Although I have written about how NFL Players play with head injuries, I have never written about the NFL, or any sport, as a fan, on Where Did My Brain Go?
I am not much of a sports fan, but there is a special place in my heart for one team: The New York Football [...]
Posted in NY Giants by Mitch on September 24th, 2007 at 11:33 pm
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Discovery announced that the semi—triumphant return of Man vs. Wild to their network tomorrow, has been canceled or rescheduled.
Instead of a reminder to watch tomorrow’s show, I was informed that:
We’re sorry, the program you selected is no longer airing at this time. Please visit our schedule
to view other air times.
Unfortunately, that schedule still has Man [...]
Posted in Bear Grylls by Mitch on September 23rd, 2007 at 8:27 pm
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Bear Grylls will be back on the Discovery Channel next week, but he was curiously omitted from Sunday night’s You Spoof Discovery special on the Discovery Channel.
Viewers were invited to submit videos spoofing their favorite Discovery Channel shows. A media kit, containing sample sounds and effects is available to help contestants get started.
Discovery selected [...]
Posted in Bear Grylls by Mitch on September 19th, 2007 at 4:55 pm
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Have you ever found it hard to read something on a Web site, because the content was surrounded by blinking, flashing images?
Lorenzo Colitti and Philip Chee, have developed software, which eliminates that problem for Firefox users.
Flashblock is a Firefox add–on, which replaces the content of Flash, Shockwave, and Authorware files with a neutral image, [...]
Posted in Learning by Mitch on September 19th, 2007 at 4:50 pm
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I rarely read a newspaper, but I have learned a great deal about politics, and politicians, since I started Where Did My Brain Go? Unfortunately, almost all of it has been negative.
For example, I never knew that $3,048,686,000 of the $4,658,686,000 which the Iraq Freedom Fund received this year, was used for “classified” programs, and [...]
Posted in News by Mitch on September 13th, 2007 at 11:05 pm
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The sixth anniversary of the worst attack on American soil passed quietly. Too quietly for me.
Six years have gone by since Osama bin Laden allegedly masterminded attacks on The World Trade Center and Pentagon. Although The FBI lists Usama bin Laden (their spelling) as a Most Wanted Terrorist, he seems to have gotten away [...]
Posted in Musings by Mitch on September 12th, 2007 at 6:37 pm
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