The anti-Twitter

Woofer, which looks like Twitter but is incredibly different, has a unique premise. Instead of requiring users to stay below 140 characters, it forces users to use at least 1,400 characters.

CNET looked at the website:

When you look at the site's three principles of woofing, you begin to believe that Woofer truly will be the salvation of the language: "1. Be eloquent. 2. Use adverbs. 3. DEA (don't ever abbreviate)," the site says.

Floyd Mayweather doesn't lack confidence

He did an ESPN chat yesterday, and here is one exchange:

russell (snellville,ga)

does it bother you that a lot of people seem to think you are no longer the best, even though you have not lost a fight?


Floyd Mayweather (5:09 PM)

Nobody who is a true boxing fan doens't believe that I'm the best. How can I not be the best when I've never lost? When there are so many people on the mythical best list have lost? If I was the No. 1 on the list when I left and the guy who is lost, how can I not be the best when I come back? That doesn't even make sense. My record speaks for itself.

He fights against Mexican boxing legend Juan Manuel Márquez on September 19 of this year.

Fan made trailer for Ferris Bueller's Day Off

This is pretty cool, even if the first song ("Shimmy Shimmy Ya" by Ol' Dirty Bastard) is incredibly misplaced in one of the quintessential 80s movies of the time.

Is it possible for Rick Pitino to look worse than he did?

I mean, seriously, what the hell was he thinking, calling this press conference and... looking crazy.



Why hasn't Rick Pitino, the head men's basketball coach at Louisville, resigned yet?

If you don't know the details of the Pitino case, then read this Sports Illustrated piece on the whole affair.

The last phone booths in Manhattan

Not just pay phones, but actual phone booths.

Something interesting from Huffington Post:

There are only four outdoor phone booths left in Manhattan - and they're all on West End Avenue. That's it: four

I wonder how many are left in Albuquerque -- are there any?

When I worked at the Victoria's Secret Call Center (yes, I worked there), they had two phone booths inside, which seemed... quaint.

And people would step in to talk on their cell phones in private which seemed... ironic.

Facebook quizzes reveal more than you think

Facebook quizzes are not only annoying, they can potentially reveal private information to the quiz developers.

The Northern California chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has put together a campaign to raise awareness of privacy issues surrounding Facebook applications, in particular quizzes. According to this group, the millions of Facebook users taking quizzes are revealing far more personal information to application developers than they are aware of. This is mostly due to the fact that Facebook's default privacy settings allow access to all your profile information whether or not your profile is set to "private." Even worse, the ACLU reports that even if you shun quizzes yourself, your profile info is revealed when one of your friends takes a quiz. Want to see how bad the problem is? Just take the ACLU's Facebook Quiz and prepared to be shocked.

Wow. So if you find out what Harry Potter character you are, then the quiz developer can know just about everything that is on Facebook. No matter your settings.

(Tip o' the hat to Trip for the catch... on Facebook no less)

Friday Night Lights, NPR edition

NPR is exploring high school football.

Starting with training camp and all through the 2009 season, NPR will bring you some of the stories, struggles and victories of high school football and the communities who support it, while also exploring the costs and the issues the sport raises.

In big cities and small towns across the country, high school football is the ritual that defines the fall. And for many young men, it is the ritual that defines who they are.

I never played football (I'm not exactly built for the sport), but I will be interested in seeing how this series plays out.

Perseid meteor shower video

Cool stuff. Via Bad Astronomy:

"Violent battles" and one man stabbed outside soccer game

Wow.

A man has been stabbed and violent battles have broken out between rival football fans in "large-scale" crowd trouble, police said on Tuesday night.

Hundreds of fans are involved in the disorder which police said was caused by people without tickets to the West Ham versus Millwall game who had planned to start trouble.

Basketbrawl

Uruguay vs Mexico in what was essentially a scrimmage: