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You Oughta Be in Pictures Monday: Austin teachers wins Dallas Cowboys-autographed car

From the Texas Department of Transportation: Julia Payne, a teaching assistant at Clint Small Middle School in southwest Austin, was the winner of a new Ford Hybrid Escape in the “Drive Clean Across Texas” sweepstakes, sponsored by the Texas Department of Transportation, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and the Dallas Cowboys. That’s Dallas Cowboys Safety Roy Williams autographing the steering wheel of Payne’s new ride, above. According to the Department of Transportation’s pres read

The Rivalry That Is The Philadelphia Eagles vs. The Dallas Cowboys: Through My Eyes

Tonight marks the Philadelphia Eagles final visit to Texas Stadium (barring a playoff match up), the site of many great battles between the Birds and the ‘Boys. With both teams sights locked on Tampa in February, this early season battle will add another chapter to one of the NFL’s most bitter rivalries. But for yours truly, it will be one more game where I keep the TUMS within arms reach. It is a rivalry that has divided homes, ended friendships and strained marriages. The Eagles/Cowboys sa read

NFL Fantasy Start or Sit Week 2: Whose time is it to shine, who should ride the pine?

Week one is always a bit of a crapshoot when it comes to predicting the NFL, so I’ll try not to get too full of myself when scoring my starts and sits from Opening Weekend. That being said, if I picked lottery numbers like I picked fantasy players, I would own an island in the Caribbean right now. Let’s check out last week’s numbers. Starts QB Joe Flacco, Baltimore: While he didn’t match the 200 passing yards and 2 touchdowns that I predicted, he surprised everyone with 37 rushing yards and a read

Paula Knows Football, and 80’s Rock

Paula Janeczko is a regular contributor to NFLJuice.com. Considered by many to be the spiciest Patriot Cheerleader (1994-97) to ever wear the uniform, we know her for her keen ability to answer the tough questions from around the NFL and more.     Question #1:  What 80’s band/song would you recommend for our younger readers who missed the mullet era? Paula:  The song,  ”Don’t Close your Eyes by Kix.  This song has a strong and deep meaning about enjoying your life and NEVER giving up.”   read

WEEK TWO FANTASY RANKINGS: RECEIVER

1.  Terrell Owens, Cowboys. 2.  Plaxico Burress, Giants. 3.  Brandon Marshall, Broncos. 4.  Anquan Boldin, Cardinals. 5.  Reggie Wayne, Colts. 6.  Randy Moss, Patriots. 7.  Andre Johnson, Texans. 8.  Santonio Holmes, Steelers. 9.  Larry Fitzgerald, Cardinals. 10.  Braylon Edwards, Browns. 11.  T.J. Houshmandzadeh, Bengals. 12.  Roy Williams, Lions. 13.  Santana Moss, Redskins. 14.  Greg Jennings, Packers. 15.  Chad Ochocinco, Bengals. 16.  Torry Holt, Rams. 17.  Marvin Harrison, Vikings. 18.  Le read

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The Art of New-Atheism

After two frustrating days of visiting local gaming stores, I’ve given up on trying to find a copy of Spore for the moment.  For those of you who’ve been living under a rock, Spore is the new epic evolutionary based strategy game by Sim City and The Sim’s designer Will Wright.  You get to take a living cell all the way through the chain of evolution- where you actually build your character to adapt to the environment- from a single-celled organism to a galaxy-faring explorer. As frustrated as read

R.I.P. David Foster Wallace

Maverick American novelist, short-story writer, and essayist David Foster Wallace was found dead of an apparent suicide on Friday. He was forty-six years old. Wallace’s spiralling, digressive, prolix style infuriated as many readers as it delighted, but at his best, he was one of North America’s most incisive critics of our out-of-control consumerist lifestyle and the attendant addictions to all manner of distractions: television, drugs and alcohol, sex, religion. In his non-fiction he was equ read

Alt.NET UK Summer conference

The second Alt.Net UK open conference took place on Saturday in London, with about 100 people attending and 16 sessions. The event, at least for me, felt much more like an informal get-together then a software conference which was a great thing. All the sessions were organised as discussions, not presentations, with people just exchanging ideas and experiences. The conference started with a very controversial topic on what Alt.NET actually represents. Most of the people at the conference had read

Reviewing the David Foster Wallace Obituaries: September 14 2008

I occasionally grazed a David Foster Wallace book, but I never finished one. The New York Times writes in a brief death notice today that Infinite Jest was “roughly, about addiction and how the need for pleasure and entertainment can interfere with human connection”. I didn’t know that, probably because I only got through the first 50 pages of the 1079-page book. As far as I could tell, the book was about footnotes. The brief death notice above is better than the Times obituary by Michiko Kak read

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Michiko Kakutani on David Foster Wallace: Much of Mr. Wallace’s work, from his gargantuan 1996 novel “Infinite Jest” to his excursions into journalism, felt like outtakes from a continuing debate inside his head, about the state of the world and the role of the writer in it, and the chasm between idealism and cynicism, aspirations and reality. The reader could not help but feel that Mr. Wallace had inhaled the muchness of contemporary America — a place besieged by too much data, too many vide read

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Bad News & Good News On Wall Street

The action on Wall Street is wild and woolly today.  Actually, it’s been that way all year long it seems.  But, this is particularly crazy.  The major stock indexes have fallen sharply today.  This was preceded by declines on the European exchanges before our markets opened.  Today’s market action was triggered by some wild scrambling (see The Mother of all Mondays) over the weekend as Wall Street executives and U.S. Treasury representatives met to figure out what to do with several troubled an read

Black Monday, Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

So with all these “blue chip” (in reality irrationally arrogant) financial companies like Merrill Lynched, Lehman Bankrupters, AIG (Anonymous Incompetents Group), Shittygroup and Washington Massacred all in trouble in one way or another, the Dow hugging down 300 points on the day, financial website traffic booming and financial corporate drones of all low IQ numbers carrying boxes and walking around Wall St. aimlessly, you might think it’d be a rather exciting day for me. Exciting because my P read

AIG shirts sponsorship for Man Utd next to go?

AIG sponsorship of Man Utd in jeopardy AIG is in a financial mess and is asking the Feds to pony up a $40 billion loan to stave off credit agencies downgrading its stock which will bring it a step closer to bankruptcy or to the preferred takeover. With the Feds deciding against bailing out Lehman Brothers and leaving the company to file for bankruptcy, there is no sure bet that AIG's lifeline will be met. AIG lost 64% of its stock value today as it failed to give a plan to save its rating. read

米大手投資銀行倒産！日本にも影響大！

アメリカ大手銀行倒産！金融大混乱！ turmoil as top bank collapses (CNN) turmoilは、混乱とか騒動という意味 collapseはここでは自動詞で(組織等が)つぶれる アメリカの大手投資銀行リーマン・ ブラザーズ・ホールディングスが倒産してしまいました。 ここら辺が過当競争を生む現在の資本主義の終焉なのかもしれません。 あのメリルリンチもバンクオブアメリカに身売りです。 この合併まで第一位規模だったシティグループも結構やばそう。 アメリカン・インターナショナル・グループ(AIG)に至っては(数日中に)倒産という噂も。 日本で、アリコ保険とかアメリカンホーム保険とかTV宣伝してますけど、 大丈夫でしょうか。 それを受け、ＮＹ株急落下げ幅一時340ドル超。恐ろしや。 月曜日の株価は日本でも大暴落しそうですね。 Global markets were reeling Monday after a convulsive day on Wall Street that saw a leading U.S. inv read

IS WALL STREET IMPLODING? ASK SHOW AT 9 ET

Americans awoke today to the shocking news that two Wall Street banks have failed causing the stock market to tumble 300 points at the day’s open. Merrill Lynch, the largest brokerage force which was valued at $100 billion this year is selling itself to Bank of America for $50 billion. Lehman Bros., whose main customers are big financial institutions, is going into bankruptcy, liquidating its assets and winding down its trade operations. Why? Tens of billions of dollars in losses due to ba read

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Under the new program any children with diagnoses other than minor depression or attention deficit

Apple Braces For Trileptal iphones To Hit Europe. Zander and I are always Sarah zander about. Who are often the targets of these Trileptal for mood. Instead they push what they call mood. Every fourth natalia suffers a mental disorder. CIA agrees with Pakistan on who killed Bhutto. S strongest warning label on them, a U. T show a high enough risk for suicidal. KDKA Pittsburgh Wed Jul, PM ET. That review found that patients taking the drugs had about twice the risk of suicidal behavior compar read

Radio Days

A revolutionary inventionImagine a time before internet, television, or radio.Brief notices of important events were sent by telegraph, the fastest media that existed.People read newspapers and magazines to learn about the world beyond their hometowns. In small towns, the news was often out-of-date before the publications arrived. For that matter, much of the news was old even when it was written.This was America at the end of World War I. But a decade later, a surge of interest, development, an read

Blogging PatFordgate

Image via Wikipedia Chris Briem wonders if the Pat Ford settlement will mean the end of the Burghosphere - “I mean, will there be enough fodder for people to write about going forward. It’s debatable.”  But Doug Sheilds has already called for an investigation and thus the saga of what can only be labeled Pat-Fordgate continues.  Here is what the bloggers are saying… Dear Pat Ford and Alicia Sirk @ The Burgh Blog “So let me shout it out right now.  You are a disgrace to this city and the peo read

Lipstick and Pigs

From NZ dumpThe photo is from our travels in New Zealand. Wild pigs in NZ are called Captain Cookers -- because it was Captain Cook who introduced the pigs to New Zealand. Some went wild. Kevin Miller of KDKA radio is going to kiss pigs with lipstick in Gateway Center. What a waste. read

Erie PA News and Events for Friday, September 12, 2008

The Federal Highway Administration (FHA) rejected Pennsylvania's application to make I-80 a toll road. A factor for why the FHA rejected the application is because it believed the money that would be paid to the state was not based on an objective market valuation. "There is simply no evidence that the lease payments are related to the actual costs of acquiring an interest in the facility," said Tom Madison of the FHA. A Spanish company and a unit of Citigroup offered a $12.8 billion upfront pay read