who’s dumber now
Posted on May 7, 2007 - Filed Under Sports, Statistics | Leave a Comment
Got an amazing trivia question for you. Who do you think made more money last year, Tiger Woods or Carrot Top? And when they inevitably say “Carrot Top” I can say, “No, Tiger Woods … what are you, some kind of moron? It wasn’t even close. Tiger Woods made like 300 million dollars. Carrot Top [...]
Read More..>>this just in
Posted on April 17, 2007 - Filed Under Statistics | Leave a Comment
I guess “breaking” is relative
Read More..>>student paper covers racial issues, school system panics
Posted on April 13, 2007 - Filed Under Kids These Days, Language, Liberal Media Conspiracies, Perception, Race, Statistics | Leave a Comment
Ahhh…the crucible that is high school journalism. Benson (Omaha) High School’s student newspaper ran an apparently thoughtful and well-received issue about the so-called n-word (that would be ‘nigger’ for those scoring at home). OPS assures the community that “Appropriate action will ensue upon the completion of the investigation.” Uh, okay. Other fun facts from the [...]
Read More..>>new fantasy baseball community
Posted on March 8, 2007 - Filed Under Ask The Internet, Sports, Statistics | Leave a Comment
I’ve decided to dip my toes in the Ning waters, creating a fantasy baseball “community”*. If you have any perceived or real interest in fantasy baseball, feel free to join. I don’t have any immediate plans for this … but am curious to see if/where it goes. http://baseballfantasy.ning.com * what happens when you throw a [...]
Read More..>>The Magic Number
Posted on December 27, 2006 - Filed Under Statistics | Leave a Comment
Top 3 of 2006: Live music:Â Beirut at Bowery; Man Man at Spaceland; TV on the Radio at Prospect Park Albums:Â Passover, Black Angels; Songs that you may not Like, Boat; Time without Consequence, Alexi Murdoch Movies: Little Miss Sunshine; Stranger than Fiction; Thank you for Smoking Trips: Skiied Whistler; Surfed Kauai;Â Trashed a rental car [...]
Read More..>>First Things First
Posted on December 19, 2006 - Filed Under Books, Look Away! It's My Brain, Movies, Music, Statistics | Leave a Comment
Reading Jeff’s Death Alert, I was reminded that the first book I read myself was Tom and Jerry Have A Party. So I thought I’d put together a list of my “firsts” as best I can. This will likely be a work-in-progress as I continue to remember things. First Book Read: Tom and Jerry Have [...]
Read More..>>Spray, Magic Spray
Posted on October 24, 2006 - Filed Under Pain, Sports, Statistics | Leave a Comment
Prepare yourselves for this shocker: “FIFA have revealed that more than half [58%] of the players treated on the pitch during this summer’s World Cup were not actually injured.” Pete Lit revisits the Six Word Stories. The Wall Street Journal takes a look at SF’s Tenderloin. Without a login, I can’t read more than this: [...]
Read More..>>Dubious Statistic of the Day
Posted on October 23, 2006 - Filed Under Statistics | 2 Comments
“There are 0 people in the U.S. with the first name Tito.” {via}
Read More..>>Joy In Mudville
Posted on August 8, 2006 - Filed Under Money, Sports, Statistics | Leave a Comment
Despite their best efforts to shoot themselves in the foot, Major League Baseball will not be able to ban people from playing fantasy baseball. “The names and playing records of major league baseball players as used in CBC’s fantasy games are not copyrightable,” Medler wrote. “Therefore, federal copyright law does not pre-empt the players’ claimed [...]
Read More..>>“Give It To Me Baby”
Posted on August 7, 2006 - Filed Under Language, Robot Brains, Statistics | Leave a Comment
… are the five words describing what is on my shortlist for b-day wishes, for those scoring at home: We processed 1,011,582,453,213 words of running text and are publishing the counts for all 1,146,580,664 five-word sequences that appear at least 40 times. There are 13,653,070 unique words, after discarding words that appear less than 200 [...]
Read More..>>Well, There Was a Popular Singer Named Frank Stallone
Posted on July 19, 2006 - Filed Under Movies, Robot Brains, Statistics | Leave a Comment
Number of Google News articles currently using the phrase “Rocky VI” : 45 Number of Google News articles currently using the phrase “Rambo IV“: 13
Read More..>>Is This Just Fantasy?
Posted on May 22, 2006 - Filed Under Money, Perception, Sports, Statistics | 2 Comments
Coming up on one of my favorite podcasts “Open Source” 56, .406, 755 — baseball’s record hit streak, batting average, and home run total: numbers at the intersection of history, myth, memory and, now, at the heart of a lawsuit between ball players and their fantasy fans. Because from these numbers has grown a side [...]
Read More..>>Going to the Track
Posted on April 7, 2006 - Filed Under Drinking, Money, Statistics | 1 Comment
Tomorrow marks my first ever trip to the horsetrack. Any advice / tips that can be sent my way will be gladly accepted. My current strategy is to bet horses that sound like the most likely choice for an ODB alter-ego nom de rap.
Read More..>>No Joy In Mudville
Posted on January 16, 2006 - Filed Under Money, Race, Sports, Statistics | 2 Comments
Major League Baseball, suck it. Major League Baseball has claimed that intellectual property law makes it illegal for fantasy league operators to “commercially exploit the identities and statistical profiles” of big league players. I guess only MLB can do the exploiting since they paid $50 million for the stats. As recently as 2003, the powers [...]
Read More..>>Are You A Douchebag?
Posted on January 12, 2006 - Filed Under Kids These Days, Statistics, Words (In Print) I Hate | Leave a Comment
At BMK HQ, we realize you may share our need to align yourself with a social movement or failing that, a demographic. As a public service, we offer you this quiz to easily determine… Are You A Douchebag? 1. Did you take this quiz? o No = 1 pt o Yes = 5 pts o [...]
Read More..>>Dis-Honor Roll Tide
Posted on December 20, 2005 - Filed Under Sports, Statistics | Leave a Comment
According to this article, Alabama has the lowest graduation rate (39%) among the AP’s Top 25 college football teams. Alabama takes on Texas Tech (73%) in the Cotton Bowl. The largest disparity among bowl competitors lies between Notre Dame(96%) and Ohio State(54%). Of course, these types of reports seem to come out all the time [...]
Read More..>>Let’s Call The Whole Thing Off
Posted on December 15, 2005 - Filed Under Liberal Media Conspiracies, Robot Brains, Statistics, We Kid Because We Care | Leave a Comment
TMFTML notes the new methodologies of research – namely, put some words together and see how many pages google finds. The larger the number, the more righter you are! Inspired by the elegance of this approach, I decided to use google’s “hit count” to answer some questions. With some of my own analysis (really trivial, [...]
Read More..>>For Those Scoring At Home
Posted on December 1, 2005 - Filed Under Film, Liberal Media Conspiracies, Religion, Statistics | Leave a Comment
Number of made-for-television biographies: Pope John “We Need More Saints” Paul II: II Amy “Long Island Lolita” Fisher”: III1 What does this all mean? Nothing more than serve as a reminder of the existential crises I am thrown into each time I ask myself, “Is the Pope Polish?“. 1Once you go Roman, you never go [...]
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