Left at the altar as computers crash

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Hundreds Left At Altar As Thai Computers
Crash

Hundreds Left At Altar As Thai Computers
Crash 02/15/2004 05:02 PM
The Statesman Feb 15 2004 9:43PM GMT

Left at the Altar, Missouri Seeks New
Groom at the Last Minute

Left at the Altar, Missouri Seeks New
Groom at the Last Minute 02/02/2004 01:16 PM
Whoever wins in Missouri can claim to have demonstrated the sort of broad appeal that any presidential candidate needs.

Corrie duo beat Charles to altar

Corrie duo beat Charles to altar 04/08/2005 08:37 PM
Coronation Street's Ken and Deirdre marry in an episode edited to reflect the royal wedding date change.

Pocket Chapel: USB Altar Drives

Pocket Chapel: USB Altar Drives 06/07/2004 07:29 AM

Just as the miracle of the Eucharist transforms a piece of tasteless unleavened cracker into a bloody hunk of godflesh, so does the gluing-on of an obnoxious plastic crucifix transfigure a simple USB flash memory drive into the storeplace of your personal holy of holies. Simply purchase and download a copy of Pocket Chapel, a virtual altar in which to place virtual idols holy objects, light eCandles, and place flowers across the feet of a pixelated virgin Mary. "See it," they say, "as a sign of god on your Computer, which remembers you, that we all are a part of a bigger thing." Pocket Chapel is available on Pocket PC for only 12 pieces of dollars (USB Altar Drives sold separately). (Thanks, Robert!)
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Thomas Friedman Shoves Man For Saying
'That The Columnist Was Willing To
“sacrifice Israel On The Altar Of Iraq.”
(Bizarre)

Thomas Friedman Shoves Man For Saying
'That The Columnist Was Willing To
“sacrifice Israel On The Altar Of Iraq.”
(Bizarre) 12/11/2003 07:20 AM
New York Sun .. report

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Crash Test Videos - View Crash Test
Videos for Cars, Trucks and SUVs -
Insurance Resource Center

Crash Test Videos - View Crash Test
Videos for Cars, Trucks and SUVs -
Insurance Resource Center 04/02/2005 07:32 AM
See how your car would fare in a crash .. Various Test Crashes .. Crash Test Videos .. Progressive

progressive.com/RC/VSafety/rc_crash_videos.asp
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What they left behind

What they left behind 01/27/2004 10:58 PM
What they left behind: "Craig Williams, a curator at the New York State Museum, drove four hours to visit Willard Psychiatric Center in the spring of 1995. The complex, located 65 miles southwest of Syracuse, was about to shut down after more than 100 years ... a staffer suggested he check out the attic of an abandoned building, and that's when he found 400 suitcases covered by decades of dust and pigeon droppings"

You know you've left the top 1% when....

You know you've left the top 1% when.... 03/22/2005 03:24 PM
I am in the process of selling my house.  It's a very big house (with lots and lots of amenities), clearly something that appeals to high income people.  The good thing is that it will make it possible for us to get rid of our mortgage.  This is particularly great since interest rates are about to go through the roof  (which will tank the market for the next 5 years).  The bad thing is that upper incomes growing at a 15%-20% annual rate (which is paralleled by income stagnation for everyone else).  This means that a house like this will clearly be worth several times what it is today in 10 to 15 years. 

When left is right

When left is right 03/23/2005 05:33 PM
From the Terri Schiavo case to expanded government powers in the war on terrorism, conservative libertarians are paling around an awful lot these days with the political left.

What's Left?

What's Left? 06/09/2004 07:19 PM
"If Steve is willing to toss AirTunes and new G5's out there so casually just three weeks before his biggest Keynote of the year, then you'd better believe that he's got some even better sutff up his sleeve." By MacMove.com (via MyAppleMenu)

And if you look to your left

And if you look to your left 05/14/2004 01:26 PM
The Great Wall of China can be seen from space after all.

"Lean Left"

"Lean Left" 07/19/2004 08:24 PM

PCs certain, Left no problem

PCs certain, Left no problem 05/29/2004 06:16 PM
Calcutta Telegraph May 29 2004 9:57PM GMT

UK left on the grid?

UK left on the grid? 04/06/2005 01:50 PM
Computer Weekly Apr 6 2005 4:54PM GMT

No Consultant Left Behind

No Consultant Left Behind 02/05/2005 09:57 PM
Business book authors don`t necessarily write at the level of their peers.

"What's Wrong with the Left"

"What's Wrong with the Left" 06/03/2004 12:52 AM

The bin Ladens who left

The bin Ladens who left 07/22/2004 12:53 PM

No Child Left Behind

No Child Left Behind 07/01/2004 10:23 PM
In an act of generosity, PC manufacturer Gateway is donating several thousand computers to the Wichita Public School District. All of the computers will come with everything ready to go including software and asset tags for inventory needs. The computer products being provided include Gateway(R) 450 series laptops, all-in-one Profile 5s, M275 Tablet PCs, and E-Series desktops.

Back and to the Left

Back and to the Left 11/10/2003 11:24 PM
"Back and to the Left" is a "scratch-video" composition produced by a Canadian video artist. It makes very witty use of classic film footage and a catchy tune to create an audiovisual composition. Link

No Samoyed Left Behind

No Samoyed Left Behind 04/02/2005 03:58 PM

Alex and I are working out way up the East Coast now with a new companion:  a 9-month-old Samoyed puppy named "Sammy".  He wore out his welcome with a family in Norfolk, Virginia and is coming to Boston under my "No Samoyed Left Behind" initiative.  Samoyeds are unpopular for fairly good reasons.  Most people who want a big dog want one that will be aggressive and attack other humans.  Hence the Top 10 American Kennel Club breed registristrations include German Shepherds, Rottweilers, etc. (Pit Bulls are not an AKC breed.)  A second category of popular big dog is the obedience champ, e.g., Labs and Goldens.  These breeds are smart and make an owner feel good by hanging on his every word.  The Arctic breeds are big and smart (as measured by their ability to solve puzzles that reward them with things that they like, e.g., food) but they don't see any particular reason to listen to most humans and they aren't interested in attacking humans.  Samoyeds are easily bored.  Especially when young they seem to need constant companionship and entertainment, either from a person or another dog.  If they get bored they find ways to entertain themselves.  Unfortunately what is entertaining to a Samoyed usually is not entertaining to his or her owner.  Digging and chewing are popular pastimes as is destroying the rugs and furniture.

Sammy was living with a family in Norfolk.  It sounded like an ideal environment with a stay-at-home wife and kids aged 6 and 3 plus a backyard with pool.  Sammy, however, wanted to wrestle with the kids non-stop and they were really too young and small to deliver the required pounding to 45 lbs. of solid puppy muscle.  The wife had her hands full with the kids.  So Sammy was left alone in the backyard and would dig ("they did in the winter to keep warm; they dig in the summer to keep cool; they dig in the fall and spring to keep in practice" George's breeder used to say).  He was sent to sleep-away obedience camp for two weeks and came back with a good report and knowledge of some commands, though not necessarily a lot of interest in obeying them.

So... now he is coming up to New England where I am going to let Alex wear him out for a month or two and then find him a home either in the suburbs where there is a big fenced yard and some other dogs or in the city with someone who works at home and can keep the dog with him or her at all times for mutual companionship.  No Samoyed should live in the South and no Samoyed should be left behind...

[The question of naming arises.  I like "Ralph" better than "Sammy".  And there is a terrier in Manhattan named "Sizzler" whose name could be well applied to this little bundle of energy.  Any other ideas?]

"The ghost of the left"

"The ghost of the left" 08/10/2004 08:41 AM
Not willing to take any chances on losing the presidential race, Democrats in Pennsylvania file lawsuits against Ralph Nader.

PC left without a sausage

PC left without a sausage 12/30/2003 09:57 PM
Scotsman Online Dec 30 2003 8:47PM ET

Reality left behind

Reality left behind 08/31/2004 10:21 PM
After a lot of war talk last night, the Republicans are getting back to the "compassionate conservatism" theme -- a clever and probably necessary strategy for Bush two months from Election Day when more Americans think his opponent understands people like them. Helping to make Bush's case: Education Secretary Rod Paige. (You may remember Paige's outrageous comments earlier this year likening the nation's largest teachers union to a "terrorist organization.")

What ranking do I get - left out?

What ranking do I get - left out? 05/15/2004 09:39 PM

The Gillmor Gang. Thanks to the fine production efforts of IT Conversations' Doug Kaye, the first Gillmor Gang is now available via Windows Media, MP3, and RSS enclosures, with a transcript soon to follow. This week's Gang includes Jon Udell, Doc Searls, Dana Gardner, and Michael Vizard. I hope you'll enjoy this and future episodes as much as we enjoyed doing it. [Steve Gillmor's Blogosphere]

Dam!  I not only didn't make it into the most listened to, most cared about or even - care about at all list.  I'm not even on any list - 'cept for this little mention:

ITC Check In, February 23, 2004 Searls,Cone,Canter

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I guess I just don't rate.

:-)

 

How long do you have left?

How long do you have left? 08/22/2004 09:37 AM
Chicago Tribune Aug 22 2004 12:26PM GMT

"Talk Left"

"Talk Left" 05/22/2004 02:19 AM

Techies Left Behind

Techies Left Behind 01/16/2004 12:59 PM
Te chies Left Behind James Pace Jr. used to work as a steamfitter in a General Electric plant in Bridgeport. That was back in the early '70s, when the grapevine was alive with warnings: These jobs are going overseas. Go back to school. There's no future here. Pace left the plant, enrolled in computer school, studied information technology and never looked back. That is, not until 23 years later, on the day he was told his $100,000-a-year job as an IT (information technology) consultant had been sent to India

iMac G3 left behind

iMac G3 left behind 03/19/2003 10:24 PM
"We'll be back soon," read a note on Apple's online stores this morning. And when they were, the original CRT iMac G3 was left behind. "In a major move in to the consumer market, Apple Computer, Inc. today unveiled iMac--the "Internet-age computer for the rest of us." iMac features a striking design, easy Internet access and Pentium-toasting PowerPC G3 performance for $1299," read a press release from Apple on May 6, 1998, as noted by MacDailyNews. The...

Left Behind deconstructed

Left Behind deconstructed 12/14/2003 09:51 PM
"Left Behind" is an immensely popular science fiction series about the sinners left behind on earth after good Christians are swept up in the rapture. Over at Slacktivist, a blogger has been dissecting the book in two- and three-page chunks, tearing apart the assumptions, fallacies and curiously compelling heresies in the story.

Charlie Stross and I just finished "Appeals Court," the sequel to Jury Service, which Argosy magazine will publish bound together in January, in a fix-up novel called "Rapture of the Nerds." "Appeals Court" is, in part, a response to "Left Behind": a story about a world where the only hominids who haven't ascended to the post-human cloudmind are reactionaries, missionaries, and religious fundamentalists.

Here's a little chunk of "Appeals Court," so you can see what I mean:

The ant-colony has taken the entire Atlantic coast of the US, has marched on Georgia and west to the Mississippi. It is an anarchist colony, whose females lay eggs without regard for any notional Queen, and it has entered its eighth year of life, which is middle-aged for a normal colony, but may be just the beginning for the Hypercolony.

The God-botherers have no treaty with the ants, but have come to view them as another proof of the impending end of the world. Anything that is not contained in chink-free, seamless plastic and rock is riddled in ant-tunnels within hours. They've learned to establish airtight seals around their homes and workplaces, to subject themselves to stinging insecticide showers before clearing a vestibule, to listen for the tupperware burp whenever they seal their children in their space-suits and send them off to Bible classes.

The ants have eaten their way through most of the nematode species beneath the soil, compromised all but the most plasticized root-systems of the sickening flora (the gasoline refining forests are curiously symbiotic with the colony -- anarchist supercolonies like living cheek-by-mouth-part with a lot of hydocarbons). They've eaten the bee-hives and wasp-nests, and they've laid waste to any comestible not tinned and sealed, leaving the limping Americans with naught but a few billion tons of processed food to eat before their supply bottoms out.

The American continent is a fairy tale that the cloudmind tells itself whenever it doubts its collective decision to abandon humanity. The left-behinds there spent their lives waiting for an opportunity to pick up a megaphone and organize crews with long poles to go digging through the ruins of civilization for tinned goods. Presented with their opportunity in the aftermath of the Geek Rapture, they are happy as evangelical pigs in shit -- plenty to rail against, plenty of fossil fuel, plenty of firearms.

What more could they possibly need?

and here's Slacktivist on "Left Behind":

The first words of Left Behind are "Rayford Steele," the protagonist's name.

It sounds like a porn star's name -- and in a sense it is. The Left Behind series is dispensational porno, but it's more than that. One of the most disturbing things about this book is the way LaHaye and Jenkins portray men, women and the relationships between them.

Note that Tim LaHaye's wife is something of a professional misogynist. She runs the 500,000-member "Concerned Women for America" -- jokingly referred to by its critics as "Ladies Against Women." For years, while Beverly LaHaye's husband pastored a church in San Diego, Mrs. L. spent most of her time 3,000 miles away, in Washington, D.C., running a large organization committed to, among other things, telling women they should stay at home and sacrifice their careers for their husbands. She is not an ironic woman and doesn't seem to find any of this inconsistent. (Nor, as I found out firsthand, does she appreciate jokes about the Freudian implications of the view from her L'Enfante Plaza office window. Sometimes the Washington Monument is just a cigar.)

Link (Thanks, Kathryn!)

Left the nest

Left the nest 01/22/2004 02:32 AM

Rover's stunning image of lander. Nasa's Mars Rover Spirit has delivered its first data on the minerals present in the soil of the Red Planet. [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition]

Edwards in "left field"? Not quite

Edwards in "left field"? Not quite 07/07/2004 06:18 PM

PC Run-Up Leaves Little Upside Left

PC Run-Up Leaves Little Upside Left 12/27/2004 08:50 AM
TheStreet.com Dec 27 2004 1:21PM GMT

The fundamental arrogance of some on the
left

The fundamental arrogance of some on the
left 01/22/2004 07:28 PM
Maureen Dowd: "Riding the Crazy Train." .. her comparison

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Astroturf Campaigning From the Left

Astroturf Campaigning From the Left 09/04/2004 03:17 PM
if I were an editorial page editor I'd be watching out for -- and would not print -- letters using the wording from this page. Astroturfing should be no more acceptable from the left than the right.

Ind. Coroner Shoots Himself in Left Leg
(AP)

Ind. Coroner Shoots Himself in Left Leg
(AP) 09/08/2004 03:58 PM
AP - A gun safety demonstration went awry and landed Monroe County Coroner David Toumey in the hospital after he shot himself in the leg.

No voter left unbound

No voter left unbound 09/14/2004 09:14 AM
At the reeducation seminar "Electoral Madness Made Easy," we'll tell you everything you need to know to destroy your favorite nation!

Why Bush Left Texas

Why Bush Left Texas 09/15/2004 01:45 PM
Why Bush Left Texas Growing evidence suggests that George W. Bush abruptly left his Texas Air National Guard unit in 1972 for substantive reasons pertaining to his inability to continue piloting a fighter jet. A months-long investigation, which includes examination of hundreds of government-released documents, interviews with former Guard members and officials, military experts and Bush associates, points toward the conclusion that Bush's personal behavior was causing alarm among his superior officers and would ultimately lead to his fleeing the state to avoid a physical exam he might have had difficulty passing... If it is demonstrated that profound behavioral problems marred Bush's wartime performance and even cut short his service, it could seriously challenge Bush's essential appeal as a military steward and guardian of societal values. It could also explain the incomplete, contradictory and shifting explanations provided by the Bush camp for the President's striking invisibility from the military during the final two years of his six-year military obligation... There's that elephant in the living room again.

CIOs left in the dark

CIOs left in the dark 06/17/2004 12:08 AM
Usatoday.com - Tue Jun 15, 08:01 pm GMT

Not to be left behind, Cingular says
they'll have 3G next year, too

Not to be left behind, Cingular says
they'll have 3G next year, too 06/23/2004 04:02 PM
Engadget Jun 23 2004 7:17PM GMT
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