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I want to live in a culture in which no theater owner/manager feels its necessary to tell people not to talk, smoke, litter, use cell phones or pagers during a movie - a culture in which its not required to remind restaurant employees to wash their hands after using the lavatory.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) –The largest ice shelf in the Arctic, a solid feature for 3,000 years, has broken up, scientists in the United States and Canada said on Monday.
They said the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf, on the north coast of Ellesmere Island in Canada’s Nunavut territory, broke into two main parts, themselves cut through with fissures. [...]

Logical-Mathematical thinkers:

Like to understand patterns and relationships between objects or actions
Try to understand the world in terms of causes and effects
Are good at thinking critically, and solving problems creatively.

Other Logical-Mathematical Thinkers include Isaac Newton, Archimedes, Albert Einstein
Careers which suit Logical-Mathematical thinkers include Physicist, Chemist, Biologist, Lawyer, Computer programmer, Engineer, Inventor

An employee of mine called out this morning as a result of problems arising from the hurricane. Shortly after he called out he emailed in these as his excuse. The pictures show both ends of the street he lives on.
This is in Brooklawn NJ - just south of [...]

As some of you (CT & Kit’n) know Orson Scott Card is my favorite author. This is an essay he wrote for The Rhinoceros Times in Greensboro, NC . He makes some interesting points.

MP3s Are Not the Devil
By Orson Scott Card - September 7 2003
From: http://www.ornery.org/essays/warwatch/2003-09-07-1.html
Since every penny I earn depends on [...]

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Recording industry’s missteps
By Michael Booth
Denver Post Entertainment Writer
Sunday, September 14, 2003 - The best-selling “Chicago” movie soundtrack is available on CD starting at $13.86.
The actual movie, with the soundtrack songs included, of course, plus additional goodies ranging from deleted musical numbers to the director’s interview and a “making-of” feature, can be had for precisely $2.12 [...]

I just got this week’s ComputerWorld and the cover story is on IT outsourcing.
They have a nice little section on places people are going including the average programmer salary for one year in US Dollars…
India - $6,400.00
Canada - $28,200.00
The Philippines - $7,250.00
Mexico - $5,150.00
Ireland - $23,500.00
China - $5,850.00
Singapore - $19,140.00
Vietnam - $4,110.00
Malaysia - $8,130.00
Brazil - [...]

Disney Animates Dalí’s Flick By Jason Silverman
Story location: http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,60385,00.html
02:00 AM Sep. 12, 2003 PT
In 1946, Walt Disney and Salvador Dalí, in one of cinema’s oddest collaborations, teamed up on a short film called Destino. But Disney’s studio ran into financial trouble and put the unfinished film on the shelf.
Now, 57 years later, a team [...]

I got mentioned in a press release for a company in Hawaii that I have been doing some work with in testing a very neato anti-spam system.
http://www.titankey.com/press/TksAnnouncement2.0.pdf
BTW any one who has one of my techfun.org or wickedthought.com e-mail addresses can try out the TitanKey system - just contact me.