- Did the Dome’s air flow turn pop flies into home runs? Retired Metrodome superintendent says he did his best to affect Twins games, and one of two independent tests showed that a fly ball flew 3½′ farther when the fans were turned on behind home plate.
- Ron Paul says
I’ll probably win this argument
when talking about cutting the size of government. The reason he’s optimistic?
Here’s hoping he’s right. [endwar]The reason is not because anybody’s going to pay any attention to what I say. But what’s going to happen is we’re going to run out of money. It happens to every empire, throughout all history.
- The Electronic Frontier Foundation has created a website where anyone can check to see if they’re wanted by the RIAA for filesharing. Punch in the username you use when sharing and it compares it to a database of names mentioned in subpoenas filed in D.C. court. [jim]
- Gary Kremen prevails in sex.com lawsuit. It’s been ruled that he can sue Verisign because Network Solutions (which Verisign acquired) gave away the sex.com domain name. [boing boing]
- Looking for a good domain name? Go check out splorp’s available domain name of the week. Many good ones are still available (or if you have a good idea for what to do with mentalhygienist.com you could probably talk me into giving you that one).
- Bruce Krafft wrote My Day at the Mall, about how he was detained at the Mall of America for legally carrying firearms. [endwar]
- Joe Adams: terrorist? Cottage Grove man stuck on no-fly list that the TSA admitted exists just a month ago. Martin Sabo is trying to attach an amendment to the funding bill for the revamped TSA so their new list won’t be funded until a study has been done on its effects on civil liberties, but after Congressman Sabo voted for USA-PATRIOT in 2001, I don’t have very high expectations. He strikes me (as Paul Wellstone did) as someone who says
I’m from the government and I’m here to help
and means it. Spooky. - Old St. Paul power plant might get spark of redevelopment. The power plant is the one I took a picture of back in November of 2001 and wasn’t sure what it was at the time. It is an interesting building and redevelopment there would be cool, but it doesn’t seem right to kick out the funky houseboats, either.
- I went looking through my logs the other day. The most popular google search was for grilled trout, followed by the golden gate bridge, then rhubarb sauce, and raspberry sorbet. It gets a lot less interesting after that.
