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• I love this picture of Coach K and the Redeam Team.  Coaches don’t get medals for coaching an Olympic team, but his team decided to put all their gold medals around his neck as a show of thanks.  It’s rare that you see a team of millionaires act so unselfish.  It shows they totally get the concept of team.
  
• I mentioned a while back that I wouldn’t mind reading a Coach K book and one of my readers sent me a book, I just got it yesterday.  Thanks, LP!
• This link is to Coach K’s playlist on his website.  It ranges from Michael W. Smith, to Phantom, to Garth, Motown, and the BeeGees.

Sting and The Police have come top of the charts again, for writing the most misheard pop lyrics of all time.

Message in a Bottle, the band’s 1979 hit has the line: “A year has passed since I wrote my note”, but fans regularly mishear it as “A year has passed since I broke my nose.”

The lyrics from his 1980 song “When The World Is Running Down” came top of the list.

“You make the best of what’s still around” is a line regularly misheard as “You make the best homemade stew around.”

The 56-year-old front man beat pop legends the Beatles, Bee Gees, Queen and David Bowie in an online poll of 2,000 music fans by specialist hearing aid retailer Amlifon.

The Beatles also appear twice in the top ten.

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PHOENIX (AP) — When it comes to marking up historic signs, good grammar is a bad defense.

Two self-styled vigilantes against typos who defaced a 60-year-old hand-painted sign at Grand Canyon National Park were sentenced to one year of probation and banned from national parks for a year.

The men, Jeff Deck, of Somerville, Mass., and Benjamin Herson, of Virginia Beach, both 28, pleaded guilty on Aug. 11 to damage done in March at the park’s Desert View Watchtower. The sign was made by Mary Elizabeth Jane Colter, the architect who designed the rustic 1930s watchtower and other Grand Canyon-area landmarks.

Mr. Deck and Mr. Herson toured the United States this spring, wiping out errors on government and private signs. They were interviewed by National Public Radio and The Chicago Tribune, which called them “a pair of Kerouacs armed with Sharpies and erasers and righteous indignation.”

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[Thanks, Gabe!]

Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” is already welcoming the Grand Old Party to next week’s Republican National Convention in St. Paul – sort of.

The fake news program has erected a billboard near the Twin Cities along I-494, picturing the show’s correspondents and the words “Welcome, Rich White Oligarchs.”

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Oligarchs?
I’ll be honest, I had to look it up.

A guide to (almost) everything there is to know about presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama, from the important issues (Best Speech) to the really important issues (Hairstyle). Electopedia will be updated regularly—look for new categories ripped from the headlines!

Lots of fun and interesting facts.

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[Thanks, Suzy!]

An eight-year-old dog has touched the hearts of Argentines by saving the life of an abandoned baby, placing him safely alongside her own new puppies.

The country’s media are calling him “the miracle baby”.

He was born prematurely to a 14-year-old girl in a shanty town outside the capital, Buenos Aires.

She is said to have panicked and abandoned the boy in a field, surrounded by wooden boxes and rubbish.

Then along came La China, reports say, the dog which somehow picked up the baby and carried her 50m to place him alongside her own puppies.

The dog’s owner reported hearing the child crying and finding him covered with a rag.

The baby, weighing 4kg (8lb 13oz), had some slight injuries, but no bite marks.

The owner called the police and the child is now being looked after by the authorities, while a decision is taken about his future.

The frightened mother appeared shortly after her baby was found.

The Argentine media has descended on the shanty town, talking of “the Argentine Romulus and Remus”, the founders of Rome, abandoned as babies and rescued by a wolf, nearly 3,000 years ago.

La China, worried about her own puppies, is reported to be petrified by her new found fame, and her owner says he is worried that she is not eating.

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A blog by a nameless Texas Penitentiary inmate that is currently serving a life sentence

He updates the blog daily with the help of a friend that is not in jail.  The inmate hand writes and mails 5 posts once a week to his friend who then types a post for each day that week.  All comments and e-mails are given to the inmate who will eventually respond by the blog.

Prison Proxy

As a burglar, John Pearce thinks nothing of turning his victims’ homes upside down.
But this time it was the house that turned him the wrong way up.

Attempting a daylight raid, the 32-year-old somehow got his foot caught after smashing his way through the front window of a Victorian terrace home at 6pm.

Unable to free himself, Pearce was left hanging upside down in the window frame for more than an hour as a crowd of 30 neighbours and passers-by gathered to ridicule him in Dartford, Kent.

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• I still need your vote to be the next Southwest Airlines blog-o-spondent.  Vote here and feel free to spread the word.
• I had trouble making that video b/c my fairly new PC won’t recognize an external mic, it turns out it’s a known Vista issue.  I’m sure that will fire up the Mac community telling me I should have bought a Mac, but it seems all my friends that are Mac users spend a lot of time at the Apple store getting their Mac fixed.
• There’s been a lot of drama at my church about them allowing a woman to lead or preach a sermon.  Read more about the drama here.  They spend a lot of time researching the role of women in the ministry, you can read about that here.  I love my church and should attend service more regularly.
• Speaking of church, here’s an article on Joe Biden’s church.
• Here is a very tough read.  A young woman is chronicling her abortion.  Reader discretion is highly advised.
• My cube mate found his wife by an arranged marriage.  That was an interesting and fascinating discussion.
• A new WhichWich opened in my neighborhood.  FYI – They have great shakes.
• Remember when I mentioned that my Olympian friend had some stories to tell about the Olympic village and what goes on after the athletes compete?  The Times has an article about it, once again, reader discretion is advised.
• There’s a student at WifeGeeding’s school who goes by the name Jedi b/c his initials are JDI.
• One of my coworkers grew up on military bases all around the world.  When you watch a movie at a base theater, the national anthem is played before the showing.  She told me the first time she went to a non-base theater she stood up at the point where she expected the anthem to be played and when it wasn’t played she was left in disbelief.  She also felt a little embarrassed as she was the only one standing up at the time.
• Grace

“A Celebration of The Perfect Portrait”

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My friends and I have been having fun lately emailing a list back and forth of what are the best of the worst Christian songs we grew up listening to. You know, those songs that are enjoyable, with lyrics you can’t get out of your head, but at the same time you’d be slightly embarrassed if anyone came across them on your iPod.

So I condensed our lists and decided to share the final version of our list of songs we hate to love. It’s not meant to be a mean-spirited list, just a fun way to look back at how much Christian music has–thankfully–changed.

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I remember hearing “Big House” by Audio Adrenaline ad nauseam when I was a freshman in college and rolling my eyes every time someone tried to jazz up the song by replacing the “Where we can play football” line with “Where we can play frisbee” or something else that was more gender neutral.

MILWAUKEE — Everyone from Henry Winkler to “Mr. and Mrs. C” to Garry and Penny Marshall were on-hand for the unveiling of “The Fonz” statue Tuesday morning in downtown Milwaukee.

Surrounded by fans and Wisconsin dignitaries, Winkler and the sculptor revealed what Milwaukeeans had been waiting to see — The Fonz in bronze.

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