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Links from March 13th

Robert Weintraub in Slate: How have the Houston Rockets won 20 games in a row? - He’s wrong about the absence of Yao helping the Rockets. The Rockets won 12 in a row with Yao before winning 8 in a row without him. I think the secret has been adding Rick Adelman’s offense to the defensive tenacity that Jeff Van Gundy instilled in the team over the past few seasons.
Taliban shutting down cellular service in Afghanistan - The Taliban is forcing cellular networks to shut down at night because they think coalition forces track their fighters through their phones. Easier to extort the telephone companies than to get guerilla fighters to just turn off their phones, I guess.
17 Ways to Visualize the Twitter Universe
The Eliot Spitzer affair and the business of sex - Kottke links to lots of sex worker reactions to Eliot Spitzer’s prostitution scandal. Incredibly interesting.

Tags: · politics, sex, sports, statistics, terrorism, Twitter, war

1 John // Mar 14, 2008 at 5:40 pm

If the cellular network is off, the phones still continuously try to find a network, don’t they? That’s just as trackable.
2 Rafe // Mar 14, 2008 at 6:54 pm

I don’t think we’re talking about the sharpest tools in the shed here. Chances are they’re being tracked not by cell phone but rather by spy satellite and Predator drone.