My favorite site as I prepare for my own drafts is Footballguys.com. They are a first rate service, and have greatly enabled me to consistently make winning picks.

Wikipedia says:

Miracle fruit is available as freeze dried granules or in tablets – this form has a longer shelf life than fresh fruit. Tablets are made from compressed freeze dried fruit which causes the texture to be clearly visible even in tablet form.

The effect of Miracle fruit is made possible by contact with the tongue, not through digestion. For this reason, tablets must be allowed to dissolve in the mouth. The most pronounced effect can be achieved by coating the entire tongue in a paste of Miracle fruit for up to 30 seconds.

The tablets are currently very difficult to get outside of Asia, where they are popular among diabetics and dieters.^[4][5] However, in many countries they can be purchased on the Internet.

I am now on the hunt for some dried miracle fruit!

Check out these links:

http://www.crfg.org/pubs/ff/miraclefruit.html

http://www.notcot.com/archives/2008/02/miracle_fruit_review.php

http://www.miracleconnect.com/

http://www.bennadel.com/blog/780-The-Miracle-Fruit-Miraculous-Berry-Turns-Sour-To-Sweet.htm

Flock Announces New Fashion and Entertainment

Edition of Award Winning Social Web Browser

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Flock (www.flock.com), the innovative social Web browser that helps its users connect, share and discover the best of the modern Web, today announced the availability of the Gloss Edition, the world’s first and only fashion and entertainment browser. The Gloss Edition is based on the latest version of the award winning Flock browser, and comes pre-populated with best of breed news, photos, videos and feeds from more than 35 fashion and entertainment content partners across the Web.

Flock’s Gloss Edition is designed to deliver the latest fashion interviews, red carpet events and the hottest style trends to users allowing them to easily share content and information with friends. Flock’s Media Streams, News Feeds and Favorites features have been pre-programmed with content recommended from today’s leading lifestyle sources like Popsugar, InStyle.com, Glam.com, ThisNext.com, Ecorazzi.com, DesignerApparel.com and other leading style and entertainment brands.

“Flock makes the organization and presentation of this content intuitive and helps users easily discover and share media, feeds and information with their social network profiles, family and friends,” said Shawn Hardin, CEO of Flock. “The Gloss Edition, together with the recently released Eco-Edition, demonstrates the power of Flock’s platform to serve diverse groups who are deeply passionate about a variety of interests.”

“Glam Media is excited to be a part of Flock’s Gloss edition,” said Ryan Roslansky, Vice President, Products & Content, Glam Media. “With integration at the browser level, we’ll be able to reach new audiences while providing an easy way for consumers to access content from our more than 500 popular lifestyle publishers in the Glam Network.”

Additionally, Popsugar and InStyle fans will have the option to download special Popsugar and InStyle versions of the Gloss Edition browser. The content of the two versions will remain with the same great fashion and entertainment features, but will include default homepages featuring the respective partner sites.

The Flock Gloss Edition Browser is available as a free software download for Mac, PC and Linux at http://www.flock.com/gloss.

About Flock

Flock is the first and only social Web browser that helps users connect, share and discover the best of the modern Web. Flock delivers a more personal Web experience, where users are in control and more connected to what they value. In 2008, Flock received the Webby Award for social networking, the SXSW Community Award and was listed #6 in PC World’s 100 Best Products of 2008. Built on Mozilla’s constantly improving Firefox architecture (http://www.flock.com/mozilla) Flock is free to download and use at http://www.flock.com. Founded in 2005, Flock is based in Redwood City, Calif. and has an office in Victoria, British Columbia.

I completed the requirements for my Masters of Public Administration. I have to say I am really happy not to be in school any more. I feel the pull of wanting to take classes in much the same way someone with Stockholm Syndrome probably feels about his captors. I’m really super happy and can’t wait to further reap the benefits that this course of education has given to me.

I *really* hope he’s OK. He’s one of my more favorite actors. He used to be on children’s television.

Here are some of my favorite movies where he has a role:

• The Dark Knight (2008) …. Lucius Fox
• Gone Baby Gone (2007) …. Jack Doyle
• Batman Begins (2005) (VG) (voice) …. Lucius Fox
• War of the Worlds (2005) (voice) …. Narration
• Batman Begins (2005) …. Lucius Fox
• Million Dollar Baby (2004) …. Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris
• The Sum of All Fears (2002) …. DCI William Cabot
• Along Came a Spider (2001) …. Alex Cross
• Deep Impact (1998) …. President Tom Beck
• Amistad (1997) …. Theodore Joadson
• Kiss the Girls (1997) …. Dr. Alex Cross
• Moll Flanders (1996) …. Hibble
• Se7en (1995) …. Detective Lt. William Somerset
• The Shawshank Redemption (1994) …. Ellis Boyd ‘Red’ Redding
• Unforgiven (1992) …. Ned Logan
• The Power of One (1992) …. Geel Piet
• Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) …. Azeem
• The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990) …. Judge Leonard White
• Driving Miss Daisy (1989) …. Hoke Colburn
• Lean on Me (1989) …. Principal Joe Clark

I’ve been using the Flock 2.0 Beta with great success on my Mac running Windows Vista, which has been doing very well. I’m no so sure I love the address bar to be a sort of virtual search- It is just one more way of finding the sites you’ve visited, so I can live with the visual distraction.

Another cool thing is the Bug Report Button. I think it should look more like a nasty roach than a harmless fly, but it is sort of whimsical and almost acknowledging that things are not perfect.

Links to Flock 2.0 Beta:

http://flock.com/beta/download

http://mashable.com/2008/06/16/flock-20-web-browser-beta/

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/Browsers/Flock-for-Windows.shtml

My wife and I are committed to natural childbirth for our kid. We’re 19 weeks along and have been wading through the various processes to make this work in a hospital.

While there are many resources for people who want a home birth, I feel more comfortable in a hospital setting where the latest technology is available if interventions are really needed. My wife takes another view. and so as a partnership we’re trying to give ourselves the most natural childbirth outcome possible in a hospital setting.

This is going to take some work and a lot of talking to nurses and doctors. I’m reading some books and I’ve already had discussions with these parties.