Archive for the 'Links' Category

42 MLB Players With College Degrees

Friday, June 11th, 2004

This is a little report for Tracy Higgens, who is perhaps the coolest person on earth. i have an assignment for you: i heard from chris’s dad that only 17 players in the MLB have college degrees- astounding. i was just telling my family this stat and doug doesn’t blieve it for a second. can [...]

Google as Artificial Intelligence

Wednesday, May 26th, 2004

Google is getting smarter and smarter every day and it’s coming closer to the Holy Grail of AI – natural language processing. Google can already spell better than I can – and it doesn’t hesitate to correct me. Also, it has a rudimentary historical knowledge. These are the results from Osinga’s Google History project. I asked it to guess the year of Kennedy’s death:

Map of Political Donations – Democrat vs Republican

Tuesday, May 25th, 2004

fundrace-map_2.jpgThis is from fundrace.org, which collects publicly available information on political donations and geocodes (latitude/longitude) them to form a map. It shows where Bush and Kerry‘s support is, and you can search for people in your neigborhood if you live in the states.

Troy, Iraq, and Gay Marriage

Monday, May 24th, 2004

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The Richest Countries In The World

Tuesday, May 11th, 2004

Green = Money The Greatest Site In The World = Nationmaster

Monkeys In The News

Saturday, May 8th, 2004

1. A monkey holds an opposition Congress party flag during an election rally in Kathua 90 km (56 miles) south of Jammu, April 22, 2004. Sonia Gandhi, president of India’s main opposition Congress party, is optimistic after the first round of the country’s staggered general election this week — what she calls a battle to [...]

Abu Ghraib in Iraqi Art and Poetry

Saturday, May 8th, 2004

Abu Ghraib means ‘father of the raven’ This is a Photoshop I did on Abu Ghraib… or at least my impressions of it. The background is a Saddam era prison-pass to Abu Ghraib. The colorful people are sampled from the excellent work “Hurricane” by the Iraqi artist Sadiq Toma (purchase). The hand is a medical [...]

How (Not) To Survive a Terrorist Attack

Thursday, April 29th, 2004

This is awful, but I thought it was pretty funny. I choked on my sandwich at work and made funny noises. It’s covers the basics of Post-Terror Attack Survival, including Biological Weapons, Chemical Weapons, and Nuclear Weapons. I think they copped a real Department of Bloated Bureaucracy terrorism survival guide and changed the captions. (link [...]

Sistani: Ayatollah With A Website

Monday, April 19th, 2004

This thug Sadr is not well respected by Iraqi Shiites, specifically because he is not an Ayatollah. He is way too young and hasn’t completed the study neccessary for the honored title of Ayatollah. The most powerful Ayatollah in Iraq is the Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Husaini Sistani. Sistani, interestingly enough has a website. It’s [...]

Famous Arabic Words

Saturday, April 17th, 2004

Al-lah : God Al-djebr : Algebra Al-khimiya : Chemistry Al-Qaeda : Foundation / Base Abu Ghraib Father of The Raven