A load of bull or bollocks, perhaps both.
“The circus trapeze artist had tried to emasculate the man using the steel pincers after accusing him of having a relationship with his former girlfriend, a 46-year-old belly dancer who performed in the same circus.”
“Among the highlights are commentated explanations of penguin procreation - along the lines of “Mr and Mrs Penguin then get it on together” - and an indiscreet peek at the zoo’s elephant “members,” according to Chan.”
I’ve heard they even have some educated fleas.
NEWS.com.au | Zoo offers Valentine’s sex tours (February 15, 2003)
“As it becomes evident something is approaching, the entire news staff will be placed on standby, even when you’re not working. In your off hours listen to KFBK, KGO, and KCBS, watch CNN, MSNBC. Not only will this help keep you posted on war and possible attacks you will find some terrific story ideas. News immersion. Watch, listen, read!”
“So while 3 launches on 03/03/03, I suspect we’ll be waiting until 06/06/06 before we really feel we’re part of something new.”
“Up to 10 million people on five continents are expected to demonstrate against the probable war in Iraq on Saturday, in some of the largest peace marches ever known.”
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | 10 million join world protest rallies
Jeremy Allaire: “A server is just another client — and I’d add, it’s a client with an institutional memory.”
And in the context of P2P file sharing, a client is just another server, but a server with a personal memory.
“Richard Dawkins, Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science, University of Oxford, said: ‘I still think it is folly to alienate most of the Arab world, just at the very moment when we need their support in tracking down al-Qaeda.’”
“Well, I say, the bit I was thinking about was when you said how you hated it when young children are described as Muslim or Jewish or whatever when they’ve had no say in the matter. He grins, and says it’s pure Monty Python. ‘It’s like saying the three-year-old child is a neo-Gramscian Marxist child, we wouldn’t do that.’”
Searching for people is one of the most difficult problems for search engines.
“Surnames cause the biggest problems in genealogy… In one document, my ancestor’s surname appeared as Mury, Murry and Murray. Samuel’s surname is Murry on his headstone. On the stone of his son Levi, it’s Murray.”
The most widely used standard for searching for name variants is Soundex, however this does not take account of non Anglo-Saxon sounding names and does not work with a thesaurus of known variants.
NameX, which was developed for use on Originsearch was designed specifically for looking at the name variants used historically, as well as phonetic variants. For example, it picks up 56 variants of Mury. It would be interesting to take the Namex concept further and allow you to choose name variants based on the ethnicity or language of the search.
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