Hamm Goes for More Gold Amid Controversy (AP)

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Judging Error Gave Hamm Gold (AP)

Judging Error Gave Hamm Gold (AP) 08/21/2004 10:49 AM
AP - Paul Hamm's gold medal just lost its luster. A scoring mistake at the all-around gymnastics final cost South Korea's Yang Tae-young the gold that ended up going to Hamm, the International Gymnastics Federation ruled Saturday. Yang got the bronze instead.

Paul Hamm Asked to Give Up Gold Medal
(AP)

Paul Hamm Asked to Give Up Gold Medal
(AP) 08/27/2004 01:23 PM
AP - World gymnastics officials asked Paul Hamm to give up his gold medal as the ultimate show of sportsmanship, but the U.S. Olympic Committee told them to take responsibility for their own mistakes and refused even to deliver the request.

U.S. Furious at Proposal That Hamm
Return His Gold (Reuters)

U.S. Furious at Proposal That Hamm
Return His Gold (Reuters) 08/27/2004 01:23 PM
Reuters - U.S. Olympic chiefs reacted furiously Friday to a suggestion gold medallist Paul Hamm should give his medal to a South Korean rival under a plan floated by world gymnastics officials.

Ruling Says Mistake Gave Paul Hamm Gold
(AP)

Ruling Says Mistake Gave Paul Hamm Gold
(AP) 08/21/2004 09:20 AM
AP - Paul Hamm's gold medal just lost some of its luster. A mistake in scoring of the all-around gymnastics final cost Yang Tae-young the gold that ended up going to Hamm, the International Gymnastics Federation said Saturday. The South Korean got the bronze instead.

S.Korea to Appeal Over Hamm Gymnastics
Gold (Reuters)

S.Korea to Appeal Over Hamm Gymnastics
Gold (Reuters) 08/22/2004 07:46 AM
Reuters - South Korea is waiting to gather video evidence before lodging an appeal with sport's supreme legal body over scoring errors at the Olympic gymnastics competition which robbed Yang Tae-young of a gold medal.

Sports Court Hears Hamm Gold Medal
Appeal (AP)

Sports Court Hears Hamm Gold Medal
Appeal (AP) 09/27/2004 09:09 AM
AP - Paul Hamm appeared before the sports world's highest court Monday to argue why he should he keep his Olympic gymnastics gold medal.

U.S. Gymnasts Win 3 Medals; Hamm Angry
(AP)

U.S. Gymnasts Win 3 Medals; Hamm Angry
(AP) 08/22/2004 05:12 PM
AP - Three got medals, and Paul Hamm got mad. The United States upped its gymnastics medal haul to seven Sunday night, the most since the Americans won 16 at the boycotted Los Angeles Games in 1984. And they might not be finished yet.

Hamm Wins All-Around With Amazing
Comeback (AP)

Hamm Wins All-Around With Amazing
Comeback (AP) 08/19/2004 07:29 AM
AP - He had to be perfect and hope no one else was. A fall on his vault landing sent Paul Hamm stumbling into the judges' table and all the way down to 12th place in the all-around gymnastics final. "I thought, 'That's it. I'm done,'" he said. Far from it. In one of the most amazing comebacks in Olympic history, Hamm performed the two most spectacular routines of his career Wednesday to win the gold medal by the closest margin ever in the event.

Hamm Wins All-Around Gymnastics Title
(AP)

Hamm Wins All-Around Gymnastics Title
(AP) 08/18/2004 05:03 PM
AP - With his medal hopes all but gone after he hit the judges' table on his vault landing, Paul Hamm performed two of the most spectacular routines of his career to win the men's all-around gymnastics title by the closest Olympics margin ever.

Paul Hamm Wins All-Around Event

Paul Hamm Wins All-Around Event 08/18/2004 04:59 PM
After falling on the landing of his vault, Paul Hamm put on two of the most spectacular routines of his career to win Olympic gold, the first ever by a U.S. man.

American Hamm Claims Men's Gymnastics
All-Round Crown (Reuters)

American Hamm Claims Men's Gymnastics
All-Round Crown (Reuters) 08/18/2004 06:27 PM
Reuters - Paul Hamm etched his name into the record books as he became the first American man to win the Olympic gymnastics all-round crown Wednesday.

"a lot of controversy"

"a lot of controversy" 03/24/2005 04:37 AM

The Kos Controversy

The Kos Controversy 04/09/2004 03:55 PM
Markos Moulitsas Zúniga, the webmaster of the Scoop-powered lefty blog Daily Kos, recently made controversial comments regarding the four Americans killed in Falluja. More precisely, he said "screw them." He later posted a clarification of his comments, but stopped short of an apology. So, Instapundit, Tacitus, and many other sites have condemned the comment. Some advertisers have taken their ads off the site, the Kerry campaign took down their link to Daily Kos, and people have generally said "rabble rabble rabble." Tacitus and others have even suggested that Daily Kos should no longer raise money for the Democrats.

RSS Controversy

RSS Controversy 01/24/2003 12:10 AM
My scraped RSS feeds stroke the wrong cord with someone (see Inluminent & Unsanity) Until sites catch on scraping will be done. I'm but one

The Konfabulator Controversy

The Konfabulator Controversy 06/30/2004 10:45 PM

inessential.com: Weblog: What should Apple do?: There's a bit of a controversy brewing in Macland about the WWDC conference and the Konfabulator knockoff Apple introduced called Dashboard. The theory is that Apple saw a great third-party app that people loved, and decided it needed to be part of the OS itself.

Apple can’t do everything — they need other developers to make software for OS X too. What concerns me is the message the Dashboard thing sends. It goes like this, "If you come up with a good idea and develop a successful product, we might copy it and bundle it for free with the OS."

The Konfabulator folks, for their part, are having some fun with it, poking fun of the posters that poked fun at Microsoft with a banner on their site that says, "Cupertino [where Apple is based], start your photocopiers!"

Konfabulator was apparently written by some ex-Apple employes, and they had this to say:

Regarding the conspiracy theory about Konsposé and prior knowledge of Dashboard, here's the scoop. We knew Dashboard was coming, and we'd been told by *many* people that it was being developed as a "Konfabulator Killer". We never knew the specifics of it other than it was rumored to be the exact same thing as Konfabulator integrated at the system level. We didn't know that it was going to be touted as part of Exposé, and we didn't know that their format was going to be closer to a web page than a structured XML file.

The threat of having the OS subsume your original work is a threat Windows developers have lived with for years. I've always wondered what happened to WinZip and PKZip sales when Windows XP was introduced with integrated zip functionality.

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"biggest controversy"

"biggest controversy" 05/07/2004 03:29 AM

Movable Type 3.0 Controversy

Movable Type 3.0 Controversy 05/17/2004 04:35 PM

MovableTyp e Madness: Dean over at blogs4God presents a really good wrap-up of the furor over the new Movable Type release.

Unbeknowst to me, Six Apart made a change over the weekend to say that mutiple Weblogs in MT used to create one site (for instance, if you have another blog to handle static pages for your site), do not count towards the Weblog limit in the license. They also removed a single CPU restriction that they said was in there by mistake, are allowing you to purchase additional blog/author packs for $10 each, and have increased the number of authors allowed in the mid-level version from 3 to 5.

Don Park links to some good resources as well, including this very wise column by Timothy Appnel over at O'Reilly:

As a developer and one who makes a living writing code, this reaction to Six Apart's new licensing is really disheartening and on a certain level frustrating to see. I am a firm believer and backer of free software. [...] I've personally released quite a bit of open source code myself and will continue to do so. However this apparent expectation of the vocal part of community that it is their right to have all great works of software at no cost is bothersome. If users don't have the funds or won't pay on principle for my time, effort or talent – how do I eat?

He makes a good point. Not everything in the world can be free, as much as we would like it. Yes, I love free software, but I also know when stuff is worth paying for. I'm reminded about what Nick Bradbury wrote in the pre-release FAQ to FeedDemon:

Will FeedDemon be free? Will it be open source? Sorry, no. I have nothing against open source, but I also have two kids to feed :)

I personally don't have a problem with Six Apart charging for this version. Movable Type was a gift so far, and I guess I never expected it to be free forever. I think they could have priced it a little lower, but it's still worth it.

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Clinical Trials Controversy

Clinical Trials Controversy 06/21/2004 12:40 PM
A clinical trials database may appeal to some. But open access to studies may not be in the interests of drug companies or the public.

A Bridge Suspended in Controversy

A Bridge Suspended in Controversy 08/20/2004 06:47 AM
When an earthquake knocked down a section of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, engineers vowed to make a stronger span. But years later, that plan is still mired in controversy. Part 2 of 2. By Amit Asaravala.

Controversy Dogs Google

Controversy Dogs Google 03/24/2005 11:39 PM
ISEDB Mar 25 2005 3:53AM GMT

Coxib controversy rumbles on

Coxib controversy rumbles on 12/22/2004 01:22 AM

This weekend saw news that Celebrex, Pfizer’s coxib, in a trial looking at prevention of cancer, had 2.5 times the number of serious cardiovascular events compared to placebo. Curiously, another ongoing trial looking at cancer prevention has not shown the same risk increase, possibly in part due to the higher doses (400-800 mg/day compared to 400 mg/day) used.

Along with news from the world of pharamceuticals comes new data on ant pheromones, the Arctic Ocean, and much more in this edition of Science.Ars

3G operators open up a VAT of
controversy

3G operators open up a VAT of
controversy 02/10/2004 02:55 AM
ZDNet UK Feb 9 2004 3:45PM GMT

Despite controversy, Google's auction is
a go

Despite controversy, Google's auction is
a go 08/13/2004 09:04 AM
Last-minute problems raise fears that the long-awaited public offering could be delayed--but the auction is set for Friday.

S.D. Library Web Site Controversy

S.D. Library Web Site Controversy 07/13/2004 03:44 PM

S.D. governor pulls plug on part of library Web site: Our governor, Mike Rounds, ordered some links removed from the youth section of the South Dakota State Library Web site this week because they linked to "inappropriate content." The governor's office isn't identifying the links, but sources say they were links to Planned Parenthood.

It's not censorship, Rounds said, because people can still see the content by going directly to the sites. Others will have to wait until state officials decide whether the sites are appropriate to be linked from a state page, he said.

People are upset.

"The governor is not the master father of the state of South Dakota," said Judith Krug, director of the American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom. "At least I don't think he was elected on that basis."

I saw a group of people protesting outside the public library in downtown Sioux Falls yesterday. At the time, I didn't know what they were asking people to honk for. I didn't honk, just in case the signs read, "Honk if you're an eff-ing moron." That's happened to me once before.

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New Kazaa Could Ignite More Controversy

New Kazaa Could Ignite More Controversy 03/20/2003 01:05 PM
The owner of the widely used Kazaa file-swapping software, Sharman Networks, has launched a significantly expanded version of its controversial P2P (peer-to-peer) application. The updated version includes a playlist tool that enables users to download entire albums as easily as they previously downloaded single songs.

Other News: Konfabulator Controversy

Other News: Konfabulator Controversy 07/02/2004 10:04 AM
John Gruber weighs in with commentary on the WWDC Konfabulator-Dashboard dust-up.

Massive Google Doodle Controversy

Massive Google Doodle Controversy 12/28/2004 08:53 PM
Someone's taking the Google Doodle way too seriously. However, Google's taking them seriously right back. "Dude ... they made more snowballs, okay?" snicker....

Iran trial ends in controversy

Iran trial ends in controversy 07/18/2004 07:03 AM
Judges abruptly end the trial of an agent accused of killing a Canadian in what is seen as a test case for human rights.

Dish Cooks Up Controversy (Reuters)

Dish Cooks Up Controversy (Reuters) 07/06/2004 08:28 AM
Reuters - Britain's television watchdog banned a supermarket chain on Monday from using the word "faggot" in a commercial, referring to a traditional British dish.

Do Web Search Engines Suppress
Controversy?

Do Web Search Engines Suppress
Controversy? 01/09/2004 09:55 PM
Do Web Search Engines Suppress Controversy? by Susan L. Gerhart
http://firstmon day.org/issues/issue9_1/gerhart/

Web behavior depends upon three interlocking communities: (1) authors whose Web pages link to other pages; (2) search engines indexing and ranking those pages; and (3) information seekers whose queries and surfing reward authors and support search engines. Systematic suppression of controversial topics would indicate a flaw in the Web’s ideology of openness and informativeness. This paper explores search engines’ bias by asking: Is a specific well–known controversy revealed in a simple search? Experimental topics include: distance learning, Albert Einstein, St. John’s Wort, female astronauts, and Belize. The experiments suggest simple queries tend to overly present the "sunny side" of these topics, with minimal controversy. A more "Objective Web" is analyzed where: (a) Web page authors adopt research citation practices; (b) search engines balance organizational and analytic content; and, (c) searchers practice more wary multi–searching.

Controversy Expected over Online Sex
Game

Controversy Expected over Online Sex
Game 06/05/2004 07:54 PM
English.chosun.com - Thu Jun 3, 01:43 pm GMT

9/11 Panel Underscores Saddam
Controversy (AP)

9/11 Panel Underscores Saddam
Controversy (AP) 06/20/2004 08:55 PM
AP - The chairman of the Sept. 11 commission said Sunday that al-Qaida had much more interaction with Iran and Pakistan than it did with Iraq, underscoring a controversy over the Bush administration's insistence there was collaboration between the terrorist organization and Saddam Hussein.

A History of Video Game Controversy

A History of Video Game Controversy 03/08/2004 11:08 PM
Slashdot Mar 8 2004 6:17PM GMT

Thunderbird Default Theme Controversy

Thunderbird Default Theme Controversy 10/28/2003 11:07 PM
There's been quite a bit a of recent debate about the default Mozilla Thunderbird theme, which currently includes both Qute and Classic icons. Work from sboulema -- mentioned on a Blogzilla posting a little while back -- has sparked a minor controversy over at MozillaZine....

Despite controversy, Friday Google
auction set

Despite controversy, Friday Google
auction set 08/12/2004 08:18 PM
CNET News.com Aug 13 2004 0:46AM GMT

Backfence: Walker controversy? You're
soaking in it!

Backfence: Walker controversy? You're
soaking in it! 02/18/2004 08:10 PM
I went to Google, typed a few relevant words about the Walker and 30-foot art, and the first search result: National Endowment for the Arts. ...

Google's Overblown Froogle Controversy

Google's Overblown Froogle Controversy 06/09/2004 01:16 AM
It looks like some folks are making a big deal out of the fact that Google searches on certain terms put links to the Froogle comparison shopping engine at the top of the results list. It's unclear why this is suddenly an issue - as they've been doing this ever since they relaunched their site a few months ago. The links are pretty clearly separate from the actual search results (though, not as separate as the regular ads) and are mostly designed to take a guess at whether or not the user meant to search in Froogle. They do the same thing with Google News. If the search term recently appeared in a news story, they'll throw the Google News link at the top as well. This seems more helpful than "evil" as the article suggests.

Governor's question stirs controversy

Governor's question stirs controversy 03/19/2003 10:44 PM
By Denise Ross, Journal Staff Writer. I don't know the origin of that phrase, but it's been in my lexicon since college, and it gets 940000 hits on Google. ...

Kennewick Controversy: A Sign of the
Times

Kennewick Controversy: A Sign of the
Times 02/10/2004 10:33 AM
Research Vs. Religion: Scientists Win Lawsuit Against Native American Tribes The 9,000 year old remains, found in Kennewick, Washington in 1996, will be made available for study, rather than being buried by tribes who had hoped to assert the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act in this case.
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