Miscellany
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Any one catch Hey
Arnold! on Nickleodeon ... Arnold, friends and family, and
the
neighbourhood where they live
...
[ ... at times the stories tend to revolve around the main character
... ]
Bonnie Behrend
During the days of tech bubble, Bonnie's hourly news bulletins as
CNBC
news update anchor provided a degree of
perspective with the human and life related stories included in the
short bulletins ... much appreciated ...
Suze Orman
The Suze Orman show on CNBC tries to answer personal finance issues of advice seekers in the US. In terms of personal relationships and finances, some solutions may seem ( are ?) rather drastic ...
[ Suze featured in General Motors' Lock n Roll financing plan ads ( around Nov - Dec 2004 ? ) which became a topic of discussion over the ethics of doing so, according to some press reports. ]
ResearchBuzz.com
Tara Calishain's site on developments relating to information search on
the internet ...
French TV
Some programming formats from French television. As I do not
know the language, I can not say how good the programmes are in
practice, yet their format and presentation may be of interest
... [ PS: saw these programmes a while back on cable television. ]
Among others, programmes such as ...
Un Livre, Un Jour
a two-minute daily programme "A book, a day" presented by Olivier
Barrot. Sandrine Treiner, rédaction en chef.
Thalassa,
Le Magazine de la mer "The magazine of the sea" Georges
Pernoud, Directeur et présentateur.
Côté
Jardins a programme on gardening ...
Vie privée,
vie publique
"Private life, Public life" presented by Mireille Dumas.
ABBA
Wikipedia appears to be
expanding its scope ... [ Wikipedia - a free online encyclopedia
- an interesting step in
wiki-based knowledge content generation, still in its early stages so
remains to be seen how well it turns out ... It has
its origins with Bomis and the earlier Nupedia project ... ]
Meta-Wiki is a
support website for Wikimedia Foundation's projects.
craigslist seems, at
first glance, to be simple
and to the point, spread across
local communities in different cities ... by Craig Newmark, San
Francisco ... there is also a best of
craigslist [?] at : http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/
... Recently ebay took a stake in craiglist ...
Opera internet browser
With Internet Explorer getting some bad press recently, Opera is an
alternative browser made by a small company in Scandinavia. It is
supposed to be securer and faster than Internet Explorer. It includes a new type of mail and newsfeed reader ... and several user friendly browsing shortcuts and
customizations ...
Aabadlives
www.geocities.com/aabadlives
a site for people of Ahmedabad to contribute to their lives
...
- links to a message forum at
bravenet.com
( set up by me )
Please note: A mention
on the site does not imply endorsement.
For more, you may want to visit Links
& Stuff and Livewise at blogspot.com.
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