Baseball fans for once getting their money's worth?

Yanks take almost 5 hours to beat Boston - Yahoo! News:

The Yankees beat the
Boston Red Sox 14-11 to complete a sweep of Friday's day-night doubleheader and give New York a season-high 3 1/2-game lead in the division. At 4 hours, 45 minutes, the nightcap was the longest nine-inning game in major league history, and it came on top of a relatively speedy 3:55 afternoon contest.

"We kept looking up and it kept being the fourth inning. It was nuts," Yankees manager Joe Torre said. "I'm proud of it, especially in this ballpark, where every game seems like it's the longest game in history."

The teams combined for 41 runs and 61 hits. Twenty pitchers — that's counting Mike Myers and Scott Proctor twice — threw 783 pitches. In all, the teams played 8:40 minutes of baseball, from Jason Johnson's first pitch at 1:10 p.m. until Mariano Rivera covered first to retire Wily Mo Pena at 12:52 a.m.

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thanks to cygwin's x-server, i now have "xv" working on windows.

this makes me an exceptionally happy geek, 'cause every other graphics program out there absolutely sucks in usability.  nothing in photoshop or gimp "makes sense" and what takes me 10 seconds in xv takes me about 20 minutes just to find the right freakin' dialog and another 40 to actually figure out how to use it.

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Pharyngula: Sinners in the hands of an angry phantasm:

But heck yeah, it seems obvious to me that if you base national policy on pious ignorance and the low-rent tribal power fantasies of a bronze-age gang of thugs, you're not going to cope well with the real issues of a modern pluralist society.

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