Daily Archives: October 22, 2002

Trackback

Posted on October 22, 2002 by Charles Kuffner

Inspired by this article in the MIT Technology Review (sadly, only a preview is available here), I’ve finally decided to enable Trackback. If a fellow MT user would care to ping me so I can verify I’ve done this correctly, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Will Hispanics vote for Tony Sanchez?

Posted on October 22, 2002 by Charles Kuffner

Josh Chafetz has questioned some of my implicit assumptions in the comments on this Matt Yglesias post. I had expressed my skepticism of the recent DMN poll that gave a 10-point lead to John Cornyn over Ron Kirk and a … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Posted in Election 2002 | 5 Comments

Wallace and Gromit are back!

Posted on October 22, 2002 by Charles Kuffner

Woo hoo, a new Wallace and Gromit short film is out, with a full-length feature due in two years! Via the Donk. Continue reading →

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Wimmin playin’ f’ball

Posted on October 22, 2002 by Charles Kuffner

Texans, schmexans. Houston already has a championship football team. And their owner plays cornerback. Take that, Jerry Jones! Robin Howington awakes on a Saturday, makes a pot of coffee, turns on the VCR and studies a game film for the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Another Dem endorsement

Posted on October 22, 2002 by Charles Kuffner

Amazing. The Chron has endorsed Kirk Watson for Attorney General, meaning that they went with the Democratic candidate in three out of the four big statewide races. And they threw in an endorsement for Debra Danburg in her State House … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Posted in Election 2002 | 5 Comments

North Korea confesses additional misdeeds

Posted on October 22, 2002 by Charles Kuffner

The Noose has the scoop: PYONGYANG — Following on the heels of last month’s admission that his country had kidnapped Japanese nationals, and last week’s extraordinary revelation that North Korea possessed a secret nuclear weapons program, leader Kim Jong Il … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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When will the home version be available?

Posted on October 22, 2002 by Charles Kuffner

Scott points me to some cool news: Seattle-based computer maker Cray is collaborating with Sandia National Laboratories here on a new, faster supercomputer – Red Storm – that will be seven times more powerful than the federal weapons lab’s current … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Posted in Technology, science, and math | 1 Comment

Fastow mansion sold

Posted on October 22, 2002 by Charles Kuffner

Sometimes snarkiness is no substitute for the actual text of a newspaper story: The River Oaks mansion of former Enron Chief Financial Officer Andrew Fastow has sold for $3.9 million to another local energy company CFO. Thomas Hook, the CFO … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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