For Belcher, who began working at the Tribune in 1977 as a reporter in its Sebring bureau, it was a stunning end to a near-35-year career at the newspaper — where he once wrote as many as seven stories a week on everything from local TV station personnel changes to quizzing film legend Woody Allen on his career.

soupsoup:

The most intense taekwondo fight ever (by clsmz) via @pbump and boing boing

Derek Boogaard has nothing on these kids.

Tricks shots and Santa. Sold.

Marty Skoble is awesome. →

"I’m about creating an environment where you could write a poem if you wanted to, but you’re too busy doing organic chemistry. That’s fine."

Great takeaways from Fab.com

haveyouseenmyblog:

I love their daily email, and it is inspiring to see the underlying business vision behind it.

21 things we’re learning at Fab.com - October 2011

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You’re welcome.

jaycaspiankang:

via Carles

Your moment of zen?

This schoolgirl is lost inside the math
Is there a way to bring her home?
Is she growing up too fast?
Are the tattoos on her body made of dreams she can’t express?
I’m still loving her but she drags me through this orchestrated mess
You need to show me some signs of life
You need to show me some signs of life
We need to feel alive, feel alive.

So I have 33 summaries of 33 sets of notes from 33 days of being on the road.

What is Wayne Rooney going to do with a puppy?

At one point, a few debated, only half-ironically, whether a new bank in a former Dunkin Donuts nearby was philosophically akin to the French reactionaries’ construction of the Sacré Coeur basilica on the site of the Paris Commune’s insurrection in 1870.

We welcome winter?

I wanted to go east and get cold.

Things I have no prayer of doing.

Rock beats paper every time.

"Just think about what the job is," he said. "I’ll walk you through a [play]. Say you’re with the coach, and he says, ‘Red Right Forty-Three Forty-Six Slant,’ and you run out there to tell the quarterback the play. He calls it in the huddle, you run out left, you see the defensive back lined up in front of you. Quarterback says, ‘Red! Red!’ and now he changes the pattern. Now you have to run a whole different pattern. You don’t know whether the ball is coming to you or not. You have to turn and try to get open. If you’re good at it, you make the defensive back think you’re going to the left, then you break right, and meanwhile the ball is on its way, and if you have the skill to catch the ball, you catch it, and once you catch it, you have to maneuver. If you do all that, and you finally get into the end zone—is that not worth a celebration?"

Fuck yes it is.

The top 1 percent prospered while the bottom 90 percent treaded water, at best, waiting for their promised windfall to “trickle down.”

Can’t top the awkward celebrations around the one-minute mark.

gq:

Pre-Thanksgiving Surfing Interlude

GQ’s wave expert Stan Parish spotted this video recently by professional surfer / filmmaker Taj Burrow, and he’s been watching it over and over. Now we are too. Stan explains his hypnosis:

Best surf footage I’ve seen in a while. There’s this passage in the famous New Yorker piece “Playing Doc’s Games” by William Finnegan where he talks about how you don’t really understand a wave as a three-dimensional thing until you see it from above. And check out the reef (and sharks) just underneath the surface. Can’t stop watching this.

This. Now.