http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/10/31/snopes/index.html interview with the urban legend busters of snopes.com 23:59
Archives
This month: 22 entries.
http://slate.msn.com/?id=2057931 a day at the Supreme Court: should fake child porn be outlawed? 11:23
http://www.sigmaxi.org/amsci/amsci/issues/comsci01/compsci2001-
11.html mathematical recreations-style piece on base three 10:44
http://www.newyorker.com/THE_TALK_OF_THE_TOWN/CONTENT/?talk_
the_financial_page why the US shouldn't have humbled Bayer. (James
Surowiecki always very good.) 11:22
http://tnr.com/110501/chait110501.html what's not wrong with food drops in Afghanistan 12:24
http://www.andrewsullivan.com/text/main_article.html?3 "This Is a Religious War" 12:17
http://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/games/bubble.htm cutest little flash game ever 11:47
http://www.stayfreemagazine.org/archives/16/breakups.html "After breaking up with someone, what do you do with their stuff?" 15:20
http://slate.msn.com/Gist/01-10-18/Gist.asp is Islam a peaceful religion? 03:14
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/scotland/newsid_1602000/
1602093.stm "Williams's university fails quiz challenge" (from
BBC News Scotland). I
just love these parochial news stories. "The St Andrews team ...
failed to answer a number of questions during the half-hour show." 15:51
http://pigdog.org/auto/mr_bads_list/shortcolumn/1914.html "Things to Say When You're Losing a Technical Argument" 14:53
http://www.snopes2.com/rumors/bert.htm Bert (the Sesame Street one) seen with Osama bin Laden 12:53
http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,5590,00.html Prince Alwaleed's place: "Even with two kids around, the palace doesn't feel very lived in. After our tour, which takes more than two hours, we meet up with the prince and describe a certain room and ask him about it. He turns to an aide and asks, 'Which one is that?'" 10:33
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/90sep/rage.htm "The Roots of Muslim Rage: Why so many Muslims deeply resent the West, and why their bitterness will not easily be mollified" (September 1990)" 14:26
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=21512&cid=2274950 quotes on smileys. I am in complete agreement. 11:06
http://slate.msn.com/foreigners/entries/01-10-01_116462.asp Anne Applebaum is really really good. (So is her Slate colleague William Saletan.) 16:17
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/28/nyregion/28SUBW.html rebuilding NY subways. Subways cost $1b *a mile*? 23:10
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A342-2001Sep20.html "How the Pentagon Mints Its Campaign Monikers" 11:19