Casey Mears Wins Brickyard 400 Pole (AP)

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Man Flies High-Tech Plane on
Pole-To-Pole Flight

Man Flies High-Tech Plane on
Pole-To-Pole Flight 12/29/2003 08:09 PM
Red Nova Dec 29 2003 6:39PM ET

Pole wants phone pole out of his kitchen
(Reuters)

Pole wants phone pole out of his kitchen
(Reuters) 02/01/2005 09:23 PM
Reuters - Piotr Kardys is a Pole with a problem -- a pole; in fact, a telephone pole in his kitchen.

Gordon, Brickyard Continue Love Affair
(AP)

Gordon, Brickyard Continue Love Affair
(AP) 08/08/2004 09:19 PM
AP - Jeff Gordon couldn't wait to kiss the bricks Sunday after matching his heroes with a fourth victory at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The driver, who spent his teen years living within 25 miles of the track, made history with his fourth victory in the Brickyard 400, joining open-wheel stars A.J. Foyt, Al Unser and Rick Mears as four times winners at the storied speedway.

Golf: Casey enjoys top spot

Golf: Casey enjoys top spot 07/15/2004 05:32 PM
England's Paul Casey shares the lead with France's Thomas Levet on five under after day one at Royal Troon.

Golf: Casey eyes debut win

Golf: Casey eyes debut win 04/11/2004 08:06 AM
Paul Casey wants to emulate past European winners as the Masters enters its final round.

Casey Kasem's last day as host for
America's Top 40

Casey Kasem's last day as host for
America's Top 40 01/06/2004 06:48 AM
an exclusive interview after his final taping .. Well, apparently, he's had enough .. keep your feet on the ground

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Audio of Casey at the Bat and two
unauthorized sequels

Audio of Casey at the Bat and two
unauthorized sequels 03/29/2005 03:07 PM
Cory Doctorow: Telltale Weekly, which sells DRM-free audiobooks of public domain works, has just posted a $0.50 version of "Casey at the Bat" and two "sequels" written by a different writer, hearkening to an era when copyright didn't mean that others couldn't fool around with your work.

Ernest L Thayer (writing under the pen name "Phinn") wrote the baseball classic Casey at the Bat: "A Ballad of the Republic, Sung in the Year 1888" for the San Fransisco Examiner. In the century since, the poem has spawned hundreds of sequels, including a handful of updates by sports columnist Grantland Rice.

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U.S. Names Gen. Casey as New Top
Commander in Iraq (Reuters)

U.S. Names Gen. Casey as New Top
Commander in Iraq (Reuters) 06/15/2004 04:32 PM
Reuters - Gen. George Casey, the No. 2 officer in the Army, has been nominated to become the top U.S. commander in Iraq, replacing Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, who has come under scrutiny in the prisoner abuse scandal, the Pentagon said on Tuesday.

Casey Jones, Stagolee, Frankie and
Johnny - Murder and Death Ballad Back
Stories

Casey Jones, Stagolee, Frankie and
Johnny - Murder and Death Ballad Back
Stories 09/23/2004 06:06 PM
My Back Pages--Interesting in his own right Eyolf Østrem still maintains the fan's fan tab, chords and music site, the standard by which all others are judged. I just revisited it the other night, while trying to recall how that little run in Dylan's version of Delia went, and dang, if it didn't have the back story of that ballad. I love this kind of stuff. The source of that account, John Garst, is the folklorist king of such research--he puts John Henry at a railroad tunnel near Leeds, Alabama, just east of Birmingham on September 20, 1887, for example. Murder and heroic death ballad back stories are of extreme interest to me, so I decided to post a few more here: Frankie and Albert, Frankie and Johnny, Casey Jones and Stagger Lee. Did I say I love this kind of stuff?

F1: Pole for Barrichello

F1: Pole for Barrichello 06/19/2004 03:08 PM
Rubens Barrichello heads Michael Schumacher in US Grand Prix qualifying.

F1: Button bids for pole

F1: Button bids for pole 05/29/2004 05:07 AM
Jenson Button is fastest in Saturday practice for the European Grand Prix.

Schumacher grabs pole again

Schumacher grabs pole again 05/08/2004 09:00 AM
Michael Schumacher leaves the field trailing in his wake as he takes pole position for the Spanish GP.

F1: Alonso in provisional pole

F1: Alonso in provisional pole 04/02/2005 07:17 AM
Fernando Alonso beats Jarno Trulli in first qualifying at the Bahrain Grand Prix.

F1: Button claims first pole

F1: Button claims first pole 04/24/2004 08:48 AM
Jenson Button beats Michael Schumacher in San Marino Grand Prix qualifying.

North Pole Gets Wi-Fi Hotspot

North Pole Gets Wi-Fi Hotspot 04/15/2005 08:43 PM

F1: Raikkonen on Silverstone pole

F1: Raikkonen on Silverstone pole 07/10/2004 10:12 AM
Kimi Raikkonen takes pole for the British GP with Jenson Button in third.

North Pole Goes Wireless

North Pole Goes Wireless 04/15/2005 04:36 AM

The possible puns regarding this story are practically endless, though the Register does a good job of exploiting most of them: Two Intel employees set up a hotspot at a research camp at the North Pole. It uses Iridium phones for backhaul, which means the access is probably excruciatingly slow, but people at the North Pole probably aren't complaining. The deployment is purportedly meant to check out how the equipment fares in such cold, wet weather, though there are plenty of other such experiments that have been done for some time. Dave Hughes has done tons of work in Alaska with wireless networks and he was also instrumental in enabling the hotspot at Mt. Everest base camp in Nepal.

2004 Holy Log Pole Festival

2004 Holy Log Pole Festival 04/09/2004 04:08 PM
Yamadashi, the first part of the Onbas hira Matsuri, a septennial shinto festiv al in the Nagano Prefecture, involves hauling a bunch of 200 year old fir trees out of the forest and then perilously riding them down the hillside (locals only, all you extreme sports nuts) in preparation for May's Satobiki. O-h anami this is not.

South Pole 'cyberterrorist' hack wasn't
the first

South Pole 'cyberterrorist' hack wasn't
the first 08/19/2004 12:58 PM
Threat over-egged

F1: Trulli grabs Belgian pole

F1: Trulli grabs Belgian pole 08/29/2004 05:39 AM
Renault's Jarno Trulli sets pole position in the rain at the Belgian Grand Prix.

Pole Display Control Program 0.1

Pole Display Control Program 0.1 06/02/2004 07:09 AM
A PD6000 pole display control program.

F1: Schumi claims European pole

F1: Schumi claims European pole 05/29/2004 09:30 AM
Michael Schumacher will start from the front of the grid at the European Grand Prix.

North Pole 'was once subtropical'

North Pole 'was once subtropical' 09/07/2004 06:33 AM
Ice cores drilled from deep beneath the floor of the Arctic Ocean show it was once warm enough for swimming.

Rugby: Robinson in pole position

Rugby: Robinson in pole position 09/04/2004 10:10 AM
Andy Robinson is the leading contender to become England's permanent rugby coach, the RFU admits.

Intel Goes Wireless At North Pole

Intel Goes Wireless At North Pole 04/15/2005 09:59 AM

While not busy encouraging the destruction of the original 'Moore's Law' article, Intel's employees have installed a wireless hot spot near the North Pole. Built in the Arctic region at the Barneo ice camp, Intel Russia engineers installed an 802.11 b/g access point and established a connection with four of their laptops, 78 miles from the North Pole (using, of course, Centrino mobile technology to accomplish this feat). The hot spot has since been taken down, but survived the cold (-22°F or worse) and worked reliably. Of course, "Intel pointed to the experiment as an example of how mobile technology allows users to work anywhere," even if I can't get a signal in my own backyard.

Intel Puts Hot Spot Near North Pole

F1: Ralf claims Canada pole

F1: Ralf claims Canada pole 06/12/2004 02:19 PM
Ralf Schumacher edges out Jenson Button to take pole at the Canadian GP.

F1: Alonso grabs pole position

F1: Alonso grabs pole position 04/03/2005 05:27 AM
Renault's Fernando Alonso holds off Ferrari's Michael Schumacher to grab pole for the Bahrain Grand Prix.

Pole dancing the latest fad (Reuters)

Pole dancing the latest fad (Reuters) 03/27/2005 03:23 AM
Reuters - Silver disco balls spin red lip-shaped lights around the room and Britney Spears' "Oops I did it again" blares as Debbie gives herself a cheeky slap on the left buttock.

South Pole Research Station Hacked Twice

South Pole Research Station Hacked Twice 08/20/2004 12:51 AM

Americans Pave Road to South Pole

Americans Pave Road to South Pole 04/13/2004 04:42 AM
It seems like an impossible mission, but a team of workers are carving a 1,020-mile 'ice highway' from the New Zealand coast to the South Pole. They say it will enable supplies and equipment to be hauled to the pole's U.S. research station.

Intel employees put hotspot on the North
Pole

Intel employees put hotspot on the North
Pole 04/14/2005 01:54 PM
Intel is contributing to global warming, the company admitted Thursday. Not the bad kind, though. Two employees at Intel Russia have erected what may be the world's most northerly Wi-Fi hotspot 130 kilometers from the North Pole.

Intel employees put hot spot near the
North Pole

Intel employees put hot spot near the
North Pole 04/14/2005 07:49 PM
Two employees at Intel Russia erected what may be the world's most northerly Wi-Fi hot spot, 78 miles from the North Pole.

Google Runs A Bit of Code Up the Flag
Pole

Google Runs A Bit of Code Up the Flag
Pole 06/22/2004 05:29 PM
As far back as 1999 Google engineers talked about open sourcing some of its tool set.

Chunk of Mars Found at South Pole

Chunk of Mars Found at South Pole 07/22/2004 06:17 AM
Scientists are excited about getting their hands on a recently unveiled Mars rock. Funny thing is -- it was discovered here on Earth. By Amit Asaravala.

High temperatures at planet's south pole

High temperatures at planet's south pole 02/06/2005 03:05 AM
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"a 24-day cruise to the North Pole with
a bunch of crazies"

"a 24-day cruise to the North Pole with
a bunch of crazies" 07/27/2004 04:11 AM

Students Punished for Dorm Stripper Pole
(AP)

Students Punished for Dorm Stripper Pole
(AP) 09/23/2004 04:06 PM
AP - Three students at Jacksonville University have been punished for installing a stripper pole in an on-campus apartment and taking pictures as clothed female students performed on it at a party.

Utility pole boxes as tourist maps

Utility pole boxes as tourist maps 07/26/2004 12:33 PM
Darren sez, "Victoria, Canada's City Engineering department has found an inventive use for those ubiquitous traffic control boxes you see on lamp and traffic light posts. In high pedestrian traffic areas, they've pasted neighbourhood maps on them. The maps wrap around three sides of the box, identifying areas of interest (as well as, interestingly, the city's URL).

"What a great idea. Not only do they use existing visual real estate (avoiding the need for other street-level maps), but it's a really cheap, low-tech solution to graffiti. As a guy who spent two sweltering summers across the street from the pictured box, at the busiest Tourism Information Centre in the country, I appreciate any non-human assistance for tourists." Link (Thanks, Darren!)

Intel employees put hotspot near North
Pole

Intel employees put hotspot near North
Pole 04/15/2005 03:15 PM
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Pollo Campero

Pollo Campero 10/31/2003 10:35 AM
Long Wait for a Taste of Home: Guatemalan Fried Chicken Draws a Crowd. Pollo Campero's first US store in Los Angeles reached the unprecedented sales mark of $1 million in an astounding seven weeks, a daily average of $20.4 thousand. After a full weekend of operation in the Washington DC market, Pollo Campero broke this record by selling $65 thousand in two days, a daily average of $32.5 thousand. At the franchise in Herndon (Virginia), I have personally seen the line exit the store, cross the front of the building and circle around to the back (at 3pm). Is this fried chicken really that good?

She thinks Steve Albini is an Olympic
rower

She thinks Steve Albini is an Olympic
rower 12/31/2004 10:51 AM
"11. Wilco — A Ghost is Born: Wilco is a band for people who think they are intellectuals about music, the Wilco man is always unhappy so his songs start very quietly in order that people don't wake up with a start. It is all for nothing because halfway through someone will play a guitar solo with a chairleg." Shelley Winters, of Scary-Go-Round, reviews the Top 20 albums of the year as picked by John Allison (the creator of Scary-Go-Round). (Oh, and the rest of the archive is worth a gander too, as is John Allison's previous strip Bobbins.)

United States Olympic Committee
Re-Launches Official U.S. Olympic Team
Website

United States Olympic Committee
Re-Launches Official U.S. Olympic Team
Website 07/31/2004 03:47 PM
With less than 30 days until the Opening Ceremonies of the 2004 Olympic Games, the official web site of the 2004 U.S. Olympic Team, usolympicteam.com has re-launched with two major "firsts" designed to enhance the Olympic sports' fan experience by customizing to their favorite sports – personalization of sports news and a U.S. Olympic Fan Club.

"Indianapolis Star"

"Indianapolis Star" 04/08/2005 02:50 PM

Online auction will benefit U. of
Indianapolis

Online auction will benefit U. of
Indianapolis 07/28/2004 05:48 AM
Indystar.com - Wed Jul 28, 07:45 am GMT

AT&T voice-over-Internet debuts in
Indianapolis, Muncie

AT&T voice-over-Internet debuts in
Indianapolis, Muncie 07/01/2004 05:25 AM
Indystar.com - Thu Jul 1, 08:58 am GMT

Rice Proves He's No Punch Line at
Indianapolis 500

Rice Proves He's No Punch Line at
Indianapolis 500 05/31/2004 01:15 AM
Buddy Rice won the 88th Indianapolis 500, which was delayed, stopped and shortened because of rain.

Buddy Rice Prevails in Rain at
Indianapolis 500

Buddy Rice Prevails in Rain at
Indianapolis 500 05/30/2004 10:11 PM
Buddy Rice grabbed the lead after a flurry of early crashes and late pit stops and won a rain-shortened Indianapolis 500 on Sunday.

Partly Promotion, Partly Goal:
Indianapolis Wants More Wi-Fi

Partly Promotion, Partly Goal:
Indianapolis Wants More Wi-Fi 04/29/2004 04:15 PM
You might call it just a press release, but Indianapolis company wants to beat Hartford, Conn.: Wi-Fi network enabler Sputnik is working with an Indianapolis firm that appears slightly aggrieved that Hartford, Conn., has one-sixth the residents and more Wi-Fi hotspots. Their public (and public relations) goal? Boost Indianapolis from 48th in Intel's recent wireless cities survey up into the top 10. Austin's civic leaders and community networks have made similar statements about leveraging that city's wireless potential, and perhaps some civic boosterism can help grow Wi-Fi. In Austin, it's a mix of civic, commercial, and free community; this Indianapolis company appears focused on commercial with a little bit of free....

"Olympic News"

"Olympic News" 01/18/2004 03:52 PM

"best Olympic picture"

"best Olympic picture" 08/14/2004 10:17 PM

Olympic bid 'up for sale'

Olympic bid 'up for sale' 07/30/2004 01:50 AM
The IOC launches an inquiry into claims of unethical conduct surrounding the bid for the 2012 Olympics.

Olympic Malaise

Olympic Malaise 08/13/2004 10:40 AM
The Olympics are coming, but Rick Munarriz can't seem to find the energy to care.

Olympic-Sized Arrogance

Olympic-Sized Arrogance 08/21/2004 02:40 PM

AP: Olympians largely barred from blogging. Athletes may be the center of attention at the Olympic Games, but don't expect to hear directly from them online -- or see snapshots or video they've taken.

This is about greed, nothing more and nothing less. It is about the historically corrupt International Olympic Committee's desire to please the giant media organizations to which it has sold "rights" to tell and show the world what is happening. The irony here is that the olympic officials are inadvertently telling us something about the future of journalism, though I'm certain they don't understand it themselves, in the context of their heavy-handed (and probably illegal) action. Because the more that regular folks -- OK, that's a stretch for the athletes -- put their own work on the Web or send it to each other by other means, the more they are becoming some of tomorrow's journalists. But the move is ridiculous. If an athlete phones a friend and reports what's happened, and the friend posts it online, is that somehow breaking the rules? Go further. Look past today's technology. What's coming will utterly wreck the Big Media monopoly over Olympic images, and all Big Event images. When all spectators have a high-quality video camera in their phones, will the powers-that-be ban phones? Unlikely. But even if they could ban phones that are obvious, what will they do when we're carrying video cameras in the buttons on our shirts, and when our eyeglasses contain phones or other transmitting devices? I hope athletes break this rule right and left. I also hope that they declare independence someday from the cynical and corrupt organizations that have run international sports for so long. The games are about the athletes, or should be. Also:

Larry Magid also finds it outrageous, but sees athletes' blogging "more like a letter home" than journalism. I'm not so sure I can draw the line anymore.

Olympic bids 'up for sale'

Olympic bids 'up for sale' 07/30/2004 04:47 AM
The IOC launches an inquiry into claims of unethical conduct surrounding the bidding for the 2012 Olympics.

Montgomery, 3 Others May Face Olympic
Ban (AP)

Montgomery, 3 Others May Face Olympic
Ban (AP) 06/09/2004 10:24 AM
AP - The world's fastest human has been told by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency he may have committed drug violations that could bar him from the Athens Olympics. Tim Montgomery, the world record holder at 100 meters, is among four U.S. track athletes to receive letters informing them of the possible cases against them.

Olympic Blogs Banned

Olympic Blogs Banned 08/20/2004 11:17 PM
You may earn medals, but you have no credentials. On top of the IOC's ludicrous linking policy, they are banning bloggers, perhaps to further asocial broadcast media, like this: Unfortunately, this is not Anthony Famiglietti, but Steve Ahillen. The International...

McDonald's Olympic Glory

McDonald's Olympic Glory 08/19/2004 12:57 PM
The fast food king utilizes the games to further expand its empire.

Holmes given Olympic honour

Holmes given Olympic honour 08/29/2004 03:50 AM
Double gold medallist Kelly Holmes is chosen to carry the Great Britain flag at the Olympics closing ceremony.

Free Olympic 3G Broadcasts

Free Olympic 3G Broadcasts 06/25/2004 03:59 AM
3G Jun 25 2004 7:16AM GMT

Olympic Coverage at Wikipedia

Olympic Coverage at Wikipedia 08/16/2004 12:08 PM

2004 Summer Olympics: There's some fantastic coverage of the Olympics over at Wikipedia. If you just want to know who won what without all the frou-frou associated with the news outlets, this is a great stop. They have a little box on their home page, and this section will show you the venue and results for all the sports.

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Xerox Builds Olympic Hub

Xerox Builds Olympic Hub 07/26/2004 05:49 AM
Xerox goes for Olympic gold by building a temporary Athens enterprise.

The Olympic Drug Problem

The Olympic Drug Problem 08/27/2004 01:28 PM
Just eleven days into the 2004 Olympics in Athens, we have already been confronted with the seemingly common problem of drug use within sport. So much so, in fact, that it has been dubbed "The Gene Games" by chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency's ethical issues review panel, Thomas Murray. In a recent interview conducted by the New York Times, Murray talks about the impact of drugs in sport, and what effect they have on the athletes involved.

GB Olympic team fly home

GB Olympic team fly home 08/30/2004 03:14 AM
Britain's Olympians are to return home to a hero's welcome after collecting 30 medals in Athens.

Coe agrees to Olympic TV debate

Coe agrees to Olympic TV debate 01/02/2005 03:02 AM
Lord Coe will take part in a televised debate with rival bid leaders in the campaign to win the 2012 Olympics.

US Olympic Comittee vs Robolympics

US Olympic Comittee vs Robolympics 12/02/2003 12:24 AM
According to Boing Boing, the US Olympic Comittee is not pleased with the name chosen by The Robotics Society of America (RSA) for their latest robot competition. The comittee sent a cease-and-desist order to the RSA concerning the Robolympics event planned for March of 2004. This seems odd considering the name Robolympics has been used by other robot events for quite a few years and no one seems to have noticed, much less sued over it.

London launches Olympic bid

London launches Olympic bid 01/16/2004 11:04 AM
Wembley, Wimbledon and a new stadium in east London form the basis of Britain's bid to host the 2012 Olympics.

Is Olympic Steel a Beefy Buy?

Is Olympic Steel a Beefy Buy? 08/09/2004 11:14 AM
Like others in the industry, this company looks fit. But will the growth continue?

Casey Mears Wins Brickyard 400 Pole (AP)

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