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Asteroid May Hit Earth but Don’t Panic

Where’s Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck? ——- http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/20020724/sc_nm/space_asteroid_dc_1 Expert: Asteroid May Hit Earth but Don’t Panic Wed Jul 24, 9:01 AM ET By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) – A...

UN Says Democracy At Risk..

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/2147882.stm#table Wednesday, 24 July, 2002, 01:19 GMT 02:19 UK UN says democracy is at risk The report calls global inequality “grotesque” Rising inequality and corruption around the world are putting the recent spread...

FOIB Party – Wednesday July 31st. (Vancouver)

As most of you know, FOIB (The Friends of Ian Bell mailing list) was founded on December 20, 1998. This means that FOIB is now four years, seven months, and 4 days old (anyone who points out that this is mathematically incorrect gets a slap). I think we’re past...

AOL scaling back IM interoperability

Begin forwarded message: > From: “Jim Whitehead” > Date: Tue Jul 23, 2002 01:27:06 PM US/Pacific > To: “FoRK” > Subject: AOL scaling back IM interoperability > > I suppose the main surprise here is that AOL is coming clean at > all. After >...

Evil Polling

I know you’re sitting there asking yourself, “who is the most evil person on the planet?”. Wonder no more, your local search engine will tell you. Just search for the phrase +” is EVIL” and let the internet tell you the real truth. I used...

What’s The Beef?

I read this article in Harper’s Magazine in February and I was shocked. I’ve been talking about it ever since. I just found it, thanks to Google. Very much easier to read in this format than on the web page, though. -Ian. —–...