Monthly Archives: October 2002

Posted on 10/31/2002 by Ben

Canada considers decriminalizing pot. “Why clog the criminal courts with kids 14 or 15 who might have been experimenting with a single stick of marijuana and who could face a lifelong disadvantage with a criminal record? Isn’t there a better … Continue reading →

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Posted on 10/31/2002 by Ben

Mild Aerobic Exercise No Protection From Osteoporosis.

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Posted on 10/31/2002 by Ben

Flag of inconvenience Once again, the political rivalry between the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of China on Taiwan has reared its ugly head in the world of computing. China considers Taiwan a rebel province, and frowns upon … Continue reading →

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Posted on 10/31/2002 by Ben

Some Say ICANN Loses Legitimacy According to one Web blog following the meeting, Thrush said ccTLDs may prefer “to attend ITU (International Telecommunications Union) meetings instead of ICANN meetings.” The ITU is a United Nations agency that adopts telecom regulations … Continue reading →

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Oops

Posted on 10/30/2002 by Ben

I managed to hose my incoming mail for the last two weeks, so if you sent me anything, please send again.

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Dial-A-Song

Posted on 10/30/2002 by Ben

New 2-disc Best of They Might Be Giants.

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Posted on 10/30/2002 by Ben

RealNetworks releases code.

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How the left became irrelevant

Posted on 10/30/2002 by Ben

Salon interviews Christopher Hitchens.

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Aging is not inevitable!

Posted on 10/30/2002 by Ben

Forever Young (washingtonpost.com) Does he think this will make him immortal? “Depends on what you mean by immortal,” he says, sitting at Silicon Valley’s Original House of Pancakes in Los Altos, Calif., letting his ham and eggs get cold. “There … Continue reading →

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CyberCon

Posted on 10/26/2002 by Ben

I’m checking out CyberCon 3 this weekend. It’s an online RPG convention with chat rooms for seminars and various online gaming systems (including NWN) for RPGs. I haven’t played in any of the games yet but the two seminars I’ve … Continue reading →

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An Internet way of self-knowledge

Posted on 10/26/2002 by Ben

Go Jorn! “The widespread campaign to dismiss webloggers as narcissists is a clearcut demonstration of how the self-knowledge taboo is currently being enforced.”

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Cream of Whedon

Posted on 10/24/2002 by Ben

Joyce Millman, who usually raves about Buffy in Salon, raves about it in the Boston Phoenix this week. She also utterly pans Buffy creator Joss Whedon’s new show, Firefly. I agree with her assesment of Firefly but I think it … Continue reading →

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Har, Har

Posted on 10/23/2002 by Ben

I was going to read this book about how to not procrastinate, but I decided to do it later.

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Experts ping-pong on protein advice

Posted on 10/22/2002 by Ben

Experts ping-pong on protein advice. “No longer are there hard and fast numbers for the percentages of major food groups. Now protein can range from 10 percent to 35 percent of daily intake. At the annual meeting of the American … Continue reading →

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Weight Training May Help Heart

Posted on 10/22/2002 by Ben

Weight Training May Help Heart “In the Harvard School of Public Health study, men who engaged in weight training for 30 minutes or more weekly had a 23 percent lower risk of heart disease than men who did not pump … Continue reading →

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