List of Fixed Problems

in Service Release 1 for Microsoft Office 2000.

New York Times editorial supports putting an end to the Elian Gonzalez absurdity.

Teller, of Penn and Teller, writes of his discovery of the biennial Gardner Gathering, where

mathematicians, puzzle lovers, Carrollians, and magicians have gathered

from all over the world for a three-day conference to celebrate the fascinations they share.

Jorn Barger is posting a reformatted rendition of Molly Bloom’s soliloquy from Ulysses. I return to this again and again; follow me there?

A fascinating argument in Lingua Franca that most eponyms are misattributions!

‘Given that “eponyms are only awarded after long time lags or at great distances, and then only by

active (and frequently not historically well informed) scientists with more interest in recognizing

general merit than an isolated achievement,” Stigler concludes, “it should not then come as a

surprise that most eponyms are inaccurately assigned, and it is even possible (as I have boldly

claimed) that all widely accepted eponyms are, strictly speaking, wrong.”‘

Mark Frauenfelder, in Digital Living Today, gives us Palm users all the necessary pointers on using the devices effectively as document- or book-readers.

Salon pans Clean Living, the new pseudo-anti-commercialism magazine from Time, Inc. ‘It’s like the old farmer’s adage about breakfast and the difference between

involvement and commitment, the kind of thing you’ll hear out in Nebraska.

“The hen was involved,” the farmer says, “but the pig was committed.”‘

OptOut — Internet Spyware Detection and Removal: Steve Gibson’s freeware solution to the Aureate/Radiate “spyware” hysteria. Here is a complete list of the software carrying the Aureate/Radiate baggage.