Blind Justice statute (link roundup)

Blind Justice statue, available in high res here.

And a few more links:

1. Tucker Stone's top ten comics of 2008.

2. Here's a still from the upcoming Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs movie. Via.

3. Apparently Google recently updated websites' page ranks. This site will let you check a site's page rank quickly.

4. The Lakers employ "two full-time staffers who use eight digital video recorders, five laptop computers and 18 DVD burners to record, edit and copy footage for Lakers coaches and players." Kobe Bryant watches the most video.

*Previously: Ivan Drago, Justice Enforcer (the game).

*Buy NBA bobbleheads at eBay.

How Allen Iverson learned the crossover

Here's a young Allen Iverson (check out the hair) crossing over a still relatively thin Michael Jordan:



Iverson learned the crossover from a dramatically inferior player, who taught him the value of practice.


Here's a few more random links:


1. Auditorium is a relaxing, puzzle solving flash game. Drag and resize the arrows to redirect the flows of light and charge up the batteries.



2. Stove Top will heat 10 bus stops in Chicago to promote its new stuffing product. How long until someone reports the devices as a bomb?


3. Dean Kamen can forget to eat for days. And he once snuck into the Hayden Planetarium in New York to install a new light show. Learn a little more about him here.


4. Laker Lamar Odom is a huge Ric Flair fan. "One of his most cherished birthday gifts was one of Flair's trademark full-length robes, replete with rhinestones, sequins and colorful feathers along the neckline." (I never understood why anyone would pick Flair as a favorite. Mine was Randy Savage.)

*Previously: Alltime best NBA logo.

*Buy vintage NBA jerseys at eBay.

Fascinating article about Teller (of Penn and Teller) and his red ball trick

In 2007 Teller, of Penn and Teller wrote an essay about "a hundred-year-old trick called the David P. Abbott ball" that he was working on. The essay was included in the program for the Penn and Teller Vegas show:

When the theater is empty I like to go out on stage. It’s lonely and beautiful. I look at your empty seat and think about you being in it. … Then I practice. I often practice stuff you’ll never see. For the past few weeks I’ve been working on a hundred-year-old trick called the David P. Abbott Ball. It is a very, very hard trick, almost like juggling. I put in an hour almost every day. I try to get the tricky moves so deeply into my muscles and brain that I can forget I’m doing a trick. Soon I’ll know whether the ideas I have for this trick are possible. But I won’t know that till I learn all the moves and invent my own. If the trick doesn’t work out, you’ll never see it, and I won’t be sad. I had fun every second I was working. I love the stuff you never see.

This is the story of that red ball trick. Yes, it's now part of the show.

I couldn't find the red ball trick, but I did find this video of Teller showing off his sleight of hand:



*Previously: NY principal hires black mage to cleanse school.

*Buy Penn and Teller dvds at Amazon.