October 2004

Fox Sports Soccer?

On the Sports Economist:Is the Fox Soccer Channel in our future? seen on Soccer TV Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation has filed trademark applications 78444142 and 78485747 with the United States Patent and Trademark Office to register the names “FOX Soccer Channel” and “The Soccer Channel”. Multiple sources indicate that FOX is planning to convert

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John Stewart on Crossfire

If you haven’t watched John Stewart’s appearance on Crossfire yet, you can watch it on ifilm. It’s being discussed in a lot of places including Slashdot, Lisa Rein’s Radar, and on Jason’s blog. BEGALA: And that CROSSFIRE reduces everything, as I said in the intro, to left, right, black, white. STEWART: Yes. BEGALA: Well, it’s

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Presidential Debate Thoughts

Nothing spectacularly insightful and I missed the first hour of the debate because we were watching the US-Panama World Cup Qualifier, but here are some observations: In his answer to the no child left behind question, Kerry spoke about Hispanics and the president seemed to refer to them as “children whose parents don’t speak English.”

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US dominates Panama

Not since the turn of the 20th century has the US plowed through Panama the way it did tonight. Needing a win to advance to the final regional round, the US team romped to a 6-0 win at RFK Stadium tonight. Wearing the captain’s armband, San Jose midfielder Landon Donovan scored the first two goals.

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More Mac Impressions

I’ve had my PowerBook G4 12-inch lapop for two weeks now. Here are some of my experiences so far with it. I hope this doesn’t come across as any sort of advertisement or rabid fanaticism. Up until now I’ve been a PC guy and my desktop machine is an Athlon based self-built PC running Debian

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