I’m not sure what to take away from two links I came across this morning. First, theres a piece on the Huffington Post linking Bolivia’s water war to a failure of “Trickle-Down Economics.” I had a hard time following Charlie Cray’s thought processes along, as I could not find any distinct threads tying together the […]
If you’re a tivo user as I am, or are considering getting one, you might want to know that TiVo’s lawsuit against EchoStar (DishNetwork) over a patent dispute began today. PVR Wire has a summary of what happened today, and so does the unofficial Tivo Blog. The best summary is at Thomas Hawk, and there
Chevy and NBC teamed up to let internet users produce their own Chevy Tahoe commericials. The people have responded but not in the way our corporate overlords wanted. The story has now been picked up by NPR, Nightline, and the NY TImes. My friend Jason pointed me to the site and I saw it again
1. Goalie: United has never had a dominant keeper like Matt Reis or Joe Cannon that’s anchored the team. Rimando has great reflexes but can make you nervous at the same time. The early keepers had such solid defenses in front of them that it’s almost not fair. Advantage: Scott Garlick, cause he’s been a
The atmosphere in the stadium was great, better than I remember last year’s home opener against Chivas. Kudos to the Metrostars for putting their short busses to use. It felt like playoff game at times, especially as DC equalized in the second half. Eskandarian, I’m so glad you scored and scored early. I was afraid
Reading thumps Derby County 5-0 to win the Coca-Cola Championship, one week after earning promotion to the Premier League and with 5 games to spare. Reading midfielder Bobby Convey, one of my favorite players during his time at DC United, also earned a Player of the Month award for March. Next season, Reading will be
Marco Antonio Etcheverry played a fare well match in his native Santa Cruz, Bolivia last night. I hadn’t heard about the match until this week but there is a spanish language articles here, and here. There had been a rumor that President Evo Morales would play in the match but that didn’t happen. The final
I sent my friend Nam-ho a link to the new release of Lightbox JS, a slick Javascript based way to overlay images on a webpage. As far as a javascript onlly solution, it could be an impressive method for displaying a slideshow. In response, Nam-ho sent me to SimpleViewer, a much slicker Flash-based solution for
I came back from a client meeting today to find 1 person looking for me, and then two people aiming me to let know the first person is also looking for me. Sometimes I hate AIM. Although one day I turned off IM thinking I’d get some work done, but then I got a call
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Read Sandy’s post about excellent investigative expose about the creation of horses in today’s modern world. Make sure you read it by this Friday.