The Buffalo Sabres, down 3-1 to the hated Boston Bruins in the Eastern Conference quarterfinals, return home to HSBC Arena tonight, trying to keep their playoff drive alive. Via @SI_24Seven, here’s an article titled “Bruins have blown series lead before,” giving hope to Sabres fans everywhere. All I can say is: Game starts an hour from now, at 5pm Mountain… Read more »
The movie studio that made Downfall, the film that launched a thousand Hilter parody videos (previous posts here, here and here), is abusing copyright law by yanking the videos off YouTube. (Fair use, anyone?!?) Naturally, Hitler is not happy about this: LOL! (Warning: profanity in the subtitles, as per usual. … Hat tip: Outside the Beltway.)
Five days after Tea Partiers rallied at the State Capitol building in Denver, a very different kind of protest/party took place in the same spot two days ago, Tuesday, 4/20. If the date doesn’t clue you in, you can divine the difference from the cloud of hazy smoke above their heads. It’s not a Tea Party, it’s a Weed Party:… Read more »
The NFL draft is rolling along, no big surprises so far as Sam Bradford and Ndamukong Suh take the top two spots. – Oklahoma is dominating so far with 3 of the top 4 picks. – Lots of linemen taken so far, 6 out of 11. – WOW! Tebow to Denver? Probably the biggest surprise pick of the 2010 draft…. Read more »
Via Gizmodo. See also, somewhat relatedly, this Flickr post.
I’ve made clear my opinion, in the face of some dissent, that, unless done right (which it won’t be), expansion of the NCAA Tournament to a 96-team field is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad, wolf-face crazy idea that would reward mediocrity, squelch tournament magic, and generally destroy the greatest sporting event ever created. But, well, okay, did I… Read more »
Of all the volcano-related photos I’ve seen recently — including the beautiful gallery of Eyjafjallajökull pics on the Boston Globe‘s always-awesome photoblog, The Big Picture — this one is my favorite. It was taken by Arnþór Ævarsson of Hveragerði, Iceland, on April 5, and it shows the volcano in the foreground… and the aurora borealis in the background. The volcano… Read more »
Sometimes there are a few stories that break over the course of the week that I want to comment on, but don’t feel like I have enough to say to devote an entire piece to just one story. Rather than force myself to choose and/or develop an idea to feature length (you know, like a good writer would), I instead… Read more »
From the Norwegian Meteorological Office, via The Map Room, here’s an animation of the ash cloud from the Icelandic volcano, Eyjafjallajökull, that’s disrupting air travel and sowing PANIC!!!!! all across Europe. “Yellow indicates ash that has fallen by itself, red ash that has fallen as a result of precipitation, and black where the ash cloud is at that moment in… Read more »
Andrew Sullivan: Their partisanship and cultural hostility to Obama are far more intense, it seems to me, than their genuine proposals to reduce spending and taxation. And this is largely because they have no genuine proposals to reduce spending and taxation. They seem very protective of Medicare and Social Security – and their older age bracket underlines this. They also… Read more »