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Blue outlines show roads where street view is available. This icon shows where you are on the map. The green arrow points in the direction you're looking. You can drag the icon to navigate to a different location. You can also just click on a blue outlined road to go there. Drag the street view to look around 360°. Use the arrow buttons to navigate down the street. You can also use the arrow keys on the keyboard (maps.google.com/)
Water is just a simple combination of hydrogen and oxygen , so why can't we do what nature does and combine the two elements? Unfortunately, it's not that simple, and the results can be rather . explosive (www.howstuffworks.com/)
British amateur historian Gavin Menzies surprised many when he suggested the Chinese may have beaten Christopher Columbus to America. Is it true, or is his claim just junk (www.howstuffworks.com/)
The doctor was right. magnesium sulfate really does feel like an 18-wheeler just ran you over. (Magnesium Sulfate is given via IV and is used in extreme cases to treat pre-term labor. (www.justbeconne....m/2008/01/)
The Perl community just celebrated the 20th anniversary of Perl. Here are some stories from Perl hackers around the world about problems they've solved and memories they've made with the venerable, powerful, and still vital language (www.perl.com/)
Eugueny Kontsevoy writes inWeb vs Desktop Nonsense: Can we see past the browser? Can we accept that browser is just a runtime library that most people do not need to download to consume your application? . Come on, the "anywhere"… read more chromatic (www.perl.com/)
Filed under: GPS, Transportation, Wireless And you thought puttering around the intarwebz on your EDGE-capable iPhone was bad - just think of trying to find anything on the 'net while accidentally moseying through a dodgy part of town. &hellip (www.technorati.com/)
MartinR I agree with you. Although losing all those personal details for a huge amount of the population wasn't just a gaffe, and it's the conservatives' job to point out huge failures like that (blogs.guardian.co.uk....ssued.html)
All you supercilious mockers just think about that difference. For me, that itself makes clear the value of the programme under debate. and the superficial arrogance of the Tory front benc (blogs.guardian.co.uk....ssued.html)
I just wanted to drop you a note to let you know (if you didn't already) the good news that "Sicko" has been nominated for this year's Academy Award for Best Documentary. It was a pleasant surprise when we got the news on Tuesday (www.michaelmoore.com/)
fark.net/images/topics/interesting.giff> Limerick leads Ireland for divorce / It&s unclear what exactly&s the source / It seems a disaster / That the rate&s gettin& faster / It&s the children who lose out, of course (45) (Jumper) Problem: Hayden Christensen &s performance in Jumper. Solution: Video game contains no Hayden Christensen . (Sponsored Link) (140) (KOB TV-4 News) Woman who gambled away husband&s $80 of gas money robs gas station to make up for loss (w/scary mugshot) (54) (MLive.com) Noithing says thanks quite like burglarizing the couple who helps free your car from a snowbank (65) (Tech Digest) Harley Davidson owners get their own social network , with photos of big beards and big bellies a-plenty . And that&s just the women (183) (www.fark.com/)
If you're new to Linux, you don't want to download the kernel, which is just a component in a working Linux system. Instead, you want what is called a distribution of Linux, which is a complete Linux system. There are numerous distributions available for download on the Internet as well as for purchase from various vendors; some are general-purpose, and some are optimized for specific uses. We currently have mirrors of several distributions available at mirrors.kernel.org , as well as a small collection of special-purpose distributions at http://www.kernel.org/pub/dist/ (www.kernel.org/)
Neat post on Make, reporting from the NYC Toy Fair, about these amazing models available for purchase. Using small wooden dowels (just like classic matchsticks), you too can build a locomotive, or the Eiffel Tower. Called Matchitecture, they are lovingl (www.wired.com/)
If you'd love to have some maps on your site, but the complexity of the Google Maps API gives you a headache, Google has come up with another option â the new Static Maps API. Googleâs static maps are just (www.wired.com/)
The first Service Pack release for Windows Vista is just around the corner and by all accounts it brings a number of improvements, however, you may need to upgrade some your third-party software before it will run smoothly. Microsoft ha (www.wired.com/)
If you are here, YOU are a Creative Blogger! If you want to be added to this list just email me your blog name and link to melbamcmullin@comcast.net. Thanks! ~Melb (www.justbeconne....m/2008/01/)
Just a friendly reminder that Barbera Walterâs is doing her yearly special! I think, she thinks we all think that Justin is one of the most fascinating people in entertainment. I hope you enjoy the show! Iâll be on later with comments (www.justintimbe....o/2007/12/)
"Snooooooop."You have to hand it to the Doggy Dog, he knows how to make a club banger. And this little pearl of wisdom could be applied to other aspects of life, not just in the club.When I [ . ] (www.justintimbe....o/2007/12/)
Do you love Justin clean cut? Do you prefer the rough and tumble look? Or does it just not matter what he looks like because his personality says it all? (www.justintimbe....o/2007/09/)
I haven57;t been entering my votes in the ASC Awards for the last few days, but I have them all typed up in a file. I have only two Voyager categories left to read: J/C and Glory Days . Glory Days isn57;t an official awards category; I just saved all the stories from the series (except for one Seven fic) to read together. Toward that end, I converted the whole series to PDF. My special, paper-saving version is only 82 pages, but I also looked at the double-spaced version, which was 344 pages and 100,000 words. Now I have a printed copy thanks to the wonders of LaTeX and duplexing laser printers. It had better pass the three paragraph test70 (www.ficml.org....s/2003/03/)
Happy Birthday to Gioachino Rossini, who turns just 54 leap-years of age this year! If you've forgotten to plan your Rossini theme party, don't worry - Patsy Morita has done the work for you. (www.allmusic.com/)
Just hours ago, history was made for open-wheel motorsports. Champ Car Racing and the Indy Racing League inked a deal to combine the two leagues-"in principle" for the 2008 season. It ends a long and tortured war that began i (www.wired.com/)
Did I miss the reports about the growing problem of people having just too much money? Because otherwise, I'm hard pressed to understand how someone like Peter Aloisson can make a business out of vulgarizing tech gadgets. His latest creation, (www.wired.com/)
Holy smoke ! This concept design from Mac Funamizu should be made today. The unnamed project uses a camera, scanner, GPS and see-through display to assimilate just about anything. Point it at a street or landscape and it will use position. (www.wired.com/)
This is the most famous photograph of the magnitude 6.9 Loma Prieta earthquake that rocked San Francisco in 1989. The 8.4-mile-long San Francisco -Oakland Bay Bridge, which carries more than 280,000 cars each day, just wasn't fit for a high magnitude (www.wired.com/)
Your post was well argued, and I have stopped to think. As you will realise, with anything that touches on racial sensitivity, the questions of whether you are right in what you say and whether it is sensible to say it may yield different answers. I still find the proposals (and their presentation) a gimmick. Had New Labour raised the stakes and sent two from every year ten class (which is more than two for every year ten) then it would be a real step in Holocaust awareness. To present in a fairly triumphal way a proposal which is actually underfunded in a penny pinching way, is a little much. It is the press announcement that headlined the amount of money being spent by the government, so raising the missing £100 per pupil is not just some churlish quibble it is replying to the press announcement in its own terms. The two from every sixth form irritates me. I appreciate your point that this is still sending real people to a very real place but it is also as if someone has asked what is the least we can do and appear to be doing a lot (blogs.guardian.co.uk....ssued.html)
However awful are Gaza, Guantanamo even to compare them with the European war is facile. To find true parallels we would have to visit Vorkuta in the Urals, an institution that dwarfed Auschwitz, or study the wars that simoultaneously raged in the Far East. I do not think we can simply send a few children to Auschwitz, or even visit ourselves, and say well there you are, we now understand what happened. We need to see it in a wider context, the rise of Hitler, the simultaneous emergance of Stalin etc. Hitler started his career in the back room of a bier keller in Munich I believe . His rise was facillitated by more mainstream politicians, who were not willing to confront and refute his racist fantasies. So you might just as profitably send sixth formers to listen in on pub conversations about the current scapegoats in Britain, Moslems, teenage mothers, people on Incapacity Benefit etc. then look at the policies "respectable" politicians propose to deal with the bogeys they have created (blogs.guardian.co.uk....ssued.html)
However awful are Gaza, Guantanamo even to compare them with the European war is facile. To find true parallels we would have to visit Vorkuta in the Urals, an institution that dwarfed Auschwitz, or study the wars that simultaneously raged in the Far East. I do not think we can simply send a few children to Auschwitz, or even visit ourselves, and say well there you are, we now understand what happened. We need to see it in a wider context, the rise of Hitler, the simultaneous emergance of Stalin etc. Hitler started his career in the back room of a bier keller in Munich I believe . His rise was facillitated by more mainstream politicians, who were not willing to confront and refute his racist fantasies. So you might just as profitably send sixth formers to listen in on pub conversations about the current scapegoats in Britain, Moslems, teenage mothers, people on Incapacity Benefit etc. then look at the policies "respectable" politicians propose to deal with the bogeys they have created (blogs.guardian.co.uk....ssued.html)
Pastis, millions of Poles and Russains were also victims of genocide by the Nazis in WW2, along with Gypsies, Yugoslavs and others. Also there were other genocides of the 20th century the Armenians, the Cambodians, the Tutsi in Rwanda, and possibly Darfur. To suggeste that the genocide of Jews was more the most significant of all these horrible event,just because it was better organised, is ludicrous beyond belief you are in effect saying that Jewish lives are worth more than the lives of others. The word Holocaust should be used to cover all these genocides, not just one, and children should be edcuated on the evils of all these evil events (blogs.guardian.co.uk....ssued.html)
Just because you run a windows desktop doesnt mean you must opt for Windows web hosting. This is true vice versa . Whatever operating system you use on your desktop has little to do with your choice of hosts. As long as you understand your FTP or web publishing software, your host can be any operating system (www.askwebhosting.com....r_You.html)
Software Craftsmanship: Apprentice to Journeyman — In another collaborative development experiment, we've just launched a site for you, our readers, to comment early and often on this book as it's being written. Help authors Dave Hoover and Adewale Oshineye turn this into the bestseller it deserves to become. Collaborate now (www.oreilly.com/)
For example, one thing that's well known about Digg is you can work hard, you get an article get on the front page of Digg, and get lots of traffic, but the traffic you get will bring you little or no business. It's just not what you should be shooting for. You want to be in a dialogue with people where the dialogue is going to persist. br / br / b Avinash Kaushik: /b You are very right. That's exactly what I was alluding to, because, I do think that people get a bit too wrapped up in getting on the homepage of Digg, and they try to game systems and try to get all their friends to Digg their post. There are cabals of people now, who are like, "I'll Digg yours and you'll Digg mine". I found, having been on the homepage of Digg at least twice now, that definitely it is great for bringing traffic. You will get more traffic then you would get in a couple of months just by being in the homepage of the Digg. br / br / And, it's a great site. But, the interesting thing as I think about it is, what is the objective of what I am trying to do? I only want relevant traffi (feeds.feedburne....C-Articles)
I was touched by Rob's cri de coeur about the dreariness of Catholic liturgical music and congregational singing. And I can't dismiss his despair about what passes for music in our churches as the lament of a not-yet-fully-assimilated evangelical convert still longing for Amazing Grace and Rock of Ages. This cradle Catholic agrees entirely with Rob about not just the lousy singing but a body of music that. at best, combines the Carpenters with bad show tunes or Sesame Street singalongs. If you think I am just being some kind of snob, check out Thomas Day's terrific book. Why Catholics Can't Sing: The Culture of Catholicism and the Triumph of Bad Taste. The book begins with this intriguing passage: Contemplate this very odd situation. Today, a large number of Roman Catholics in the US who go to church regularly-perhaps the majority-rarely or barely sing any of the music. (I have heard a congregation of fifty elderly Episcopalians produce more volume than three hundred Roman Catholics.) If you think about it, this stands out as a most curious development in the history of Christianit (www.mirrorofjustice.com....e/2006/05/)
/news/releases/2008/02/20080221-1.wm.v.html President Bush on Thursday said, "It is easy to destroy a country; it is hard to rebuild a country. And I, Madam President, I want you to know that the United States of America supports you as you rebuild your country. We share a special history with Liberia. It's a history that is deep, and I want the people of your beautiful country to know that our help is just beginning. (www.whitehouse.gov/)
Sighn says: I just want to let you in on a project I'm working on.A hand cut edition of 1 million.No joke, this will probably take the next 30-60 years to finish (boingboing.net/)
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