Archive for February 2000

Death row Web sites

Our Web page is the most dynamic and rewarding communications tool that we have had in recent history …” — Larry Todd, spokesman of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, on detailing executions of death-row inmates … down to their last meal. Even Benetton is looking death row in the face.

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Seems that “Dubya” is taking a little heat for giving remarks at a South Carolina university which prohibits inter-racial dating. That’s just about as bad as what I saw on the Today Show this morning: The head of the KKK called a Louisiana legislator “a bigot and full of hatred” for trying to re-name the KKK’s adopted section of the highway the “Rosa Parks Highway.” Sometimes I just don’t get it.

Student notes online

Front page of today’s Star Tribune: “Online note services lure students, rile profesors.” Seems sites like StudentU.com are luring college students to post their class lecture notes online. And of course, for some fast cash, some students are willing to do it. How desperate would you have to be to get your astrophysics notes from the web?

Let’s play match the airport codes with the airport!

1. DEN a. Austin
2. DFW b. Minneapolis/St.Paul
3. ORD c. Dallas/Ft. Worth
4. MKE d. Denver
5. AUS e. Chicago-O’Hare
6. MSP f. Milwaukee

Send me the correct answers, and you could win — yes, win! — three cancelled flights, one very erroneous ticketing agent, but no lost luggage! Hooray for American Airlines!