12. October, 2003 - all quiet in Dinkytown

• Dinkytown quiet after Gophers loss. No riots. And probalby fewer drunken idiots in Dinkytown than normal. Of course that means they were farther afield, so I got to hear plenty of them wandering the street in front of my house all night, both Friday and Saturday nights. [strib]
• Huh. If I’d known Joey and I were an item, I woulda wore my suit or something. How very strange. And I’m pretty sure we’ve never even been in the same city, let alone met in person.
• Declan McCullagh’s (brief) career as an ISP, in which the FBI tries to subpoena his reporters notes under a law that applies to ISPs. I don’t exactly understand why reporters should have more rights than ordinary people, though. I think we should all have a right to keep our notes private.
• Wired News: Shift-Key Case Rouses DMCA Foes, and there’s a decent chance the publicity from it will help fix the law.
• Power plant’s subsidies get new scrutiny and it’s going to be a fine boondoggle for the Arrowhead. I find myself wondering whether the eminent domain parts can at least be struck down. [press-patch]
• As for yesterday’s Freak show in Boston, I’ve never really thought Zimmer was a cuddly old man, and while he and Manny Ramirez both overreacted, Pedro Martinez did look like he could use a slap to the head after throwing at Garcia. Clemens, in spite of his reputation for being a headhunter, looked like he kept his cool better than just about anyone else out there. If throwing at Garcia was an attempt to take away Clemens ability to pitch inside (scroll down to the section labelled The Rocket and The Prince), it failed miserably. The umpires (correctly) continued to let Clemens pitch inside, and all the whole thing seemed to do was fire up the Yankees. I’m still pulling for the Red Sox because of the Saints connections (Millar played in St. Paul in 1993 and I met him at Gabe’s one night and Jason Varitek is the older brother of Justin, who I talked with a lot in 2000), but games like yesterday’s make it a lot harder to root for the Red Sox. I dunno. I think nearly everyone involved behaved badly, but it’ll take a lot more to get me to cheer for the Yankees. [scottk]

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