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Thursday, June 28 2001

Too-small condoms

An article from Salon.com from a while ago on how the condoms donated to Swaziland were too small for the local population, and so ineffectual at stopping HIV.

Wednesday, June 27 2001

Fancast.com

Some friends and I were talking (not seriously) about doing something like this: Fancast.com lets Net-connected sports fans do play-by-play commentary on whatever game they're watching. (Well, it doesn't "let" them; it just aggregates all the amateur sportscasters in one spot so they're easier to find...)

Tuesday, June 12 2001

More on cell phone radiation

Slashdot links to story about the big three mobile phone manuafacturers filing patents on devices to reduce the amount of radiation transferred from cell phones to users.

George Still Doesn't Believe

Bush still doesn't believe in global warming. This despite the study he recently commissioned from the National Academy of Sciences, which said that the recent acceleration of the Earth's rising surface temperature is most likely due to human activity.

Monday, June 11 2001

Extreme Endurance Sports

Wash Post article on motivations and dangers of people (half a million, supposedly) who engage in extreme tests of endurance - triathlons, swims across the Chesapeake Bay, Eco-Challenge, etc.

Big Brother protests in Greece

Various folks in Greece are protesting the arrival of a local version of the Big Brother TV show: "The next step will be to pay terminally ill patients money so they can be watched on television as they are dying."

UK version, US version, Swedish version.

Tuesday, June 5 2001

mail to eppi.com, piou.org, ahref.com...

Just switched mail servers. If you try to send me email over the next few days and get an error, please let me know via this web form. (Not that many of the people who send me email read this web page or anything....)

Calendar math trick: finding a date's day of the week

A neat little math trick, pointed to by Slashdot: figuring out which day of the week any day (this year, other years, other centuries) occurred in, and doin' the figurin' all in your head.

Best Friends

The Onion: Best Friends Each Secretly Think of The Other As Sidekick.

Friday, June 1 2001

Betty La Fea ends

Spanish-language soap opera reverts to genre cliches: the ugly woman has to become beautiful to succeed, and ends up with the philanderer as a husband.

About this site

This is the personal web site for Edward (Ed) Piou. Consisting mainly of a blog (operational since 1999) and various photos.

Some online projects I'm working on

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A while ago, I decided to put my money where my mind is on a (roughly) monthly basis and give to:

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Public events documented through pictures...