the Daily Whale - archive 2003

Jay Scott : Daily Whale : archive : 2003

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Why is this year like the planet Earth? Why not?


	January	February	March
1	2003	dream 1: great things	not really a hawk
2	great last words	NASA contingency	hawk and dove
3	moral principles	life on Earth	Turkey and Iraq
4	I’m a clone	dream 2: insomnia	human shields
5	dumb luck	dream 3: side effects	how much you know
6	circular perception	1986 NASA	vending machine
7	tomorrow	first impressions	squirming maggot
8	-ool quiz	routine day	interruption
9	remember everything	which is false	balanced budget
10	through the flies	perfection	amongst disagreement
11	serving size quiz	high fidelity	tomorrow
12	help a stranger	how satirists think	past genius
13	natural enemies	pacifist-aggressivist	l’Académie française
14	punctuation marks	European unity	end of the tunnel
15	against morning	fool yourself	war is 1%...
16	Bovine Altitude Control	absolute power	right the first time
17	leaders of tomorrow	absolute power	carbon-carbon
18	all you need is	rudeness contest	read the dictionary
19	more fun if	put off yesterday	fashion
20	ground-zero tree	secrets of fire	armor clattering
21	human mind	wisdom	incarnation of evil
22	soft carrot	keep your head	grow up free of dread
23	generosity	science credibility	shock and awe quiz
24	resourceful	science incredibility	free press
25	beauty is truth	technical	not supposed to
26	posterity’s prosperity	Iraq missiles	outlook not insight
27	SQL Server	my first mistake	terrorist tactics
28	price of freedom	frivolous entertainment	humanitarian aid
29	foolproof		overconfidence
30	bubble burst		MOO and OEM
31	what you’re doing		successful ideas

	April	May	June
1	hidden joke	error-free	be concise
2	altruism quiz	decision theory	half of writing
3	planning meeting	a life	credibility problem
4	decisive phase	peace on Earth	universal empowerment
5	conscience	nothing impossible	convenient idea
6	good pessimist	everything you think	what you can do
7	push a button	lost my marbles	typical discovery
8	lies of the aggressors	sudden breakthrough	virgin sheet
9	looting in Basra	brilliant inventors	fell Fell
10	information weapons	infallible	Jesus dance
11	fall of tyranny	scale quiz	juche
12	civilian control	Jayson Blair	builder
13	over my horizon	because they exist	Immanent Valedictorians
14	opportunity	reduce my errors	heart of gold
15	avarice	life is short	language
16	weekends	throw out	exercise moderation
17	Terence	crying at birth	clevernesses
18	Fantastic Voyage	power of quotation	love
19	meticulous plan	hard work	making mistakes
20	by shutting up	terrorist theorist	developer quiz
21	plants and animals	dear mortal being	developer song
22	managers and designers	gossip	mystery novel
23	Homeland Security	put it off	global warming
24	forgive	catafalque	how wrong
25	harmony	nuclear weapons	land on the moon
26	harmony	groupthink	laws of theodynamics
27	key to success	despite all efforts	flawed concept
28	the simple life	suburbia	can’t count
29	mumbling marketeer	GAAP quiz	plastic surgery
30	thought without words	mood control	customer service
31		forewarned twice

	July	August	September
1	brain pills	decline of English	righteous
2	by their opinions	historical inevitability	creativity
3	disbelief in ghosts	intuition	control information
4	graduate school	art district	make ends meet
5	difficult problems	individual malice	human future
6	mrowdata	enemy	our #1 priority
7	work to deadline	spam quiz	bad knees
8	degenerate Fermi gas	recall election	easy way out
9	many old books	admission standards	get up
10	changed my mind	boredom	get up 2
11	script kiddie	European vacation	Homeland Security
12	dedication	energy conservation	a won’t
13	get back to work	plan of mistakes	optimization
14	yes-men	game playing	knowledge thumbs
15	Nike of Samothrace	burning deck	desire to possess
16	creativity	blackout	desire to possess 2
17	misquoted	iLectricity	rest deeply
18	taxation theorem	reassuring the public	Verisign
19	nine tenths of the law	charity begins	ICANN
20	the press costs	charity stands in	arrogance
21	RIAA boss	nervous system	reason to panic
22	look at a king	early bird	the people love me
23	the List	this land is nylon	progress
24	cultural differences	first to be young	JetBlue
25	mistakes make you	hostages in Algeria	Do Not Call
26	retroactive opportunity	dumb once	reliable theory
27	10 Downing Street	we judge ourselves	but one life
28	elderly dictators	lost faith	Do Not Call 2
29	cosmic string	verbose prolixity	mistakes of others
30	DirecTV	working	stranger than
31	pointless actions	well begun

	October	November	December
1	security bulletins	exaggeration	a problem
2	shortcut	exaggeration 2	proverbs
3	a problem	understand	expert
4	on all cylinders	another friend	novice
5	being born	mutual fund	incompetence
6	why today?	great power	Itsy, Bitsy
7	eyes point forward	wastefulness	great minds
8	psycho sicko	conquering	international relations
9	Schwarzenegger	furries	the less you can do
10	pass a law	tomorrow	root of evil
11	Katz and mouse	the third Angel	gaze for long
12	FBI 2	illusion of understanding	born free
13	clears the mind	journalistic mistake	main character
14	corrupt quiz	getting up	what you eat
15	lies the head	place to stand	average out
16	increase brain size	complicity	nothing wrong with
17	staves	simplicity	good luck quiz
18	hummable	famous	not diplomatic
19	official secrecy	creativity	too much info
20	need-to-know	forming no habits	SpaceShipOne quiz
21	intolerance	relatively untainted	fortunes
22	for the people	a little knowledge	not worrying
23	clear conscience	causality	wrong differently
24	identity theft	for their beliefs	drafted with pride
25	Diebold quiz	mentally healthy	spread your holidays
26	Diebold 2	ash	trust in others
27	junk collectors	charity	progress
28	change invalidates	TCP/IP	ontological argument
29	change invalidates 2	magic bag	illustrative purposes
30	Sexium and Hexium	laziness	facts and ideas
31	in heaven and earth		the day before 2004