Steroid scandals in sports, most particularly baseball, have been dominating sports media for a couple of years now. I thought that there really wasn’t anything I could possibly care less about, but the New York Times proved me wrong with an article on steroid use among hip-hop artists. Actually, the Times story is a report… Continue reading Steroid Madness
Month: January 2008
links for 2008-01-15
Overheard in New York | The United Nations, Encapsulated “They have been underestimating my power for quite some time now.” (tags: silly blogs) SFFWorld 2007 Best Reads Review (Part 1) A discussion of the best in fantasy last year. (tags: books literature SF review) SFFWorld Best Reads 2007 (Part II) – Page 1 of 4… Continue reading links for 2008-01-15
Google-Bomb the Debates
Steinn offers an excellent suggestion, after noticing that CNN is soliciting debate questions from random people on the Internet: Keith over at NASAwatch suggested his reader swamp it with NASA policy questions to try to get one into the actual debate. Scienceblog readers could do the same – send in a lot of good, coherent,… Continue reading Google-Bomb the Debates
Memo to ESPN
Yo, E! (Do you mind if I call you E?) I’d like to draw your attention to an item on your web page: NY Giants 21, Dallas Cowboys 17. Yeah, shocking as it may seem, the Giants won that game. Go figure. Hey, it surprised me, and I’m a Giants fan! Still, in light of… Continue reading Memo to ESPN
The Clinton Conundrum
I’ve seen a lot of people linking to this exhaustive recounting of Chris Matthews’s unhealthy fixation on Hillary Clinton, which leads off with a great quote from this firedoglake post: I do not care which person is your candidate. I don’t care what you think of Hillary Clinton as a potential president. What is being… Continue reading The Clinton Conundrum
Uncertain Principles Radio
Well, OK, not really. You can, however, hear what I sound like by listening to a couple of official Tor podcasts made from the panel I did at Worldcon with Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Adam Rakunas, Paul Cornell and Yoshio Kobayashi. The panel was back in September, but I haven’t seen the files on Tor’s web… Continue reading Uncertain Principles Radio
links for 2008-01-14
Just Science 2008 » Just Science 2008 People blogging about nothing but science, Feb. 4-8. (tags: blogs science) Fantasy and Science Fiction: Fiction A Nebula-nominated story, available online. Yet another thing I’ll read in my copious free time. (tags: space stories books) Prisoner’s lawsuit says it was too easy to escape – Los Angeles Times… Continue reading links for 2008-01-14
How Many Anecdotes Does it Take to Make Data?
The New York Giants, who played all their starters in a “meaningless” game against the Patriots in the final week of the season are now 2-0 in the playoffs. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Indianapolis Colts, and Dallas Cowboys, who played their starters only sparingly at the end of the regular season to “rest up for… Continue reading How Many Anecdotes Does it Take to Make Data?
Book Report: Polishing and Waiting
I’m sitting on the couch, watching tv, when the dog comes in. “Hey, dude, what ever happened with that book, anyway?” “What book?” I ask, distractedly. “The one about me. What other book would I be asking about?” “Oh, yeah. I sent the first draft off to my editor and a bunch of other people,… Continue reading Book Report: Polishing and Waiting
Saturday Football
So, how much does it suck to be David Garrard? He was 22-for-33 for 278 yards, with two touchdowns and only one interception, an excellent performance by any normal standard, but he was the second-best quarterback in the game. Tom Brady was 26-for-28, 262 yards, three TD’s, no interceptions. And one of the incompletions was… Continue reading Saturday Football