More NFL. Sadly, my beloved Dolphins lost a heartbreaker to the Texans on Sunday. Luckily, I knew one highlight that was coming in advance: Here’s SI’s Peter King from last week’s column: With the Wildcat in Miami, necessity was the mother of invention. The Dolphins had practiced the play but hadn’t used it in the […]
Bush broke more laws on some single days than some of his predecessorsdid in their entire terms in office. January 31, 2003, stands out in my mind. Thatwas when Bush met with British Prime Minister Tony Blair in the White Houseand proposed possible ways to provoke Saddam Hussein into an attack, whichincluded the painting of […]
Writer Gregg Easterbrook brings the overlooked details of college & NFL football to our attention every Tuesday, but usually there’s a fair amount of non-sports commentary sprinkled in as well. Recently he’s been pointing out some of the misconceptions of the financial “crisis”: What is going on is a financial panic, not an economic collapse. […]
In honor of PORTAL: Prelude, an unofficial fan-made (mod) ‘prelude’ to the original game, being released to the inter-tubes last week…I whiled away my downloadin’ time by trawling for some Portal-themed goodies, and found 2 heart-warmers: First, here’s a typography version of the final song by Trickster: Portal – Still Alive typography from Trickster on […]
Boing Boing has a post today regarding a stellar vizualization of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights done by Seth Brau. Well worth a watch, and even better is the high quality version at www.humanrightsactioncenter.org. It was a forming moment for me, looking back, when I discovered that there was such a thing as a […]