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6/27/08 Which NFL franchise is the best?

Football fans reading this blog can enjoy this article instead of working today.
They rank the 32 NFL franchises based on their all-time records. An ambitious task indeed. You’ll never guess who’s #1.
(Hint: I might not have posted this if I hadn’t been in agreement with it.)
(Non-football fans, you can safely ignore this article.)
Now, back to [...]

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6/25/08 “An Honor That Bush Is Unlikely to Embrace”

If only I lived in San Francisco, so I could vote for the George W. Bush Sewage Plant.

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Filed under Amusing (if only to me), I Hate Politics on June 25, 2008, '“An Honor That Bush Is Unlikely to Embrace”' has comments numbering merely 0.
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The Long Now Foundation – “of the deep future, for the deep future.”

I just heard about The Long Now Foundation (via this interview about innovation, which in itself is worth reading, via the interviewer).
From the Long Now website:

The Long Now Foundation was established in 01996* to develop the Clock and Library projects, as well as to become the seed of a very long term cultural institution. The [...]

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6/20/08 Amusing, if only to me

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Baseball becomes chess

Best baseball clip ever: Pat Venditte, switch pitcher for the single A Staten Island Yankees, decides which hand to use against a switch hitter, who is simultaneously deciding which side of the plate to hit from.

(For the conclusion of the at-bat, see the ESPN video on the video page.)
That’s right, I said “switch pitcher.” More [...]

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Filed under Amusing (if only to me), Sports, Video on June 20, 2008, 'Baseball becomes chess' has comments numbering merely 0.
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6/17/08 Banned from baseball, but not from texting A-Rod

I had no idea: Pete Rose and Alex Rodriguez have been talking hitting for years. It’s a good article.

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6/13/08 Comic Relief owner dies

I just found this out today: Rory Root, owner and proprietor of the great comic bookstore Comic Relief in Berkeley, died in May at age 50.
I loved his store and spent more than a few bucks there over the last few years. I actually didn’t even realize he was the owner until I heard this [...]

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