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10 September 1999
In Today's Issue
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1. A Word A Day -- sword of Damocles
2. Graphic of the Day -- Jean and Marc - 1999
3. Quote of the Day -- Rad Smith
4. HotSites -- Sports Score Tickers!
5. Campaign 2000
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1. A Word A Day
sword of Damocles (sord uv DAM-uh-kleez) noun
Constant threat; imminent peril.
[After Damocles, fourth century B.C.Greek courtier to Dionysius the
Elder, tyrant of Syracuse, who according to legend was forced to sit
at a banquet table under a sword suspended by a single hair to
demonstrate the precariousness of a king's fortunes.]
"The latest in courtroom technology is a real shocker, physically,
legally and emotionally. ... Most often it is used as a deterrent,
an electronic sword of Damocles poised to discourage any dangerous
behavior."
The Power to Shock, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 7 May 1994.
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>From A Word A Day:
http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/
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2. Graphic of the Day
Jean and Marc - 1999
by David J. L'Hoste
http://lhostelaw.com/ia/ia2/gotd/990815jema.htm
GOTD Archive: http://lhostelaw.com/iaa/ia_graphics.htm
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3. Quote of the Day -- Rad Smith
Say Water
Say birds instead of water
because birds are signing
to each other
in the fluttery
language of water.
Or say deer and lift your head
as if you sense my mouth
drinking from your glass
because deer have trampled the water
and left it nervous.
Or pines, say pines,
their needles brushing
across my body must by now
know something of trembling.
No, say water in that limpid voice
you once used to draw the icy bath
when I, wild-tongued, was burning up
and you were beautiful.
Rad Smith
Poetry
Volume CLXXIV, Number 5
August 1999
Copyright © 1999 by the Modern Poetry Association.
All rights reserved.
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4. HotSites -- Sports Score Tickers!
ESPN Score Tracker is a Java Applet that puts a little box in
the corner of your screen that display real-time scores whenever
your online. It updates every 15 seconds no matter what your
doing on your browser.
ESPN Score Tracker (free download)
http://scores-espn.sportszone.com/cgi/scoretracker/about.asp
Also check these:
CBSSportsLine ScoreCenter
http://www.sportsline.com/u/scorecenter/index.html
CNN/SI Desktop
http://cnnsi.com/java/index.html
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Another: http://lhostelaw.com/ia/ia2/hot_archive.htm
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5. Campaign 2000
From the Left, Bradley Enters Race
By Thomas B. Edsall
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, September 9, 1999; Page A01
CRYSTAL CITY, Mo., Sept. 8 –– Bill Bradley returned to his home
town on the banks of the Mississippi River today to declare his candidacy
for the presidency and present himself as a leader above politics who
would renew Democratic commitments to end poverty and provide health
care for all Americans.
Standing before an audience of about 1,500 people in front of Crystal
City High School, Bradley reached out to liberal Democrats and
independents who worry that the nation's unprecedented prosperity has
not reached the lowest rungs of the economic ladder.
"The economy soars, but some of us are slipping behind," Bradley said in
a calm but forceful voice. "Median family income seems stuck; personal
debt and bankruptcy are at all-time highs; one out of five children live in
poverty. . . . In so many ways, we have failed to use our prosperity to
improve the well-being of all our citizens."
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Full story from the Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/feed/a37231-1999sep9.htm
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6. News of the Weird
Thursday September 9 7:49 AM ET
Deadly Octopus Astonishes Aquarium
LONDON (Reuters) - A deadly octopus, whose bite can kill
humans in minutes but is only the size of a golf ball, has
astonished a British aquarium by hatching a brood of 50 young.
The bite of the blue-ringed octopus causes blurred vision
and difficulty in swallowing followed rapidly by paralysis
and death. There is no known antidote.
The deadly creature, imported from Australia this summer,
surprised everyone at the Sea Life Center in Weymouth, western
England, when she produced a ball of tiny eggs.
``They are beautiful creatures but they only display their
true blue-ringed colors when they are about to attack.
So for many people it could have been just about the last
thing they ever saw,'' said marine expert Oliver Buttling.
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From: Oddly Enough Headlines:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/od/nm/
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Awesome, Duuude!
The San Francisco Examiner reported in June that
one-third of outdoor rodents at the Kesterson National
Wildlife Refuge have both male and female reproductive
organs, a finding attributed to a nearby reservoir of
selenium, which is a byproduct of agricultural runoff.
The lead investigator said the rodents are male on
the outside and female on the inside.
Latest Survived Plunges: Allen Frith, age 45, 75 feet
off a cliff at his home near Pigeon Forge, Tenn.
(February); 30-year-old woman in her car, off the
seventh floor of a parking garage, Pittsburgh (April);
27-year-old man, 80 feet off a construction platform,
Washington, D.C.(July); Leung Man-chun, 8, 17 floors
from a Hong Kong apartment (with four clotheslines and a
canopy breaking his fall) (April).
Spectacular Crashes: Piedmont, Mo., teen driver Rory Dale
Smith survived a collision with a train even though he was
ejected from his truck and slammed through the rolled-up passenger
window of another truck (March). A one-vehicle crash on the
Capital Beltway in Alexandria, Va., vaulted the chihuahua Tito
over a 4-foot-high median barrier and four lanes of traffic safely
to the grassy shoulder (April). Olivier Faure, 21, was knocked
off his motorcycle by a car in the village of Upaix, France,
but walked and hitchhiked, in shock, to his home six miles away
before he realized that his forearm had been severed (February).
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From: MSNBC Online - News of the Weird
http://www.msnbc.com/comics/nw.asp
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28 October 1999
In Today's Issue
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1. A Word A Day -- grizzle
2. HotSites -- News Search
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1. A Word A Day
grizzle (GRIZ-uhl) verb tr.
To make or become gray.
noun
1. The color of a grizzled animal. A grizzled animal.
2. Archaic. Gray hair.
adjective
1. Gray.
2. Grizzled.
[From Middle English grisel, gray, from Old French, diminutive of gris, gray.]
"Picturesque posings; laconic utterance; tacit understanding among
friends; and that stock European hero, the grizzle-bearded fellow who
is tacitly Very Real."
Kauffmann, Stanley, Before the Rain.(movie reviews), The New Republic,
27 Mar 1995.
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>From A Word A Day:
http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/
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2. HotSites -- News Search
1) NewsTrawler - Parallel Search engine for news sites on
the Internet
http://www.newstrawler.com/nt/nt_home.html
(2) NewsHub - News summaries and meta search
http://www.newshub.com/
(3) NewsIndex - search 250 newspapers at once
http://www.newsindex.com/
(4) Many of the major web search sites, such as Lycos,
Excite, Hotbot, Yahoo and others have news searching
capability where you can search several news sources
at once:
http://news.excite.com/news
http://headlines.hotbot.com/news/
http://www.lycos.com/news/
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/
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Another: http://lhostelaw.com/ia/ia2/hot_archive.htm
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08 November 1999
In Today's Issue
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1. A Word A Day -- philtrum
2. HotSites -- Photos by Cartier-Bresson and Leibovitz
3. QOTD -- Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson
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1. A Word A Day
philtrum (FIL-truhm) noun
The vertical groove above the upper lip.
[From Greek philtron, philter, charm, dimple in the upper lip]
"That face makes demands beyond the imagination. Each plane of it--even
the philtrum, the rectangular cleft above her upper lip--perfectly formed
and entirely symmetrical, each a separate, swelling voice in a choir of
pure praise."
Raab, Scott, Christy, returning the favor, believes in God. (fashion
model Christy Turlington), Esquire, 1 Nov 1997.
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>From A Word A Day:
http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/
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2. HotSites -- Photo Exhibits
Photo exhibits by two very important 20th century portraitists,
Henri Catier-Bresson and Annie Leibovitz:
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/museums/photogallery/bresson/index.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/library/photos/leibovitz/index.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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3. QOTD -- Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson
Excerpts from Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law in the
Micro$oft anti-trust suit:
Microsoft enjoys so much power in the market for Intel-compatible
PC operating systems that if it wished to exercise this power solely in
terms of price, it could charge a price for Windows substantially above
that which could be charged in a competitive market. Moreover, it could
do so for a significant period of time without losing an unacceptable
amount of business to competitors. In other words, Microsoft enjoys
monopoly power in the relevant market.
Viewed together, three main facts indicate that Microsoft enjoys
monopoly power. First, Microsoft's share of the market for
Intel-compatible PC operating systems is extremely large and stable.
Second, Microsoft's dominant market share is protected by a high barrier
to entry. Third, and largely as a result of that barrier, Microsoft's
customers lack a commercially viable alternative to Windows.
* * *
Most harmful of all is the message that Microsoft's actions have
conveyed to every enterprise with the potential to innovate in the
computer industry. Through its conduct toward Netscape, IBM,
Compaq, Intel, and others, Microsoft has demonstrated that it will use its
prodigious market power and immense profits to harm any firm that
insists on pursuing initiatives that could intensify competition against one
of Microsoft's core products. Microsoft's past success in hurting such
companies and stifling innovation deters investment in technologies and
businesses that exhibit the potential to threaten Microsoft. The ultimate
result is that some innovations that would truly benefit consumers never
occur for the sole reason that they do not coincide with Microsoft's
self-interest.
___________/s/_______________
Thomas Penfield Jackson
U.S. District Judge
Date: November 5, 1999
Full text:
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/11/biztech/articles/05findings.html
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22 November 1999
In Today's Issue
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1. A Word A Day -- Dunkirk
2. Graphic of the Day -- Lacassine NWR
3. HotSites -- Shopping Bots, et al.
4. Quote of the Day -- Michael Blumenthal
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1. A Word A Day
Dunkirk (DUN-kurk) noun
1. A desperate retreat.
2. A condition in which a desperate last effort is the only alternative
to total defeat.
[After Dunkirk (also Dunkerque), a city of northern France on the North Sea.
In World War II more than 330,000 Allied troops were evacuated from its
beaches in the face of enemy fire (May-June 1940).]
"Humanity is now facing a sort of slow motion environmental Dunkirk. It
remains to be seen whether civilization can avoid the perilous trap it
has set for itself. "
Ehrlich, Paul R., Ehrlich, Anne H., Brownlash: the new environmental
anti-science, The Humanist, 21 Nov 96
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>From A Word A Day:
http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/
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2. Graphic of the Day
Lacassine National Wildlife Refuge
by David J. L'Hoste
http://lhostelaw.com/djl/991031lacassine5.htm
GOTD Archive: http://lhostelaw.com/iaa/ia_graphics.htm
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3. HotSites -- Shop 'til you drop!
====Shopping Bots====
Shopping Bots (short for robots) are web-based software agents
that prowl the web in search of bargains. You plug in the name
of the product you want and the bot returns a list of the best
prices it finds.
My Simon
http://www.mysimon.com
Bottomdollar.com
http://www.bottomdollar.com
Shopfind
http://www.shopfind.com
Webmarket
http://www.webmarket.com
Yahoo Shopping
http://shopguide.yahoo.com
BookBlvd
http://www.bookblvd.com
Bookfinder
http://www.bookfinder.com
PriceScan
http://www.pricescan.com
====E-Malls====
Mallsguide.com
http://www.mallsguide.com/
Mall Internet
http://mall-internet.com/
IChargeit
http://www.shopppersgateway.net/
Buyitonline.com
http://www.buyitonline.com/
Shabang!.com
http://www.shabang.com/
====Toys and Games====
Netoy.com
http://www.netoy.com/
ToysRUs.com
http://www.toysrus.com/
Yahoo Toys
http://shopping.yahoo.com/toys/
FAO Schwarz
http://www.faoschwarz.com/
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4. Quote of the Day -- Michael Blumenthal
The Accountant
This being Cambridge, he too
(a minor in Classics from
Brandeis U.) has read Herodotus,
but now it's no longer the cycles
of history that move him,
but the more grounded questions
of whether to file married,
filing separately, or married,
filing jointly, whether to declare
one's home temporarily converted
to rental property, or domiciled
abroad, to partially depreciate
one's decline, or await the single large loss
of sale in a falling market. And then
a friend tells me studies have shown
accountants to be the happiest professionals,
forever working toward some tangible outcome
in a world already codified, and I think again
of my own scribe, Don, reading the Oresteia
for no particular purpose beyond pleasure,
as he follows the unambiguous oracle
of his ordinary occupation, delighted
merely to ponder the possibility
that things may yet add up to add up.
Michael Blumenthal
Dusty Angel
1999 Isabella Gardner Award for Poetry
BOA Editions, Ltd.
Copyright © 1999 by Michael Blumenthal.
All rights reserved.
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