Dave Winer is NOT going to stop blogging in a couple of weeks. Not that you’re doing this for me, Dave, but I feel the need to say, “thanks.” Now I can postpone the whole grief process. : )

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When I saw this headline in my RSS newsreader, “Small nuclear war could lead to cooldown,” I clicked through thinking it was an Onion story about some extremely strange strategy for solving global warming.

Kerry Woo delivered to the Nashville Humane Association the 100 lbs. of pet food collected at Saturday’s Nashville blogger meat-up. He is pictured with Thunder, who needs a home. My dogs, Feste and Kate, sent the Purina puppy chow in the photo.

(Update:: Later, on 12/27/2006, I added some later predictions before the final game of the season.)

Jimmy at Music City Miracles has posted the scenarios , six of seven that must happen, for the Titans to make it into the playoffs. Actually, there are eight scenarios because the six-of-seven formula is predicated on the Titans winning all their remaining games (Jaguars, @Bills and Patriots). Even a Koolaid-drinking Titans fan like me would have to be crazy to think all these factors could fall in place. But you never know: it could happen. For the record, when the Titans were 1-4 during the 2002 season, I blogged “it could happen” about their chances of making the playoffs. That year, they made it all the way to the AFC Championship game where they lost to Oakland.

While I do believe the Titans can win (dare I say, “will win”?) their remaining games, the factors outside their control are the ones I find more troublesome.

Sidenote: I watched much of the Bears-Rams game last night and was happy to see my fellow-Rex break out of his slump (however, having an 11-3 record is the kind of slump we should all have). I don’t like it when I hear fans say, “Rex sucks, ” no matter what team the Rex in question plays for. On the other hand, I think if the Bears make it to the Superbowl, Rex Sorgatz and I may get knocked off the front-page results for a search of the word rex on a certain search engine.

(via: NashvilleIsTalking.com)

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Andrew Orloski mangles the extrapolation of figures from a Forrester study to conclude that iTunes sales are ‘collapsing’. Ironically, buried in the piece is this quote: “Forrester analyst Josh Bernoff warned against extrapolating too much from the figures.” I do not care if iTunes sales collapse (except for my friends who are songwriters), however I do care when individuals who likely did everything possible to avoid taking a statistics course in college attempt to cherry pick and mash up unrelated numbers into an argument.

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