Want to start a startup? Get funded by Y Combinator . July 2010 I realized recently that what one thinks about in the shower in themorning is more important than I'd thought. I knew it was a goodtime
B rian Cook thinks so , but I’m not so sure. The idea that the spread, or, even just Gus Malzahn’s offense in particular, “ is a modern-day version of the single wing ” is overdone . (To be fair, the Judy Battista’s NY Times piece focuses on the wildcat , which I do think has a great deal in common…
by Doug Farrar Last week's Cover-3 on the Pistol formation morphed into a two-parter for two reasons. First, readers tipped me off to examples of teams running the Pistol in 2010, and second, I had th
The Misconception: You procrastinate because you are lazy and can’t manage your time well. The Truth: Procrastination is fueled by weakness in the face of impulse and a failure to think about thinking
Special Counsel Says He's Indicting Hunter Biden by the End of the Month U.S. Attorney David Weiss wrote in a court filing that he intends to file gun-related charges against the president's son by Se
The Marriage That Broke Up the Velvet Underground VINYL When clothing designer Betsey Johnson married the Velvet Underground’s John Cale, it spelled the end for the band. Legs McNeil opinion Tubervill
My first piece on "net neutrality" As far as I know I've never written about net neutrality on scripting.com. So this is the first time. I've never written about it because I didn't know what to say.
A friend asked me about population structure, and methods to ferret it out and classify it. So here is a quick survey on the major methods I’m familiar with/utilize now and then. I’ll go roughly in chronological order. First, you have trees. These are pretty popular from macroevolutionary…
From 1978 to 2008, the United States has spent an ever-increasing percentage of its GDP on health care (with the exception of a flat period in the late-1990s). Since about 1980, we've spent a higher p
Obama deserved to lose—but the country doesn't deserve the consequences. Asked on Monday to assess the significance of the coming Democratic defeat, Tim Kaine, the chairman of the Democratic National
Let's imagine what would happen if the Founding Fathers were alive today. First, I think they'd be pretty jazzed about not being dead anymore. That's a given. Secondly, and this is fairly obvious, I b
Op-Ed Contributor Exporting Our Way to Stability AS the United States recovers from this recession, the biggest mistake we could make would be to rebuild our economy on the same pile of debt or the pa
mjaycantrell: How bad did the Bush Tax cuts perform? How does $2.74 Trillion in lost income sound to you? Let all the cuts expire. http://bit.ly/akmEH7
By George Dohrmann, Sports Illustrated
SI senior writer George Dohrmann met Luchs [pronounced LUX] in
July while working on a story about the agent business. Luchs
represented more than 60 players during his career, which placed
him in the middle class of the industry. He was viewed by other
agents…
“When I take people out here in the winter, sometimes we just lie down on it,” says Susan Thoman. She’s gesturing to a mound of rich black organic matter the length and height of a warehouse at the Ce
I’m not going to pretend that the Navy-Notre Dame game means as much to the Irish as it does to the Mids. Notre Dame is Navy’s Everest, the service academy’s annual shot at one of college football’s b
Most college football fans are relatively unfamiliar with Paul Johnson . I don’t necessarily blame them, but that unfamiliarity has led to some damaging misconceptions that could prevent Michigan from
Procrastination interests philosophers because of its underlying irrationality. Illustration by Barry Blitt Some years ago, the economist George Akerlof found himself faced with a simple task: mailing
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Despite popular opinion, I do not prefer ultra-powerful task-management tools. I would rather keep my running to-do list inside of [Simplenote](http://shawnblanc.net/2010/08/simplenote/). Many a weeke
I'm going to tell you all some things that you don't want to hear first. There is no defensive scheme that "solves" the option, and there will never be one that "solves" the option. 4-3, 4-2-5, 3-3-5,
By Jonathan Martin 10/21/2010 04:49 AM EDT The election is two weeks away, but the campaign trail reviews of Sarah Palin already are in, and they aren’t pretty. According to multiple Republican campai
T he classic zone read , where the runningback runs the zone play to one side while the quarterback reads the backside defensive end, is a great play. But if you use it enough, two problems emerge. Practice makes perfect First, just because you’re reading the defensive end doesn’t mean you’ve made…
Behold, the final entry in our thrilling saga of Getting Active With OmniFocus, and in this episode, ALL WILL BE REVEALED. WAS your intrepid blog author in fact able to master the art of personal task
At 19, Sean Parker helped create Napster. At 24, he was founding president of Facebook. At 30, he’s the hard-partying, press-shy genius of social networking, a budding billionaire, and about to be famous—played by Justin Timberlake in David Fincher’s new film, The Social Network.
Downhill With the G.O.P. Once upon a time, a Latin American political party promised to help motorists save money on gasoline. How? By building highways that ran only downhill. I’ve always liked that
Oregon Turns Practice Into Nonstop Sprint With Precision as Goal Under Coach Chip Kelly, dark shirt, Oregon’s practices are so intense that even the team managers have to tape their ankles. Credit...
If you are unfamiliar with
the term, read my friend Harry’s article for a great piece on
“the fanboy“. Now, onto the piece
– which I anticipate bringing me tons of annoyed Android
folks (much like my tablet rant did last year).
I started using Android last December with the HTC Droid Eris. My…
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