| Instant Analysis: Talladega
Vickers causes the wreck of the top 2 cars, but gets the win. Top five: Vickers, Kurt Busch, Kahne, Kenseth and Truex. BRIAN VICKERS WINS!!!!!! Lap 188: White flag. Vickers hits Johnson on backstretch and knocks him into Earnhardt! Unbelievable!!!! Caution out, field frozen. On to videotape. Lap 187: Junior still in charge. Lap 185: Johnson laying back a little for a run. Lap 184: No change up front. Everyone is waiting to the end to gang up on Earnhardt. Lap 183: Five to go and the order remains the same with the top four. Then it's Busch, Kenseth, Trues, Harvick, Jeff Green and Martin. Lap 180: Junior leads Johnson, Vickers and Kahne. Everyone is staying single file in the front 15 or so cars. Lap 180: Burton pits for four tires under green.
Local Searchers Hunt for Ideas, Not Categories
In recent weeks, bloggers and others have discussed how consumers are adopting a new way to use local search engines, Internet Yellow Pages (IYPs), and local directories. Actually, it's not so much how consumers use local search products but how their search queries are adapting to the changing landscape brought about by technology. One such interesting blog post by Jennifer Osborne discusses how millennials, the generation born from roughly 1980 to 1995, no longer think in terms of categories like previous generations. This is no small observation, considering there are about as many millennials as baby boomers. Marketers who don't understand millennials may be turning off a large segment of their audience. Millennials Use Local Search Differently As Osborne notes, the generations preceding millennials were conditioned by yellow page directories and similar printed directories.
Alan Hansen's column
The way King performed on Sunday, having not played for a while and with question marks over his long-term future due to his knee injury, was amazing. He was the best player on the pitch and showed just what Tottenham have been missing. If Spurs can keep King, Woodgate and to a certain extent Hutton fit, then they are really in business. Ledley is the lynchpin of the side though, and when he plays they look a better team. He gives them confidence and inspires them to be tight defensively. When you have players in your side that you know aren't going to let you down, who are going to win every tackle and block every shot, then that gives everyone else in the team a lift - confidence spreads as a result. It is like playing with a striker who you know is going to get you a goal, he is that important.
Sam Baxter from Lake Simcoe, Canada writes:
All we've seen on these boards is yapping from Sens fans, and I don't think they were ready to start a yard sale last year when they started off the same way. It is definetely premature to start throwning in the towel. If the Leafs are this bad come the end of December, then there is no excuse and they should start weighing such options. For now, I think concentrating on hockey and finding a way to win is most important. Posted 24/10/07 at 6:37 PM EST | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment .
Under the Hood With Knight Rider 2.0: Trans Am vs. Ford Mustang ...
Like its predecessor, the 21st century KITT gets AI from digital effects wizards that makes it an ideal crime-fighting partner: logical, precise and infinitely smart. Designer Harald Belker, who has created the Batmobile for Batman and Robin and a next-gen space shuttle for Armageddon, came onboard to give the new KITT. a unique look. "The goal was to make it look more aggressive without being hokey or garish," Belker says. "Maintaining as much of the original beauty of the Shelby as possible was important—and not just because of the Ford connection. It had to be simple yet believable as a superhero." Once his vision was set, Belker turned to Ted Moser from Picture Car Warehouse to make his drawings come to life. But there was one big hurdle: The GT500KR doesn't technically exist quite yet.
No. 1 Memphis Handles UCF, 85-64, To Extend Home Win Streak
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Joey Dorsey had 12 points and 13 rebounds and top-ranked Memphis remained the nation's only undefeated team with an 85-64 win over Central Florida on Saturday. Derrick Rose led the Tigers (23-0, 9-0 Conference USA) with 15 points, and Antonio Anderson scored 11 as Memphis extended the country's longest active home winning streak to 46 and continued their conference supremacy. Willie Kemp, Robert Dozier and Rose hit consecutive 3-pointers as the Tigers scored 16 straight points over a six-minute run early in the second half, taking a 65-42 lead that was never challenged. Mike O'Donnell led UCF (12-11, 5-4) with 15 points, and Jermaine Taylor added 13 points and five rebounds. The Knights were trying to topple the highest ranked opponent in school history, in just their second crack against the nation's best.
The short film festival in my head
This may be because my dreams resemble a non-stop 24/7 rolling to-do list. I used to dream about spreadsheets a lot (working at the time in a job that required pages and pages of them). Now my dreams are more about the general to do list of the day. Do you think that the quality/depth/memorability (is that a word?) of your dreams influences the quality of the sleep had while experiencing them? .
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