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Happy Pi Day. Do something special at 1:59 this afternoon (if you didn’t already at 1:59 this morning).
Archive of entries posted by jfleck
The Lead-Out
I now think Lance Armstrong has a good chance of winning this year’s Tour de France. I was not so sure. The machine no longer looked invincible last year. He looked good, but it did not look like fun. This year? If there’s a moment, a clue, it perhaps is the third stage of the …
Climate’s Coal Mine Canaries
Pikas, pygmy possums and tiny flowers in the high Swiss Alps are climate changes “canary in the coal mine,” signalling changes underway, according to a news piece in today’s Science by Kevin Krajick (sub. req.): Alpine ecosystems are particularly vulnerable to climate change, and recent studies suggest that mountain dwellers–from delicate flowers in the Swiss …
American Journalism at its Finest
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Multiple Categories?
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Planet Malkovich
Abe Fettig helpfully pointed me to instructions on creating topic-based RSS feeds in Movable Type, allowing a solution to the Planet Malkovich problem. So with Abe’s help, I herewith am now able (if I cut and pasted correctly – man I love the commons that is free/open software) to offer category-based RSS feeds. It’s rather …
Why Bobby’s Back
Bobby Julich gives it one more shot: “It’s not about winning races or being on the podium of the Tour, winning the money or becoming famous,” Julich said. “For me it was one thing: For those three weeks in 1998, I was in the zone. That was the most amazing feeling. If there’s anything I …
“I don’t need a kickstand.”
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Obesity, Health Care Costs, and Life on the Commons
Andrew Sullivan suggests, in response to yesterday’s CDC report on obesity, that if one wants to be fat, that’s a personal choice: What’s to be done on a collective basis? I have an idea: nothing. If people want to eat themselves into misery and early death, it really isn’t anyone else’s business. Well, perhaps. Or …
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Writing v. Typing
In commenting on Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, Truman Capote is said to have offered, “That’s not writing. That’s typing.” Perhaps that’s my problem, Christian. I just type real fast. Keep scrolling. Nothing else to see here.