tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14621608416528326072024-03-13T01:53:34.736-07:00Linkjockey - Cool LinksChris' Linkjockey blog links to unique, fantastic sites on the web that you haven't seen before.Link Jockeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10551953548136494189noreply@blogger.comBlogger774125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462160841652832607.post-12789985478916928352015-03-05T06:26:00.001-08:002015-03-05T06:26:56.686-08:00Pitchfork on Italo Disco<div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I'm loving this <a href="http://pitchfork.com/features/electric-fling/9603-let-me-be-your-radio-the-bizarro-universe-of-italo-disco/">Italo Disco retrospective</a> by Pitchfork about early 80's Italo Disco. So much cheese, but so, so delicious.</font><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">A couple of my favourites:</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://youtu.be/tNCVeo_icAM" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" style="color:rgb(239,65,53);text-decoration:none;line-height:24px">"Stop" by B.W.H.</a><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:24px"> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZvEp-fpjEY" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" style="color:rgb(239,65,53);line-height:24px">Expansives' flanged-out "Life With You..."</a><span style="line-height:24px"> </span></font><br></div></div></div> Link Jockeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10551953548136494189noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462160841652832607.post-15349126755080286202014-03-05T07:03:00.001-08:002014-03-05T07:03:21.714-08:00Message of The Lego Movie is kinda bad, and weird, and different<div><a href="http://nyti.ms/1eGdiWl">The Brilliant, Unnerving Meta-Marketing of 'The Lego Movie'</a> - NY Times Magazine</div><div><br></div><div>Apparently, the message of The Lego Movie is kinda bad, and weird, and different from previous branding exercises. It's subversive and supports the status quo, or something. I'm not sure I get all the big words in the article, but it sounds like they're having a tough time pigeon-holing the movie.</div><div><br></div>Link Jockeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10551953548136494189noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462160841652832607.post-89084952794689001932014-02-11T05:42:00.001-08:002014-02-11T05:42:56.517-08:00Now I Know: Let's Sweep the Ice!<div><br></div><div> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>Now I Know: Let's Sweep the Ice!</title> <!--[if gte mso 6]> <style> table.mcnFollowContent {width:100% !important;} table.mcnShareContent {width:100% !important;} </style> <![endif]--> <center> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" height="100%" width="100%" id="bodyTable" style="border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;margin: 0;padding: 0;background-color: #F2F2F2;height: 100% !important;width: 100% !important;"> <tbody><tr> <td align="center" 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!important;"><font color="#000080">Let's Sweep the Ice!</font></h1> <p class="p1" style="color: #000000;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 15px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;">The Winter Olympics are here, and that can only mean one thing: for the next few weeks, people who don't like to do housework and can't really tolerate the cold will become unnaturally interested in a sport which involves sweeping while standing on ice. Curling is back, and all is right with the world.</p> <p class="p1" style="color: #000000;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 15px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;">And while you will hopefully watch it, you probably have no idea what's going on.</p> <p class="p1" style="color: #000000;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 15px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;">So, let's fix that. Here's everything you need to know to be the curling expert in your school, at work or at your next dinner party.<br> <br> (Before we get there, though: If you've never seen a curling match, <a href="http://nowiknow.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2889002ad89d45ca21f50ba46&id=409fbaf09c&e=eb013eff49" target="_self" style="color: #000080;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;word-wrap: break-word !important;">here are four-plus minutes of highlights</a> from the finals of the men's competition at the 2010 Olympics.)<br> <br> The game features two teams of four people each, armed with brooms, shoes with gliding soles, and special granite stones which themselves have handles. The teams take to a narrow ice rink called a "sheet," and each takes a turn launching a stone toward a target, called the "house." The other three teammates take their brooms and furiously sweep away, hoping to make the stone do their bidding. After each team has alternated launching their eight stones (two per curler), that part of the match -- called an "end" -- ends. Whichever team has a stone closer to the center of the house, called the "button," scores points during that "end," and gets one point per stone closer to the button than the opponent's closest stone (so long as the stones are in the house). The image below, from the <a href="http://nowiknow.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2889002ad89d45ca21f50ba46&id=4432871122&e=eb013eff49" target="_self" style="color: #000080;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;word-wrap: break-word !important;">Port Arthur Curling Club</a> in Ontario, Canada, may help:<br> </p> <p class="p1" style="text-align: center;color: #000000;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 15px;line-height: 150%;"><img align="none" height="334" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/2889002ad89d45ca21f50ba46/images/img_curling.gif" style="width: 484px;height: 334px;border: 0;line-height: 100%;outline: none;text-decoration: none;" width="484" class="emailImage"></p> <p class="p1" style="color: #000000;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 15px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;"><br> (In the above, the red team scores one point.)<br> <br> Sliding rocks on ice seems like a strange thing to do, and to some degree it is -- but then again, so is sticking planks of wood on one's feet and sliding at super-high speeds down a snow-covered mountain. But people have been doing it for centuries. The first evidence of curling <a href="http://nowiknow.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2889002ad89d45ca21f50ba46&id=f666e28f88&e=eb013eff49" target="_self" style="color: #000080;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;word-wrap: break-word !important;">dates back to 1511</a>, based on the discovery of a curling stone with that date engraved. It remained popular through the 1800s and into the early 20th century, and at times, <a href="http://nowiknow.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=2889002ad89d45ca21f50ba46&id=83657968b5&e=eb013eff49" target="_self" style="color: #000080;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;word-wrap: break-word !important;">wooden "stones" were even used</a>. In 1998, it became an Olympic sport. <br> <br> The not-so-obvious physics of the sport make it much more difficult -- and much less straight-forward -- than it appears. First, the ice isn't Zamboni-ed clean like you'd see before a hockey match or a figure skating competition. In fact, the opposite is true. Before a curling match, the sheet is sprayed with water which is then given time to form little bumps called "pebble;" Wikipedia describes the ice surface as <a href="http://nowiknow.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2889002ad89d45ca21f50ba46&id=f453d63070&e=eb013eff49" target="_self" style="color: #000080;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;word-wrap: break-word !important;">resembling the texture of an orange peel</a>. The bottom of the curling stone is slightly concave, meaning that only a thin ring on the base of the stone comes in contacted with the pebbled ice. When these two not-quite-smooth surfaces interact, <a href="http://nowiknow.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2889002ad89d45ca21f50ba46&id=3e3140c426&e=eb013eff49" target="_self" style="color: #000080;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;word-wrap: break-word !important;">the stone beings to curl</a> -- basically, curve -- and can therefore move at unexpected angles and around other stones. Experienced curlers can get a good feel for the conditions and, to a meaningful degree, control the spin of the stones.<br> <br> The brooms? There's a bit of debate around what's going on there. In 2010, a physicist at the University of Northern British Columbia named Mark Shegelski <a href="http://nowiknow.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2889002ad89d45ca21f50ba46&id=d927a357b7&e=eb013eff49" target="_self" style="color: #000080;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;word-wrap: break-word !important;">spoke with <em>Scientific American</em></a> about the popular theories around the issue. He noted that most everyone agrees that, by sweeping in front of the stone, the broomsmen and broomswomen are reducing the friction between the stone and the ice surface, allowing the stone to move forward more quickly than it would otherwise. The issue, though, is <em>why</em> this happens. Most likely, sweepers aren't knocking pebbles loose, clearing the way for the stone to enter the house. Rather, they're warming the ice sheet up and, in the process, creating a thin liquid-ish layer between the stone's contact ring and the surface, thereby allowing it to maintain more momentum. The sweepers, Shegelski believes, aren't <em>cleaning</em> the ice -- they're <em>melting</em> it. </p> But not everything involving curling can be easily explained. Take, for example, the Russian team's pants for the current Games -- <a href="http://nowiknow.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=2889002ad89d45ca21f50ba46&id=56482d6b06&e=eb013eff49" target="_self" style="color: #000080;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;word-wrap: break-word !important;">they're well beyond explanation</a>.<br> <br> <span style="color:#000080"><strong><u>Bonus Fact</u></strong></span>: There have been eight curling events at the Olympics -- four men's, four women's -- since the sport joined the ranks of official competitions in 1998. (A mixed doubles event was considered for the 2010 Games but ultimately rejected.) 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It also has the diagrams for the other sets.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm sure my Lego-fiend nephew would love this!</div>Link Jockeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10551953548136494189noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462160841652832607.post-53492464621703278502012-12-05T08:01:00.001-08:002012-12-05T08:01:21.527-08:00Final descent<div><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://vimeo.com/54658957" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; ">Landings at San Diego Int Airport Nov 23, 2012</a> - 4.5 hours of plane landings in 30 seconds. <br><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgHjVvqLXV8" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; ">Heathrow Approach</a> Planes lining up on approach to London Heathrow at 17x speed. Strangely hypnotic. </span></font></div>Link Jockeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10551953548136494189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462160841652832607.post-10407682553143333352012-12-02T10:50:00.001-08:002012-12-02T10:50:07.359-08:00Lego Crafts<div><a href="http://www.tipjunkie.com/all-crafts/lego-craft/">13 Fun Lego Craft Tutorials for Kids</a></div><div>I have a certain nephew that I think would love these projects. Some are food and some are crafts with Lego.</div><div>Pretty cool!</div>Link Jockeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10551953548136494189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462160841652832607.post-1115947310764041182012-10-13T15:45:00.000-07:002012-10-13T15:46:04.203-07:00=?cp932?Q?Remembering_Eric_Lindros=81f_first_game_in_Quebec,_20_?=
=?cp932?Q?years_later?=<div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; ">Remembering Eric Lindros' first game in Quebec, 20 years later | Puck Daddy - Yahoo! Sports</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);">The lockout stinks, but this story about Eric Lindros is pretty entertaining. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"><br></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/remembering-eric-lindros-first-game-quebec-20-years-160036548--nhl.html">http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/remembering-eric-lindros-first-game-quebec-20-years-160036548--nhl.html</a></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div>Link Jockeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10551953548136494189noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462160841652832607.post-626352012672090642012-10-02T16:15:00.001-07:002012-10-02T16:15:16.064-07:00Friends don't let friends fly American<div class="WordSection1"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/30/opinion/sunday/a-trans-atlantic-trip-turns-kafkaesque.html?smid=pl-share">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/30/opinion/sunday/a-trans-atlantic-trip-turns-kafkaesque.html?smid=pl-share</a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p> </div> <hr> <font face="Arial" size="0.5">This email and its attachments are intended solely for the personal use of the individual or entity named above. 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My mind is blown.
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<br><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nba-ball-dont-lie/metta-world-peace-delivers-weather-forecast-canadian-television-171500534.html;_ylt=AoJNoMT_A11gCmHi56S_jUq8vLYF">http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nba-ball-dont-lie/metta-world-peace-delivers-weather-forecast-canadian-television-171500534.html;_ylt=AoJNoMT_A11gCmHi56S_jUq8vLYF</a>Link Jockeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10551953548136494189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462160841652832607.post-25512839036637033542012-05-19T06:53:00.001-07:002012-05-19T06:53:53.255-07:00Behind the Seattle Sounders' MLS successSoccer - Seattle Sounders prove MLS can put fans in the seats - ESPN The Magazine
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<br><a href="http://espn.go.com/sports/soccer/story/_/id/7929299/soccer-seattle-sounders-prove-mls-put-fans-seats-espn-magazine">http://espn.go.com/sports/soccer/story/_/id/7929299/soccer-seattle-sounders-prove-mls-put-fans-seats-espn-magazine</a>Link Jockeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10551953548136494189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462160841652832607.post-91550726190386321042012-04-17T18:15:00.001-07:002012-04-17T18:15:20.971-07:00Meet The New Boss, Worse Than The Old Boss? -Full Post | The TrichordistA takedown of the new music industry status quo from a long time indie veteran. <p><a href="http://thetrichordist.wordpress.com/2012/04/15/meet-the-new-boss-worse-than-the-old-boss-full-post/">http://thetrichordist.wordpress.com/2012/04/15/meet-the-new-boss-worse-than-the-old-boss-full-post/</a>Link Jockeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10551953548136494189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462160841652832607.post-2666254402596060242012-04-12T06:47:00.001-07:002012-04-12T06:47:54.691-07:00Earthquake Notification System<div><a href="http://sslearthquake.usgs.gov/ens/userhome_gmaps">Earthquake Notification System</a></div><div>Set up earthquake email alerts for different regions and magnitudes, courtesy of the US Geological Survey.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>Link Jockeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10551953548136494189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462160841652832607.post-17866257719310200022012-04-05T21:29:00.000-07:002012-04-05T21:30:35.876-07:00World's Most Expensive 1 Bedroom Apt<div></div><div><table><tbody><tr><td><img src="http://a0.twimg.com/profile_images/286502174/Photo_16_normal.jpg" style="float:left;width:48px;height:48px;margin:8px;margin-bottom:3px;"><b>Diane Ademu-John (<a href="https://twitter.com/junkyardmessiah">@junkyardmessiah</a>)</b><br><a href="https://twitter.com/junkyardmessiah/status/187745505328115712">4/4/12 8:36 PM</a><br>The Most Expensive 1 Bedroom Apt in the World is in Tokyo. <span><a href="http://t.co/WwgIisAm">twistedsifter.com/2012/04/worlds…</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table></div>Link Jockeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10551953548136494189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462160841652832607.post-89345381288424478522012-04-05T21:21:00.001-07:002012-04-05T21:21:19.347-07:00=?cp932?Q?Hockey_and_pro_wrestling:_The_Seven_reasons_why_they?=
=?cp932?Q?=81fre_blood_relatives_|_Puck_Daddy_-_Yahoo!_Sports?=<a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/hockey-pro-wrestling-seven-reasons-why-blood-relatives-210038970.html">http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/hockey-pro-wrestling-seven-reasons-why-blood-relatives-210038970.html</a><p><br>Cheers, Chris (via iPhone)Link Jockeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10551953548136494189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462160841652832607.post-2167240597896163062012-04-02T07:06:00.001-07:002012-04-02T07:06:04.926-07:00The Next Moneyball in Baseball<div><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/sports/baseball/major-league-teams-seek-new-ways-to-deconstruct-game.html">The Next Big Idea - NY Times</a></b></div>The competitive gap is closing in new stadiums and statistical analyses, so what areas will baseball teams mine for advantages in the future?<div>Although this article has a baseball focus, the moneyball ideas have been used in every other sport, including hockey. The ideas that make the most sense for hockey are injury prevention and better drafting.</div>Link Jockeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10551953548136494189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462160841652832607.post-49442402295549212842012-04-02T07:00:00.001-07:002012-04-02T07:00:28.888-07:00Google enters robot car in NASCAR<div>Google is going to enter a self-driving car into NASCAR.</div><div><a href="http://www.nascar.com/video/none/none/120331/cup-mar-google/index.html">Video</a></div><div><br></div>Link Jockeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10551953548136494189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462160841652832607.post-81168223806267287752012-03-06T21:07:00.001-08:002012-03-06T21:07:44.824-08:00The top five silent films to shout aboutBased on the success of recent films Hugo and The Artist, here are five top silent films to shout about:<p><a href="http://m.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2012/mar/02/top-five-silent-films?cat=film&type=article">http://m.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2012/mar/02/top-five-silent-films?cat=film&type=article</a>Link Jockeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10551953548136494189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462160841652832607.post-42213402507005517112012-02-16T15:02:00.001-08:002012-02-16T15:02:41.037-08:00LED Snowboarding video<div class="WordSection1"> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="http://www.nowness.com/day/2012/2/16/1893/jacob-sutton-s-l-e-d-surfer">Jacob Sutton’s L.E.D. Surfer</a></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">A Night-time Snowboarding Short Lights Up the Last of the Winter Snow</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p> </div> <hr> <font face="Arial" size="0.5">This email and its attachments is intended solely for the personal use of the individual or entity named above. Any use of this communication by an unintended recipient is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, any publication, use, reproduction, disclosure or dissemination of its contents is strictly prohibited. Please immediately delete this message and its attachments from your computer and servers. We would also appreciate if you would contact us by a collect call or return email to notify us of this error. Thank you for your cooperation.<br> </font><font size="0.1" color="white">-BCHydroDisclaimerID5.2.8.1541</font> Link Jockeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10551953548136494189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462160841652832607.post-73242902217713226442012-02-15T08:22:00.001-08:002012-02-15T08:22:07.367-08:00How to Say I Love You - The Morning News100 (very humourous) ways to say "I love you."<p><a href="http://www.themorningnews.org/article/how-to-say-i-love-you">http://www.themorningnews.org/article/how-to-say-i-love-you</a><p>Cheers, Chris (via iPhone)Link Jockeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10551953548136494189noreply@blogger.com0