Friday, January 30, 2004
State Court Rules: "Rule 36.10. Filing requirements ? Civil.
Complaints or petitions presented to the clerk for filing shall be filed only when accompanied by the proper filing fee, fee for sheriff service or a paupers affidavit, and when applicable, any forms required by law or rule to be completed by the parties. The attorney or party filing the complaint shall furnish the necessary service copies, and shall fill out and attach the appropriate backing sheets."
Thursday, January 29, 2004
NPR : Sex Education in Maine: Preventing Disease: "A new NPR/Kaiser/Kennedy School poll on sex education shows that while more than 90% of Americans approve of sex education in schools, they don't all agree on how it should be taught. In the first of a two-part series, NPR's Joseph Shapiro takes us to a comprehensive abstinence lecture at a school in Maine, and talks with students about their impressions of it."
Wednesday, January 28, 2004
Tijuana Bibles: "Tijuana Bibles were pornographic tracts popular in America before the advent of mass-market full-color glossy wank-fodder such as Playboy. A typical bible consisted of eight stapled comic-strip frames portraying characters and celebrities (eg. John Dillinger, Popeye, Disney characters) in wildly sodomistic situations. Many could be considered grossly racist, sexist, and otherwise wholly "politically incorrect." Browser discretion is advised."
In Online Auctions, Misspelling in Ads Often Spells Cash: "Such is the eBay underworld of misspellers, where the clueless — and sometimes just careless — sell labtop computers, throwing knifes, Art Deko vases, camras, comferters and saphires.
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They do get bidders, but rarely very many. Often the buyers are those who troll for spelling slip-ups, buying items on the cheap and selling them all over again on eBay, but with the right spelling and for the right price. John H. Green, a jeweler in Central Florida, is one of them."
Monday, January 26, 2004
FT.com Home US: "India's technology industry has attacked proposed new US legislation that bans the outsourcing of federal work to low cost countries arguing it is a protectionist measure contrary to the spirit of free trade."
Sunday, January 25, 2004
This Is Broken: "This Is Broken"
Thursday, January 22, 2004
PUERTO RICO HERALD: Hispanic AIDS-HIV Rates Troubling: "A statement from San Diego's Bi-National AIDS Advocacy Project blames 'the Latino community's ignorance with regard to AIDS, condom use and personal responsibility.' And Mr. Lemp said that many of the Hispanic AIDS victims are 'migrants who are in the country alone without family support and with a lot of unmet psycho-social and economic needs. It leads them to take risks.'"
homepage keeps changing - MCSE: "my homepage keeps changing ,it keeps coming up to {res://mshp.dll/index.html#22776}
no matter how many times i change it back to home page of my choice."
Tribe.net: Tribe Discussion: Atheists: "'The Blank Slate -- the Modern Denial of Human Nature' by Stephen Pinker."
Wednesday, January 21, 2004
Why Do Men Barbecue? -- Recipes for Cultural Psychology -- Richard A. Shweder: "Comparisons of cultures have become a trend throughout the social sciences. However, within anthropology, the discipline traditionally known for its study of culture, there are profound debates about this pursuit. In his opening chapter, Richard Shweder offers an insightful and helpful overview of the different schools of thought regarding the meaning and aims of the study of culture. For his own part, Shweder rejects the narrative of progress, which has seen a burst of popularity in recent years. More specifically, he challenges those who argue that the adoption of Western values leads to progress and freedom. Instead Shweder argues for what he terms a “postmodern humanism” or “romantic pluralism.” "
Marketplace Morning Report for January 21, 2004: "In last night's State of the Union address, the president emphasized new initiatives in domestic policy, including tax credits for health care coverage, increased job training, and a call to make the tax cuts he championed, permanent. But commentator Robert Reich says just talking about domestic issues doesn't pay for them. "
Connecting with Blogger: "With a little setup you can post to a Blogger weblog through email."
Tuesday, January 20, 2004
Consumption junction. Weird videos.
Monday, January 19, 2004
Installing and Starting MySQL: "Installing and Starting MySQL"
Holt Uncensored :: A Candid Look at Books and the Book Industry : Publishing News : Booksellers : Bookstores : Reviews Interviews: "So the following is a list I'll be referring to people *before* they submit anything in writing to anybody (me, agent, publisher, your mom, your boss). From email messages and front-page news in the New York Times to published books and magazine articles, the 10 ouchies listed here crop up everywhere. They're so pernicious that even respected Internet columnists are not immune."
Saturday, January 17, 2004
::: RIMPS :::: "RIMPS is a web-based frontend, written in PHP, to make Apache an MP3 and Ogg server. It's complete with searching, individual song playing, and playlist creation. Think: a personal mp3.com of your own MP3s, plus playlists! "
Crooked Timber: Books I Did Not Read This Year: "As 2003 draws to a close, it’s time for me to reflect on all of the great books I did not read this year."
Linux Links - The Linux Portal: Software/Multimedia/MP3/Tools/Scripts: "a small, fast and fairly functional group of scripts that will allow you to turn your Linux box with Apache/PHP/MySQL/aumix into a mp3 jukebox-type server "
BENTEN-Lolita No.18: "Lolita No.18's New site!"
????SG??????: "???Flash???"
Fast Company | The Wal-Mart You Don't Know: "In the end, of course, it is we as shoppers who have the power, and who have given that power to Wal-Mart. Part of Wal-Mart's dominance, part of its insight, and part of its arrogance, is that it presumes to speak for American shoppers."
Friday, January 16, 2004
Jesus is everywhere: "Jesus is Everywhere.
Sometimes,
we need a little help to see him.
IseeJesus.com provides assistance to you and your customers
to see the spirit all around us.
Our artists will come to your establishment to pray for creation.
Through their special prayer techniques,
a Holy Visage will be invoked and made visible for all to see!
What happens next is up to you."
IRC BIBLE: "The Bible. A book of many wonders. Only a few of them properly understood.
Which parts are true? Which parts are allegory? No-one really knows, as no-one was there at the scene.
Of course, centuries of theologians have pondered the meaning of it all, and the Dead Sea Scrolls gave us a glimpse of how it really was...
But, we never seemed to grasp the essence.
Some took the Scripture litterally, but wandered off from the spirit of the Words.
Others took the Book of Books with a grain of salt, yet lost touch with mere wonder of our Faith.
For centuries, humanity has been lost and wandering...
Till one day, early 2004, someone typed in the right words in the mother of all search engines...
And stumbled on to:
The original IRC logs to the bible.
Some of them have been put up on this website, while others are still being decrypted."
Thursday, January 15, 2004
Japanese Flash Movies: "03/03/13???????FLASH???????? "
Wednesday, January 14, 2004
USC Anthropology - Jay Hasbrouck: "1997a Summary of Gay Liberation or Gay Colonization?: Issues and Suggestions for the Global Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Movement. Anthropology Newsletter 38(2):38-39."
Repo Man Poll Results: "I think it quite clear that Repo Man fans favor post-apocalyptic neo-noir dystopias made by independent auteur directors. The favorite movies of those who like Repo Man (using my own point system based on total votes and first/second place mentions, and not including Repo Man which is obviously everyones favorite) are:"
December 7, 1995-Vol27n14: Grant funds language skills project: "At Binghamton, in an upper division history course entitled 'AIDS,' four students shared responsibility for a 60-minute presentation on AIDS in the Spanish-speaking world, based on readings they had done with the help of a Nicaraguan graduate student in sociology. The readings covered such areas as the spread of AIDS-causing HIV in the Spanish-speaking world; the cultural context for the spread of the virus in Latin America; how the intervention of the Roman Catholic church clerical community resulted in abandonment of some efforts to encourage the use of condoms; and a comparison of the success of the AIDS fight in Spain and Latin America."
Tuesday, January 13, 2004
Josh Nimoy @ ITP - BallDroppings: "BallDroppings is an addicting and noisy play-toy. It can also be seen as an emergence game. My brother Marc takes this software seriously as an audio-visual performance instrument. Balls fall from the top of the screen and bounce off the lines you are drawing with the mouse. The balls make a percussive and melodic sound, whose pitch depends on how fast the ball is moving when it hits the line."
A Movable Type Intranet: "Down at the hospital we are in the process of moving a huge portion of our intranet into Movable Type ? about 90%. This includes departmental sites, informational sites, applications and just about a bit of everything else."
Monday, January 12, 2004
MEXICO: Birth control: "Catholic bishops attacked her for advocating the use of condoms to prevent HIV infections, calling her comments 'depraved,' Agence France-Presse reported. Marta Sahagun called on Mexico's citizens to use condoms and to educate each other about safer sex. Two leading bishops denounced Sahagun for her comments. 'In fact, many millions of people are infected with AIDS because of the propaganda surrounding condoms,' said the bishop of Tlaxcala, Jacinto Guerrero. Under pressure from the Catholic Church, the political party headed by Sahagun's husband, President Vicente Fox, recently dropped language from its political platform calling for condom use to prevent HIV infection. The word 'condom' had previously appeared in the party's manifesto. "
2001_2_Mexico: human rights: "Mexico is classified as a country with overall low HIV prevalence, but with a high HIV prevalence and growth concentrated among sub-sectors of the population. An estimated 15% of men who have sex with men (MSM) and 6% of injecting drug users are HIV-infected. Within the overall adult population (15-49 years), however, the prevalence is 0.29%. The first case of AIDS in Mexico was diagnosed in 1983. By the end of 2000, Mexico had 47,617 officially registered HIV/AIDS cases. More realistic estimates put the total number of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) at 180,000."
AIDS and Anthropology: "The purpose of this seminar is to provide a broad base of information on HIV and AIDS using an anthropological perspective. An anthropological approach is useful for the study of the AIDS epidemic because it 1) focuses on the interactions between human biology and human behavior/culture, 2) draws attention to the importance of understanding the shared environment and evolutionary history of Homo sapiens with other primate species (for example, regarding the issue of the origins of HIV), and 3) utilizes detailed cross-cultural and ethnographic data obtained through fieldwork on human behavior and culture to understand what people do, how and why people do the things they do, and how educational, preventative, and curative measures might best be implemented to improve the health of both individuals and populations. In short, the biological, social, political, and personal factors associated with behavior and culture must all be considered in a comprehensive review of the AIDS epidemic."
About Yarmulkebra: "Inspired by the MC Paul Barman lyric, 'I couldn't stay calm because/ she revealed a bra made of two yarmulkes,' designer KS turns the fantasy into a reality. "
AARG Newsletter
Jennifer S. Hirsch
Emory University, Int. Health, Rollins Sch. of Public Health Work: (404) 727-4590
1518 Clifton Rd, NE, Dept of International Health Fax: (404) 727-4590
Atlanta, GA 30322 Home: (404) 523-8203
jshirsc@sph.emory.edu
Current Projects: Associate Director, Emory AIDS International Training and Research Project; working on AIDS and migration
(US – Mexico)
Key Areas: sexuality / Mexico / Latin America / training / migration
Aids and Anthropology Research Group: "The AIDS and Anthropology Research Group (AARG), an interest group of the Society for Medical Anthropology (SMA), is a network of scholars interested in anthropological research on HIV infection and AIDS. The mission of the AARG is to support anthropological research in the fight against HIV and AIDS."
Sunday, January 11, 2004
Street Children at High Risk of AIDS - Mexico City: "According to experts' estimates, as many as 7 percent of the
approximately 20,000 youngsters ages 13-17 who live on the
streets of Mexico City are HIV-infected. Ignorance, unprotected
sex, promiscuity and drug use are spreading the virus quickly
among this high-risk group. "
eatonweb portal ::: "this portal is a labor of love. it started back in early 1999 when there were less than 50 known weblogs-there were a lot more than that out there, they just hadn't been discovered. as more kept turning up or getting started, i kept adding them to my list. it's grown a little since then. "
Zaguan
Wednesday is Spanish conversation night. Every Wednesday at 7:00 PM, Fabiana Martinez, a licensed Spanish teacher, leads a Spanish conversation class. No enrollment is required. A $5 dollar fee per person, per class, applies.
Pholph's Scrabble Score Generator v1.0 :: "Pholph's Scrabble Score Generator v1.0
Enter your name, or whatever pleases you into the form box, to get its Scrabble score... Spaces, have no point value. No, you can't get triple word score, or even double letter score. And yes, while you can enter your name, technically, proper nouns are not valid scrabble words. Anything that is not a letter [a-zA-Z] or a space, will be ignored. "
Saturday, January 10, 2004
scriptygoddess: "Post to your MT blog by EMAIL!!"
NPR : Weekend Edition - Saturday for Saturday, January 10, 2004: "The latest novel by Chilean writer Arturo Fuguet is called Movies of My Life. It tells the story of one man's youth on two continents, through the memories evoked by popular films. Tom Vitale reports. "
Star Telegram | 01/06/2004 | Hey! Where's the problem?: "But a 13-year-old boy at Richland Middle School in Richland Hills was suspended for three days in December because he sent that simple message to every computer in the school using an archaic form of instant messaging. The software was created years ago in the old disk operating system used in earlier versions of personal computers.
But more troubling is the notion that Sweeney does not believe that the rest of us have any right to question the decisions made by public educators."
How to Deconstruct Almost Anything: "So, what are we to make of all this? I earlier stated that my quest was to learn if there was any content to this stuff and if it was or was not bogus. Well, my assessment is that there is indeed some content, much of it interesting. The question of bogosity, however, is a little more difficult. It is clear that the forms used by academicians writing in this area go right off the bogosity scale, pegging my bogometer until it breaks. The quality of the actual analysis of various literary works varies tremendously and must be judged on a case-by-case basis, but I find most of it highly questionable. Buried in the muck, however, are a set of important and interesting ideas: that in reading a work it is illuminating to consider the contrast between what is said and what is not said, between what is explicit and what is assumed, and that popular notions of truth and value depend to a disturbingly high degree on the reader's credulity and willingness to accept the text's own claims as to its validity. "
The Brazos GLBT Oral History Project: "The Brazos GLBT Oral History Project is an effort to establish a resource of recorded and transcribed experiences that reflect the rich gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender history in the Bryan-College Station, TX, area."
Friday, January 09, 2004
Why I Hate Personal Weblogs: "Weblogs suck ass. What the fuck is up with this shit? Fuck. Who the fuck cares what these people think about oatmeal or what the UN did last week? Nobody! Who reads these weblogs? Nobody! Maybe fellow weblog authors read each others weblogs out of a sense of desperation...the feeling that if they read someone else's weblog, someone will read theirs. It's kindof like cooperative advertising too, people will cross-post, linking weblog entries to each other's weblogs. How fucking pathetic is that? I hate weblogs. There are so few reasons to keep a weblog, and so many of these are fucking stupid while so few of them are legitimately non-brainfucked. The problem of course, is people. In general, people are fucking stupid, so many of the things they do are fucking stupid. I fucking hate weblogs, they are so fucking stupid. "
Thursday, January 08, 2004
NEUROSURGERY://ON-CALL® Hydrocephalus: "Hydrocephalus can be treated in many ways. The problem can be treated directly (by removing the cause of CSF obstruction or overproduction if one can be found) or indirectly (by diverting the fluid buildup to somewhere else, typically into another body cavity by implanting a device known as a shunt that can divert the excess CSF away from the brain). The place into which the CSF is diverted is usually the peritoneal cavity (the area surrounding the abdominal organs). "
Wednesday, January 07, 2004
FAQ -: "The search services at our Vivísimo.com home page are a showcase demonstration of our document clustering technology, as applied to web search. No database of web pages are stored there, since we do not crawl or index the web ourselves. The meta-search service at our home page organizes the outputs of other search engines: URLs, titles, and short descriptions. It is more properly seen as a clustering engine."
Fontifier: "Fontifier lets you use your own handwriting for the text you write on your computer.
It turns a scanned sample of your handwriting into a computer font that you can use
in your word processor or graphics program, just like regular fonts such as Helvetica."
BBC Radio 1 - John Peel - Tracklistings
Androgyn - 'Bring on the Hurricane Pain - Network rmx - (LP- Drug)
Skill)' (Deathchant) @ 18:30
Monday, January 05, 2004
Fandango – Browse for movie listings: "Against the background of an Australian desert landscape, Sandy, a geologist, and Hiromitsu, a Japanese businessman, play out a story of human inconsequence in the face of blistering universe. The end of the journey leaves no-one capable of going back to where they started from."
Illinois Conservative Politics: "Search Results for 'atheist'"
Sunday, January 04, 2004
Text-to-Graphics Primer: "Converting a Textual Hierarchy to GraphicsIf you would like to convert an entire design hierarchy, or tree, of textual VHDL intographical units, Visual HDL will convert each subdesign into whichever graphical abstraction ismost appropriate using the Options->VHDL-to-Graphics->Tree menu of the primarywindow."
Saturday, January 03, 2004
Newsday.com - Corporate Challenge: "In at least 11 reported cases in the 1990s, Cracker Barrel fired workers for being homosexual, sometimes issuing pink slips that flat-out stated, 'Employee is gay.' Management even circulated a memo once reminding all Cracker Barrel employees that they must exhibit 'normal, heterosexual values' to keep their jobs."
PLINK - People Link: "Welcome to PLINK, a new way to find friends, and friends of friends! "
Thursday, January 01, 2004
Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual Liberation: why the working class? :: Alliance for Workers' Liberty :: For international working class solidarity and socialism.: "Much of this is about what happens when working people struggle. Take as an example the 1984/85 miners’ strike. Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) organised support for the strikers, holding collections around gay venues and taking pink minibuses to picket lines. Miners responded to this solidarity by championing lesbian and gay rights within the Labour Party and TUC, and by taking their banners to Pride."
