Freshen up your JavaScript, a presentation given by Sam Foster and me at the Refresh Austin meeting earlier this month. If you’re in Austin and you’re reading this blog, you probably ought to be a Refresh member.
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Saints backup quarterback Adrian McPherson is on the injured list after last week’s exhibition game — in which the Titans’ mascot, T‐Rac, hit him head‐on while driving in a golf cart. I seriously doubt any sportswriter on earth ever thought he’d write that sentence. In other news, Gerald Ford was eaten by wolves.
Rick Reilly: You make the call. Little‐league championship, bottom of the ninth, two outs: do you pitch to the star hitter or walk him so you can face the cancer survivor? One coach chose option B and is being tarred and feathered for it. I’m not saying I’d feel good about it, but if I were in his shoes I’d do the same damn thing. Inherent in sports strategy is the recognition that not all players are of equal skill. Reilly says it’s supposed to be about fun, not strategy, but how can you have the former without the latter?
Left‐handed men see better paychecks. There’s no causation here, folks. Left‐handed men who attended college make 17 percent more than their right‐handed colleagues. That’s because the IQ distribution of left‐handed people is flatter than that of right‐handed people — we’re more likely to be creative, yes, but we’re also more likely to have learning disorders. So by chopping off the bottom half of that curve you’d confirm what I could’ve told you already.
Ze Frank on how to combat terrorism. Ze can explain anything to anyone. And he does so with more eloquence than anyone who gets paid to represent me in government. Remind me again — why do we pay them, and what is it that they do?
Rogers Communications is out $2.13M CDN because of an extra comma. Someone at their soon‐to‐be‐ex‐law firm doesn’t understand appositional phrases. This reminds me of Ed, one of my favorite shows, in which the main character is fired from his job at a New York law firm because he omits a comma from a contract, thereby costing his firm millions.
Gaming Archaelogy: R.O.B. R.O.B. was Nintendo’s Robotic Operating Buddy, the toy red herring robot that got the original NES into stores after the video game crash of 1983. I have vague memories of this thing, but totally forgot how freaking slow it was.
I can’t quantify how surreal this is: Ladysmith Black Mambazo is asked to record a DVD commentary track for a Saturday Night Live “TV Funhouse” short: Ladysmith Black Mambazo in Outer Space (3.5MB MP4). While they’re there, they run into Mr. T. and chill with him. There’s photographic evidence. Quoth Mambazo: “It was quite an honor to have such a famous tv show do such a cartoon featuring our group.”
Dead Frog interviews Louis C.K. about HBO’s “Lucky Louie.” Todd Jackson is a great interviewer and has a perspective on comedy that makes his blog interesting.
How the MySpace SWF hack worked. Yes, IE will recognize the string “javascript:” even if you put a line break in the middle. Community creators: secure your code, for Christ’s sake.