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Monday, February 8, 2010

News The Morning News

Posted by David Schmader on Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 8:17 AM

Here Is a Sentence I Enjoyed Typing: New Orleans wins the Super Bowl!

Kaboom: Explosion at Connecticut power plants kills five, injures dozens.

No Kaboom (Except the Giant One Needed to Send it Into Space): Space Shuttle Endeavour safely blasts off for a two-week mission.

Kashmir Avalanche: "A massive avalanche plowed into an Indian army training center, killing 17 soldiers and critically injuring 17 others."

Hot Bi Adventures: President Obama proposes televised bipartisan meeting on health care.

Up in the Air: City of Seattle and Vulcan push for higher building-height limits in South Lake Union.

Dear China, Please Look Up "Recall" in the Dictionary: 170 tons of tainted milk powder recalled last year in China was repackaged for sale.

You Too, Japan: Toyota plans to recall 300,000 Priuses.

That Is Not Sleeping: Atlanta man dies during sleep study.

It Took Me 1.5 Seconds to Load This Story: Google analyst says U.S. needs faster internet.

Charging Dr. Feelgood: Long-awaited charges against Michael Jackson's prescribing physician expected today.

Mr. Jones!: Langley, WA show dog takes best of breed in the American Kennel Club/Eukanuba National Championship for the second year in a row.

Finally, in honor of his hometown's Super Bowl triumph of yesterday and his yearlong jail term starting tomorrow, please enjoy some Lil Wayne. (Audio NSFW.)

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Lil Wayne was rooting for the Colts yesterday.

Posted by Brian Geoghagan on February 8, 2010 at 8:22 AM

The major block to rolling out broadband in America isn't how all the monopolies hold back investment. This is a huge problem but the real problem I see is that people just don't want broadband. So much of the country sees no value in high speed internet. Meanwhile the rest of the world is quickly rolling out internet to so many people and the "Real Americans" just don't give a damn.

Posted by Packeteer on February 8, 2010 at 8:28 AM

Whaddya know? Lil Wayne and I share a die-hard devotion to Brett Favre.

Posted by David Schmader on February 8, 2010 at 8:30 AM

Schmader, I've been thinking about your comparing Lindy to Paula Abdul and have decided that it's inappropriately complimentary to Paula. To me Lindy's more like Gracie Allen:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gracie_Alle…

(She was long dead before all of us came along, more's the pity)

Posted by attitude devant on February 8, 2010 at 9:03 AM

Speak for yourself, AD. I remember Gracie Allen quite well.

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty

on February 8, 2010 at 9:07 AM

4: You're right, I just needed a pop-culture reference that would scan with the masses.

Posted by David Schmader on February 8, 2010 at 9:15 AM

Actually,
according to witnesses,
the power plant went 'Kablooey!'...

Posted by WileyCoyote on February 8, 2010 at 9:17 AM

The reason the internet is slow is because all that stuff gets jammed up in the tubes.

The internet was much faster when it was more like a big truck instead of a series of tubes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_t…

Posted by Urgutha Forka on February 8, 2010 at 10:01 AM

#2, I also think it's problematic that so many people have a proprietary interest in it already. Don't you think T-mobile and the like aren't going to give up their investment in "hotspots" without a fuss?

Posted by attitude devant on February 8, 2010 at 10:02 AM

I remember Gracie Allen as well, but she did die before I was born.

Oooh, and about the Chinese powdered milk. Perhaps they fixed it -- like Toyota is doing now??

Posted by Keekee on February 8, 2010 at 10:42 AM

@8 - that's because we made the tubes out of wood and plastic.

Seriously, though, other first world nations have Net backbones that provide 20 times the bandwidth for one-twentieth the price for both bandwidth and storage.

We're falling behind Mexico.

Posted by Will in Seattle