Case of the Mondays

I picked up some sort of bug over the weekend which has had me at about 50% strength this weekend, even with Dad and Denise in town. Not fun. Here is some stuff that is fun:

What Does Oil Doubling in Two Years Mean? (Hint: every other time, it meant recession) (The Big Picture)

Short white guy makes his case for NCAA dunk contest. Wow. (Deadspin)

NFL and NFLPA gave themselves another week to hammer out a new labor agreement (Deadspin)

Trials bike stuff is always so cool (via Adventure Journal)


A Hill in Spain from chris akrigg on Vimeo.

Another sweet video from Early Ups (via AJ)



Late 2010 from Andrew Whiteford on Vimeo.

Oil Left in the Gulf

The Deepwater Horizon spill was a disaster. No one would refute that. What is debatable now is how should we best prevent a similar occurrence and what will be the long-term consequence of the spill in the Gulf. We'll probably never have exact answers for either.

Outside mag had a brief blog entry this morning with some really good links. I've watched the Carl Safina TED conference video and he has some good points, even if he is a bit riled up. There will be many studies around NOAA report released August 4. From the blog:

NOAA released a report estimating that 74 percent of the oil had been captured, skimmed, dissolved, burned, evaporated, and dispersed. As many have already pointed out, dispersed and dissolved do not mean gone. 

Various studies will have differing conclusions for different reasons (some honest, some less so), but we will at least get more information regarding the long term effects of the spill. Even if Washington is more concerned with pointing fingers.