Thursday, July 11, 2002

Keith Olbermann and I agree about the All-Star Game: "...A baseball game, at its essence, means nothing. You have to convince spectators that it's important, and you do this by determining, if at all possible, a winner and a loser. But at Tuesday night's 2002 All-Star Game in Milwaukee, baseball's moguls failed to do this simplest, most essential of things, because they ran out of fresh pitchers... "As recently as 1997, seven healthy players, including six pitchers, didn't get to play. The pitchers were held in reserve specifically for the most delightful of all prospective problems: The game might be so competitive that it would be tied at the end of the regulation nine, and require extra innings. In 1967, when the game lasted 15 innings, Jim 'Catfish' Hunter pitched the final five innings for the American League, and when it finally ended, there were still three pitchers left in the American League bullpen just in case it had gone longer..." 03:12'20    comment []

The Register: al-Qaeda poised to strike hard via the Internet. "Now, with the current struggle on Capitol Hill to approve Dubya's new Gestapo, it's essential that the man in the street be frightened and confused by a torrent of 'news' pointing to incomprehensible threats which only Big Bro has the knowledge and skill to protect him from. "Look for a lot more of this cyber-terror drivel over the next two months -- or until the Department is created to the administration's satisfaction, or until Enron, Harken Energy and Halliburton cease making headlines." What's the saying?... "What's big and red and eats rocks? A big red rock-eater, of course." Hmmm. Nope -- that wasn't it. 02:55'26    comment []

News.com: New security flaw in Outlook, IE. 02:41'14    comment []

Scientific American: Meet the Oldest Member of the Human Family. 02:34'00    comment []

NYT: Sea Explorer Uncovers Kennedy's PT 109. Dr. Robert D. Ballard, who discovered the Titanic, the Bismarck and dozens of other lost ships, yesterday announced his latest find: PT 109, John F. Kennedy's wartime boat. 02:31'53    comment []

Poul Anderson. "I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated." 01:51'06    comment [] categories: Quotes