Heat rest, Battier grows a "Hulk Hogan style" moustache.
“The look that Dwyane Wade gave me was worth it all,” Battier said. “He didn’t know what the heck I was thinking. I think he was embarrassed for me, which is good because he needs to be a little more embarrassed sometimes.”
Yankees Warn Eduardo Nunez To Stop Showing Up Derek Jeter By Making Routine Plays At Shortstop
“Every cleanly fielded ground ball sends a pretty strong message that Eduardo is trying to upstage Derek,” said Yankees manager Joe Girardi, who blasted Nunez for having the audacity to turn a double play without a throwing error, claiming the commonplace display of physical capabilities clearly reminds fans of Jeter’s advancing age and declining skills.
Sometimes the Onion hits it out of the park.
Marco Arment sells Instapaper to Betaworks.
I’m happy to announce that I’ve sold a majority stake in Instapaper to Betaworks. We’ve structured the deal with Instapaper’s health and longevity as the top priority, with incentives to keep it going well into the future. I will continue advising the project indefinitely, while Betaworks will take over its operations, expand its staff, and develop it further.
Seems like a good move for a guy that has a plethora of good ideas and limited resources to develop and implement them all.
John Siracusa on yesterday's 2 minute WWDC Ticket sellout fiasco:
Apple’s servers performed admirably…for about the first 5 seconds after tickets went on sale. After that, it was a crapshoot. Even if the tickets had sold out in an hour, it’d still effectively be a lottery if that hour was filled with server errors. You’d “win” if you happened to get through the purchase process with no errors.
An actual lottery, pre-announced, with no time pressure for entry, would be more equitable than what happened yesterday. That’s what I recommend for next year.
That would solve the ticket fairness problem, but do nothing for the inherent brokenness of a conference and developer relations program that has not scaled with demand.
Jason Kottke on the Nature of Blogs and Writing Your Own World Book Encyclopedia
Fast-forward to my early twenties. I dropped out of grad school after a semester because I’d fallen in love. My dad was a little alarmed when I moved back home to spend all day tying up the phone line with my new intimate friend, the World Wide Web, but I knew what I wanted to do with myself for the first time in my life: I wanted to be a web person! Whatever that was.
Pretty cool to see Jason joining Matt Haughey in the pages of the 20th anniversary edition of Wired.
🏀🏐 A true Spokane high school coaching legend who not only won state titles in her own right, but passed the torch to the generation of Spokane players and coaches that followed.
Security theater, martial law, and a tale that trumps every cop-and-donut joke you’ve ever heard.
Pretty compelling arguments from Clark over at popehat.com on how ridiculous and self-defeating it was to shutdown Boston on Friday while the final Boston Marathon bombing suspect was still on the loose.
“I don’t think people knew at all what was going through my mind,” Olynyk said. “It was definitely a seesaw, teeter-totter effect. A week ago I was leaning toward coming back. I really wanted to and thought it was the best thing.
“It’s really hard to gather your thoughts. It seemed like every person I talked to my view would change. I didn’t know whether that was a sign to stop talking to people or do I need to talk to more people. In the end, this was best decision for me.”
🏀 I was pretty convinced midway through the season that Olynyk was going to leave with a year of eligibility left; he was playing so well and already had his degree. But after the season ended and more and more time passed without an announcement I started to to have a little hope that his heart would lead him back to Gonzaga for one more run. I think he's made a sound financial decision and I hope he enjoys more success than the other GU early entrants have. At this point it appears that he has the most NBA potential of any GU player I've seen to date, but time will tell.
📺 Patton Oswalt's epic Star Wars (plus Marvel and Greek expanded universe) sequel filibuster for Parks and Recreation.
Matt Haughey has a short Q&A in the 20th Anniversary issue of Wired.
Matt on the why the community at Metafilter works well:
For anything someone tosses out, there’s a really high chance that one in 10,000 people have done that exact same thing. But it’s not so many people that you’re just yelling into the abyss.
I should really stop by there more.