Archive for July, 2006

This will probably get me barred from all 32 stadiums in the National Football League, and perhaps the NFL will force Comcast to block all NFL broadcasts on my cable loop, but I can’t help taking exception to Sports Illustrated’s football scribe Peter King being an obnoxious jerk in my neighborhood – and bragging about [...]

The world is full of self-righteous boors: Patrick Randall, a pseudonym for the California man cited by several local highway bloggers as their inspiration, said in an interview that he considers major thoroughfares “rivers of humanity.” They allow him to reach a captive audience with roadway-reading material more stimulating than “Happy 50th, Carol” or “Huge [...]

Thomas Friedman, doing his over-compensated, over-rated thing: Petrolism is my term for the corrupting, antidemocratic governing practices – in oil states from Russia to Nigeria and Iran – that result from a long run of $60-a-barrel oil. Norway, Mr. Friedman, Norway. Norway is my term for “oil has nothing to do with the misery in [...]

Forget the infamy of Srebrenica. Dutch commandos killed 18 Taliban savages in Afghanistan over the last several days. “If we had not done something then our soldiers could have come under fire and the construction of our camp could have been hindered,” Gen. Dick Berlijn, commander of the Dutch armed forces, told reporters in The [...]

The Boston Police Department has been hit by a serious and potentially massive corruption and crime scandal. So far three officers have been arrested, but the investigation isn’t over. Here are the crimes the arrested officers are suspected of having been involved in: …an intricate network of schemes that included stealing the identities of unsuspecting [...]

England has its very own Big Dig, in Liverpool. I had no idea. Let’s hope theirs will kill fewer people than ours, or at least come in higher on the Dollars Per Kill index. The Big Dig is one of Europe’s biggest regeneration programmes, creating 14,000 new jobs and investing £3billion in the local economy. [...]

Many students of marketing owe much of their knowledge of marketing theory to Philip Kotler, the S.C. Johnson & Son Distinguished Professor of International Marketing at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, and author of many books on marketing management. I admit I wasn’t exactly a fan of Mr. Ktoler back in the [...]

An Indian blogger whose blog has been blocked by India tells her government to screw: Yea, I will still blog. I still continue to blog. Blog my random thoughts. They can’t stop me from talking. Read the rest here. There are lots of democracies in the world, but only one has the First Amendment.

I like trains. Boy, do I like trains. I grew up in a house no more than a three-minute walk from a commuter station. I played with a Märklin train-set in my grandparents’ attic for hours on end. Commuter passes that cost something like $10-$15 a month for us kids allowed unrestricted access to commuter [...]

What prompts a webdesigner to make visited links blink? Just asking (Requires FireFox, IE doesn’t support CCS blink). While researching Winchester I found a Wikipedia article on a game called Winchester College Football, undoubtedly the worst variation of football I’ve ever heard of. “The normal approach… has been to win the toss, rack up a [...]