Thursday, December 05, 2002

From Information Week: Wharton School Buys Huge Trading Database The University of Pennsylvania has licensed a 35-Gbyte database covering all U.S. equity and index options collected since 1996. It'll be a boon for researchers. 6:25:09 AM    comment []

Vera's discovered a New Band: The kids put on a ''rehearsal'' yesterday. Seems they are a band now, called "You Won’t Believe This." I got a flyer for the show… When? ''After dinner.'' Great tale. 5:48:56 AM    comment []

When I linked to the Salon review yesterday, I neglected to link to the book: The Matrix and Philosophy: Welcome to the Desert of the Real (Popular Culture and Philosophy, V. 3), edited by William Irwin (Open Court Publishing Company). (See also The Matrix and Me, by Barrett L. Dorko, P.T.) 5:44:27 AM    comment []

Boston Church Panel Will Allow Archdiocese to Weigh Bankruptcy, by Pam Belluck, New York Times. Also, from Slate's ''Explainer'' section, What Happens When a Church Goes Bankrupt? By Chris Mooney. 5:34:15 AM    comment []

Vaporware: Call for Submissions. Every year technology companies talk up products just about to hit store shelves. And every year, a bunch of them fail to appear. It's that time again: Send us your nominees for Wired News' annual Vaporware Awards. [Wired News] 5:31:24 AM    comment []

Inspectors Rebuked By U.S. And Iraq [Washington Post: Front Page] 3:55:55 AM    comment []

Another winning collection of Nigerian Scam Correspondence. For example: Kris Kringle, (aka Father Christmas, Saint Nicolas, Santa Claus,...) has a correspondence with Stella Mike, a computer technician frm the Nigerian Central Bank, with a view getting enough money to retire to the tropics. On one hand I had fun letting KK do things that you don't normally associate with him, on the other I was curious as to just how silly it could get before Stella smelt a rat. Includes stories still in progress, such as Don Quixote, Hu Flung Dung, the renowned Chinese Restaurateur, and Sigmund Freud. (Consider this an, er, advance on The LADS From LAGOS. See also, Cards, ears, outlaws, and After Central APA, before finals on X-Ray Net.) 3:10:57 AM    comment []