The next time you hear some pretentious American tries to call soccer “futbol”, feel free to remind him that the majority of the English speaking world calls it soccer. A quick breakdown:

“Soccer” World:

• USA
• Canada
• Ireland
• Australia
• New Zealand
• South Africa

“Football” world:

• U.K.
• Belize
• Liberia
• Nigeria
• Various Caribbean countries

This is kind of brilliant, from a marketing perspective - pitch a retread of an 80′s era sci-fi series as a scathing critique of the Obama administration:

Nominally a rousing sci-fi space opera about alien invaders bent on the conquest (and digestion) of all humanity, it’s also a barbed commentary on Obamamania that will infuriate the president’s supporters and delight his detractors.

otherwise, what is the appeal of a silly prime-time alien-invasion soap opera?

It will be very interseting to see how you can pull this off:

Budgeted at around $150m (£91.5m), the film will chart Muhammad’s life and examine his teachings…

… In accordance with Islamic law, the prophet will not actually be depicted on screen.

Many people are already aware of the TED conference. If you are not, you should be. It’s the most interesting and engaging thing available online, and best of all – it’s free.

TED is simply a conference where interesting and acclaimed people are invited to come and speak (usually for around 18 minutes) about a topic of their expertise. It’s pretty tough to actually go to the conference, the tickets are in high demand, but all of the presentations are available for free online.

Some of my favorite TED talks:

• Malcolm Gladwell on spaghetti sauce & some larger implications on human choice
• Bill Clinton on Rwanda (this really hits home to me because of his honest & uncomfortable assessment of the failure during his administration to work effectively in this country to stop the genocide…

And I’ve embedded my favorite talk below, Ze Frank – he’s probably one of the most creative individuals in the world:

I’ll leave the debates to other people, my dog Fido and I will be enjoying the NFL while he’s wearing his customized Michael Vick jersey:

You stay classy, NFL Shop.com.

• The wonderful Straight Dope column addresses the question “Are pit bulls really that dangerous?”
• I love stuff like this: It turns out that autistic children & adults are very good at working with 3-D models: Google Sketch-Up gallery.
• Kind of sickening to read about the mass of garbage in the Pacific Ocean that is twice the size of Texas. (HT: Jason)
• I use a self-hosted Word Press install for this site (and anybody else’s site I help with). These people have a very interesting product to offer – conversion of a .psd (Photoshop) file to a Word Press template. The reality of this is you could have a professional designer design your site in Photoshop for an hourly rate and then have these people turn it into a Word Press site for less than $1,000 all-in. This option would be any turn-key design from a firm in both price & features on the back end.

I’m just glad this wasn’t around when I was in school. It just would have been one more thing that I felt like I was missing out on.

By the way, don’t you love it when technology parents don’t understand meets irrational media-fed fears? As if the kind of kids who are sending naked pictures of themselves would be in bible studies if it weren’t for cell phones. These were the same kids sending naughty messages via telegraph.

I really think that I could start a rumor that satanic drug gangs are using Facebook to get kids hooked on meth as part of an initiation ceremony via subliminal messages left in rock music. I just need to find a way to also involve Obama’s secret birthplace & muslim heritage, gluten-free diets and the do-not call registry. I am open for any ideas you may have.

This site has a very useful page that let’s you analyze your Netflix history. I’ve been a big netflix fan for a long, long time. I’ve had a membership on and off for years now. I remember when I was first a member back in 1999 or 2000 you had to mail your DVDs to San Francisco, so it took forever to transfer them back and forth. So I ran a pretty recent batch of data into the analyzer and it gave me this data:

NetFlix History Analyzer

Analyze your Netflix DVD rental history and determine how much you’ve been paying per DVD, compare it to what you would have paid somewhere else, and compute your savings.

Your results

You’ve rented 62 DVDs over 38 months from December 19, 2005 to February 16, 2009.
Your plan costs $14.99/month so you’ve paid $569.62 total.
Your average price per rental was approximately $9.19 each.
Average rental costs elsewhere are $3.75 each (not including late fees).
You’ve overpaid approximately $337.12 over that time period or $8.87 per month.
Here’s some more about your renting habits…

You kept each rental for around 29 days on average.
The longest you kept a single DVD was 194 days: .
You rented about 2 DVDs each month.
You’re not taking full advantage of your current plan. You could be renting 13 DVDs each month.

Ouch. It really seems that we have wasted a lot of money on Netflix. I feel a lot better about putting the subscription on hold last week.

In case you’re wondering – the movie we kept the longest was Terms of Endearment, we eventually did watch it. The movie with the fastest turn-around time was Redbelt. The best movie I have ever rented from Netflix: The Last King of Scotland or The Queen.

Exhibit A:

Man, I’m really hoping we get the beer coozie. My beers always get lukewarm when I’m at the NASCAR track.

P.S. – This is just trying to be funny. Evie and I aren’t having another baby anytime soon.

… he walks off the court, as if he was planning on making that shot all along.