Linky Links

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

- VDH: Universities have a 2025 rendezvous with reality.  

- Andrew Luck to be Stanford football's new GM.

- The greatest media psy-op in history? Hard to argue he's wrong either.

- Javier Milei's privatization of Argentina. 

Linky Links

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

- And just like that I added this hotel to my wish list.

- Interesting: Google's AI model for more accurate weather forecasting.

- There's a special place in hell for people who falsify data on Alzheimer's research.

- What the word "Impossible!" meant to Richard Feynman.

Linky Links

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

- Not sure about you but I'm rooting for Joe Kennedy "the praying coach"

- UNC's Mac Brown on the NCAA

- Jimmy Buffett's obituary in the NY Post. Wish I was at the Margaritaville in Hollywood FLA getting drunk on Landsharks watching college football. Think that's what he would have wanted.

- Ross Dellenger on how the ACC added Stanford, Cal, and SMU

Linky Links

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

- The 100 biggest public companies in the world. The US has 9 of the top 10. USA! USA! USA!

-  Xi Jinping starts his third term in China with a very bad year.

- Stanford University walks back plan to eliminate certain triggering words like "American." (Although not sure the word "walks" should be used here as it could be considered "ableist")

- VDH: What will the FBI not do? The corruption is almost fathomless. Like the idea of moving FBI headquarters out of DC and to somewhere like Salt Lake City

Linky Links

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

- Amazon US sellers will have to display their name and business address starting September 1st. Good!

- Lessons from history

- Did not see this twist coming - is Ghislaine Maxwell secretly one of the most powerful Redditors of all-time?

- Normally I don't link to stories on pay sites but the story of Terry Pluto's book Loose Balls really brought a smile to my face. Loose Balls is one of my all-time favorite sports books.

- Stanford is cutting 11 of its 36 varsity sports. This is a school with a $27 BILLION endowment fund.

- Covid-19 deaths in Sweden have dropped to nearly ZERO. As a reminder - Sweden never went into lockdown.

Linky Links

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

- Interesting look at the repercussions of Soleimani's death

-  IBM and Microsoft - how to lose a monopoly. Interesting perspective for folks (like me) alarmed by Google and Facebook. HT Stephen Landry

- Heh Heh - Iran declines to sign Colin Kaepernick after viewing his workout video.

- Interesting - Stanford researchers develop a particle accelerator that fits on a chip. The design was via a form of AI and the first application for the particle accelerator on a chip is to fight cancer.

- When "Einstein 2.0" met "Freud's successor". Going to add this book to my wish list.

College Football Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous college football thoughts and observations.

I watched the final quarter of Stanford's upset win over USC and I must say that John David Booty at QB for USC makes USC beatable on any given Saturday. Forget the 4 interceptions he threw - USC got the ball back with 49 seconds left and the ball on about their own 45-yard line. All they needed was a couple of quick out completions to set up the game winning field goal. Instead they used up 4 downs and lost 7 yards. Matt Leinart or Carson Palmer would have set the team up for that final field-goal try. John David Booty just isn't a big time QB and if his back-up leads them to a couple of wins - then John David Booty could have played his last down for the Trojans.... With USC and #5 Wisconsin both losing - that means #7 Boston College will probably move up into the top 5. I've got to mention that I may have been the only person to predict a 7-0 start and a top 5 ranking for the Eagles. BC still has to beat Notre Dame to get to 7-0 but with the Irish beating UCLA yesterday - I think that actually makes it easier for BC to win the game. Notre Dame no longer has the urgency to win their first game of the year weighing down on their shoulders... Boston College will probably move up to #5 in the AP poll but I find it amusing that pre-season Michigan was ranked #5 in the AP poll and now they aren't even in the top 25. Pre-season BC wasn't even in the top 25 in the AP poll. Pre-season Louisville was ranked 10th while Missouri was not even ranked. Now Missouri may rise as high as 10th in the poll while Louisville is not even in the top 25. Pre-season it seemed like the voters had no clue about teams like South Florida, Cincinnati, and Illinois while they ranked others purely on reputation. I point this out just to emphasize how unscientific and random the current system is.... Matt Ryan helped himself in his Heisman hopes with a 300 yard performance (or 312 yards depending on whose stats you use) with 4 TD's and most importantly ZERO interceptions. Just as BC will now be in the top 5 - Ryan should also be in the top 5 for Heisman hopefuls... Speaking of awards - Holy Cross QB Dominic Randolph should at least move into the Payton Award watch list with his 6 TD, 404-yard performance against Brown yesterday...