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1. It’s Not a League of Their Own: Boston Dirt Dogs has an excerpt from the 2008 Red Sox Annual in which the authors size up the Sox’ com­pe­ti­tion in the Amer­i­can League. On the whole, it’s pretty inter­est­ing I guess, but the best part is that the sec­tion on the Ori­oles is just one long ref­er­ence to The Wire. And if you read a lit­tle fur­ther down there’s another Wire ref­er­ence that’s mas­querad­ing as a pithy state­ment about the eco­nom­ics behind your brand new Tampa Bay Devil Rays:
   

   My eco­nom­ics are rusty, but when you have an infe­rior prod­uct in a sat­u­rated, inelas­tic mar­ket, one strat­egy is to re-brand the prod­uct. There­fore, exit the Devil, and their aqua uni­forms, to be replaced by the San Diego Padres kits with blue replac­ing sand brown.

   Stringer Bell is alive and well in the sports pages, folks.

2. WebKit gets 100% on Acid3: “Yesterday’s news” you say? Nope. The news today is about Webkit/GTK. Awe­some news for us LXers. Also, def­i­nitely take a look at this account of the main Webkit team’s road to 100/100. It’s got some fun insights for spec­ta­tors of the race between Webkit and Opera for full Acid3 com­pli­ance. And for some (prob­a­bly much-needed) per­spec­tive, here’s one Mozilla-er’s take on the Acid3 arms race.
3. JavaScript Talk at North­east­ern: It’s a video of John Resig’s recent talk at North­east­ern on Javascript and jQuery. What are you still doing here?

Tags: Acid3, baseball, browsers, javascript, jquery