I was paying bills tonight when this message appeared in my inbox: February 19, 2007 To: SIRIUS Subscribers Today is a very exciting day for SIRIUS customers. As you may have heard, SIRIUS Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio are merging to form the nation’s premier audio entertainment provider. I’m pretty excited about this if they can pull it off. I was first thinking this might compare to the VHS vs Betamax war, but this is more of a content battle like you’d expect from two broadcast networks. Having two incompatible satellite radio providers was a pain in this case…
This year I want to experiment with some better graphics to explain Nascar results and stats. With the extraordinary number of penalties given out this week at Daytona, the deduction of series points from five drivers will put them in the hole. None of the online Nascar sites (Yahoo Sports, ESPN, Nascar, etc.) are showing the 2007 standings yet, but if they did it would look something like this: Looking at the results from last year, the average point spread between the 11th place (Tony Stewart) and 31st (Ken Schrader) was about 80 points per position. Being even 100 points…
With the 2007 NASCAR season about to start, I took a closer look at the new TV deal and how it breaks down among the various networks. Here’s how the Nextel Cup races will be divided among the television partners: Fox will air the season-opening Daytona 500 and the next 12 races TNT will have the next 6 races, including the Pepsi 400 at Daytona on July 4th weekend ESPN covers the 7 late summer races, including the prized Brickyard 400 at Indy ABC will broadcast the final 10 races (“Chase to the Cup”) Speed will have the Gatorade Dual…
Once again the SuperBowl commercials are available online at several sites. Clearly the point of commercials is to get the word out, so it’s not hard to find these. For me personally I didn’t get too excited about any of these. Maybe SuperBowl commercials are losing their buzz? Some sites that are hosting the commercials include: iFilm – was one of the first sites to host all commercials after the game Yahoo! Video – not sure if they’re all there, but links to iFilm YouTube is running a contest where the highest-rated commercials will appear on their homepage AOL Sports…
RMS Queen Mary 2 Arrives in San Francisco Originally uploaded by Telstar Logistics. Telstar Logistics has some great pictures covering the first arrival of the Queen Mary 2 into San Francisco Bay. See their blog for all the details.