He called it “an opportunity for the President to personally thank Canadians” for helping 33,000 airline passengers stranded in Canada when North American air space was shut in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

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some have been accused of smuggling weapons and exotic animals, selling fuel on the black market, vandalising aeroplanes, and standing by while mobs looted storefronts – if they didn’t join in the chaos themselves.

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Stress may take a toll on your health by affecting the strands of DNA on the ends of chromosomes, new research suggests. A report published online today by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences indicates that women with higher psychological stress levels have shorter telomeres, which play an important role in cellular aging. What is more, the difference between stressed study participants and the control group was equivalent to nearly a decade of additional aging.

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West Coast Sunset photo

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Gad..what a horrible picture!!

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Why do I get the feeling that this has more to do with Sony than the technology itself?

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London, UK – 29 November 2004, 17:00 GMT – After last week’s DDoS attack on the SCO web site reported by the mi2g Intelligence Unit, this week their internet presence has been compromised twice through subtle vandalism. The attacks began over the long weekend in the US and were first noticed by SCO on Sunday. In one instance, the usual SCO logo (www.sco.com) was modified to contain the words: ” We own all your code pay us all your money.” Followed by “hacked by realloc().”

The mirror can be accessed via Zone-H.

In another defacement, hackers inserted “SCO vs World” at the top of one of the site’s pages. The vandalised text went on to state that SCO had discovered “parts of our code in almost all Microsoft(R) software. We want to bring an action against Microsoft(R) and our legal department is working on that.”

The mirror can be accessed via Zone-H.

Unconfirmed rumours are suggesting that the site might have been defaced using a bug in a PHP script, usually part of an Open Source web server architecture. The defacement shows a message that appears to link back to the SCO versus IBM court case, where SCO claimed certain rights over specific parts of the Linux kernel.

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This is a link to the fascinating post on the situation on the Ivory Coast. This blog perhaps epitomizes some of the finest blogging efforts you’ll ever see. With only a few unimportant expceptions (such as lone uncaptioned photos posted as an apparent lark), this blog, to me, represents the kinbd of new journalism that blogging is supposed to be — an in-depth, thoughtful, media critic approach to things. In fact this sort of quality is quite rare. Kudos.

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People who saw this billboard had to be flabbergasted.

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So much for the “recovery” that got Bush re-elected.

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hours of entertainment

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incredible tale from Jersey

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good weekend read

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just clearing links here…

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Technology News: News: Kennedy Family Says JFK Video Game Is Despicable Apparently this is more important than the war in Iraq.

A computer game Latest News about computer games produced by a Scottish firm, which allows players to assassinate U.S. president John F Kennedy, was last night attacked by his relatives.

The game, “JFK Reloaded,” is being released by Traffic Games today to coincide with the 21st anniversary of Kennedy’s murder in Dallas, Texas. It was designed to demonstrate that a lone gunman was able to kill the president.

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