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Tuesday, June 11, 2002 |
 Theoretically, a week from yesterday, we will know who Deep Throat was. The Washington Post, whose reporters invented the name, says "Only four people on the planet are known to have the name -- [Bob] Woodward; his partner, Carl Bernstein; Ben Bradlee, the former executive editor of The Washington Post; and of course, Deep Throat himself." If this is true, then we know that Deep Throat is John Dean, who plans to spill the beans in his book, coming out next Monday. John Robb thinks Deep Throat was Alexander Haig. Others say Henry Kissinger, William Colby (CIA) and L Patrick Gray (FBI).  [Scripting News]
3:33:01 PM 
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is asked to resign by some espectators of the Brasil-China game during the World Cup... 
3:01:47 PM
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Eric Raymond offers his Top Ten Reasons why he is not a Liberal, then another ten on why he's not a Conservative. [Doc Searls Weblog]
Funny stuff. The problem for Eric will be now when people asks him What he is?... If you don't fit in people's boxes you don't fit in...Pity.
11:15:53 AM
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Germany passes to the second round of the World Cup despite terrible refereeing by spaniard Lopez Nieto. Seventeen yellow cards and two red cards! I think that's a record, Jesus!
Eerie also passes, Cameroun is out. Sorry for them. They played well, I think they were negatively affected by the referee (Lopez Nieto is generally bad but today he really outdid himself)...
11:10:26 AM
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Did This Man Just Rewrite Science?
"We've known for 50 years that complexity can come from simpler and simpler things," Dr. Farmer said, adding that it had been shown that even bouncing billiard balls could be a universal computer.
The idea that complex things can arise from simple ones is as old as Euclid, who built a whole geometry out of a few axioms and logic, but the giant on whose shoulders Dr. Wolfram is most securely standing is the English mathematician Alan Turing. In 1936, Mr. Turing and Dr. Alonzo Church, a Princeton mathematician, showed that in principle any mathematical or logical problem that could be solved by a person could be solved by a so-called Turing machine. As envisioned by Mr. Turing, it was like the head of a modern tape recorder that would move back and forth along an endless tape reading symbols inscribed on it and writing new ones. Moreover, a so-called universal Turing machine could emulate any other conceivable computer.
[From New York Times]
7:48:05 AM
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France is eliminated from the World Cup without them scoring a single goal! amazing...
Great game for Uruguay, pity they didn't play that well earlier.
7:42:02 AM
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