Category: Linklog

Lance Armstrong will retire from cycling after the Tour de France in July. This weeks Tour de Georgia is likely to be the final time that he races in the United States.

Adobe buys Macromedia. It’s a bit of a strange one, $3.4 billion to basically get Flash and Dreamweaver. It should, however, integrate Freehand and Illustrator and such likes though.

Blame Mr. Fill for all your woes. It’s funny what a couple of sneaky and clever monkeys can do when they have a few hours to themselves… It’s like gouphug.us, but blaming instead of confessing…

Wisconsin takes step to allow wild cat hunts. The proposal would allow licensed hunters to kill free-roaming cats, including any domestic cat that isn’t under the owner’s direct control or any cat without a collar. [via]

For those who didn’t see it, Joseph Jaffe has the best golf shot in history… I thought his banana putt at the Players Championship a few years back was wild, but this is just awesome…

Tiger Woods wins his fourth US Masters championship. The victory gave Woods his first major title since the 2002 US Open and helped him regain the world number one spot.

…and now a random fact about Vin Diesel. Vin Diesel is the only being in existence to ever single-handedly defeat Unicron. Without the Matrix. He also tore down the Berlin Wall with his hands (his left arm was broken at the time)

Atlanta Falcons QB Michael Vick is being sued for spreading a sexually transmitted disease. Sonya Elliott alleges Vick knowingly gave her genital herpes following an encounter in April 2003. Funny that this comes up after he signs the most lucrative contract in NFL history, The Smoking Gun has more information.

Jeb Bush backs Florida’s “kill bill.” A Bill giving Florida citizens the right to shoot and kill anyone who threatens them in public is set to be passed into law in a move that critics say could turn the Sunshine State into the Wild West.

Hunter S. Thompson’s ashes to be shot from cannon. Hunter S. Thompson’s ashes will be blasted from a cannon mounted inside a 53-foot-high sculpture of the journalist’s “gonzo fist” emblem… Even in death he continues to astound and amaze.

Google Maps now incorporates satellite imagery. Too cool, though our house is outside the Atlanta area images….

Bungie finally announce some Halo 2 downloadable content. 9, woah NINE, new maps and some kind of anti-cheating patch, sweeeeeet! Took them long enough really.

Matt Mullenweg finally has a chance to explain the recent WordPress SEO Scandal. He really didn’t need to explain anything, but it’s a well thought out response.

A list of April Fools hoaxes from Wikipedia. How many did you fall for?

The North Dakota Senate has voted to ask Major League Baseball to reinstate the home run record of Roger Maris. Could we enter another period of asterisks in the Baseball record books?