Like most Americans, we don’t have too much of an interest in soccer if the players are 18 and older. We don’t know why, but soccer is a bigger sport for the kids. The translation…we didn’t watch the World Cup.

However, The Register has a funny take on that French player, Zinedine Zidane, who was kicked out of the World Cup. Depending on which country you’re from…you may not have seen the same thing that the officials saw.

Check out the following link: http://www.theregister.com/2006/07/13/zidane_headbutt_outrage/ .

I know this has already made the Internet rounds, but I’m too impressed to not post it here. A remake of The Simpsons introduction we all see everytime the cartoon starts was done by Sky TV for airing in the UK. Only this introduction uses real actors and not animated characters! A link to the video can be found at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=49IDp76kjPw . The following excerpt is from a Reuters-Yahoo article:

Painstakingly crafted by Sky (BSY.L: Quote, Profile, Research) and its ad agency Devilfish, the video was originally intended as an on-air promotion for the Sky One network, which airs new episodes of “The Simpsons” in the UK.

The company decided to release it on the Internet as part of a word-of-mouth brand building exercise, tapping into the red-hot Web video sector.

“If we had only showed it on air, you might turn to someone and say that was really cool,” said BSkyB communications director Matthew Anderson. “Putting it online, there’s a fantastic discussion between millions of people — it’s bringing the Simpsons to them instead of having them tune in.”

After less than a week, the video has been viewed millions of times at online video sites like YouTube (http://youtube.com/watch?v=49IDp76kjPw) and Google Video.

A slightly humorous story making the rounds on the Internet posted below:

From CNN:

The school purchased 23 PlayStations last month to use with educational games for third- through fifth-graders.

But not all the teachers took to the video games — one became so flustered that she didn’t want use them in class, principal Sharon Sand said.

So on Wednesday, students gave advice on plugging in the machines, using the software and navigating the buttons.

I am a news junkie. I love to read the news both in the newspaper and online. I have a number of favorite online news sites bookmarked and I’m very loyal at surfing those sites each day. Sometimes when I wake up at night, I take a quick look at the computer to see what’s happening with the world. Hello Europe at 2 AM CST! Yet despite my interest in news, business, and sports…every Sunday there is one section of the newspaper that must be read first. The Sunday Comics. Maybe reading the comics is something a man in his upper 30’s shouldn’t admit, but it’s the truth. What else can I say…

In case you don’t know, the comics are also online. Since I can’t legally pull any of the comic strips off of their site and place them here, you’ll just have to settle for the link above. They archive the comics for a few months so you also get a chance to read any of those strips you missed last Sunday! You know, the Sunday when you had company over and had to show your maturity when their children wanted to read the comics. Deep down inside all you could say was “Darn kids, when will they ever grow up?”.

We would like to begin one of our first entries with some local humor. Earlier this month, the Zip Feed Tower was scheduled to be demolished to make way for “new” real estate. At 202 feet, the Zip Feed Tower is believed to be the state’s tallest building (we don’t have much out here in South Dakota). On December 4th, explosives were used to bring down the 48 year old structure. A raffle was held to see who would be the one to trigger the plast (proceeds going to the Dakota Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society). The raffle and corporate sponsorship is expected to have raised nearly $140,000. Thousands of people, including national media, lined up to see the tower go down.

So what is so funny about blasting a feed tower? Well the tower as of this Friday afternoon is still standing. All the explosives did was to sink the tower in it’s basement and lean it over. Long time residents of Sioux Falls are still laughing and are alright with the national attention the whole event has received. We of course drove by the Zip Feed Tower to get a picture. Wrecking balls are expected to arrive any day now and finish what the explosives couldn’t finish. We wouldn’t be surprised to see the wrecking balls have some difficulty of their own!