The Internet is not even close to reaching its potential or even being consistently good. We’re talking about multiple exponential leaps away from being consistently good. Two recent examples:

We just got a new (to us) entertainment center, a beautiful hand-me-down from a friend-of-a-friend. And it’s slightly larger than our old one, so […]

Just got back from EDUCAUSE 2006 in Dallas. Microsoft had a big booth featuring, among other offerings, the Zune (aka the iPod killer, scheduled to go to retail in November).
I’ve been an iPod owner for a few years, first with a white 3G (a scroll wheel and 4 buttons across the top, monochrome, 15GB) […]

Had a great conversation with Emily, a sophomore at TCU, on a flight from Raleigh to Dallas.
Me: So, how “Christian” is “Texas Christian”?
Emily: (laughing)
Me: Yeah, thought so.
Emily: Well, there are a lot of people who go to church.
Me: But that’s not what I asked - going to church doesn’t count for much.
Emily: Yeah, well, a […]

Khameini says don’t masturbate during Ramadan:
Deliberate masturbation during the month of Ramadan renders a fast invalid, Iranian Supreme Leader Sayyid Ali Khameini has ruled.
Khameini, who is Iran’s most powerful political and religious figure, was asked on his website : “If somebody masturbates during the
month of Ramadan but without any discharge, is his fasting invalidated?”
“If he […]

Dave Blank, director of athletics at Elon University, today announced the upcoming launch of “The Elon Phoenix Weekly” half-hour television program on the ESPN2 Local Sports Break at 11:30 a.m. EST Saturday.
Produced by students in the Elon School of Communications, the show will air in Alamance, Guilford, Montgomery, Randolph and Rockingham counties.
The show’s magazine format […]

The playoffs start today. I’d normally make my predictions, but I can’t think rationally about the playoffs this year. I’m so sick of the Yankees that I can’t stomach picking them to win even one series. I love what the Twins have done and a bunch of the guys on their roster, […]