May 31st, 2006 | 
In an effort to try to ameliorate the fact that France hasn’t seen a Tour de France victory in over 20 years, the French daily sports journal, L’Equipe reported the premature results of the 2004 re-testing of Lance Armstrong’s urine samples from the 1999 Tour (Lance’s first of seven victories). L’Equipe reported that the [...]
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I’m probably going to get myself in trouble here, but someone has to say something to get this out in the open. First let me say that I think that Subaru makes excellent cars. In fact, they are some of the best engineered cars in the world and are sold at a terrific [...] Few of us will ever obtain the notoriety that Homer Simpson (Matt Groening, The Simpsons creator) did in June, 2001 when his favorite phrase, “Doh!†was added to the Oxford English Dictionary. The inclusion of a word or term in the OED is globally recognized as its formal adoption into the lexicon of the [...] Walking through the aisles of my local convenience store, I was struck by the number of refrigerated cases that were now dedicated to new-fangled energy drinks – a substantial percentage of the refrigerated space available, as it turns out. There are many different brands of these potions, some produced by the soft drink giants and others [...] Brad Feld’s post on A Mental Model for VC Investments compelled me to write about something that’s been a hot button for me for some time – business planning. What I mean by this is the process by which someone plans for the future of their business, whether it be for getting capital, selling [...] I’m new to Christopher Moore and I picked this book up for a quick read on a plane ride after seeing it mentioned by complete strangers on a few web sites (now you know my standards). If you insist on reading this book in a relatively public place like I did, be [...] I recently received a thoughtful comment on my original Prius Deception post by David H. Hawkins. In his comment, Mr. Hawkins basically says that I’m full of crap with many (most, actually) of the claims I make – if he knew me, he might not limit his findings to the post in question. In [...] My wife and I just returned from a week of cycling, eating & drinking, seeing a zillion tulips, eating and drinking, sightseeing, eating & drinking, touring (and did I mention eating and drinking?) in Holland. As cycling challenges go, this is the bottom of the heap. As my wife stated as we were [...] Narrator: Bernard Mayes – GoodGenre: Non Fiction – MilitaryWriting: GoodStory: PoorTime: 13 hours 35 minutes I know very little about cryptography or cryptology, but I’ve always been fascinated by stories of the German Enigma cipher machine used before and during WWII and the efforts of the Allies during the war to [...] |
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