Archive for November, 2005
Tuesday, November 15th, 2005
Senate Republicans and Democrats are coming together to call for a clearer plan from the White House regarding the eventual conclusion of the war in Iraq. In addition to making available such a plan, the White House would also be required to provide extensive quarterly progress reports to Congress.
It is ...
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Monday, November 14th, 2005
Two long awaited studies of the effectiveness of a pair of new heart medications were presented on Monday at an American Heart Association meeting. The medial community was on edge, hoping for good news, but the results were mixed. While neither new drug was shown to reduce death rates, the ...
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Sunday, November 13th, 2005
Why is it so easy to tell when someone says the f-word, even if you can't hear them say it? I have noticed this phenomenon most prevalently on sports telecasts. The camera shows someone reacting to a call a referee makes (usually a head coach), and seemingly inevitably, you get ...
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Wednesday, November 9th, 2005
I found a new LaTeX package the other day, known as cancel, which allows me to either strike through or zero out a term in an equation. For example, if I want to strike through a term in an equation, I can get an effect that looks like
with the following ...
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Monday, November 7th, 2005
Ars Technica published an article today discussing the agreement NBC Universal made with DirecTV to sell their television shows for $0.99 to DirecTV customers. The shows are sold without commercials, as they appear in DVD boxed sets.
I am pleased to see the television networks beginning to move down this ...
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Friday, November 4th, 2005
The city of Denver, Colorado, voted yesterday to decriminalize the possession of up to one ounce of marijuana for adults aged 21 years or older. State laws, however, continue to ban such possession, so enforcement of marijuana possession as a result of this particular ordinance is not likely to change.
I ...
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