BRIN-L SUMMARY, March 17-23, 2002
Editorial Notes: Just thought I'd put together a very brief summary of a weeks
worth of brin-l to (1) see how long it would take me (about an hour and a half)
and (2) see if people are interested in a Week in Review type revival. All that
I have done is provided one or two sentences about the origin of the thread.
Period. No summarizing of the entire discussion, that is just too time
consuming. However, anyone that wishes to summarize a thread for a future issue
is certainly welcome to contribute. The week summarized will go from Sunday to
Saturday, contributions to be submitted by 6 PM Saturday (or so).
3/17
Class-action law suit
Continuing thread started when Jeroen asked what a Class Action Lawsuit
was.
Resident Evil a revue
Continuing thread. Started with Rob Seeburger posting his revue of this
zombie
genre flick.
Baseball Related
Julia discovers that it's OK to boo New York teams again. See:
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/sports/bb/1297881
SCOUTED: Radical science: did angels create the universe?
Ronn finds a link that suggests that it might be possible to make
universes in the laboratory. See:
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_medical/story.jsp?story=274510
Dollar Stores
Rob Seeburger finds treasures for a dollar. Without Terry Bradshaw.
3/18
Andrea Yates
Continuing thread about the Texas Mother that killed her children.
Steel Tariffs
Continuing thread on the Bush Administrations announced intention to
slap tariffs on steel imports.
Musings from Vera
Replies to a missive by ex list member Vera Horiuchi cross posted by
Doug.
evolution
Continuing thread about the effect of the changing racial mix on human
evolution.
Brin-l network visualization
Continuing discussion about Nick's efforts to "map" brin-l.
Impeachment Redux
JDG rails against the improprieties of the Clinton administration.
Lieing isn't important to Democrats
JDG rails against the improprieties of the Clinton administration and
his party.
Nixon vs Clinton.
JDG discusses the lack of consequences for the improprieties of
the Clinton administration.
Punishment for Perjury
JDG informs us that perjury in adultery cases results in jail time.
Anti-Norway
Continuing discussion about who might be anti-Norway.
Got another bounce (trying new spelling)
Continuing mystery: What in the subject line "Lieing isn't important to
Democrats" is causing messages to bounce from one of Jeroen's addresses?
Immigration and Assimilation
Ronaldo posts the URLs of some interesting articles about immigration
and assimilation. See:
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/14868
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/14942
Banning Smoking
Offshoot of the lawsuit thread Jeroen discusses the difficulty of
banning smoking in the Netherlands.
3/19
NL East
Gautam continues to make his baseball predictions.
SCOUTED Iris-Recognition Technology
Jim Sharkey posts an article that discusses the use of iris recognition
technology to locate an Afghan woman that had graced the cover of
National Geographic several years ago. See:
http://www.nj.com/news/times/index.ssf?/news/times/03-19-JHAR1PWB.html
and:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/03/0311_020312_sharbat.html
Walzer on 9/11 and the Left
Continuing thread about articles written by this liberal thinker.
The USA is the Evil Empire
Alberto summarizes a Brazilian article that offers some reasons why
there are people that believe that the U.S. is evil.
AgiCon
Some Texas brin-lers are off to Agicon this weekend. See:
http://aggiecon.tamu.edu/
Near Miss: Asteroid takes Earth by surprise.
Gary Nunn posts this URL
http://www.msnbc.com/news/177595.asp?pne=msn
What kind of explosive are you?
An on line quiz reveals that many of us are CO2 canister bombs.
3/20
Gender in languages
Sonja asks "why some words are female, male or neutral in German and
French... Any other languages that have gender specific prefixes."
French help needed
Tom Beck needs some translation assistance.
Addictions
This offshoot of the smoking discussion is pretty sweet.
3/21
Irregulars Question: Retrieving Security Information
Jeroen needs to automate folder attribute characterization in Windows.
(I think)
Off to Aggiecon
Julie is off to the con where she expects to see Adam and Marvin.
NL Central
Gautam continues his informative series.
Dutchness
Dan responds to a joke posted by Matthew Bos in the Addiction thread.
3/22
Priesthood
Nick tells us we're all priests.
Meyer-Briggs
Spin-off of the Banning Smoking thread. Alberto thinks this test is
bogus.
Medical Alert
Our resident Tymbrimi warns us of the dangers of Viagra and
breast implants.
US Funds Demining in Bosnia-Herzegonvina
JDG posts an article about the US supporting humanitarian demining.
3/23
Second Class Justice
Doug posts an Amnesty International news release about the fate of the
Taliban/al Qaeda prisoners.
--
Doug
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.zo.com/~brighto
"Now people stand themselves next to the righteous
And they believe the things they say are true
They speak in terms of what divides us
To justify the violence they do"
Jackson Browne, It Is One
