13/09/2005 @ 23:57 GMT
Douglas Bowman : JSM on FontExplorer X - Jason points to Linotype's new (and free) FontExplorer X, a font management app for OS X. Information on Linotype's site is sparse, but hopeful. I'll be watching comments on Jason's site closely, as I'd love for this to finally be a replacement for Suitca
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13/09/2005 @ 23:56 GMT
jimray : Microsoft Codename Max - It's like Flickr. But made by Microsoft. Yay.
ricmac : Microsoft Codename Max - Max is built on the next-generation WinFX Runtime Components technology that will drive the development of Windows Vista® applications.
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13/09/2005 @ 23:56 GMT
jimray : Yahoo news has a Flicr account for Katrina - Does this mean they have actual photo editors as well?
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13/09/2005 @ 23:56 GMT
deusx : Bush Takes Responsibility for Blunders - Yahoo! News - "President Bush for the first time took responsibility Tuesday for federal government mistakes in dealing with Hurricane Katrina and suggested the calamity raised broader questions about the government's ability to handle both natural disasters and terror
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13/09/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : Web Publishing Tip: Write Clear Titles - I’ve mentioned this before, a few times actually, but I thought I’d mention it again. With emphasis.
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13/09/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : The Observer | Business | John Naughton: Why the iPhone won't rock your world - it was designed by a company that has become a prisoner of its previous success at innovation
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13/09/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : Getting Real: Forget feature requests - Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals) - The ones that are really important will keep bubbling up. And those are the ones you’ll remember
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13/09/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : Bubblegeneration - Evil Corporations Only - Plasticity, aka The Countdown to Hypercivilization
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jimray : but she’s a girl… » Lighttpd, Rails and Tracks - I'm *going* to figure this out, dammit
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13/09/2005 @ 22:56 GMT
jimray : Microsoft Gadgets - Microsoft's innovation truly knows no bounds
kayodeok : Microsoft Gadgets - We're excited to announce that we've started a blog designed to bring you closer to the process with the Gadgets blog and we’re kicking it off at the PDC
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kayodeok : Statement from Microsoft Concerning Superior Court's Preliminary Injunction Order in Case of Google and Kai-Fu Lee: - Microsoft issued the following statement regarding the Preliminary Injunction Order issued today by the Superior Court of the State of Washington
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13/09/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
kayodeok : Privacy Enhanced Computer Display - The privacy-enhanced computer display uses a ferroelectric shutter glasses and a special device driver to produce a computer display which can be read only by the desired recipient, and not by an onlooker
Rod Begbie : Privacy Enhanced Computer Display - "It is also possible to use the system to "underlay" a private message on a public display system." Anyone else reminded of "They Live"? [via] #
plasticbag : Privacy Enhanced Computer Display - A lovely bit of tech this one that makes what's on your monitor only visible through special glasses. Reminds me of the LCD screen that's completely unreadable from the sides...
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13/09/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
ricmac : Danny Sullivan reviews new Memeorandum - "...if you want to get a regular dose of most-linked-to stories, it's a nice solution."
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13/09/2005 @ 21:56 GMT
jimray : OS X with lighttpd in Rails Wiki - I swear I've tried this...
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13/09/2005 @ 21:56 GMT
Rod Begbie : Doonesbury: returning to G2 - Grauniad dumps Doonesbury strip without warning as part of shrinkifying of paper. Hundreds of readers complain. 24 hours later, the features editor posts "mea culpa" in their blog comments, and says that it will return. Good for them. (FWIW, Steve Bel #
plasticbag : The Guardian's Editor's Weblog shows immediately the discussions and background behind the decision to un-drop Doonesbury - At the smallest level this really does seem to have been a way that the editorial team can talk outside the publication in a less formal voice than ever before. Interesting stuff...
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13/09/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
kayodeok : Google Blog: Judge clears way for Dr. Lee - A Washington state judge ruled today that Dr. Kai-Fu Lee can immediately begin working for Google
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13/09/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
jkottke : March of the Penguins a conservative fave - March of the Penguins has become a favorite for conservative moviegoers, who cite it as making a good case for monogomy, intelligent design, and a pro-life stance on abortion. I wonder if liberals watch the film and come out advocating universal health ca
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jkottke : Huma brain still evolving - The human brain may have undergone "substantial evolution" in the past 60,000 years.
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13/09/2005 @ 20:56 GMT
kayodeok : Imperial College London - New microchip design could be the key to expanding mobile phone memory - Mobile phones could one day have the memory capacity of a desktop computer thanks to a microchip that mimics the functioning of the brain, scientists report today (9 September) in the journal Science
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13/09/2005 @ 20:56 GMT
deusx : How Bush Blew It - Newsweek Hurricane Katrina Coverage - MSNBC.com - "Repeatedly, the president turned to his aides and said, "Fix it.""
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13/09/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Looking for Katrina Images On Google & Yahoo - Looking for Katrina Images On Google & Yahoo: How did Yahoo Images do with the Hurricane Katrina query? MUCH better than Google.
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13/09/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Make Thunderbird use Google Maps instead of MapQuest - Make Thunderbird use Google Maps instead of MapQuest: cool.. I didn't even know thunderbird did that
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13/09/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
Andy Baio : TiVo adds copyright protection, blocks transfers, and auto-deletes some shows - this is a terrible move; I feel personally betrayed as an evangelist of their product since 2000
jkottke : TiVo hates its customers - TiVo's new OS adds content "protection", which means if the copyright holder of Seinfeld wants your TiVo to delete the show after a week whether you've watched it or not, that's what it's going to do. I love my TiVo and I'm currently suffering from outrag [via]
veen : TiVo 7.2 OS adds content protection, blocks transfers, and auto-deletes some shows - A bug? Maybe, but a also a glimpse of a DRMed future...
Nelson Minar : More TiVo stupidity - Matt breaks it down (via Marc)
plasticbag : TiVo 7.2 OS adds content protection, blocks transfers, and auto-deletes some shows - Lots of discussion about this one. Basically it's a PVR with rights controls imposed from the studios and broadcasters - designed for pay-per-view stuff...
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13/09/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
Andy Baio : The Work Blind curtain - "wow, he's barely moved since February!"
Milo Vermeulen : tongodeon: The "Work Blind" Curtain - tongodeon: The "Work Blind" Curtain
Matthew M. Boedicker : the "work blind" curtain
Jeremy Zawodny : The "Work Blind" Curtain - The "Work Blind" Curtain: awesome cube hack
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13/09/2005 @ 19:57 GMT
jimray : Gay penguins in Central Park - HA! Take THAT you idiot conservatives! (re: conservatives heart 'March of the Penguins')
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13/09/2005 @ 19:57 GMT
jimray : 'March of the Penguins' and Homosexuality - Why anthropomorphizing penguins by conservatives (and others) is totally ridiculous
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13/09/2005 @ 19:57 GMT
jimray : March of the Conservatives: Penguin Film as Political Fodder - What in the hell is wrong with the goddamn country?
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13/09/2005 @ 19:57 GMT
jimray : Vanilla Bicycles _ hand crafted in portland, oregon - Nice bikes!
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13/09/2005 @ 19:57 GMT
jimray : Ananova - Gay penguins won't go straight - More gay penguins
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13/09/2005 @ 19:56 GMT
kayodeok : Schneier on Security: Snooping on Text by Listening to the Keyboard - Li Zhuang, Feng Zhou, and Doug Tygar have an interesting new paper showing that if you have an audio recording of somebody typing on an ordinary computer keyboard for fifteen minutes or so, you can figure out everything they typed
Wayne Burkett : Schneier on Security: Snooping on Text by Listening to the Keyboard - Listening, listening -- with your ear that is. #
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13/09/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
kayodeok : The TV IV Wiki - Welcome to The TV IV Wiki, which seeks to give you current, up-to-date information on your favorite shows, both new and old
Nelson Minar : TV IV Wiki - Community site for building info on TV shows. Brilliant idea. (via Slashdot)
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13/09/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
kayodeok : Yahoo! Shopping on Mobile - Use Your Mobile Phone To Find the Best Deals Wherever You Are
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13/09/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
jkottke : Top 10 cheap marketing ploys to increase sales - Top 10 cheap marketing ploys to increase sales of comic books, but as noted in the comments, a sufficiently generalized version of this list would work in many instances.
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13/09/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : NewsFire blocks RSS ads - NewsFire blocks RSS ads: it was just a matter of time
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13/09/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Building a Smarter To-Do List - an essential two-part article
kayodeok : 43 Folders | Building a Smarter To-Do List, Part I - Building a Smarter To-Do List, Part I
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13/09/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
jkottke : Cupcake battles - Someday we'll all tell our children about the epic cupcake battles of the early 00s. This one time, I got frosting all over my shirt. It was brutal. (via meg) [via]
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13/09/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
deusx : Urban Legends Reference Pages: Politics (God's Wrath) - D'oht, I've been HAD. False: "Good satire neatly straddles the divide between the believable and the incredible, and the Dateline Hollywood article quoted above achieved that balance so well that many readers mistook it for a straight news article."
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Andy Baio : Video: Fifth graders perform Devo's "Whip It" - including homebrew energy domes [via]
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13/09/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Wired News on the Summer FOunders Program - Y Combinator's Summer Camp for young geek entrepreneurs; no mention of Kiko, though
Nelson Minar : Y Combinator report - This program seems to have worked out quite well
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jkottke : Curse of the ninth - Among classical music composers, the "curse of the ninth" is a fear of ninth symphonies because many prominant composers have died after completing them. (via 92y) [via]
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13/09/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
jkottke : Katrina and global warming - Elizabeth Kolbert (who wrote three articles for the NYer on global warming earlier in the year) discusses global warming as a possible cause for Hurricane Katrina. Like the climate scientists on RealClimate contend, Kolbert notes that no particular storm
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13/09/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
jkottke : How the iPod nano came to be - How the iPod nano came to be. Lots of Jobs and Apple haters out there, but you have to admire the shooting from the hip that's going on here...too many American companies minimize their risk so much that the possible reward dries up almost completely.
Wayne Burkett : Time Mag: Stevie's Little Wonder - Jobs on the iPod: "That same innovation, that same engineering, that same talent applied where we don't run up against the fact that Microsoft got this monopoly, and boom! We have 75% market share." #
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13/09/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
jkottke : Keller has never tasted own signature dish - Oddly, chef Thomas Keller (not the poker player) has never tasted "Oysters and Pearls", one of his signature dishes. "In the ten years it's been on his menu, he's never once tasted it, and now is too superstitious to even think about it."
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13/09/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
deusx : eyeteeth: Their cousin called monotreme - "Basically what I'm trying to say is HOLY CRAP MONOTREMES ARE WEIRD WHY DO THEY EVEN EXIST."
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13/09/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
deusx : BobHarris.com: Bush orders FEMA to protect Upsidedownland - "Welcome to upside-down-land: the areas at risk for Katrina were quite remarkably the areas not included in Bush's declaration of emergency."
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13/09/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
philgyford : Bigger than Doonesbury (Pete Ashton's Weblog) - On Doonesbury disappearing from the new Guardian, and then being reinstated.
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13/09/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Leo Burnett - abnormally clever corporate Flash site
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13/09/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
kayodeok : 23 Photo Sharing: Share, Store & Organize. The smart way to manage your digital photos - A possible alternative to flickr
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13/09/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : You ARE a marketer. Deal with it. - You ARE a marketer. Deal with it.: I have been dealing with it
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13/09/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
kayodeok : Digital Web Magazine - 10 Reasons Clients Don't Care About Accessibility - 10 Reasons Clients Don't Care About Accessibility
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13/09/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
kayodeok : The digital home | Science fiction? | Economist.com - Technology firms are pushing a futuristic vision of home entertainment not because consumers are desperate for it but because they themselves are
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kayodeok : Mac and PC Compatible Cross-platform Portable Firefox - Cross-platform Portable Firefox works by using John Haller's excellent Portable Firefox 1.0.6 on the Windows side of things, and a little script I made on the Mac side of things. The script basically keeps two versions of all user profile files
jimray : Cross platform, portable Firefox - Awesome, thanks Joe
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13/09/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
kayodeok : The Five-Step Plan for Creating Personal Mission Statements - Step 1: Identify Past Successes. Spend some time identifying four or five examples where you have had personal success in recent years. These successes could be at work, in your community, at home, etc. Write them down
merlinmann : The Five-Step Plan for Creating Personal Mission Statements - Geeks secretly want to be Unix apps, while marketing guys fantasize they're Fortune 500 companies. The former's sweet, but the latter is weird to me.
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13/09/2005 @ 06:55 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Macgyver for president 08
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13/09/2005 @ 06:55 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : the toughest guy in New Orleans
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13/09/2005 @ 06:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Liberal Comedian Sues Blogger - Garrison Keiller vs. my friend Rex in a clear-cut case of parody
deusx : MNspeak.com - Trial Of The Century: Keillor V. MNspeak.com - "A couple weeks ago, this website received, via the appropriately old-fashioned U.S. Postal Service, a cease and desist letter from Garrison Keillor's attorney."
Matthew M. Boedicker : Trial Of The Century: Keillor V. MNspeak.com
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13/09/2005 @ 05:55 GMT
joshua : Origin Of The Abbreviation I18n For Internationalization
Rod Begbie : Origin Of The Abbreviation I18n For Internationalization - I was wondering about this last night. Who coined "i18n" as an abbreviation for internationalization? #
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13/09/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
jimray : Singing up for a new Flickr account sucks - My parents have had a helluva time trying to signup as well - blast you, Yahoo!
kayodeok : Flickr signup: From human to droid in a Yahoo moment? - The human voice of Flickr gave it a homey, quirky sense of people having fun doing what they love. From the very first moment you not only liked the service but also cared for the people behind it
Paul Hammond : Flickr signup: From human to droid in a Yahoo moment? - Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals) - consider the signup screen for Flickr after Yahoo
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13/09/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Xming (freedesktop.org) - Xming (freedesktop.org): Xming is the port of the X Window System to Microsoft Windows. Unlike Cygwin/X it does not depend on the [WWW]Cygwin environment.
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13/09/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : eBay: Yahoo Publisher Network Invite - eBay: Yahoo Publisher Network Invite: do they think we won't see this?
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13/09/2005 @ 02:56 GMT
jimray : Tracking evolution - Interesting UI. Producer: Jon Kondis!
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13/09/2005 @ 02:56 GMT
jimray : Garrett Dimon: Steps to Becoming a Freelance Web Developer - Some good tips in there
deusx : Garrett Dimon: Steps to Becoming a Freelance Web Developer - "After the popularity of my previous going solo article, I thought I'd lay out some more specific ideas on how to become a freelance web developer."
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13/09/2005 @ 02:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Gmail Sued By Gmail - Gmail Sued By Gmail: sounds like a headine from The Onion, doesn't it?
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13/09/2005 @ 01:56 GMT
jimray : future handsome Millionaire - Sweet
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13/09/2005 @ 01:56 GMT
jimray : Colin Moock *really* like Flash 8 - An A+ is pretty high praise from this chap - I just hope they fixed all the annoying UI bugs that make me want to pull my hair out on a daily basis
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13/09/2005 @ 01:56 GMT
deusx : 365 tomorrows - Eye For An Eye - "Since your action took advantage of the female nature of Ilexya Eiin Dephryn, to properly experience the victim's role your body will be surgically altered to reflect the feminine characteristics of your species."
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deusx : Dateline: Hollywood - ROBERTSON BLAMES HURRICANE ON CHOICE OF ELLEN DEGENERES TO HOST EMMYS - "America is waiting for her to apologize for the death and destruction that her sexual deviance has brought onto this great nation."
Wayne Burkett : Pat Robertson Blames Katrina on Ellen Degeneres - "Robertson also noted that the last time Degeneres hosted the Emmys, in 2001, the September 11 terrorism attacks took place shortly before the ceremony." #
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13/09/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Simon Willison : Django Powered Sites - 15 listed so far.
jcgregorio : Django | Code | DjangoPoweredSites - That's alot.
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13/09/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Greaseblog: Firefox 1.5-compatible Greasemonkey beta now available - Greaseblog: Firefox 1.5-compatible Greasemonkey beta now available: kick ass
Simon Willison : Firefox 1.5-compatible Greasemonkey beta now available - I'd been waiting for this.
Matthew M. Boedicker : Firefox 1.5 compatible Greasemonkey
kayodeok : Greaseblog: Firefox 1.5-compatible Greasemonkey beta now available - This is for Firefox Beta 1.5 only and will not install on other Firefoxes. If you use a version of the browser prior to 1.5, then you should continue using Greasemonkey 0.5.3.
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13/09/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : New Orleans strip joint wants to get back to work - New Orleans strip joint wants to get back to work: There's no water for the "wash the girl of your choice" service and there aren't any girls either, but Big Daddy's strip club on New Orleans' Bourbon Street is getting ready to bring back erotic
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13/09/2005 @ 00:56 GMT
jimray : Text* Snippets: > jimray - My snippets
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