Two truths and a lie. Can you guess which one of mine is the falsehood?
Month: May 2002 (Page 3 of 4)
How to watch a baseball game, by Hall of Fame player and top-notch broadcaster Joe Morgan. Great tips for passionate and passive fans alike.
Baseball columnist Jim Caple: Contract Milwaukee!
Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention’s Weasels Ripped My Flesh is one of rock’s all-time great album covers. Zappa ripped off the idea from this Man’s Life 1956 pulp-mag cover. Here is the story behind its conception (keep scrolling down) and an analysis of the cover. (Yes, dear, I was on FilePile again)
I had a nice pig-in-shit moment reading the recent Metafilter thread on ASCII text. Want a primer on ASCII text? Check out these links:
Men’s fashion basics, from the excellent The Morning News:
And via the Morning News, for future reference: classic tie knots.
Fun with Google over yonder on Metafilter. (Thanks, Ron)
BusinessWeek: The Battle of the Online Content Models. Good summary of the NYT and WSJ revenue models.
At Fred’s at Barney’s, a restaurant in a department store at 61st and Madison in New York City, on Saturday afternoon, over lunch, gawking along with the rest of the tables in the northern half of the restaurant:
At Fred’s at Barney’s, a restaurant in a department store at 61st and Madison in New York City, on Saturday afternoon, over lunch, gawking along with the rest of the tables in the northern half of the restaurant: Renee Zellweger, seated with friends at a table for eight, looking cute and scarily thin; soon joined by Matthew Perry and Matt LeBlanc, tan and goateed, respectively, and both handsome and friendly; and, shortly following LeBlanc’s departure, Courteney Cox Arquette, followed by Jennifer Aniston, which finally made me crane my neck with the rest of the crowd, because they are indeed as beautiful in person as most Americans imagine they would be, Jennifer in particular, as befits her status as one of the country’s cherished faces, even when she’s a little puffy-eyed and casual, like she was at that moment.
We left without seeing whether Brad Pitt showed up.
ReplayTV has been ordered to spy on its customers. I’m all for maintaining copyright and allowing the entertainment industry to preserve its product, but using