Category Archives: Asides

Hendrick Most Valuable Team in Nascar

Forbes Magazine says Hendrick Motorsports is the most valuable team in Nascar, worth $335 million.  They also ranked race cars, and the #24 DuPont Chevrolet (Jeff Gordon - $92 million), #88 AMP Energy/National Guard Chevrolet (Dale Earnhardt, Jr - $79 million), and #48 Lowe’s Chevrolet (Jimmie Johnson - $58 million), all three from Hendrick Motorsports, [...]

Seth’s Email Checklist

Check out Seth Godin’s email checklist before you hit send.

Student Paper Threatens Students

The University of Georgia’s independent, student-run newspaper is threatening students.  Today they ran an open letter to parents saying they would again post mug shots on the front page of students charged with alcohol related violations before classes start.  Maybe a good response to this would be a student boycott of the Red and Black.

Just Because

Just because…

Blogging Is Good For You

Since I like to blog, I thought I’d share this interesting link.
Scientific American reports that blogging, and really, writing, is good for you.

SEC Should Takeover the NCAA

The Orlando Sentinel pretty well describes how the Southeastern Conference could take over the Bowl Championship Series and the NCAA.

Athens Cops At Their Finest

Police car runs over kid’s foot, kid kicks police car, kid charged with damaging government property.  Idiocy.

Link: Howto Pull an All-Nighter

In honor of my all-nighter tonight, I am posting a link to a great howto: How to pull an all-nighter. This is good stuff, I follow most of these tips.

You Can’t Republish Oregon’s Laws

The State of Oregon believes that it has a copyright on its own laws. Specifically they believe the “arrangement and subject-matter compilation of Oregon statutory law, the prefatory and explanatory notes, the leadlines and numbering for each statutory section, the tables, index and annotations and other such incidents” are under copyright. See the [...]

Superman Knowshon

ESPN on Superman, aka Georgia running back Knowshon Moreno.