Congratulations to the 2007 New England Patriots. What a game. The Pats rally to come back from behind in the first half to win 38-35. Tom Brady and Randy Moss both break season touchdown records on the same play. Great to see a Michigan alumni who was a 6th round draft pick continue on his path to being listed as one of the all time greatest quarterbacks the league has seen. Picking up Randy Moss in the off season seems to have been the missing piece they have needed the past few years. On to the Super Bowl!

I’m glad the NFL decided to simulcast this on NBC and CBS but I’d have much rather preferred they allowed those networks to provide their own coverage. Listening to Collinsworth and Gumbel going back and forth was almost as bad as listening to Bill Walton ramble on. Listening to this coverage does not want me to hassle my cable provider to carry the NFL Network as a basic cable channel as they were constantly asking viewers to do throughout the game.

Congratulations again to the Pats.

It’s bad enough that the national media covers all the latest dirty activities of today’s Hollywood trash but that doesn’t mean we need to put up with it on Digg as well. This is very simple and only takes a few minutes a day. Sign into Digg, go to search, select upcoming stories, sorted by date. Now simply type in one of these celeb’s names and bury a few pages worth of stories. If only a few handful of Diggers do this once a day then there is no chance of these stories getting anywhere near the front page. A few examples are provided below.

While listening to This Week in Tech, I heard something from a British panelist that Erics’ post brought back to me.
Leo, Dvorak, and crew, were talking about how money influences elected officials so much. And leads to things like letting the MPAA and copyright holders writing the DMCA! Or for example, the “SAFEACT of 2007″, which is unenforceable horseshite.

The Americans present asked the Brit how the political races go over there in regards to having the winners decided by how much $ they can raise. Money is so critical for our politicians to accept from special lobbies because of how much it takes to run high$ TV ads.
Will Harris answered; “oh, that’s not so much a problem because our politicians are not allowed to advertise on TV!” If you don’t need millions to run TV ad campaigns in a huge market, it kinda de-incentives representatives depending on these relationships with wealthy groups!
I’m sure it wouldn’t be a cure-all, but It would be a huge part freeing up lawmakers to do what they were put there for.