The Linkage for Jul. 28th

Here’s a quick look at what I was reading online from Jul. 7th to Jul. 28th:

Workers in Texas town rally for glove factory
Tags: baseball business texas
Two years after a devastating fire, the last American baseball glove manufacturer is back in business.

Computer scientists look to save Bletchley Park
Tags: computer history uk world_war_2
A group of academics have teamed up to call attention to the deteriorating state of Bletchley Park – a site of great historical importance not only for the WWII code-breaking operations there, but also as the development site of Colossus.

Novak hits pedestrian, keep on truckin'
Tags: media politics
When he's not exposing undercover operatives in his columns, once-respected journalist Robert Novak likes to mow down pedestrians on the streets of our nation's capital. Or maybe he's just another old dude who needs to have his keys taken away.

Big foam fan hands turn 30
Tags: business texas
Ever wonder about the history behind those big foam #1 hands they sell at sporting events? Probably not, but here it is anyway.

Mafia tries to buy pro soccer team
Tags: funny italy soccer
A notorious Italian organised crime gang tried to buy soccer club Lazio through third parties using funds gained from violence and intimidation.

Brits hoarding incandescent bulbs
Tags: uk
Some folks in the UK are so attached to their old-fashioned incandescent bulbs that they've begun stockpiling them as their government prepares to phase them out in favor of CFLs.

Video: Time for Some Campaignin'
Tags: 2008_election funny politics video
Another reminder of why the interweb is awesome. Simply brilliant.

NASA admits the next flag on the moon might be Chinese
Tags: china moon nasa space
NASA chief Michael Griffin comes out and admits that China has the technical know-how to beat the Americans in the second coming of the Race to the Moon.

People make their house ugly in protest
Tags: canada funny
Well, as the owners of the house say, they "have temporarily defaced our house and shocked our neighbours with our purple pillars to raise awareness for the proper education around heritage designation."

China cracking down on "ambush" Olympic ads
Tags: advertising business china olympics
Are you not an official sponsor of the 2008 Olympics? Then China is yanking down your billboard.

Armchair pilot flies 235 miles using party balloons
Tags: funny united_states video
As kids, we all think about attaching a whole bunch of balloons to a lawn chair and flying somewhere. Apparently, this guy never stopped thinking about it.

Extreme Makeover: Political Convention Edition
Tags: 2008_election colorado democrats politics stadiums
Think it's easy hosting a political convention? Sure, if getting kicked out of your own building for seven weeks while contractors tear it up is your idea of easy.

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