Somelinks4u: 2006-01-01

Saturday, January 07, 2006

Start Your Engines: It's Detroit Auto Show Time!

Events' Annualized Economic Impact

Summer Olympics $700 million
NAIAS* $580 million
Daytona 500* $554 million
Super Bowl XXXVII $367 million
Indianapolis 500* $336.6 million
New York International Auto Show* $187 million
Ryder Cup $114 million
Oscars* $63 million
Kentucky Derby* $53 million
Major League Baseball All-Star Game $52.5 million
World Series* $40 million
*Estimated annual economic impact.

Official Site

MSN

NYT

# posted by Gary @ 6:09 PM

"Inadvertant fathering while on a break"

# posted by Gary @ 6:04 PM

Starbucks Economics

"Here's a little secret that Starbucks doesn't want you to know: They will serve you a better, stronger cappuccino

if you want one, and they will charge you less for it. Ask for it in any Starbucks and the barista will comply without

batting an eye. The puzzle is to work out why."

http://www.slate.com/id/2133754/

# posted by Gary @ 10:36 AM

News from the North, January 7

http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=0334fbfc-5c7b-4a50-b09b-1d4916fa4600&k=45269

http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/story.html?id=9eeeec46-a4cc-4f35-973a-5ea4a479ee63&k=4896

"I don't even have to go down that road, and you guys should check yourself about asking me that," Mitchell said testily. "When you walk away from the scrum,

you ask yourself what you asked me, where it's coming from, and then you tell me are you really asking me a proper question. And that's all I'm gonna say."

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20060107/RAPTORS07E/TPSports/Basketball

# posted by Gary @ 10:00 AM

Friday, January 06, 2006

Let's see whether this Bill Clinton story has legs

# posted by Gary @ 9:49 PM

Veronica Mars

I know that Veronica Mars is a TV show (Link)

but an awful lot of folks with secrets can't wait to share them with her:

http://www.tellveronicamars.com/index.html

Tell Veronica Mars

# posted by Gary @ 9:39 PM

Retail: Promising new comic strip

Click on title above to be taken to the comic's daily site.

Article about its creator:

Fueti

# posted by Gary @ 9:05 PM

The Trademark Terrorist

One of many instances where I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

Click on images to read:

You can buy t-shirts with logos such as these:
Logos

Partial list of "licensed word marks" for whuch you may get sued:
Word Marks

New York Times:
NYT

# posted by Gary @ 4:43 PM

Most bloggers are ...

# posted by Gary @ 1:19 PM

Her site is much more creative than mine

Alana's Bananas

# posted by Gary @ 12:51 PM

Rare opportunity (too late)

# posted by Gary @ 12:42 PM

Role reversal?

# posted by Gary @ 11:30 AM

The best comic strip

# posted by Gary @ 11:24 AM

Microsoft censors Chinese blogs

# posted by Gary @ 11:14 AM

Bad ligaments (but no-wait MRIs)

Click on image to read.

# posted by Gary @ 10:48 AM

News from the North, January 6

# posted by Gary @ 10:38 AM

What happened to English teachers?

Click on image to read.

# posted by Gary @ 12:10 AM

Thursday, January 05, 2006

But things could be worse

Todays Home & Garden News

# posted by Gary @ 11:44 PM

I think I got a ways to go

# posted by Gary @ 11:35 PM

And from the left

Just ain't right

# posted by Gary @ 11:10 PM

OK, let's add some political opinion from the right

Abramoff is NOT a Republican

# posted by Gary @ 10:55 PM

Blingo: Win prizes while searching Google

I have no intention of doing this, but I wanted to test my new trick for opening a link in a new window.

Blingo

# posted by Gary @ 6:22 PM

Adjust your TV

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/05/technology/circuits/05basics.html/

# posted by Gary @ 3:39 PM

So now where will we go to hear Wayne Newton?

http://www.klas-tv.com/global/story.asp?s=4319566&ClientType=Printable/
http://www.klas-tv.com/global/story.asp?s=4320696&ClientType=Printable/

# posted by Gary @ 9:28 AM

Wednesday, January 04, 2006

NYT on evolutionary trends in suburban homes

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/02/business/02house.html?pagewanted=all/

# posted by Gary @ 11:34 PM

Recent photo of me

(Creative Commons licence; photo by Paul Jones, pmj104.com)

# posted by Gary @ 11:04 PM

Brilliant film; we saw it the other night

Good Night, and Good Luck

http://wip.warnerbros.com/goodnightgoodluck/

# posted by Gary @ 5:25 PM

January 4 stuff

"A ton of useful information about screenwriting" in a blog:

http://johnaugust.com/

A NYT article about "Macaroni and Lots of Cheese":

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/04/dining/04wint.html?incamp=article_popular&pagewanted=all

A friendly warning from Pete Townshend:

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/01/04/D8ETS6S00.html

Staci did a much better job of communicating that:

http://worldofstaci.blogspot.com/2006/01/pete-townshend-warning-for-ipod-users.html

# posted by Gary @ 2:49 PM

Some December stuff 1

"Truly inspired" baby names for 2005

http://www.babycenter.com/refcap/pregnancy/babynaming/1459673.html

# posted by Gary @ 1:30 PM

Some December stuff 2

Popular baby names for 2005

http://www.babycenter.com/general/babynaming/pregnancy/1459677.html

# posted by Gary @ 1:28 PM

Some December stuff 3

Behave when you fly

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/12/30/ncrusoe30.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/12/30/ixportal.html

# posted by Gary @ 1:28 PM