The Linkage for July 30th
Here’s a quick look at what I was reading online from July 13th to July 30th.
America in Color from 1939-1943
Just a tiny sampling of the Library of Congress’ beautiful photography collection. For more, I highly recommend looking at their Flickr account.
“Like opening a bar for people who don’t drink.”
Houston’s Channel 39 will revamp its long-struggling newscasts this fall by eliminating on-screen anchors and reporters and switching to more of a TMZ-style quick-cut type of thing. In other words, total crap.
Someone hits the gnome motherload
Seriously – if you’ve got 150 gnomes in your front yard, you’re just asking for it. It’s like “Ocean’s 11″ for yard accessories.
“Bringing it on” not a competitive sport
A Connecticut university’s scheme to scrap their volleyball program and replace it with a cheerleading squad was thrown out by a judge because cheerleading is not a sport. Does this mean that ESPN can stop broadcasting hours of cheerleading crap from Disney World on the weekends?
Accepting that good parents may plant bad seeds
For years, mental health professionals were trained to see children as mere products of their environment who were intrinsically good until influenced otherwise; where there is chronic bad behavior, there must be a bad parent behind it. But is possible that some kids are just hard-wired to be little douchebags?
A theme park that only Lisa Simpson could love
Following the closure of Astroworld, Houston has been left with a giant gaping hole in the fun department. But, don’t worry, allegedly savvy business folks are planning – wait for it – “an elaborate ecofriendly entertainment zone that teaches environmental stewardship.” Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
Rip Torn proves that being drunk enough to think a bank is your house is not a felony
And the real question is why does Rip Torn have to carry a loaded gun when he believes he’s entering his own home?
In communist China, unfunded mandates fail to censor YOU!
After the Chinese government mandated all computers sold within its borders come with comprehensive web filtering software preinstalled, the program set up to develop and produce the software is the precipice of falling apart – because of a lack of government funding.
4-time Texas lotto winner awash in money and mystery
After winning the Texas lottery four times and collecting nearly $21 million, former college professor Joan Ginther has become a modern-day Howard Hughes – living in seclusion in Las Vegas and avoiding seeing or talking to anyone. And congrats to UTSA for needing two mathematicians to compute the odds of her winning so many times. Nicely done.
Stop counting cards, start taping “The Price is Right”
In 38 years, The Price is Right never had a contestant guess the exact value of prizes in the Showcase Showdown. Until Terry Kniess outsmarted everyone in September 2008 — and changed everything.
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