Follow-up: In a reaction to Bud Selig’s halting of the All-Star Game in a tie on Tuesday, the St. Paul Saints, a minor league team, are poking fun with a ‘Tie’ night featuring a caricature of Selig.
pearls before swine is an evil game, especially this early in the morning; I don’t think you can win, actually…
The Time Waster Game Of The Day is No Dunks Basketball, kind of a Basketball For Geeks.
This interesting piece on Islam tries to compare its influence with other religions and governments. According to the article, this is a futile exercise because of the inherent dogmatic basis of Islam. This is definitely a must-read to begin to understand relations between “The West” and Islamic nations, convoluted as they might be.
The Japanese NAL will test a 38 foot long scale model of the X1, an aircraft it envisions as a jet with three times the payload capacity, twice the speed, and half the noise of a Concorde. The initial test will take place in an Australian testing range, where the model will be carried aboard a booster rocket and released at twice the speed of sound, gliding back to earth.
In yet another sign that Hollywood has run out of ideas, Drew Barrymore is pitching a Laverne and Shirley movie starring Courtney Love and herself. Hopefully this is just a rumor, but nothing surprises me these days…
I hate the fact that P. Diddy or Puffy or whatever he calls himself makes a career out of copying (and ruining) other peoples’ work, but I think Dolly Parton covering ‘Stairway to Heaven’ is at least as bad.
Here’s a tip if you’re caught speeding: the Speed movie defense rarely works.
W made a speech on Wall Street yesterday on corporate accountability and ethics in the wake of the Enron and WorldCom scandals. However, it has been suggested that the “new” standards that are supposed to be enforced by an FBI “corporate SWAT team” would have landed both W and Vice President Cheney in jail for accounting practices of the companies they headed, Harken Energy and Halliburton, respectively. I wonder how long it will take the American press to get a whiff of the blatant duplicity of W’s new “hard” stance on corporate accountability, which is by no means coincidental to the upcoming elections.
Update: Apparently, W’s ploy of appearing as a regular guy fighting corporate fraud has not gone unnoticed: the New York Times has a piece that has some more details of W’s financial dealings with Harken and the kinds of “creative accounting” they used, not unlike WorldCom and Enron, come to think of it.
Logophilia is a site “devoted to recently coined words, existing words that have enjoyed a recent renaissance, and older words that are being used in new ways.” It’s definitely a cool way to expand your vocabulary, even if a lot of the words and phrases are a bit faddish.
