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Sunday, November 24, 2002
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Quick - who wrote these tunes?
Forty-Second Street
I Only Have Eyes For You
We're in the Money
Lullaby of Broadway
Jeepers Creepers
You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby
Chattanooga Choo Choo
I, Yi, Yi, Yi
I've Got a Gal in Kalamazoo
On the Atchison, Topeka and the Sante Fe
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Harry Warren.
According to this site he wrote over 500 songs for 115 movies with 42 of them making it to the top ten on "Your Hit Parade." Irving Berlin only had 33.
6:44:18 AM 
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We are heading into one of the peak movie seasons and the Times is offering an annotated guide for November, December and January.
The only film I've seen so far is the new Harry Potter film, which is much better than the first. Lord of the Rings is the one film that I really need to see though - how are they going to portray the Ents?
6:43:09 AM
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Stu points out that the University of Wisconsin publishes their high level network statistics. Note that there are some interesting service breakdowns.
6:42:38 AM
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In 1993 two seismic events took place separated by about two percent of the time required for a seismic wave to propagate between the points. It turns out there is a very strange potential explanation for these events - very very strange indeed!
At the very least this puts some pressure on the geophysics crowd to explain events like these and keep the high energy physicists and cosmologists away. That said it would be very interesting if Shelly Glashow's intuition was correct
6:42:11 AM
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