Derek Holland Sans Mustache: 1.2 IP, 8 H, 8 ER, 2 BB, 2 SO
Freddie Freeman Augmented By Goggles: 3-for-5, 1 HR, 1 2B, 3 RBI, 2 R
Now, I’m not saying that having a mustache and wearing goggles would make you an unstoppable baseball machine, one that was just as comfortable blowing mid-90s heat by batters as you would be smashing giant taters, but I’m not not saying that either.
Also, this is important for some reason:
Didn’t Holland learn from Giambi? When it doubt, ‘stache for life.
“He’s mindful that he’ll one day join the collection of the oil paintings and busts lining his Capitol office and plainly wants to use whatever years he has left to build a legacy that so far has eluded him. The obvious way to leave that mark — something bigger than vote-counter, defender of his state’s tobacco industry and unyielding foe of campaign finance reform — is to help finally reach that elusive grand bargain on spending and taxes.” — When in doubt, take advantage of folks’ ego and awareness of their legacy, I guess. Politico writes about Sen. Mitch McConnell’s time in the sun.
“Kids play T-ball, then baseball; they play games and have practice every week and, if they’re serious about it, pre-season and post-season too. We never think, “Let’s have kids play baseball for eight weeks in seventh grade,” and then expect that in five years they can join the majors or even be on a college team. But for some reason we do this with civics. We say, “We’re going to have you do a penny harvest in fifth grade and a service learning project in tenth grade, and then we’ll teach you abstractly about government for a semester in twelfth grade.” Then our students enter the major leagues of citizenship, and we give them the vote and expect them to keep our country going. And that’s just crazy!” — Meira Levinson talking about her new book No Citizen Left Behind. (via bostonreview)
Let’s Have a Talk About Content Aggregation
This is a screenshot of Buzzfeed’s post Goth Day at Disneyland. Our followers might recognize some of these pictures from like an hour ago, when we posted them on this very tumblr, linking to the VICE post Goth Day at Disneyland!As you’re probably aware, content theft is an issue on the internet. VICE, like a lot of sites, comes across this quite a bit; sites (usually just small blogs, but sometimes not) take pieces we put up, and run them (usually photos, but sometimes videos or text). This is a problem because websites rely on traffic to sell ads. No ads means no money to run a website.
What Katie Notopoulos’ Buzzfeed post does (I should point out that I’m a big fan of both Buzzfeed in general and Katie’s work in particular) is not content theft. Below each photo, she credits VICE and links back to our post. See:
Content aggregation can be a great thing. You take my content, share it with your readers, they like it, they come to my site, we both benefit, etc. But in situations like this, in which the aggregator copies the entire post (in this case, Katie posted most of VICE’s photos from the article, without any of the text), only one side benefits. Even though the post links back to our article, it doesn’t really give the reader any reason to head to our VICE post. There’s already plenty of photos in the Buzzfeed post; the point of the article (Goths at Disneyland are silly) has been made.
Contrast it with the DailyWh.at post that Buzzfeed also cites:
Notice how this one only uses one of our photos, and explicitly tells other people to check out the VICE link. This seems like a fairer way of doing content aggregation, no? I’m not trying to act like Buzzfeed is the only one who copy/pastes entire posts–-it’s an across-the-board practice, and I bet VICE has done something similar at some point. I’m more suggesting that the internet needs to like, figure out what’s okay and what isn’t.
Always nice to see a fair look at aggregation that doesn’t devolve into cat-related accusations or HuffPo jokes.
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“Much was made during the Michigan primary about Romney’s comments about the state’s trees being ‘the right height.’ That line seems to go over most voters’ heads- only 38% express the sentiment that their trees are the right height while 8% think they are not and 55% are unsure. Democrats (48%) are actually more likely to express agreement with Romney on that front than Republicans are (34%).” — That’s right folks. There was actually a poll containing questions about people’s opinions of the height of trees in Michigan. Conducted by real pollsters. In real life.
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“How old are these people?” he asked, according to two officials present. “If they are starting to use children,” he said of Al Qaeda, “we are moving into a whole different phase.”
It was not a theoretical question: Mr. Obama has placed himself at the helm of a top secret “nominations” process to designate terrorists for kill or capture, of which the capture part has become largely theoretical. He had vowed to align the fight against Al Qaeda with American values; the chart, introducing people whose deaths he might soon be asked to order, underscored just what a moral and legal conundrum this could be.
” — Today’s essential “Kill List” story from Jo Becker and Scott Shane of the New York Times.“Combined with the revved-up riff on opener “The Nights of Wine and Roses”, King’s first lyric (“Long lit up tonight/ And still drinking/ Don’t we have anything to live for?/ Well of course we do/ But until they come true/ We’re drinking”) recalls a time when the Hold Steady shot for something similar.” — Well. Ain’t that sad. I’m spending more time thinking about this than the new Japandroids album (which is apparently good?!, but dependence on Spotify at work has left me tapping my fingers waiting for it).
(Source: pitchfork.com)
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