http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/11/20/navarrette.flag/index.html
Commentary: Town makes it illegal to fly a foreign flag
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6071486.stm
How Borat hoaxed America (link from Nikolay)
http://www.rarediseases.org/
NORD: National Organization for Rare Diseases
http://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2006/11/28/News/Patents.Bring.In.The.Cash.To.Columbia-2509908.shtml
Patents bringing in a lot of money for Columbia
http://www.whatspop.com/blog/2006/11/glancing-alternative-song-structures.cfm
Lyrics as finite state automata
http://www.kdnuggets.com/news/2006/n20/1i.html
update on the Netflix challenge:
"As of Oct 21, Netflix Prize had 13220 contestants on 10714 teams from
105 different countries, and received 515 valid submissions.
There were already 14 teams with results better than Netflix, with the
best result being 4.67 percent better - almost half the way towards
the 10% improvement Grand Prize goal."
http://www.netflixprize.com/community/viewtopic.php?id=386
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/29/books/29grim.html
The story of French
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2006/11/28/theater/reviews/28coas.html
"...Lincoln Center Theater's exhilarating production of Tom Stoppard's
Voyage, the first installment of his "Coast of Utopia" trilogy about
Russian intellectuals in the 19th century dreaming of revolution."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Volleyball_World_Championship
The 2006 volleyball world championship
http://scienceblogs.com/thusspakezuska/2006/11/training_your_department_chair.php
Training your department chairs
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061129-8317.html
Google Answers decides to close up shop
http://www.mlive.com/news/aanews/index.ssf?/base/news-20/1164814985164290.xml&coll=2
Towne Centre to get Google (?)
http://shusterman.com/toc-usc.html#2
New US naturalization procedure
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061129/sc_nm/astronomy_calculator_dc_1
Ancient calculator was 1,000 yrs ahead of its time (link from Paul E)
http://opendoors.iienetwork.org/?p=89251
The annual report on the number of international students in the US
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