12/03/2008
Mod Mex? New York City? Don't get a rope, get a fork (The Sacramento Bee)
Pace, the San Antonio maker of salsas in a jar, got a big laugh with a commercial that had the cook admitting the salsa he served at the chuck wagon was from New York. "Nyoo York CITY!?" cried cowboys in disbelief, as one darkly intoned, "Get the rope." For years, one could get almost any kind of food in New York except good Mexican food. So hopes were not high when I picked up "Mod Mex: ...
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12/02/2008
The Useful Uses Of Mod Rewrite (Linux Today)
HowtoForge: "Mod rewrite is a part of apache servers that can rewrite requested URLs on the fly. As it supports an endless number of rules that in turn have unlimited attached rule conditions it is very flexible and an important URL manipulation mechanism. It can be used for internet users and for search engine friendly URLs. This increases the chance of the database driven website to be ...
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12/03/2008
Black Mesa Nearing Completion, Trailer Released (Slashdot)
Today, the Black Mesa Team released an impressive trailer for their remake of Half-Life . The remake is a total-conversion mod for Half-Life 2, bringing the updated graphics and AI of the Source engine to the original game. The team has been dropping hints lately that the project, which began in 2004, is almost done, and the trailer confirms that it will be out in 2009. They also recently ...
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12/03/2008
Speed Up Sites with htaccess Caching (Slashdot)
produke writes "Increase your page load times and save bandwidth with easy and really effective methods using apache htaccess directives. mod_headers to set expires, and max-age, and cache-control headers on certain filetypes. The second method employs mod_expires to do the same thing -- together with FileETag, makes for some very fast page loads!" Read more of this story at Slashdot. ...
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12/03/2008
Locals race in Motocross Mini Olympics (The Shelby County Reporter)
A number of racers from the Reddell training Facility in Columbiana competed in the Mini Olympics in Alachua, Fla., over Thanksgiving. Logan Faulkner of Pelham finished eighth in the Supercross Open C Mod division, 15th in the motocross Open C Mod and 14th in the motocross Open C Stock divisions.
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12/01/2008
The Mod Squad (Interior Design)
Charles De Lisle was all set to enroll in the architecture program at the University of California, Berkeley. But then, while surveying a grand living room by Michael Taylor, came his "aha" moment.
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12/01/2008
Half-Life Revived in Black Mesa: Source Trailer (1up.com)
Black Mesa Source 'Mod' trailer Been looking for an excuse to get back into the first Half-Life , but find yourself no longer capable of stomaching the decade-old graphics? Then you may want to keep an eye out for Black Mesa: Source , a gorgeous looking user-developed mod that dresses up the Half-Life we all know and love with the visuals and physics of Half-Life 2 . As evidenced ...
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12/01/2008
Are injured feelings really worth more than a lost limb? (Guardian Unlimited)
Once it became generally known that the MoD operates a sliding scale of compensation for the loss of different limbs on the battlefield, £48,875 per eye for instance, it was inevitable that any extra-battlefield compensation to soldiers would be converted into the currency of missing body parts. The new payout of £187,000 for Lance Bombardier Kerry Fletcher, the lesbian soldier who endured ...
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12/03/2008
What You're Doing Tonight: 12/3 (NBC New York)
Party like Warhol, talk 'Milk' with Gus Van Sant, and more
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12/03/2008
Guardian Daily: Mumbai reprisals; charity downturn and Russian millionaires (Guardian Unlimited)
The Mumbai attacks, troubled times for charities and a fair for Russian millionaires, in our daily audio show
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