ar arr arrrr.
Nice summary from Sports Illustrated.

BEST FANS: Hard to choose. The mighty, tightly packed Lithuanian basketball fans, dressed in their country’s green, yellow and red, resembled the produce section at a grocery store. The Japanese, in matching samurai garb, were vocal and organized at baseball. And then there was the overweight Brazilian beach volleyball fan in a green-and-yellow wig, tight yellow Superman costume and blue Speedo trunks.

WORST ATTITUDE: U.S. super heavyweight Jason Estrada, who performed dismally in a quarterfinal loss to Cuba’s Michel Lopez Nunez, then infuriated his coaches by telling reporters it didn’t matter since he’s focusing on his upcoming pro career: “If I’m going to lose, I’m going to lose getting hit as little as possible. I’d rather not get hit at all.”

Considering the crowds individual social misfits didn’t seem to make the news much.
There was the Canadian fool in the pool and a former Irish priest who believes the world is going to end soon. Not quite sure how tackling a marathon runner is going to hasten the end of the world though. The former priest needs some serious psychiatric help and the fool in the pool needs a serious enough legal reprecussion to help him learn to act his age.

The Repbulican Convention blogs
For those interested in who is blogging from the New York convention, About’s section on blogging has the information on the 15 invited pundits.

35 years and growing
The internet is 35 years old.

Stephen Crocker and Vinton Cerf were among the graduate students who joined UCLA professor Len Kleinrock in an engineering lab on Sept. 2, 1969, as bits of meaningless test data flowed silently between the two computers. By January, three other “nodes” joined the fledgling network.

Then came e-mail a few years later, a core communications protocol called TCP/IP in the late 70s, the domain name system in the 80s and the World Wide Web — now the second most popular application behind e-mail — in 1990. The Internet expanded beyond its initial military and educational domain into businesses and homes around the world.

Interesting graffiti

From Working Things Out

During my last train ride to Chicago, I saw an abandoned train car, barely visible in the twilight. On the side of this train car someone wrote in graffiti, “The American dream is not the only dream.”

Since I initially read that statement, I have asked myself the question (and continue to ask the question): Is the American dream the only dream, or even the best dream we can dream? Can we dream beyond the horizon that is the American dream — i.e., the neoliberal capitalist vision of the world?

Ouch
One of the guest bloggers here at BDBO took a bit of a tumble and injured more than his pride. Trouble is, none of his readers (including me) are giving him any sympathy. Teasing and even admonishment, yes, but no sympathy.
Actually, not even much empathy. If you have any to spare, head over and pile it on.:^)