In February of this year National Football League player Derrick Thomas was killed in an automobile accident. He was speeding on an icy road rushing to make a flight. He lost control of his car and both he and a passenger died when they were thrown out of the car — neither was wearing seatbelts.…
November, 2000
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The other day I bought Shiny’s amazing RTS game, “Sacrifice,” and spent too many hours playing it over the weekend (review coming soon). Anyway I was visiting the game’s web site to see if there was a patch out yet. There isn’t yet but they did have another interesting feature — a sort of mini-Pricewatch…
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The big pre-election speculation was that Green Party candidate Ralph Nader would siphon off enough votes from Al Gore to elect George W. Bush, and that certainly seems to be the case in Florida. If Gore had captured only a small fraction of Nader voters in Florida, the campaigning wouldn’t still be going on. But…
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Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences By John Allen Paulos No sense mincing words — this is the worst skeptical/debunking book that I’ve ever read. Period. How this book became a national bestseller at the end of the 1980s (and its author a mini-celebrity for awhile) is something I will never understand. For one thing,…
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The BBC reports that Iran beat Guam by a score of 19-0 in a World Cup qualifying match. Iran held the previous record for a qualifying score when it beat Maldives 17-0 in 1998.
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Eric Harshbarger has a nice looking 5-plus feet tall Lego sculpture of Princess Mononoke. Another Lego fan has some good looking, large Gundam Wing mechs. Finally, Daily Radar has a glowing review of the Mindstorms Darkside Developers Kit (the Mindstorms kit with the Lego AT-AT).
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CNN reports that Microsoft today released a patch to fix some security problems with Windows Media Player. In my opinion, Windows Media Player is the biggest piece of crap software that I’ve had the misfortune to find on my PC in a long time. My wife and I bought a laptop a year ago primarily…
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Duncan Smeed, who is an educator, worries enough about traditional plagiarism and notes that, “of course, the situation is further complicated by the ready availability of vast resources over the Internet.” He points to a group that is evaluating iParadigms’ electronic system that claims it can detect papers copied off the Internet. Several comments. First,…
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The United States and the European Union recently published a draft version of an international cyber crime agreement with an interesting proviso — the less political freedom users have, the more privacy they will be granted. Conversely, the more political freedom users have, the less privacy the states of the world will cede them. Make…