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Russell Crow is looking like a real dork.

First, he acts up in a bar and is restrained in a headlock by a woman until he calms down.

More recently, he tried to pick a fight in a bar with a couple of guys and would likely have gotten his ass kicked had his personal trainer not bailed him out. His trainer, by the way, is a woman.

I think he should just give up on the whole tough guy thing, because it obviously isn’t working for him.

HHS Seeks Science Advice to Match Bush Views (washingtonpost.com)

The Bush administration has begun a broad restructuring of the scientific advisory committees that guide federal policy in areas such as patients’ rights and public health, eliminating some committees that were coming to conclusions at odds with the president’s views and in other cases replacing members with handpicked choices.

Kind of reminds me of the way the soviet union acted. Wonder how they are doing these days.

Spam Detection A refinement of an earlier approach to filtering spam using statistical methods. Thanks to Jason for the pointer.

The original article inspired me to create a java implementation. Since I haven’t written any of the analysis code yet, it should be easy to incorporate some of the proposed improvements.

Philosophy in re RSS 2.0

If you are the developer of a news aggregator such as NetNewsWire, Straw or Aggie, or the one built into Radio UserLand, you can upgrade your software to take advantage of a new feature in RSS 2.0, item-level globally unique identifiers, or guids. This section explains how to do that.

Now thats what I’m talking about!

More on RSS aggregators:

Perhaps someone is doing this in a personal aggregator already, but it would be cool to be able to group items from disparate feed that point to the same URL together.