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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...

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...

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. ...

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...

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...

Was this the best March Madness ever? From that first Thursday through Monday night's epic Butler-Duke championship game, I can't remember a tournament that featured more upsets, buzzer-beaters, and close games. The teams I was rooting for (Purdue,...

Almost always in sports, the bigger the hype that surrounds a game or event, the more the game doesn't quite live up to it. The NCAA Tournament this year though? Beyond expectations. Last night featured a great, close upset game between Butler and...

This stretch of mid-March through early April is my favorite stretch of the year. Its basketball 24/7.Its tournament week for college basketball (meaning high-quality basketball being played from 11am-11pm or later), followed by Selection Sunday,...

Well, the Oscars are this weekend, and thanks to The Dark Knight rule, there are plenty of contenders for that big prize, "Best Picture". I usually try and see each of the movies before hand, but since they expanded it to 10, there was no way I'd...

I'm not entirely sure how today's music scene got to where it is at. A few weeks ago, I was watching Saturday Night Live and saw the band that was named Them Crooked Vultures. "Never heard of 'em," I thought to myself. Well, it turns out "Them...