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Gigablast Launches Lovely Lovely Topic
Search Tool

Gigablast Launches Lovely Lovely Topic
Search Tool 12/22/2004 01:27 AM
Oh small search engines, I heart you. The other major searches engines seems to do things in big clumps, all launching the same types of features and software at the...

Ambient Weather® and Weather
Underground® Launch World's Largest Free
Personal Weather Station Network

Ambient Weather® and Weather
Underground® Launch World's Largest Free
Personal Weather Station Network 07/20/2004 02:44 AM
New Weather Exchange Windows Desktop PC application utilizes exclusive live personal weather station network to provide up to the minute worldwide weather conditions. The free desktop application is available at http://www.AmbientWeather.com . [PRWEB Jul 20, 2004]

Air2Web And The Weather Channel Develop
New Mobile Weather Application

Air2Web And The Weather Channel Develop
New Mobile Weather Application 07/27/2004 05:59 AM
Space Daily Jul 27 2004 8:53AM GMT

Lovely Arlington, MA

Lovely Arlington, MA 05/21/2004 02:18 PM
I hate my dumbass town. Come for the ennui, stay for the police logs.

Farewell, my lovely...

Farewell, my lovely... 12/05/2003 11:27 AM

And so with a deep sigh I have consigned my beautiful Powerbook (which has been with me a such a very little time) back to the welcoming arms of Mother Apple. My child needs to be fixed. The strange mottling blotchiness of his screen had become worse and worse as the days passed by until they resembled nothing so much as a pair of staring blank eyes - evil eyes - that hovered in front of every piece of work I did, every movie I watched, every e-mail I sent. It's so difficult with beautiful computers - you love them (like a child), training and working with them until you operate as one (like a family) until eventually they betray you (like a child all over again). But when they turn sour that good feeling stays with you for longer - it's so difficult to do what must be done but do it you must. They must be sent off to faraway scientists who'll open them up with strange devices, rooting around in everything that makes them what they are and forcing their silicon biology back to standards that their parents can live with. They must be brought back to civilised behaviour whatever the cost.

Data may be lost - I accept that. The Powerbook that I gave to the rather nice-looking man from UPS may not feel or be quite the same when it returns. It will have been changed, fixed, broken and reformed. But when it returns it will work - and work it must - for I have typing to do.

A lovely article on Gaydar...

A lovely article on Gaydar... 12/08/2003 09:17 AM

There is a quite charming article on the Independent's site today - Confessions of a Gaydar junkie - which is about one of the world's most successful (and mostly unsung) pieces of social software: Gaydar. Like most truly dedicated social software enthusiasts, I have - of course - forced myself to investigate the service, although with a certain amount of disappointment and embarrassment I feel compelled to confess that I've never actually met anyone off it. I suppose that means that my dedication to the cause of computer-mediated social interaction has some limits. Either that or I'm too embarrassed.

Anyway, the article is particularly good value, which I suppose you might expect since Mark Simpson wrote it. Mark - you will recall - wrote the rather irritating/insightful book Anti-Gay. He writes of his experiences:

"Moralists who protest at gay e-promiscuity should be encouraging the Government to provide gays with grants for permanent broadband connections, since the internet not only keeps them off the streets and out of the parks, it turns all that messy sexual energy and appetite into ... typing. Gays have become the unpaid secretaries of desire, filing and cataloguing human weakness. Promiscuity is now a form of bureaucracy. Tedious, eye-straining, number-crunching slave work. Don't bother feeling jealous, all you sexually frustrated, non-online non-gays: internet cruising is its own form of punishment."

Well obviously, I'm not really into a position to comment on all that stuff, being at least as inadequate at pulling on a site dedicated to the process as I appear to be in real-life (is it the beard, do you think?). But there are some other aspects to the piece which I think are interesting in terms of the relationship between the internet as a place for social interaction and as a means unto itself. I'll give you an example to end with - which although perhaps presented in rather absolutist terms is certainly entertaining enough to be worth reporting as fact:

"You see, the real efficiency of online dating, just as with internet anything, is not the way it delivers you lots of pointless sex without leaving the house, but the way that it ensures that you will be spending more time on the internet."

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Locusts swarm over Mauritania

Locusts swarm over Mauritania 08/05/2004 04:04 PM

Locusts top Maghreb agenda

Locusts top Maghreb agenda 06/25/2004 05:41 AM
The five nations which make up the Maghreb Arab Union meet to discuss a massive locust invasion.

The triumph of fringe science

The triumph of fringe science 09/12/2004 11:59 PM
Salon Sep 13 2004 4:10AM GMT

Avon Delivers Lovely Results

Avon Delivers Lovely Results 07/29/2004 04:49 PM
The cosmetics seller reports beautiful second-quarter results.

Locusts ravage northern Nigeria

Locusts ravage northern Nigeria 08/19/2004 09:43 AM
The locusts swarming across West Africa reach northern Nigeria, devastating fields of crops.

Locusts eat football pitch (Reuters)

Locusts eat football pitch (Reuters) 08/04/2004 08:40 PM
Reuters - A massive locust swarm swept into the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott, devouring trees, bushes and parts of the city's main soccer pitch, residents say.

Africa declares 'war' on locusts

Africa declares 'war' on locusts 09/01/2004 12:20 AM
African ministers in Senegal agree to mobilise their armed forces in a campaign against crop-ravaging locusts.

The lovely Julia Whitney [Flickr]

The lovely Julia Whitney [Flickr] 12/17/2004 06:42 PM

Will milk defeat the locusts? (Reuters)

Will milk defeat the locusts? (Reuters) 08/27/2004 01:59 PM
Reuters - Senegal's farmers must give boiled cereal mixed with curdled milk to the poor and bury blessed plant roots in the ground to avoid their crops being ravaged by locusts, traditional clairvoyants say.

Capture Locusts and Win Rice (Reuters)

Capture Locusts and Win Rice (Reuters) 08/30/2004 09:54 AM
Reuters - A radio station in Senegal is offering listeners a 110-pound sack of rice if they can catch and kill 110 pounds of locusts, another new tactic in West Africa's battle against the airborne invasion.

Chad seeks help to tackle locusts

Chad seeks help to tackle locusts 08/11/2004 06:26 AM
Chad appeals for international aid after locust swarms arrive exposing the population to the threat of famine.

Justin Mason: Lovely Filelight

Justin Mason: Lovely Filelight 02/10/2004 02:53 AM
This looks like a cool way to find out where your space went:...

Ticket sales up as Fringe closes

Ticket sales up as Fringe closes 08/31/2004 07:45 AM
The Edinburgh Fringe Festival ends by reporting a 5% rise in ticket sales despite poor weather.

Locusts invade Mauritania capital

Locusts invade Mauritania capital 08/05/2004 04:58 AM
A swarm of locusts descends on Mauritania's capital, Nouakchott, destroying crops in their wake.

Fight Locusts with Milk, Soothsayers Say
(Reuters)

Fight Locusts with Milk, Soothsayers Say
(Reuters) 08/27/2004 01:59 PM
Reuters - Senegal's farmers must give boiled cereal mixed with curdled milk to the poor and bury blessed plant roots in the ground to avoid their crops being ravaged by locusts, traditional clairvoyants say.

Researchers Toil With Genes on the
Fringe of a Cure

Researchers Toil With Genes on the
Fringe of a Cure 03/22/2005 03:22 PM
Dr. Huda Y. Zoghbi discusses her research on neurological diseases and the challenges of being a woman scientist.

The Eerily Lovely Children of the
Photoshop Generation

The Eerily Lovely Children of the
Photoshop Generation 03/06/2004 01:53 AM
Loretta Lux, a 34-year-old German artist, has realized that a light touch is sometimes the most effective technique for digital enhancement.

Locusts invade "Passion of Christ" town
(Reuters)

Locusts invade "Passion of Christ" town
(Reuters) 08/27/2004 02:00 PM
Reuters - It seemed like an invasion of Biblical proportions in the Italian town of Matera, the outdoor setting for Mel Gibson's film "The Passion of The Christ".

"100th Carnival of the Vanities
Celebracion at the Fringe bl0g"

"100th Carnival of the Vanities
Celebracion at the Fringe bl0g" 08/18/2004 08:34 PM

If the meek don't inherit the earth,
they'll at least get a say in a fringe
party's platform!

If the meek don't inherit the earth,
they'll at least get a say in a fringe
party's platform! 04/23/2004 08:34 PM
The Green Party of Canada's living platform is their party platform... in Wiki form! It seems that only party members are able to participate in the Wiki, but the rest of us are still able to rank a plank and vote for their platform's priorities in the next election. Once the election date is set, party administrators will form the input into some sort of rough fixed platform, but until then, it's "what real democracy looks like".

Internet sex addict show sets out to
shock the Fringe

Internet sex addict show sets out to
shock the Fringe 08/08/2004 07:24 PM
Guardian Unlimited Aug 8 2004 11:19PM GMT

Full-bodied, with a long finish and a
lovely glow

Full-bodied, with a long finish and a
lovely glow 06/22/2005 02:20 AM
Here's a problem we don't have in the wine country where we live: Chernobyl fallout levels can date wine. By measuring levels of Cesium-137 left over from Russian atmospheric nuclear tests and the Chernobyl accident, the wine's vintage can be...

* Islam's radical fringe vents
frustration on the Internet

* Islam's radical fringe vents
frustration on the Internet 06/15/2004 05:13 AM
Taipeitimes.com - Tue Jun 15, 08:48 am GMT

Dean Is Back, and Not on the Fringe,
Either; Studies the Right for Lessons On
How to Better Organize the Left 6/8

Dean Is Back, and Not on the Fringe,
Either; Studies the Right for Lessons On
How to Better Organize the Left 6/8 06/08/2004 05:47 AM
Wall Street Journal .. features

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Taking a Perfectly Lovely Piano and
Fine-Tuning Its Personality

Taking a Perfectly Lovely Piano and
Fine-Tuning Its Personality 02/17/2004 08:20 AM
A lot is riding on Bruce Campbell. A tone regulator at the Steinway & Sons factory in Queens, his job is to develop the personality of the No. K0862 piano.

"Howie Dean is moving right after
securing the support of the Atrios
fringe"

"Howie Dean is moving right after
securing the support of the Atrios
fringe" 11/04/2003 04:10 AM

PITCOM announces dates for Party
Conference fringe meetings

PITCOM announces dates for Party
Conference fringe meetings 08/23/2004 02:48 AM
PublicTechnology.net Aug 23 2004 7:22AM GMT

The 'Singularity' of the nerds Fringe
group of computer programmers push
toward a superhuman artificial intell

The 'Singularity' of the nerds Fringe
group of computer programmers push
toward a superhuman artificial intell 01/11/2004 07:56 AM
San Francisco Chronicle Jan 11 2004 5:52AM ET

Rain Rain Go Away

Rain Rain Go Away 02/22/2003 11:26 AM
Last weekend it was snow, this weekend it is rain, what's next? Hail? Hopefully, after all the flooding that'll come about, we'll have a rather

Rain, Rain, Go Away

Rain, Rain, Go Away 10/28/2003 11:08 PM
Today's event in Madison Square Park is moving due to rain. We'll be at the Push Cafe, at 294 3rd...

Bah the rain

Bah the rain 05/08/2004 08:10 PM
Ahhh Spanish Project on Nicaragua....on of the coaches at YRSA, her husband is from Nicaragua...so I gave Eva a letter...

poppin in the rain

poppin in the rain 02/01/2005 09:59 PM
singing in the rain, as interpreted by david "elsewhere" bernal . Also discussed here.

blame it on the rain

blame it on the rain 03/15/2003 04:43 AM
yoiks! Hmm, although this kinda dampens the weekend plans, this also means some good snow is in the works in...
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