March Madness 2008 and webcomics
March Madness 2008 is now upon us. Today was Selection Sunday and the 65-team field has been set. There are so many NCAA Tournament bracket contests, so little time. Here are three: ESPN Men’s Tournament Challenge, CBSSports.com Bracket Challenge, Yahoo! College Basketball Tournament Pick’em.
There are a lot of great webcomics out there. Let me [...]
Linus Pauling postage stamp, Max Headroom, Al Gore?
On Thursday, March 6, Oregon State University celebrated its most internationally recognized alumnus, Linus Pauling, as one of four American Scientists being honored on U.S. postage stamps this year. At noon in the Memorial Union Ballroom there was a First Day of Sale celebration. A special commemorative postmark was designed for the occasion [...]
The World Within a Sock, rickrolling, doomsday in 2012
Back from San Diego, there was a lot to catch up on from the past two weeks.
To aid in my procrastination, a bunch of my favorite Flash cartoon sites released new stuff this month. This includes David Firth posting four short episodes of The World Within a Sock.
The selection of cool desktop images [...]
Fatal Farm, cats and dogs, Lost Highway
Below are some funny videos and interesting tidbits I’ve collected recently.
Ever visited Fatal Farm’s YouTube channel? You will find lots of classic television intros and theme songs corrupted with bizarre and twisted imagery. It’s worth checking out a few. Try DuckTales and Knight Rider.
Cats and dogs
Garfield has been one of the lamest and [...]
Super Bowl Sunday, Super Tuesday, YahooSoft?
Somehow the New England Patriots were upset by the New York Giants 17-14 today in Super Bowl XLII. Turns out that Plaxico Burress wasn’t too far off with his 23-17 score prediction. I guess a 19-0 season was impossible.
I knew it was over for New England when, on the final Giants drive, on third down, [...]
Happy New Year: On dying consumer technologies
A few thoughts on dying consumer technologies for 2008:
Copy-protected music is almost dead. The demise of copy-protection software has finally almost arrived. Warner is the third of the four major music corporations to move away from digital rights management (DRM) software. In large thanks to the influences of Amazon MP3 and Radiohead this year. [...]
TV thoughts: Imaginationland, Heroes, Discovery Channel
I have a few quick thoughts to share about television shows.
Last Wednesday’s South Park episode, “Imaginationland,” was one of the best I’ve seen in ages. I loved the parts with M. Night Shyamalan, Michael Bay, and Mel Gibson. They were perfect. The episode was the beginning of what I’m sure will be an epic [...]
MLB playoffs/payrolls, Prawn To Be Wild, Gottfried, Letterman
I have four topics to ramble about today (if you don’t want to read about baseball, skip to the three more entertaining topics below):
MLB playoffs/payrolls
Every year around October I like to look at the payrolls of Major League Baseball teams that make the playoffs. Since there is no salary cap in MLB, the 30 [...]
New fish and Novak Djokovic
Following the recent death of the last fish (Jezebel the alarmingly aggressive goldfish) from my original 2003 fish tank setup, I cleaned out the aquarium and started over this weekend.
But, before I get to my new fish, I want to mention the U.S. Open 2007 men’s final. This was the first match I’ve watched [...]
Roswell, kitten neutering, Epsom salt, helium balloons
Today is the 60th anniversary of the Roswell incident, the most famous UFO sighting in American history. Read more from MSNBC: The Roswell Experience. I was kind of obsessed with Area 51 conspiracy theories when I was a kid. I visited Roswell during the summer of 2001, a few months before I moved to Oregon.
My [...]