Two Americans Win Nobel Prize in Economics: "The 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize for economics has been awarded to a psychology professor and a researcher who developed laboratory tests of economic theory."

David said, "We're now accepting applications for an 'EDUCATION SERVICES REPRESENTATIVE'. The Education Services Representative serves as the main contact for follow-up of the teachers involved in Resource Action Programs. These activities are defined as verifying shipment of product to teachers, establishing self as main teacher contact once sale has been made, establishing implementation date of Program, and informing teacher of further follow-up. The Representative is responsible for maintaining professional contact with the teacher via telephone, fax, and e-mail correspondence until the Program results are received. Additional duties include maintaining proper notes in RAP databases, and updating Supervisor of any issues that may arise during the Program. Production of RAP materials is also required of each Representative during the duration of each Program."

Google Catalogs: "An update to the Google Catalogs page shows that the database has just passed the 5000 catalog mark."

Weblogs and the Mass Amateurization of Publishing: "Weblogs are not a new kind of publishing that requires a new system of financial reward. Instead, weblogs mark a radical break. They are such an efficient tool for distributing the written word that they make publishing a financially worthless activity. It's intuitively appealing to believe that by making the connection between writer and reader more direct, weblogs will improve the environment for direct payments as well, but the opposite is true. By removing the barriers to publishing, weblogs ensure that the few people who earn anything from their weblogs will make their money indirectly."

A building blessed with tech success: "Maybe it's the location, maybe it's the water, maybe it's just good karma, but there's something about the building at 165 University Ave. that seems to breed successful tech companies."

Arts & Letters Daily is no more. :(

Iraq Official Suggests Bush Duel With Saddam to Resolve Standoff, Sparing People the Ravages of War: "An Iraqi vice president offered an unusual suggestion Thursday for solving the U.S.-Iraq standoff: Saddam Hussein and George W. Bush should fight a duel to settle their differences and spare their people the ravages of war."

TRAPPED, CUFFED & BUSSED: "Two Diamondback (Univ. of Maryland student newspaper)reporters covering the IMF-World Bank protests were arrested Friday morning and manacled for 23 hours. Surrounded by hundreds of protesters in Pershing Park, Washington Metropolitan Police circled and arrested the entire group. Jason Flanagan and Debra Kahn were there as impartial observers, and despite the newspaper's efforts to release them, they were stripped of all their possessions - even their shoelaces. What follows is a first-person account of their arrest and detention."

Printing in Landscape Mode: A 'How to' with style sheets

Modesto Bee: Blog Believers. Wow, very nice of the Modesto Bee to run a story about Webloggers in Modesto without even mentioning a Modesto-based blog.