Earl Bockenfeld: MiscelleousEverything else.Date For Da Vinci Code Trial Set- October 31, 2005 Date For Da Vinci Code Trial Set Lawyers acting for Dan Brown, the world's highest-paid author, and the two men who claim he stole their ideas, met at the High Court in London yesterday to agree details of a trial scheduled to begin on February 27. Two historians, Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh, are suing Brown's publishers, Random House, claiming that Brown lifted "the whole architecture" of the research from their 1982 book, The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, for The Da Vinci Code,...http://books.guardian.co.uk/danbrown/story/0,15931,1602872,00.html Hair Didn't Have Anything To Do With It- October 27, 2005 Hair Didn't Have Anything To Do With It To superstitious athletes, hair is a big thing. They'll grow good-luck beards, carve out funny-looking goatees, shave their heads bald. Somehow, this is supposed to improve their chances of winning. So, what are we to make of this year's World Series The Astros were the ones messing about with their hair, and they're just got swept four games to none. (They grew beards, then shaved them. Who knows what they'll do now that it's over.) The White Sox,...http://adweek.blogs.com/adfreak/2005/10/whats_hair_got_.html Viking Love Boat Boys Are Just Boys- October 19, 2005 Viking Love Boat Boys Are Just Boys If the allegations are true, it&146;s awful. We understand that athletes aren&146;t necessarily role models, but we at least expect them to abide by the basic laws of the state. Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty How sad is it when the biggest news about the team you grew up dying to beat is about something that didn&146;t even happen on the football field Of course, with the Vikings mailing in their first four games this year, a good sex scandal might...http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=knight-_WWW_SPRT_12887160&prov=knight&type=l... The Burger King King Guy Scares Me Alot- October 17, 2005 The Burger King King Guy Scares Me Alot The Spot: It's morning. Birds are chirping. A man wakes up in his bed &133; and discovers he's not alone! Next to him on the mattress there is some sort of royal personage: a king, clad in burgundy robes and a crown. But the king's head appears to be made of plastic and is perhaps three times too large for his body. He hands the stunned man a breakfast sandwich. They laugh together. How did the fast-food wars become a frightfest A while ago, we wrote...http://slate.msn.com/id/2107697 Your Bike Seat Can Hurt More Than Just Your Butt- October 5, 2005 Your Bike Seat Can Hurt More Than Just Your Butt "We make kids wear helmets and knee pads," Dr. Goldstein said. "But no one thinks about protecting the crotch." A raft of new studies suggest that cyclists, particularly men, should be careful which bicycle seats they choose. The studies add to earlier evidence that traditional bicycle saddles, the kind with a narrow rear and pointy nose, play a role in sexual impotence. Some saddle designs are more damaging than others, scientists...http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/04/health/nutrition/04bike.html?pagewanted=2&ei=5090&am... |