Sports fans may have heard that an umpire screw-up in last night’s game doomed the Angels. Oh, excuse me. I mean, you may have heard that there was a controversial call that allowed the eventual winning run to reach base. Is that neutered enough, or do I need to further excise the suggestion that a human may have been involved

Sam King, who I think is actively searching out stuff with which to bait me these days, this morning passed along the Bill of Non-Rights, a bit of self-righteous humor variously attributed to different “conservative” writers. So here’s my reply. ___________________ As soon as I get to this, I know I’m reading a moron whose idea of thinking is parroting

David Stolberg Meritorious Service Award The Stolberg Award, an engraved plaque, was presented in September 2005 at SEJ’s 15th annual conference in Austin to Denny Wilkins, the SEJournal workhorse who has copyedited SEJ material for free, for years. (Story.) Congrats to Denny for finally getting noticed….

My buddy Sam King (a smart, libertarian-leaning conservative type) pointed me toward this 1993 piece in Reason magazine on the question of kids and gun deaths (and attending legal/policy debates). To his ears, the author’s argument made some sense. I guess my take sort of steps to the side of the issue the author wants to talk about. ____________________________________ Of

I speak as a longtime Braves fan when I say that: Their 14-year run of division championships is amazing. But, When something happens 92.8% of the time over nearly a decade and half, you have to consider the possibility that something systematic is at work. I know it’s hard to mess with “success,” but here’s what I think the Braves

Those who know me will laugh heartily upon learning that: I Am A: Lawful Good Human Fighter Paladin

This is why more people should be subscribed to Bruce Schneier’s feed. Do it.

Furious South African women? I bet you could find South African men who’d object, too. Of course, the men who’d object the most would be the ones the device was made for, I suppose….

Today’s question is for MLB Commissioner Bud “The Owner” Selig: LP: Mr. Commissioner, Major League Baseball today named New York Yankees’ First Baseman/DH Jason Giambi as the American League Comeback Player of the Year for his courageous efforts to “come back” from a crippling case of self-inflicted ‘roid poisoning. In light of the league’s apparent new “reward the miscreant” policy,

Warning. Finish drinking whatever you’re drinking before you read this. [THX: felixwas.]

Cody Barstow at Mojo City News forwards on a snippet from a new Ball State study: Another suprising find is that 18 to 24-year-olds spend less time online than any other age group except for the over 65s, giving the lie to the idea that young adults are the most computer literate. Fascinating. Now first, I’ll need to see the

Posted on Wed, Oct. 05, 2005 Google, Sun form alliance By Therese Poletti Mercury News Google and Sun Microsystems said Tuesday they have agreed to promote and distribute each other’s software, a deal that eventually could represent a significant threat to the dominance of their common foe, Microsoft. The terms of the collaboration were vague. The companies will work together

Angela saw this in the paper today: OFFICE MANAGER TRAINEE POSITION AVAILABLE Duties include: phone answering, record keeping, paperwork flow, & anything else that needs to be done that is not illegal, immoral or inethical. Qualifications: General level of intelligence, common sense, ability to answer questions & make decisions, capability to get to & from work without problems & excuses.

For those of us interested in things like Artificial Life and Complexity, this is just fascinating. Fortunately, the epidemic was not real, but the aftermath of an inadvertent digital plague caused by a simple change to the massively multiplayer online roleplaying game, World of Warcraft. The change? Giving a monster the ability to curse in-game avatars with a self-propagating, albeit