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November 30, 2003

AlpineRace-- streaming World Cup skiing
Might be cool, if it wasn't unnecessarily mac-hostile (the free highlight clip, at least, plays in OS X, despite what the site says)

Tucker Sno-Cat History Page
The first snow cats

November 26, 2003

An appetite for monkeys, Ferris wheels and surgery
So troubled are his finances, his advisers tried to limit his spending to $1 million a month

November 25, 2003

Machine Politics
Voting technology through history

LivingWithCaucasians
A blog from Tblisi, Georgia

Potential consulting firm interviewing questions
How would one calculate the wingspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?

Triumph and Terry
Terry Gross interviews Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog

November 24, 2003

Bode Miller wins Park City GS
Schlopy is injured

Cartoon Research
Focused on animation

November 23, 2003

November 21, 2003

Why do thin guys always seem to win eating contests?
The science of eating competitions

November 20, 2003

Meet the Press
TechCentralStation and astroturf

November 19, 2003

Save the Earth -- dump Bush
Bush is the worst environmental president in history

Who Wants to be a First Lady?
Find Kucinich a wife!

The only way to win is not to play
Man Dies After Winning Vodka-Drinking Contest

Only Dubya has a bigger entourage than P. Diddy
TalkLeft: Bush's Entourage of 700: What's It Costing?

November 18, 2003

Feds to launch $10 million investigation of cell phones, wireless technologies
I really hope that using a laptop with WiFi on one's lap is not too bad...

NFL Crazy Lenses
Who buys these?

Funds and Games
Krugman on the growing mutual fund scandal

November 17, 2003

More Consumers Reach Out to Touch the Screen
People apparently prefer dealing with machines to dealing with cashiers

Sounding Off On Frozen Trumpets
Cryogenically frozen trumpets play no better, but they do taste better

A Politics that is Dumber Than Spam
Is there anywhere to go but up?

Send Them Back!!
Almost clever.

November 16, 2003

Procrastination Research Group
I'll get around to reading it later

November 14, 2003

November 13, 2003

Straphangers Campaign Pokey Awards
M23 is slower than walking

November 12, 2003

Joey Ramone Place
Corner of Bowery and 2nd

November 11, 2003

Matt Drudge Versus "K Street"
reality/fiction envelope-pushing can have legal consequences

Fundrace 2004
Follow the money

Study Says Local Tax Bite Is Deepest in New York
Perhaps there's a connection to the fact that NY receives significantly less federal spending than we pay in federal taxes...

The Only Company Wal-Mart Fears
Where else can can buy a 2 gallon jar of mayonnaise and a plasma TV at the same time?

November 10, 2003

The Man Behind the Pledge Case
Law.com profiles Newdow

Berklee Shares
Free music lessons from Berklee

Comment Spam Manifesto
"Start a possee"

Machine Politics in the Digital Age
The problem with Diebold

Gore on Freedom and Security
"will we fail future generations, by leaving them a Constitution far diminished from the charter of liberty we have inherited from our forebears?"

November 9, 2003

Offbeat eats and drinks
According to Citysearch

November 7, 2003

Ultimate Mets Database
Meet the Mets, Step right up and greet the Mets

November 6, 2003

Top 10 Pro Basketball Player Names (2003-2004 edition)
Yes! {Player's name}... from downtown!

Music giants join forces
How long before the Big 5 4 become the Big 3?

Legends of The Meat Masters
How Peter Luger's buys its beef

The New York Review of Books: Strictly Business
Krugman on Ivins, Conason and the Bushies

November 5, 2003

Lawyer sings "I Shot the Sheriff" in courthouse
Unfortunately, his client actually shot the sheriff

The Kollege Daily
Quality journalism from college papers

Everybody Fung Wah Tonight!
Frequently Asked Questions about the Chinatown bus

November 4, 2003

That Revision Thing
A history of the Iraq war, told entirely in Bush Administration lies

I'm Losing You
Cell phone service sucks in NY

November 3, 2003

Monkeys Terrorize India Workers, Tourists
India's Supreme Court has decreed that New Delhi should be monkey-free

New York Bloggers
NY Mag has used its quota of the word "blog" for the next 4 years

November 1, 2003

Musical snares
Do the music download services create lock-in?

Jeremy's A-to-Z Guide to Callback Interviews
What's worse than sitting through annoying callbacks? Not sitting through any at all.