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Archives: December 2005
Thu Dec 29, 2005
Prìomh Pucks: (12-29-2005)
* Why the Rangers aren't as good as they seem....
* Attacking Goalies -- New Trend?
* Faboo or Ewwww
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Fri Dec 16, 2005
Detroit Lions "Orange-Out"
I'm not sure I've ever seen anything like this before in all of sports.
Lions fans are organizing an "Orange Out" for Sunday's home game against the Bengals.
Orange of course being the Bengals' main color. That's right, Lions fans will be wearing the colors of the opponent to show their disgust in Matt Millen, and Lions' owenrship and management in general.
And that's only plart of it.
Detroit sportsradio station WDFN is planning a protest outside Ford Field, and other groups of fans are planning similar stunts. You can bet those will be on top of even more "FIRE MILLEN" signs than security knows what to do with (along with "FIRE MILLEN" t-shirts) and tons of boos directed at Jeff Garcia. It's going to be an absolute zoo Sunday at Ford Field, and I'm not sure the Fords or Millen are ready for it. It's going to be ugly.
detroitlionsblog.com sums it all up best though:
I hope that the Lions get regaled with a Chad Johnson TD-celebration dance. I am expecting for Johnson to possibly have a well-placed "Fire Millen" sign to display as he roasts the Lions secondary. Even better, a Lion's fan in orange could just hand him one...
The fans outspectacling Chad Johnson. That would be saying something. This is what Lions' football has come down to now, though...
-- Primis.
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Wed Dec 14, 2005
Black-on-Black Crime in Philly
For those of you that missed it, word has only now just begun to spread about what appears to be a racially-fueled diatribe written in the Philadelphia Sun back in late November attacking Eagles QB Donovan McNabb.
The piece was penned by J. Whyatt Mondesire, the Sun's publisher and Editor, which is no real surprise. Editors and publishers abuse their power all the time in the news business.
What *is* surprising is that Mr. Mondesire also happens to be the Philadelphia President of the NAACP, a black man, and that he's racially attacking McNabb (himself a black man).
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Iran: Farther from Reality, Closer to War
I really do believe that it's in the cards here in the next few years that most of the western world goes to war with Iran. They've been pushing buttons and pushing the envelope for a while now to antagonize Israel, and it's only a matter of time before they finally go just a bit too far and it's on, and that they'll lose... badly...
The latest fiasco boggles the mind. After previously insinuating in a round-about way that the Holocaust was overblown, Iran's president publicly came out and stated that the Holocaust never even happened and is simply a Western propoganda tool to keep a Jewish state.
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Tue Dec 13, 2005
Kill the Browser
I've been thinking the past 24 hours about the web, the browser, and the future. And something dawned on me that I don't think had come to me before.
The browser is killing the internet.
It's old, it's poorly-suited for what we want to do today online, and it's a bug and security nightmare.
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Mon Dec 12, 2005
Bad Firefox Review? Uh-Oh...
"Firefox 1.5 has been out since November 29, 2005, and has garnered glowing reviews around the Internet. This is not one of them."
So begins Scot Finnie's InternetWeek review of Firefox 1.5, probably the first non-sychophantic review of Firefox I've ever seen.
Finnie criticizes Firefox's resource management problems (specifically the now-notorious huge memory leak, complete with screenshot proof to shut up the people who claim there is no such thing), Javascript getting buggier as we move along, and the random freezing and lockups that have also plagued Firefox since its earliest version (but again that some people have tried to sweep under the rug).
"In addition, PDFs are now a total adventure. Sometimes they work, sometimes they never finish loading."
To be fair, PDF's suck and don't ever work right for anyone on any browser, but...
"I'm a confirmed Firefox user, an ardent supporter of this excellent open-source Web browser. But that doesn't mean I'm a lemming."
Umm. Oww.
Expect more of this type of thing until Mozilla gets the hint and actually tries to improve something on the browser in a new version for once and fix these kind of problems that just remain and never go way or are addressed.
Mozilla wanted all sorts of hype and pub for Firefox and they got it. Now what are they going to do with it, now that the microscope's on them?
-- Primis.
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Favre and Away
I really have no words.
So you're in the 4th Quarter.
The ball's on your own 1 yard-line. A running back takes handoff deep form the I-formation, is swarmed in the endzone as a defender is yanked down to his left, and while he's on his knees in the endzone he throws the ball forward.
Now, there are many intriguing outcomes here for the officials to arrive at. Let's explore them.
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Thu Dec 08, 2005
Google, Hype, and the Reality
The insane, outlandish, ridiculous buzz surrounding Google nowadays has reached such a fever pitch and tempo that if it's not clear to you by now, you'd be wise to realize that the house of cards they've built is wavering, and when it comes down it's going to come down very, very fast and hard unless they change their ways.
"Pfffft!", you say. "Google is the master of the universe! Everything they touch is gold! They are unstoppable!".
This is hardly the case. Let's look at why my faith in Google doing much of anything meaningful soon is fading, and fading fast...
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Wed Dec 07, 2005
FIFA Flips USA the Bird / ESPN & ABC Clueless
Some people won't like it being said (o rmaybe not, since nobody seemed to notice), but FIFA completely and utterly screwed the USA men's team for the upcoming World Cup by not giving them one of the top 8 seeds and instead granting one to... Mexico, who last time I checked the US was kicking aroudn liek the neighbor's dog with some regularity. Keep in mind, USA was in the final 4 teams last time around in this tourney... to not get into the top 8 seeds is a backhand to the face, basically.
I really don't know what to say, other than it's likely FIFA did it for purely poltiical reasons (I don't mean sports politics, I mean literal international politics), and the fact that nobody in the US seems to care is just further evidence that soccer hasn't really come anywhere in this country yet, despite what everyone says to the contrary.
When somethign liek this happens and there's actula outrage, buzz, or ANYTHING in this country, then we'll know the sport has done something I guess. But what would be a national tragedy (or reason for war even, and no I'm not kidding) in other countries only results in blank stares from people asking "Seeding? Is there some interntional soccer tournament coming up or something?"
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In the meantime, ABC and ESPN just pulled off a deal that will give them rights to televise sports to two completely, polar different audiences that do not mix well together.
ESPN and ABC secured the rights to NASCAR with an 8-year deal.
Because you know... NASCAR and the NBA are two great tastes that taste great together. They're impossible to seperate after all. Can you imagine one sport without the other? Of course not!!! I'm sure Jeff Gordon and Ron Artest hang out ALL the time, being the such tight homies that they are!!! Word, ya'll.
Yeah. Good luck with that one, ESPN. I'm sure this combination will work out SPLENDIDLY for you.
- Primis.
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Sat Dec 03, 2005
A.D. Ron Mason to Blame for MSU's Mess.
In the furor over John L. Smith's unmitigated disaster of a season in MSU football, MSU's hockey season is winless in its last 8 games and it's becoming clear that Rick Comley is no less a complete and utter failure at the helm of his program.
What's the connection?
Both were hired by Ron Mason, former hockey coach and curent Athletic Director at MSU.
Comley has done nothing but drive MSU's hockey program into the ground since his arrival. He scapegoats players. He kicked promising Minnesota Wild prospect A.J. Thelen off the team for reasons that were never fully explained and verified by anyone, and that some suspect was purely an ego move on his part. Multiple other players have transferred to of MSU's hockey program in that same time period -- something that never used to happen save for headcases like Jeremy Jackson that couldn't cut the actual schooling part. And currently, the team already seems to have actually given up on him and the season.
Last February Todd Shulz wrote the following in the Lansing State Journal about Comley, when people were already crying for Comley to be fired:
"Despite the MSU hockey team's most frustrating season in nearly 15 years - which continued Saturday with a 5-1 loss to Ohio State - athletic director Ron Mason is not going to fire the man he handpicked to succeed him on the bench.
Nor should he.
Mason isn't going to fire Comley because the two are friends. It's one of the reasons he hired him from Northern Michigan three years ago."
I'm sorry but... that's a sorry-a** excuse. It was then, and it REALLY is now, looking at his pathetic performance as a coach
And so let's be short with this.
If Ron Mason can't see that the football program won't win with incompetent coaches in charge... if he won't axe one of the biggest coaching failures in MSU hockey's history because he happens to be his buddy...
Then Ron Mason deserves an equal amount of blame and needs to be fired as well. His two highest-profile hires are miserable and complete failures, and he has yet to prove that he's willing to admit and correct one of his own mistakes and correct them.
Fire Smith. Definitely fire Comley (who unlike the other two seems to also be a lousy human being that nobody likes in general to boot, given the cheap and underhanded things he does to his own players), and I guess fire Ron Mason along with them.
No more excuses.
Sometimes you cut the arm off to save the rest of the body.
-- Primis.
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