December 2003

NBA Blog Squad (Dec 30, 2003)
The NBA now has "blogs" written by commentators and insiders. Their line-up includes former Magic coach Doc Rivers and the inimitable Yaron Talpaz from Israel's Sport 5 channel. Nice effort--but it'd be really cool if they hired a funny, opinionated...

Disasters attributable to bad numerical computing (Dec 29, 2003)
From Some disasters attributable to bad numerical computing: The Patriot Missile failure, in Dharan, Saudi Arabia, on February 25, 1991 which resulted in 28 deaths, is ultimately attributable to poor handling of rounding errors. (via Colby Cosh)...

Blankets, best comic of the year (Dec 23, 2003)
Time has published their best comics of 2003 and Craig Thompson's excellent Blankets tops the list. In many ways Blankets exceeds its praise--the perfect blending of themes across words, pictures, panels and pages is hard to appreciate until you're immersed...

Earlier Posts

Return of the King is rather great (Dec 18, 2003)

Radio message from HQ... (Dec 17, 2003)

The greatest guitar sound ever (Dec 9, 2003)

The New Harpers.org: Scary (Dec 7, 2003)

Sweet IA resources (Dec 3, 2003)

Canada, your shifty northern neighbour (Dec 2, 2003)