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Natalie Portman shaved her head

May 11, 2005 at 09:43 AM

She shaved all her hair off for a movie roll, doesn't she care about my feelings?

The all new And All That Malarkey

May 11, 2005 at 09:28 AM

Malarkey redesigns. I absolutely love the way he aggregated so much content into the home page without making it busy or confusing. Plus it of course looks fantastic.

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Web design trends

May 11, 2005 at 08:38 AM

I like the plastic look and think it'll make sense for finalizing the design for the seven22.com logo and site design.

Update: Unfortunately, John has taken down his excellent site and therfore this link no longer works. (7/14/2005)

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DreamHost for 77 cents per month

May 10, 2005 at 04:47 PM

Enter the promotional code 777 when ordering the Crazy Domain Insane! package.

(via DMM)

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Do I Need a Jacket?

May 10, 2005 at 02:20 PM

Not overly useful here because the answer is the same 9 months out of the year, but DoINeedAJacket.com will dumb down your weather forecast and answer that one simple questions for you.

(via GearLive)

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Next-Gen Consoles: Facts and Speculation

May 10, 2005 at 09:34 AM

Everything Gamespot's got on the Xbox 360, PS3, and Nintendo Revolution.

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UT, A&M respond to supplement charges

May 10, 2005 at 08:08 AM

Sounds like a sportswriter is trying to make a name for himself by reporting that Texas and A&M gave it's players power bars and caffeine. Alert the FBI!

Here's the full story (because site registration is BS):

After a newspaper reported that the two schools had bought nearly $120,000 of dietary supplements containing banned substances, the University of Texas said Monday that it had done nothing wrong and Texas A&M University promised to investigate and notify the NCAA.

I'm not concerned about any of it, DeLoss Dodds, UT's men's athletic director, said of Sunday's article in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. In a prepared statement, Dodds added, The NCAA has advised us that this is not an NCAA reporting issue.

Meanwhile, Texas A&M will investigate and report itself to the NCAA for a secondary violation, said David Batson, A&M's director of athletic compliance.

According to the Star-Telegram report citing athletic department purchasing records, Texas A&M has spent nearly $30,000 on supplements that were banned by the NCAA in 2000 and Texas has bought $90,000 worth. Much of that money was used for drinks and energy bars that contain amino acids.

Amino acids may be the building blocks of life, but they do not appear to fit the NCAA's guidelines that schools may provide only non-muscle-building supplements in four classes: carbohydrate/electrolyte drinks, energy bars, carbohydrate boosters and vitamins and minerals. Under the rules, supplements also must have a protein content of less than 30 percent.

According to the Star-Telegram report, UT trainers spent nearly $49,000 on Promax energy bars and $29,500 on Metabolol II recovery drink, both of which contain added amino acids. UT also paid $282 for four cases of Jacked, an energy drink that contains caffeine, according to records cited by the newspaper.

Texas A&M, the newspaper reported, had bought eight products that contain banned muscle-building substances. The university's trainers also bought the appetite suppressant MNS Gold, which contains synephrine, a substance similar to ephedra.

Tina Bonci, co-director of athletics training/sports medicine at UT, said in a statement released by the university Monday that UT officials had received the NCAA's blessing years ago.

In 2000, we provided the NCAA a list of all products we were considering to distribute pursuant to the legislation, including the products in question, containing amino acids, Bonci said. The NCAA interpretation, based on the information they had at the time, stated that it was permissible to purchase and distribute those products to student-athletes.

UT officials said the supplements were safe and not harmful to athletes.

More than five years ago the NCAA became concerned about creatine and other controversial muscle builders that were being distributed widely by some schools. The 2000 rule, however, became more aimed at not allowing bigger and richer schools to gain a competitive advantage by distributing supplements, even ones that are presumed to be safe.

Batson said that, from the standpoint of complying with NCAA rules, the supplement issue had been flying beneath everyone's radar.

I hadn't heard any talk about it at all, Batson said. Most people provide the power bars or the energy bars. Nobody thought there's any concern.

One of the few such cases involved Virginia Tech, which last year admitted to a secondary violation of NCAA rules because its strength coach had arranged for players to buy creatine at a discount. The penalty in that case was minor.

Basically, what we've been told is just don't let it happen again, David Chambers, Virginia Tech's senior associate director of athletics for external affair, told the Roanoke Times & World News in November.

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Peace breaking out between Blu-ray and HD-DVD

May 09, 2005 at 07:47 PM

I wonder if they'll be able to get whatever they decide on into the PS3. It should just be an optical drive swap, I wouldn't think that would be too difficult. It shouldn't effect anything else the way I see it.

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Rumored Xbox 360 Specs Released

May 09, 2005 at 04:14 PM

I wonder if Microsoft is planning on suing on the people printing these leaks like Apple did for releasing info on the iPod Shuffle etc.

(via Gizmodo)

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Xbox Live Specs Released For 360

May 09, 2005 at 04:13 PM

Considering how many free features they have on there (the ones marked with an asterisk), I'm wondering if I'll be purchasing a Live account for the 360.

(via Gizmodo)

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John Rocker update

May 09, 2005 at 11:24 AM

He's playing with the independent Long Island Ducks and seems to be doing better off the field, however it looks like on the field he's still having trouble getting people out.

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The technology of the Wynn Las Vegas

May 09, 2005 at 06:56 AM

PC Magazine checks out the unfulfilled promise (technology-wise) of the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas.

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U.S. appeals court throws out broadcast flag

May 06, 2005 at 01:25 PM

Great news, our government took time out of their busy schedule to actually do something in the public's best interest. The court said the Federal Communications Commision had overstepped it's authority and struck down the broadcast flag. The broadcast flag would essentially let the networks be able to tell you what you could or could not record.

Next step, dismantle the FCC altogether.

(via Omniquiti)

Update: PVRblog discusses the ruling and makes me want to build a MythTV box.

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Google Web Accelerator

May 06, 2005 at 12:02 PM

No time saved yet, but it's certainly worth a try to see how it works. According to Google...

Google Web Accelerator uses various strategies to make your web pages load faster, including:

Sending your page requests through Google machines dedicated to handling Google Web Accelerator traffic.
Storing copies of frequently looked at pages to make them quickly accessible.
Downloading only the updates if a web page has changed slightly since you last viewed it.
Prefetching certain pages onto your computer in advance.
Managing your Internet connection to reduce delays.
Compressing data before sending it to your computer.

(via Google Blog)

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Winslow might have torn ACL

May 06, 2005 at 10:08 AM

Sounds like Kellen Winslow Jr. may have torn his ACL and could miss the entire 2005 season. The Browns could void his contract and recoup almost all of his original signing bonus.

This and his other injury are costing him millions.

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