Stuff I'm just a bit too busy to blog about

... but figure "Hey, why not pass on a link anyway?"

» Washington Monthly's Paul Baumann does a review of Amy Sullivan's "The Party Faithful"

» The NYT does a pretty decent overview of what's going on in the world of Barry Diller. I'm generally a fan of Diller's, having gone so far as to do a small bit of my business class research work on his career. But I've had a problem seeing him as a good fit for internet businesses. The fact that he passed up offering $400M for MySpace is but the most glaring rationale for that opinion.

» College Basketball Invitational ... this is a joke, right? Reports broke that UH was guaranteed to play a "name" opponent in exchange for an early commitment. We end up playing AT Nevada? It used to be said that the NIT existed to settle who could claim to be 65th in the nation. Now, with the expanded NCAA and the NIT/CBI coexistance, we pretty much have the equivalence of handing out trophies just for suiting up.

» Twenty-two. That is all.

» Seriously, "that is all" aside, I can't claim to have been the biggest Rockets booster in the days since the team was defined by Charles Barkley. Yao and McGrady were certainly welcome additions to erase those memories, but still ... my days of daily Sports Page reading have long since been gone. With that, I merely announce my presence on the bandwagon.

Now, really ... that is all. At least till the next blog post.