Wednesday, March 13, 2002
A Beautiful Man Is Besmirched by Enquiring Minds
Sylvia Nasar
As we move closer to Oscar night on March 24, some journalists have taken material they claim is in the book on which the film is based, distorted it and inventedfactsabout Nash and his wife, Alicia. Mainstream news organizations have stated everything from thefactthat Nash was gay and an adulterer to thefactthat he was a bad father and a bigot — all of which are untrue.
Surly skies beckon
Let's have some fun here: Let's design the worst airline we can think of. [ ... ] We will tell you that if we are flying near any city that's important, you must remain in your seat and cannot go to the bathroom. If you insist on going to the bathroom, we will have you arrested.
Terrorist Pilots' Student Visas Arrive
Exactly six months after terrorists Mohamed Atta and Marwan Alshehhi flew two jetliners into the World Trade Center, the Florida flight school that trained the men received paperwork showing that their student visas had been approved.
Starbucks: Profit Machine
Matt Richey knows where practically every Washington D.C.-area Starbucks is located. While not a shareholder of the company, he does his part on a daily basis to bolster Starbucks' ROIC.
Matt sounds a lot like me (just substitute Boston metro area for DC...)
Chained melodies
But what happens when the law of the land is in direct opposition to mainstream consumer behavior and desires? As the content companies accelerate the deployment of every legal, political and technological weapon in their arsenal, that is precisely the showdown that looms.
Discussion at Slashdot.
Piracy bill could lock up computers
Dave Winer
There's a bug in the idea that the govt could require the computer hacks that the entertainment industry wants. At some point the govt will realize that it would render its own computers unusable. Of course they could put exemptions on their computers. Then we could all get government jobs. We'll need them, because there won't be any computer industry jobs except to make computers for the government.
