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Saturday, Jan 26, 2002

station breaks

"Using a process called "microediting," the length of movies, programs, or anything on television can be cut down without chopping entire scenes. It works by eliminating duplicate frames of video, actually creating time where it did not exist before. The process lets TV stations use the time saved to run more ads."

box din

"It was a mistake--and a beaut--in Matt Bivens's piece "The Enron Box" where he confused the Houston Astros and the Texas Rangers. It is hereby duly acknowledged and regretted. But what really astonished us..." (sidebar to rewritten article)

hammett time

"Samuel Dashiell Hammett was born in rural Maryland in 1894. As a boy he wanted to read all the books in the Baltimore public library, but he had to quit high school at the age of fourteen to help out with the shaky family finances. (His father, whom he didn't like, was a spendthrift, drinker, sharp dresser, and womanizer; but unlike Hammett, who resembled him in all these respects, he was mean and stingy.) At twenty-one, Hammett got a job as a Pinkerton's detective agency operative, which he left in 1918 to join the army. He suffered the first of many severe respiratory illnesses then. During one recuperation he married a nurse he met at the infirmary; then he signed on at Pinkerton's once more, but his health broke down. It was then that he began writing crime stories for the pulps."

city zen

npr report on anime Metropolis.

read my book

the funniest presidential photo-op prop since buddy the dog. heres the wire story.

moldy oldies

df is behind the indie curve these days. he might have had to buy the moldy peaches by now and the new cornelius.

pick me

ye olde bloggies

gravastarved

"New Theories Dispute the Existence of Black Holes"

need we say more?

"Enron for Dummies"

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