Cory Lidle, Google, and various other nonsense.

10.11.2006

The Yankee Curse?
Most of you know what occured today. First, I have proposed in the past, that the Yankees are suffering from a curse, perhaps tranferred via the Sox in 2004, perhaps it is the curse of A-Rod, but something has not been right with this organization since the last won. As for Lidle, condolences, but this also prompted something interesting. When it first occurred of course everyone thought of 9/11. With that in mind, I created a new thread at TCG called "Breaking News" with the basic premise, when news is breaking to get reactions to it based in real time. I worked well; you can view the thread here. It is very interesting following the conversation from the intial reports to the final outcome.

Misc. Debris
I got some time in and redid the Misc. Debris directory. Look for some more stuff to be added there in the future.

Johnny Guitar Watson
Many of you know, and by the song playing it should be obvious, I am a huge Watson fan. Murk and myself discoverd him through our Father. Watson is one of the most underrated and overlooked musicians of all time. Explore some of his stuff, he made over 40 albums between 1950 and 1994. All have some really good stuff on them. Many people are rediscovering him, his music appears in some commercials now, and he has become a favorite to sample. Info of him on the web had been hard to find. Well it seems that his daughter has put together a half way decent website.

One thing bothers me. On the page about the company she and her brothers have formed to market him, there is this couple of lines:

She is also responsible for creating, developing and implementing new and existing ways of exploiting the music and image of her father. Ms. Watson is trying to not only keep her fathers legacy alive, but is working with her two brothers DeJon Watson and John Jacob Williams to maximize the profit potential of the catalog.

Well now, nothing like "exploiting" your fathers music and image to "maximize the profit potential". Why the Hell would you toss that on a public website?

For another underated band.
Check out My MySpace for Make Up.

What is going on with Google?
Malach posted a eye opening article about Google and their future over at the WoW. Interesting no? Some of the reaction of the rest of the internet world is interesting. Yahoo is getting all nutty. It reminds me of Red Sox, Yankees trying to out do each other. And guess what Google announced today. All that pressure from my WoW post. Hey, I am for sale!

And speaking of WoW posts.
Hobbs outdid himself this time. This is about the funniest thing I have seen in a long time. And I ask again . . . WHAT THE HELL IS UP WITH THE JAPANESE? Take anything you want! Take anything you want! Take anything you want! Take anything you want! Take anything you want! Take anything you want! Take anything you want!

MyDeathSpace.
This site is kind of interesting. It tracks MySpace members who have died, and how and when they died. It would be interesting to see the stats on how people died, see if their is a correlation.

North Korea
Man they are justlooking for a fight.

Babs.
Hey, give her some slack, this is about the best thing she has done in 30 years.

Yeah . . .
Back during the Vietnam War, the estimate of number o Vietnamese killed was like 200,000, nowadays the estimates are close to quadruple.

This is interesting also.
If this is possible, high speed connections will go down to $10 a month.

The shape of a pill?
Yeah well so in the Angry Piper.

Now them . . .
THEM'S GOOD EATING!

Malach's Quote of the Day.
I hate broccoli, and yet, in a certain sense, I am broccoli. - The Tick

I am Malach and I don't fly my own planes.