When are we going to stop joking around and admit that the NMD program is nothing more than a multibillion-dollar make work program for the disadvantaged aerospace industry? The New York Times reports today that the very missiles our missile defense system is supposed to stop (those launched by backward rogue states that have [...]
Entries from August 2001
August 27th, 2001 · Comments Off
August 27th, 2001 · Comments Off
The unannounced, brief but still too long hiatus over at Ethel the Blog is ovah! It’s about time.
August 27th, 2001 · Comments Off
Something bad has happened to my Windows XP RC1 install. I think I may have to roll back to Windows 98, much as I hate to do so.
August 27th, 2001 · Comments Off
The Atlantic has a profile of Joe Clark. You’ll find it interesting if you’ve encountered Joe Clark online, as I have.
August 27th, 2001 · Comments Off
Probably 90% of you won’t care about this, but Derek Zumsteg has written a great guest essay on Rob Neyer’s site on statistical analysis of sports, gambling on sports, and how the latter could precipitate a war on the former. The essay is wide ranging and provides tons of interesting background information in making [...]
August 27th, 2001 · Comments Off
I watched a couple of interesting television programs last night. The first was CNN Presents Beneath the Veil, which featured illegally captured footage from Afghanistan, taken by an incredibly brave journalist named Saira Shah. She travelled to Afghanistan and either took or obtained film of an illegal school (it teaches girls over age [...]
August 24th, 2001 · Comments Off
For future reference: Processing XSLT with Java.
August 24th, 2001 · Comments Off
For some reason I find it amazingly cool that Jack Kerouac devised his own fantasy baseball league featuring not only real baseball players but other people from history and even imaginary characters.
August 24th, 2001 · Comments Off
Did anybody else watch the Gary Condit interview last night? What was his reasoning for agreeing to give that interview? Truly one of the worst performances I’ve ever seen — his strategy seemed to boil down to asserting that everybody else (Chandra Levy’s mother and aunt, the flight attendant, and the chief of [...]
August 24th, 2001 · Comments Off
It looks like Buy.com might be the next big online retailer to bite the dust. I actually liked buying things from them, so this one hits closer to home than some.