Archive - 2007

Timothy Karr is a blogger for the net neutrality site Savetheinternet.com and the popular media policy blog MediaCitizen. Karr is also the campaign director for Free Press, a non-profit organization dedicated to media reform through grassroots outreach.

The video is familiar to basketball fans all over the world. Vince Carter takes off from just outside the lane and dunks over the head of a 7’2” Frenchman named Frederick Weis.

This play symbolizes the current state of basketball in America. It also symbolizes why the United States hasn’t won a world championship in basketball since the 2000 Olympics.

When your resume reads: Olympian, three-time Canadian National Gymnastics Champion, three-time NCAA Gymnastics Champion, 10-time All-American, Cirque du Soleil performer, Emmy Award-winning reality series star, television series regular, motivational speaker, and CBC color commentator, it would appear that you’ve done it all.
Stella Umeh doesn’t think so.

A look at the weirdest, wackiest, and most interesting sites on the Web for the week of April 9th to April 13th:
"Israel goes on the virtual offensive"
By Gregory Levey

Cell phones, iPods, surround sound entertainment. The hills are certainly alive with the sounds of music. But at what point does our 21st-century love affair with loud noise threaten to turn us into Gramps with his hearing aid? A study done by the Hearing Loss Association of America in 2006 shows that about 15 of every 1,000 children under the age of 18 are hearing-impaired. That number doesn’t even include the number of people yet untested for hearing loss.