Clearing the Browser Tabs – Super Monday Edition
Congratulations to the Green Bay Packers, who beat the Pittsburgh Steelers and took home the Lombardi Trophy for Super Bowl XLV last night. I watched a good chunk of the game, which was a pretty good one by Super Bowl standards. I’m sorry to say that my prediction of a low-scoring and very close game didn’t pan out, though my prediction of a Packer victory did.
So Aaron Rodgers and whoever is responsible for this delightful Volkswagon commercial are the big winners this morning. Meanwhile, Jerry Jones and music lovers all over the world are the big losers. Seriously, whoever thought the Black Eyed Peas would work as halftime entertainment, especially when dressed as cast members of “Tron – The Musical” as realized by The KLF, should be taken out and beaten. A Bad Day Honorable Mention should go to Christina Aguilera who actually forgot some of the lyrics to the National Anthem. Yeah, bring back the oldsters, please.
And now, links!
- Sarah Palin isn’t a big fan of the So-Con boycott of CPAC.
- Cheap oil from a friendly nation? Ah, who needs that.
- Barack Obama says he’s not a centrist; the GOP says thank you.
- AOL announced last night that it acquired the Huffington Post for $314 million. I wish nothing but horrible disaster for both companies.
- It appears that life isn’t the only thing that begins at 50.
- Blogging is dead…or something. No, really. This time it completely is!
- Big Hollywood continues its in-depth review of James Bond films, this time, with a great piece on Thunderball.
- This is ridiculously cool: NASA’s STEREO satellites are now sending back images from both the near and far sides of the sun so that, for the first time, we can see the whole surface.
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- Clearing the Browser Tabs — Winter Classic Saturday Edition
- Clearing the Browser Tabs – Late-Morning Thursday Edition
- Clearing the Browser Tabs – Da Radio Guy Saturday Edition
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Oh, that halftime show was supposed to be some kind of homage to Tron? I guess that explains the bizarre costumes, and the glowing body suits on the thousand backup dancers. I still don't get the boxes on their heads. But I don't blame the Black-Eyed Peas–they performed with just as much talent as anyone would expect. Not their fault that the sound man chose to randomly bring up one singer at at time and fade everything else. (Except halfway through Slash's guitar solo, when he stopped muting the guitar.)
And when they lit up the stage to spell LOI E…. Today on Wikipedia I found that Loie Fuller was a pioneer of modern dance and theatrical lighting techniques; so maybe she was an inspiration at some point in the creative process. I find that thought more palatable than the idea that with a Superbowl Halftime budget, they couldn't build a V that would light up on both sides.
Technically, we've always been able to see the whole surface of the Sun, just not all at the same time. The tradeoff in the current STEREO satellite placement is that we can no longer get 3D images of the near side. But that's how the mission was planned.
I knew I’d hear from you over how I phrased that. I couldn’t think of a more concise way to say what you said, though. FYI, you’ve achieved a level of fame among some of my readers for your science know-how. Take a bow, man.