This entry was published at least two years ago (originally posted on August 7, 2008). Since that time the information may have become outdated or my beliefs may have changed (in general, assume a more open and liberal current viewpoint). A fuller disclaimer is available.
Sometime between August 6th and August 7th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too!
- Olympics | You can get Games fix on TV, Web: The hype for NBC — which paid a tidy $900 million for the right to station 106 commentators in Beijing this month — is all about total hours: 3,600 in all. That's more coverage, the network likes to point out, than the combined total of all previous Olympic Games up to this point. It's three times the amount of Athens coverage in 2004. We'll take their word for it. But the vast majority of those hours are events broadcast either on NBC's broad palette of cable stations, or on the Internet, where a whopping 2,400 of those 3,600 hours translate to streaming on nbcolympics.com.
- Wash. letter carrier going full kilt ahead: A 6-foot-tall, 250-pound letter carrier is campaigning for the right to take off his pants. Dean Peterson wants the U.S. Postal Service to add kilts as a uniform option for men. (He's certainly got my support! Wouldn't mind mounting a campaign like this myself, but at almost one full week into my new job, I think it's a bit early to rock that particular boat.)
- Greyhound pulls ‘bus rage’ ads: Greyhound Canada said Tuesday that it is in the process of pulling a series of ads in an extensive, cross-country campaign featuring the slogan, "There's a reason you've never heard of bus rage." The company made the move in response to last week's gruesome beheading murder on an eastbound Greyhound bus near Portage la Prairie, Man., which claimed the life of Tim McLean, 22. (I'm sure I shouldn't think this is funny, but — at least in my mind — there's a certain amount of dark humor in it.)
- Beta beat: Pukka 1.7: An update to Pukka (which I use for posting most of my daily "neat stuff" links when I'm on my home 'puter) to add some new features and deal with the update to Delicious (including descriptions up to 1000 characters!).
- Best Seat in the House | Olympics: Planning, Packing, And Panicking.: Neat rundown by the Seattle Times' photographer for the Olympics of the gear he's bringing. Man, would it be fun to have some of those toys…esp. the three Nikon D3 bodies!