FoxNews Headlines

Here are the FoxNews headlines on their website following Obama's speech tonight (all of the headlines pertaining to his speech):

Obama Hits Hope Theme

President walks fine line between honesty about economic crisis, optimism for future | 1ST 100 DAYS

• Obama Errs in Saying U.S. Invented Automobiles

• AP FACT CHECK: Obama Glosses Over Complexities

• Jindal: Obama's Economic Plan Irresponsible

• Obama's Reputation as Good Speaker Debatable

Though I was listening while working, I thought it was a pretty good speech.

Burke and Obama

David Brooks has a warning of caution to the Obama administration about taking on too much at once. I think he makes some good points. The current economic situation certainly requires bold action, but proceding with caution and trying to build off of existing systems is a good way to good.

Jungle Primaries

Fivethirtyeight.com has an interesting article about jungles primaries. And it also has gotten "Welcome to the Jungle" from Guns and Roses stuck in my head. It seems to me like jungle primaries would be generally a good thing, probably allowing for more cooperation between parties and less extremism. I had never really considered before how much our current primary system feeds into our partisanship.

Shaq Tweet

An interesting, though unverified, post about finding Shaq through Twitter.

Low-Tech Fixes For High-Tech Problems

The NY Times has a cool little article about using low-tech stuff to fix high-tech devices when they break. No guarantees, but amusing and some may be worth a try. I've heard of kids successfuly using the cellphone in rice technique before.

If your home Wi-Fi router doesn’t reach the other end of the house, don’t rush out to buy more wireless gear to stretch your network. Instead, build a six-inch-high passive radio wave reflector from kitchen items, like an aluminum cookie sheet.

Obama Sushi

Check it out!

clipped from feature.jp.msn.com

via Meredith!

Julius Peppers

Julius Peppers gives $100,000 to scholarship fund. Wahoo! Nice job, Mr. Peppers.

Fortune Cookie

First learn to "give" and then the universe will reward you.

- My fortune cookie from neurology lunch. Not quite sure why "give" is written in quotation marks.

Lucky numbers: 14, 5, 18, 37, 9, 7

School is in Session

Jordan and Perkins in class at UNC. Gotta love that smile on Perkins. I'd never seen this picture before, which is a shame. From a Tar Heel gallery at SI.

Tyler Zeller Update

For those of you not at the game extremely early, Tyler Zeller came out in athletic clothes shortly after the JV game to shoot around with the team. He no longer has a cast on, and his shot was looking really good. He nailed 3-pointer after 3-pointer. He didn't seem to jump very high, but as far as I could tell, his wrist was looking pretty good. (Afterwards, he came back out before game time with a suit on to sit on the bench).

I take this to be a very good sign. There is talk that he might medical redshirt this year so that he can play four more years. But really, no one knows what the next four years will bring. The team might not be this close to a title again. If he redshirted, Zeller would essentially be trading this year for his 5th-year senior season, which is a complete unknown. If his goal is to win an NCAA title, this year may very well be his best shot. And the team could really use another scoring threat since the bench's output stinks. He also might be able to replace Deon Thompson in the starting lineup, who hasn't done anything since ACC play started. It's only early February. Zeller could work his way back into the line up in the coming weeks. Then we could tinker with lineups to get things right. If we lose a couple games, it's all right. Then by NCAA-time, he's meshed with the team and we're ready to go the distance.

I Lego NY

Christoph Niemann has another humorous piece in the NYT.

clipped from niemann.blogs.nytimes.com