Short and sweet article on the new football used in this year’s games. Basically, the ball was designed to frustrate goalies and produce higher-scoring games. It’s essentially designed to behave like a baseball; slow the rotation and the stability goes to hell. It’s interesting to note that, so far, the games have been scoring in […]
ESPN’s site for the World Cup doesn’t work in Firefox. The entire site is driven by a DHTML drop-down menus which disappear whenever you move your mouse to choose something. So most of their content is locked away behind a menuing system that (I’m guessing) was designed with only Internet Explorer in mind. I don’t […]
Robin van Persie took Arjen Robben to task for the one-man show Robben decided to put on Sunday. Robben, who did have the games only goal, was virtually unaware that other teams members were actually on the field at points, choosing instead to take low-percentage, high-risk shots on goal. The Dutch, long known for solid […]
Back to more mundane topics, the House of Representatives today voted against Internet neutrality. Why should you care? Because now your Internet Service Provider (ISP), which is often given a monopoly by your local government, can choose not to deliver certain kinds of content. Say you have SBC as your ISP. They get into a […]
Have to scroll down a bit. Thanks to Comcast for not partnering with anyone to provide expanded coverage. You do know that this is the largest sproting event in the world, right? (That’s right, America, Super Bowl isn’t the biggest.)soccerTV.com
Ah, Flickr is going to be an endless source of entertainment for the games. Check out this Dutch fan. Better yet, check out the Oranje photo pool. Hup Holland!
It’s finally here and once again the Oranje are set to face Argentina (although not until June 21). As always, one of the best places for World Cup coverage is the BBC. Their World Cup page is here and you can download a PDF wallchart here. Of course, for all the latest, check out The […]
This is an open question to any of any conservative: How can anyone support someone who says about the widows of people killed on 9/11 “these women got paid, they ought to take their money and shut up about it.” Right. The widows have profited from the deaths of their husbands. I’m sure that whatever […]
Mothers have induced the births of their children to avoid the day. Hell is having a party. But is it really 6/6/06 today, or did we miss it by 4 years? Is 666 even the number we should fear, or is it 616? Whatever is going on today, you can be sure that one movie […]
Seniors at a Maine high school released 10 goslings and 45 chicks into their school as prank. School administrators freaked out and closed the school. My favorite line? When students arrived, they were taken to the school gym, which had been sterilized, before being sent home. Which had been sterilized?! How do you sterilize a […]