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Why Advertising Is Failing On The Internet "My basic premise is that the internet is not replacing advertising but shattering it, and all the kingâs horses, all the kingâs men, and all the creative talent of Madison Avenue cannot put it together again." (tags: economics society culture internet…
While all right-thinking people know that the important games are played on Sundays, as God intended, there are some people who insist on watching football on Saturday. Yesterday was a particularly good day for it, with a bunch of highly rated teams losing . While there was, of course, only one…
Over at Cosmic Variance, Sean has a nice, concise post about what's wrong with college football. He's responding to a desperately stupid post that ends with this: Let's not ruin college football's fabulous 13 week do-or-die regular season with a playoff! This was posted back in October, so the…
This past weekend, I ended up hearing sports-radio pinheads holding forth proudly about their ignorance of college basketball. The justification for this is that "the regular season doesn't matter," since the NCAA tournament is single-elimination, and lesser-known teams keep ending up making big…

The parable of the talents re-enacted: Those who earn money without business licenses or taxes surrendered will have Hell to pay - or the authorities.