Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- No more nudes at Playboy. Surprising but understandable move when you think about it.

- Tom E. Curran defends Alex Guerrero

- Very touching and classy move by the Bruins yesterday with Travis Roy

- Tasmanian Devils being returned to the wild

- As if I needed another reason not to like the Cardinals

- Growing up in New England I just assumed that Columbus Day was a national holiday. Boy was I wrong

- Best alternate universe ending for Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.

- It's hard to to feel for Ed Werder and his family after reading this

- This is Exhibit 2,389 of why I'm not a fan of soccer

- Cool Firefly article on their reunion at this year's NYC Comic Con

Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

I wonder if Barack Obama publicly supporting the Blackhawks will hurt Ed Markey in his bid for the Mass Senate seat among Bruins fans. I hope it does... Lost in the Tim Tebow hoopla was the fact that the story of him signing with the Patriots was broken by Ed Werder. Does that mean Werder is Belichick's "go to" reporter?... Speaking of Tebow - the Angels wanted to draft him... Obama to announce that he is changing the name of PRISM to SkyNet. What could go wrong?... Cool photo of a lightning strike in Chicago last night... I wonder how many Michael Angelo's there are in the phone book. Are phone books even a thing any more?... 36 made in Massachusetts summer beers... The more I do my own laundry - the more I find myself not wearing underwear...  Interesting read on "Incarcerated Bob". Bottom line - you are a fool if you pay for picks... The only silver lining about the NSA monitoring all calls story is the ability for parents to warn their children not to send nude pics because the government will put them on the Internet. Maybe that will do the trick. Sad reflection on our liberty but we've gone from telling children to be good because Santa is watching to adults thinking "holy crap - there really is someone watching to see if I'm naughty or nice"... Interesting stuff - 22 things you may not know about the Stanley Cup...