Tuesday, August 01, 2006

Another reason to be a Dolphins fan

President Bush evidently came to Miami recently, and invited Miami Dolphins head coach Nick Saban to dinner. Saban rejected the offer.

The lesson here: be a Dolphin fan. Unless you're a Republican.

A tip for any politcal blogger out there...

There's a new service out there useful for political bloggers. It allows you to give extra information about a politician without actually doing the research.

For example, I type with a few nifty tags around him, and Voila! Roll over the little balloon and you can see how much of an asshole he is.

I highly suggest this for anyone posting about politicians, and I will attempt to use it as much as possible.

Wednesday, July 19, 2006

Boston's Transportation problems

I decided to post one more time today to complete this posting blitz. For those who are outside of Boston right now, I thought it would be beneficial to see a few pictures to really comprehend what is going on traffic wise. Today was especially bad not just because of the tunnels collapsing and shutting down, but there was also a water main break in South Boston last night and a tractor trailer that flipped over on the pike across from Fenway (no word yet on if the driver was listening to the game).

The first picture is pretty obvious. In many parts of Boston the situation is ridiculous to the point where it probably is faster to walk then to drive.

Another image shows the giant gaping hole in Mass Ave from the main break.

And finally, this picture I find to be most important. I find it incredible that such a basic thing like transportation infrastructure can be botched so badly to actually endanger people. View this picture, and realize someone's car (and someone, sadly) was under the large slabs of concrete.

Browser Wars

For any moderate techies out there, this is a very good review of the three most popular web browsers (IE, Firefox, and Opera) newest versions. It sounds like once Firefox 2.0 and IE 7 are fully released, the IE security features will probably stop most casual browsers from switching. But I will disagree with the author in that I don't think anyone will switch back to IE from Firefox unless users find more pages that don't work in Firefox.

Basically, Microsoft had their chance to maintain their stranglehold on the browser industry, and I think they lost it.

YouTube at it's finest

CNET recently posted a list of the top ten YouTube tech related videos, and I found most of them to be quite good. My personal favorite is embedded below. The daily show evidently caught wind of the same Ted Stevens "The Internet is a Series of Tubes" speech I commented on two weeks ago, and Jon Stewart did an excellent tearing the Alaskan Senator apart.