The New York Times reports that the Dominican Republic has confirmed suspicions that pitcher Danny Almonte was 14 — not 12 — when he pitched in the Little League World Series. It also turns out that Almonte is in the country illegally, since his visa expired six months ago (on that count, though, I’ll side…
August, 2001
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There were a couple of threads at Plastic yesterday about pushing the boundaries of acceptable content on network television. This anecdote isn’t about network television, but about commercial cable channels, but it shocked me nonetheless at the time. I was watching Gene Wilder’s movie, “Silver Streak,” on one of those cable movie channels that features…
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Gee, if it weren’t for Salon I never would have guessed that record companies try to rig MTV’s “Total Request Live.” I guess I was wrong and David Talbot was right — this Salon thingie really is cutting edge. The last line in the story did have me laughing out loud. After describing how Interscope…
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Sweet Fancy Moses has a hilarious look at what Amazon.Com reviewers thought of each of the American Film Institute’s Top 20 films (the AFI actually listed the top 100 films, but SFM only highlights the top 20. The AFI list itself is interesting, but I think The Godfather is a far better film than either…
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It just abandoned the Comics Code a few weeks ago, and now ComicBookResources.Com reports that a printer stopped production on a Marvel book in mid print-run after deciding that the book, Brian Michael Bendis’ Alias #1, was “offensive.” The comic book is the first title under Marvel’s new “mature” imprint, MAX Comics. And while I’m…
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Okay, RoboToys.Com doesn’t have anywhere near the selection that The Robot Store has, but RoboToys does have something the Robot Store doesn’t — Aquaroids!! Since I can’t enjoy Sea Monkeys anymore, this looks like a great replacement.
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I can’t believe that Palm is counting on Blue Tooth to rescue their rapidly sinking ship. First they tried wireless in the Palm V that nobody wanted, now they’re going to let it all ride on Blue Tooth… maybe the third time will be the charm and they’ll ship a Palm with 802.11b built in.…
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Business Week has a look at right wing news sites such as WorldNetDaily and FreeRepublic.Com. Along with their right wing political angle, these sites have something else that differentiate themselves from other content sites such as Salon.Com — they’re not losing millions of dollars a month. In fact, World Net Daily claims that most months…
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I did not watch any of the Little League World Series, but it was almost impossible to avoid coverage of pitching sensation Danny Almonte. The young man from the Dominican Rublic struck out 86 percent of the batters he faced, gave up only one run in four games, and managed to pitch a perfect game…
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A lot of folks are celebrating Brazil’s decision to declare AIDS a national emergency and basically ignore patents on AIDS drugs. There is a lot of debate back and forth over patents for lifesaving drugs, with pharma. companies claiming the prices they charge are necessary to pay for continued research and development, and AIDS activists…