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LifestreamI’ll try to keep it a little more brief than last year. Most of the movies last year flopped anyway and I ended up wasting my time. So here it is … the titles to watch for (in order of US release date).
Constantine (February 18)
Robots (March 11)
Sin City (April 1)
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy [...]
Archive for February, 2005
Just to clear a few things up, taxes come in many shapes, one of which is the so called Estate tax. Of interest to this discourse are also wealth taxes, gift taxes and inheritance taxes. I’ll get right to the point here. Wikipedia can hopefully clear up the rest.
Sweden was originally slated to repeal the [...]
A few days old but still. JURI voted 19-2 to take the proposed law back to the drawing board. By a moderate estimate it will be years before we will see the next draft for a directive and hopefully this time around everything will be different. What a relief. It’s important since we will now [...]
Oh, nice work CNET. Can’t quite figure out if “honchos” is meant in an affectionate way though.
Torvalds wasn’t alone in his opinion. He was joined in a panel discussion by Brian Behlendorf, a co-founder of the Apache Web server software, and Mitch Kapor, chairman of the Mozilla Foundation and the Open Source Applications Foundation.
Behlendorf said [...]
On the topic of scientists in the media and the general role of science in society. In November last year, nine geoscientists got together to form RealClimate. A blog of sorts that would allow for open debate and educated information regarding climatological events.
Can’t say I blame them for the effort. What should one do when [...]
Robosapiens V2 is in the works. Twice as expensive, but with twice as many features and a bit bigger and more versatile. WowWee are also launching two new robots from the same series, undoubtedly the first steps towards something truly great. Can’t wait until Robosapiens matures a couple of more generations, giving him say a [...]
From Slyck via CDFreaks …
After the initial success of placing fear into BitTorrent tracker operators and forcing several sites offline, the mainstream media heralded these events as a great victory for the MPAA and impending doom for file-sharing.
However, after a month and half since the fall of SuprNova.org and the MPAA’s anti-piracy campaign, the BitTorrent [...]
Easily the best and most needed add-on for Firefox. Spellbound is an extension that ..
.. enables spell checking in web forms such as html textarea / input elements (html input password elements are not checked by SpellBound) and rich text form elements. This allows you to spell check forms (e.g. message board posts, blog [...]
