71-year-old Louie Sulcer of Woodstock, Ga., bought the 10 billionth song sold on iTunes. The lucky song was “Guess Things Happen That Way” by Johnny Cash. Surely that will soon be a Jeopardy question. via
Alright here’s the good analysis this week’s Lost, “Lighthouse”. Vozzek69, AV Club and, the best I’ve read this week, Chadwick Matlin in Slate. And also I didn’t post anything last week because I found the write-ups lacking.
Newt Gingrich on Congressional staffers (via):
Of course it’s the nature of the modern Congress, which hires lots of nice young staffers who have never had a real job, who spent their entire life being arrogant to visitors from back home, who end up thinking they know a lot because they stay up until 3 o’clock working on a word processor, and who write legislation as though they have some contact with reality.
This is more right then wrong.
Easily the dopest Wall Street Journal hedcut ever. via
Rudy Jaramillo is generally considered the best hitting coach in baseball and one of the reasons why kind of shocked me:
That communication ability is enhanced by his fluency in Spanish, making him the majors’ only bilingual hitting coach — and one reason Alfonso Soriano said he loved working with him.
Italics mine. There’s only one bilingual hitting coach in the Majors? That’s crazy given all the native Spanish speakers. How can you coach a guy when you can’t even communicate properly with him?
Here’s the good analysis for Lost episode 3 (the two-hour premiere was technically two episodes): Doc Jensen and DarkUFO.
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