The Linkage for November 30th
Here’s a quick look at what I was reading online from November 7th to November 30th.
Canada takes a page from China’s Olympic playbook
An outspoken, award-winning U.S. journalist says she and her producers were detained and interrogated for more than an hour at a Canadian border crossing because border agents were afraid she was coming into the country to criticize the 2010 Olympic Winter Games.
Tags: olympics canada censorship
Time runs out for 3 TV towers on Lookout Mountain
The three giant television towers that have loomed over Denver from the west will be gone by next summer, replaced by a single tower that will support all of the local affiliates' signals.
Tags: colorado denver television technology
‘NewsHour’ reinvents itself once again
Take note Rupert Murdoch – instead of stubbornly building a digital moat around its web site to help shore up the old media end, PBS's "NewsHour" is running in the other direction and reaping the benefits.
Tags: pbs journalism
Continental Airlines garners a dubious first
Sometimes being the first isn't the best. In the first-ever government punishment against airlines for keeping passengers on a plane during an extended ground delay, federal regulators fined Continental Airlines, one of its contractors and another airline a total of $175,000 for a six-hour delay last summer.
Tags: business travel airplanes
"America’s Team" has no room for America’s flag
Now that JerryWorld has been open for a couple of months, people are just now noticing that it doesn't have an actual American flag hanging from the rafters like every other sporting venue in the country. And for some odd reason, Jerry Jones seems dead set against putting one in the stadium.
Tags: united_states football nfl cowboys texas arlington stupid
Galileo’s missing fingers found in jar
Two fingers cut from the hand of Italian astronomer Galileo nearly 300 years ago have been rediscovered more than a century after they were last seen.
Tags: history italy science weird
Baseball’s economics are a mess and the poor teams are to blame
An excellent piece by Jayson Stark about the current mess that baseball's revenue system is in and why should be a minimum payroll for major league teams.
Tags: baseball mlb business
Restaurant chain dredges up hoax as a marketing ploy
A chain of restaurants in Seattle has become the latest company to blur the lines between savvy marketing and outright lying to customers.
Tags: business advertising washington seattle food
Good to see that Bud Adams is still a jerk
The NFL has fined 86-year old Tennessee Titans owner Bud Adams (you probably know him as the most hated man in Houston) $250,000 for shooting not just one, but two middle fingers at Buffalo fans while celebrating a victory over the Bills.
Tags: football nfl titans bills stupid
Will Somebody Please Save NBC?
A scathing indictment of how NBC has been run under Jeff Zucker.
Tags: business television nbc advertising
Is it time to retire the football helmet?
This football season, the debate about head injuries has reached a critical mass. But before the debate goes any further, there's a fundamental question that needs to be investigated. Why do football players wear helmets in the first place? And more important, could the helmets be part of the problem?
Tags: football health
Microsoft whacks 1 million with the banhammer
Redwood's getting serious about cracking down on piracy. According to a report, Microsoft has banned as many as a million players from Xbox Live for altering their consoles in order to play pirated versions of games.
Tags: business video_games microsoft
Gold miners damage Great Wall of China
A gold mining firm is being investigated after part of one of the oldest sections of the Great Wall of China was damaged during prospecting. About 100 meters of the wall was badly damaged and investigators from the Chinese government and regional police now plan to bring charges.
Tags: china history crime
Stars and stripes, forever and ever
Patriotism manifests itself in different ways for different people. For retired firefighter Ron Deacon, it's about people. And it's about the American flag. And it's about numbers.
Tags: united_states military texas uvalde
Yankees fans tossed unshredded documents when confetti ran out
New York City office workers who got carried away during the Yankees victory parade Friday apparently began tossing files and documents out the window when they couldn't get their hands on confetti.
Tags: baseball yankees new_york stupid business
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