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As some of you may know, Bob Huggins was recently fired from his position as the head coach of the University of Cincinnati’s Men’s Basketball Team. Many have wondered what he’s doing now. Well, all I can say is that he’s on staff at a very successful college basketball program

Avast ye maties - today’s the day! It’s Talk Like A Pirate Day
Um, okay…

Could you imagine trigonometry without sines, cosines or tangents?
Dr Norman Wildberger, a professor at the University of New South Wales, is doing just that. He has rewritten the rules of trigonometry and eliminated sines, cosines and tangents.
New trigonometry is a sign of the times
Dr Wildberger has replaced traditional ideas of angles and distance with [...]

Here’s an interesting post by Scott Berkun: Why I switched to Firefox.
What’s really interesting about this switch is that Scott worked on IE 1.0 thru 5.0, and was one of the people that designed much of its UI.
Are you using Firefox? If not, what are you waiting for? Make the switch today! [...]

This past Thursday was the season premiere of Survivor: Guatamala. This is the 11 installment of one of the first and most successful reality TV shows.
This time around, there were 16 castaways who were soon joined by two former Survivors: Bobby Jon and Stephenie. The adventure started with an 11 mile hike [...]

Those good ol’ Muppets may be making a comeback to TV! Woohoo! However, I’m not to sure about the idea behind it.
From Muppet Central News:
ABC will bring the Muppets back to TV for an all new 6-episode series titled “America’s Next Muppet”. The short-run reality-TV spoof is sure to be a [...]

I’ve wondered about this many times before and eventually concluded it was simply to give the perception of gas prices being cheaper than they really were, though I never personally thought it made much sense. A whole cent less…Wow, what a perception. *sarcasm*
Ask Yahoo addresses this question, though.
Why is gas priced to nine-tenths of [...]

Well, I don’t really have anything to post about right now, and I want to get to bed early (read: earlier than normal) tonight, so I’ll leave you all with this: a link to a collection of Classic Cartoon Themes & Images. Nice trip down memory lane.

Looks like everything with the site has been fixed! I’m at work, so I can’t look into it much, but everything seems stable again. Haven’t heard from my webhost what the problem was yet, but at least it’s fixed.

Well, there still is no resolution on the problems that are plaguing my website. My webhosting company, bluehost (they don’t get a link until the problem is fixed!), has stated that they’ve had some problems with MySQL (the database) throughout the day, though. From the testing and debugging that I’ve done so far, [...]