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:: Friday, January 30, 2004 ::

Damn.

scorebard: Yankees Acrostic Poem

This guy is amazing.

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Hooray for Mo!

Baseball Prospectus - Prospectus Today: Foulkelore:

"I think the best relievers in the modern era have short, high peaks before slipping. Mariano Rivera is the exception to this, but when you look around at the best relievers in baseball, by any standard, there just aren't guys who are worth five or more WARP a year for most of a decade."

He's a monster.

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Magnetic Poetry Contest

All Too Flat : Contest : Magnetic Poetry:

"Your challenge, if you choose to accept it, is to use the special ATF Contest Board to put together the best magnetic poetry the world has ever seen (with 'best' probably being definied in terms of funny, though I have no doubts you'll get points for being offensive as well). "

This may just interest some of you. You all being offensive and all.

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Adam, The Man, They Myth, The Tag Line Sucks

Adam, The Man, The Myth, The Legend:

"Wahoo, This is the Blogger to end all Blogs, first I'll start with the Uberplex"

Bring it Adam. And if your picture actually showed up, I might purchase your Homer painting.

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:: Matthew 12:18 PM [+]    ::
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Szukaj z Google: nyu "matthew carroll"

Szukaj z Google: nyu "matthew carroll"

I think someone's looking for me. From Poland?

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:: Matthew 10:56 AM [+]    ::
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Excellent!

WAVPLANET.COM > Movies > Bill & Ted\'s

This is a great website.

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:: Matthew 10:40 AM [+]    ::
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From the man, the myth, the legend

create your own visited states map

Not as many as I would have hoped. Thanks to Adam.

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:: Matthew 10:31 AM [+]    ::
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Ever go on a rant?

It's one of the few things that makes me use spell check.

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Georgia Takes on "Evolution" - in the most asshole sort of way

Georgia Takes on "Evolution":

"Still, Ms. Cox, who was elected to the post in 2002, said the concept would be taught, as well as 'emerging models of change' that challenge Darwin's theories. 'Galileo was not considered reputable when he came out with his theory,' she said."

OK, Galileo was specifically considered reputable - and that's why he was a threat to the church. If he were some whack-job without any credibility the church wouldn't have cared at all what he was saying. But he was, correctly, admired for his scientific discoveries and theories. But this lady, Ms. Cox, doesn't want to hear that at all. Because, like Georgia, she's doing it in the most asshole sort of way. I think that should be their new state motto.

Georgia: doing it in the most asshole sort of way.

It's perfect because it's vague, the grammar is just slightly off and it correctly points out that they're assholes in Georgia.

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The Importance of Being Upstate

NYT - Upstate politics or something or other

"As for Mr. Schumer, it might appear as if there are the makings of a new sitcom in the very idea of the senator making the rural rounds, the deep strains of Brooklyn in his voice. But, in fact, he has become a comfortable fit at county fairs, town hall meetings, parades, tulip festivals and the like. (He also takes nothing for granted as he campaigns for re-election this year, even though he has an enormous war chest and no Republican challenger yet.)"

A. I like that it is referred to as "Upstate." Do any other states have an "upstate?"

B. Senator Schumer is great.

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:: Matthew 9:46 AM [+]    ::
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This never gets old

Merriam-Webster Pronunciation

Raison d'ętre.

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:: Matthew 2:32 PM [+]    ::
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Bio: MLK, Jr.

The King Center:

"Just a little more than a year after Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed, his younger brother, Alfred Daniel, died in a tragic accident at his home in Atlanta. Funeral services were held at Ebenezer Baptist Church on July 24, 1969, where Alfred Daniel had served as co-pastor.

On Sunday, June 30, 1974, Mrs. Alberta Williams King, the mother of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was shot and killed as she sat at the organ in the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. Again, through an act of violence, there ended a life that was totally nonviolent, a life that was thoroughly Christian, a life that reflected love for all persons and unselfish service to humankind. Again, the indomitable faith of the King family was put to the test, and again love prevailed amid the greatest sadness. The Rev. Martin Luther King, Sr., bereft by the violent deaths of his two sons and now by the equally tragic death of his devoted wife, could still say - and did say - at her funeral service on July 3, "I cannot hate any man.""

Great guy, MLK, Jr. was, but I think the King Center may be overly dramatizing the situation. A.D.'s death wasn't violent as far as I can tell. At least not in the sense they are trying to pass it off in.

Update: Plagarism?

Update II: Is drowning considered violent? Check out the 2nd paragraph. Possibly, look at #183.

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:: Matthew 12:58 PM [+]    ::
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Summer

Hoboken Parks

Looks so warm and nice.

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:: Matthew 11:35 AM [+]    ::
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It's just rock and roll...

tonypierce.com + busblog

"while youre learning to play guitar learn how to rock it. rock that fucking thing kids. are you listening to me? dont strum it like dave matthews. dont flick at it like john mayer, dont rest your arm on it like the strokes do."

Damn right. Less sleep, more rock.

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:: Matthew 9:21 PM [+]    ::
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Pi

verbose.net:
"National Pi Day is March 14th (3.14), March 14th is also Albert Einstein's birthday! "

Wacky.

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:: Matthew 6:45 PM [+]    ::
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Wilkommen, Bienvenue, Come on in

Adam, The Man, The Myth, The Legend

Welcome another coworker succumbing to the blogosphere.

BTW, Adam, check out this, regarding this. But really, you do stink.

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:: Matthew 5:23 PM [+]    ::
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Talking Political Action Figures

Hero Action Figures

Dean is funny. Bush is funnier. But check out the quotes on the "Talking British Ally," aka Tony Blair.

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:: Matthew 5:21 PM [+]    ::
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I've probably made this joke before, but...

The Quiet Woman

I'm pretty sure this doesn't exist. It would be impossible.

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:: Matthew 4:23 PM [+]    ::
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Zooropa getting some love.

Disclaimer Music Review Archive: U:

"This time around, producer Eno apparently did things his way. This is a sparse, clattering collection of computerized noises, keyboards, and effects that is, quite simply, the best thing U2 ever did. The title track is an epic swipe at the advertising industry (Don't worry baby/ It'll be alright/ You've got the right shoes to get you through the night) that builds from a droning, chattering pulse to a great rocker. "Numb" lets Edge sing, and he does so in a literally monotonous chant that's hypnotic and droll, while "Daddy's Gonna Pay for Your Crashed Car" is danceable and surprisingly weird. It's futuristic, catchy, and clever. Woohoo! Grade: A "

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:: Matthew 2:59 PM [+]    ::
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Freaky, freaky

Squeaky Clean? Not Even Close

"Chuck Gerba, a professor of environmental microbiology at the University of Arizona who has studied bacteria in home kitchens, said that he found that people who had the cleanest-looking kitchens were often the dirtiest. Because "clean" people wipe up so much, they often end up spreading bacteria all over the place. The cleanest kitchens, he said, were in the homes of bachelors, who never wiped up and just put their dirty dishes in the sink. "
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Look out Adam

All Too Flat : Funny : Stink-o-Gram

Anonymous emails? Sweet.

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:: Matthew 10:06 AM [+]    ::
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I still don't like Jim Caple

ESPN.com - MLB - Off Base: The name game

Two things: one, he should put his email address on the webpage if he wants people to email him. Two, I'm betting that there is at least one disparaging remark about Yankee Stadium.

And I'm still mad that the person that ranked Yankee Stadium didn't sit in regulare seats, but rather the bleachers. And demerited their score b/c of his shitty, cheap-ass seats. Fucker.

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:: Matthew 9:32 AM [+]    ::
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Recent searches that located The UberPlexer

eXTReMe Tracking - Internet

"espn uber"
"nuevo laredo strip clubs"
"apple-bottomed girls"
"STON VODKA"
"eating a kid"
"newleyweds recap"
"oral fixation mints"
"Eating a kid"
"fellatio may reduce the risk"
"gay sex drunk sleeping roommate"

Yikes. What are you people looking for?

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:: Matthew 6:27 PM [+]    ::
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Which Founding Father Are You?

Which Founding Father Are You?: "

Which Founding Father Are You?

"

Man, how do you get Jefferson?

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:: Matthew 6:18 PM [+]    ::
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Read later.

Yankees, Mets and the Rest

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:: Matthew 12:25 PM [+]    ::
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Zen and baseball

Baseball Prospectus - A Study in (Near) Perfection:

"All of which brings us to a truly ponderable question: Can an individual pitch be perfect? Or can it merely be appropriate? "

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:: Matthew 3:44 PM [+]    ::
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Rob Neyer on Matsui

Rob Neyer 2003 :: OSC Interview:

"OSC: Angel Berrora beat Hideki Matsui to win the Rookie of the Year award in the AL.
Some will say the closest vote ever was due to two extremely good players having skills that matched. But, some will say that Matsui technically isn’t a rookie.
Do you feel that import players are being looked at differently now in this “post Nomo/Ichiro” era?

Neyer: Well, I think that looking at it from a performance perspective, and not anything else, I thought that Matsui was going to win.
And I thought he should have won. I would have voted for him. Mainly because his hitting stats were a little better than Berrora – not a lot better – but to me, the real deciding factor was that Berroa plays in a great hitters park. I mean, Kauffman Stadium has been like Coors Field over the last two years.
But, getting back to the original question, I think it’s likely that out of the 28 voters, I suspect a few of them down-graded Matsui because of where he came from. And in this case, all it would have taken was a few votes flip-flopping, then, Matsui would win. I think that it was the deciding factor."


I vote that Rob Neyer gets a vote.

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Peas... hats... Elway!

Letterman Top Ten Lists

Almost rhymes with....

Wierd.

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Bush is an asshole

The Real State of the Union:


"0: Number of funerals or memorials that President Bush has attended for soldiers killed in Iraq
100: Number of fund-raisers attended by Bush or Vice-President Dick Cheney in 2003"

"28: Number of days holiday that Bush took last August, the second longest holiday of any president in US history (Recordholder: Richard Nixon)

13: Number of vacation days the average American worker receives each year"

I've been reading a lot about how conservatives are often fiscally-responsible and socially-open. And that Bush turns this right around. He gets votes being close-minded socially, but is at the same time spending money like a motherfucker.

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:: Matthew 1:07 PM [+]    ::
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Let's go Duque

ESPN.com - MLB - El Duque auditions for scouts from 20 teams

Oh man, I love the Duke. We still should send him our San Juan page.

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:: Matthew 5:12 PM [+]    ::
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Cotton Eyed Joe

Mount Kisco carpenter builds spirit for Yanks:

"Leading the charge on the giant centerfield screen is Luhrs, with an assortment of moves he refers to with names such as 'the Butter-Churn' and 'the Batman.' "

Sweet!

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:: Matthew 3:06 PM [+]    ::
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Ripping from John Scalzi

Duck! Dodgeball Is Coming Your Way:

"The yoga backlash has officially begun." Granted two things from John Scalzi's By The Way..., but whatever.

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:: Matthew 2:32 PM [+]    ::
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Memories of the 80's - and yes, I'm old enough to remember.

Magical Gadgets, Sightings & Brags Page Two:

"Osborne I Portable Computer

The term 'portable' is used loosely here--the Osborne I weighed over 30lbs, so it was more of a 'luggable' computer."

Oh man, I totally had a luggable computer.

Here's the entire page.

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Cool water stat

National Groundwater Association Home Page:

"Every day 76.4 billion gallons of ground water are pumped in the United States. That is about 2.3 trillion gallons per month, or 27.9 trillion gallons per year."

Wow.

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:: Matthew 12:05 PM [+]    ::
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Welcome to eGullet.com

Living off the land

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Unbelievable

The Onion | America's Finest News Source: "READING, PA - Miguel Martinez, 48, who immigrated to the U.S. 30 years ago, last week lost his leather-cutting job at GST AutoLeather, Inc. to his 66-year-old father Roberto. 'I came to this country in 1974 to make a better life for my family,' Martinez said Monday. 'But in December, they moved the factory where I've been working for 22 years down to Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. I love my father, but that goddamn beaner stole my job.' Martinez's $18-an-hour duties will now be performed by his father for $7 a day."

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I do like Joe Concha's articles

MSNBC - Our top five sports stories from 2003:

But I find his byline on the above page, "Joe Concha writes regularly for NBCSports.com and is a freelance writer based in New York," a little strange as he writes for hobokeni.com and seems to say it's better living in Hoboken than NYC. Which this guy had a lot to say about.

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:: Matthew 2:18 PM [+]    ::
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MSNBC - Our top five sports stories from 2003

MSNBC - Our top five sports stories from 2003: "Joe Concha writes regularly for NBCSports.com and is a freelance writer based in New York. "
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Industrial pictures

Edward Burtynsky

These are very cool looking. I've been reading Bill Bryson's 'A Short History of Nearly Everything*,' which is excellent. However, we just covered the industrial revolution. I'll try to get some figures on lead pollution when I get home, but they were staggering.

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Quiz: The US presidency

From the BBC?

Can't believe I got number 6 wrong. Got 7/10.

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:: Matthew 9:27 AM [+]    ::
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Been to a lot of these places.

New York Hot Spots: New York City Clubs:

"The dim lights, muscle-car inspired decor, top-fuel tunes and no-cover policy make Motor City a mandatory pit stop on the Ludlow Street draught strip."

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:: Matthew 12:42 AM [+]    ::
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Rocked out here last night

Motor City bar

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Abbreviations

I hate linking to this

Someone referred to Dan Shaughnessy as "CHB" and I didn't know what that was. I found it here. The first abbreviation, not so good. The last, excellent.

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:: Matthew 12:16 AM [+]    ::
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Great minds think alike....

Baseball Musings: Bad Column

The UberPlexer: I hate Jim Caple

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:: Matthew 12:10 AM [+]    ::
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Google Search: rj uberplex

Google Search: rj uberplex

RJ did not believe he was mentioned in The UberPlexer. However, I was able to prove through Google last night in the cab that this was not true. Cell phones are great.

Just got this new cell phone. Very nice. Very not broken.

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Mas Grande Que 1,000

eXTReMe Tracking - Internet

Down to 19/day. But over 1,000 sa-weet-a.

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Duffman's take on Pete Rose

duff112: point of contention
duff112: Pete Rose should definitely be in the Hall
duff112: no goddamn doubt about it
duff112: and not just because he helped the Phils get their only damn World Series
duff112: The only gambling excuse you could make would be if he bet against the Reds, which he never did
duff112: I mean, christ, he bet on the Reds while he was managing them! How much more sportsmanlike does it get?
duff112: all of these idiots who want to keep the all-time hit king out of the goddamn HoF make me want to vomit
duff112: sorry, just passing through your weblog before bed
duff112: take it easy
duff112: and feel free to quote me in it
duff112: later on

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:: Matthew 2:20 AM [+]    ::
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I hate Jim Caple

ESPN.com - MLB - Caple: Rocket in reverse:

"Now, it was one thing to lose Clemens -- after all, the man insisted all year he was retiring -- but it was quite another to bungle the Pettitte free agency. Had the Yankees pursued Pettitte more aggressively, he might have re-signed with New York instead of Houston and Clemens wouldn't have even been interested in the Astros. "

Unabashedly a Yankee-hater, I hate him right back.

This quote is especially ridiculous after reading Bob Klapsich's account (and Brian Cashman's view) of why Pettitte left New York. To be home, that's why. He took less money to go home and there are even rumours that he may have made up his mind earlier. So Caple's argument is way off-base.

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Read later

Dirty Campaigns

This looks pretty interesting.

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Rented Sleeper

Biography for Woody Allen:

"Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all."

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How I find song lyrics, by B.A.

Google Weblog

Google is great.

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:: Matthew 2:59 PM [+]    ::
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Ripping off Google

Search Help

The page above is for this search page.

My question is: doesn't it look an awful lot like Google's?

Though apparently others have done this too.

But talk about stemming (hah!) a new phrase.

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R&R&L

Lonely Planet - On the Road

This story is written by Ginger Adams Otis, my sister Lauren's friend.

It features Lauren and my brother Rich and his partner, Rick.

Reviews by my friends have included, "this is exactly what I thought they'd be like."

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Lots of people

ESPN.com - MLB - Attendance

According to this page, 67,630,052 people attended baseball games last season. Damn.

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Are you kidding me?

ESPN.com - MLB - Report: Clemens will decide by next week

Roger! Don't do it.

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I'm suprised it's so broken up

Soda

I need to get a job (or grad school tuition?) doing something like this.

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:: Matthew 10:33 AM [+]    ::
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No Dan Akroyd

PhillyHipHop.com Message Bored: AP leaks numbers Call your sports HEROS

I used to have Dan Akroyd's number on the fridge. My mother threw it out b/c she thought it was a joke. D'oh.

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New Year

i've decided to kick off this new year by not lying to everyone any longer. for a while i tried to perpetuate the belief that the uberplexer was better than katie rocks. well, as i'm sure most of you have learned by now is that katie rocks is a far superiour site than this one. what can i say? the girl puts out a better product than i do. better links. better takes. better owner of the blog. so there you have it. i bow down before you katie, you are the queen. not to mention the best hacker ever! rock it


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I'm on to you Duffman!

eXTReMe Tracking - Entertainment - Humor/Jokes

So can you put a tracker on http://mywebpages.comcast.net/duff112/ so we can see the true nature of all these referrers?

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:: Matthew 5:44 PM [+]    ::
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Where are all these hits coming from, Duffman?

eXTReMe Tracking - Entertainment - Humor/Jokes

This may be suspect.

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Duffman Rules!

Google Search: duffman

Duffman, beating out any Simpsons reference. Oh yeah!

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Obsessed w/ goals

eXTReMe Tracking - Internet

OK, 24 hits over the next two days (currently at 23 today, so you need to subtract that number) gets me to an average of 20 daily unique hits per day.

Duffman better watch out. Except that I keep sending people his way.

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:: Matthew 5:35 PM [+]    ::
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Not quite

Your Weblog Personality Type Analysis:

"Congratulations! You're a totally normal person."

Bullshit.

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Gonna make a fucked up font

Fontifier

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Why Some Dude Hates Personal Weblogs

Why I Hate Personal Weblogs

OK, which category am I? Obscuroid is my claim to fame.

Oh, it's cool. I'm using the "Expert in the Field" model.

Kind of cool.

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Bush in 30 Seconds

Bush in 30 Seconds

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Acid Trips

Acid trip 1

Reasons that I won't do acid.

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Priorities & Frivolities

Priorities & Frivolities

I'm liking this dude so far.

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Don't target the media

Club for Growth to release new ad assailing Dean; MoveOn.org continues anti-Bush ads:

"The man responds: 'What do I think? Well, I think Howard Dean should take his tax-hiking, government-expanding, latte-drinking, sushi-eating, Volvo-driving, New York Times-reading ...,' and the woman continues, '... body-piercing, Hollywood-loving, left-wing freak show back to Vermont where it belongs.'"

I'm very much hoping that the NYTimes reports on this.

I think I should have moved Republicans further down the list of my hell.

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Ads

Sorry, Charlie (washingtonpost.com)

This is a great article. More and more I believe that Pete Rose shouldn't be in the HOF. I enjoy the part about "integrity, sportsmanship, character" being necessary for enshrinement.

But what I wanted to point out is that the two "Advertiser Links" at the bottom of the page are for "Pete Rose Autographs" at www.HallOfFameMemorabilia and "Harrelson and Rose Photo" from www.sportsgifts.com.

So it's not bad enough the they're linking to places that make Rose money after lambasting him, but one of the places is named after the same HOF that George Will believes he shouldn't be in.

Ridiculous.

Also notice that Pete Rose has an extremely large melon. No wonder he used to have bad haircuts, anything to cover up that monstrosity.

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Apparently someone was all blogged out...

Guava421: maybe im really really in the mood for mexican
sdkfjla: Sorry, I'm irish.
Guava421: lol
Guava421: id so blog that if i didnt the other nite

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Also my choice

WHATEVER: Clark For President

No matter how I dice it, Wesley Clark always comes out as my candidate of choice.

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Trade schools bring in big bucks

Trade schools graduate into big job, income producers:

"The top 10 training programs added by the most schools nationwide last year, according to the Association's survey of 1,200 schools:

Massage therapy
Medical assisting/medical secretary
Criminal justice/law enforcement
Computer technology
Computer network management
Medical office computer assistance
Medical insurance specialist
Medical insurance coding specialist
E-commerce
Pharmacy assistant"

Maybe John Jay is a good idea.

This link was from John Scalzi's By The Way column, which had this interesting idea:

"If your purpose for going to college is to get a job, I think a good rule of thumb might be not to spend more a year going to college than you can reasonably expect to make your first year out of school."

That does seem about right. Or maybe I think so b/c I make more than Stevens' tuition and want to feel like it was a good investment.

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BP's HOF Roundup

Baseball Prospectus - The Class of 2004:

"Mattingly was the golden child of the Great Yankee Dark Age between the Billy Martin/Bob Lemon World Series teams and the Joe Torre ones. At his peak he was a fantastic hitter, an RBI machine, a slick fielding first baseman, and a perennial MVP candidate. But back woes sapped him of his power, making him a very ordinary player aside from his 1984-1987 run, and bringing his career to a premature end at age 34. He never reached the postseason until his final season; his .417/.440/.708 line in a losing cause in the 1995 AL Division Series against Seattle provided a bittersweet coda to his career, and the Yanks' success after he left tends to diminish his stature."

Then at the end of the section they go and say that Keith Hernandez should be in. But he'll have to be a Veteran's Committee inductee now. Donnie Baseball still has a chance.

Excellent, long article.

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Hell

The Annoying Concrete Guy
Circle I Limbo

Vinnie, Adam
Circle II Whirling in a Dark & Stormy Wind

Baseball's off-season
Circle III Mud, Rain, Cold, Hail & Snow

George Bush
Circle IV Rolling Weights

Sprint
Circle V Stuck in Mud, Mangled

River Styx

MS Project Manager
Circle VI Buried for Eternity

River Phlegyas

Republicans
Circle VII Burning Sands

Boston Red Sox
Circle IIX Immersed in Excrement

Weak Drinks
Circle IX Frozen in Ice

Design your own hell

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Yikes, scary Google hits

eXTReMe Tracking - Internet

Scalzi + Asshole

Pettitte + Adultery

Those are probably the last two things I thought might link to The UberPlexer.

For clarification: John Scalzi might be an asshole, but I like his writing. So I can neither confirm, nor deny this. Andy Pettitte is a god-fearing man, and I liked his pitching with the Yankees (damn Houston!). And while I can neither confirm nor deny any infidelities, Andy doesn't seem to fit the bill. It may have been Kevin Costner however.

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ESPN.com - MLB - Eckersley, Molitor get first-ballot calls from Hall

ESPN.com - MLB - Eckersley, Molitor get first-ballot calls from Hall:

"Paul Molitor, 431, 85.2%
Dennis Eckersley, 421, 83.2%
Ryne Sandberg, 309, 61.1%
Bruce Sutter, 301, 59.5%
Jim Rice, 276, 54.5%
Andre Dawson, 253, 50%
Rich Gossage, 206, 40.7%
Lee Smith, 185, 36.6%
Bert Blyleven, 179, 35.4%
Jack Morris, 133, 26.3%
Steve Garvey, 123, 24.3%
Tommy John, 111, 21.9%
Alan Trammell, 70, 13.8%
Don Mattingly, 65, 12.8%
Dave Concepcion, 57, 11.3%
Dave Parker, 53, 10.5%
Dale Murphy, 43, 8.5%
Keith Hernandez, 22, 4.3%
Joe Carter, 19, 3.8%
Fernando Valenzuela, 19, 3.8%
Dennis Martinez, 16, 3.2%
Dave Stieb, 7, 1.4%
Jim Eisenreich, 3, 0%
Jimmy Key, 3, 0%
Doug Drabek, 2, 0%
Kevin Mitchell, 2, 0%
Juan Samuel, 2, 0%
Cecil Fielder, 1, 0%
Randy Myers, 1, 0%
Terry Pendleton, 1, 0%
Danny Darwin, 0, 0%
Bob Tewksbury, 0, 0%"

Bert Blyleven moving up.

I'm sure there's outrage in Mets Land that Mattingly stays and Hernandez goes home.

Jimmy Key out, good.

Just reminds me that I don't really remember much of the 80's.

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:: Matthew 8:38 PM [+]    ::
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Everyone should read the New Yorker.

The New Yorker: Shouts and Murmurs:

"3. The oil in the Saturn wagon gets changed every three thousand miles—not five thousand miles, not seven thousand miles, not ten thousand miles—and I don’t care what she or the owner’s manual or the guy in the service department or the Internet says. Three. Thousand. God. Damned. Miles."

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:: Matthew 11:00 PM [+]    ::
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Oh what the hell...

In response, or along with in any case:

1. What did you do in 2003 that you'd never done before?

Went to an island.

2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?

Don't remember making any last year. Didn't make any this year.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?

Not close enough that I remember.

4. Did anyone close to you die?

Nope, but too many peripheral people.

5. What countries did you visit?

Canada, Nevis. Maybe Puerto Rico.

6. What would you like to have in 2004 that you lacked in 2003?

Money.

7. What date from 2003 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?

Um, I don't even know what day it is today. Though there are plenty of good things to be remembered for the year.

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?

OK, so I'm really bad at filling out these lists. Didn't die.

9. What was your biggest failure?

Ugh. Filling out too many forms.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?

Yes. Scabbies, colds.

11. What was the best thing you bought?

Deodorant.

12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?

My own.

13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?

G.W.'s

14. Where did most of your money go?

Farside

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?

Nevis.

16. What song will always remind you of 2003?

Hey-ya.

17. Compared to this time last year, are you happier or sadder?

Happier.

ii. thinner or fatter?

Possibly around the same.

iii. richer or poorer?

Possibly around the same.

18. What do you wish you'd done more of?

Relaxing.

19. What do you wish you'd done less of?

Avoiding stuff.

20. How did you spend Christmas?

With the family, with RJ, with plans to get back to Hoboken.

22. Did you fall in love in 2003?

Not newly.

23. How many one night stands?

A billion.

24. What was your favourite TV programme?

Simpsons, Letterman, Insomniac.

25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?

Nope.

26. What was the best book you read?

Recently, The Alchemist. Who knows all what I read this year.

27. What was your greatest musical discovery?

Bern, baby Bern.

28. What did you want and get?

A rug.

29. What did you want and not get?

Yankers winning the WS.

30. What was your favourite film of this year?

LOTR, ROTK.

31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?

Brooklyn. 26!

32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?

This crap sucks.

33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2003?

Dirty.

34. What kept you sane?

Filling out forms.

35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?

Myself.

36. What political issue stirred you the most?

AIDS.

37. Who did you miss?

PA.

38. Who was the best new person you met?

KR.

39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2003.

Filling out forms is great.

40. What was the best thing to happen to the web this year?

El Duque pictures.

41. Who did you steal this from?

Katie.

42. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.

My lack of education hasn't hurt me none/I can read the writing on the wall.


Forms suck.

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:: Matthew 7:48 PM [+]    ::
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Browsing through the referal logs...

Google Search: Caltech Michelin Lecture archive

Glad that I got a link w/ the tag of "..I'm going to knock this fucker down..."

Just reinvigorated me.

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:: Matthew 7:23 PM [+]    ::
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Derek Zumsteg - Evaluating the Dowd Report

Evaluating the Dowd Report

This is a pretty good refutation (?) of Bill James' take on Pete Rose. Favorite part of Bill James' take is that it's located in the middle of the book. This super important essay found in the Right Fielders section.

Like the Dowd Report, and Bill James' version, this was too long to read at the moment.

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:: Matthew 2:23 PM [+]    ::
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LILEKS (James) The Bleat

LILEKS (James) The Bleat:

"I’m probably reading too much into this, and I’m sure a little googling would prove my thesis to be shaky and fallacious, but: is it not typically American to celebrate the eve of the new year rather than the arrival of the thing itself? We don’t celebrate the old dead year shuffling off to die, or the new year that gets dropped squalling in our laps. We celebrate that giddy boozy interval between what was and what will be."

More all caps in the title. Where will it end? Me likey the boozy, boozy.

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:: Matthew 1:38 PM [+]    ::
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Joe Concha is pretty damn funny

Hoboken - Feature Article - hobokeni.com:

"The more insecure types use the drunk dial to invariably check up on their pseudo-partners to see if that person has attempted to trade up. This act usually leads to angry and sometimes baseless accusations of infidelity. If the drunk dialer is met with the abyss of voice mail, only the worst is assumed..."

I love drunk dialing.

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:: Matthew 3:10 PM [+]    ::
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Space Heaters

Hoboken - Feature Article - hobokeni.com

Well, that's it from the "Cool Stuff" folder. Now you may think that I don't have that much cool stuff. But most of the links were bad, and the rest of it I didn't bother to categorize, so that'll have to come another day.

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:: Matthew 3:02 PM [+]    ::
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NORTH NEW JERSEY DINER DIRECTORY

NORTH NEW JERSEY DINER DIRECTORY

Good to know. But why, oh why, do people insist on having ALL CAPITALS, ALL THE TIME? It's annoying as fuck. The last few posts all had an overuse of CAPITAL LETTERS. Stop it.

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:: Matthew 3:00 PM [+]    ::
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And well...

Not just hairy palms...

At first I wondered why I would save something like this. And then I looked at it and realized that it was right up my alley.

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:: Matthew 2:58 PM [+]    ::
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Bubblewrap

waste vital minutes with the PERPETUAL BUBBLEWRAP

Damn it this is fun. Wish it would run out so you'd have to enjoy it more. But I guess that would defeat the whole "perpetual" aspect.

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:: Matthew 2:56 PM [+]    ::
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ANDY FOULDS DESIGN

__________ANDY FOULDS DESIGN__________________________V__02_________

This is great. Wish I knew half the stuff Andy does. Though one complaint. Title: V02, bottom right: V01.

Whatever.

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:: Matthew 2:54 PM [+]    ::
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Uhhhh.....

Dancing Banana

This was not cool to listen to while playing Tribe Called Quest.

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:: Matthew 2:51 PM [+]    ::
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The Daily Post | Top story: Glenn accused of displaying flagrant homosexuality

The Daily Post | Top story: Glenn accused of displaying flagrant homosexuality

Man, this never gets old.

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:: Matthew 2:47 PM [+]    ::
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memepool

memepool.com

No freaking clue why I bookmarked this, but Tuesday Dec 30th's post about Ben Afflek is pretty damn funny.

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:: Matthew 2:46 PM [+]    ::
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How to dance...

ze's page

Check out "Dance Properly" and "Advanced Dancing."

In Advanced Dancing, I'm all about Struttin' It.

Haven't checked out the other lists yet.

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:: Matthew 2:30 PM [+]    ::
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An tInneall Mallachtaí - The Irish Curse Engine

An tInneall Mallachtaí - The Curse Engine

Thankfully they have put up a pronunciation line since the last time I've been here.

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:: Matthew 2:23 PM [+]    ::
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Racecars, not only an anagram

Bilbana

I'm terrible at this game. The other car never seems to skid out when playing against the computer.

I'm going through my not so aptly named "Cool Stuff" favorites. So there's plenty more to come.

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:: Matthew 2:21 PM [+]    ::
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Spoke too soon

eXTReMe Tracking - Internet

OK, back down to 18 hits per day. Apparently I'm precariously on the edge of hits per day.

So keep it up both of you.

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:: Matthew 1:52 PM [+]    ::
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kr:UbrPlxr as UbrPlxr:Dffmn

eXTReMe Tracking

One more average hit per day, from 18 to 19. Duffman better watch out! Or rather, no one can beat "Like dancing? Bite my ass."

I've been looking for a BusBlog post about lame, self-indulgent blogs. Can't seem to find it, though it may be appropriate here.

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:: Matthew 11:48 AM [+]    ::
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Google Viewer

Google Viewer

Google is great.

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:: Matthew 12:47 AM [+]    ::
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Result for the fight between "katie rocks" and "uberplexer"

Result for the fight between "katie rocks" and "uberplexer"

Sometimes you need to admit defeat.

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:: Matthew 12:21 AM [+]    ::
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Caltech Michelin Lecture

Caltech Michelin Lecture

From Micheal Crichton. Who is such a great scientist. I'm going to knock this fucker down.

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:: Matthew 12:08 AM [+]    ::
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Dan Savage: Stalking Gary Bauer

Salon Politics2000 | Stalking Gary Bauer:

"So, much as it pains me to confirm a hateful stereotype of gay men -- we will put anything in our mouths -- I started licking doorknobs."

This is great. Though I haven't read the outcome yet.

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:: Matthew 8:50 PM [+]    ::
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Full of shit, he is.

Boston.com / Sports / Baseball / Red Sox / How the A-Rod negotiations ended with Red Sox shut out: "'Prior to agreeing to the meeting, I naively assumed that either Nomar or Alex might agree to play second base or third base,' Henry wrote by email in response to questions about the meeting by email. 'I later learned from Theo that it was not realistic to ask either of these future Hall of Fame shortstops to change positions."

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:: Matthew 6:37 PM [+]    ::
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Management by Baseball

Management by Baseball

This looks to be pretty damn interesting.

Different take on Boomer going to the Pads. At least the "weight clause" is a reason.

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:: Matthew 6:18 PM [+]    ::
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Things to look forward to in the new year

In both the birthday and gregorian sense, it's a new year for me.

26 damn years old. But Terrence had this to cheer me up: "TCarroll18: Hey, I forgot to tell you, the guy from work said that 26 was the start of his sexual heyday. He said he had the most sex of his life between 26 and 30 so you have that to look forward to. Plus you're a little taller now."

In other news, The Darkness rocks. Hardcore Queen.

And remember how someone was going to rock The UberPlexer? Well, we're still waiting. Here's a nudge to keep updating, Katerina.

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:: Matthew 6:13 PM [+]    ::
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Zeitgeist

Google Press Center: 2003 Year-End Zeitgeist:

Good stuff that the Tour de France was up there.
Love that the USGS is on the earthquake section.
Like that SARS slowly petered out.
Disappointed that Vin Diesel still has anything going on.
Happy to see Spongebob making the list.
The UK at least has The Simpsons going for it.
Why do the french use so many acronyms?

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:: Matthew 5:34 PM [+]    ::
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Colleen linked to this.

Wacky 2003 Headlines (washingtonpost.com):

"Athletic Endeavor?

TORONTO -- A quick-fisted man bested 320 competitors to win $3,825 and the World Rock, Paper, Scissors Championship at a local nightclub. "

alltooflat might have something to say about this.

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:: Matthew 5:02 PM [+]    ::
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Oh my...

Project Censored

Just when you thought that Colleen had stopped influencing the media...

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:: Matthew 4:38 PM [+]    ::
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Something I look forward to each year...

The Sun Herald | 12/28/2003 | Dave Barry's year in review

Started enjoying Dave Barry again towards the end of this year. Just in time for his Year in Review.

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:: Matthew 4:24 PM [+]    ::
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Why Wine Costs What It Does

Why Wine Costs What It Does

From the NYTimes Most Emailed Articles list.

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:: Matthew 3:09 PM [+]    ::
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