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Let's Hit Rewind on Buzz Bissinger's Play Article
via FIRE JOE MORGAN by Junior on April 29, 2008
Maybe you've heard -- Buzz Bissinger is in the bloggy sports news ether today. Several people sent us Buzz's piece on Kerry Wood in the New York Times magazine Play from about a year ago. I read the article from start to finish. It's artfully written, evocative, unPlaschkely poetic -- and deliberately, wrongheadedly misleading. Buzz Bissinger, such a gifted wordsmith and...
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Sour on Sabean
via Baseball Musings by pinto@baseballmusings.com (David Pinto) on April 29, 2008
Blastings! Thrillage starts a series ranking the general managers from worst to best, and starts with Brian Sabean. I think the analysis is spot on:But how much credit can one give to an executive who over his 11-year reign has done nothing to ensure long-term competitiveness for his team? Sabean is a very unique general manager in that his entire job has been to assemble role players around a...
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First, do no harm---Chiropractors, are you listening? [denialism blog]
via ScienceBlogs : Combined Feed by PalMD none@example.com on April 29, 2008
As you may have read earlier, the only thing chriopractic has ever really been shown to do is to help low back pain about as well as conventional therapy. That doesn't stop chiropractors from doing whatever they want. It sure seems harmless enough, though---you back or neck hurts, some guy moves it around, and you feel better---and all without drugs! What could it hurt, right?With any...
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Would a Salary Cap Improve Baseball?
via Freakonomics by Freakonomics on April 29, 2008
Earlier this week, Dubner wondered what kinds of changes might make Major League Baseball more interesting to the modern T.V. viewer. A number of you suggested instituting salary caps. This chart comparing team performance with total player salaries over the 2008 season, by data visualization guru Ben Fry, does seem to suggest a link [...]
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Principal Outs Gay Student Couple [Dispatches from the Culture Wars]
via ScienceBlogs : Combined Feed by Ed Brayton none@example.com on April 29, 2008
Here's one of the more outrageous stories you'll hear today. A high school principal in Memphis heard that two students were a gay couple and she posted their names where everyone could see it:In September of 2007, the principal at Hollis F. Price Middle College High told teachers she wanted the names of all student couples, "hetero and homo," because she wanted to monitor them personally...
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Expelled Exposed: People who have challenged scientific orthodoxy and succeeded, using evidence!
via reddit.com: what's new online by (author unknown) on April 28, 2008
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Whiten Your Teeth with Strawberries [Clever Uses]
via Lifehacker by Adam Pash on April 25, 2008
If you've never been keen on commercial teeth-whitening products and you love strawberries, today is your lucky day: Web site Health.com says that one ripe strawberry plus half a teaspoon of baking powder equals a natural teeth whitener. The secret is malic acid—the product of the mix—which is an astringent that can buff coffee and cigarette stains from your teeth. The post emphasizes...
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Stop Hiccups with Warm Water [Tips]
via RB | Popular by (author unknown) on April 26, 2008
Kevin Purdy via Lifehacker shared by 6 peopleSeemingly everyone has a home-spun remedy for the hiccups, from fright tactics to breathing exercises and beyond, but few consider where the gasping annoyances actually come from. The Growing Happiness blog points to drinking warm water as a cure, as they claim it actually works on the spasming diaphragm muscles that cause hiccups:... And what do...
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Sophocles, World’s First Toilet Humorist
via Not Always Right | Funny & Stupid Customer Quotes by admin on April 25, 2008
(It was summer reading time for the high schoolers near our store. This girl comes in, smacking her gum and looking rather bored.)Girl: “I need this book, it’s called… something like Ode to Pus or something.”Me: “Ode… to Pus?”Girl: “Yeah its by some guy named So-fo-Kulls?”Me:“You mean… you need to read Oedipus by Sophocles?”Girl: “Yeah, yeah. Ode to Pus by that...
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