My goodness, Time Warner Cable is acting like a real cable company, for once. All of the HD channels that they have been promising for a while finally showed up. They are:

ESPNews, ESPN U, MLB, Golf Channel, Versus, TLC, Science, Animal Planet, National Geographic, Travel Channel, ABC Family, Lifetime Movies, AMC, Bravo, FX, Speed, CNN, Fox News and CNBC.

Plus, I finally got the full array of On Demand channels that I never had and always wondered if it took some ancient Chinese secret to unlock them.

But it looks like for the next little bit, that's it for any HD additions.

Meal of Links

The Oscars have decided to expand the Best Picture category to 10 films. First of all, can they find 10 films and if they can, will blockbusters make it or more small films. Seems animated and foreign films probably benefit the most. And, of course, it's 5 more films to see.

We found the Governor of South Carolina. He was hiking in Argentina, I guess. Another unbelievable story. Fox News still has trouble calling these guys R's.

Volcano pictures. From space!

This guy predicted Lucas Glover could win the US Open a week ago. I'll definitely use him for British Open fantasy advice purposes.

There are only 8 US newspapers covering Wimbledon this year. Maybe they can cover some of the odd betting patterns while they are there.

The craziest plan to save a newspaper. Ever.

Exercise Yard

US Soccer beats Spain, the World No. 1, in the Confederations Cup in South Africa. Quite simply, the greatest US soccer victory in my lifetime.

Now, if they would just get rid of the damn horns.

Vuvuzela, the South African Thunderstick



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