mad dog in the fog

• Niners storm Seattle / Smith and Gore lead second win over Seahawks
  Great win by the Niners tonight. Alex Smith silenced his critics and Frank Gore came up huge with 144 yards rushing.
  (tags: football nfl 49ers)

My alma mater UCSB doesn’t have a great history of success when it comes to sports. Sure, we do pretty well at diving, water polo, volleyball, and ultimate frisbee but it isn’t too often that we have something to celebrate. A couple of weeks ago the Gauchos soccer team upset UCLA and won the national championship. The Gauchos celebrated this rare national championship in a very unique way. They carried the goal out of Harder Stadium (the game wasn’t even played there; it was played in St. Louis), carried it across Isla Vista (half a mile???), threw the goal over the cliffs down to the beach, and finally, threw the goal into the ocean. The mob was singing O-le, O-le O-le O-le, GAUCHOS, GAUCHOS the whole time. All I can say is: Only in Isla Vista!

“This is what happens when your school never wins national championships.”

Over the cliff!

Into the ocean!

• BBC NEWS | Business | Apple denies download sales fall
  “Apple has denied a report which claims US sales at its iTunes Music Store fell by 65% in the first half of 2006.”
  (tags: apple itunes)
• Timbuk2 Bags - Blogger
  Nice looking laptop bag

• iTunes sales ‘collapsing’ | The Register
  Is this a backlash against DRM?
  (tags: itunes digitalmusic)

• Brush with shark not a first for Dillon Beach victim
  If I was a surfer I would never go in the water with this guy. He’s been attached by a great white shark not once but TWICE!
  (tags: weirdnews)

It’s just not the holidays without Heat Meiser and Snow Meiser.

• Joel on Software > Simplicity
  There is a difference between an application that is easy to use and an application that is lacking features.
  (tags: software design)
• Largehearted Boy: 2006 Year-end Music Lists
  (tags: music bestof2006)
• 2006, Brought to You by You - New York Times
  Looking back on the year of user-generated-content
  (tags: media)
• TestTube
  YouTube’s beta playground
  (tags: youtube)
• TIME Best Inventions 2006
  (tags: bestof2006 design)
• Subtraction: All Feeded Up
  Dealing with RSS overload
  (tags: rss)

The Coast Guard issued a high surf warning in the Bay Area this weekend.  Here’s a view of the waves from Fort Funston.

• How We Did It: Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake, Co-founders, Flickr
  “Oh, but it’s like, you know, like, kind of like if you see the flickering of the metaverse…” And we’re like, “flicker!” We tried to get “flicker” with an e, but the guy who had the Web domain wasn’t willing to give it up.
  (tags: flickr entrepreneurship)
• lombard santas on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
  Santa’s running wild in San Francisco (photo by Jihn Curley)
  (tags: sanfrancisco)

• Pogue’s Posts -The Dilemma Over Future Storage Formats
  (tags: backup)
• Built on a Weak Spot: Hammock - Raising Your Voice…Trying to Stop an Echo
  Check this album out if you are a fan of M83, Explosions in the Sky, The Album Leaf, Sigur Ros, etc.
  (tags: music)
• Twins for Elvis Costello & Diana Krall
  Prediction: In 20 years there will be a very talented musical duo named Dexter & Frank
  (tags: music)
• Black Friday leads to record sales of HDTVs - Engadget HD
  I’m not surprised.
  (tags: hdtv)