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New user? Thursday, July 12, 2001
Yahoo - Online Report Cards Draw High Marks
A story about PowerSchool, the online grading and administration system for schools, recently purchased by Apple.
Online Report Cards Draw High Marks
PowerSchool is a WebObjects app.
Womble
via Lambda the Ultimate, a great weblog I don't read nearly enough: Womble
Wednesday, July 11, 2001
Coalition Wants Marriage Amendment
Coalition Wants Marriage Amendment
Family-policy experts? I can't even begin to describe how stupid this idea is.
Standards group ignites common-code war
C|Net: Standards group ignites common-code war
Senate Votes to Bar Drilling
For all the complaining I do about the US political system, I must say I think it's very cool that congressmen and senators can vote against the party and not immediately be demoted/canned, as is the case in the Canadian political system.
Enterprise!
Entertainment Tonight - Star Trek's Enterprise Exclusive
I am SO looking forward to this series starting. Drool factor 5! Engage!
Disadvantage, Women [tennis players] (bah)
SI's Rick Reilly: Disadvantage, Women
Waah waah waah. It's not enough to make $675,000 to play 7 tennis matches (14 - 21 sets) in 2 weeks. I wonder if Reilly ever considered calculating the hourly salary of the women versus the men... they probably are making much more money than the men. When was the last time you heard of a men's grand-slam match taking 45 minutes? Venus barely practiced at all during her 35 match win streak last year and her dad has to pester her to train.
And it's only the last few years, since the Williams sisters started dominating, that the women players have even been FIT. In the early 1990's, Richard Krajicek (dutch male tennis pro) said most women tennis players were fat lazy pigs. Obviously, not a very smart comment to make as an ambassador for his sport, but it's not like he wasn't being observant. Look at Davenport, Capriati and Seles now. Very very fit in comparison. If they keep it up they'll even have the conditioning to play 5 set matches.
But a lot of women pros refuse to play 5 sets. They know full well they're being paid well for their time... my theory is they like having sympathetic fans...
How many male tennis players have endorsements anything near that of Kournikova and the Williams sisters, and probably Hingis as well? Only Agassi, I'd bet, and probably still less than Kournikova and the Williams. Venus has a $30M+ deal with Reebok over 3 years.
"Underpaid" women tennis players won't get any sympathy from me. Or Cheryl, my underpaid wife.
Millions watch fantasy final
BBC: Millions watch fantasy final
Venus' match had 7.5 million viewers, but she played on Sunday, not noon on Monday.
IE-free Windows. LOL
Microsoft concedes on licensing
In a related story, He will no longer require rain in the weather forecast.
(Unfortunately, we've become sorta dependent on both. Too bad they waited so long huh?)
