The 2007 Blackout: One for the archives

"They're 15 sections from where the rowdy folks are."
- Joe Petersen

The Auburn 2007 Blackout: At one point Sanford Stadium appears to destroy someone's camera on the 50 yard line.


Did you see that?

But we still don't talk about 2008.

Missing link found; one less thing to worry about

Have you heard about Ida? Said to be the missing link of evolution.

The New York Times says we'll see about that, as is so often true:

But despite a television teaser campaign with the slogan “This changes everything” and comparisons to the moon landing and the Kennedy assassination, the significance of this discovery may not be known for years. An article to be published on Tuesday in PLoS ONE, a scientific journal, will report more prosaically that the scientists involved said the fossil could be a “stem group” that was a precursor to higher primates, with the caveat, “but we are not advocating this.”

May update: UGA still awesome

Updates from The University of Georgia Magazine...

The Seiler family has donated papers from the Uga mascot line to the university. They will be housed in one of the library's special collections, which are partially accessible online, and are awesome.

This one is dedicated to the women of UGA.
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A UGA professor is studying parasitic worms that cause schistosomiasis and affect 70 percent of people in some African villages. The research may lead to advances in organ transplants and immunosuppressant therapy.
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As of fall semester, there will be no more in-room phones in University of Georgia dormitories.
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Terry College, graduating college of one John W. Fain, was second in the nation in passage rate for the CPA exam in 2007. Wake Forest was No. 1. I pretty much stole the whole story.
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It snowed on March 2:

Image: University of Georgia Magazine, Peter Frey, BA 1994.

Fat Tire Ale available in Georgia starting today

Attention all hippies and beer aficionados, the Holy Grail of beers has come to Georgia.

From New Belgium Brewing:

Fort Collins, CO – April XX , 2009 – New Belgium Brewing, the third-largest craft brewer in the U.S., today announced that 22-ounce bombers of Fat Tire, 1554 and Mothership Wit will be available throughout Georgia beginning May 11. The roll-out will begin with bomber bottles for approximately 60 days, to be followed by draft.

According to company spokesman Bryan Simpson, the beer will be available at Publix, Kroger, Food Lion and Ingles grocery stores, as well as bars across the state.

The first deliveries are expected today.



UPDATE: A spokeswoman for Kroger says they received shipments today. A spokesman for Publix says to expect shipments there tomorrow.

Samberg and Timberlake do it again

"This is the second best idea that we've ever had."

If you get a chance to live out a Kevin Bacon movie, you do it

Good for this kid. From The Courier in Findlay, Ohio:

A Heritage School committee decided Wednesday that Tyler Frost, 17, will be suspended if he attends Saturday's dance because the school's policy forbids dancing, rock music, hand holding and kissing.

Frost plans to attend prom anyway with his girlfriend, a senior at Findlay High.

"He's Bob Marley with a .315 career average"

Colin Cowherd's take on Manny Ramirez's suspension was fantastic this morning.

Ramirez, by the way, was responsible for the single coolest thing I've ever seen on a baseball field that didn't include Hank Aaron, Greg Maddux, Dale Murphy, Sid Bream or Lou Gehrig.

Keep your hat on

Kirk Vonnegut used to tell just the punchline of an old joke. "Keep your hat on," it went. "We could end up miles from here."

I have just realized tonight that, not only do newspaper people not know where journalism is heading in the internet age, no one does.

And that is a level playing field.

Thanks to Paul Westerdawg for linking to this today, out of the blue, on the 9th anniversary of my coming to work at The Macon Telegraph:

That is what real revolutions are like. The old stuff gets broken faster than the new stuff is put in its place. ...

When someone demands to know how we are going to replace newspapers, they are really demanding to be told that we are not living through a revolution. They are demanding to be told that old systems won’t break before new systems are in place. They are demanding to be told that ancient social bargains aren’t in peril, that core institutions will be spared, that new methods of spreading information will improve previous practice rather than upending it. They are demanding to be lied to. ...

I don’t know. Nobody knows. We’re collectively living through 1500, when it’s easier to see what’s broken than what will replace it. The internet turns 40 this fall. Access by the general public is less than half that age. Web use, as a normal part of life for a majority of the developed world, is less than half that age. We just got here. Even the revolutionaries can’t predict what will happen.

More from the Beacon Theater

There seems to be no end to the awesomeness of The Allman Brothers Band's 2009 run at the Beacon Theater.


Did they require people to bring video cameras to these shows?

Pure vertical they call it, in a blink.

There's this guy named Joe Kovac at The Macon Telegraph. And The United States Air Force is Bad Ass.



The Air Show is at Robins Air Force Base this weekend.

Gym Dawgs: Still unstoppable

This is a joint press release from Georgia senators Johnny Isakson and Saxby Chambliss:

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., and Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., today praised the Senate’s passage of a resolution they introduced commending the University of Georgia’s gymnastics team for winning the 2009 NCAA national championship.

“These talented and determined women have accomplished a remarkable feat. Their achievements, not only in women’s gymnastics but in all of college athletics, are extraordinary and should be commended,” Isakson said. “It’s also a privilege to recognize the accomplishments of Suzanne Yoculan, who will retire as the most successful collegiate gymnastics coach in NCAA history.”

“It takes a great deal of dedication and sportsmanship to become a powerhouse, especially in college sports,” said Chambliss. “I’m proud of all the Gym Dogs, Suzanne Yoculan and the entire coaching staff, who have played an integral role in the journey to the national championships. I know all Georgians join me in congratulating the team on this tremendous accomplishment.”

On April 17, 2009, the University of Georgia gymnastics team, also known as the Gym Dogs, won the program's 10th national title overall and fifth consecutive national championship.

The Senate resolution recognizes the Gym Dogs as the most successful gymnastics program in the nation and congratulates Suzanne Yoculan for her spectacular career as the University of Georgia’s gymnastics coach.

I'd like to make a Tebow joke here, but I'm afraid of him.

A bit of Dreams in 2009, at The Beacon Theater.

Holy crap there is a lot of youtube from that concert. Which included Eric Clapton.

Why Does Love Gotta Be So Sad. Two minute mark. Two minute mark.

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My buddy Mike: I'm glad Barack Obama won, but I'm beginning to wonder if he's a dumbass.

Also Mike: I wish they'd take the phrase "tough choices" out of the human language.
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It's like I'm sitting here playing cards with my brother's kids
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From The Science Times:

The United States has no clear military policy about how the nation might respond to a cyberattack on its communications, financial or power networks, a panel of scientists and policy advisers warned Wednesday, and the country needs to clarify both its offensive capabilities and how it would respond to such attacks.

The report, based on a three-year study by a panel assembled by the National Academy of Sciences, is the first major effort to look at the military use of computer technologies as weapons. The potential use of such technologies offensively has been widely discussed in recent years, and disruptions of communications systems and Web sites have become a standard occurrence in both political and military conflicts since 2000.

Trouble a-brewin.
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The new Transformers movie's new trailer... That thing does not suck.

Where Bulldog greats went in the draft

I'm pretty freaking excited for Matt Stafford.

2009: Matthew Stafford, 1st round, 1st pick overall, Detroit Lions
2009: Knowshon Moreno, 1st/12th, Denver Broncos
2009: Mohamed Massaquoi, 2nd/50th, Cleveland Browns

Bigger whammy: Stafford to Detroit with up to $78 million or Massaquoi to Cleveland?

From the Georgia Football Media Guide:

2008: Thomas Brown, 6th/172nd, Atlanta Falcons
2007: Charles Johnson, 3rd/83rd, Carolina Panthers
2006: Max Jean-Gilles, 4th/99th, Philadelphia Eagles
2006: D.J. Shockley, 7th, 223rd, Atlanta Falcons

2005: Thomas Davis, 1st/14th, Carolina Panthers
2005: David Pollack, 1st, 17th, Cincinnati Bengals
2005: Odell Thurman, 2nd, 48th, Cincinnati Bengals
2004: Sean Jones, 2nd round, Cleveland Browns
2004: Ben Watson, 1st/32nd, New England Patriots
2003: Tony Gilbert, 6th round, Arizona Cardinals
2003: Boss Bailey, 2nd round, Detroit Lions
2002: Randy McMichael, 4th/114/th, Miami Dolphins
2001: Marcus Stroud, 1st/13th, Jacksonville Jaguars
2001: Richard Seymour, 1st/6th, New England Patriots
1998: Robert Edwards, 1st round, New Englan Patriots
1996: Randall Godfrey, 2nd round, Dallas Cowboys
1996: Brice Hunter, 7th round, Miami Dolphins
1995: Terrell Davis, 6th round, Denver Broncos

1995: Eric Zeier, 3rd round, Cleveland Browns
1993: Garrison Hearst, 1st/3rd, Arizona Cardinals

1989: Richard Tardits, 5th round, Arizona Cardinals
1985: Kevin Butler, 4th round, Chicago Bears
1983: Jimmy Payne, 4th round, Buffalo Bills
1981 Scott Woerner, 3rd round, Atlanta Falcons
1980: Rex Robinson, 6th round, Cincinnati Bengals

1979: Willie McClendon, 3rd round, Chicago Bears
1970: Jake Scott, 7th round, Miami Dolphins
1969: Bill Stanfill, 1st round, Miami Dolphins
1961: Frank Tarkenton, 3rd round, Minnesota Vikings
1961: Pat Dye, 5th round, New England Patriots
1960: Charley Britt, 3rd round, L.A. Rams

1943: Frank Sinkwich, 1st/9th, Detroit Lions

Man, this list is getting long. I have to take a break and listen to Steve Young talk about how great Mark Sanchez is.

Bob Dylan's gramma is at the draft

Yes, as I said before it's really groovy. I'd like to bore you for about six or seven minutes, do a little thing. Yeah. Yeah, excuse me for a minute, just let me play my guitar, right?



"But now the different thing by Bob Dylan. That's his Gramma over there. It's a little thing called Like a Rolling Stone."

ESPN: Stafford to Lions for six years, $72 million

John Clayton reporting, updated as of 12:12 a.m..

First Bulldog to be taken No. 1 overall since The 49ners took receiver Harry Babcock in 1956, according to Tim Tucker of The AJC.

Trippi and Sinkwich were also No. 1 picks, Tucker notes. So was Herschel, really.
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Correction: The Georgia media guide says Trippi and Babcock were No. 1 picks, Sinkwich went No. 9 to Detroit in 1943.
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Damn sure worth smiling about. Image: Brian Huff.

UPDATE OF... well fact:

Stafford is now the highest-paid player in the history of the NFL. The guaranteed portion of his contract represents a 40 percent increase over the $24 million that San Francisco had to give quarterback Alex Smith in 2005, and a 25 percent increase over what Oakland gave JaMarcus Russell just two years ago.

Or is Stafford just really the second coming of Elway?

If you had to put real money on it, who would you take to have the best professional career out of Georgia's likely draft picks Saturday?

The one most likely to excel at their position.

Now take Knowshon out of it.

Might Brannan Southerland merit consideration?

Draft coverage from David Hale

David Hale, The Telegraph's Bulldog beat writer, is in New York for the draft this weekend. He'll be blogging, writing, twittering, all that action.

He's already got several things up. Follow it from his blog.

Greg Allman: We should play Georgia

Phillip Ramati is a reporter at The Macon Telegraph. While working on a piece on the 4o-year anniversary of The Allman Brothers Band, he asked Gregg Allman whether The Allman Brothers Band would make it back to Macon this year to celebrate the anniversary.

Said Mr. Allman:"We damn sure should. We need to play at (City Auditorium).We really need to get back to Macon. Mama can cater the whole thing."

There's an awful lot of open space in September and October of The Brothers impending tour schedule with Widespread Panic.

Dude, the Falcons traded for Tony Gonzalez

Per The AJC. Gave up a second round pick for the 10-time Pro Bowler. That could be sweet.

I predict Stafford and Moreno will rock the draft. And that Thomas Dimitroff has another awesome draft and makes sure people know how to spell his name.

Bradley: Since the 2008 draft was completed, 2009 had been earmarked for defense.

And David Hale is in New Jersey with Knowshon, then he's heading to New York for the draft.

History, digitized

A partnership of various libraries from around the world, including the U.S. Library of Congress, has put together something called the World Digital Library.

It appears to be in its infancy stages, but includes digital versions of some of mankind's earliest writings, as well as old maps, historic pictures and works of art.

Abraham Lincoln cannot be photographed. Click to enlarge.

Allan Pinkerton, President Abraham Lincoln and Major General John A. McClernand at Sharpsburg/Antietam.

You should also go see this map, made in 1554.