Surfing around this afternoon (I’ve been sick most of the day), I found his page on the official Beijing Olympics site, listing the events scheduled with links to reports, results, etc. Nice clean design, and easy to navigate for those of you interested in the games.

Cough. 6-0 Riders.

Cheers,
lance

Finally, a reason to watch golf!
Update – QOTW comes from Bruce, in the comments;

“The “Improve Your Golf Game with Chris Evert” video should be available in 5-4-3-2….”

A couple of weeks ago I mentioned I was painting a race ‘vette. A few of you asked for photos – here’s one. My portion of the work (I came in after the black base coat was completed by Lazer Auto Body of Saskatoon) was in painting the molded “bumpers” and “grill” to resemble chrome. It turned out pretty well, by all accounts.
A front and rear view.
(Just found track pics of the Scatrat, which I painted many years ago for Bob of Lazer Auto Body, as well as the Froot Loop, which I think I did in ’06.)

It’s been a productive trip so far. Second day in and my Can.Ch.Minuteman I Love Lucy scored a major, which brings her to within 3 points of her American Championship title.
I’ve tried to check on things when I can, but as you know, the site has been experiencing some outages, and it’s affected my access as much as yours. Thanks for your patience. I don’t receive any notifications from my hosting company, so I don’t know why – but DOS attack is a possibility.
Oh well – this too shall pass.
Wish us luck, please don’t engage the trolls, and thanks again to the guest bloggers who have been keeping the place together as best they can.

Anthony Watts’ cool new blog site.

Dick Martin has died at 86
h/t Cal2

Truckspills.com

If you can endure the “bruised”, “hunkered down” reporting of the Associated Press’s Jeannine Aversa for a few graphs, you’ll get to the meat of the thing: US economy grows 0.6%.

“The economy is weak but not collapsing,” said Lynn Reaser, chief economist at Bank of America’s Investment Strategies Group. “A recession can’t be ruled out, although the stars are not lined up at this point to definitively say one way or the other.”
On Wall Street, investors found comfort that the GDP figure was a bit better than expected. The Dow Jones industrials were up more than 100 points in morning trading.

They’ll be kicking wastebaskets around in Democratic campaign offices this morning. Oh well, give the media a few more weeks to work their magic…

With clients’ comments.

Snowboarding gnome?

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I’m told this is the Travelocity Gnome. Looks like we beat local media to this story.
Nice catch by richfisher.

Many thanks to Mark Steyn;

Until midnight Eastern tonight, for every copy of America Alone sold at the Steyn store, we’ll give 50 per cent of the cover price – ie, our entire profit – to the legal defense funds for the five beleaguered bloggers fighting for free speech in Canada. That’s 50 per cent of the cover price of the paperback, hardback, audio book (in CD, tape or MP3 format) and our America Alone Anniversary Special. And we’ll also put 50 per cent of every other book, T-shirt, mug or anything else we sell today to the Freedom Five. Whatever you buy between now and midnight, half the cost of the item goes to the battle to restore freedom of speech to a land that sorely needs it. And don’t forget every book can be personally autographed to you or your loved one.

Click here for the order page and lots more!
The Shire News Network also has a podcast up of their interview with Kathy and me.
And remember – when the Communists show up to protest the Nazis, you’re supposed to pray for an asteroid, not pick a favourite!

(h/t reader NoGuff)

Invented by Swiss chemists – tested by American animators.

For reasons I can’t quite put my finger on, this is not suitable for children.

Thanks to reader Vitruvius;

“Tonight, […] we have, here in the studio, prepared for you a special selection, off of the original vinyl, from the inimitable Mr. Nestor Pistor’s famous Metro on Broadway album, which would have been performed, unless we’re very much mistaken, in the early ’70s.

This track is 12 minutes long, 9 megabytes big, and is probably not safe for work, unless like me you are fortunate enough to work only amongst a small group of friends, otherwise you should probably listen to this in a closet at home with the lights turned off, and play something safe at work, like rap. Oh, and also, this is guy beer-drinkin’ humour, so even though it’s pretty good guy beer-drinkin’ humour, if you don’t grok that shtick: skip it.”

Correction – Les Pavelick graces us with a visit in the comments;

Hi,,,,Just F.Y.I.
I started doing ”Metro ” About 5 years before Nestor came around.We are not the same person, I am the original. I did the cotton pickers live from the hat tv show, with host JJ cennon in the early 70’s and am still doing the odd gig. you can check out Metros web site at www.metroscomedy.com/
I am the same metro who did the 11 days from xmas. not Nestor ….I do reside in Sk.
Diboja metro

SDA – Saskatchewan’s Leading Celebrity Site!

(People would think a lot more highly of seals if they could do stuff like this.)

A few time wasters. Or you could always visit the peed-off progressivesphere. Heh.

Captain Capitalism’s 2008 Annual Chart Contest!
Last year the chart I submitted illustrated the direct (dare I say causitive?) relationship between Muslim population density and statistical risk of death due to seismic activity. For reasons that were never explained to my complete satisfaction, I was not rewarded with a prize.

Just a big stuffed toy wiith baby breath.

Glenn Reynolds says – “EVEN HARD DRIVES ARE going green.”
Simon sez – “Oh right, NancyBoy boxes.”