Gatwick customs gets tribeswoman's goat (Reuters)

Grok Headline matches for Gatwick customs gets tribeswoman's goat (Reuters)

Customs Gets Tribeswoman's Goat
(Reuters)

Customs Gets Tribeswoman's Goat
(Reuters) 03/08/2004 11:25 PM
Reuters - A Gambian tribeswoman has been arrested at a London airport with her bags crammed with illegal snails, catfish and goat meat.

Weeds got yer goat? Try, uh, a goat
(USATODAY.com)

Weeds got yer goat? Try, uh, a goat
(USATODAY.com) 06/09/2004 05:51 AM
USATODAY.com - The perennial pepperweed is an attractive plant with dainty white flowers. But it chokes everything in its path, even trees. And in California, it grows everywhere. It may have one natural enemy - goats.

Give a Goat for Christmas (Reuters)

Give a Goat for Christmas (Reuters) 12/24/2004 01:13 PM
Reuters - Looking for a last minute Christmas gift? Think goat!

Elvis crowned at Irish goat festival
(Reuters)

Elvis crowned at Irish goat festival
(Reuters) 08/11/2004 03:47 PM
Reuters - A shaggy goat called Elvis has been crowned king of an Irish town at one of the country's oldest and most unusual street festivals.

Farm Life TV Show Gets Animal Lovers'
Goat (Reuters)

Farm Life TV Show Gets Animal Lovers'
Goat (Reuters) 07/28/2004 08:04 AM
Reuters - A German reality television show featuring stars wading in manure and cooking with animal guts will keep running despite criticism from animal lovers and media institutes, show producers said on Tuesday.

Gatwick workers to strike

Gatwick workers to strike 09/22/2004 10:25 AM
Hundreds of Gatwick Airport baggage handlers and maintenance workers vote to strike on Saturday.

Gatwick baggage handlers strike

Gatwick baggage handlers strike 09/24/2004 10:13 PM
A strike of baggage handlers at Gatwick airport begins, but a separate two-day walk-out at Heathrow is suspended.

Goat-see

Goat-see 02/01/2005 09:59 PM
Tennessee Fainting (or Myotonic) Goats.

My Pet Goat: instant classic

My Pet Goat: instant classic 07/17/2004 10:02 AM
"I was stunned by its lyrical beauty and easy cadence. The tempo, the choice of words, and the layout on each page captured my imagination so much that it took me about seven minutes to recover my bearings." Am azon users review My Pet Goat. (via Sadly, No!)

The Year We Lived with a Goat

The Year We Lived with a Goat 02/13/2003 03:56 AM
Well, Chinese New Year is coming again, and it's back to Penang, my hometown to meet old friends, relatives, and get fat. For you guys and gals celebrating, Kung Hee Fat Choy! February 1st is the start of the Year of the Goat. Famous goats include Julia Roberts, Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Mira Sorvino and last but not least Billy Gates...

"zeldman.55"

How to Get a Tech CEO's Goat

How to Get a Tech CEO's Goat 05/11/2004 04:53 AM
Want to piss off a CEO? Point out that the company's tech products are turning into commodities. By Nicholas G. Carr from Wired magazine.

Kerry on the pet goat dilemma

Kerry on the pet goat dilemma 08/05/2004 04:04 PM

Vt. Goat Farmer Goes on Hunger Strike
(AP)

Vt. Goat Farmer Goes on Hunger Strike
(AP) 06/25/2004 05:24 PM
AP - A goat farmer who is the subject of an animal cruelty investigation has gone on a hunger strike. Chris Weathersbee, 62, vowed he would risk death from starvation in order to find homes where his 250 goats could live out their lives.

Goat Enjoying Life After Escape From Pen
(AP)

Goat Enjoying Life After Escape From Pen
(AP) 07/28/2004 06:30 PM
AP - After escaping from a holding pen, flying ropes and failed lunges, Billy the goat has quietly made an independent life for himself near the very farm it fled in December.

Goat Is a Popular Gift With Britons (AP)

Goat Is a Popular Gift With Britons (AP) 12/24/2004 01:13 PM
AP - It's hairy and smells and will butt you, given half a chance. But the humble goat is one of Britain's most popular Christmas presents, with several charities offering the chance to do something for others by buying one of the animals for an impoverished family in the developing world.

Goat Shrugs Off Shot From Stun Gun (AP)

Goat Shrugs Off Shot From Stun Gun (AP) 08/16/2004 08:06 PM
AP - A goat on the lam shrugged off a shot from a stun gun, but couldn't get past the Sandman.

School Bus Gets Vermont Farmer's Goat
(AP)

School Bus Gets Vermont Farmer's Goat
(AP) 05/30/2004 02:52 PM
AP - A goat farmer who converted his house into a barn to keep his animals warm during the winter has had another run-in with the law.

Customs gets new IT head

Customs gets new IT head 09/03/2004 04:34 AM
Not grey and boring shock

Rare-breeds foundation heralds birth of
goat

Rare-breeds foundation heralds birth of
goat 07/24/2004 01:19 AM
Usatoday.com - Fri Jul 23, 08:14 am GMT

McAfee's Trojan horse error gets
developer's goat

McAfee's Trojan horse error gets
developer's goat 09/10/2004 11:13 AM
A software developer whose program was accidentally labeled a threat is considering action against the antivirus company.

Customs ignored Gateway review

Customs ignored Gateway review 06/28/2004 09:20 PM
Computer Weekly Jun 29 2004 1:11AM GMT

MPs slams Customs on suck it and see IT

MPs slams Customs on suck it and see IT 06/22/2004 07:46 AM
Hey, that's our money you're throwing away

St. Patrick's Day -- Customs and History

St. Patrick's Day -- Customs and History 03/17/2005 02:49 AM
Piping Hot Customs and Traditions .. Happy St. Patrick’s Day .. Maewyn the Pagan's Day .. converting pagans .. was Welsh .. GREAT

wilstar.com/holidays/patrick.htm
track this site | 2 links

Smuggling Customs man jailed

Smuggling Customs man jailed 06/17/2005 03:21 PM
A Customs man who waved drug smugglers through the "nothing to declare" channel at Gatwick has been jailed.

Foreigners and Japanese customs

Foreigners and Japanese customs 04/09/2004 03:56 PM

A lot of people ask me about Japanese customs. They learn the formal way to hand business cards, they bow deeply when they meet Japanese and they call me "Ito-san." Stop that. It's silly. To some Japanese, the awkward foreigners trying to please their hosts by acting Japanese may look cute, but more likely than not, you'll get a A for effort but you'll be forever the silly foreigner in their minds. It's only the extremely intolerant xenophobe who would really want a foreigner to really act Japanese and you don't want to be hanging out with those anyway. Keep an eye out for indicators of discomfort but bring the flair of your own culture with you.

Rather than trying to act Japanese, I suggest that people visiting Japan be sensitive and aware of the nuances in the interactions. It is more about timing, loudness, space and smiles than it is about how your hold your business card or calling people "Ito-san." When in doubt, shut up and listen. When smiled at, smile back. If you're freaking someone out, back off instead of continuing your interrogation. All of which I believe is not unique to being a foreigner in Japan. The more important Japan specific social behaviors involve cleanliness like taking off your shoes in homes and washing your body before and not taking your towel when entering the bath and not being stinky.

Caveat: If you're meeting someone for the first time, in a very formal setting, and you only have one shot, doing the step-by-step from the "How to Impress Japanese" book is probably a good idea. My comments above apply mostly to normal social situations.

UPDATE: I think many people were offended by this post. ;-) Please read the comments for an interesting discussion.

EU customs set to slap 14% tax on PC
monitors

EU customs set to slap 14% tax on PC
monitors 01/27/2004 10:18 AM

Customs Solution (Forbes.com)

Customs Solution (Forbes.com) 05/06/2004 06:53 PM
Forbes.com - Every month a huge corporation gets dinged with the global equivalent of a speeding ticket. In December Sun Microsystems paid $291,000 to settle federal charges that it shipped computer equipment that had military applications to Egypt and China. Later that month Honeywell paid $36,000 in fines for selling a restricted chemical in Mexico. In February Morton International paid $647,500 as penance for shipping protected chemicals to Singapore and Taiwan.

Customs seize £3.5m of cannabis

Customs seize £3.5m of cannabis 05/15/2004 05:40 AM
Customs officers seize cannabis with a street value of £3.5m from a lorry entering the UK at Poole ferry port.

A late 19th century chastity belt for a
Welsh goat?

A late 19th century chastity belt for a
Welsh goat? 06/27/2004 03:20 AM
What is that thing?

Customs criticised for GBP100m spend

Customs criticised for GBP100m spend 06/22/2004 05:48 AM
ZDNet UK Jun 22 2004 10:29AM GMT

Customs computer project criticised

Customs computer project criticised 06/21/2004 10:13 PM
Guardian Unlimited Jun 22 2004 2:51AM GMT

Customs confirms deal renewal with EDS

Customs confirms deal renewal with EDS 08/22/2004 09:02 PM
ZDNet Australia Aug 23 2004 1:37AM GMT

Customs and Revenue start CIO search

Customs and Revenue start CIO search 05/04/2004 12:14 PM
vnunet.com May 4 2004 3:48PM GMT

Christmas Today: A Kaleidoscope of
Customs, Old and New

Christmas Today: A Kaleidoscope of
Customs, Old and New 12/18/2003 07:21 PM
Indeed, this reporter did a Google search using the key phrase "Christmas shopping" and came up with—are you ready—1,380,000 hits! ...

US customs wants a loyalty oath from DVD
importers

US customs wants a loyalty oath from DVD
importers 12/27/2004 12:42 PM
Cory Doctorow: MBF imported a video from Italy and discovered this disclaimer in the packaging -- apparently, you can get a parcel through customs with more ease if you recite a hollow loyalty oath and promise that you're not sending in any footage that advocates treason. Link (Thanks, John!)

RailPower Announces Winter Trial of
Hybrid Green Goat(R) Locomotive by CPR

RailPower Announces Winter Trial of
Hybrid Green Goat(R) Locomotive by CPR 12/29/2003 02:51 PM
BC Technology Dec 29 2003 1:43PM ET

MPs hammer Customs for failure to
control IT spending

MPs hammer Customs for failure to
control IT spending 06/22/2004 01:56 PM
Silicon.com Jun 22 2004 5:18PM GMT

Hong Kong Customs Intercepts Canadian
Pot (AP)

Hong Kong Customs Intercepts Canadian
Pot (AP) 04/18/2004 01:46 AM
AP - Hong Kong customs officials arrested five people for allegedly ordering marijuana by mail from Canada with a total local market value of about 2.1 million Hong Kong dollars (US$269,200), officials and news reports said.

Customs seize 'booze boat' goods

Customs seize 'booze boat' goods 08/17/2004 07:55 AM
One of the customers of Britain's first offshore off-licence has goods seized by customs officials.
Grok Description matches for Gatwick customs gets tribeswoman's goat (Reuters)
GrokA matches for Gatwick customs gets tribeswoman's goat (Reuters)

What's So Great About Goats Anyway? or
More Goats for K5

What's So Great About Goats Anyway? or
More Goats for K5 04/02/2005 11:03 PM
Goats are wonderful animals, not least because of their close alliance with Satan, all-powerful Lord of Darkness to whom we give all obeisance. With their amazing horns, fantastic hooves and spectacular goatees, goats really are strong contenders for being the greatest animals ever. Want a farmyard pet that butts into things? Get a goat. Want an animal reputed to eat tins though it probably doesn't really? Get a goat. Want an animal that bleats like a sheep yet knows its own mind? A goat is your ally, my friend, just like it is Satan's ally in all things. Within I have collected some of the foremost examples of goat-related pages from around the web, as well as some marvellous pictures of these truly awesome and delightful creatures in various attitudes of repose or non-repose. What more could you ask for?

Fainting Fad Alarms Teachers in Maine
(AP)

Fainting Fad Alarms Teachers in Maine
(AP) 06/08/2004 03:34 PM
AP - Induced fainting by middle school students looking to experience a "rush" has set off alarm bells in Cape Elizabeth.

Jef Raskin, R.I.P.

Jef Raskin, R.I.P. 03/14/2005 05:05 PM
Jef Raskin, who named and created Apple's Macintosh project, passed away yesterday. He was an original thinker whose designs were never completely realized and an ardent, original, often contrarian advocate for radically re-thinking and improving information appliances for regular folks. I met Jef in 1980 while I was working at...

The Macintosh At 20: Interview With Jef
Raskin

The Macintosh At 20: Interview With Jef
Raskin 03/08/2004 11:24 PM
"I'm very disappointed in the Macintosh interface. It's more complex, harder to use than it was when we started." (Berkeley Groks via MyAppleMenu)

Mac Developer Raskin Mourned

Mac Developer Raskin Mourned 03/17/2005 03:09 AM

By Crystal Carreon, San Jose Mercury News

Jef Raskin, founding Macintosh designer,
dies

Jef Raskin, founding Macintosh designer,
dies 03/14/2005 06:04 PM

Computer pioneer Jef Raskin , who launched the Apple Macintosh , passed away this week. He was sixty-two:

Jef created the Macintosh Computer as employee number 31 at Apple in the early 1980s, revolutionizing computer interface design. Jef established many methods now taken for granted by computer users, such as "click and drag." He named the Macintosh project after his favorite variety of apple, the McIntosh (modifying the spelling for copyright purposes). Jef strongly believed that computers should make tasks easy for people, not the other way around.

Get more Goats

Get more Goats 05/21/2004 02:14 PM
If you were reading this blog earlier this year you may recall my recently kindled enthusiasm for the music of The Mountain Goats. This enthusiasm has not waned as I have explored the back catalog of this "band" of (mostly) one. It has, if anything, waxed.

As I wrote about my delight in this discovery I uncovered the existence of kindred spirits here at Salon, including our jack-of-all-trades editorial operations director Max Garrone, who swears by "The Coroner's Gambit," and our Renaissance-man IT support manager, Jim Fisher.

Perhaps you've read some of Jim's in-depth reportin g for Salon on technology and the environment, or some of his great poems that we've published. (I'm not the only one who thinks highly of his work; he has recently won a prestigious Stegner Fellowship at Stanford.)

Anyway, I learned that last year Jim had written an in-depth critical essay on the music and lyrics of the Mountain Goats and John Darnielle. For various reasons the essay never got published in Salon. It is perhaps of more interest to those already hooked on this work than those not yet familiar with it. But the piece deserves a home on the Web, so I've published it in this blogspace, here.

Jim's piece was written months ago, at the time of the Mountain Goats' release of "Tallahassee." Earlier this year saw the release of "We Shall All Be Healed." I'm not sure Jim agrees with me on this, but I think that album fulfills the prediction at the end of his essay of an "all-studio masterpiece" from this artist, much of whose previous work was recorded direct-to-boombox.

Erhm...goats?

Erhm...goats? 12/09/2003 08:39 PM
Things I should be doing right now would include my Media Studies project. 4th period lunch sucks like ass unless...

The Goats Who Ate Christmas

The Goats Who Ate Christmas 01/16/2004 10:58 AM
"Soon after the first goat, another goat came, then another -- and soon a stampede of goats, shaped like a boats prow, was aiming at and ultimately engulfing the houses. The all-seeing, Sauron-like Goat-Mind soon located all of the houses -- and we truly had swarms." (01-12)

The Men Who Stare At Goats

The Men Who Stare At Goats 04/07/2005 10:17 PM
David Pescovitz: I just finished reading Jon Ronson's latest non-fiction book The Men Who Stare At Goats and it was brilliant, absurd, scary, deeply freaky, and lol funny. The cover of the book says it's a story "about what happened when a small group of men--highly placed within the United State military, the government, and the intelligence services--began believing in very strange things." Some of those odd beliefs include: psychic spying (aka "remote viewing"), Jedi powers, subliminal sound weapons, and the ability to kill an animal just by looking at it (hence the title). As demonstrated in his previous book, "Them: Adventures with Extremists," Ronson has an amazing talent for seeking out individuals on the fringes of reason and enchanting the reader with their (truthful?) tales of high weirdness. Forget any questionable conspiracy theories about the US military--the truth is far stranger. From the dust jacket:

In 1979 a secret unit was established by the most gifted minds within the US Army. Defying all known accepted military practice - and indeed, the laws of physics - they believed that a soldier could adopt the cloak of invisibility, pass cleanly through walls and, perhaps most chillingly, kill goats just by staring at them. Entrusted with defending America from all known adversaries, they were the First Earth Battalion. And they really weren't joking. What's more, they're back and fighting the War on Terror. 'The men who stare at goats' reveals extraordinary - and very nutty - national secrets at the core of George W Bush's War on Terror.

Link

Man Charged With Torturing His Goats
(AP)

Man Charged With Torturing His Goats
(AP) 01/17/2004 10:48 PM
AP - A prominent Wisconsin goat farmer has been charged with animal cruelty for allegedly slicing open a conscious mother goat giving birth and helping burn a goat alive.

Sunbeams, Rare Goats Edition

Sunbeams, Rare Goats Edition 06/18/2004 05:41 PM
First up, a couple of posts on SunRays, from Jeff Dillon and John Clingan. They are indeed pretty neat, although when, earlier this week, I was at SunLabs in Massachusets, it took the little grey guy a couple of minutes to find my Sun desktop which lives in Santa Clara and render it the first time; but then it was fine and snappy. Danese Cooper has a straight forward explanation of why CEOs probably aren’t going to be blogging any time soon. On another note entirely, Jim Waldo writes about the impedence mismatch between how engineers view the world and how the world views engineers. And just to get out of geek mode, Richard Elling has notes on the word “war� and nice pictures of rare goats that he rescued.

Helena to Lease Goats to Get Rid of
Weeds (AP)

Helena to Lease Goats to Get Rid of
Weeds (AP) 06/14/2004 01:05 PM
AP - This city is going decidedly low-tech get rid of its weed problem. Officials plan to spend $11,000 to lease 850 goats so they can eat the Dalmatian toadflax, leafy spurge and spotted knapweed that choke Mount Helena.

Nev. Town Enlists Goats to Eat Weeds
(AP)

Nev. Town Enlists Goats to Eat Weeds
(AP) 06/07/2004 05:42 PM
AP - More than 100 goats have been enlisted to eat their way around the northern Nevada mining town of Ruth to rid it of weeds.

Turning to goats to stop wildfires
(Reuters)

Turning to goats to stop wildfires
(Reuters) 06/24/2005 09:57 PM
Reuters - Move over Smokey the Bear. In California, thousands of goats are helping prevent wildfires.

Company euthanizes genetically modified
goats

Company euthanizes genetically modified
goats 11/19/2003 10:28 PM
USA Today Nov 19 2003 9:47PM ET

Yahoo stock test separates the sheep
from the goats

Yahoo stock test separates the sheep
from the goats 11/02/2003 07:33 AM
San Francisco Chronicle Nov 2 2003 6:43AM ET

Sheep and goats turned into drug "mules"
(Reuters)

Sheep and goats turned into drug "mules"
(Reuters) 03/14/2005 06:13 PM
Reuters - Question: How do you turn a goat into a mule? Answer: Make it swallow several kilos of narcotics.

RailPower and CSX Announce Hybrid
Locomotive Trial of Three Green Goats

RailPower and CSX Announce Hybrid
Locomotive Trial of Three Green Goats 01/22/2004 09:56 PM
BC Technology Jan 23 2004 2:13AM GMT

Fountain Music 1.12

Fountain Music 1.12 12/30/2003 04:01 PM
An iTunes visualization which animates a fountain of particles exploding to the music.

IBM's Web Fountain

IBM's Web Fountain 01/16/2004 12:59 PM
IBM's Web Fountain: Creating Computers that Are Not Glueless
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/publicfeature/jan04/0104comp1.h tml

Computers can manipulate vast amounts of data, without knowing what any of it actually means. Now a major breakthrough in the field of machine understanding could spell big business for its developer, IBM, as well as data miners, content providers, libraries and anyone else who relies on information. IBM's WebFountain is a huge collection of processors, routers and disk drives running a menagerie of software applications, all dedicated to one purpose: making sense of the churning ocean of information, opinion and falsehood that floods the Internet. WebFountain sucks in data like a search engine. Then its analysis engine sniffs out its own clues about a document's meaning and provides insight into what the search results mean in aggregate. WebFountain's most amazing trick: it converts unlabeled data into XML-labeled data. A variety of annotators, each specializing in a separate subject, scans each document looking for familiar references, and automatically adds XML tags when it spots them. Result: a uniform, structured format that can be searched and analyzed. In a few months, in partnership with online news company Factiva, IBM will launch a service to allow companies to track their reputations online: what journalists are reporting about them, which blogs have said what about them, even the latest buzz in chat rooms.

Fountain Music 1.2

Fountain Music 1.2 06/18/2004 10:15 PM
An iTunes visualization which animates a fountain of particles exploding to the music.

G4 + MP3 = Fountain Of Youth

G4 + MP3 = Fountain Of Youth 01/04/2004 12:05 PM
My new gizmos suddenly made me feel more organized and in charge of my life. I feel a little cooler, a little more connected, a lot younger. By Frank Ahrens (Washington Post via MyAppleMenu)

reel around the fountain

reel around the fountain 04/09/2004 04:08 PM
A week or so ago, I did an interview with Developershed about WWdN, Dancing Barefoot, D&D, Nethack, and Sammy Hagar vs. David Lee Roth.

It just hit the web this morning, in their magazine called Plugin.

Setting up your own soda fountain

Setting up your own soda fountain 03/19/2003 10:46 PM

A Fountain of Youth for Microsoft?

A Fountain of Youth for Microsoft? 08/02/2004 12:13 PM
"What we've got in the [product] pipeline now is probably more exciting than what we've ever had," Gates says. "You can expect big breakthroughs in the years ahead." Microsoft executives speaking after Gates talked up prospects for everything from online advertising to mobile devices to software for running small and midsize businesses. Ballmer said Microsoft innovations will help the giant increase operating income faster than rivals and the industry. But he didn't highlight revenue growth.

IBM Web Fountain: Big Blue Blogdex?

IBM Web Fountain: Big Blue Blogdex? 01/22/2004 08:41 PM
enterprise tool for tracking buzz. it's only a matter of time until every company is using one of these

Project to improve Diana fountain

Project to improve Diana fountain 12/29/2004 11:56 AM
A four-month project to improve The Diana, Princess of Wales memorial fountain starts next month.

Diana fountain ready for opening

Diana fountain ready for opening 06/29/2004 10:50 AM
The Princess of Wales Memorial Fountain is filled with water one week before the Queen officially opens it.

Diana fountain reopens to public

Diana fountain reopens to public 08/19/2004 10:43 PM
The Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fountain in London's Hyde Park is set to reopen to the public, following the introduction of safety measures.

Gatwick customs gets tribeswoman's goat (Reuters)

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