NY Times Magazine : Inside the iPod
Today's NY Times magazine has an in depth look at Apple's portable music player, the iPod....
November 2003 archives
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SF Chronicle : Shame of the City
The San Francisco Chronicle's Kevin Fagan has the first of a five part series on the homeless issue in San Francisco. He will probably be up for a Pulitzer for this one, along with photographer Brent Ward....
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Woman knocked unconscious by trampling shoppers
A woman in Florida was trampled by a herd of shoppers at Wal-Mart. In the 6 A.M. doorbuster she was pushed over in the rush to grab a $30 DVD player....
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Miss Ireland wins Miss World Beach Beauty contest
Rosanna Davison won the Miss America Beach Beauty contest. Rosanna is the daughter of musician Chris de Burgh. Well done Ireland!...
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Mao Tse Tung on guerilla warfare
Mao Tse Tung handbook for guerilla fighters is still the basis for a lot of the ground fighting we see today in places like Iraq....
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A Framework for Soccer Video Analysis
Ahmet Ekin of the University of Rochester has put together software that filters out less interesting parts of a soccer game and focuses on the perceived exciting moments. His Automatic Sports Video Analyzer will send soccer highlights to cell phones during the 2004 Olympics....
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Orgasmatron having trouble finding volunteers
A new device is entering clinical trials that delivers an orgasm on demand through a spinal implant. Stuart Meloy is struggling to find volunteers for the program. Towards the end of the article it mentions that an orgasm is a reflex response, and people with spinal injuries can still orgasm. Interesting....
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Home Depot Center scorecard
The Torrance Daily Breeze has a very interesting Home Depot Center scorecard. "The Galaxy will also make the first profit in its eight-year history, team officials confirmed Friday. The team turned last season?s $3.5 million loss at the Rose Bowl into a modest $150,000 profit." Doug Hamilton should keep Sigi Schmid as head coach. It looks like your revenue worries are not his fault, and you need to get some quality Latinos in your starting 11, not your head coaching position. Carlos Ruiz is the top Latino player in MLS and he was the work of Schmid....
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Amazon to index British Library
Amazon announced a deal with the British Library to index its entire collection of 2.55 million books. I visited the British Museum last year and the library was amazing. It will be very cool to see more of these works uniquely identified....
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Let them sing it for you
New site where you come up with the lyrics and each word is mapped to a clip in a music database. A new song is created with the clips taken from the word maps....
