There’s been five no-hitters this baseball season, but probably none thrown on LSD. Also told in animated form.

Bill Simmons ranks the 32 NFL quarterbacks a week before the season starts:

That means Tebow is already 80 percent home. Throw in his marquee value and I believe Jacksonville fans and Buffalo fans will be very bitter by December. Of course, at least one Buffalo fan just read that and said: “Wait a second, I’m bitter every December. Are you saying I’m going to be more bitter than usual? Last December I sucker-punched a Jets fan outside Ralph Wilson Stadium just because he seemed a little too proud of his Sanchez jersey, then I ripped off the jersey and repeatedly drove over it with my snowplow as 150 Buffalo fans cheered me on. I’m going to be more bitter than that?” Yes

Déjà Vu: Genius

On the Beach: Genius

Everybody Knows This is Nowhere: Genius

etc.

Entree: Noel Fielding & Russell Brand on Big Fat Quiz of the Year 2007

Main: Howard putting a move on

Dessert: Jazz Trance

James Bond movie title stills (1962 - 2006)

Oldie but goodie - Pomplamoose covers Beyonce’s Single Ladies.

Here they are 12 months later doing an original with Ben Folds & Nick Hornby (complete with new hair & indie beard). 

Compelling videos created with a simple formula:

1. What you see is what you hear (no lip-syncing for instruments or voice).
2. If you hear it, at some point you see it (no hidden sounds).

Amongst the hardware refreshes announced by Apple today came a new “social media platform for music”: Ping.

It’s a strange kind of beast at first glance, being a last.fm/twitter hybrid where you can follow artists and friends, and share your musical tastes. All good things - but you can only use it in iTunes, or on an iDevice. No browser client.

That just seems far too limiting for a social media tool. I use iTunes and an iPhone, but I spend a minimal amount of time in the software itself, especially on the PC. I don’t want to have to load up a monolithic piece of software and a huge playlist just to “like” a track. If I’m at work, where a lot of music listening happens, I can’t load my library so can’t share anything.

Wired is saying Ping is “already too big to fail”, but without a web interface I can’t see it taking off. Famous last words no doubt.

Start arguing…now.

This is incredible - goosebumps, wide eyes, and a huge grin. Install Google Chrome just to watch it, if you haven’t already.

Sadly, test cricket appears to be fundamentally rigged. No-balls to order are one thing, entire results another:

Majeed was also videoed telling the undercover reporter: ”Let me tell you the last Test we did. It was the second Test against Australia in Sydney. Australia had two more wickets left. They had a lead of 10 runs, yeah. And Pakistan had all their wickets remaining. ”The odds for Pakistan to lose that match, for Australia to win that match, were I think 40-1. We let them get up to 150 then everyone lost their wickets. ”That one we made £1.3 [million]. But that’s what I mean, you can get up to a million. Tests is where the biggest money is because those situations arise.”

Rugby League too. The Bears would never do that - let them back in!