- The Real Truth About Barack Obama!
- Jared Polis for Congress A Responsible Plan: Executive Summary
- Muppet Rick-Roll – brilliant.
- YouTube – Jerry needs no help playing with his ball. – I need one of these.
- Schilling to Bradford to You – some interesting stuff in here.
- It’s the Marketing, Stupid – I still think the NBA needs to implement a minor league system so that getting drafted doesn’t mean an NBA contract (like the MLB does).
- Firefox 3 vs. Safari 3 – I’m thinking about sponsoring the development of a WebKit based browser with PwdHash built-in.
- The $64,000 Question
I don’t think Adobe can flat-out promise that CS5 is going to be Cocoa (or 64-bit) because they don’t know how long it’s going to take.
- The BlackBerry on Acid
It’s not going to drive me to buy an iPhone, but it doesn’t allay my frustration with the piss-poor browser on the BlackBerry. I’ll never be satisfied madly rolling the trackball in the Browser after seeing an iPhone user merrily flicking their way through a webpage.
- WordPress Upgrade, New Design – Corey outlines some best practices for file structre on a WordPress as a CMS site.
- Firefox Bug 426702 – heh.
- Sprint BlackBerry Curve 8330 Officially Announced – maybe I ditch AT&T again…
- Twitter Goodness on Your Mobile Device – great to see Kevin updating Tiny Twitter.
- Clouds Rolling In: The Google App Engine Q&A – the usual great write-up from Steve.
- Musing about artificial scarcities and abundances
- Good suggestions, Mac hackers wanted! – beltzner – good stuff from Beltzner.
- WordPress permalinks and MySQL limits – definitely something you should be aware of if you run large WordPress sites.
- OpenID and Spam – it’s been a long time since I’ve read anything positive in the war against SPAM.
- When life approximates xckd…
brilliant! 
Capsule, The Developer’s Code Journal
I’m very pleased today to announce the release of Capsule, the developer’s code journal. Capsule replaces the scratch document you have…
Alex, love the site.
In the last item, it’s XKCD, not XCKD
I don’t write the headlines people use, I just link to them.
That’s what the D-League is supposed to be, but here’s the thing, Alex: as basketball is more of a team game than baseball is, an extensive apprenticeship in a minor league is not as necessary. In baseball, you’re polishing a player’s skills to improve the individual to the point that they’re ready for ML competition; in basketball, you can paper over a player’s weaknesses with another player’s strengths. The NBA uses the idea that better competition is what most quickly drives value in a player [the throwing-them-in-the-deep-end approach], and I think that this makes sense, as basketball is easier to pick up than, say, baseball.
The reason that the D-League doesn’t scale is because the level of play isn’t terribly compelling at that level [we had one of the inaugural teams here in Huntsville before they shifted the league from a Southeast-focused one], and because they’re not doing a 1:1 correlation with teams and draftees. If the NBA really wanted to sink the money into the league, they’d have 29 D-League franchises, with those teams playing in the local area and at home when the NBA team is on the road. Run it as a loss leader [cheap tickets] and push the idea that some of the players in the D are gonna be in the NBA someday, make the players available to the fans, and you have a winner … if you’re willing to spend that money.
I’d say that I’m not sure that the NBA is, but this is essentially what they’ve done with the WNBA [although they don't have near the number of teams].