Blogcritics Editors' Picks: November 29 through December 12 - Page 5

It ain't gonna happen, but at least Craig Lyndall is thinking outside the box by trying to
get Bill Cowher to coach the Cleveland Browns.

From the big boys to the equally-big-just-unpaid boys, Vince Mullins demonstrates how to evolve an argument through the comments when he initially criticizes Michigan football coach Lloyd Carr for not campaigning his team in the BCS voting, then when commenter "Chris" provides evidence that it's a school policy not to lobby the program in public, Vince seamlessly reshifts the criticism to the entire school. Mmm. Smooth.

From football to football to baseball in December, Zach Baker gets all up in the Giants' grill and oh-so-unsubtlely suggests to them that perhaps they shouldn't have invested in Barry Bonds for $16 million.

GAMING

Aaron Auzins reviews Guitar Hero II for the PS2. How do you make 2005's best rhythm game even better? Release a sequel.

Jason "Njiska" Westhaver reviews Phoenix Wright - Justice For All (JP) for Nintendo DS. Farewell, My Turnabout.

Aaron Auzins interviews Dennis Lee of Konami, in which Lee details Konami's effort to build a franchise from the ground up for the Nintendo Wii.

SCI/TECH

Aurel Montgomery tells us of The Man Who Was Sagan, a great tribute to a great man.

Eric Olsen's Strong Brands Balm Consumer Brains, New Study Shows, dares to enter the mind of that complex beast, the consumer.

From Science Editor John Vaccaro:

If your computer died tomorrow, would you be able to recover your data from other sources? Our own Daniel Woolstencroft gives us options to back up all the data of your digital life in How Safe Is Your Digital Life-Data?

COMMENT OF THE WEEK

From Comments Editor Christopher Rose:

To a European, the Politics section of Blogcritics can often seem a bewildering place, rather like a cross between "Alice in Wonderland" and "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest". Fortunately, we can rely on commenters like this to keep the worst delusions in check...

Posted by RJ Elliott to A New Plan For Iraq - Give It To The Chinese on 2006.12.05, 06:13:20 AM :

I hope you aren't being serious about this, Dave.

There are two possibilities:

1 - China laughs at us and tells us to go fuck ourselves. We are embarrassed, and the situation on the ground does not change a bit. I think that's about 90% likely.

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