This website is a godsend for anyone who can’t watch the games they want to. Whether it’s NFL games you don’t get because you can’t put in DirecTV to get Sunday Ticket, or regional college games that aren’t showing where you live, or soccer matches from across the pond. This site has all of them.
Just go there, install the popular programs like SopCast, TVAnts, and TVUPlayer, and use the links that are updated every day to watch the games. Or, just browse the forums for the links to JustinTV sites where you don’t have to download anything.
Then, when your roommates are taking up the TV by playing Wii, you can hope on a computer and pull up a couple games like this (click to see it in full glory):
And the connection/picture tends to be really good on the games, assuming you don’t mind being 5-10 seconds behind live TV.
With Christmas and all I was away for a while, but I managed to stock up on some good stuff for you before all the family time. Hope you enjoy some of these.
Chad Marshall Resigns With Columbus Crew (Soccer by Ives)
I know most people don’t care, but this is a big deal for MLS. Marshall is one of the top young defenders in the league and to hopefully the league will be able to continue to hold on to guys of his caliber.
Young US Soccer Players Have More Fun Than You (The Offside Rules)
The young kids hanging out in Vegas. Sadly no Freddy or Jozy sightings in the collection of pictures here, but we do get to see Sacha Kljesten leading the party and his brother Gordon going all Johnny Drama trying to convince people “No really, I’m with these guys”
Shark on a Waterslide (Gizmodo)
Yeah, a shark jumped out of it’s tank and onto a waterslide at a resort in the Bahamas. And yes, there are pictures.
Are the Republicans Still a National Party? (fivethirtyeight)
Nate does a really nice job explaining the difficulties that the Republicans will face going forward. The most damning statistic, if every House race went 15 more percentage points towards the Republican candidate, the Democrats would still have a majority of the seats.
Will Decatur Become a Virtual World (Gizmodo)
Apparently my city is considering making some kind of virtual world that we can interact in. I have no idea what the true benefit of this will be to the city and how it won’t just be a tax burden, but I still kinda want to see it.
Four months ago the Atlanta Journal-Constitution had a poll online that asked which football team would win more games in the 2008 season and gave reader’s two options:
1. The University of Georgia
2. Georgia Tech and the Falcons combined
Now, here we sit and the new question is, will Georgia win more games than either Georgia Tech OR the Falcons. Each team has 10 wins so far with one game left.
Georgia Tech has LSU remaining in the Peach Bowl, a game most people seem pretty confident GT will win. The Falcons are going to be facing off against a TERRIBLE St. Louis rams team and will be fighting for the top wild-card spot and the right to play Arizona, not Chicago/Minnesota again. Georgia has Michigan State left in a game they are strongly favored to win, but there are pundits out there questioning whether they’ll be pumped up to play and if they can stop Mich St’s power rushing attack.
46 points. 14-21 from the floor. 9-14 from 3. 9-10 at the line.
I was expecting stuff like this out of you last year after how you ended your freshman season, but it’s nice to see you finally coming along. Please stay healthy this year, UK needs it.
These are the latest FIFA rankings of international squads. Where’s Mexico? Bwahahahaha.
I started the day with a quick readthrough of some documents from a local startup I’m working on some marketing stuff for, and then met with the group for about 3 hours. This may be the most productive I’ve been (in a “doing something that actually benefits people” way) that I’ve been in a week.
Now I’m back to being bored and reading the internets. I guess I’ll take some time tonight to finish up the backend of a website I’m working on for the pro bono consulting project at Georgia Tech, but it’s at the point that I only have to do one more little thing but I know it’s going to take like 3 hours of trial and error to fully test, and I don’t want to commit that much time right now.
No, I didn’t just make that name up, he’s the guy who wrote the software that ran PartyPoker. And, apparently, he also pissed off the US Government to the tune of $300 million. Ooops.
After being witness to a very disappointing 88-85 loss to the Boston Celtics, I was cheered up by the following facebook conversation with my little brother.
Patrick
so. not sure why, but i found myself making a mix tape the other day
Ryan
oh?
Patrick
for whatever reason, i just really felt like listening to a tape
it was a nice experience
Ryan
oh, like an ACTUAL mix tape
Patrick
yeah
haha
i guess there’s just some indie rock comfort in the quiet fuzz of a 90-minute tape
Ahhh kids born after 1990, not knowing what it’s like to have tapes as your only portable source of music.
Obviously finals and all that whatnot took up a good bit of my time this week, but I did manage to find a few things worth reading.
10 Gadgets for Winter Fun (Gizmodo)
A hand held device that makes a perfect snowball? Nice. A gun looking thing that makes THREE perfect snowballs and then lets you slingshot them up to 50 feet? SUPER AWESOME!! Also includes a way to make 8 gallons of fake snow for ~$30 for all us warm weather folk.
Alabama Football’s new Fail Room (Deadspin)
Alabama has a prominent booster whose last name is Fail. That kinda sucks because really, what are you going to want to put your name on? You wouldn’t want to label your football team failures. Oh wait, what’s that? The visitor’s locker room? Yeah, that’ll do.
Best Business/Finance Books of 2008 (Paul Kedrosky)
These are the most popular books (by click thru rate) from Paul Kedrosky’s blog this past year. If all this financial meltdown stuff interested you in any way, you might want to go check a couple of these out.
