The Food Lab: In Search of the Best Oven-Fried Buffalo Wings | Serious Eats
Incredibly in-depth testing in their search for baked buffalo wings equivalent to the standard fried version. Certainly something a Buffalonian can appreciate!
Very cool site that allows you to collect audio from around the web and turn it into a podcast you can subscribe to…
A comprehensive list of popular sabermetrics.
Actual football played in a 60-min NFL game: about 11 minutes.
So what do the networks do with the other 174 minutes in a typical broadcast? Not surprisingly, commercials take up about an hour. As many as 75 minutes, or about 60% of the total air time, excluding commercials, is spent on shots of players huddling, standing at the line of scrimmage or just generally milling about between snaps.
“To get a sense for how thoroughly military spending dominates our national budget, consider this chart showing where Americans’ tax revenue goes.”
The sanctity of military spending - Glenn Greenwald
