http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/08/29/google_watch/index1.html?x it’d be nice to know if google had a “freshness” adjustment to its ranking algorithm as well. interesting article on SEO, page rank, conspiracies, etc

on education… the way around this appears to be to convince a future employer to make a certain degree (i.e., the one you want) a “working condition fringe benefit” of your job. in such cases, the employer provided assitance is…

http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p970.pdf once again, living in a HIGH COST area (and, as a result, having a higher income) once again bites me in the ass – taxes should be adjusted based on COLA – restrictions on deductions should be adjusted based…

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020829/ap_wo_en_po/japan_pearl_harbor_submarine_2 http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020829/ap_on_re_us/pearl_harbor_submarine_5 we may have fired the first shot, but that doesn’t mean we started the war! the japanese aircraft used in the attack on pearl harbor were launched far longer then an hour before they started straffing and bombing…

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=528&ncid=528&e=2&u=/ap/20020822/ap_on_hi_te/computer_security_2 san diego firm raided by fbi after announcing it had breached, army, navy and nasa computer systems mixed feelings on this… we can’t allow people to willy-nilly break into confidential systems w/o fear of retribution… however, the fact that…

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nf/20020829/bs_nf/19227 RIAA hacked… growing ill-will toward MPAA… two words: fuck yea

http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/19231.html genetics meet page layout… hmmm…

http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101020902/story.html “After 30 years of seemingly solid advice aimed at lowering dietary fat, Americans have grown collectively fatter than ever. Today more than 60% of adults in the U.S. are classified as overweight or obese. So many children have become…

alrighty then, now it gets real with exactly 1 mth to go before my gmat test date, i’ve actually /started/ studying i took a short diagnostic test, which returned a 570 score (yuck!) which is at the 76% percentile as…

oh shit, Cheaters went Springer they just caught a girl’s boyfriend cheating on her with a drag queen, lol