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  March 24 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
March 24 is the 83rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (84th in leap years).
2006 - Long-term protests in Belarus are broken by police.
2006 - Pope Benedict XVI adds 15 men to the College of Cardinals, in the first consistory of his Pontificate.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/March_24   (958 words)

  
 March 2006 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fijian Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase announces that the 2006 Fiji general elections will be held in the second week of May 2006 from the 6th to the 13th.
Russian-Hamas talks, 2006: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, in his talks with the Hamas leader Khaled Mashal, calls on Hamas to transform itself into a political organisation, recognise Israel's right to exist, and to keep previous peace accords.
Belarusian presidential election, 2006: Alexander Lukashenko has been re-elected president of Belarus with 82.6 percent of all votes, in an election which is considered by many to have been rigged.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/March_2006   (4939 words)

  
 NASA - Total Solar Eclipse of 2006 March 29
On Wednesday, 2006 March 29, a total eclipse of the Sun will be visible from within a narrow corridor which traverses half the Earth.
The material here is adapted from the NASA Technical Publication "Total Solar Eclipse of 2006 March 29" (NASA/TP-2004-212762).
The document was published in 2004 November and is now available for distribution in hard copy and as either a low resolution (5 MB) or high resolution (27 MB) PDF file.
sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov /eclipse/SEmono/TSE2006/TSE2006.html   (1031 words)

  
 The Next Hurrah: March 2006
March 30, 2006 at 15:20 in Bush/Republican Scandals, Contributor--emptywheel
March 28, 2006 at 09:00 in Bush/Republican Scandals, Contributor--emptywheel
The Ides of March are here, and so is the need to vote on the debt ceiling, the limit on how much public debt the United States can run.
thenexthurrah.typepad.com /the_next_hurrah/2006/03/index.html   (10784 words)

  
 Attention Must Be Paid: March 2006
March 20, 2006 in American theater, Broadway, Elizabeth Maupin, Orlando theater, Theater, University theater
March 20, 2006 in American theater, Children's theater, Comedies, Critics, Elizabeth Maupin, Orlando theater, Regional theater, Theater
March 13, 2006 in American theater, Critics, Elizabeth Maupin, Orlando theater, Theater
blogs.orlandosentinel.com /entertainment_stage_theat/2006/03/index.html   (2670 words)

  
 Communications: March 2006
I'll be in Washington DC on Monday and Tuesday next week to attend David Isenberg's Freedom to Connect 2006 conference, this year a joint venture of David's isen.com and PulverMedia of VON conference fame.
March 25, 2006 at 10:04 PM in Mobile, Politics, Policy & Law
March 15, 2006 at 09:44 PM in Conferences, Peer-to-Peer, VoIP
blogs.nmss.com /communications/2006/03/index.html   (4769 words)

  
 boren.nu · March 2006
You are currently browsing the monthly archive for March, 2006.
The Automattic crew is kicking it at SxSW, the T-Shirt exchange event of the year.  We’re done with panels for the day and have descended on BarCampAustin for a WP meetup.  We’ve got a suitcase full of T-Shirts to unload.  Best get to it before someone kills me for my shirt.
The 2005 and 2006 Subarus are notorius for not providing an auxiliary stereo input and making it impossible to replace the factory stereo.
boren.nu /archives/2006/03   (1195 words)

  
 south by southwest festivals + conferences
And each March over fifteen thousand of the very best of those people meet and share their ideas at SXSW.
Click on through to the Coverage section of the website to fully explore all of the many facets that make SXSW one of the most fun business trips you take all year.
Continuing the annual animal tradition, green alligator shirts from 2006 can be purchased in a variety of children's sizes.
2006.sxsw.com   (1033 words)

  
 Netcraft: March 2006 Archives
On March 14 hackers were able to break into the servers of ElectroNet, a Tallahassee, Fla. service provider which hosted the web sites for all three banks.
The main business URL for the banks' were redirected to identical spoof sites on offshore servers, which asked customers to provide their login details.
In the March 2006 survey we received responses from 77,568,868 sites, an increase of 1.38 million from February 2006.
news.netcraft.com /archives/2006/03/index.html   (1417 words)

  
 Schneier on Security: March 2006 Archives
In the most recent laptop robbery, on March 16 in a café on the 900 block of Valencia Street, police say the victim was actually stabbed.
A worker at a Downtown building who was using a pellet gun with a scope to scare pigeons prompted a massive police response that led to the shutdown of several blocks this afternoon.
We're never going to stop the march of technology, but we can enact legislation to protect our privacy: comprehensive laws regulating what can be done with personal information about us, and more privacy protection from the police.
www.schneier.com /blog/archives/2006/03   (11080 words)

  
 Think Progress » 2006 » March
The Washington Post reported this morning that the garments Carroll wore in her first interview were “given to her by her captors,” and that she gained weight in captivity because “she never dared turn down their offers of meals or candy for fear of giving offense.”
Some military analysts initially welcomed the administration’s private security arrangement with Blackwater because it allowed “regular military troops to concentrate on fighting.” But Blackwater’s new proposal would shift some of the fighting to the private sector, further diminishing the role of the all-volunteer army.
Bumiller reports it’s because conservatives want a new Treasury Secretary to “reassure financial markets, which are increasingly worried about record-high budget and trade deficits.” It makes sense that Josh Bolten — who oversaw a $1.8 trillion expansion of the national debt as OMB Director — would be particularly sensitive to this issue.
thinkprogress.org /2006/03   (2460 words)

  
 Simianbrain: March 2006 Archives
2006 and now it's the conservatives who are utopians.
Even less helpful than that: America's conservatives are still too stupid to see how radically, stupidly dangerous the government of the United States is under the radical and stupid leadership of the dumbest man ever to hold the office.
Last week, in the latest iteration of a familiar speech (the enemy is "brutal," "we're on the offensive," "freedom is on the march") that should be retired, the president said, "This is a moment of choosing for the Iraqi people." Meaning what?
simianbrain.atlblogs.com /archives/2006_03.html   (6080 words)

  
 beSpacific: March 2006 Archives
Journalist David Kline discussed the growing influence of blogs on politics and the news media during a March 20-24 rolling webchat.
As reported by Raw Story tonight, a filing on March 17 by Libby's defense names current and former White House and State Department officials as having leaked the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame prior to Libby's dissemination of the information.
Press release, March 16, 2006: The Federal Trade Commission today told the House Committee on Small Business, Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform and Oversight that protecting consumers' privacy rights is a top priority for the agency.
www.bespacific.com /mt/archives/2006_03.html   (7865 words)

  
 Gaming Steve: March 2006 Archives
I spent most of my time attending the "Casual Games Summit 2006" which has been a mainstay of GDC for the last couple of years and is one of the more exciting tutorials since this market is currently experiencing such explosive growth (one such example, the huge success of Xbox Live Arcade).
Although it was strongly implied by Mitch Laskey's GDC Mobile's keynote address yesterday that Spore would be distributed in 2006 for mobile devices, it turns out that the slide containing this information was a bit misleading and the 2006 date is in no way a confirmation of Spore's launch date.
Casual titles to be released this year will include Tetris (of which EA has the exclusive rights for a mere 17 years), Bejeweled, Yahtzee as well as the other usual suspects.
www.gamingsteve.com /archives/2006/03/index.php   (6459 words)

  
 Attytood: March 2006 Archives
The key word here is citizen, because in 2006 it's becoming increasingly clear to us, and to others as well, that everyday citizens do have an important stake in moving journalism forward.
At the group’s March 6 meeting, U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum was allowed to show a seven-minute video and copies of his book, “It Takes a Family,” were distributed.
According to an article by David D. Kirkpatrick appearing in the March 21, 2006 edition of The New York Times, the first training get-out-the-vote session set up by the Pennsylvania Pastors Network took place on March 6, 2006 and included a videotaped message from Senator and candidate for the United States Senate, Rick Santorum (R-PA).
www.attytood.com /archives/2006_03.html   (16095 words)

  
 Registan.net » 2006 » March
An all-day UNDP-Brookings conference on March 27th drew attention to the release of the latest UNDP development report on Central Asia, a 248-page, four-color, lavishly illustrated volume printed on heavy stock.
Posted: March 29th, 2006 under Uzbekistan, Diplomacy, Korea.
Posted: March 27th, 2006 under Uzbekistan, Diplomacy, Korea.
www.registan.net /?m=200603   (788 words)

  
 ReidBlog: March 2006
Bush's knowledge of the State and Energy departments' dissent over the tubes was disclosed in a March 4, 2006, National Journal story -- more than three years after the intelligence assessment was provided to the president, and some 16 months after the 2004 presidential election.
One of its conclusions was that between March 2000 and March 2005, only 9 percent of the net increase in jobs for adults went to people born in the US.
Thursday, March 30, 2006; 8:09 AM BAGHDAD, March 30 -- American journalist Jill Carroll, abducted in early January by gunmen in Baghdad, was released to a Sunni Arab political party in the capital Thursday morning after 82 days in captivity.
blog.reidreport.com /2006_03_01_archive.html   (11036 words)

  
 PhotoshopNews: Photoshop News and Information » 2006 » March
Source: SeattlePI.com via AP ZURICH, Switzerland — Swiss conglomerate Eichhof Holding AG said Friday it’s considering a bid on Amazys Holding AG (and it’s subsidiary GretagMacbeth), which is currently in takeover talks with X-Rite Inc. of the United States.
We had just arrived down in Miami for Photoshop World when we got the news: Photoshop TV had already topped one million downloads for the month of March (our first time hitting over one million in just one month).
MARCH 21, 2006 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - The broad availability of Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Vista client operating system has been pushed back to next year, Jim Allchin, co-president of the company’s platform and services division, announced today.
photoshopnews.com /2006/03   (1381 words)

  
 the0phrastus: March 2006
I have a method for structuring short fiction and novels that works for me. I begin with plot ideas, a set of characters, an outline for the first few chapters, and a very simple notion of how the story ends.
My SF short story, "A Corner Not Dipped In Styx" is in the March issue of Ultraverse.
I sent out six review copies of The Wreath earlier this week, and by the flurry of USPS tracking emails in my inbox, it looks like they all made it safely to their destinations.
the0phrastus.typepad.com /the0phrastus/2006/03/index.html   (3434 words)

  
 sarahintampa: March 2006
When the Bush Administration demanded data from the search companies for use in a statistical study whose purpose is to defend constitutionality of its child anti-pornography law, only Google protested.
The battle went to court and now there has been a ruling: on Friday March 17th, a federal judge ordered Google to give the Bush administration a list of 50,000 randomly selected URLs.
Firefox 2 will be released in the third quarter of 2006, but an early alpha release of Firefox 2 should be out later this month, though it's doubtful that it will include the antiphishing features.
hyperculture.typepad.com /sarah/2006/03/index.html   (3898 words)

  
 Philip Greenspun’s Weblog » 2006 » March
In a comment response to an earlier blog posting, I mentioned that MIT didn’t provide soap in the showers for its almost-new $50 million Olympic-size swimming pool.
I have drafted a set of lesson plans for (airplane) private pilot students and would appreciate comments/corrections.
I’ve been donating rides in my airplane and helicopter to charities with good results (between $400 and $1200 raised for each ride).
blogs.law.harvard.edu /philg/2006/03   (4792 words)

  
 NixGuy.com » 2006 » March
Your premier site for the 411 on the Ohio 2006 elections.
March 25, 2006—The Anderson Township Republican Club has scheduled a debate between Congresswoman Jean Schmidt and former Congressman Bob McEwen on April 19, 2006 at 7:00 p.m.
Mark down March 24, I think it might be the day that the maverick lost his luster.
www.nixguy.com /?m=200603   (6170 words)

  
 Echo9er » 2006 » March   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
If husbands could realize what large returns of profit may be gotten out of a wife by a small word of praise paid over the counter when the market is just right, they would bring matters around the way they wish them much oftener than they usually do.
The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of graceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.
However, statements from Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the Sept. 11 mastermind now in U.S. custody, said Moussaoui was to have been used in a second wave of attacks and was completely disconnected from the 9/11 attacks.
www.echo9er.net /blog/?m=200603   (2758 words)

  
 Cartoon Brew: March 2006 Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
Because the spot was produced for the Fellowship Bible Church, the marching popcorn box, candy bar and soda cup featured in the original "Lobby" short have been replaced by a cross, a Bible, a cup of wine and a communion wafer.
The censored segment is the "Hanging Song" from the episode OUT WEST, which was cut because "the subject of hanging is presented as comedic, fun and risk free, on the grounds of potential harm to the likely audience and in accordance with the Video Recordings Act 1984." More details HERE.
Tonight, March 2nd at 8pm, Janet Klein and the Parlor Boys celebrate the release of their 5th album, entitled: "Oh!" So, if you have yet to thrill to the sweet syncopations of Janet and her band, then this is the night!
www.cartoonbrew.com /archives/2006_03.html   (10465 words)

  
 Weblog Wannabe: March 2006 archived entries
You are reading Weblog Wannabe archived entries from the month of March 2006, written by Firda Beka.
The next archived entries are from April 2006 and the previous archived entries are from February 2006.
We saw Transamerica instead, which was pretty entertaining, though Troy thought that he saw more penises in the movie than he’d cared to see.
www.wannabegirl.org /2006/03   (2294 words)

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