Analysis: Cycling is no longer a viable sport | Sport | The Australian

Professional cycling, of the stage-racing kind, has lost all credibility. This year's Tour began shortly after the Spanish drugs bust and the removal of the favourite, Jan Ullrich, by his team sponsor, T-Mobile.

The entire three-week madness of the tour took place in the shadow of the scandal and overwhelming question of who's next?
Analysis: Cycling is no longer a viable sport | Sport | The Australian

Workers save man, beat him

It's odd enough that they beat him after they helped save him but what's really wierd is that he was trying to commit suicide because his wife had hired a hit man to kill him. Why? Maybe he was just trying to be helpful. I don't know. Workers save man, beat him

iPod easy to use::Zune dumb to say

Zune - it's either an improvement on the iPod, which seems highly unlikely, or what's the point?
Zune could kill Microsoft partners, not iPod | News.blog | CNET News.com

The Tick

Watching the Red Sox game and looking at Paul Devlin the new guy on NESN I couldn't help thinking, put him in a blue super hero costume and you’ve pretty much got The Tick.

Worlds Within Worlds

New World Notes: EVERYTHING GOES BETTER WITH DALEKS

AOL - First It Sucked And Then It Died

From The Financial Express, "AOL attempts change of its DNA" looks at the end of an era for the one time king.

Meanwhile on Yahoo Finance popeyedloony just posted, "They're just bringing the price down before they take it to $300. Last chance to buy!!!!"

>>In two weeks, the board of Time Warner Inc, which owns AOL, will hear a proposal from Jonathan Miller, AOL’s CEO, calling for a near halt in marketing for AOL’s 17-year-old internet access service, price cuts for existing customers and thousands of layoffs. His goal is to devote all of AOL’s energy into building its free, web-based services. Miller will defend his plan by arguing that trying to wring every last dime from its dial-up subscribers is preventing AOL from being as aggressive as it can in competing with Yahoo, Microsoft and Google, according to AOL executives involved in developing the proposal.<<

AOL attempts change of its DNA

When Big Dig tunnel ceiling fell, mere accident or crime? | csmonitor.com

From The Christian Science Monitor

>>Transportation officials have linked those bolt fixtures to the collapse of concrete ceiling panels, which killed a Boston woman. Now, Mr. Reilly is charging that contractors knew as early as 1999 that there was a problem with those bolts because five of them failed during testing.

"It was not only identified, but there was a plan to address that problem," he [Reilly] said. "What we're trying to determine right now is: Was that plan implemented?"<<


I'm with him as far as that goes. But I do have a question. How long has Reilly himself, or his office, known about the defects with the bolts and the plan to fix them? He's been investigating other Big Dig matters, he should be familiar with the entire project. How is it he missed this, or did he?When Big Dig tunnel ceiling fell, mere accident or crime? | csmonitor.com

Quote of the Month

Even the Mahatma had a funny side.

"I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers."
Mahatma Gandhi
Indian ascetic & nationalist leader (1869 - 1948)

Delusion of the Year

It's only July but I think it's safe to declare a winner now. From the memorial service for convicted Enron fraud Ken Lay, Reuters reports today that,   "The Reverend Dr. Bill Lawson compared Lay with civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and Jesus Christ, and said his name would eventually be cleared."   Wow! I'm thinking he left out Mother Theresa, Mahatma Gandhi and Buddah because he thought it might sound a bit excessive.

Enron's Lay memorialized as devout, family man�|�Reuters.com

Lost Wages

Tag: Las Vegas – A good chunk of your money stays here!