File this under silly. Someone came up with a widget that converts URLs into quotes from Charles Dickens. Go to Dickensurl.com to convert your own.

I submitted this site’s URL and got back We must scrunch or be scrunched. as my Dickens quote. Don’t know what to make of that.

So now, when you go to http://dickensurl.com/31dc/We_must_scrunch_or_be_scrunched you will go to my site.

I’d love to know who got “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”. Maybe the US Treasury? or Fox News?

• New GOOG Mobile app uses your current location to influence and customize results. #
• How great would it be if Pavano shut down the Yanks today after the 22 spot CLE put on them yesterday #
• That Susan Boyle video has almost 30 Million hits on YouTube. And that’s not counting the copies up there. #

A basketball player named Jeremy Tyler from San Diego, CA has decided to leave high school early in order to play basketball in Europe, and prepare himself for the NBA draft in two years.

“It’s significant because it shows the curiosity for the American player just refusing to accept what he’s told he has to do,” [Sonny] Vaccaro said. “We’re getting closer to the European reality of a professional at a young age. Basically, Jeremy Tyler is saying, ‘Why do I have to go to high school?’ ”

The new (and old) trailers for the upcoming Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince movie are up at Apple’s site.  The new trailer looks great.  I was watching the HP and the Sorcerer’s Stone this evening on TV and its amazing how much the three main characters have changed and grown in the 8 years since that movie was produced.  I’m already looking ahead to see how they will do “Deathly Hallows” on the big screen.

A great set of photos of classic beer cans. Genesee Beer, Keg Beer, Dixie, Cobra, Busch..they have them all

• Bumming that Flynn, Harris & Devendorf leaving SU hoops. They could have been a contender :) #
• Liking fun idea @ tweaktoday.com…everyone takes on assignment and posts results #
• Reveling in tge fact that its the weekend #

Super funny Boston Bruins TV spots. I just love the bear…especially the fact that he’s silent.

via Yahoo Puck Daddy

Another nail in the coffin of newspapers and local media. Today, ESPN launched ESPN Chicago, a version of ESPN.com specific to Chicago sports. Basically, they are going to try to leverage their scale to deliver localized content to Chicago. But its not just Chicago, this is going to scale to the major markets across the US and Canada. The incremental cost to develop this site was probably relatively minimal, but they will now be able to charge a premium to advertisers who want to market online to a predominantly Chicagoland audience. I’m sure NYC, Boston, LA, Dallas and others are not far behind. And just think, with ESPNZone in Chicago, they can have some serious multi media, multi channel promotions to dream up. It will be interesting to see how the market reacts to this – wether they will gravitate to this offering or if they will continue to stick with their trusted sources like the Tribune, the Chicago Sun Times and the bartender at Harry Caray’s.

• Updates to Gmail Mobile look cool…if you have an iPhone. No Blackberry love with this release. I need an iPhone. http://bit.ly/3Xys8D #
• Lets hope Mr. Shearer can help Newcastle avoid getting relegated this year. http://bit.ly/4na3Yi #
• Now everything on FB has comments, including Wall Posts. http://bit.ly/uYnV #
• Something is up with Twitter. Tweets from past two weeks are gone. #
• wow, UNC is romping. It may be over already. #
• Looking forward to a good NCAA final game. Bummed no Big East teams made it. #

This is cool. The NHL’s Winter Classic (when they play a hockey game outdoors, most recently at Wrigley Field) is coming to Fenway Park. January 1, 2010…that could be a cold one.

Where has the time gone?!? Burger King’s Subsurviant Chicken turns 5 today.

Five years ago today, a bunch of youngsters at two companies called The Barbarian Group and Crispin, Porter + Bogusky launched a small minisite three days in advance of the late night running of some broadcast spots. They wanted to iron out any last minute wrinkles in the site by emailing it around to a few more friends, and get a little early buzz before the spots ran.
In the next 48 hours, before the spots even had a chance to air, the little viral site that could had already bombarded the poor XServe in Crispin’s internal data center with 25 million hits. Within days, a cultural phenomenon was spawned.
All for a creepy dude in a chicken suit with garters, who looked like he was running some sort of shady web cam operation.

Here is blog post detailing the conception of this Internet and pop culture icon (get a cup of tea, its a long one).

A couple in Germany wanted a baby but could not conceive because the guy was, er, shooting blanks. So the guy then hired his neighbor to get his wife pregnant. And from there, pure comedy. Wasn’t this a skit on Saturday Night Live?

I’ve been silent for a while because I’ve been diligently in the process of migrating my blog/site to wordpress. I’m pretty much done but I am sure there are several formatting issues that will crop up as I do some bug fixes. So generally speaking, please bear with any broken links or messy formatting for a bit while I clean things up.