Thursday, March 20, 2008
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
29395
UniGene Mm.29395 Mus musculus (mouse)
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Bug #29395 sqlite_escape_string may return a random string Submitted: 26 Jul 2004 9:18pm UTC Modified: 27 Jul 2004 7:35pm UTC
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Jonesville, SC 29395
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DAR File No. 29395: Acupuncture Licensing Act Rules
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OSTI ID: 29395; Legacy ID: DE95007377 A: DR reactor heat decay test at high outlet water temperatures
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Farm/Ranch - $65,000 - 29395 Montauk Lane, Elkhart IN 46517
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29, 395 wounded in Iraq
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Bug #29395 sqlite_escape_string may return a random string Submitted: 26 Jul 2004 9:18pm UTC Modified: 27 Jul 2004 7:35pm UTC
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Jonesville, SC 29395
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DAR File No. 29395: Acupuncture Licensing Act Rules
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OSTI ID: 29395; Legacy ID: DE95007377 A: DR reactor heat decay test at high outlet water temperatures
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Farm/Ranch - $65,000 - 29395 Montauk Lane, Elkhart IN 46517
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29, 395 wounded in Iraq
Mea Culpa Mon Amour
ALBANY—In an extraordinary news conference on his first day on the job, Gov. David A. Paterson acknowledged on Tuesday that he had committed numerous crimes over the past twenty years, including armed robbery, rape, arson, assault, and manslaughter. He also confessed to being unfaithful to his wife, who stood by his side looking pained. Apparently hearing the news for the first time, Michelle Page Patterson moved to the microphone and confessed to her husband and the public that she, too, had several extramarital affairs.
Gov. Patterson—who appeared blindsided by the announcement—wobbled at the lectern and collapsed.
He was revived moments later and—after a brief break to regain his composure—continued on with his address, providing dates and details of his lifelong crime-spree.
Mr. Patterson, a Democrat, concluded the twenty minute litany of felonies by saying he hoped his openness about his past “failures” would help him gain the trust of New Yorkers. “I want to move on and focus on governing.”
Uniformed police officers placed Patterson in handcuffs and led him from the room.
In a related development, at a hastily-convened press conference in Trenton, NJ, Dina Matos McGreevey, the estranged wife of former governor James McGreevey, apologized to the public for having had a threesome with her husband and David Patterson while Gov. McGreevey held office.
With her lawyer, Ted Macklestein, at her side, Ms. McGreevey told reporters that sex with her husband had left her “unfulfilled” since it rarely included “penetration.”
“I suggested to Jim that we include another guy in the mix and he liked the idea. In retrospect, I now realize that we should not have engaged in such activity while he was serving the public. Even though the sex included two consenting government officials and myself, it was wrong and, for my part, I’m profoundly sorry.”
When asked by reporters which sex acts the trio engaged in, McGreevey's lawyer cut her off.
“For Dina to divulge the details of her sexlife in this forum would be highly inappropriate,” said Macklestein. "You'll just have to wait for the book."
Gov. Patterson—who appeared blindsided by the announcement—wobbled at the lectern and collapsed.
He was revived moments later and—after a brief break to regain his composure—continued on with his address, providing dates and details of his lifelong crime-spree.
Mr. Patterson, a Democrat, concluded the twenty minute litany of felonies by saying he hoped his openness about his past “failures” would help him gain the trust of New Yorkers. “I want to move on and focus on governing.”
Uniformed police officers placed Patterson in handcuffs and led him from the room.
In a related development, at a hastily-convened press conference in Trenton, NJ, Dina Matos McGreevey, the estranged wife of former governor James McGreevey, apologized to the public for having had a threesome with her husband and David Patterson while Gov. McGreevey held office.
With her lawyer, Ted Macklestein, at her side, Ms. McGreevey told reporters that sex with her husband had left her “unfulfilled” since it rarely included “penetration.”
“I suggested to Jim that we include another guy in the mix and he liked the idea. In retrospect, I now realize that we should not have engaged in such activity while he was serving the public. Even though the sex included two consenting government officials and myself, it was wrong and, for my part, I’m profoundly sorry.”
When asked by reporters which sex acts the trio engaged in, McGreevey's lawyer cut her off.
“For Dina to divulge the details of her sexlife in this forum would be highly inappropriate,” said Macklestein. "You'll just have to wait for the book."
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Georges Méliès - The Wizard of Odd
Cinematic mischief (circa 1900) is afoot in a new DVD collection from Flicker Alley: “Georges Méliès: First Wizard of Cinema (1896-1913). The creator of the classic short film Le Voyage dans la lune is back in this boxed set of five DVDs featuring more than 170 titles. Pure magick!
Monday, March 17, 2008
Browsing the Interstates
It wasn’t easy selecting the most boring example from this eye-numbing collection of 160 postcards from the 50s and 60s. We finally settled on this specimen:
Traveling on Beautiful Interstate 35
Despite the card’s title, the subject appears to be the overpass, smack dab in the middle of the image. At least those 20 clouds exhibit good composition. (Yes, we counted them, nothing else to do) Look closely and you'll see an actual automobile in the left lane—either coming, going, or stalled, it’s impossible to tell. One can only imagine what was going through the mind of the shutterbug who captured the scene for posterity. ‘Time for lunch!’
160 photographs and not a Kodak moment in the batch.
But, remember, that’s the point of this bad trip. In place of meaning and symbolism, the cards offer colors that probably seemed “lifelike” once. Today the tones are decidedly surreal; over-saturated or drained. The subject matter is beside the point, or several blocks away. Whatever one might reasonably define as “interesting” is nowhere to be seen.
At least some people will find the titles such as Site of Proposed Larger Taconite Plant poetic.
BORING POSTCARDS USA (From the collection of Martin Parr; Phaidon; $9.95) will leave you either in stitches or in tears, depending on your mood. It’s a retro eye-ball joyride over miles of gray pavement, brown grass, yellow-bled brick facades, russet factories, tawdry-mauve motel rooms, and putrescent green swimming pools. Browsing may trigger nightmares in Boomers, a la remember that lousy summer when we drove to California…that yuckky vacation we spent reading road signs, etc.
Younger viewers may experience a Twilight Zone-moment—sudden nostalgia for places never seen. Or maybe not. After all, highways are highways and toll booths are toll booths.
Art? Sociology? Pop Culture? A gag gift?
All of the above.
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