Via Just One Thing comes an excellent list of sports-related novels. The baseball list is especially noteworthy, highlighting quite a few fantasy-related baseball novels such as Robert Coover’s The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop..
February, 2002
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Although I’d like to live forever, one method I am not planning to rely on to get there is cryonics. The idea, of course, is that at death your body is frozen on the off chance that at some period in the future technology might exist to revive you. Since the practice of freezing damages…
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Jonas Savimbi was killed on Feb. 22 by soldiers of the Angolan army. Savimbi waged guerilla warfare against governments in Angola for 36 years and became an ally of the United States during the 1980s when Ronald Reagan received Savimbi in the White House. Whatever else he was, Savimbi was skilled at public relations. At…
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Zimbabwe has elections coming up — elections that would almost certainly result in a loss of power for Robert Mugabe if they were fair and free. Mugabe’s got a problem, and this week a solution appeared in the form of a videotape supposedly showing opposition leaders plotting to kill Mugabe. The setup is this: opposition…
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New Scientist reports that researchers at Oxford University used one of those distributed computing screensavers to analyze 3.5 billion potential anthrax-fighting compounds and reduce that to a mere 300,000 potential compounds which will now be analyzed using a supercomputer. This sort of analysis would normally require several years. Oddly enough, some people who ran the…
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TechCentralStation.Com’s Ryan H. Sanger takes down George W. Bush for his recent statements linking farm subsidies, of all things, to the 9/11 terrorists attacks. Sanger reports that at the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association meeting in Denver, Bush told the cattlemen that, “It’s in our national security interests that we be able to feed ourselves .…
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If you’re like me, you get 5 or 6 of these “419″ scam letters in which the con man tries to convince the mark that he has access to gold or other valuables from Nigeria which require a third party to move them out of country. Buddy Weiserman strung along one of these scam artists…
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A couple months ago I experimented with a Google ad for my animal rights site. Considering the site is largely noncommercial, the return on investment was very low. I paid something like $25 total for a few thousand text ads and the response rate was about what I’ve seen on ads I run on my…
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The other day an e-mail from the National Organization for Women crossed my desk. The e-mail was outraged that Washington, DC, had granted Mike Tyson a license to fight and called for people to protest to city officials to have Tyson’s permission to fight revoked. Huh? Let Tyson fight already. The NOW e-mail complained that…
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MSNBC reports that less than a week after its IPO, PayPal has been hit with a class action lawsuit filed on behalf of people who claim that the company wrongfully denied them access to their money. PayPal is an interesting experiment, but in the long term I think it is doomed. Quite a few people…