So, the good news is, Gregg Easterbrook is writing about football for ESPN again. His “Tuesday Morning Quarterback” columns are some of the most entertaining football writing around. Here’s hoping he can make it through the whole season without saying something stupid to get himself fired. The bad news is, Gregg Easterbrook is writing about… Continue reading Take the Bad with the Good
Month: September 2006
Idle Question
Does including his middle name make USC quarterback John David Booty sound more or less like a porn star? (Yesterday was the inauguration for our new college president, so it was a long day, and I’m a little punchy watching SportsCenter…)
Scott Westerfeld, The Last Days
Scott Westerfeld’s new YA novel The Last Days is a sequel to his earlier Peeps, so technically, it’s a book about teenage vampires. Only really it’s a book about a bunch of misfit kids forming a band and trying to make it big. While the Vampire Apocalypse happens around them. In Peeps, we learn of… Continue reading Scott Westerfeld, The Last Days
The Last Days SPOILERS
The booklog post on Scott Westerfeld’s The Last Days got to be long enough that I wanted to split it just to keep it from eating the front page. Which would sort of preclude using the extended entry field for spoiler protetction, so here’s the stuff with the spoilers. Don’t read the rest of this… Continue reading The Last Days SPOILERS
“These Songs Have Very Low Entropy”
Travis Hime listens to Justin Timberlake so you don’t have to.
Driver’s Ed Nostalgia
Via a mailing list, Peugeot offers a parallel-parking simulator. So, if you’re a person who thinks that Grand Theft Auto doesn’t contain enough three-point turns, there’s a Flash game just for you…
Sulky Dog-Blogging
It’s raining, nobody’s petting her, nobody’s dropping any food, nobody’s taping bacon to slow-moving domestic animals: Some days it’s hard to be the Queen of Niskayuna.
Are Bloggers Smarter Than High-School Kids?
As discussed last week, the comments about the perfect-scoring SAT essays published in the New York Times made me wonder whether bloggers could do any better. On the plus side, bloggers write all the time, of their own free will. On the minus side, they don’t have to work under test conditions, with a tight… Continue reading Are Bloggers Smarter Than High-School Kids?
Stupid Infinite Universe!
The New York Times has a story about yet another weird extrasolar planet, this one a gigantic fluffy ball of gas bigger than Jupiter, but less dense than water: While gas giants like Jupiter and Saturn are made primarily of hydrogen and helium, they also possess rocky cores and crushing pressures within that squeeze the… Continue reading Stupid Infinite Universe!
The Weirdness Event Horizon Approaches
The truly remarkable thing about the BaconCat incident is not that John Scalzi taped bacon to his cat (as you can tell from his wife’s reaction), or that he got a bazillion hits from Fark for it (which is what the Internet is for, after all), or that he made a motivational poster about it… Continue reading The Weirdness Event Horizon Approaches