Micro blogging is quicker than regular blogging, but tweets are also more ephemeral: it’s pretty common for someone to read a blog post you wrote a day or a week ago, but not so common for someone to read something you tweeted an hour ago. With that in mind, I’m going to start picking 10 [...]

Giants Raid San Francisco… Headed to Super Bowl XLVI #nyg twitpic.com/8ajmyj
— New York Post (@NewYorkPost) January 23, 2012

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The subject of a post on the old blog (“Nature versus nurture”), the son of the NFL great was also the subject of a Yahoo! Sports article today, about where he might go to college. That article included a link to the clip below of a TD run by Sanders, Jr., which features a couple [...]

After two and a half months of Atkins & exercising, I’m still fat. But I dropped 23 lbs so far (and probably put on a few pounds of muscle), and can pretty much fit into one of my off-the-rack suits. So that’s progress1. Still can’t fit into one of my custom suits though, which I [...]

From Matthew Engel’s column in today’s FT, “Hell is other people’s vuvuzelas”:
Non-football fans who wish to understand this phenomenon can log onto vuvuzela.fm or download an iPhone app. You may find yourself agreeing with the spokesman for the American National Hockey League who warned: “Anyone who brings a vuvuzela to an NHL game will be [...]

Because John Ruiz didn’t want one. The fight starts at about 3:47. Don’t fast forward past that point though, because it’s over pretty quick.

ESPN: NY/NJ has it down cold as XLVIII host. About time. I’m looking forward to watching this game from the comfort of my couch and seeing people who paid over a thousand dollars a ticket freeze their asses off. I hope Green Bay gets the Super Bowl the year after.