Archive for February 28th, 2007

Me likey the data »

>Do you usually report the 268th worst anything? (Lost Remote)
Point taken, but most of the stories I read, like the NYT’s, had plenty of context. And, anyway, I only bring this up because I want to share this page from Dow Jones, where you can query daily Dow Jones Industrial Average closings dating back to [...]

Update on the loony “Asian Supremacist” »

>Editor regrets ‘Hate’ column (San Francisco Chronicle)
(Via Romenesko)
I’m still waiting for the news that Kenneth Eng is a put-on, a character created to deliver crazed polemics as a sort of social commentary designed to force us to confront our own attitudes about race. Sadly, it still looks like he’s just a moron.

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You call it football, we call it maize »

>Fowler weighs up Major League Soccer move (The Guardian)
>Fowler not US bound (The Telegraph)
Robbie Fowler almost certainly is not making the move from Liverpool to the New England Revolution, but isn’t it brilliant that these stories of still-quality players in Europe’s top league considering the MLS are treated semi-seriously? Hopefully, we’ll soon begin to see [...]