NBA Comix: Operation Knickpocalypse
Willis Reed looks like he’d like to stuff Isiah into that big bowl. I loved how the pick was SO bad that it stunned the MSG crowd to near silence. Merely bad Knicks picks are greeted by boos, but this one was an “11″, so even Spike was baffled.
Along with the rest of the known universe, the New York Post doesn’t like the pick (running very slow – in the article Isiah Thomas says that the Suns were eyeballing Renaldo Balkman at 21). Sell the Knicks forum has some talk about Balkman.
Yahoo’s Dan Wetzel has some funny stuff on this:
LOSER: Isiah Thomas
The NBA draft is Christmas in June for Detroit Lions president Matt Millen, the day that Isiah Thomas reaffirms to everyone that it is he, and not Millen, who is the worst executive in professional sports. Called a “bum” by one Knicks fan in the crowd, Train Wreck Thomas used the 20th pick on an undersized forward out of South Carolina who never averaged double-figure points or rebounds, exasperating even the mild-mannered Bilas and prompting him to rip Isiah to shreds.In addition to his general manager duties, Thomas was named Knicks coach late last week and was immediately declared a lame duck by owner James Dolan, who has all the brains of a Manhattan manhole cover. Nothing ensures maximum effort like letting the players know that, if they lose, the coach that is screaming at them to pass the ball will be fired. Fortunately, with a roster that includes Stephon Marbury, Eddy Curry and Stevie Franchise Killer, effort is never a question with the Knicks.
He popped off that 1-2-3 combo move on the worst management guys in sports quite smoothly I thought.
It’s My Birthday, Precious
The Who along with David Gilmour of Pink Floyd play Love, Reign O’er Me at Hyde Park in London on June 29, 1996 … my birthday … wish I was there.
Speaking of the Who, Questionable Content (my funny soap opera comic) talks about why Pete Townshend still plays with the Who and muses about what David Bowie would sound like if you threw him down the stairs.
Adam Morrison’s Mustache Goes Big Time
Adam Morrison’s Mustache has jumped the shark, but you saw it first on NBA Comix. 
Just to pretend that I didn’t just watch a gratuitous mustache cartoon (twice), I’ll pose the question: See the EA Sports web address? How long (in weeks) do you think it will be till YouTube allows you to embed alternative URLS (for a fee) in any video hosted by YouTube?
I guess 5 weeks.
Saw another where Morrison says People make a big deal out of me crying. I think more people should cry … and when I get into the NBA, more people will cry. I think he’s my new favorite non-Piston.
Playing the 2006 NBA Draft Board for Laughs
Because I hate to waste things, here’s a mock draft that someone asked me for and then apparently decided not to use. Feel free not to click the “more” link and just assume that it is a devastatingly accurate and funny look at the draft
My bad as Nate pointed out below, SLAMOnline did run the mock draft. I should have more faith in people. I see we all chose Bargnani and Aldridge 1-2. I’m guessing they’re both right on Roy going earlier. Probably on any other cases where we disagree (except for the tumble of Redick).
NBA Comix: Outside the Box with David Stern
Jeez o peets, NBA - What’s in the Black Box? It’s getting to be like shooting fish in a barrel. Thanks to NBA Basketball and Other Unrelatedness for tipping me off to this.
I invite you to post your own guesses below!
So Where Exactly DOESN’T the NSA Spy on Americans?
Something caused me to miss this New Scientist article on the NSA turning its eye to social networking sites.
New Scientist has discovered that Pentagon’s National Security Agency, which specialises in eavesdropping and code-breaking, is funding research into the mass harvesting of the information that people post about themselves on social networks. And it could harness advances in internet technology – specifically the forthcoming “semantic web” championed by the web standards organisation W3C – to combine data from social networking websites with details such as banking, retail and property records, allowing the NSA to build extensive, all-embracing personal profiles of individuals.
Social networking maven apophenia looks at the story and then talks about the difference between behavioral and articulated data in a typically brilliant piece. Seriously, her blog is like a top-notch magazine about social networks.
The above photo is one in a series of puzzlers offered by Steve Jurvetson, who is apparently reading some books I am wanting to read like Ray Kurzweil’s “The Singularity is Near”.
Those wondering what the Semantic Web is might start with Wikipedia 3.0 and the End of Google.
NBA Comix: Good Touch, Bad Touch with the Larry O’Brien Trophy
I think we can all learn a lesson here from Danny Manning's friend and Antoine Walker about what's OK and what isn't. See how the young man uses just the fingertips and allows the trophy to feel like it can break off contact at any time? That's what I'm talking about. For those who are calling me an Antoine Walker hater, I have to point out that 98.3% of my incoming traffic from search engines is for "I can't stand 'Toine and wish to see him mocked without pity"*.
Sorry about the long delay between NBA comix … powering down to "summer mode".
* The other 1.7% is for various misspellings of Dewayne Wade. See?
YAYSports has a clip of Dwyane on Letterman that's pretty funny.
Highly Magnified
This photo by Jason Duford put me in mind of Mr. H.M. Wogglebug, T.E. Oz fans may enjoy the Critteria Ozlandus.
Stranger on the Beach
I’m looking for pictures of “sand” for a project that is not at all fun. Many times my work is fun – it’s such a regret when it isn’t.
Anyway, the photo above is a tweaked version of a photo titled wind on my beach by Joel Trembleur, which was apparently tweaked by the Tweak Elves and then left for discovery.
I don’t really know which one I like, but I do know that I like the idea that there are folks running around who delight in randomly doing nice things for others.
UPDATE: For some reason M. Trembleur pulled the photo from his stream. While I haven’t provided the masterful treatment of the original Tweak, it’s along those lines.
Imperial War Museum
So… Got a note that John Marquess had marked me as a contact in Flickr. John is apparently a 36-year-old Irishman who lives in Manchester… He takes some nice photos… I love the internet.
About that War Museum… The museum features an exhibit called The Big Picture; once an hour, the lights in the main exhibition hall are lowered, photographs and quotations from scenes of war are projected onto all of the walls, and recordings of events echo around the hall. This exhibit completes the unnerving feeling the museum is designed to create. More
