At Good, Amanda Hess looks back at the origins of online handles and squeezes confessions out of some of her peers. I was a pretty early AOL user — eighth grade, so ’94 or ’95 I guess. And for some reason I cannot now recall, I first signed on under the name “SLYDOG TED.” I assume, knowing my eighth-grade self, it was some ska reference.
Big League Stew compiles the best of Sports Illustrated’s oral history of the filming of Major League, including the anecdote that Dennis Haysbert actually hit a home run during shooting.
Hey, David Wright’s one of the Mets’ best players, so his return from the DL would be a good thing, right? WRONG! Thus spake Rob Parker, at least. A classic. Via Ben.
Scientists are growing something vaguely akin to a brain in a petri dish, and it’s awesome looking enouh to inspire a Discovery.com writer to keep referencing Pink Floyd over and over. Via Paul.
Hard to figure if he definitely needed to in this case, and not as awesome as the last time either way. But still pretty awesome.
In a related story: Someone is awesome. You may recall that I have some experience with write-in campaigns. If I knew the New York state ballot would be published on the Internet like this, I might have tried to drum up a little more support for the Dickster.
According to The Daily, Dave Chappelle is working on a new show for a paid streaming subscription service. This is interesting and exciting news for a variety of reasons, mostly because it means we may someday soon have access to more stuff Dave Chappelle does.
The Mets seem to think the wet dirt in Atlanta last night was some calculated gamesmanship on the part of the Braves. Remember that the Mets also complained to the league about the Braves’ scheduling of a double-header earlier in the season.
Matt Cerrone passes along this awesome graphic detailing fast-food habits among American men. One quibble: Why is there no step between “Fit” and “Heavy”? What are you trying to tell me? Also, if you’re wondering, I believe I have between one and five Taco Bell sauce packets at home. I try not to take more than I need, and since there’s a bottle of taco sauce in the fridge for when we make tacos, I don’t really have any reason to stock up.
Livan Hernandez is all caught up in some The Wire-type stuff. Yikes. (I say “The Wire-type stuff” because I’m in the process of re-watching The Wire, so right now everything about any large-scale drug operation and investigation is going to remind me of The Wire.) Sounds like he was mostly fronting money for a huge Puerto Rican drug-trafficking operation. Also, if you bet that this story would involve meetings at Chuck E. Cheese’s that did not include Livan Hernandez, you stand to make a lot of money right about now.
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