Stephen Bolen

Wow. Amazing posters. This Hüsker Dü poster is one of my favorites.

No big whoop:

Sound waves 57 octaves lower than middle-C are rumbling away from a supermassive black hole in
the Perseus cluster.

The last time I bought a Guided by Voices album, I physically walked into a store and paid cash.

This go-round, I downloaded the album straight to my iPhone from the iTunes App.

Even though we all knew that Hitch couldn’t beat cancer (and we all saw this day coming), it’s still very sad to think about a world without such an awesome agitator.

This should be the last article I link to on the subject. At least, I think it’s the best summary of just how full of shit Team Pujols has been about not being “respected.” Whatevs. 

I’m glad other people are seeing this for what it is: a business. It’s cold, sure. But it’s a business. Pujols wanted to be the highest paid player for his position? Sure, why not – his past performance certainly dictated those terms. However, it’s worth noting that this contract is paying for his past performance, not his future potential – which, as this article notes, is trending downward.

Financially, Pujols is a winner. I think he’s lost something special, the chance to retire as the second-greatest Cardinal of all time, just behind Stan Musial and slightly ahead of Bob Gibson. That’s all gone now. And maybe that’s the way it should be. Now that Pujols has gone to Cali, Musial will permanently own all of the important franchise records. Pujols can’t touch them now.

Pujols willingly gave up his spot as one of history’s inner-circle Cardinals and will be viewed as just another athlete.

Edit: The link was initially to the Los Angeles Times; however, the author of this article is St. Louis Post-Dispatch columnist Bernie Miklasz. My bad – Bernie deserves the credit, not the byline-less L.A. Times.

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.

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!

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.

The fact that Amazon is ditching its old format for a more Web-friendly one is a sign that it intends to make the e-reading experience one that’s more akin to Web pages in general. The use of CSS3 gives publishers a whole new toolkit for laying out and designing e-books, and one that utilizes the familiar and relatively simple syntax of stylesheets for the Web.