Here are some stories that I read today and thought were interesting. (Check back daily at 6PM for my daily links):
Monthly Archive for June, 2009
Here are some stories that I read today and thought were interesting. (Check back daily at 6PM for my daily links):
- Laettner Trying To Beat the Clock Again
- Toyota Scientists Succeed in Thought-Controlled Wheelchair [Wheelchairs] Awesome
- Jobs Back on the Job
- Comcast launches High-Speed 2go WiMax service tomorrow in Portland, other cities to follow by end of year
- Who Needs Stephen A. At The Draft To Have A Good Time? Always a classic, especially since I stood in line for tickets next to the guy.
- Now The Banks Are Reaming Debit Card Users
- Aaron Rodgers Is Having A Productive Offseason [Aaron Rodgers]
- Did Michael Jackson Die to Save the Pop Charts?
- MacBook back on top at Amazon
Here are some stories that I read today and thought were interesting. (Check back daily at 6PM for my daily links):
Here are some stories that I read today and thought were interesting. (Check back daily at 6PM for my daily links):
Here are some stories that I read today and thought were interesting. (Check back daily at 6PM for my daily links):
- Still waiting on a Google Voice invite? This could take a while…
- Zune HD rumor mill: $249, 720p movies, 64GB model down the road? Would be a great competitor to the iPod touch at this rumored price point.
- Captain Morgan Gives TARP Legislators A Massive Hangover
- Michael Jackson's patented "Smooth Criminal" leaning shoes
Here are some stories that I read today and thought were interesting. (Check back daily at 6PM for my daily links):
- LeBron, Meet Your New Teammate: Shaquille O'Neal – Deadspin WOW
- Do These Emails Doom Ben Bernanke?
- Microsoft unveils Hohm beta for overanalyzing your home energy usage For you, Tom Frame
- Elvis Grbac: Not as sexy as initially indicated
- 3RD UPDATE: Jeff Zucker Privately Pledging “Imminent Changes” At NBC And Universal
Here are some stories that I read today and thought were interesting. (Check back daily at 6PM for my daily links):
- Live streams of Yankees games $49.95 for rest of '09 Seems a bit pricey to me.
- Too much Rod Benson: You've got to be hungry … Rod Benson is the best athlete blogger out there.
- Shazam Now Tweets, Maps Your Music Journeys [IPhone] I love Shazam (a lot) but it deleted all my tagged songs recently. That was disappointing.
- Bruce Springsteen Comes Under Fire in Jersey Ticket Fracas
- Apparent Plagiarism in Chris Anderson’s Free
- MTA selling subway station naming rights Important to note that Barclay’s is buying the naming rights because they already committed to the naming rights of nearby Barclay’s Center, which will be home to the Nets when they move to Brooklyn. Most people aren’t considering that.
As background, the MTA also tried selling the rights to the station outside Citi Field to Citibank, but they declined. As a result, the station is known simply as “Mets.” - How The Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen IMAX Experience Compares with The Dark Knight Interesting to see how film-makers use IMAX in feature length pictures and adapt the use in the future. Sounds like The Dark Knight was more successful than Transformers in doing so.
- Another Blow to Duke: Elliot Williams to Transfer
- “Profitwood”: Dodgers Likely Made Money From Manny Loss
- Your Obligatory NBA Draft Fashion Review
- Lenny Dykstra Lets The World Know He's "Flying Higher" [Lenny Dykstra] Amazing
- In Brief: 76ers, What’s Old is New Again
- Mark Sanford Returns From…. Argentina
- Did Mark Sanford Lie About Hiking Appalachian Trail?
- Facebook Movie is An Adaptation of The Accidental Billionaires It’s sad when I am aware of these things but the Hollywood media somehow isn’t.
- HTC Hero running Android and Sense UI leaks from HTC’s own website (updated, official, video)
- Farewell Pech, Welcome Organ Reversal Man Hilarious stuff from Steinz. Highly recommended.
- Comcast, Time Warner Team Up To Control TV On The Internet Looking forward to learning what is going on with premium online streaming content.
- A Bunch Of New Stuff From Boxee MLBAM working with Boxee. Great to see. MLBAM’s position on the cutting edge of sports media/technology is admirable.
- Methodist University Hospital confirms Steve’s liver transplant
I attended the announcement of the reintroduction of the Sixers’ classic logo on Tuesday. Here are some pictures from the event:
Here are some stories that I found to be interesting today:
- 3GS impressions and predictions for next year Interesting take on iPhone from the developer of one of the coolest/best apps, Instapaper.
- First Big Summer NBA Deal: Richard Jefferson Traded to the Spurs for Spare Parts TERRIFIC trade for the Spurs. There’s a reason they are a dynasty.
- Layoffs Watch ‘09: Barclays
- Lost Boy Saved by TV Show | The Outside Blog
- Florida Puts Bulletin Board Material On Actual Bulletin Board [College Football]
- Are CDS holders dooming Gannett?
- Sources: Flyers More Likely to Play Bruins at Fenway in Winter Classic I can’t see how the NHL wouldn’t have the Caps play the Bruins in this game. The Winter Classic is built to showcase someone like Ovechkin.
- Today in Philly Sports History: Brett Myers Arrested for Punching Wife, 2006 What a terrible anniversary. Uggh.
- Apple: Den of Secrets Seems to be some validity to this perception that Apple feeds stories to WSJ to anger NYT. Interesting…
- Deflation: It’s Back
- The Missing Anti-Stimulus Governor Is Hiking There’s NO way that they knew where he was and were trying to find a more accurate location to report. They didn’t know where he was. Do they think we are this gullible?
- Insider Selling Outpaces Buying By 22x
- Passion Pit Represents for the Massholes at Bowery Ballroom Would’ve liked to have seen this show
- ESPNChicago.com Adds Huffington Post
- Steve Jobs Goes To Work
Here are some stories that I found to be interesting today:
- Does Lenny Dykstra Owe You Money? Dude Says "F— You"
- The welcome hike in bankers’ salaries
- Goldman Prepares To Pay Biggest Bonuses Ever
- Apple sells over one million iPhones during launch weekend, six million OS 3.0 downloads
- Talk Like An Egyptian [Wake Up Deadspin!]
- Google Tests Ad Unit That Would Heat Up Competition With Amazon.com
- Munster: Apple sold 750,000 iPhones last weekend
- Google Snaps Up One Million Phone Numbers As Google Voice Launch Looms Large [Google]
- Studios Gets Tough; Sony Puts Moneyball in Play
Movie adaptation of Moneyball in jeopardy