Sports links, a few hours before the big game:
How to be an insufferable New England sports fan
Adam Vinatieri : The life of a fieldgoal kicker (by Michael Lewis)
Now that is a hook and ladder play. Wow, 15 laterals.
And the usual stuff:
Homework stinks. It also doesn’t help learning or nuthin’. It’s not correlated with increased test scores, knowing more, better character, nuthin’. So why is it still assinged?
â€Take a watch.. smash it with a hammer… put the pieces in a box.. shake it around… open the box… see what you get.. do you get a better watch?â€
Maybe you do! Watch clock evolution in action
Is there really a placebo effect after all? How about the nocebo effect?
An expert on waterboarding answers, is it torture?
Check out #7
11 amazing pictures of planet Earth, taken from space. I loved number 7.
A map of the internet. Kind of amazing.
Internet stars are viral. Funny parody video for net geeks, to Billy Joel’s We Didn’t Start the Fire.
Scott Adams has been a tear lately, one funny blog post after another. This one made me snort.