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Archive for July, 2009

Man Cave

Just so awesome:

Officials say that a pair of New York state employees used taxpayer money to creating a “man cave” at the Capitol Building. The pair transformed a maintenance area in a Capitol garage facility into the mother of all break rooms equipped with a TV, board games, DVDs, couches, rolling papers and marijuana scales. The two are suspended without pay and one is charged with marijuana possession and criminal use of drug paraphernalia.

[via idle.slashdot.org]

LeBron James is a Shitass

Wow, I’m the happiest person ever:

Now the basketball world can finally see the footage: NBA MVP LeBron James getting dunked on by a college player.

On Wednesday, TMZ.com and ebaumnation.com released different versions of the much-anticipated video of Xavier’s Jordan Crawford dunking on James last month at Nike’s LeBron James Skills Academy at the University of Akron. The TMZ footage, presumably shot via a cell phone and looking about as steady as the San Andreas Fault, shows Crawford dunking over James in the middle of a pickup game. The footage from ebaumnation.com (above), which is higher quality and includes better audio, was shot from the side of the court where the dunk took place and shows Crawford’s two-handed jam at the 35-second mark.

As had been previously reported, Nike, which ran the James camp, confiscated the footage of two videographers working the camp because they claimed the videotaping of after-hours pickup games was not allowed. One of the videographers, Ryan Miller, spoke with SI.com on Wednesday and confirmed that it was indeed the dunk, but not the footage he shot. “I am 99.9 percent sure that is the actual dunk,” said Miller, a 22-year-old recent Syracuse University graduate. “I was obviously in a different position on the floor but it was the same reaction from the crowd, same everything. The footage they had before was also footage from that same pickup game. So that’s the dunk. Finally.”

[from SI.com]

So, behold the “Greatest Video of All Time” (which really could be called the “most overrated” video of all time…but I’m still gonna say he got shat on) featuring my favorite basketball player/human of the moment, Jordan Crawford:

Here is my boy Jordan Crawford talking about dunking on LeBron Douche:

Finally, here is a link to TMZ’s footage of the dunk, which, supposedly, is the most extensive; please watch repeatedly.  Also, LeBron James sucks ass.  Lots of ass.

[via TMZ and 2dopeboyz and Ebaumnation]

UPDATE: Another angle of the dunk, this one in “high quality:”

Zoning Out Clouds

Zoning out may be good for you:

The fact that both of these important brain networks become active together suggests that mind wandering is not useless mental static. Instead, Schooler proposes, mind wandering allows us to work through some important thinking. Our brains process information to reach goals, but some of those goals are immediate while others are distant. Somehow we have evolved a way to switch between handling the here and now and contemplating long-term objectives. It may be no coincidence that most of the thoughts that people have during mind wandering have to do with the future.

Even more telling is the discovery that zoning out may be the most fruitful type of mind wandering. In their fMRI study, Schooler and his colleagues found that the default network and executive control systems are even more active during zoning out than they are during the less extreme mind wandering with awareness. When we are no longer even aware that our minds are wandering, we may be able to think most deeply about the big picture.

Fen, I hereby take back the past 10 years of ridiculing; now I know you were merely thinking harder than the rest of us.

[via Kottke]

Get it?  “Independence Day?!”

Um, happy 4th of July from Blogbdon to all of my many, many readers, many, many, many readers (i.e. Connor and fam):

[via YouTube: “Independence Day” - Speech By The President (Bill Pullman)]