Ken Burns’ awesome “Baseball” documentary will have a new four-hour installment come September. It will bring the 1994 series up to date with what’s gone on in the past 16 years. Of special note is the Red Sox’ 2004 World Series win:
A coda to Baseball held appeal because of recent events around the game — and, for a long-suffering Sox fan such as Burns, as a way to celebrate the team’s 2004 World Series win. “I admit we would not be doing this had they not won,” Burns says. “But this will sit well with all fans.”
Yeah, that should sit well with Yankees fans.
An artist is using a guerrilla campaign to promote subway etiquette.
On nail clipping:
Under no circumstance is the Subway the right place for this. [...] It’s crazy that this even needs to be mentioned.
So-called “global warming” is just a secret ploy by wacko tree-huggers to make America energy independent, clean our air and water, improve the fuel efficiency of our vehicles, kick-start 21st-century industries, and make our cities safer and more livable. Don’t let them get away with it!
The New Yorker has a list of the least common complaints about the new iPad.
Gems include:
The iBookstore ichthyology section includes almost nothing on lampreys.
Upscaling makes porn unexpectedly upsetting.
and
Insufficient media coverage.
In 1934 a ledger was found that listed the “President” as having taken out two books in 1789 and never returned them. The President, of course, was George Washington. He borrowed “Law of Nations” and Vol. 12 of the “Commons Debates”.
This week, Bartlett and his staff became even more convinced the books were filched when librarian Matthew Haugen stumbled upon the long lost 14-volume collection of the “Commons Debates.”
Sure enough, Vol. 12 was missing.
The library doesn’t want the late fees, but they would like to get the books back.
A man, wearing a synthetic nylon jacket and a wool shirt, built up such a large static charge that he set fire to a carpet, burned plastic in his car, and caused the evacuation of an office building.
His clothes were measured by firemen as carrying an electrical charge of 40,000 volts, the Reuters news agency quoted Mr Barton as saying.
The fire official added that the charge was close to being high enough to cause the items to spontaneously combust.
They don’t mention if he got the job or not.
American Mensa published the 2010 edition of their top 50 web sites. Some make sense like NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day, The Onion, and NPR, but I Can Has Cheezburger?
Forbes has a special report on the business of baseball. Unsurprisingly, the Yankees rank number one in total worth with the Red Sox number two and the Mets number three. However, I am surprised that the Yankees, at $1.6 billion (yes, with a ‘B’), are worth almost twice as much as Boston at $870 million.
In 2009, smack in the middle of the worst economy in seven decades, baseball’s 30 franchises turned in a record-high operating income [...]
Flickr user lance15100 gives us a set of old style beer cans.
If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.
The Times has an excellent interactive graphic showing average NYC taxi use throughout the city between January and March 2009. The weekdays are pretty much the same, but the distribution Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights shows how hot certain parts of Manhattan are, most notably, the Lower East Side, the West Village, and Chelsea.
When you really need one, they’re no where to be found.
A study looked at the portion size of 52 paintings of the last supper (painted between 1000 and 1700’s) and found they are getting bigger. Professor Brian Wansink, who lead the research:
“We think that as art imitates life, these changes have been reflected in paintings of history’s most famous dinner.”
Mountain resort town in Washington State for sale on eBay. It’s got 10 acres, a restaurant, a gas station, ranch, and it’s own post office. Property taxes are $2,048.
At this time the highest bid is $359,000, which is less than a nice 1 bedroom in Manhattan.
UPDATE: It sold for $370,601…still less than a 1 bedroom in Manhattan.
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