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"Seine-Saint-Denis" - Roman from Bookmarklet

ITU standards - Roman

The Unit Command Climate Assessment and Survey System (UCCASS) (pronounced yoo-kas) is a PHP based survey script that allows you to create online surveys. Originally designed for organizations to administer Command Climate Assessments (annual surveys), the program can be used to create any type of online survey or questionnaire. - Roman

I've read somewhere that it's very (!!!) expensive for locals. - Roman

Thankfully, it is not up to Karen (right?). :P - Dan Hsiao

I'm going to start bringing PB&J and bread in to the office. - Kevin Fox

the older the better - Roman

"Osiem minut. Tyle trwa podróż z centrum 18-milionowego Szanghaju na lotnisko. Kolej na poduszce magnetycznej – bez najmniejszych drgań – rozwija prędkość do 431 km/godz. Dworzec z miejskim metrem łączą schody ruchome, a metro w Szanghaju ma zamiar – jeszcze przed Expo 2010 – wybudować 29 nowych stacji, bo dotychczasowe 171 to widocznie za mało. Metro zaczęto kopać dopiero w 1995 r., ale w przyszłym roku będzie miało 200 stacji i chyba ze 300 km. Jesteśmy w innym świecie, to Azja XXI w." - Roman from Bookmarklet

"But Lucovsky may be best known for the role he played in a complete and utter meltdown that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer once had. As the NT architect, Lucovsky was clearly pretty vital to Microsoft, so when he went in for a meeting with Ballmer in 2004 to let him know he was leaving, you can be sure the CEO was a bit on edge. “Just tell me it’s not Google,” Ballmer reportedly said according to court documents (for a case surrounding another Google ex-Microsoft hire). When Lucovsky said it was Google, Ballmer allegedly picked up a chair and threw it across the room. What he apparently said next, will live on forever in Internet history. “Fucking Eric Schmidt is a fucking pussy. I’m going to fucking bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I’m going to fucking kill Google.”" - Roman from Bookmarklet

"The internet suffered a number of slowdowns as people the world over rushed to verify accounts of Michael Jackson's death." - Roman from Bookmarklet

"A homeless man is on trial in San Mateo County on charges that he smacked a fellow transient in the face with a skateboard as the victim was engaged in a conversation about quantum physics, authorities said Wednesday." - Roman from Bookmarklet

"NEW YORK (Reuters) - Carrying a little extra weight may actually be good for you, according to a Canadian study that showed a few pounds appear to protect people from an early death." - Roman from Bookmarklet

"The veteran director, who is planning to shoot a film in Paris next year, says the French first lady has the charisma to be a movie star" - Roman from Bookmarklet

"Gap year - dosłownie dziurawy rok - to przerwa w karierze zaplanowana po to, by podróżować. Ten szalony pomysł znajduje wykonawców nawet w czasie kryzysu. Jest wśród nich spora grupa Polaków." - Roman from Bookmarklet

"Opera today unveiled Opera Unite, a new technology that shakes up the old client-server computing model of the Web. Opera Unite turns any computer into both a client and a server, allowing it to interact with and serve content to other computers directly across the Web, without the need for third-party servers." - Roman from Bookmarklet

"If you like to search for "music lyrics" or "free" things, you are engaging in risky cyber behavior. And "free music downloads" puts 20 percent of Web surfers in harm's way of malicious software, known as "malware."" - Roman from Bookmarklet

"Abdullahi Mohamed Hassan is stranded in his home in the Somali capital Mogadishu, after his neighbourhood was engulfed by fighting." - Roman from Bookmarklet

"A US company which monitors internet traffic predicts that the millionth new English word will be created later." - Roman from Bookmarklet

"North Korea said Tuesday it would use nuclear weapons in a "merciless offensive" if provoked - its latest rhetoric apparently aimed at deterring any international punishment for its recent atomic test blast." - Roman from Bookmarklet

"Sure, it's growing like crazy. But growth and innovation needn't be either/or pursuits, especially when you've got Twitter's cash" - Roman from Bookmarklet

"Marek Edelman, ostatni żyjący dowódca powstania w warszawskim getcie, otrzymał w poniedziałek tytuł doktora honoris causa Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego za m.in. "obronę nieprzemijających wartości: dobra, prawdy, wolności". Uroczystość odbyła się w Pałacu Kazimierzowskim Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego." - Roman from Bookmarklet

"It's 200 years since the "father of the American revolution" was born... in a Norfolk village. His words also helped shape modern Britain and France and yet few people know much about him at all." - Roman from Bookmarklet

"A man's chances of dying early are cut by a fifth if their bride is between 15 and 17 years their junior. The risk of premature death is reduced by 11 per cent if they marry a woman seven to nine years younger." - Roman from Bookmarklet

"Google showed up as the most conspicuous tracker on third-party sites. Google Analytics, a free product that allows online publishers to gather statistics about visitors to their sites, was used on 81 of the top 100 sites. Cookies from the advertising company DoubleClick, which is owned by Google, were present on 70 of those sites. When combining trackers from those two services, Google had a presence on 92 of the top 100 sites. Others weren’t far behind. Cookies from Atlas, Microsoft’s DoubleClick rival, appeared on 60 sites, and trackers from two other analytics companies, Quantcast and Omniture, showed up on 54 sites." - Roman from Bookmarklet

"Mainland European cities are the most desirable places to work despite having some of the highest levels of tax in the world, according to a quality of living survey published today." - Roman from Bookmarklet

"A virtual book of all life on Earth is being created by UK and US scientists." - Roman from Bookmarklet

"Concerned about her family's finances, a university student in Australia cashed some long-forgotten lottery tickets this week -- hoping the money would help her parents." - Roman from Bookmarklet

"The famous internet brand Google could soon be seen on the painted carbon bodywork of a Formula One car." - Roman from Bookmarklet

"The historic election of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States has captivated Americans and foreigners alike. They traveled to Washington, D.C. from near and far in order to witness the inaugural ceremony at midday on January 20, 2009. According to official estimates from the District of Columbia government, 1.8 million people gathered on the National Mall that day. It is clear from television images and photographs that this momentous event drew a diverse crowd to the Nation's Capital. For President Obama's 100th day in office, the MIT SENSEable City Lab has created visualizations of mobile phone call activity that characterize the inaugural crowd and answer the questions: Who was in Washington, D.C. for President Obama's Inauguration Day? When did they arrive, where did they go, and how long did they stay? The results of our advanced data analyses are presented in two dazzling visualizations that celebrate Barack Obama and the people who supported him from all over the U.S. and the world." - Roman from Bookmarklet

We're in the market too...will be watching this convo - Bwana ☠

I loves my Roomba, but you still need a real vac sometimes. For stairs and corners, mostly. - Wirehead