Archive for March, 2007
Sheepy Duplex
A North Carolina man faces animal neglect charges for keeping 60 sheep in his house. “He lives upstairs and the sheep were living downstairs,” Apex Police Sgt. R. Greg Towell said of the hair sheep, which are smaller than the traditional wool sheep. “He considered them pets.”
Blogging Code of Conduct?
The support for a blogger hounded by death threats has intensified with some high profile web experts calling for a code of conduct in the blogosphere. While I appreciate the call for a “code of conduct,” enforcing it would be near impossible, that’s why there are unwritten rules.
Wembley Stadium, Open at Last…
The Football Association has confirmed the new £800m Wembley Stadium will host this year’s FA Cup final on 19 May. It only took 6½ years to build amidst spiraling costs…
US House Votes For Iraq Deadline
The House of Representatives has voted in favour of ordering President George W Bush to pull US troops out of Iraq. The bill links $122bn funding for the war to a 31 August 2008 deadline for the withdrawal of all US combat troops. The president has made clear he will veto the bill.
Visited
No updates for nearly a week? In normal conditions this would be cause enough for my family back home to send out a missing persons report for fear I’m dead in a ditch on the side of some dark, country road, but not this time…For that past week we’ve been busting our asses, and to be fair, Robyn done a hell of a lot more than me, in preparation for the arrival of my Mum.
So that’s how we spent the weekend and Monday, and directly after work on Tuesday we drove down to Robyn’s parents house in Milledgeville to, basically, pick up my mum and Helen to drive them back up here. So basically, things will be quiet (unless I go crazy, well crazier, with camera phone pictures) until they leave next week as we have a crazy itinerary planned, like driving to Raleigh tomorrow to visit Marchellina and John, then Asheville and Biltmore over the weekend.
I’ve also missed most of March Madness save for a few minutes of games caught here and there, so that’s why were has been no day-by-day, blow-by-blow explanation into how sucky my bracketology really is… Still got 11 teams alive, which is probably more than this time last year, and my winning team is still in contention, better than nothing…
March Madness Bracketology 2007
It’s one of my favourite times of year, the time where I anoint myself as a college basketball expert and offer up my words of wisdom in the form of a brackets graphic. Like last year, I have a whole slew of scientific mathematical equations on my side, I’ve been paying attention all year, I can’t fail… Or can I?
This is version 6 of my brackets, originally I went easy with a Final Four of Florida, Kansas, North Carolina and Ohio State with North Carolina beating Florida for the National Championship. But then teams like Texas and Georgetown are more than capable of screwing me over, so I’m going with them. I also face more Jayhawks heartbreak as I’ve backed them again… I swear, if they drop out in the first round this year like they did the last two, never ever again, well, at least until next year.
Viacom Sues Google, YouTube For $1 Billion
Viacom Inc. has sued YouTube and its corporate parent Google Inc. in federal court for alleged copyright infringement and is seeking more than $1 billion in damages. Just like Mark Cuban said, “YouTube would eventually be sued into oblivion because of copyright violations. The only reason it hasn’t been sued yet is because there is nobody with big money to sue.”
Grind House Trailer
Grind House Trailer. The more I see of this movie, the more I realise how much it will make all future cinema irrelevant… Why? The chick with a gun for a leg. A gun! For a leg! Does it get better than that? I don’t think so…