Sarah Palin

It's a high bar to find shocking new revelations about Palin's character and political identity. But this piece may bring home how truly shocking a decision it was for McCain to pick Palin. Not a bad decision or an ill-considered one, but one that in single stroke showed McCain had no business being president. An angry, resentful, small-time crooked pol. And she really could have been president because of McCain's recklessness.

From Talking Points Memo on an article about Alaska governor Sarah Palin from Vanity Fair.

Read them in that order.

College grads don't play baseball

College grads don't end up playing the Major Leagues very often. According to The Wall Street Journal, there are only 26 major league college graduates. No, that isn't a typo -- it's 26 total, not 26 percent.

And that's not just players, but also managers.

I wrote before about Ross Ohlendorf, a Princeton graduate who is probably smarter than you. I'd guess that he's the most accomplished member of the major leagues -- at least when it comes to education.

Never try to rob the house of a 72-year old former boxer

Because you just might get beat up.

He added: ' Photographs of the defendant showed what looked like a car accident and photos of the scene looked more like a murder scene.'

Happened in the UK.

Firefox 3.5 downloads

Wonder how many times a new version of Firefox gets downloaded?

Well for Firefox 3.5 right now you can see at a website that Firefox makers Mozilla set up how many people have downloaded it total and per country.

As of this writing, at 9:12 PM mountain time, 2.62 million downloads total, 868,000 in the United States

Can someone tell me why we don't have this in U.S.?

The European Union has agreed on a cell phone charger universal standard -- at least among all of the big cell phone manufacturers.

The agreement by Nokia, Sony Ericsson and other industry majors will mean phones compatible with standard charging devices are available in Europe from next year, said the EU executive, which has pushed for such a deal.

"People will not have to throw away their charger whenever they buy a new phone," said EU Industry Commissioner Guenter Verheugen, estimating that unwanted phone accessories accounted for thousands of tons of waste in Europe each year.

The standard will be micro-USB.

Hopefully the phone manufacturers don't make the phones destined for the United States with a different size cell phone charger port.

Mayne Street Auto Tune edition

I wish these webisodes were a little longer. But this one has some autotune action going on, so it's all good.

From ESPN, Mayne Street:

Ridiculous local news story on a bear in backyards

This is why he went to journalism school:

Brock Lesnar: "I'm built like a black man"

Athletes have always fought the stereotype that they are dumb. Meatheads. Jocks. Idiots.

This is especially true the bigger they come -- football players are often personified as dumb as are boxers. And mixed martial arts fighter Brock Lesnar isn't helping the cause with comments he made to a reporter in an interview a couple of weeks ago.

“I bet you I’ve taken over 60 steroid tests," he noted. "In college I had 15 random drug tests in two years. I’ve taken drug tests for the NFL, the WWE, the UFC. I must be pretty good at masking steroids. God gave me this body: Are you jealous of it or what? Give me a break. I got the genetics of—not to get into racism or anything—but I’m built like a black man. Would you say so?”

To which Spencer Hall of The Sporting News responded with the awesome headline:

Brock Lesnar Hasn't Seen Charles Barkley Lately

Oh yeah and Lesnar also took a shot at President Barack Obama.

Stay classy, Lesnar.