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Sunday June 16, 2002 |
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of the Day The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a "C" the idea must be feasible. -- A Yale management professor in response to Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service. (Smith went on to found Federal Express) |
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Blog Don't have a lot of news items, so I'll just throw in some interesting links I've been storing up to post at some point, and you can click and entertain yourselves? First some news. • The Koreans, but especially the Japanese were really worried about there being soccer hooligans coming over for the World Cup. There were huge lists of known hooligans who weren't being allowed on planes or out of the airport if they did come, tons of police set up to crack down on any rioting, and generally a lot of official worry. There haven't been any problems with real hooligans, oddly enough, so the cops seem to be taking out their frustrations on this guy.
Don't scalp tickets in Japan when they are already freaking about "hooligans" would be the moral of this story. • An article with yet another disclosure about how the FBI was run in the good old J. Edgar Hoover days. This one is about Einstein: A new book reveals the 22-year effort by FBI director J Edgar Hoover to get Albert Einstein arrested as a political subversive or even a Soviet spy. As you know, I know, and the eff...bee...eye... surely knows, every last super genius is out to rule the world, and it's only a matter of time until they hatch their nefarious plots upon us. |
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It's equal opportunity, for they have male as well as female photos. At the very least, this page could add a huge amount of terms to my dirty slang page.
Star Wars provides huge comic material for geeks running websites. *cough* Here are a couple of amusing articles, one about the droid mistakes, things like prototypes of later models seen in the wrong place, etc. And then there's this list of farcical Star Wars Episode Three foreshadowing.
Another cool site is is Found Magazine. It's more or less what it sounds like; people find things, on the street, notices on telephone poles, in the trash, etc, and submit photos of them. It's more interesting than it sounds, full of weird notes, lists, and broken objects, generally with what appears to be a very weird background story to them, if only we knew what it was.
I know I was going to format change and do some fiction every Sunday, but just no time today. Alas. |
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