Monthly Archives: December 2002

Joe Strummer, Dead at 50

By | December 23, 2002

A Leader of the Clash Dies at 50 Joe Strummer suffered a heart attack and passed away yesterday at the age of 50. The Clash’s three LP masterpiece Sandinista! was the first really great, life-changing music I experienced. One of my brother’s high school friends was exposed to the Clash’s music while DJ’ing at Johns… Read More »

Book Review – Emergence

By | December 19, 2002

Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software by Steven Johnson This book received a lot of what I think was overly harsh criticism for not providing a significant amount of in depth technical coverage of the cross-functional area of emergence, i.e., cellular automata, self organization, complexity theory, etc. Obviously, one book on… Read More »

More Rice

By | December 19, 2002

The semi-annual letter from Rice president Malcolm Gillis just showed up in my mailbox. The letter isn’t published to the Rice website, yet, but click on alumni letters on the Office of the President’s page if you care to see old alumni letters and eventually, the fall 2002 letter. In addition to pointing out the… Read More »

Seventeen Thinks Rice Is Cool

By | December 13, 2002

Ed Felten is excited that Princeton ranked #22 on Seventeen Magazine’s list of 100 Coolest Colleges. I was quite surprised to find my alma mater, Rice University, ranked #1. Rice is a fantastic school and I had an incredible experience there, but the first item on Seventeen’s list of desirable qualities “From frat parties to… Read More »

Trent Lott

By | December 11, 2002

AlterNet: Does Trent Lott Speak for the South? Trent Lott’s continued appalling statements make me embarrassed to have been raised in the State of Mississippi. The reputation of Mississippi is already sadly too low in the eyes of most US citizens, but Lott seems compelled to drag it deeper into the white trash. In case… Read More »

Treasure Titan Planet

By | December 8, 2002

Warning! Don’t read this if you haven’t seen Treasure Planet from Walt Cyborg Disney Pictures, but plan to do so. You’ve been warned. If you liked Titan A.E., I think you will like Treasure Planet. There’s a time and a place for mindless animated films. It may not be a lot of time and it… Read More »