Thursday, July 16, 2009

Worst person ever..

A heartless kitty killer hissed angrily at animal rights activists Wednesday, grinning widely as she took credit for stuffing the helpless pet into a 500-degree oven.

"It's dead, bitch!" snapped an unrepentant Cheyenne Cherry, sticking her tongue out after a plea bargain that will put her behind bars for a year in the May 6 killing of tiny Tiger Lily.


New York Daily News

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Cyclist accused of being racist: I'm just an asshole!

At least this professional cyclist acknowledges that he is an asshole unlike so many of his kind:
"I love to come here (France) and I love to come here and race. For sure I'm going to get arsey at some lad - because I'm an asshole," said Cavendish.

"But their nationality, and what they look like or where they come from is irrelevant."
He was responding to charges that he was racist against French people. I may be wrong, but I think that's just being xenophobic not racist.

Barack Obama and Willie Mays

Cool T Shirt

A cool Resident Evil T-shirt from Comic-Con.

Fixing Obama's throwing motion

Though conservatives are all abuzz with the news that Obama's first pitch at the All Star Game last night wasn't very good ("Bush may have ruined the economy but at least he could throw a baseball!"), Deadspin found links to three experts who analyzed Obama's throw.

What did they say? Well, his technique wasn't all that good, but it wasn't that surprising since he never played baseball even as a kid.

As Dr. Mike Marshall, a former MLB reliever, said:
I've seen him shoot jump shots. He has an excellent shooting stroke. It's not all that much different throwing a baseball. It takes training, though, and I'd like him to spend as much time as he can on fixing the economy.
At least he's better at baseball than bowling, though.

Ichiro wants to wear jeans

A cool little story from the All Star game about Japanese star Ichiro Suzuki, his link to hall of fame player George Sisler and, yes, meeting Barack Obama (Obama threw out the first pitch of the All Star game).
Obama, visiting the clubhouses, stopped and signed a ball for Ichiro, who gave a slight bow upon meeting the President and appeared as giddy and excited as a kid.

"My idea, when I saw him, was to say, 'What's up?' to him," Ichiro said. "But I got nervous. You know, he has that kind of aura about him. So I got nervous and I didn't say that to him. I was a little disappointed about that.

"But I realized after seeing him today that presidents wear jeans, too. So my hope is that our skipper, [Don] Wakamatsu, was watching that and we can wear jeans on our flights, as well."

Monday, July 13, 2009

Batting Stance Guy



Still cool.

An amazing story

From ESPN The Magazine:
[Eric Frimpong] left his native Ghana in 2005 to play soccer for UC Santa Barbara; a year later he became a campus hero while leading the Gauchos to their first-ever national championship. If the immigrant experience can have a sound, Frimpong's sound was a raucous stadium. But in 2007, just weeks after being selected by the Kansas City Wizards in the MLS draft, he was accused of raping another student on the beach near his house. Now he's a convicted felon.
Read the story.

Deep thought

Journalists have been trained for many years to take their own voice out of their stories. But in blogging, it is a definite advantage to keep your voice in your posts, as it helps create a connection (when there were just newspapers, there was no need for a connection -- their authority as being Journalists in a newspaper).

This could be one reason why there are still some journalists who moan about 'those damned bloggers.'

Sunday, July 12, 2009

Many popular web stories start with traditional media, move to blogs

From the New York Times:
For the most part, the traditional news outlets lead and the blogs follow, typically by 2.5 hours, according to a new computer analysis of news articles and commentary on the Web during the last three months of the 2008 presidential campaign.
I wouldn't be surprised if that time between the traditional media reporting on the story and the time it appears on blogs has gone down since Twitter made such huge gains in popularity; nearly every successful blogger and many journalists that I can think of use Twitter to learn about new stories and promote their own stories.