Both versions of the Tar Heels were on display Sunday afternoon when North Carolina held off an outmanned Wisconsin team 88-82. North Carolina was so dazzling offensively it resembled an NBA team; unfortunately, it was so detached on defense, it did the same. The Tar Heels were so nonchalant, they left Wisconsin – Wisconsin – looking like Phi Slamma Jamma.
Monthly Archives: March 2005
Florida WiFi: The Telco’s Play Hardball
via isen.com
Under the [three bills pending before the Florida Legislature], if the phone or cable companies don’t offer a proposal, the cities can go ahead with their own, but only after doing a feasibility study and asking residents to vote on the project at least once ? twice if bonds would be used to finance it.
That would take anywhere from two to four years, one group says.
“No city would look at that process and say, ‘Yeah! We’re going to go down that road,’ ” said Barry Moline, executive director of the Florida Municipal Electric Association, which represents cities that own utilities
Big Brother, continued: Amazon Knows Who You Are & Will Sell the Data
Amazon.com has one potentially big advantage over its rival online retailers: It knows things about you that you may not know yourself.
Though plenty of companies have detailed systems for tracking customer habits, both critics and boosters say Amazon is the trailblazer, having collected information longer and used it more proactively. It even received a patent recently on technology aimed at tracking information about the people for whom its customers buy gifts.
Wisconsin Badgers vs. North Carolina Roundup
Follow the conversation on Sunday’s Wisconsin Badger’s loss to UNC:
- Ivan Carter: There were moments during Sunday’s crisply played game when it appeared Williams and his players would be sharing only disappointment. Wisconsin (25-9) played a terrific game, shooting 49.2 percent from the field and making 11 of 24 three-point attempts and 11 of 13 free throws.
- Joe LaPoint: The primary victim of all this was Mike Wilkinson, a Wisconsin forward matched against May at each end of the floor.
“He’s almost unstoppable and even knocked down some jump shots today,” Wilkinson said. “He just played amazingly all over the floor. He did a good job on the boards, everything. He’s just all over.”
May said before the game that Rashad McCants had said of Wilkinson: “There’s no way he’ll be able to guard you. He’s too little.” - Technorati
Great Internet Radio Music – The Current
Minnesota Public Radio’s The Current is available online here.
Deader Trees: RIP for Newspapers?
In any other industry, a product that lost 1 percent of market share for two decades — only to then double or triple that rate of decline — would be declared dead. The manufacturer would discontinue it and rush out a replacement product more in line with the desires of the marketplace. So, let’s finally come out and say: Newspapers are dead. They will never come back. By the end of this decade, the newspaper industry will suffer the same death rate — 90-plus percent — that every other industry experiences when run over by a technology revolution.
The transition will surely be interesting….
From High Society to Higher Calling
Then she threw herself a going-away bash at the Hilton hotel. “The first two-thirds of my life were devoted to the world,” she told 800 friends as they enjoyed music from two orchestras and tucked into caviar, coquille of seafood and fine wines. “The last third will be devoted to my soul.” It was Oct. 30, 1989, her 60th birthday.
Leung: Why High School Never Ends
Easter Sunday
Cuban Funding MGM vs. Grokster
Mark Cuban, in a lengthy post on the landmark MGM vs. Grokster case discloses his financial support for the EFF (our rights – vs. the Hollywood Rent Seekers).
Useful Background at www.outragedmoderates.org