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Saturday, February 15, 2003 |
Ward Sutton's cartoons in The Village Voice suggest that W has father
issues much in the way that Tony Soprano has 'em, and illustrates (it's a
comic, after all!).
11:49:13 AM 
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College
Try: Why universities should stop encouraging applicants to take the SATs over
and over again, by Jacob L. Vigdor, The American Prospect.
Most institutions of higher education in the United States
employ a system alarmingly similar to the fictional dart-throwing academy
described above.
(thanks, again, Eszter!)
6:47:26 AM
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"Selfish" routers slow the Internet. A little altruism could go a long way in speeding up the Net, say two scientists who found that computer networks tend to be selfish when each tries to route traffic by the fastest pathway. By Sandeep Junnarkar, Staff Writer, CNET News.com. [CNET News.com]
6:26:31 AM
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Looks like listen.com's Rhapsody music service is free this week. Still no Mac support. [Hack the Planet]
6:24:18 AM
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The Salon Interview: Chris Matthews. He made his name bashing Clinton. But the "Hardball" host has broken from the cable TV pack over war with Iraq. And he has even warmed up to Clinton -- Hillary, that is. [Salon.com]
6:22:46 AM
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Change the "Back" button? Browsers go back to the future: Programmers redesign button that accounts for 40% of all Internet clicks. By John Whitfield, in Nature.
(thanks, Eszter!)
6:20:08 AM
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'Ultima Online'
hacker arrested over 'house' sale (Yomiuri Shimbun).
The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested a 21-year-old
man on suspicion of illegally accessing an Internet game server to sell a
virtual "house" owned by a woman to another game participant for 50,000
yen, police said Thursday.
5:47:16 AM
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