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Entries from February 2001
February 21st, 2001 · Comments Off
February 21st, 2001 · Comments Off
The New York Times has the scoop on Survivor II’s outback chef Keith Famie. It seems he’s an annoying publicity hound — what a shock.
February 21st, 2001 · Comments Off
Perhaps I’m just being silly, but I find the $150,000,000 marketing deal signed between Coca-Cola and Warner Bros. for the Harry Potter movie to be pretty dispiriting. The fact that a movie of the first Harry Potter book is being made is bad enough, now they’ve got a deal with Coke. I realize [...]
February 21st, 2001 · Comments Off
How embarrassing is the collision of the USS Greeneville and Ehime Maru going to end up being? The latest reports are that the submarine detected the fishing vessel in the area an hour before rising to the surface and sending the Japanese boat down to Davey Jones’ locker, and that the sub’s sonar officer [...]
February 20th, 2001 · Comments Off
Looks like Bush and his Republican cronies are interested in monkeying around with the way we deliver foreign aid. The bottom line: more money only if it’s given to churches. What a joke.
February 20th, 2001 · Comments Off
A Harvard math professor and one of his doctoral student have come up with a provably unbreakable crypto system. The practical applications of the system are up for debate, but it’s a cool accomplishment nonetheless.
February 19th, 2001 · Comments Off
Rob Neyer’s latest column is ostensibly about baseball, but in fact reveals a weakness common to nearly every human being — the inability to get past one’s preconceived notions and think in a systematic, rational manner. It’s one of the key reasons why we have bad government and bad companies. Rather than looking [...]
February 19th, 2001 · Comments Off
Check out www.whithouse.org, a bizarre site obviously run by enraged Cubans living in America. www.whitehouse.org is a spoof of the real White House web site.
February 19th, 2001 · Comments Off
Clinton explained his reasons for the Marc Rich pardon in a New York Times op-ed over the weekend. The question that remains for me is why, if Rich’s case for innocence was so strong, did he flee the country? He could have hired a legal dream team and gone before a jury like most [...]
February 16th, 2001 · Comments Off
Microsoft is really turning up the anti-Linux rhetoric, which must mean that they’re legitimately worried about the threat Linux poses. Their latest PR gaffe involves Jim Allchin describing Linux as, of all things, un-American. I wish that he just meant that it was created by a Swedish Finn, but he’s actually using the [...]