Mysteries of San Andreas Fault Are Explored by a Drill

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New Era For San Andreas Fault?

New Era For San Andreas Fault? 04/15/2004 06:32 AM
CBS News Apr 15 2004 10:57AM GMT

AMD nForce3 150 memory timings explored

AMD nForce3 150 memory timings explored 04/15/2004 01:10 PM

Changes in U.S. Iraq Plan Explored
(washingtonpost.com)

Changes in U.S. Iraq Plan Explored
(washingtonpost.com) 01/24/2004 11:44 PM
washingtonpost.com - The Bush administration has produced a list of possible changes for Iraq's political transition, with some U.S. and British officials acknowledging for the first time that the original plan could even be scrapped altogether if the United States is to preempt the growing clamor for elections.

AMD nForce2 Memory Timings Explored

AMD nForce2 Memory Timings Explored 01/04/2004 12:02 PM

Success of Dell's supply chain explored

Success of Dell's supply chain explored 09/24/2004 11:33 PM
China Post Sep 25 2004 3:41AM GMT

High-tech tracking system explored

High-tech tracking system explored 12/26/2003 05:25 PM
Canadian Press via Canada.com Dec 26 2003 5:09PM ET

drill 0.9.1

drill 0.9.1 01/06/2005 07:14 AM
A DNS/DNSSEC query tool.

Time Travel Basics being explored at a
european Project

Time Travel Basics being explored at a
european Project 12/27/2004 07:15 AM

Mysteries of the Milky Way

Mysteries of the Milky Way 07/23/2004 02:49 AM

Ten Mysteries of about:config

Ten Mysteries of about:config 04/07/2005 10:59 PM

Move along, nothing to see here. Some Firefox preferences are just too technical for end users. Oh, you're a Linux Journal reader? Come on in.

Fire Drill...my ass...

Fire Drill...my ass... 12/02/2003 01:26 AM
I've got quote of the day materal!! "You know, he really seems to be like a Geography teacher with all...

Inside the Mind of the Searcher Part II:
Search Behavior Explored

Inside the Mind of the Searcher Part II:
Search Behavior Explored 06/29/2004 10:47 AM
Source: Search Engine Guide - Search marketers have to step back from our obsession with tactics and look at the bigger strategic picture. We have to understand behaviors of our target customers. We have to fully explore the nature of...

Mysteries of the Ocean Deepen

Mysteries of the Ocean Deepen 08/06/2004 04:39 AM
A two-month survey of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge turns up several organisms never before seen, and one that looks like no other known sea creature. By Stephen Leahy.

Amazon wish list mysteries

Amazon wish list mysteries 01/07/2004 05:43 PM
I checked my Amazon wish list the other day and discovered that lots of items have been purchased but I haven't received them. Have they been sent to me? Or have people ordered items for themselves off my wish list? Who knows?

While I love the wish list feature, I wish it worked better. Whenever an item is ordered from my wish list, whether it's sent to me or to someone else, it's flagged as purchased, meaning that to future list browsers it looks like I've already received it. But in some cases, I haven't. So I have to delete the item from my wish list and add it again so that it won't appear purchased.

Problem #2 is Amazon's privacy policy, which is so strict that I cannot get any information about these purchases, not even vague info like, "did the items get shipped to any of the addresses associated with my account?" So now I don't know if a) someone sent me something that never arrived, or b) bought something for his/herself off my list. While I understand the need for a stern policy, it seems a bit extreme.

I would like to see Amazon re-evaluate the wish list feature (and privacy policy) with some additional scenarios:

• An item is bought from my wish list but not shipped to any of my wish list addresses
• An item is purchased by a "stranger" for another "stranger"

In the first instance, it would be nice if the item didn't get flagged as purchased. The "stranger" instance is trickier. It appears that Amazon assumes a certain level of communication between giver and receiver, so that if a gift is sent but not acknowledged, the giver will be alerted that something is amiss and can rectify the situation. But in the 21st century gift economy/weblog world, that's not always the situation. Someone who I don't know could very well send me something. I, not knowing to expect a gift, do nothing when I don't receive it. The giver, hearing nothing from me in response (either through email or via a message on my site), assumes I'm a total ingrate jerk face, turns bitter, and stops reading my site. But I'm not an ingrate jerk face! I don't want to be an ingrate jerk face!

So to get to the bottom of this mystery the only way I know how, here's a list of the MIA wish list items:

• Invisible Frontier: Exploring the Tunnels, Ruins, and Rooftops of Hidden New York by L.B. Deyo
• Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt
• New Ideas from Dead Economists: An Introduction to Modern Economic Thought by Todd G. Buchholz
• Deep Play by Diane Ackerman
• Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players by Stefan Fatsis
• The Cook and the Gardener: A Year of Recipes and Writings for the French Countryside by Amanda Hesser
• The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup: My Encounters with Extraordinary People by Susan Orlean

If you bought any of the following items for me (and it wasn't really recent as a Christmas present that maybe just hasn't arrived), could you please contact Amazon and tell them the package never arrived? And let me know as well. Thanks.

New Drill for Tomorrow's Dentists

New Drill for Tomorrow's Dentists 05/19/2004 04:42 AM
The dentist office of the future will not emit the squirm-inducing whir of a drill, nor will tomorrow's tooth doctors wield Novocain needles. Instead, patients will grow replacement teeth and vaccines will keep cavities at bay. By Kristen Philipkoski.

Eurotunnel drill sold on eBay

Eurotunnel drill sold on eBay 04/12/2004 02:05 PM
A drill used to build the Channel Tunnel is auctioned for Ł39,999 after hoax bids tried to push the price into the millions.

Crews set for major terror drill

Crews set for major terror drill 07/17/2004 10:50 PM
Thousands of emergency workers will take part in a simulated terror attack in the West Midlands to test the services' reactions.

80 Sirens Wailing, but Do Not Panic:
This Is Only a Drill

80 Sirens Wailing, but Do Not Panic:
This Is Only a Drill 07/29/2004 11:55 AM
Recent police drills involving as many as 80 police cars converging on a block may be impressive, but they are also deadly serious.

Terror drill tests US hospitals

Terror drill tests US hospitals 04/05/2005 02:48 PM
Attention switches to how hospitals cope with casualties as the US' biggest ever terror drill continues.

Man builds machine gun out of a power
drill

Man builds machine gun out of a power
drill 02/01/2005 09:48 PM
Ten points for ingenuity - zero points for common sense:

(Click here to see the gun in action - 4.3 MBytes MPEG-PS. Quicktime does not seem to understand it, but VLC and MPlayer seem to work well. I have no idea who owns the copyright on this (a good reason to embed, say, a CC license to your files), but I'll take it off if someone asks.)

Mysteries of Microsoft's Licensing
Puzzle

Mysteries of Microsoft's Licensing
Puzzle 03/20/2003 01:05 PM
When Microsoft finally closed the door on its previous licensing structure and opened another one on a new pricing scheme, the move represented a significant change in how Microsoft sells software. Traditionally, companies paid a one-time licensing fee. Now, businesses must pay regular installments in exchange for the privilege of performing regular upgrades.

GTA - San Andreas Looks to be Next

GTA - San Andreas Looks to be Next 01/09/2004 10:12 PM
Slashdot Jan 8 2004 10:24PM ET

Dell and Broadcom partnership explored,
alongside a cavalcade of chipmaker
announcements at 802.11 Planet

Dell and Broadcom partnership explored,
alongside a cavalcade of chipmaker
announcements at 802.11 Planet 03/13/2003 10:15 AM

Dell and Broadcom partnership explored, alongside a cavalcade of chipmaker announcements at 802.11 Planet: A great round-up of several chipmakers recent announcements, including the Dell/Broadcom one. This story at e-insight doesn't quite explain that the Dell Latitude will use Centrino by default. Read Dell's press release for the clear statement.

Smart telescopes probe galactic
mysteries

Smart telescopes probe galactic
mysteries 09/17/2004 04:37 AM
Wherefore art thou, gamma ray bursters?

Key to solar mysteries crashes into Utah
desert

Key to solar mysteries crashes into Utah
desert 09/09/2004 10:46 AM
globetechnology.com Sep 9 2004 2:14PM GMT

Some Blend In, Others Dazzle: The
Mysteries of Animal Colors

Some Blend In, Others Dazzle: The
Mysteries of Animal Colors 07/20/2004 02:51 AM
Only recently have scientists begun to take the full measure and meaning of animal color.

Taiwan holds rare military drill

Taiwan holds rare military drill 07/20/2004 08:02 PM
Taiwan's fighter jets use a motorway as an emergency runway in a military drill, as China conducts war games.

Unlocking the Mysteries of Browser Error
Messages

Unlocking the Mysteries of Browser Error
Messages 02/13/2003 05:05 AM
But it may be better to use Google's search engine to find the page. In addition to finding related pages, Google has a huge cache ...

After the Double Helix: Unraveling the
Mysteries of the State of Being

After the Double Helix: Unraveling the
Mysteries of the State of Being 04/12/2004 06:07 PM
Body and mind are the twin problems around which Dr. Francis Crick's life has spiraled.

Flaws drill holes in open-source
databases

Flaws drill holes in open-source
databases 05/19/2004 04:28 PM
Vulnerabilities in two popular applications used by developers to store program code could allow attackers to corrupt open-source projects.

The Mysteries of Windows 2000 Network
Load Balancing

The Mysteries of Windows 2000 Network
Load Balancing 05/29/2004 03:08 PM

Solving the mysteries of Mercury with a
probe called Messenger

Solving the mysteries of Mercury with a
probe called Messenger 07/31/2004 07:07 PM
US News Jul 31 2004 10:18PM GMT

Flaws drill holes in open-source
repository

Flaws drill holes in open-source
repository 05/20/2004 01:11 AM
ZDNet May 20 2004 5:21AM GMT

Coast Guards Use Popcorn for Oil Slick
Drill (Reuters)

Coast Guards Use Popcorn for Oil Slick
Drill (Reuters) 09/01/2004 07:52 AM
Reuters - Coast guards from Scandinavia and the Baltic delighted seagulls Wednesday by using popcorn to simulate an oil slick as they carried out an oil-spill emergency drill.

"Official GTA: San Andreas Site Up"

"Official GTA: San Andreas Site Up" 05/22/2004 09:54 AM

dowlord to my e-mail new gta san andreas

dowlord to my e-mail new gta san andreas 08/16/2004 04:43 AM
TechTree Aug 16 2004 8:49AM GMT

• SAN ANDREAS DATED ON PC AND XBOX

• SAN ANDREAS DATED ON PC AND XBOX 03/22/2005 03:14 PM
Newshub.com - Sun Mar 20, 10:33 am GMT

"GTA San Andreas Xbox/PC Bound"

"GTA San Andreas Xbox/PC Bound" 12/19/2004 03:21 PM

GTA: SAN ANDREAS to arrive for Xbox

GTA: SAN ANDREAS to arrive for Xbox 12/19/2004 03:22 PM
Cinescape.com - Fri Dec 17, 03:36 am GMT
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