How’s this for a Monday night?  You pick off a quarterback 4 times, recover two fumbles and hold an offense to three points all game.  You go into half time up 20-0, only to lose 24-23 after a fumble by your own quarterback and your kicker missing the game winning field goal.  You are the deservedly 1-5 [...]

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Pro sports teams have them.  Colleges have them.  Entertainment Weekly puts out a new one every couple of months.  So it should come as no surprise that Congress has their own power rankings. The website is pretty interesting, as it not only breaks down the House and Senate, but it also breaks power down by [...]

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As we work to increase traffic here at TubaPants, and possibly even monetize that traffic, I’ve been researching different ways to do just that. There are myriad services out there, and one of the latest ones I stumbled across is InBlogAds. InBlogAds offers two interesting ways to generate some income. The first is through text [...]

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Sure, they are on a neverending quest to take over the world. That doesn’t preclude them from doing some really cool stuff. And, from making that really cool stuff accessible by the legions of insanely loyal Mac users (count me as a member of that cult). To preach to that congregation, Google launched a blog [...]

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A small plane has crashed into the 20th floor of a 50 story condominium tower in Manhattan’s Upper East Side today.  There is no evidence yet that this is anything other than “a terrible accident” according to Homeland Security spokesman Russ Knocke.  Two people are reported as dead, though police would not state whether they [...]

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Hey kids, do you like Catholic Mass?  You do?  How about when the priest faces away from the congregation the entire service?  How about without lay readers?  And what if I told you the entire service would be conducted in Latin, a language only slight more dead than the Aztec civilization? Yes, it’s a fond [...]

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Last week NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope discovered 16 extrasolar planet candidates 26,000 light years away.  While that’s too far for a Sunday jaunt, the news is incredibly exciting for scientists as it is the furthest they’ve ever used the telescope to study.  The discovery helps lend support to the theory that over  6 billion Jupiter-sized [...]

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Hooray for billionaires! Chad & Steve, founders of YouTube, use their site to talk about the sale to Google for $1.65 billion – yes, with a “B”. And these guys aren’t even 30 yet! By the way Chad & Steve, TubaPants is seeking venture capital to, um, to… ah… do something really cool that will [...]

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Way cool post from PositiveSharing.com about outstanding workplaces. Companies like Google, Red Bull, Pixar and VW are featured with amazing design and phenomenal work spaces. My personal fave is the slide at Red Bull London that gets you from one floor to another (pictured above).

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From the fine folks at BoingBoing – A Houston area teenager chose not to read Ray Bradbury‘s “Fahrenheit 451” as a matter of principle due to its themes and language. Her father took the case one step further and is calling for a ban on the book in the school district. The fact that his [...]

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FEMA – that’s Federal Emergency Management Agency to the uninitiated.  They’re job, according to their website, is “to lead the effort to prepare the nation for all hazards and effectively manage federal response and recovery efforts following any national incident. FEMA also initiates proactive mitigation activities, trains first responders, and manages the National Flood Insurance [...]

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Found on The Huffington Post, an excerpt of a New York Magazine cover story on Stephen Colbert. Stephen Colbert vs. Ann Coulter – guess which comments are from Coulter (and stuff she presumably believes) and which are from Colbert (uttered by the fictional character he plays on his show)… 1. “Even Islamic terrorists don’t hate [...]

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Hopefully we have your attention. It’s really exciting when the blog community can unite for a common cause. A bunch of us came together to pay tribute to the victims of September 11, 2001, and now bloggers are coming together for another cause – Breast Cancer. Click here or on the banner above to make [...]

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Wisconsin state representative Frank “Rambo” Lasee is proposing legislation to make it legal for teachers and principals to carry concealed weapons. Not only is this yahoo from Wisconsin, but Frank Lasee supposedly represents my district. Freakin’ moron. Technorati Tags: Wisconsin, concealed weapons, Frank Lasee

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Matt McAllister was a man with a dream.  A dream of breaking the world’s record for most t-shirts worn by one person.  Not just a state record mind you, or even an American record.  We’re talking the World’s Record for Most T-shirts worn by a man. The end result is 155 t-shirts, which took 4 [...]

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