Linkpost: 07/27/08
- Magazine puts the spotlight on Tulsa's Art Deco architecture (Justin Juozapavicius, AP) One of many reasons that Tulsa is a pretty cool town.
- The Fannie Mae Gang (Paul Gigot, WSJ)
- God wants me to be rich (Karl Taro Greenfield, Portfolio.com) Joel Osteen’s positive self help is big bidness, even if it isn’t that much about Christian theology.
- Texas' new business tax coming up $1 billion short (Peggy Fikac, Houston Chronicle) No, really?
- Wind might have a big impact on our wallets (Loren Steffy, Houston Chronicle) Steffy has the wind partisans all riled up by pointing out some of the shortcomings of wind. As we’ve noted before, wind may be part of the solution, but it’s not a panacea.
- Oil Subsidies Less Than 0.4 Cents Per Gallon (The Antiplanner)
- Boarding soon: Cuba flights from Windsor (Nathan Hurst, Detroit News) If I ever tried this, I’m sure I’d get caught.
- Hotwire spawns a baby sister (Summar Ghias, This Just In)
- San Francisco proposes car ban on Market Street (Out of Control) Where bad 70s urban planning ideas are all the rage!
- Google Maps Adds Walking Directions, Bad Neighborhood Caution (Gizmodo)
- Blogistan (JoeSentMe.com) Joe discovers the beauty of hyperlinks! Seriously, it’s a good blogroll.
- Three injured in ferry collision off Andros (Kathimerini) Whoops!
- ThinkPad SL Series (Design Matters)
- Making security easier (Ariel Rideout, Official Gmail Blog)
- 'Goose' Gossage inducted into Hall of Fame (William Kates, AP) Long overdue. As a kid, I loved to watch this guy come in and scare the hell out of batters.
- Stoops still among coaching elite (Kirk Bohls, AAS)
- Stoops, Brown working on a rivalry for the ages (Berry Tramel, Daily Oklahoman)
- Oklahoma's no-huddle offense isn't ready just yet (Brandon George, DMN)
- Justice: Wolf trade shows Astros need reality check (Richard Justice, Houston Chronicle)
- Trade increases Astros' playoff hopes (Jim Molony, MLB.com) The headline writer is delusional.
- Bill Parcells is his typical classless self (Newy Scruggs, FWST)
- The scholarship game: No more easy outs in college baseball (Brian Davis, DMN)
- WNBA finally gets attention – for brawl (Larry Lage, AP) Watching them brawl has to be a hell of a lot more interesting than watching them try to play basketball.
- When should you banish your gas guzzler? (Scott Burns, Universal Press Syndicate) It’s nice that Burns can shuffle between two cars, but maybe not everyone can, and maybe some people would like to reduce their fuel consumption as a matter of conservation and not pure economics.
- Boy slips out of day care, goes to Hooters (Monika Diaz, WFAA News) Nicely done, kiddo!
