Piss on you too, you sonnawabicth! I gonna back to Italy! Arriva derci!

Eestis otsustatakse välja selgitada parim müügimees. Neile antakse ülesandeks müüa ühe nädalaga maha 200 hambaharija. Üks müügimeestest on paari päeva pärast tagasi ja kiidab, et temal kõik hambaharjad müüdud. Kuulutataksegi tema võitjaks ja žürii esimees küsib:
«Kuidas sul see nii kiiresti õnnestus?»
«See on ju nii lihtne,...šokolaadi soovite tüki?»
«Jah tänan...Ptüi see maitseb nagu sitt!»
«See ongi. Soovite ehk hambaharja?»

Mickey Kaus of kausfiles.com, which does not carry comments, said that "the world is crying out for the jerk-zapper," although he added that he thought that The Washington Post's Web site overreacted.

BoingBoing, a heavily trafficked "directory of wonderful things," shut down its comments section last year. "We took a lot of heat over it," said Xeni Jardin, a founder of the site. "But until we are able to come up with a better comments system - most of what is out there is too crude - it is not worth the trouble.

Euroopa Nõukogu parlamentaarne assamblee (ENPA) võttis vastu kommunismi kuritegusid hukka mõistva resolutsiooni.
Resolutsiooni poolt hääletas 99, vastu oli 42 ja erapooletuks jäi 12 ENPA saadikut, ütles Eesti ENPA delegatsiooni juht Marko Mihkelson, vahendan Eesti Päevaleht BNS-i.

Tallinnast remondist tuleb Saaremaa Laevakompanii (SLK) parvlaev Koguva siirdub hoopis ajutiselt Rohuküla sadamasse, teatas SLK.

Juhul kui Koguva jääb Rohuküla sadamasse, sõidab seni Kuivastu-Virtsu liinil vaid riigiga sõlmitud lepingu kohaselt ette nähtud kaks parvlaeva. "Suurema nõudluse puhul võib seetõttu tekkida pikemaid järjekordi", ütles SLK juht Tõnis Rihvk.

Kes ja mis on suur näitekirjanik William Shakespeare? Kõlav nimi, papist kostüümid, arusaamatu värss ja kauged tegevuskohad? Ei, see kõik on tavaarusaam.
Shakespeare on särin, kõhklus ja kindlus ühekorraga, valdamas proovisaali siis, kui näitlejad end esimest korda toolidelt püsti ajavad.
Selleks, et imemasina/näidendi struktuuri mõista, tuleb ta lahti võtta, dekonstrueerida, et siis uuesti kokku panna, taasluua.
Ja mis jääb alles?

The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg has rejected as groundless a complaint made by a Russian military pensioner against the government of Estonia, which ordered him out of the country after twenty years of residence, a defense lawyer said Tuesday.

Andrei Aryupin said he had lodged the complaint with the Strasbourg Court when the Estonian authorities had refused to extend a residence permit for his client, Nikolai Mykolenko, and put him into a camp for internally displaced persons pending deportation.

Mykolenko, who has been living in Estonia for the past two decades, was offered a $25,000 voucher to buy an apartment in Moscow as part of a U.S.-Russian scheme launched in the 1990s to assist the withdrawal of Russian troops from the post-Soviet Baltic country. In exchange, he pledged to leave for his native Russia, but has thus far failed to do so.

Arsenal have on Monday signed Estonian international goalkeeper Mart Poom on a permanent contract.

Poom, 33, initially came to Highbury on loan from Sunderland in August but has now completed a permanent move to the Gunners.

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Poom said: “I’m delighted to have signed a permanent deal with Arsenal and am really pleased that Arsène Wenger and the coaches at the Club have shown faith in me.

"I’m really enjoying it here at Arsenal and will continue to work hard in training, so that I am ready to hopefully feature in the first team in the near future.”

„Hiir“ töötab nii, et kui Skype'i-telefon heliseb, tõstad hiire padjalt ja paned selle kõrva juurde. Hiires on nii kõlar kui mikrofon, nii et enam pole vaja kõrvaklappe ja mikrofone.

• esmalt tuli teave, et avati miski jäätee (rahvas skandeeris jeeee...),
• siis andis laevakompanii teada et St.Ola läheb kuskile teisele liinile teed vabaks murdma ;) (õilis tegu ju iseenesest)
• ja nüüd siis uudis et praamidevahetus lõhkus jäätee :( (rahvas upub pisaratesse ja laevakompanii klientidesse..)

By halftime, he had 26 points - not a bad number for most players. By the end of the game, he put up the second-highest total in N.B.A. history.

Bryant scored a staggering 81 points last night against the visiting Toronto Raptors in a 122-104 Lakers victory. Only Wilt Chamberlain's 100-point game stands ahead of him.

"It just happened," Bryant said. "It's tough to explain. It's just one of those things."

But who is Digital Playground and why its opinion is so important? According to Adult Video News, Digital Playground had 2005 sales of $12.6 billion.
If Blu-ray will be chosen as the favorite format of the porn industry, then the HD-DVD format will be in trouble, because Adult Video News estimates consumers spent $12.6 billion on adult-oriented entertainment last year, out of which nearly $4.3 billion, or 34%, came from the purchase or rental of adult video DVDs and videocassettes.

Adult software developers are the ones most in touch with the latest technological innovations. They were among the first to use the DVD on a large scale when the format hit the market nine years ago and are now going for high-definition and other new formats, including such hand-held devices as cell phones and game players.

• Magnetid hävitavad sinu infot
(VALE, see juhtub ainult flopidega nii).

• Cookie'd (küpsised) jälgivad kõike mida sa teed internetis
(VALE; cookie'd saavad jälgida vaid konkreetseid lehti, kus nad teile arvutisse salvestatakse ja lehti mis on liitunud selliste teenustega nagu näiteks DoubleClick).

• Koledaid asju juhtub teie arvutiga kui te enne arvuti väljalülitamist ei ole kinni pannud Windows'it
(VALE, kuigi Microsoft hoiatab vastupidi).

• Keeldudes spam'ist hakkad sa rohkem spam'i saama
(raske kül tõestada, aga tõenäoliselt VALE, keeldudes legaalsete firmade reklaam-mailides nad võtavad su nende listist maha).

• Valitsus loeb su e-maili
(VALE, see on muidugi rohkem ameeriklaste mure kui eestalste oma. ja vaatamata hiljutusele uudisele nagu ameeriklasi jälgitaks paistab see olema siiski aegunud uudis. . .)

1) Ulysses by James Joyce (Shakespeare & Company, 1922), £100,000
2) The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle (George Newnes, 1902) £80,000
3) Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E. Lawrence (The Oxford Times, 1922) £60,000
4) The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Scribner's, 1925) £50,000+++
5) The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter (privately printed, 1901) £50,000++

Eesti Teatri Aastaga seoses on Rotermanni Soolalaos 26. veebruarini näitus eesti teatri ajaloost, kust see liigub rändnäitusena edasi üle Eesti.

Ülevaatenäitus toob vaatajani kogu eesti teatri ajaloo alustades August Kotzebuest ja 1784. aastal loodud Saksa Asjaarmastajate Teatrist ning lõpetades taasiseseisvunud Eesti teatrisündmustega.

Näitus jaguneb vaataja jaoks tinglikult kaheks: akadeemiline ja traditsiooniline stendinäitus teise korruse saalis ning mänguline teatrimaagia teise korruse rõdul. Kui stendinäitus on pigem täiskasvanutele, siis teatrimaagia peaks köitma eelkõige lapsi.

Põhiseaduskomisjoni esimehe Urmas Reinsalu sõnul jõudis komisjon pärast eelnõuga seotud materjalidega tutvumist seisukohale, et eelnõu algataja plaanide realiseerumine tooks kaasa reaalse ohu põhiseaduse §45 sätestatud väljendusvabaduse õigusele. Põhiseaduskomisjon ei pidanud Reinsalu kinnitusel seetõttu õigeks eelnõu seadustamist toetada.

Arutelul osalesid ka justiitsministeeriumi karistusõiguse ja menetlustalituse juhataja Saale Laos ja Kapo politseidirektor Arnold Sinisalu, kes arvas, et kavandatavad meetmed ei ole proportsionaalsed ja sunnivad Kapot põhjendamatult reageerima ka tegevusele, mida võiks tõlgendada huligaansusena. Sinisalu väitel on raske leida sellele analoogiat teistest Euroopa riikidest.

Russia had been forced to withdraw its signature from an original agreement, Lavrov said, because of the failure of the Estonian ratification process to keep to the original issue.

"We appreciate that the Estonian government passed the document exactly in the form it was signed in Moscow. What happened in the Estonian parliament is well known. The ratification law contained an unacceptable statement that put conditions on the agreements and contained irrelevant references," the minister said.

That's right. The HP ScanJet 4c's SCL (Scanner Control Language) command set
includes an unofficial PLAY TUNE command. I stumbled across this after reading
an article on the ScanJet 4c in the feb. 1997 issue of HP Journal (see the
sidebar Sing to Me).

Estonia is a mid-ranking country on the EIS, coming 13th out of 25 EU countries. It is one of the best performers among the ten new Member States. However, the cluster analysis classifies Estonia in the “losing ground” category because of its negative trend. The explanation for the anomaly between Estonia’s good standing in innovation performance and its classification among the laggards is because Estonia’s strengths are highly skewed, with very good performance on innovation & entrepreneurship and good performance on innovation drivers, but poor performance on IPR, applications, and knowledge creation. Estonia is among those countries that are relatively weak at transforming their innovation assets into innovation results (sales of new products, high tech employment, patents, etc).

Estonia’s weakness in knowledge creation is due to insufficient levels of business R&D. Although this increased from 0.11% in 1998 to 0.28% in 2003, it is still well below the levels observed in Slovenia at 0.90%. Public expenditures have also increased from 0.47% in 1998 to 0.53% in 2003, but are still only 80% of the EU average. As of 2000, only 2.4% of firms received public support for innovation. These figures could be one reason why Estonia performs badly on both applications and IPR. These results suggest that Estonia has already benefited from picking ‘the low-hanging fruits’ and needs to invest substantially more in developing more advanced innovative capabilities, in particular to improve the supply of S&E graduates.

väljavõte ETV uudistest tänasel päeval!

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Uudised on ikka masendavalt kurvad ja surma täis kogu aeg. Võiks nagu head ka rääkida. Ja siis imestatakse miks inimesed nii masenduses ja kurvad ja nukrad ja pahad ja tapahimulised ja võltsid on.

Good thinking will help here!

New Orleansis lasti käiku ekskursioonibuss, mis külastab linna ja selle lähiümbruse orkaanist enim laastatuid alasid, pakkudes kohalike tragöödiat müügiks turistidele.

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Päevas toimub üks 3-4-tunnine sõit ning igast 35-dollari (455 Eesti krooni) suurusest piletihinnast lubab Gray Line orkaaniohvrite heaks annetada kolm dollarit (39 krooni).