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(Don’t say I never did anything for you)

Bud Selig is a colossal failure

Major League Baseball told Houston businessman Jim Crane it would not approve his purchase of the Astros unless he agreed to move the team to the American League, The Associated Press has learned.

Crane was forced to agree to move the sale along, a person familiar with the negotiations said Wednesday on condition of anonymity because no official announcement has been made by MLB or the Astros. Approval of the sale could be announced as early as Thursday at a meeting of baseball executives in Milwaukee.

The only thing Bud Selig has done right is create the MLB Advanced Media wing of the operation. They create the best mobile experience of any app I’ve ever used, and the video compression they’ve championed delivers extremely high quality over 3G networks.

2011 World Series Film Premiere

My wife acted quickly – we’ve got tickets for the premiere at The Peabody Opera House. We’re sitting fairly close to the stage, too!

Tap tap tap’s Camera+ Changelog

YO, DOG, I HEAR YOU LIKE VOLUMESNAP.

Holiday truffles packaging

Pretty great design, IMO.

Also, tasty. Very tasty.

MF DOOM lecture

A nice peek into the mind of one of hip hop’s most inventive artists.

The Invention of the McRib and Why It Disappears from McDonald’s

From the article:

And to this day, the McRib comes and goes from the McDonald’s menu for reasons that have to do with its intense popularity and a national supply of pork trimmings that’s typically a lot more limited than the supply of beef trimmings.

“If you suddenly start to buy a large amount of that material,” said Mandigo, “the price starts to rise.”

As the cost to McDonald’s rises, the McRib tends to go out of circulation again. And then the same parts of a hog tend to flow back into the processing lines for Spam, Vienna sausages and other specialized products.

Even McGwire’s iPhone is on Steroids

Sometimes the jokes write themselves.