Soccer-Specific-Stadiums are all the rage in Major League Soccer these days, as a way for the League to control costs (mainly stadium rental) and keep ancillary revenues, Dallas opened their own stadium this summer, Chicago has one on the way for next year, the Metrostars finally decided to pay for their own for 2007, and […]
I’ve been wanting to post these links analysis the Suprem Court Kelo decision for a while now. I don’t have any of my own insight into this but its an issue to be informed about. “Drop-kicked by eminent domain” Case studies for Kelo Kelo, stadium subsidies, and economic development
This weekend, Staci and I adopted Simon from BREW, a local beagle rescue organization. Staci saw his posting earlier in the week and pretty much fell in love with the little guy, so we headed to the Adoption Day they were having in Alexandria on Saturday. We pretty much made a bee-line from the dorr
If, like me, you have a Debian box and are itching to try out Hula, last week Hula packages made it into the Unstable branch.
Scott Berkun, who designed and worked on the development of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer versions 1 to 5, explains why he switched to Firefox. He has great praise for the design team, particularly those who have kept the browser focused on appealing to the mainstream user. “Firefox feels to me like what IE 6.0 should have
Now’s your chance, Ecost has 40 hour tivo’s free after $150 rebate. You can then get the lifetime registrations ($299 i think) if you’re like me and don’t like recurring bills. Or else pay $12/month. If you get one, please use this email address when registering your tivo: regis AT oscarm DOT org. Update: Sandy
We flew in Friday with enough time to grab lunch and get ready for the Rehearsal and Rehearsal dinner. I messed up the google map directions and instead of being on North California Ave we ended up on California Ave, on the wrong side of the Caltrain rails. We were half an hour late to
Buster, Patty’s beagle, went in for surgery last week to remove a tumor. Patty has the biopsy results and has to decide what to do next.
I used the time on the airplane to devour Freakonomics and the Tipping Point. I found Freakonomics a much more informative book, and although the authors claimed that there was no unifying theme for it, all the stories reinforced quite well their notion that looking at datasets in new, unexpected ways can reveal some startling
EHomeUpgrade is running a quick poll on Digital Rights Management. The questions are interesting but, it must be the poll software they used, some of the questions are really more than one question shoe horned into a checkbox website poll model. For example, you can check both Would you "rent" DRM protected digital media –