(Less than) 100 days until hockey season!

I missed the start of my annual "100 days until hockey season" countdown. We are actually at 96 days until opening night for the Griffins! Woohoo!

10 best Simpsons Episodes?

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2007/08/top10simpsons200708

The monorail episode is one of my favorites. I am glad to see that one on there.

I would add the episode with the alcohol ban (which gave us the classic quote: "To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems!")

Note to editors: make sure headline and article say the same thing

The following is one of the headlines on Google News right now. Read the headline, then read the text below it (and the alternate headlines at the bottom).

Eating tomatoes may help prevent some cancers
Food Consumer - 2 hours ago
By Ben Wasserman
A review by the Food and Drug Administration concludes for now that there is little evidence to suggest eating tomatoes and lycopene supplements would reduce risk of many forms of cancers.
Tomato study yields confusing results Canada.com
How Tomatoes Flunked the FDA's Anticancer Test MedPage Today

I love it how the first and last headline completely contradict each other. Is this another example of how the media never seem to be able to report accurately on scientific studies? (See the headline from Canada.com.)

I'll still be eating my tomatoes though...because they are sooo delicious!

Happy 7s Day!

Today is 07/07/07! How fun. I hope everyone enjoys the day. My only regret is that we can never have a 13/13/13. That would be really cool.