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24 Aug 06

Believe it: Deadball era's not dead yet - Yahoo! News

  • Jim Bouton's Vintage Base Ball League uses 19th century rules and a single ball. - billso on 2006-08-24
  • t will be six balls for a walk, and a foul ball won't count as a strike — unless it's caught, in which case the batter will be out. A foul ball caught on a bounce counts for an out, and a hit batter is only a ball, with no base awarded.
12 Aug 06

The IBM PC turns 25: Engadget's first PCs - Engadget

  • August 12th marks the birthday of the IBM PC, the big, ugly, beige box that kicked off the computing revolution as we know it today (hold it in Mac fanboys). 25 years ago, Don Estridge and a team of engineers introduced the IBM 5150, the first box cobbled together from off the shelf parts

What You Can't Say


  • Have you ever seen an old photo of yourself and
    been embarrassed at the way you looked? Did we actually
    dress like that?     We did. And we had no idea how
    silly we looked.
    It's the nature of fashion to be invisible, in the
    same way the movement of the earth is invisible to all
    of us riding on it.

The price they paid

  • Snopes analyzes a widely circulated essay on the fates of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. - billso on 2006-07-25
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