Johnny Gilbert’s Perfect Sweet 16. Some 3.5 million people submitted brackets on ESPN.com’s Tourney Challenge game and after this weekend’s upsets only 2 had all the sweet 16 finalists (nobody has a perfect one). One of them was this young boy, Johnny Gilbert, a Ohio State fan who says he got all his picks from reading the morning paper and reading up online. Way to go!
Connor rates his Pro Day performance as a 13 out of 10 (jokingly, apparently) and says in a Battle Royale of Penn State linebackers he would take out Paul Posluszny in the final round. Then again, if you read Hashmarks most recent post, maybe you would be feeling this good too.
For at least two years, Big House won’t be biggest. Who isn’t surprised that Michigan was trying to cheat at the ADA, by not making the stadium accessible. Now that the playing field is level though, maybe Penn State will expand to keep up with them. Generally I regard stadium expansions as the worst kind of pissing contest, but if Penn State wants to add seats so I can get tickets easier that’s alright by me now.
I was listening to the incredibly catchy I’m F*cking Matt Damon video again today and I realized it’s not the first catchy cheating-with-Matt-Damon-confession-via-song. In the 2004 film EuroTrip, Damon makes a cameo appearance as a punk singer who sings about being the other man in the main character’s (Scotty) recently ended relationship.
Media and Major League Baseball in New Photo Dispute. You’re allowed no more than 7 photos per game, remaining on your site for no more than 72 hours, and must not be included in a photo gallery. You must ask permission to use interviews for online audio/video reports and those reports can be no greater than 2 minutes. This makes DRM seem reasonable.
Yuckster Fricassee. The New York Times has an interesting piece about Rick Reilly and Dan Patrick switching outlets and how they’ve been brought in to contribute to the Web as much as print, TV, or radio. Also intersting to me, not only is Matthew Berry name dropped in the story, its not even the first time he’s been mentioned in the Times.
Sledding Accident from Austin Hamilton on Vimeo.
I went sledding for the first time in years and got a little overconfident. Not sure how I thought this was a good idea, but long story short my shoulder is still pretty sore.
Sledding, originally uploaded by Steve Clancy.
Saturday Night Live returned from the strike this sketch about Daniel Plainview’s Food Network TV show: I Drink Your Milkshake! Bill Hader’s impression was spot on. Interestingly enough, the milkshake line from There Will Be Blood actually came directly from the transcripts of hearings on the Teapot Dome Scandal. (via kottke.org)
Slate: The Wisdom of the Chaperones. This article argues that Digg and Wikipedia are not as “democratic” as they suggest they are in concept, because both are tightly managed by a small group of super users. While this sounds bad, its not particularly surprising that the people who invest the most time on these sites exert the most influence. I would argue the democratic spirit of these sites, a la Anton Ego, is not that anyone can edit but an editor can emerge from anywhere. These sites have self-organized as pure meritocracies which makes them unique.