Mike Smith, the singer and keyboard player for '60s British rockers the Dave Clark Five, died of pneumonia this morning outside of London.

Ajaxonomy's del.icio.us Spy - Released! By David Hurth - Posted on January 27th, 2008 The application allows you to see the latest bookmarks being added to del.icio.us so that you can find great new sites. The application also includes links to help make it easy to share what you find with others.

Leap year explained and why the leap second is considered harmful.

Aeronautics Competition for High School Students Participating students must be in grades 9-12 or in their freshman year of college. NASA Space Settlement Design Contest

to Cox Digital Cable subscribers in Fairfax County and the Fredericksburg region through Cox.

Open Content Alliance a massive amount of freely available content -- over 47,000 live concerts! Over 114,000 movies! Over 230,000 audio recordings! And over 350,000 texts.

I am the Very Model of a Usenet Personality Song by Tom Holt 1998 and The Element Song by Tom Lehrer.There’s antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium, And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium, And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium, Europium, zirconium, lutetium, vanadium And lanthanum and osmium and astatine and radium And gold, protactinium and indium and gallium And iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium.

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Microsoft pledge excluding primary competitors. Yesterday's media briefing by Microsoft on its its pledge to release interoperability information for flagship products contained little actual news. Over the years Microsoft has made multiple similar pledges and they at times proved to be detrimental rather than beneficial for interoperability. Examining the terms of the Microsoft's latest action shows no major change of policy.Regrettably, the lack of substance in the pledge and the timing suggest that Microsoft is primarily hoping for positive media coverage and not an examination of the substance of their limited interoperability release.

GO NAVY GO!!!

Hillary Clinton has worn the traditional clothing of countries she has visited.

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Book Reviews of Good Humor, Bad Taste: A Sociology of the Joke. By Giselinde Kuipers. The Music of Bill Monroe. By Neil V. Rosenberg and Charles K. Wolfe. Living by Stories: A Journey of Landscape and Memory. By Harry Robinson.

We need a show of force. BRING YOUR INSTRUMENTS. We want a visual display of artists everywhere in the Capitol demonstrating that the Performance Rights Act is important to musicians. Big corporate radio is the only medium that refuses to pay performers royalties for their hard work. You do the work, you should be fairly paid. Bring your instruments. National Association of Broadcasters

Oscar Winners Sunday Night Feb 24

NetHappenings - Educational CyberPlayGround - Women's History Month, Women in Science Special Edition, Dorothy Denning,Disk Encryption Attacks, PGP, Exaflop One million trillion ‘flops’ per second,

EdInfo Notices Inviting Applications (February 22, 2008)Recent grant opportunities from the U.S. Department of Education (ED) include... * Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers Program -- CFDA# 84.128G * International Research and Studies Program -- CFDA# 84.017A * Partnerships in Character Education Program -- CFDA# 84.215S