ESPN.com became the talk of the internet today. For once, though, it wasn’t about Rick Reilly or Bill Simmons or Stephen A. Smith. Today, somebody discovered that if you entered the “Konami code” (up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, b, a, enter), the ESPN website would come alive with unicorns. Picture and follow-up after the jump. Continue reading
Month: April 2009
Requiem For Pontiac
General Motors announced today that they will phase out Pontiac from their product offering. By the end of 2010, one of the iconic makes of the American automobile industry will be no more. To pay homage to Pontiac, let’s look back at some of the great, or at least, memorable, cars of Pontiac’s past. Continue reading
World Hockey Championship Roundup: Scandinavian Upset
Tomorrow, the games get serious. Today, however, we still have a series of preliminary round mismatches. Or at least that’s what we were supposed to think. Continue reading
Hockey (Last) Night In Canada: Let’s Do Seven
The two games of the day were both elimination games. Washington and Carolina faced their playoff mortality head on, both down 3-2 in their respective series. Continue reading
World Hockey Championship Roundup: Do You Have A Mercy Rule?
The day after tomorrow will see the start of some more interesting games. When the most interesting game at the start of the day on paper is Switzerland vs. Germany, you know that the tournament could be so much better. Continue reading
Vaughn Martin Drafted By San Diego
He wasn’t on Scouts Inc’s draft board. He wasn’t on Mel Kiper’s or Todd McShay’s. But he was on the San Diego Charger’s radar. UWO defensive tackle Vaughn Martin was drafted by the San Diego Chargers in the fourth round at 113th overall. Continue reading
Hockey Last Night In Canada: All About Momentum
The day was bookended with a matinee elimination game in Philadelphia and a late night elimination game in San Jose. Sandwiched in the middle was Calgary visiting Chicago, looking to break home-ice advantage. Continue reading
Entertainment Link-Off: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Be a nerd. Join the herd. Save Chuck! The second season finale of Chuck airs on Monday at 8pm on NBC (CityTV if you’re in Canada). Don’t forget to tune in if you want the show to have a shot at a third season! If you missed the majority of the second season, don’t worry, you can catch up by clicking this. In addition to watching the finale on Monday night, don’t forget to take part in the Save Chuck Campaign. The recent rumours about a Chuck renewal aren’t true, so we must push forward to prevent Ben Silverman from making the biggest mistake of his life by cancelling this series. While most “save our show” campaigns are useless, this one might be more effective. Have faith fellow Nerd Herders. Viva Buymoria!
After the jump, more articles on movies, video games, video games turned into movies (or not) and a hilarious Chuck fanvid. Continue reading
World Hockey Chamionship Roundup: Blowouts Abound
In the second day of action, eight more teams got underway. Four of the powerhouse teams had relative tune-up games with the USA, Sweden, Finland, and Czech Republic trying to get off to strong starts. Continue reading
Weekend Link-Off: Now With Less Speling Errors
To celebrate the success of our Beyonce post, she headlines today’s link-off. After the jump, an ad for the strangest restaurant ever in the history world. And that spelling error in the title was intentional.
The Washington Nationals may be a major league ball club but both the quality of the team on the field and the spell checkers off the field would seem to contradict that. (Deadspin)
NCAA approves Division 1 women’s beach volleyball. Well, I say beach volleyball but in order to be politically correct it’s called “sand volleyball.” So will sand volleyball use the beach volleyball wardrobe? (ESPN)
Ergonomics gone wild! Keyboards gone horribly wrong when they’re designed with ergonomics, ease of use, and general insanity in mind. (CIO)
Space dust: The galactic taste treat. (Daily Telegraph)
The new Yankee Stadium has seen a substatial increase in home runs over last year. It has nothing to do with the fact that it’s a new stadium or players on the juice. No, the seats are accelerating the air heading out to rightfield. (CNBC)
Since I’m in Canada, I don’t really understand the whole Erin Andrews obsession that’s swept the blogosphere. Well, besides the obvious reasons. Fortunately, Dan Shanoff of The Sporting News does a good job of figuring it out for me. (The Sporting Blog)
The Vancouver Canucks have been jinxed by a local blog that’s asked readers to submit Stanley Cup parade routes. That will always end well. (The White Towel)
Since we’ve been doing a lot of NHL playoff coverage the last week and a half, here’s a list of NHL players and celebrities separated at birth. (Sports Illustrated)
Another chapter in the book of “Are Race Car Drivers Athletes”. This time, Formula 1 drivers. (F1 Fanatic)
Good news Facebook users. Facebook has decided that they don’t completely own you. They just own you until you delete your account. (CBC)
The Lowdown 