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10 March 2000
In Today's Issue
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1. A Word A Day -- Simon Legree
2. Graphic of the Day -- Choose Wisely
3. Quote of the Day -- Louis McKee
4. HotSites -- Miscellany
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1. A Word A Day
Simon Legree (SIE-muhn luh-gree) noun
A brutal taskmaster.
[After Simon Legree, a cruel slave dealer in the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin
by Harriet Beecher Stowe.]
"In Brutal Bosses and Their Prey (1996, Riverhead Books), Harvey Hornstein
identifies six variations on Simon Legree."
Marino, Sal, Brutal bosses from hell, Industry Week, 22 Jun 1998.
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From A Word A Day
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2. Graphic of the Day
Choose Wisely
by David J. L'Hoste
GOTD Archive: http://lhostelaw.com/iaa/ia_graphics.htm
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3. Quote of the Day -- Louis McKee
First Word of Spring
She tells me the ice
is finally melting;
I can only assume
she means the crust
along the weedy creek
banks, the crisp ply
that makes grass talk
underfoot, the glaze
and glint high in crags
of the sad stone face
over the river.
When hearts thaw,
we don't need to be
told. The melt is
tremendous; rivers
flood, and miles away,
even as far as I am,
there are fast runnels
washing with all
the gold sun they can
past my door.
Louis McKee
New Zoo Poetry Review
Volume 3, 1999
Copyright © copyright 1999 by Sunken Meadows Press.
All rights reserved.
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4. HotSites -- Miscellany
My Reference Desk (from Matt Drudge's father):
http://www.refdesk.com/index.html
Graphic Search Engines:
http://www.ditto.com/
http://www.ncrtec.org/picture.htm
NOW FREE
The complete Encyclopædia Britannica, among other things.
http://www.britannica.com/
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HotSites Archive: http://lhostelaw.com/iaa/ia_hs.htm
Another: http://lhostelaw.com/ia/ia2/hot_archive.htm
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17 March 2000
Happy St. Patrick's Day!
In Today's Issue
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1. A Word A Day -- senescent
2. Graphic/Thought of the Day -- Audubon
3. QOTD -- Bob Jones III
4. HotSites - Find your own HotSites
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1. A Word A Day
senescent (si-NES-uhnt) adjective
Growing old; aging.
[Latin senescens, senescent-, present participle of senescere, to grow
old, inchoative of senere, to be old, from senex, sen-, old.]
"The uplifter at the Christian Science Monitor was recently citing not
only the senescent tennis stars but the nonagenarian lady who had
climbed Mount Fuji."
Daniel Seligman, Patty de Llosa, Keeping Up: Guess what's sacred at
Stanford, the case for ageism, panhandler rights, and other matters.
Fortune, 17 Dec 1990.
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From A Word A Day:
http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/
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2. Graphic of the Day -- Audubon
Audubon
by David J. L'Hoste
(page may need to be reloaded after initial loading to play correctly)
GOTD Archive: http://lhostelaw.com/iaa/ia_graphics.htm
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3. QOTD -- Bob Jones III
"The diminution of evangelistic enterprise to cults
which call themselves Christian, including Catholicism
and Mormonism, is frightening."
-- Bob Jones III (George W. Bush supporter and heir to his daddy's school)
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4. HotSites -- Find Your Own HotSites
Archives of TOURBUS:
http://listserv.aol.com/archives/tourbus.html
Back issues of Fierce.com:
http://www.fierce.com/archive/index.html
CHOICE web reviews:
http://www.ala.org/acrl/choice/supurl1.html
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HotSites Archive: http://lhostelaw.com/iaa/ia_hs.htm
Another: http://lhostelaw.com/ia/ia2/hot_archive.htm
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24 March 2000
HAPPY AGRICULTURE DAY!
In Today's Issue
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1. A Word A Day -- sycophant
2. Graphic of the Day -- Ovoid Series
3. QOTD -- W. (lucky his daddy came first)
4. HotSites - Miscellany
5. Cool Fact of the Day - First Hard Drive
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1. A Word A Day
sycophant (SIK-uh-fuhnt, SIE-kuh-) noun
A servile self-seeker who attempts to win favor by flattering
influential people.
[Latin sycophanta, informer, slanderer, from Greek sukophantes, informer :
sukon, fig + -phantes, one who shows (from phainein, to show).]
"There are few models around the world of coup plotters who have
succeeded as civilian administrators. This is in part because dictators
invariably begin to believe the sycophants who gather around them."
The Savior Fantasy, The Washington Post, 20 Oct 1999.
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>From A Word A Day:
http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/
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2. Graphic of the Day -- Ovoid Series
http://lhostelaw.com/ia/ia2/gotd/ovoid1.htm
by David J. L'Hoste
GOTD Archive: http://lhostelaw.com/iaa/ia_graphics.htm
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3. QOTD -- W.
"Rarely is the question asked: Is our children
learning?"—Florence, S.C., Jan. 11, 2000
"Gov. Bush will not stand for the subsidation of failure."—ibid.
"I read the newspaper."—In answer to a question about his
reading habits, New Hampshire Republican Debate, Dec. 2,
1999.
"I don't remember debates. I don't think we spent a lot of time
debating it. Maybe we did, but I don't remember."—On
discussions of the Vietnam War when he was an
undergraduate at Yale, Washington Post, July 27, 1999
"The only thing I know about Slovakia is what I learned
first-hand from your foreign minister, who came to
Texas."—To a Slovak journalist as quoted by Knight Ridder
News Service, June 22, 1999. Bush's meeting was with Janez
Drnovsek, the prime minister of Slovenia.
"If the East Timorians decide to revolt, I'm sure I'll have a
statement."—Quoted by Maureen Dowd in the New York
Times, June 16, 1999
"Keep good relations with the Grecians."—Quoted in the
Economist, June 12, 1999
"The administration I'll bring is a group of men and women
who are focused on what's best for America, honest men and
women, decent men and women, women who will see service
to our country as a great privilege and who will not stain the
house."—Des Moines Register debate, Iowa, Jan. 15, 2000
-- George W. Bush
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4. HotSites -- Miscellany
"LibrarySpot.com is a virtual library resource center for
educators and students, librarians and their patrons, families,
businesses and just about anyone exploring the Web for
valuable research information. The site was designed to
break through the information overload of the Web to bring
the best library and reference sites together with insightful
editorial in one user-friendly spot."
http://www.libraryspot.com/
Lives, the Biography Resource
http://members.home.net/klanxner/lives/index.html
whatis.com
- a knowledge exploration tool about information technology
http://www.whatis.com/index.htm
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HotSites Archive: http://lhostelaw.com/iaa/ia_hs.htm
Another: http://lhostelaw.com/ia/ia2/hot_archive.htm
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5. Cool Fact of the Day
First Hard Disk
The world's first hard disk memory storage device was IBM's 350
RAMAC Disk File (Random Access Method of Accounting and
Controlling), first offered in September, 1956.
The 350 RAMAC was the first storage device with random access
to large volumes of data. (Random access means that any of the
data is available in a short time.) It used fifty 24-inch (61-cm)
platters, holding 5 million 7-bit characters of data (roughly
equivalent to 4.9 megabytes). It could be leased for $35,000 per
year.
At the end of 1999, it was possible to buy a 50-gigabyte (50 billion
bytes) hard disk for less than $1,600. That's more than ten
thousand times as much storage as the 350 RAMAC, and the
device itself is much more reliable and much faster.
More about the 350 RAMAC and other early memory devices:
http://www.tcm.org/html/history/detail/1956-ramac.html
http://www.disktrend.com/disk3.htm
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>From Cool Fact of the Day:
http://www.cool-fact.com/
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