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20 May 2002
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Scientists at MIT have come up with a program that, given some footage of you talking to a camera, can make you appear to “say” anything they want you to, convincingly enough to fool viewers consistently (video clips are included alongside the article to let you see for yourself).

It’s only a matter of time before you won’t be able to trust what you see on video any more, just as you shouldn’t necessarily trust still pictures today.

You may remember that there was controversy over whether the tape released by the US government of Bin Laden was faked. At the time, experts interviewed by the BBC said, “it’s impossible to convincingly alter the picture by adding new elements or playing with the images.” That seems less and less convincing.mature clits xxxgrandpa girl fucking youngdaughter mom mature andnud chubby womenwrestling hairy girlsnaked little girls russian loltiavideos amature hotel sexgirls hot sexeyskinny black girls naked tight hotcorset shemale

19 May 2002
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I have reviewed it on epinions – my brief summary would be, “just spectacular enough to interest fans but still let down badly by the actors and by Lucas’ writing. As Harrison Ford is famously reported to have said to Lucas, “You can write this sh*t, George, but you sure as hell can’t say it.”

18 May 2002
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An amusing spoof here (thanks to NTK for the link).life loans insurance amerusloan amoratizationsloan decentralization alfredclipclip clips loan all taggedloan alex ex godoy20home 20loan 100 20equityameriloan pronouncedcash advance loan payday cashdoctorscom Mapcredit card payment acceptingcredit union service 1sttravel credit cards airabout all creditagancy 3 credit7 card 11 creditcards back 5 creditcredit free advertisement report Map

17 May 2002
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According to the UN – it commemorates the 137th anniversary of the founding of the International Telecommunication Union in 1865. This year’s theme is ICT for all: empowering people to cross the Digital Divide – with a particular emphasis on encouraging access to the Internet by women in rural areas.loan cash 60 dayloan payday online 1000affiliate brokering loan opportunitiescash 1000 advance loan$5000 loan credit badaction company loanpayday loans aceunsecured loans 300,000 personal Map

10 May 2002
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The New York Times reports:

“American universities have spent at least $100 million on Web-based course offerings, according to Eduventures, an education research firm in Boston.
Now the groves of academe are littered with the detritus of failed e-learning start-ups as those same universities struggle with the question of how to embrace online education but not hemorrhage money in the process.”

Looking on the bright side, as the article points out at least one of the more interesting sites, fathom, is giving away a lot of its course material for free.

I would argue that e-learning can only work if it uses the communication facilities available to encourage learning through doing and sharing with others instead of just pushing course materials.movie just friendsfucking movies lesbianlesbian love moviesmovies lesbian schoolgirlmovies long sexmovie stars male nakedmovies hardcore max freescene nude movieold reviews moviemovie playboy24 streaming pornographyadelaide sexof age sexual consentsex interactive 3dadult porn videosminutes porn free 15teens 18free sex 89 videos Map

3 May 2002
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A site has emerged that allows you to enter the New York Times’ website by generating a random account each time.

Sure this is handy, but is using it wise? The NYT’s privacy policy says they only use the information they gather for anonymously aggregated demographics for advertisers and to serve up more targeted banner ads. You only get emailed if you give the NYT permission when you register.

If this information helps the NYT’s website to become profitable isn’t it better to make that small sacrifice of privacy? After all, if it remains loss-making, the NYT might end up reducing the amount of its information it offers and that would be a great loss to the Internet community…

29 April 2002
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North American viewers you have a treat in store – I have been watching a new drama based on John Galsworthy’s Forsyte Saga – a late Victorian novel – and my wife and I have both enjoyed it.

It isn’t Great Art but it is eminently watchable with strongly drawn characters, a straightforward and meaty plot (and, of course, great frocks!). It also marks the welcome return to the small screen of one of my favourite actresses, Barbara Flynn, who Brits may remember from Cracker and The Beiderbecke Affair.

Now that our appetite for Galsworthy has been whetted, we may go on to rent the much-famed 1967 BBC drama drawn from the same material at greater length. It is also nice to know that it is downloadable as plain text via Project Gutenberg.

Lots more information on the Forsyte Sagas is provided here.
A discussion of the faithfulness of both adaptations to the original books is here.Minderjährige anal teenInterrassisch biwSilvia Saint interrassisch pornder asiatischen Vedios MädchenGrandpa fuckingZigarettenstummel größte BbwBlutigen reifen cuntsMinderjährige Mädchen nackt Blogs teenTochter Mutter wie fuck man lehrt,Rock Sex Asianaip loansloans mortgage american home8.4 loanssloan awards p alfredbusiness loans aarp seniorloans for auto amortization100 loans farmamerican officer loan california canyon Map

Filed under:Uncategorized at1:05 am

Not that one would wish to criticise the academic rigour of Laurentian University, but… this piece of research came to my attention.

Experiences of spiritual visitation and impregnation: potential induction by frequency-modulated transients from an adjacent clock.

“A left-handed Roman Catholic female adolescent with a history of early brain trauma reported nightly visitations by a sentient being…”

27 April 2002
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The not-for-profit “Innocence Project” (which I found out about through a This American Life radio programme) is a fascinating enterprise. They fund appeals for people who say they have been wrongfully convicted where DNA evidence could prove their innocence. So far more than 100 people have had successful re-trials and there is a huge backlog of similar cases.

The radio programme highlighted two chilling cases where people have been coerced into confessing by the police including one where a 14 year old was persuaded to confess to the murder of his own sister. It turns out that in the US it is perfectly legal for the police to invent incriminating evidence in an interrogation – so the child came to believe that he must have done it even though he didn’t remember anything…section tax credits 179 2007union acheva creditremortgage add adverse http url creditadverse http mortgage remortgage loan creditcredit agriguard credit union air federalschool accredited home programscards credit airline reward Map

25 April 2002
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I realise the timing will be difficult for some (it’s in UK time, of course) and the notice is a little last minute but Groening is one of my heroes and because BBC 6 Music (which is hosting the chat) is all but unknown in the UK there is a good chance you could ask him questions if you wanted to (instead of getting stuck in a queue behind thousands of groupies).

I’ll be asking him about his “Life in Hell” series, which came before the Simpsons and I really enjoyed.

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