Monthly Archives: November 2002

ABC News

Posted on 11/22/2002 by Ben

Rethinking the Food Guide Pyramid “‘The public has been told for many years that fats are bad and carbohydrates are good,’ said Walter Willett, chair of the department of nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston. ‘In … Continue reading →

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Newsfactor

Posted on 11/22/2002 by Ben

Why Red Hat Owns Linux

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Posted on 11/21/2002 by Ben

Monorail!

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Music distribution done right

Posted on 11/20/2002 by Ben

Hush Records is distributing their Bjork tribute album as a free MP3 download with a suggested PayPal donation of $2.

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Posted on 11/19/2002 by Ben

Wired profiles Netflix.

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I want one

Posted on 11/13/2002 by Ben

$800 Linux-powered tablet PCs.

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Washington Post

Posted on 11/13/2002 by Ben

Colombia’s Air Assault on Coca Leaves Crop, Farmers in Its Dust “‘It is all gone here,’ said one farmer, Juan Carlos Gaviria, 52, whose three acres of coca in the village of Achapos Sinai were sprayed in August. ‘It is … Continue reading →

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Deconstructing Buffy

Posted on 11/13/2002 by Ben

Stephanie Zacharek reports on Buffy academic conference.

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A Better Yahoo

Posted on 11/12/2002 by Ben

I’ve been using MyWay, an ad-free Yahoo clone for a few weeks now and I quite like it. The personal portal isn’t as full-featured as Yahoo’s but is otherwise very usable. MyWay is launching an aggressive ad campaign targeted at … Continue reading →

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The Register

Posted on 11/11/2002 by Ben

MS admits its Linux-bashing jihad is a failure.

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BBC

Posted on 11/6/2002 by Ben

Breakfast cereal makes you happy.

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XUL Planet

Posted on 11/6/2002 by Ben

101 things that the Mozilla browser can do that IE cannot.

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Posted on 11/5/2002 by Ben

30 cm nanotubes.

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