Daily Archives: October 27, 2003

Who knew there were fish on Mars?  And we should distrust their efforts to be counted? I’ll have to start keeping a closer watch on the news…. On land the demand is to know, with certainty, how many fish are … Continue reading →

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Prosecutors looking to throw the book at accused computer hackers have come across a legal defence expected to become even more widespread in an era of hijacked PCs and laptops that threatens to blur the lines … Continue reading →

Undergraduates with time on their hands are the Mother’s of Invention, as the history of Napster clearly shows. Now a pair of 20ish MIT students have come up with a workaround for the RIAA’s labyrintian limitations on digital music distribution … Continue reading →

SAN FRANCISCO–They can turn brown eyes blue or human eyes to monster eyes. Decorative, or costume, contact lenses can be a fun way to change one’s looks, especially for Halloween. However, the American Academy of Ophthalmology, the Eye M.D. Association, … Continue reading →

from Despair.com

Here is a story which features ESL, another American Blogger in Korea (where do they all come from?), international relations, irrational hatred and baseball. How could I resist? “Mr. Lee:

Wow! It must have looked like a commuter’s version of Usama’s Martyr’s Paradise. What an idea for a FlashMob – now that one I would go to. Hundreds of women have stripped naked at New York’s main railway station to … Continue reading →

I knew there must be some logical explanation as to why my Summer students gave me such low evaluations. It couldn’t have been just because I taught the class largely by remote control fron an isolated fishing cabin in the Yukon … Continue reading →