Achtung Bevan

soccer

The next time you hear some pretentious American tries to call soccer “futbol”, feel free to remind him that the majority of the English speaking world calls it soccer. A quick breakdown: “Soccer” World: USA Canada Ireland Australia New Zealand South Africa “Football” world: U.K. Belize Liberia Nigeria Various Caribbean countries

schadenfreude

As someone who last week wrote a $365 check to the Town of Luther for a speeding ticket (valid, I was going 65 in a 55) and a ticket for “failing to yield to an emergency vehicle” (completely ridiculous, I didn’t pull over fast enough for Barney Fife) I take a tremendous amount of enjoyment [...]

summary of the last decade…

Here on the fourth day of 2010, I found one sentence that might do the best job I’ve seen yet at putting the last 10 years into a nutshell (from this NY Times article): “A dollar is no longer a dollar in this country,” said Mallory Duncan, senior vice president of the National Retail Federation, a trade [...]

great marketing

This is kind of brilliant, from a marketing perspective - pitch a retread of an 80’s era sci-fi series as a scathing critique of the Obama administration: Nominally a rousing sci-fi space opera about alien invaders bent on the conquest (and digestion) of all humanity, it’s also a barbed commentary on Obamamania that will infuriate the president’s [...]

Muhammad bio-pic

It will be very interseting to see how you can pull this off: Budgeted at around $150m (£91.5m), the film will chart Muhammad’s life and examine his teachings… … In accordance with Islamic law, the prophet will not actually be depicted on screen.

TED Conference

Many people are already aware of the TED conference. If you are not, you should be. It’s the most interesting and engaging thing available online, and best of all – it’s free. TED is simply a conference where interesting and acclaimed people are invited to come and speak (usually for around 18 minutes) about a topic [...]

michael vick

I’ll leave the debates to other people, my dog Fido and I will be enjoying the NFL while he’s wearing his customized Michael Vick jersey: You stay classy, NFL Shop.com.

Link Dump – Cinco de Mayo edition

The wonderful Straight Dope column addresses the question “Are pit bulls really that dangerous?” I love stuff like this: It turns out that autistic children & adults are very good at working with 3-D models: Google Sketch-Up gallery. Kind of sickening to read about the mass of garbage in the Pacific Ocean that is twice the size [...]

what's in your bag

I’ve seen a trend on websites like Lifehacker and Flickr where people show off the contents of their bag. Their bag is unloaded and the items are methodically laid out for others to review. (personally, I think 90% of this is designed to show off their Mac toys…) I’ve decided to play along and show off [...]

sexting

I’m just glad this wasn’t around when I was in school. It just would have been one more thing that I felt like I was missing out on. By the way, don’t you love it when technology parents don’t understand meets irrational media-fed fears? As if the kind of kids who are sending naked pictures of [...]