The Cleveland Indians have a player named Coco Crisp who’s on a hitting streak, but the A’s beat them anyway, right after the Cubs beat the Giants on a 3-run homer by Moizes Alou, son of Giants manager Felipe Alou. While the Giants were 11-1 since the break, they failed to score a run against [...]
Calblogger is as irritated as I am with Arnie and Dick’s little game of gubernatorial indecision:
We’re not looking at Riordan getting ready or Arnold trying to decide. We’re watching two men playing hot potato with the governorship with the belief that it belongs to one of them and only one of them.
Look, boys, the governor’s [...]
The blogosphere is a-flutter with praise for Marxist Norman Geras’ criticism of the anti-liberation left, and rightly so. My favorite part was the conclusion:
When the war began a division of opinion was soon evident amongst its opponents, between those who wanted a speedy outcome – in other words, a victory for the coalition forces, for [...]
Following up on findings generated from Original Internet Architecture (demonstating that mediocre programmers in a snit-fit could design network architecture), researchers have learned that baboons can program Visual Basic and XML:
Research by scientists suggests that higher primates represent certain kinds of knowledge internally by discrete symbol structures, called scripts. This research tends to support the [...]
Nice insight on Davis in Matier and Ross (Energy crisis pulled plug on Davis, pollster says / Overpriced energy deals that drained the state budget also cost the governor’s popularity plenty)
Politicians live or die by their defining moment. For George W. Bush, it was Sept. 11. For Gov. Gray Davis, it was the energy crisis [...]
Verizon’s acting like the Internet bubble never burst, according this article in Bidness Week that was linked over at Hit and Run:
“When you’re the market leader,” says Seidenberg, “part of your responsibility is to reinvent the market.”
At the heart of this reinvention is the most ambitious deployment of new telecom technology in years. Verizon plans [...]
Tim Oren’s funded a company that builds a GPS-guided automated tractor used, in part, by organic farmers:
Part of the plantings at American Farms are certified organic, and the GPS system was originally bought for them, exploiting the reduced till concept for weed control and making it safe to leave irrigation piping in place while tilling, [...]
Former Green Party assemblywoman Bock to run in recall
Former state assemblywoman Audie Bock today announced that she will add her name to the ballot in the recall election.
As the first Democrat to break ranks with the party, Bock will go up against a slate of Republicans should Gray Davis be recalled in October.
Audie [...]
California has adopted some truly loony measures through the initiative process, not the least loony of which was Prop. 13, the measure that sets property taxes at sharply different levels for houses in the same neighborhoods depending on when they were last sold. But by far the worst such measure was the term limits law [...]
The Register reports:
Chipmaker Agere Systems today announced plans to integrate wireless LAN and VoIP technology on a single integrated chipset.
Agere’s wireless VoIP phone technology offers the promise of making low-cost, mobile phone calls over the Internet more widely available once the chips become available from September.
So once again, the bar gets raised higher [...]
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