A gadget-lover’s guide to the GOP candidates. [Gizmodo]
Is Ron Paul winning the “web primary?” [ABC News]
China will get its first 3D channel within weeks. [Engadget]
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Willard Romney won the Iowa Caucuses last night by all of eight votes over Richard Santorum. It was so close that Santorum gave a victory speech and Romney gave a concession speech. Since the GOP allots delegates in a proportional format, that doesn’t really matter. It also doesn’t really matter because Iowa doesn’t even technically allocate their delegates until a convention in a few months. I heard someone say about the caucuses last night: “This is like a 20 inning game between the Pirates and Nationals. Interesting, but not really relevant to anything.” At any rate, all the writers for this site were glued to twitter and their televisions last night. Here are some results:
[Google] [TPM] The Politics of Pigskin The NFL regular season has concluded and our eyes have turned to the playoffs and the offseason. Peter King takes his MMQB column in the same directions and prepares us for the storylines and drama to come. [Sports Illustrated] The NFL Playoffs. Here are your final conference standing and playoff schedule to guide you through them. [Yahoo! Sports] Black Monday is traditionally the day after the last regular season Sunday on which organizations decide to make coaching or management changes and we see a slew of firings. Here is a ticker to help you keep track of who your favorite team may be looking at to fill their newly vacant coaching position. [CBS Sports] ESPN’s John Clayton and Jeffri Chadiha receptively break down the AFC and NFC using a Q&A format. [Clayton][Chadiha] On the amateur side of America’s game we have hit the home stretch of bowl games. There are only 6 games left including the national championship. Follow the link to get up to date on previous results and previews on the upcoming bowls. [ESPN]
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban is mad the the NBA didn’t have his team play in DC–he wanted to meet the President. But, when you are Mark Cuban, you can pretty much do whatever you want, so he scheduled a meeting between his team and Mr. Obama himself. [ESPN Dallas] Deadspin is famous for taking sports journalism to places it never deigned to go before–like publishing leads about major NBA trades put out by rappers who haven’t been famous for years. [Deadspin] Sacramento Kings 2nd year player Demarcus Cousins and coach Paul Westphal don’t get along, and never really have. The coach released a statement last week saying that Cousins would be staying home for a road trip because of Cousins’ trade demand. Cousins, for his part, denies requesting a trade. Here is a “debate” between a couple of Kings fans about what to do. [Sac Town Royalty] Who doesn’t love those NBA commercials where they paste enlarged heads of stars onto small bodies? I know I do. The latest one is set to “Happy Together” by the Turtles. It’s supposed to imply that “all is well” with the NBA’s players and owners. Does anybody actually believe that? [The Big Lead] Time Warner Cable and Madison Square Garden have been in a contract dispute for a long time now, and fans in New York city paid the price last week when they began missing Knicks games. Here is a good rundown of what is happening. [All Sports Everything] Two of the best college games of last weekend were played within a 80 miles radius of my apartment this weekend–when #3 Kentucky beat #2 Louisville, and when #15 Indiana took down #2 Ohio State. For my money, those teams are out of order, and should be Kentucky-Ohio State-Indiana-Louisville. But nobody asked me. Here are game rundowns by the victor’s blogs. [Kentucky Sports Radio] [The Crimson Quarry] BREAKING NEWS: Expect two new fashion lines from renowned fashion stylist, Rachel Zoe, this upcoming year! [The Cut] Drinking while shopping = a lot of money spent! [New York Times] Holiday shopping continues despite recession! [The Cut] Check out this amazing video that details 25 ways you can tie your fashion scarves! [SHEfinds] For those who are making a resolution to travel more in the coming year, here are the top travel destinations for 2012. [cnn.com] There has been a dramatic increase in whale sightings of the California coast. This could mean increased numbers of whale or just a change in behavior. Either way it is good news for whale watchers. [latimes.com] In India the use of solar panels is growing, but there are also complications that arise. [nytimes.com] New technology turns paper into power. [bbc.co.uk] Tom Brady has a left shoulder injury. While it does not seem to be severe, it was enough of a concern to have x-rays done. [ESPN] The Politics of Tech Many people across the web vowed to boycott domain-register GoDaddy.com over their support of SOPA. Last week the count was around 72,000 domains lost. [Techi] The comedian Louis CK recently sold his THING on his website for $5. His goal was to prove it could be done cheaply, DRM free, and on the Internet. It generated $1 million in 12 days so it seems he was successful. [LouisCK] Italy has fined Apple $1.2 million over their Applecare Protection Plan. Italy has a law that requires companies to provide 2 years of free support. [TechCrunch] This is what a 5MB hard drive looked like in 1956. I write this as I save the image to my 1TB hard drive that fits in the palm of my hand. [TheNextWeb] LG’s new 84-inch LCD TV is stunning. [engadget] For fun: some odd tech industry job interview questions. [BBC]
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