Last night, the NBA Finals concluded with the Lakers defeating the Celtics, winning the franchise’s 16th NBA Championship and second in a row. I had gone into morning thinking about how to write this blog intro about the sloppy game (but in a...
Read MoreLinks of the Week: Twinkies, Your Brain on Computers, and Three Cheers to the Blackhawks
In case you've been living in a cave these past few days, allow me to be the first to inform you that the Chicago Blackhawks won the NHL Championship for the first time in 49 years. That's not to say that I played any part in rooting for them. I held...
Read MoreWe’re just not the place for that
One morning around 9 a.m., back in 2010, I had three interactions with people, and each of them in their unique way called to mind the principle philosophy of our mission. We stress our core principles of “Local” and “Good” in a blatant,...
Read MoreLinks of the Week: Megan Fox, The Black Keys, and When Headbutting Goes Wrong
The fall and spring television lineups (or as I like to call them, the ‘A’ teams) are just about done for the season. It was a pretty good year for A-team television, some new shows like Community heading out with some steam, and some older ones,...
Read MoreLinks of the Week: Optical Illuisions, High School Imposters, and LeBronageddeon
Over the last few days, all of the talk in the sports world seemingly revolved around LeBron James and his ineffective and almost uninspired play in Game 5 against the Celtics in the NBA Playoffs. So much hype and torch-passing has already begun with...
Read MoreLinks of the Week: Kobe Bryant, Steve Carell, and Questionable NBA Fouls
About five months ago, I wrote a Links of the Week blog in which I introduced my first case of 'Blogger's Block'. Since that time, I hadn’t had to worry about blocks- the 2010 sports landscape has provided me a solid basis of something to blab...
Read MoreLinks of the Week: Josh Groban, TIME’s Most Influential, and Is Facebook Really Taking Over the World?
Over the last two weeks, if one thing has beeen made clear to me more than anything else, it's that Facebook is taking over the web. Last week, they announced that, as long as your computer knows you are logged on to Facebook, many of the sites you...
Read MoreAre Positive Political Campaign Ads Just a Crazy Idea?
Are positive political campaign ads just a crazy idea?Like anything in life, you can choose to view whatever you face as a negative or a positive, and anyone that knows me knows I am a bit nuts about looking at most anything as an opportunity. ...
Read MoreLinks of the Week: The Eyjafjallajokull Volcano, Jabba the Hut, and the 75 Greatest Women in History
The NBA Playoffs are an under-rated time of the year, and TNT has capitalized on one of the great monikers for a sporting event. College basketball has "March Madness", the Super Bowl has, well, the "Super Bowl", but the NBA Playoffs have 40 games in...
Read MoreLinks of the Week: The Black Eyed Peas, Fax Machines, and the Cheesiest Baseball Song Ever Written
With the recent release of the iPad, I am reminded on how far we've come, technologically, as a society. Best case example: here is a video of Windows 95 software running on the iPad. It's slow, bogged down, and it takes forever just to get started...
Read More