
Update: This is a Top 50 ,Top 20 WordPress Post of the day. Thank you readers. Happy Thanksgiving. Our home is the center of an extended family gathering, full of the love of family and friends, things which give our lives pleasure and meaning. We have much to be thankful for, indeed. And even though [...]
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Posted on November 22, 2006 by nuke
Amid the calls for “bi-partisanship” and “cooperation” from the political class, comes this doozy from vimto! Heh™ Happy Thanksgiving, y’all! —–>Nuke and Vimto
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Posted on November 22, 2006 by vimto1
This is the big news from the UK: after a 15 year absence George Michael goes live and rocking at the Manchester Arena. Here’s a guy who knows a thing or two about whipping a crowd up to frenzy. “I don’t like shagging old men but I’d like to screw Robert Murdock!” he shouted. The [...]
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Posted on November 22, 2006 by nuke
I was just commenting about November 22nd, forty-three years ago. It was just after lunchtime when the Principal came on over the intercom, and in a very somber voice (not the same somber voice that was familiar to those of us who just had to know if the Principal really did have an electric paddle), asked [...]
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Posted on November 22, 2006 by nuke
We had a visitor today who came from the Google Labs translator page. I thought Babelfish was pretty neat, but look what Google Labs can do: Google translations . Look out Brave New World, cuz ready or not, here we come. ——->> Nuke 原子力
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Posted on November 21, 2006 by nuke
I know you must be thinking that this isn’t the type of story that you’re accustomed to seeing on NN&V. But, if you need a good chuckle, here you go……………….. BRASILIA, Brazil (Reuters) – The mayor of a small Brazilian town has begun handing out free Viagra, spicing up the sex lives of dozens [...]
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Posted on November 21, 2006 by nuke
He’s definitely running, says Fortune’s Nina Easton. And what of his GOP competitors: McCain, Giuliani, and Romney? “Nice people,” Gingrich says, “But we’re not in the same business. They’re running for president. I’m running to change the country.” In casting himself as the reluctant but critical-for-these-times candidate, the former history professor is looking back to [...]
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Posted on November 21, 2006 by nuke
Have you ever had to build a new computer system only to get “stuck” when you are trying to set up your e-mail because you punched in your password four years ago and haven’t got a hot clue what it is? Or has your buddy changed his FTP connection password and then promptly forgotten what [...]
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Posted on November 21, 2006 by nuke
The California Supreme Court ruled Monday that bloggers and participants in Internet bulletin board groups cannot be sued for posting defamatory statements made by others. In deciding a case closely watched by free speech groups, the court said a federal law gives immunity from libel suits not only to Internet service providers, like AOL, [...]
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Posted on November 20, 2006 by nuke
officials at the College of William and Mary have removed a gold cross from a campus chapel in the spirit of diversity and to make the chapel more “welcoming to all.” The gold cross has been on the altar of the Sir Christopher Wren Chapel for more than 60 years. “The effort here is to [...]
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Posted on November 20, 2006 by nuke
On March 22, 2003 Hasan Akbar rolled grenades into the tents of his fellow 101st Airborne, at Camp Pennsylvania, Kuwait. The attack, which was carried out the night before the unit was supposed to cross into Iraq, killed Captain Christopher Seifert, 27, and Air Force Major Gregory Stone, 40, and wounded 14 other soldiers. His [...]
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Posted on November 20, 2006 by nuke
with acknowledgements to an unkown cartoonist. This is the first political joke I can remember. I do not know who did it or where it was published but the gag stayed with me over the years. The original line was “I intend to do for you what Ronald Regan will do for America”. If you [...]
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Posted on November 19, 2006 by nuke
I come to flank Digg, not confront them. User-driven news stories now account for more than half of the content that is reported in the daily news cycle, and that trend shows no sign of slowing. Major print media have noticed, and are adapting their business models to embrace this concept. I predict those who [...]
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Posted on November 19, 2006 by nuke
“If you won the lottery tomorrow, and you had the means to do anything you wanted, what would you do?” That’s a better question to ask than, “If you had it to do all over again, what would you do differently,” simply because in reality, none of us has the ability to do it all [...]
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Posted on November 19, 2006 by nuke
Remember John Prine’s Please Don’t bury Me? “Give my stomach to Milwaukee if they run out of beer Put my sox in a cedar box just get ‘em out of here Venus De Milo can have my arms, look out, I’ve got your nose Sell my heart to the junkman and give my love to [...]
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Posted on November 18, 2006 by nuke
I saw this the other day, and thought I would ignore it. But I saw it again a little while ago over at popurls, and I changed my mind. BUT, after spending the afternoon helping our eldest move furniture into a new 2nd story walkup, I’m too freaking tired to do it justice. So here’s [...]
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Posted on November 18, 2006 by nuke
Thanks RT. I haven’t heard this in a loooooong time.
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Posted on November 18, 2006 by nuke
Please feel free to apply clue-bat as needed while I’m out. >nuke
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Posted on November 18, 2006 by nuke
by Tim Fehlman Boot disks are so passe. All the cool kids (read ubergeeks) at the very least use bootable CDs. But, if you want to be one of the geek elite (or 1337), you are going to want to go for the bootable USB drive. But how does one go about obtaining this [...]
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Posted on November 18, 2006 by nuke
Seoul embraces an engagement policy with its reclusive neighbor, fearing any approach that would irritate North Korea or send refugees to flow over their border. Earlier this week, South Korea said it would remain only an observer of ” and not a full participant in “ the U.S.-led Proliferation Security Initiative, an international ship-inspection program [...]
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Posted on November 18, 2006 by vimto1
Like many people I spend much too much time on our motorways – in my case usually the M4 that connects South Wales to central London. The habitual congestion is made worse by the dirty spray from the trucks on these wild, windy and rain-swept autumn roads. So a trip that should take just over [...]
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