Archive for September, 2008

Bacon is good

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

Last week I started writing a bacon blog with my friend Joachim, it covers bacon news, bacon, and our upcoming bacon project. Check it out. There’s a rough draft of the Obama Bacon Man video we’re working on too, it’s pretty special.

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It’s a 161-political-party system

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

According to the Associated Press, these are the 161 political parties currently active in the United States:

A Connecticut Party
American First Coalition
American Heritage Party
American Independent Pty
Alaskan Independence
American Constitution
American Dream
America First
American
Builders Party
Better Schools
Best
Buchanan Reform
Concerned Citizens
Centrist Party
Citizens First
Cool Moose
Constitutional
Concerns of People
Camp. for a New Tomorrow
Conservative
Politicians are Crooks
Constitution
CT for Lieberman
DC Statehood Green Party
Democrat
Economic Recovery Party
End Suffolk Legislature
Fair
Free Energy Party
Fusion […]

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Adam’s new college and pro-sports aggregator site: Sportsify

Saturday, September 27th, 2008

The most successful web geek I’ve known personally, Adam Howell, launched another site. It’s his first Django-powered site, and which for no legitimate reason makes me feel a little proud inside (when we worked together at the Winston-Salem Journal, Adam started down the Ruby on Rails path at about the same time I started down […]

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Frogs, being awesome

Saturday, September 20th, 2008

I never knew they could do something like this:

(via friends in peoria, illinois)

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Paragraphs I liked in today’s Chicago Trib column about the Chicago Bears, Sox, Cubs and Blackhawks

Sunday, September 7th, 2008

Rick Morrissey wrote a bang-up Sunday piece for the sports section of the Chicago Tribune today. It’s about Chicago’s sports teams, and what the heck is happening / going to happen to ‘em. Here are my favorite paragraphs:

What’s happening in our town does have a certain scent to it, a very familiar Chicago bouquet. Autumn […]

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