OMG YES
For some reason my Tumblr layout won’t let me post animated gifs*, but this website is the dopest website I’ve seen all day!
*If anyone can help me with this (and with a new layout, just the building of it, I already kind of designed it) let me know -
Yep, not much to add here other than… amazing.
Hinkle Fieldhouse - Butler University
So awesome. If it looks familiar, it might be because you’ve seen the movie Hoosiers (parts of it were filmed there). I would love to check out a game sometime.
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Thestar.com is starting to really annoy me. It’s my go-to Toronto newspaper website, but I’m finding it increasingly difficult to continuously return day after day. There are two main reasons that I feel this way:
1) The design itself is in general hard on the eyes (my eyes atleast)
2) The advertising is becoming too “in your face”.
In terms of the design, in my opinion, nytimes.com is the benchmark for all newspapers from an ascetics and functionally perspective. latimes.com and wsj.com are good too. Thestar.com’s design is not even in the same league as these sites, but I see no reason why it couldn’t be.
As for the advertising, I know this heavily intrusive style can be found on many website these days (I’m talking mostly about the floating ads that cover up content). The problem is I just think it cheapens what I believe to be a pretty high quality product. The Star is a good paper in a big market; I don’t expect to see these types of ads here. And yes, trust me, I’m well aware that the newspaper industry (in its current form) is changing and everyone is trying to reinvent the way they make money. But still, I think thestar.com has to consider it’s brand here and the damage it may be causing.
My $0.02, take it for what it’s worth.
Old Yankee Stadium Demolition: 3/10/2010
Man, file this one under “completely depressing”. This video just makes me sad. I mean, I’m not even a Yankees fan, and I only went to one game ever (although it happened to be the 7th last game ever, on a beautiful early Sept. day, against the Jays). Regardless, I appreciate the history of the place and, I don’t know, I just wish there was a way to keep it. I understand it’s not possible, but seriously… this video is a total bummer.
Anyways, misery loves company. Check it out and be depressed with me.
BLUE JAYS PREVIEW!
I love baseball. This is the most wonderful time of the year. Spring training is winding down, the weather is getting warmer, the birds are chirping… It won’t be long now before I’m sitting in the Skydome (err Rogers Centre) havings a brew and watching the boys of summer.
Opinions are mixed on the Jays’ chances this year. And when I say chances, I mean their chances of not totally sucking. They’re not going to be competitive, that’s for sure. However, I have a feel they’re going to be better than a lot of people think. Here are a few X-factors:
Starting rotation: The Jays will field a very young, inexperienced pitching staff on opening day. They will be counting on guys who have incredible potential, but have suffered from injuries in recent years resulting in prolonged stretches away from the game (Marcum and later in the season McGowan). However, while there are some serious question marks, I think the potential exists for this rotation to be very, very solid. Morrow has a massive amount of talent that he has yet to put together. Romaro and Rzepczynski have the potential to be very solid mid rotation type guys in a couple of years. Tallet will be back in the ‘pen where he belongs by June when McGowan is ready to return. I just reread this paragraph and I think I used the word “potential” 3 or 4 times… that pretty much sums it up. The potential is there and my hope is that this group will be able to put it together.
Travis Snider: This guy needs to get going this year. He is a serious masher and if he can figure it out in the majors, and if Lind and Hill can come even close to their 2009 numbers, the middle of the line up could be scary good. It would also provide one more bat for Wells to potentially hit in front of… because we all know he is pretty much useless if he doesn’t see quality pitching.
Outfield Defense: Who are the corner outfielders on this team? The Jays seem to have a serious lack of athletic, strong defensive outfielders who can also hit. Lind and Snider aren’t going to get the job done all season. Some type of solution is needed here. I guess the x-factor here is whether the Jays can get the job done despite the limited defensive talent in the OF.
Finally, offensive production at SS: McDonald and Gonzalez are above average defensive short stops. McDonald might be the best in the AL. The problem is, neither guy can hit. If somehow they can get some type of decent offensive production out of this position (like they did last year, although I’m not expecting Scutaro type numbers), that would be a massive help.
All in all, if 50% of these x-factors come true, the Jays will challenge for .500. This season will be all about finding out what the organization has in terms of young players and going from there. My hope is that two years from now, it will be obvious what holes must be filled, and alex anthopoulos will be able to do so via free agency or trade.
Regardless, I can’t wait for baseball season to get underway!
Ben Fold’s Chatroulette piano improv ode to Merton. For those who don’t know, Merton is a guy who made a video of himself playing songs for people on Chatroulette. His video has almost 4 million views on YouTube. You can watch it here.
Chatroulette has bloooooooooooown up. Big time!
GREATEST VIDEO EVER: Local news reporters in onair cat fight http://bit.ly/dqaANY #retweet
Dick Oliver and Jim Ryan get into an epic fight about a minute into this video…
http://www.mahalo.com/dick-oliver
This is awesome. ”You were my boss, but you are no longer. How did that happen?” Crazy New Yorkers.
Phil: Can I say something?
Claire: No, no you can’t Mario!
This was best part of modern family this week. Great show.
Toronto mayoral candidate Adam Giambrone. Not sure he’ll get my vote, but the fact that he’s already using the internet to gain exposure could make this an interesting race.
