] Steve Carlson is probably the most famous hockey player
] to ever come out of Nashville.
]
] Never heard of him? Maybe the name Steve Hanson rings a
] bell. That was the name of the character he portrayed in
] the 1977 film Slap Shot, a movie many hockey fans
] consider cinematic genius, their Citizen Kane.
]
] Carlson played in the minors for the Nashville South
] Stars of the old Central Hockey League during the 1981-82
] season, notching 23 goals and 39 assists. But he gained
] much more notoriety as one of the rowdy, long-haired,
] goofy glasses-wearing Hanson Brothers who played for the
] fictitious Charlestown Chiefs in Slap Shot.

Slap Shot role still paying off for Carlson - Friday, 07/11/03

If it didn't already exist, someone would have to create it.

Pink Steel

] Cable-television prices rose 8.2 percent during the year
] ending July 1, 2002, an increase five-and- a-half times
] the rate of inflation during that period, the U.S.
] Federal Communications Commission said.

hmm...

1 economy in toilet
2 FCC willing to let competition die
3 ???
4 PROFIT!

Cable prices rise 8.2 percent, topping inflation, agency says

] The fantastic floating device called a lifter has no
] moving parts, no onboard fuel, and no shortage of
] wide-eyed admirers. Even inside NASA.

SWEET!

The Antigravity Underground

] "He should turn it in to his professor, get his grade --
] and then they both should burn it," said Richard Clarke,
] who until recently was the White House cyberterrorism
] chief.

And it's your ignorance and inability to face reality that will continue to put our lives in jeopardy, you twit. If this grad student can build such a database, then obviously someone with a lot more motivation could as well. Burying our heads in the sand doesn't help.

Dissertation Could Be Security Threat

] Marshall Mathers III bought the Floridian traditional
] estate on six acres, replete with heated marble floors
] and Honduras mahogany paneling, for close to $4.8
] million. That's about $1 million less than the original
] asking price, Oakland County land records show. The deal
] closed Feb. 6.

I find it ironic that Em chose to buy the Kmart CEO's home.

I remember when this house was being built. It was the largest home I had ever seen at the time. I couldn't fathom why anyone would need that much space.

Eminem buys ex-Kmart CEO's estate for $4.8 million

Spike Lee sued Viacom over their proposed rebranding of the cable network, TNN, to "Spike TV". I swear, if anybody even so much as thinks about "nox tv", I'm on them like R. Kelly on a school bus.

Spike Lee's head has just officially gotten stuck in the Holland tunnel.

] The book profiles people who evolved gaming from paper to
] pixel, through 1970s Dungeons & Dragons roots, to MMORPGs
] (massively multiplayer online role-playing games) like
] EverQuest

I wonder if they'll profile Chuckles.

best quote in the article:
"This isn't just entertainment, it's an artistic medium and a cultural force," Borland said. "History matters, and we want people to realize that Quake isn't an isolated phenomenon. Games back in the 1870s had similar themes, so did mid-century toy soldiers and H.G. Wells novels. When you realize kids have actually been fragging each other for hundreds of years, that puts contemporary game culture in context."

Secrets of Dungeons and Dreamers

Interesting economic breakdown of various distributed computing philosophies.

Jim Gray. Distributed Computing Economics

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] 2000 years please feel free to drop me a line at
] stpeter@bentsoup.com

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