January 2009
57 posts
Popcorn →
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Ever since a spate of popcorn “the old fashioned way” posts came out a year or so ago—The…
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Jews-a-poppin!
D.C. Is America’s Worst Pro Sports City →
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Well, of course.
With the Nationals posting baseball’s worst record, the Skins’ sliding from 6-2 to 8-8 and the ass dropping out of the Wizards’ season, I’ve been meaning to measure…
Beaker the Muppet Visits Ben's Chili Bowl →
A Beaker internet meme is a pretty good meme. The hapless lab assistant, famous for speaking the language of mee-mee-meee, has been keeping busy in D.C., riding public transportation,…
Smell Ya Later, Shea Stadium →
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I come to bury Shea Stadium, not to praise it. My eulogy will be vicious and I will not hold back. But that’s not quite what Mets fans are planning this…
Anti-Bacterial America →
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Get that dirt outta your mouth, Ruhlman.
This rant begins in that most evil, but for me, in my encroaching decrepitude, useful public spaces, “the fitness center.” Here,…
N.J. trial begins on reliability of touch-screen... →
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I’ll save you the trouble: they’re unreliable and easily hackable.
A trial is under way in central New Jersey over the accuracy and reliability of the state’s electronic voting…
Poll Dancing: Dukies at No. 1 (even though they... →
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“Now, it’s not that Duke doesn’t deserve to be No. 1…” Then why put that in the blogpost title?
— For the first time in three years, Duke is ranked atop the Associated…
Carts of Darkness →
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FLIM SPRINGFIELD
For those that enjoyed the trailer for Carts of Darkness I posted a couple of months ago, an exciting follow-up: The National Flim Board of Canada has posted…
Your Swingin' BBWAA Awards Roundup: No... →
Hey, Champ. Miss out on the BBWAA’s annual Big Apple shindig last night? Cool it, see. Your man on the scene was a fly on the wall* for the whole thing. Here’s just a taste of what you…
BrandFreak: Interview with Alice Fraasa, the... →
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That girl in the t-shirt ads is just not that into you.
There’s famous, and then there’s Internet famous. Alice, the SnorgTees Girl, falls into the latter category. If…
Seton Hall 65, (14) Georgetown 60 →
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On the day they brought back the 1989 Final Four team, natch.
Jeremy Hazell scored 23 points, including the clinching free throws with 8.1 seconds left and Seton Hall got its first…
ROCK NOTES: PC OUTLASTS, OUTWITS PIRATES →
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Refs hate Bobby Gonzalez. SHU gets twenty fewer foul shots at home?
January 23, 2009 By Ray Floriani NEWARK, NJ – A day after NJIT ended their streak in this city, another one,…
MSNBC on the outdated IT infrastructure in the... →
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That’s nothing, the NJ Dept of Labor still uses Windows 3.11 for Workgroups.
the Mac-savvy team found PCs “outfitted with six-year-old versions of Microsoft software”
Sirius XM Raising Rates: A good move or a bad one? →
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Not worth it anymore.
The rumors that Sirius XM Radio Inc. are raising the rates of some subscription packages have been confirmed by Reuters, as well as by several
Oscar Nominations Announced! →
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Thirteen noms for Button, 8 for Milk, 7 for Slumdog, 6 for Wall*E, and 5 for Frost/Nixon.
And we have the full list! Tough luck, Dark Knight!
Best Picture The Curious Case of…
Mom of 'Adolph' denies any abuse →
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A postponed court hearing hasn’t been rescheduled because the family is seeking a lawyer. How are you gonna get a lawyer when you hate Jews?
HOLLAND TWP. (AP) — The mother of three…
Beware Circuit City's closeout "deals" →
Beware Circuit City’s closeout “deals” As we’ve previously reported, electronics retailer Circuit City is going out of business and closing all of its…
Jeff Kent Frees Up Some Time for Truck-Washing,... →
The Dodgers issues a press release today warning the media that second baseman Jeff Kent will be announcing his retirement from the game of baseball after 17 years. The five-time All…
ONWARDS →
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RIP Get Your War On.
Wedding Festival For Us →
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He showing us how make knot on neck rope. No, you’re too young to end it now, Rinku!
Dinesh and I going Wedding festival Roberto.
Roberto our catcher training. He sign contract…
Phrases From The Financial Times’ Final Editorial... →
“Executive hubris”
“Imperial overreach”
“Epic incompetence”
“Preternatural ebullience”
“Fathomless lack of curiosity”
“Disdain for empirical reality”
“Most fiscally incontinent (!!!) of…
Walkoff Walk Presents the BONILLA Projection... →
The last thing the baseballblogosphere needs is another cleverly-named projection system for players. And that’s exactly why we at Walkoff Walk decided to add our collective voice to the…
Eagles-Cardinals Prediction Thread →
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Take away that long screen-pass TD and he only has 96 total yards in two games. Take away millions of idiots and the readership of TBL consists of a dozen bloggers reading TBL for…
Hero of the Hudson [Heroes] →
Chesley B. “Sully” Sullenberger, III was the last person to leave US Airways Flight 1549 — a true captain, he swept the center aisle twice to ensure no one else was still on board. …
Rumor: Wright on Airplane? →
Update, 7:27 pm:
According to a team spokesman, David Wright was not on today’s plane that crashed in to the Hudson River.
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I hate to post this, but I have been sent several…
Meet the Hero of Flight 1549 [Heroes] →
Chesley B. “Sully” Sullenberger, III was the last person to leave US Airways Flight 1549 — a true captain, he swept the center aisle twice to ensure no one else was still on board. …
Rumor: Wright on Airplane? →
Update, 7:27 pm:
According to a team spokesman, David Wright was not on today’s plane that crashed in to the Hudson River.
Original Post:
I hate to post this, but I have been sent several…
Paul Blart: Mall Cop / *** (PG) →
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Three stars, Roger? Have you gone mad?
“Paul Blart: Mall Cop” (PG, 87 minutes). Kevin James stars as a fat schlub who transforms himself into an action hero during a vintage critic…
Arthur's Landing now a shelter for passengers... →
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New Jersey restaurants care.
Arthur’s Landing in Weehawken has become a shelter, following this afternoon’s plane crash in the Hudson River. About 20 passengers are resting in the…
The Moustache Of Greenderstanding →
Good ol’ Matt Taibbi wrote a review of Thomas Friedman’s new book, “Hot, Flat and Crowded.”
I made the accompanying illustration:
Anatomy of a Play: The Eagles' Fourth-Quarter... →
NFL.com has a great video feature called “Anatomy of a Play”. In this installment, Greg Cosell of State Farm NFL Matchup and NFL Films breaks down the Giants’ late unsuccessful third- and…
Conan wishes death upon the dancing Fox robot →
Along with the commercials, another thing that gets extremely repetitive during the playoffs is Fox’s little dancing robot guy. You see him going in or coming out of any commercial break, programmed…
State removes Hunterdon County child named Hitler... →
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Let them eat cake!
New Jersey authorities removed Adolf Hitler Campbell and his sisters from their parents’ Hunterdon County home, Holland Township police chief David Van Gilson said…
Rep. Eric Massa's excellent fuel cell road... →
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Dipshit.
In order to prove how wonderful hydrogen fuel cell cars are, Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.) decided to drive one from New York to Washington DC for his congressional…
Don't like 9-7 vs. 9-6-1? Then maybe the NFL... →
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Besides, 13-6-1 sounds much nicer.
There seems to be a sentiment out there that because neither of the NFC Championship game participants reached the 10-win plateau in the…
Walkoff Walk Presents the BONILLA Projection... →
The last thing the baseballblogosphere needs is another cleverly-named projection system for players. And that’s exactly why we at Walkoff Walk decided to add our collective voice to the…
Giants Fans Head Into Hibernation →
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Sleepytime in North Jersey.
How. About. That.
The Eagles are headed to the NFC Championship Game. I’m going to spend the rest of my day reading articles from mid-season…
Marc Topkin's Hall of Fame ballot →
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No Blyleven or Raines? You’re daft, Topkin!
Typically, filling out my Hall of Fame ballot is an emotionally draining, deep-thinking, hours-consuming, angst-causing,…
Chipper Jones Needs a Hug, New Hunting Buddies →
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Shameless self-promotion on aisle three.
Having spent six and a half years getting my undergraduate degree, I know what it’s like to be part of an organization for a long…
Howie Long’s Son Caught Drinking and Driving →
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Rough week, kid.
Kyle Long has been arrested for driving drunk.
Jimmy Rollins Calls Into Radio Show To Win Eagles... →
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KBBL’s going to give me something stupid!
Philadelphia’s #1 source for repetitive music, Wired 96.5 FM, is currently running a contest on their Chio in the Morning show where…
¡ OH AN HE SEXY ! →
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Rejected Commenter Theater memes will never die!
Hirsute loverman Dolfan Dan does the Super Bowl Truffle Shuffle. After this disturbing turn of events, I am…
The Big Lead » Blog Archive » JC Romero Tested... →
Really, Big Lead Guy? Baseball players cheat more than football players? Go back to US Weekly, you hack.
Bill James urges his colleagues to boycott the... →
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Great points by Bill James, save for one terrible metaphor concerning film. Sometimes movies are great when we don’t know if the boy gets the girl or not.
Suppose that you are a…
Poll Dancing: Outing the ridiculous AP voters →
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Hall-of-Famer Dick Vitale votes with care.
Unlike the ESPN/USA Today coaches poll, the Associated Press college basketball rankings make the ballot of each voter public, in an…
Drug from genetically engineered goats a first →
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Meh.
WASHINGTON (AP) — You’ve heard of making cheese from goats’ milk, but prescription drugs? In what would be a scientific first, an anti-clotting drug made from the milk of…
The Quick 10: 10 Moments in Music Censorship... →
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What, no “Radio Radio”?
Super interesting topic today, at least I was quite intrigued by the research(with lots of YouTube clips). I know there are some moments in music…