Oddball Talents Absent From Miss America (AP)

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Miss Alabama Crowned Miss America, Wins
$50,000

Miss Alabama Crowned Miss America, Wins
$50,000 09/19/2004 01:26 PM
Reuters via Wired News Sep 19 2004 4:39PM GMT

Miss Alabama Crowned Miss America

Miss Alabama Crowned Miss America 09/19/2004 01:26 PM
Reuters via Wired News Sep 19 2004 4:39PM GMT

Miss Alabama Crowned Miss America (AP)

Miss Alabama Crowned Miss America (AP) 09/18/2004 10:18 PM
AP - Miss Alabama Deidre Downs, an aspiring doctor who put off medical school to compete for the Miss America crown, won it Saturday night.

Miss America

Miss America 02/01/2005 09:07 PM
If I were Vanessa Williams, I think I'd be damned bitter about Paris Hilton's popularity....

Gimmicks Can't Help Miss America Ratings
(AP)

Gimmicks Can't Help Miss America Ratings
(AP) 09/21/2004 05:00 PM
AP - Skimpy swimsuits, a shortened telecast and a last-woman-standing talent competition couldn't help Miss America's TV ratings. A record-low 9.8 million people watched Saturday's pageant, about 500,000 fewer than last year, continuing a trend that threatens the event's future on network television.

Miss America to show more skin (Reuters)

Miss America to show more skin (Reuters) 09/16/2004 03:34 PM
Reuters - The pretty young women battling to become Miss America may have college degrees, artistic talent, and high-minded ideals -- but they're also showing more skin than ever before.

Miss America Seeks Comeback in Reality
TV Era

Miss America Seeks Comeback in Reality
TV Era 04/09/2005 12:19 AM
Pageant executives are considering turning the event into a multinight elimination, something like "American Idol" on Fox.

ABC News' oddball election analysis

ABC News' oddball election analysis 08/31/2004 01:40 PM
ABC News makes some sweeping assumptions today about the presidential race based on the most recent ABC News/Washington Post polling data. ABC's bold conclusion -- ricocheting around the media echo chamber -- that President Bush made clear gains last month, is somewhat baffling considering the poll shows Bush actually lost some ground over the last 30 days. According to the data, the race today stands at a dead heat, 48-48. Yet during the survey ending July 25, Bush held a four-point lead, 50-46.

Trading Talents Instead Of Cash

Trading Talents Instead Of Cash 07/26/2004 03:32 AM
If you ever study alternative economies, "barter economies" or local currencies designed to stimulate the local economy, it's likely that you've come across Ithaca Hours at some point or another. Designed as a way to help build up the local economy in the small city of Ithaca, NY, it was basically a barter system that let local merchants easily manage trade with each other, without involving government sanctioned currency. The system got plenty of hype and has been copied around the world (often with help from those who created Ithaca Hours). It appears that the concept has clearly made its way to South Africa, with an internet twist. According to this article (which doesn't mention Ithaca Hours at all), South Africans are using an online bartering system involving "talents" which are priced per hour, and function quite like Ithaca Hours. The article even quotes someone who claims to have "retired from the conventional money system," and who won't go anyplace that doesn't accept "talents" as payment.

Miss Ireland Crowned Miss World in China

Miss Ireland Crowned Miss World in China 12/06/2003 02:15 PM
Reuters via Wired News Dec 6 2003 12:32PM ET

Miss Ireland Wins Miss World in China

Miss Ireland Wins Miss World in China 12/06/2003 02:15 PM
Reuters via Wired News Dec 6 2003 12:32PM ET

Miss Australia Wins Miss Universe
Pageant (AP)

Miss Australia Wins Miss Universe
Pageant (AP) 06/01/2004 11:17 PM
AP - A 20-year-old Australian involved in modeling and dancing won the Miss Universe title Tuesday night in a two-hour pageant watched by television viewers around the world.

Miss Ireland Is Crowned Miss World in
China

Miss Ireland Is Crowned Miss World in
China 12/06/2003 07:57 PM
Reuters via Wired News Dec 6 2003 6:40PM ET

Feisty Developer and His Oddball Inn
Stood Apart (Los Angeles Times)

Feisty Developer and His Oddball Inn
Stood Apart (Los Angeles Times) 04/23/2004 05:34 AM
Los Angeles Times - SAN LUIS OBISPO — In Alex Madonna's world, nothing succeeded quite like excess. His motto was "go whole hog," and he did just that in designing one of the world's most eccentric hotels, with its Pepto-Bismol-pink color scheme and jaw-dropping waterfall urinal in the men's room that drew tittering tourists with cameras.

Miss Missouri crowned Miss USA 2004

Miss Missouri crowned Miss USA 2004 04/13/2004 11:22 AM

The Absent Yet Present Link

The Absent Yet Present Link 08/14/2002 06:28 PM
Kendall Clark covers the ongoing fallout from the absence of XLink in the first public draft of XHTML 2.0.

The absent yet present link (XML.com)

The absent yet present link (XML.com) 08/16/2002 11:06 AM

Apple to be absent from CES 2005

Apple to be absent from CES 2005 01/03/2005 12:05 PM
Apple will not be attending this year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES), which starts on Thursday in Las Vegas...

Presence? Mark Me Absent

Presence? Mark Me Absent 06/24/2005 04:47 PM
Microsoft is leading the charge to make 'presence' ever-present, and not just in instant-messaging. But is presence really progress?

TJ's Webl0g - "Technology, Venture
Capital and Entrepreneurship" - Looking
for web design talents

TJ's Webl0g - "Technology, Venture
Capital and Entrepreneurship" - Looking
for web design talents 04/12/2005 05:55 AM
Carnival of the Capitalists .. week's edition .. TJ's Weblog

tjacobi.com/archives/carnival_of_the_capitalists_edition_0410 05.html
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Apple absent from Digital Living Network
Alliance

Apple absent from Digital Living Network
Alliance 06/22/2004 11:33 PM
The Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) has released its first specification to "define the design principles necessary to move content (movies, music and other media) from one consumer electronics, personal computer or mobile product to another in a wired or wireless home network."...

Frederick LeeVic Hand Introduces Leevic
Models & Entertainment - The Hot New
Producer is Combining His Three Talents
to Produce the Hottest Shows Ever

Frederick LeeVic Hand Introduces Leevic
Models & Entertainment - The Hot New
Producer is Combining His Three Talents
to Produce the Hottest Shows Ever 03/31/2005 12:02 AM
Leevic, is a company based on producing the hottest talent and fashion shows around. If you have a entertainment event in development. Frederick says: don't get caught,on stage out of sight. Come to Leevic! www.Leevic.com [PRWEB Mar 30, 2005]

"Dean for America: Fulfilling the
Promise of America: Meeting The Security
Challenges of the New Cent"

"Dean for America: Fulfilling the
Promise of America: Meeting The Security
Challenges of the New Cent" 12/17/2003 02:36 AM

"Fulfilling America?s Promise: Building
a Safer World and a More Hopeful America
"

"Fulfilling America?s Promise: Building
a Safer World and a More Hopeful America
" 08/30/2004 09:06 PM

Blog for America : Fulfilling the
Promise of America: Meeting The
Security Challenges of the New Century |
December 15, 2003

Blog for America : Fulfilling the
Promise of America: Meeting The
Security Challenges of the New Century |
December 15, 2003 12/16/2003 05:30 AM
Fulfilling the Promise of America: Meeting The Security Challenges of the New Century .. Howard Dean's foreign policy agenda .. full text

blog.deanforamerica.com/archives/002698.html
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2004 U.S. Women's Olympic Gymnastics
Team Members to Appear on “Waking Up in
America” on Voice America Radio

2004 U.S. Women's Olympic Gymnastics
Team Members to Appear on “Waking Up in
America” on Voice America Radio 09/08/2004 02:15 PM
Three members of the 2004 US Gymnastics Team join host Dr. Valerie Kirkgaard and editor Gail Elen on “Waking up in America” at 12:00 p.m. Pacific Time (3 p.m. Eastern Time) on voiceamerica.com. [PRWEB Sep 8, 2004]

America Online Latin America running low
on cash; may shut down

America Online Latin America running low
on cash; may shut down 03/24/2005 08:13 AM
Thedailycamera.com - Thu Mar 24, 09:19 am GMT

Dean for America: Vote on your Ad for
America

Dean for America: Vote on your Ad for
America 02/10/2004 02:50 AM
Howard Dean Switch Ads .. three different TV ads .. pick a commerical .. has cribbed

commons.deanforamerica.com/vote.php
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I'll miss you, OBJ

I'll miss you, OBJ 06/05/2005 10:50 PM

RIP: OBJ

He was my favo rite jaz z per former. I've seen lots of the greats before they died but his shows were always something special.

Who do you miss?

Who do you miss? 06/02/2004 03:23 PM
Harrison became president in 1841. He was in Washington on March 4, 1841. He was 67 years old when he was president. Harrison died in April 4, 1841. He died in office. That was William Henry Harrison. I miss William Henry Harrison. He would make a good President or delegate today. I think he should be on all dollars.

Hit-and-miss Driv3r

Hit-and-miss Driv3r 07/05/2004 04:21 AM
Arriving after a pre-release marketing campaign like no other, the third episode of the Driver series has plenty to live up to.

it's the little things i miss.

it's the little things i miss. 06/04/2004 05:23 PM
it's the little things i miss. After trying to download a plug in through firefox i had a complete computer crash. not even talking about the years of work, images, music, research-- (still in shock and denial phase)-- ahem-- it's the little things i miss, like my millions of bookmarks, work and pure subversive fun. lots like the baby jesus butt plug are gone forever, but as i got so many from you, lovely, wide ranging, all topic sprawling metafilter, help a recall damaged, traumatized gal out? give me your wacky, absurbed and heartfelt, human endeavor, holistic and achingly funny-- prove that the monkey represents sharing?

Blinkx and You Won't Miss It

Blinkx and You Won't Miss It 07/15/2004 03:38 PM

Miss manners

Miss manners 07/15/2004 08:26 AM
Is it OK to correct my boyfriend when he's crude?

We're going to miss you Helmut

We're going to miss you Helmut 01/24/2004 03:32 AM

Helmut Newton, Who Remade Fashion Photography, Dies at 83 - NYT

I first met Helmut and his wife at Timothy Leary's house. Tim and Helmut were good friends. (I guess that would mean that Tim would be 83 if he were alive now...) They were the same age and even wore the same tennis shoes. I remember Helmut and as a funny and really cool guy.

When I was working on Indian Runner, we asked him to do some of the photography for the movie and I remember hanging out with him in Omaha, Nebraska where we were shooting the film. I remember helping him find "corn-fed beauties of the Midwest" during his free time. He had this amazing talent for making women feel beautiful and capturing this on film.

I had always loved landscape photography since I was a child, but Helmut was the one who got me interested in portraits and helped me appreciate the amazing talent required to take portraits.

I'm going to miss you Helmut. Say hi to Tim for me if you see him.

Miss Deja Vu

Miss Deja Vu 06/30/2004 06:09 PM
Here She Is, Miss Deja Vu (and Miss Illinois) Michelle LaGroue, 2004. Also Miss Illinois in 2002 (she was First Runner Up and assumed the crown when Erika Harold won Miss America). I know nothing of the world of pageants, but this seems way bigger than that whole 'president of beers' thing. Is Rachna Khatau mad about comming in First Runner Up? "No way. I've had a smile on my face the past two days." BTW, the most notable former Miss Illinois lately is Jeri Lynn Zimmerman, 1989, but now better known as Jeri Ryan. Yup, that Jeri Ryan.

Little Miss Attila: R-E-S-P-E-C-T

Little Miss Attila: R-E-S-P-E-C-T 08/28/2004 05:10 PM
Little Miss Attila has more on the story .. R-E-S-P-E-C-T

littlemissattila.mu.nu/archives/042975.php
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Ciena: That's Not A Miss

Ciena: That's Not A Miss 08/04/2004 04:59 PM
Miss by a penny? Nah, that's for wimps. Let's miss revenue targets by 20%.

NHS may miss out on EU migrants

NHS may miss out on EU migrants 04/18/2004 05:42 AM
The recruitment of badly-needed health workers from new EU countries could be delayed, say regulators.
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