Soccer – the last vestige of Nationalism
Why the world loves soccer. (And why no one wants the US to win.)
Why the world loves soccer. (And why no one wants the US to win.)
We have a new 55 page per minute printer here at work. It’s a Beast. Those pages just fly out…
Man sued for calling chick a hippopotamus. Hahaha. If she can sue the guy for being insulting, surely the guy can sue the girl for being misleading… and causing mental trauma? BTW, a centner is about 100kgs.
I find it somewhat disappointing that MegaTokyo has not made reference to anything vaguely related to soccer, given that: (1) MT is set in Japan… Japan is, of course, co-hosting the world cup; and (2) The two main characters in MT are yanks… and the US are miraculously through to the quarter-finals. Oh well, I guess yanks just don’t give a rat’s ass about soccer (sorry, football).
Jacuzzi + Plasma. Yeah, I could go for one of those.
New Trek movie may alter Trek timeline, by not following the facts laid down to previous shows in the Trek universe. Yeah, as if we haven’t seen that before. Like um… the whole Enterprise series…
Created: The Painstation. It reminds me of that James Bond movie (can’t remember which one) where Bond takes on Max in a game of “Global Domination”… the controls are wired up to deliver electric shocks, and the pain delivered to the loser increased as the wagers did. Bond, in his usual style, gets himself defibrillated several times before winning the final $1 million game.
This World Cup is absolutely incredible, never seen anything like it. Korea has just taken out Italy, 3 minutes before penalty shootouts, the match just after they sent the Portuguese home. Totally insane stuff…
Mum and Dad went to the consumer electronics show at Fox last weekend. Apparently there wasn’t much there that the Net hadn’t already reported a few months ago. Dad did spot the new Sony CLIE NR70. Very spunky indeed. I like the idea that you can turn it into a 320×480 digital photo frame. It retails at about the $1300 mark, and given that most digital photo frames go for $2000 up, the photo frame application is a very cool feature of the NR70. Unfortunately, the Pocket PC OS offers more functionality than Palm OS. The main advantage Palms had over Pocket PCs were their size (more simply = smaller device). When you try and add bells and whistles to a Palm unit, as Sony have done, the size increases to match Pocket PCs – and Palms simply don’t have the same grunt as them. 16MB of inbuilt memory is not conducive to storing multimedia, and it only has one memory stick expansion slot. Compare that to 64MB inbuilt memory and a Compact Flash + SD card expansion slot some of the new Pocket PC PDAs have. Nonetheless, the unit looks typically Sony and attaching a tiny camera to the unit is not a bad idea.
The new design concept for a new WTC looks like a Sim City Arcology. It looks massive, sticks out, and doesn’t really blend into the New York skyline the same way the twin towers did (then again, I imagine nothing other than an exact replica of them would).
Long-awaited War3 has gone gold, due for release in July.
Few people seem to know what the semi-circle attached to the goal area on the soccer pitch is. The semi-circle is called a penalty arc. Players must stand outside of the arc when a penalty kick is taken. That is, it serves the rather mundane function of ensuring players are at least 10 yards away from the kicker when a penalty kick is taken.
DC is too, looking at rebranding. Maybe they will call themselves “July” for the start of the fiscal year.
Article on FT about Monday. Everyone I know (except for ADH) has shaken their head upon hearing about “Monday”. For me, the heavily Westie-accented form of the word, “Mundy”, keeps ringing in my mind. “Oim off ta werk fer Mundy!” Bloody brand consultants, what sort of a line of work is that anyway? Perhaps as they say, bad publicity can also sometimes be good as well.
A lot of exotic creatures lurk in the pitch black darkness of the ocean depths. They all have similarly exotic scientific names too. I particularly like Vampyroteuthis infernalis, or “vampire squid from hell”. Intriguing stuff, to think about what exists down in the world’s deepest trenches under massive amounts of pressure from the kilometres of water above.
Fantasy Deathrow. People will bet on anything.
The Straight Dope. Answers to strange, but curious questions. The web site for the column with the same name in print.
PwC Consulting, the consulting arm of PricewaterhouseCoopers, in a bid to accentuate that they are a separate entity from the accounting firm, has changed their name to… Monday.
Whoever came up with that bright idea, shouldn’t have. But it’s just a name, right? (I can see the Monday-itis jokes coming from a mile away.)
From the smses Dad is sending me it sounds like France is getting majorly shit on by Denmark. Goodbye France from the world cup.
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