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Posted: Thu May 20, 2004 6:47 am
by quantus
Dwindlehop wrote:http://www.babycenter.com/babyname/names2003.html

You've got to be kidding me. Aidan?
I was informed that Aiden is the name of a character in Sex in the City. That's a pretty likely reason for it to be so high.

Posted: Thu May 20, 2004 8:28 pm
by quantus

Posted: Thu May 20, 2004 8:51 pm
by Jonathan
http://www.archive.org/web/web.php

archive.org is beta-testing their full text search engine.

Posted: Thu May 20, 2004 11:45 pm
by Jonathan
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s ... edirectory

Impending cell phone doom is no longer impending, but arrived.

Posted: Fri May 21, 2004 3:20 pm
by Dave
http://www.cicadaville.com/

vinny is a small child! oh noes!

Posted: Fri May 21, 2004 6:01 pm
by Alan
Britney Spears, subliminal message?

Maybe NWS:

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/britneysubliminal.html

Posted: Fri May 21, 2004 8:07 pm
by Alan
An old Nature article about Chimaerism, which is a very rare occurance for fraternal twins. Well actually, when what should be fraternal twins becomes one person.

http://www.nature.com/nsu/020429/020429-13.html

This was on CSI last night so I was curious if it was real. Apparently it is, which is kind of cool.

Posted: Sun May 23, 2004 4:50 pm
by Dave
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/co ... _mz001.htm

"there are three stages of every breakthrough: First, everyone thinks you're crazy. Then the church comes out against you. Then it changes the world."

:P damn the church!

Scamming an Ebay Scammer

Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 7:47 pm
by VLSmooth
Scamming an Ebay Scammer
http://69.93.112.102/%7Epbook/

Peijen and Alan are probably already up to date with this. Wow, just wow.

Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 10:03 pm
by quantus
http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtm ... D=21100079

Cool way to represent a sports game or some other video to low bandwidth devices like cell phones and PDAs.

Posted: Wed May 26, 2004 5:58 pm
by Guest

Posted: Wed May 26, 2004 8:43 pm
by Jonathan
http://angryflower.com/bombso.gif

I don't usually go in for much Bob. But this, this I thought was clever.

Posted: Wed May 26, 2004 10:21 pm
by quantus
http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?obje ... D3E6B5495A

Oh boy, at least we get this warning this time...

Posted: Wed May 26, 2004 11:59 pm
by quantus
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtm ... ID=5265075

Hippos sweat sunscreen.
The scientists at Keio University say there is a downside -- it stinks

Posted: Thu May 27, 2004 12:47 am
by Dave

Fuxor, there better not be a draft

Posted: Thu May 27, 2004 1:52 am
by quantus
Uh, this needs to be voted down until at least 2008 (or even December 2007 works for me) so that we don't have to worry about this. Maybe I could work out of the Italian office for a few years...

Posted: Thu May 27, 2004 9:26 pm
by Jonathan

Posted: Fri May 28, 2004 3:07 am
by quantus

Posted: Fri May 28, 2004 10:44 pm
by quantus
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtm ... ID=5287034

Doom and Destruction for those of you on the East Coast... or at least more rain.

Ah, I'm so glad I'm out here with the much more comfortable weather.

Posted: Fri May 28, 2004 11:50 pm
by Alan
quantus wrote:http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtm ... ID=5287034

Doom and Destruction for those of you on the East Coast... or at least more rain.

Ah, I'm so glad I'm out here with the much more comfortable weather.
At least it's not hot. I can take rain and thunderstorms, but not weather that's >85 or <30.