Links posted on December 03, 2007
Have you ever gone on a trip and wanted to sample the local beer? Maybe you like beer and want to do a beer roadtrip. Maybe you're making a documentary and need some driving directions. Either way, The Beer Mapping Project has got you covered. [more inside]
Hockey Fights - because we all want a little action in our hockey games. The latest fights even have video embedded for quick viewing. [more inside]
Don't swear so much, you prick-eating bastard! In 1897 major league baseball owners met to discuss swearing on the field, and decided they were against it. So they created a set of "Special Instructions to Players." The recently unearthed document (soon to be sold at auction) describes, in detail, exactly the kind of language they didn't want their players using -- language you haven't heard since Deadwood went off the air.
This is pretty much the best thing in institutional swearing since the times when the first thing a scrabble player received showing up to a tournament was a list of 167 obscene words that had been expurgated from the official scrabble players dictionary. [more inside]