I've been meaning to rework my site for quite a while.

For Chris Hill

...In related news you might have known that Auburn Alabama did not win a National title this year.  Alabama's season was successful, but not the same level of success the The University of Alabama Auburn University.  They proved too good for the rest of the NCAA and brought the BCS title and trophy home recently.  So what do you do with a BCS National Title and a pretty glass trophy?

One of the first places the BCS trophy was delivered to was ... wait for it... WalMart.

Fun kinetic type video from Al Yankovic. Pretty well-done, but with a couple of kerning problems early on (that's the designer in me).

There have been more than than a few co-workers I would've loved to have sent this to over the years. :-) 

Last night on the local news they ran a story about a Murfreesboro woman who was shocked when her custom license plate was rejected by the state of Tennessee.

Her requested customized plate: ILVTOFU

Depending on your mindset that either reads I love tofu or I love to know you in a Biblical sense.

In the video piece on WMCTV, we are supposed to believe that the woman is naive enough to not know what FU means, she just innocently loves PETA and thinks we should eat tofu instead of tasty animals.

Immediately, my BS detector went off and a Google search confirms it.

This is a PETA stunt that was first tried in 2009 in Colorado. Expect to see this pop up in other states. It lead the news last night, it’s currently the lead news item on WMCTV, The Memphis Business Journal has it on their site so it apparently worked in Tennessee.

It’s brilliant marketing because it’s the kind of thing that’ll get tossed around at the proverbial water cooler, but it’s completely a fake story being reported as news. Textbook propaganda.

One of the factors that limits the amount of times I blog these days is the amount of time it takes me to write a regular entry. Our headmaster at school can write a 12 page blog entry in his sleep, but it takes me a bit longer.

I always wanted a way to quick-share the things I find interesting in my Google Reader feeds. For a long time, I used their share feature where you can share with other Google Reader users. Only about 2 people are actually using that feature, it would seem. I have included that stuff here on my blog at the bottom of the home page as well, but with the news that major changes are coming to Google Reader, which will do away with shared items in favor of Google+, with increases the number of people actually using that feature from 2 to 3—nearly no one is using Google+ as far as I can tell—it’s time for a new strategy.

So expect to see more short-style links here about politics, technology, and what-not.