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Friday, February 08, 2002

The Vidiots at teevee.org review the Super Bowl ads. Yeah, the Super Bowl was a week ago. Quality comedy takes time, you know.
posted by John Heaton 12:33 PM | link

Finally, a sport for the truly insane. Skeleton, in which you lie on a tiny sled and slide headfirst down an ice chute at 85 miles per hour, returns to the Olympics after 54 years.
posted by John Heaton 11:32 AM | link

Thursday, February 07, 2002

This may be the ultimate Enron story. Enron employees were ordered to sit at unused desks on an empty trading floor and pretend to selling energy contracts, to impress visiting Wall Street analysts. Amazing. (Link via Slate's Moneybox column.)
posted by John Heaton 11:14 PM | link

Republican political consultant Niger Innis was invited to appear as a guest analyst Wednesday on MSNBC. Mistakes were made.
posted by John Heaton 10:53 AM | link

Interesting profile of NPR producer Doug Berman (Car Talk, Wait, Wait... Don't Tell Me!). (Link via Jim Romenesko's Media News.)
posted by John Heaton 10:49 AM | link

Wednesday, February 06, 2002

knowing about the Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie page would have come in handy when I worked for the Senate. We got a lot of letters and calls from crazy people; an aluminum foil deflector beanie would have helped a lot of them.
posted by John Heaton 10:06 PM | link

Tuesday, February 05, 2002

Cosmicrayola wants your tube tops! Don't ask me, I just post the links.

Feel free to send me stuff too.
posted by John Heaton 2:21 PM | link

Philips, the Dutch electronics firm that licenses the compact disc logo to CD manufacturers, is threatening the recording industry over their attempts to protect CDs from being copied by releasing discs with deliberate errors burned into them.
posted by John Heaton 9:25 AM | link

Monday, February 04, 2002

Sammy Roche is too busy for Davos!
posted by John Heaton 11:44 PM | link

Nixon council John Dean reviews nine books about the 2000 Presidential election -- and reaches some interesting conclusions.
posted by John Heaton 5:48 PM | link

Think twice before buying the naming rights to that new stadium going up in town; accordingto an analysis by Bear Left, stock prices routinely drop after companies pay to have their name put on a stadium. Case in point: my former employer, which pays ten million dollars a year to put its name on a football stadium, filed for bankruptcy protection less than two years after agreeing to pay ten million dollars a year to put their name on the football stadium in Baltimore.
posted by John Heaton 2:15 PM | link

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