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Archive for January 2008

Yankees busy at 1B?

The New York Yankees have apparently signed Morgan Ensberg to play 1B. Now maybe we’ll figure out that position. Not. Let’s sign a few more guys so we can be further confused as to who will actually play the position. I guess.

Planes, conveyor belts and Mythbusters

You *have to love* Jason Kottke’s coverage of Mythbusters from last night, which featured the ever-debated “if a plane is on a conveyor belt going one speed one direction, can it take off?” question. And who doesn’t love his final response after the plane does indeed take off from the giant conveyor belt-type-thing?
My additional […]

Rule 240 for the win

Steve Rubel posted on Twitter today about a Todayshow.com story from Peter Greenberg that discussed Rule 240, an old-school rule that airlines may actually follow for you should you be delayed for any reason other than weather. I’m most certainly going to look into this the next time I’m delayed in a non-weather situation, because […]

19-0 Patriots book being sold before 19-0 season completed?

Just caught on Yahoo! NFL Rumors that you can (gulp) do a presale purchase of a book that is “to come” from the Boston Globe about the New England Patriots and their 19-0 season. You know, the 19-0 season that you haven’t seen completed yet.
That’s just not good.
[update] as of 3:42pm on 1/29, this […]

“All your computers are fake”

Ryan Budke shot and scored this afternoon by sending over a link to the video below, featuring Will Ferrell dropping in on CNBC’s “Power Lunch” way back in 2004. I had never seen this before, and it’s absolutely classic.

AirMail: Snagged opportunity for a business

In what has to be one of the quicker efforts to hop on top of a potential marketing opportunity I’ve seen - at least not by the brand involved in the first place - two people have come up with the laptop sleeve that many will probably try and get their hands on when they […]

iPods for “I. Pod,” perhaps?

I’ve got a ton of other things to write about the Winter X Games, but I’ll start here for now. If Apple hasn’t already reached out to Iouri Podladtchikov about a potential sponsorship or some sort, then they really need to do it soon. That is all.

One more reason I love my Jawbone

Props to Eliot for the link he threw me the other day featuring the video below (original link here) that isn’t, for lack of a better way to put it, for those without humor or a those *with* a weak stomach.

In any case, if that doesn’t try and prove a point about how the Jawbone […]

Hope this isn’t your Web host

Thanks to Alex for sending along the link to this post at Royal Pingdom, featuring what might be the worst rackspace mess I’ve ever seen. Ugh.

Cloverfield Monster Toys Woot!

Thilk gave me the heads up yesterday that Hasbro is going to be rocking out some Cloverfield monster toys later on this year. Sure, it’s late late late, but who wouldn’t want a $100 monster that can destroy New York City for their desk?