] American Healthways shares were up 4.6% in trading this
] morning, to a 52-week high of $50.54. The stock price has
] risen nearly 23% since the company announced plans for a
] 2-for-1 stock split on Nov. 19.

and 50% since I joined! heh heh...

American Healthways lands big deal; stock price surges

] Rogers has not played since the fifth game because of a
] broken right collarbone that has been slow to heal. He
] was injured Oct. 7 in a noncontact drill in practice
] during the Lions' bye week.

] "I knew my situation was going to be tough coming back,"
] he said. "One thing about it, it seems like it was taking
] longer than we thought it would to heal. I know it's
] getting better. I know I'm going to be all right. It's
] just taking longer than we expected.

boy, do I know how this guy feels...

Rogers' rookie year is over

] Understand that 802.15.3 is a high data rate Personal
] Area Network with a range of about 10 meters. This isn't
] a WiFi competitor. Think of it as a kind of Super
] Bluetooth, capable of sending video over short distances
] without interference and with true quality of service,
] which 802.11 can't provide. Conventional wisdom says a
] deal will shortly be worked out in the IEEE, Multiband
] OFDM will become the standard and we'll see products
] appear in late 2004 or early 2005.

okay, I predicted that BlueTooth would die a horrible death. But this would make me more wrong than right.

UWB might be coming sooner than you think

] Hayes says he doesn't have any big regrets.
]
] Every once in a while he runs into a former employee who
] wishes the company was still in business.
]
] "I tell them, 'Don't worry about that. Just be proud of
] what we accomplished because we changed the world.' "

An interesting article for any old sk001 BBS d00ds, but more interesting for anyone who's owned their own business.

Modem moguls' paths diverge

] Zapping bugs which flourish in office ventilation systems
] with ultraviolet radiation could cut the sickness
] suffered by millions of office workers, suggests a new
] study.

sounds good to me... less bacteria in my work/living spaces is a good thing.

New Scientist

] The two chief planners of September 11th have confessed,
] and the records of their interrogations can now be used
] to paint a precise picture of the events leading up to
] the terrorist attack. Their statements also reveal how
] Osama Bin Laden personally selected the suicide pilots
] from Hamburg.

a long read, but the closest thing to the truth I've seen on the subject. Make sure you look for the reasons why Germany and France will have no part in the Iraqi invasion.

Cover Story: Operation Holy Tuesday - DER SPIEGEL - SPIEGEL ONLINE

] Gregory Allen Freeman, 45, was charged with aggravated
] assault and reckless endangerment in the Saturday night
] incident that wounded Jeffery S. Murr, 24.

Next time, aim lower.

This always cracked me up whenever Saddam Hussein would fire into the air. I always wondered how many innocent people were injured by the falling bullets.

Participant at KKK initiation wounded after shots fired into sky

] Unquestionably, the solutions to many current problems,
] the treatments for many illnesses, and the pathways to
] new businesses have already been invented, but they are
] waiting on the sidelines.

...

] it's not only innovation that
] matters, it's the rate at which innovations are
] improved and brought to market. And this has declined
] precipitously since the bust. The result is a surplus of
] innovations, with vast numbers of potentially important
] advances being warehoused or shelved. This situation is
] alarming enough in itself, but even more worrisome is the
] fact that innovations don't have an unlimited shelf
] life: they are perishable and risk becoming unusable when
] the people associated with them move on to other
] endeavors. Another reason for concern is that warehoused
] innovations remain untested and deprived of the iterative
] improvements so critical to their journey from inception
] to implementation.

you have to register for this, but it's a great article on how innovation has accelerated but the conduit for commercializing it has essentially collapsed. This has validated my thinking on the subject, but changed my perceptions on it quite a bit. Upto now, I had considered it a purely supply-demand problem, but it is more complex than that as the system that transforms innovation into the mainstream has matured and atrophied to some degree. The system is irrevocably changing.

Our Innovation Backlog

] Microsoft settles Tennessee suit
]
]
] Microsoft said Friday that it received preliminary
] approval for settlement in a class-action antitrust suit
] with consumers in Tennessee. Under the terms of the deal,
] those who bought certain Microsoft products will be
] eligible for vouchers good toward the purchase of future
] computer gear.
]
] If less than $64 million in vouchers is awarded,
] Microsoft will give half of the remaining amount to
] Tennessee schools, in the form of vouchers. The software
] maker said late last month that it had reached a pact
] with lawyers in six states, including Tennessee.

Geez! Why oh why did California have to settle for vouchers instead of a fine? DUMB!

Briefly: Microsoft settles Tennessee suit

] Like the babbling psychics who predict future crimes in
] Minority Report, Dick was a precog. Lurking within his
] amphetamine-fueled fictions are truths that have only to
] be found and decoded. In a 1978 essay he wrote: "We live
] in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured
] by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by
] religious groups, political groups. I ask, in my writing,
] What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with
] pseudorealities manufactured by very sophisticated people
] using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not
] distrust their motives. I distrust their power. It is an
] astonishing power: that of creating whole universes,
] universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same
] thing."

An interesting article about the proliferation of Dickian tales in modern society. I'm amazed at how he was so right (mood organ anyone?) and other sci-fi greats such as Clark and Bradbury were so wrong (ahem... 2010...). Proof positive that you can see the future. Which makes me feel much better in some ways and much worse in others.

The Second Coming of Philip K. Dick