Archive for February 2006
Another Milestone on the Road to the Big Time
Posted by: duckandgather on: February 17, 2006
Checking out my postings tagged “admin”, you’ll notice that this site has been slowly growing up. Comments first began to appear at the end of October. In early January, I reported that the Wayback Machine had picked up this site. And then my January stats wrap up indicated that unique visitors to this site now [...]
Super Wrapup
Posted by: duckandgather on: February 9, 2006
I finally got on the ESPN message boards yesterday, and exchanged some postings with other users. Some are saying that ESPN didn’t shut down the monster protest thread. Instead it was the work of moderators of the message board.
That seems reasonable enough. It’s just spooky how clear the Corporate attempt at “programming” the People was [...]
Whither the Democrats?
Posted by: duckandgather on: February 8, 2006
Time to break this football fever. I’ll provide an update on that if anything further develops. But for now, lets turn our attention back to politics. Specifically, let’s look at my prediction of a coming Democrat Demise.
Last June, I blogged about how the Democrats seemed to be in a malaise about not receiving a bounce [...]
Super Spy vs. Spy
Posted by: duckandgather on: February 8, 2006
Honestly, I think I’m cured of my sports addiction. I haven’t checked the scores or stories on any sporting events in the past few days. But the reason I keep returning to this one is that it’s an amazing People vs. Corporations struggle, being waged over the Internet as I write. So here’s the report [...]
Super Pain
Posted by: duckandgather on: February 7, 2006
Here’s something I just posted on the NFL is Fixed Petition site:
Penalties: 7-3. Eliminating those 5 yard pre-play motion penalties, we’re left with 7 penalties assessed during the play (i.e. post-snap). All of those can be described as penalizing a player for attempting to gain an unfair advantage. For those, the ratio was 6-1 in [...]
The Corporations Strike Back
Posted by: duckandgather on: February 7, 2006
Sorry if I’m boring the shit out of you with this football stuff. But given the popularity of sports in America, there’s endless data on this current People vs. Corporations skirmish.
Well, it appears the Corporations have heard the rumbling noise coming from the People, and realized it’s not going away, so they’ve decided to jettison [...]
Kelo, Katrina, … XL?
Posted by: duckandgather on: February 7, 2006
Previously, I blogged about how the Supreme Court case Kelo seemed to serve as a bridge between the Left and Right, joining People against entrenched powers (the unholy union of Corporations and Government in that case). Later, I blogged about how Hurricane Katrina seemed to have a similar effect.
Now we have Superbowl XL. As I [...]
Super Redundant
Posted by: duckandgather on: February 7, 2006
Well, you can ignore my two Superbowl podcasts. I did them after reading stories about the game on ESPN and SI, and feeling like the “experts” had been watching a different game from the one I saw. But check out these pages which reveal what actual People thought of the game:
An amazing thread on ESPN’s [...]
Super My Ass
Posted by: duckandgather on: February 7, 2006
Just posted my two podcasts on yesterday’s Superbowl:
(59) the refs blatantly stole the game from one of the teams
(60) like most everything in America today, this theft was consistent with “follow the money”
If you think my football analysis is off, check out what over 100,000 users of ESPN.com thought about the game.
What’s really interesting to [...]
First February Podcasts
Posted by: duckandgather on: February 7, 2006
Just posted my first three podcasts for February:
(56) some observations on the practice of podcasting
(57) the Internet-driven music revolution
(58) the fine line separating insanity from enlightenment
p.s. Sorry about the background traffic noise. Haven’t yet figured out how to filter it out.
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