Posts Tagged: sports


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Nov 09

Daily Links for November 5th through November 8th

All excerpts are quoted from the respective link(s).

  • NSFW: After Fort Hood, another example of how ‘citizen journalists’ can’t handle the truth – There was just one problem: Moore’s information was bullshit too.

    As we now know, Major Hassan was not killed, but rather captured alive. Reports of a second – and third – shooter also now appear to be inaccurate. Whether someone was shot “in the balls” hasn’t been publicly confirmed and, for the sake the of the victim’s privacy, let’s hope it never is – but the point is that many of Moore’s eye-witness reports weren’t worth the bits they were written on. They had no value whatsoever, except as entertainment and tragi-porn.


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Jul 09

Daily Links for July 29th

All excerpts are quoted from the respective link(s).

  • Economist’s View: "Why had Nobody Noticed that the Credit Crunch Was on its Way?" – So where was the problem? Everyone seemed to be doing their own job properly… And according to standard measures of success, they were often doing it well. The failure was to see how collectively this added up to a series of interconnected imbalances over which no single authority had jurisdiction. This, combined with the psychology of herding and the mantra of financial and policy gurus, lead to a dangerous recipe. Individual risks may rightly have been viewed as small, but the risk to the system as a whole was vast.

    So in summary, Your Majesty, the failure…, while it had many causes, was principally a failure of the collective imagination of many bright people, both in this country and internationally, to understand the risks to the system as a whole. …


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Jun 09

Daily Links for June 20th through June 21st

  • Financial Responsibility in the United States – A credit infographic from BillShrink.
  • Historical Home Prices – A dynamic chart/infographic of the US economy and home prices.
  • Flip Flop Fly Ball – Essentially, this site is what I'd have been doing when I was 12 years old had the Internet and Photoshop been available to me in the eighties. As well as the infographics there are a few other bits and bobs; like small pixiliated portraits of some baseball players. They are filleted from a bigger collection of Minipops (that's what I call them) which is one of the biggest parts of my main web site, Flip Flop Flyin' (thus the name of this site). There's also some photos from some of the stadiums I've visited, and a few drawings.

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Feb 09

Daily Links for February 7th


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Jan 09

Daily Links for January 21st


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Dec 08

Daily Links for December 22nd through December 31st

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