Tyler Cowen considers why soccer is not such a popular sport in the United States. He supposes that Americans prefer sports where they are the best in the world. Nick at transistion Game, supposes that there are tribal and geographical influences on the sports and team we prefer. I’ll add my two cents. American’s prefer […]
If there’s anything that could motivate me more for the election this fall, it’s crap like this – care of the so-called Patriot Act that Ashcroft rammed through Congress after 9/11. Yes, voting out the current administration won’t magically make this sham piece of law disapper, but its a start. The American Civil Liberties Union
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Extremetech has a somewhat speculative article about expanding digital video recorder capacity through external, possible USB, hard drives. Let’s disregard the fact that your typical Tivo, or wannabe DVR you use, probably has more TV recorded each day than you can possibly wathc and still have a normal life. Why would I want to add
Mike Cogan wondered on his blog why php is more popular than java. Most of his argument seems to be based on the assumption that PHP coders want to get a website up and running as soon as possible with no regard for proper planning and design. Somehow, simply choosing to use Java makes you
Dennis Bergkampf scored one of the finest goals of the 98 World Cup against Argentina. In this Guardian Interview, he talks about Arsenal’s season as it closes in on the English Premier League Championship. Seen on The Sports Economist. A nine-point lead means they require only four points from their last five matches to make
This page on digital camera support should be of interest to anyone who dabbles in the more alternative operating systems. By looking for a digital camera that support the USB Mass Storage standard and/or Picture Transfer Protocol, you can avoid the doubts and problems associated in getting it to work with Linux. You also get
I’m just posting this article on web standards so that Sandy and Jason can fight it out to the death. These days, the rebel youth aren’t so busy admiring Marx as they are giving each other tutorials on how to use XHTML Strict. Bravely battling JavaScript menus and eradicating layout tables, admonishing us to “please
While Freddy Adu scored his first professional goal this weekend, United ended up losing to their I95 rivals, the Metrostars, 3 to 2. The first half saw Novak’s United team on the field dominating possesion but still lacking that lethal scoring touch in front of goal. “I’m happy for Freddy,” said United midfielder Ben Olsen,
Looking to boost your php application’s performance. Check out memcached, a distributed memory object cache. It has hooks for PHP, Perl, and Java so you can share cached objects among scripts in multiple languages.
A writeup in the New York Times asks Can Disney Build a Better Mickey Mouse?. The company acknowledges that revenue from Mickey merchandise, measured as a portion of all consumer products, has shrunk significantly since 1997. What Disney doesn’t acknowledge is that Mickey’s reputation, measured in conversations with industry watchers, is shrinking even more. Still,