CJO Unleashed

I noticed the new design appearing on static pages yesterday, but the Topeka Capital-Journal's new online design is in full force this morning. Congrats to them for getting that puppy out the door. (I really should turn off Adblock so I get the whole experience, but...nah.)

The glory and the nothing

First possibly the gutsiest human being ever:

A 51-year-old man is being called a hero after covering a teenager who fell onto subway tracks in New York as a train passed over them.

Witnesses and officials said Wesly Autrey jumped onto the tracks after Cameron Hollowpeter, 18, suffered a seizure and collapsed Tuesday afternoon in Manhattan. He fell off the platform onto the the subway tracks a few metres below.

Autrey, who was waiting on the train platform with his two daughters, jumped onto the southbound subway tracks where Hollowpeter had fallen.

When he couldn't get him off the tracks as a train approached, he covered the teenager in a space between the rails while two of the train cars passed over them.

And now a simple little worm of a man:

Nick Saban has accepted an offer from Alabama to coach the Crimson Tide and leave the Miami Dolphins, two weeks after declaring "I'm not going to be the Alabama coach."

Saban's agreement with Alabama is for eight years and a fully-guaranteed $32 million, according to ESPN.com's Len Pasquarelli.

Picspam 2006 Year In Review, part one

Going through the picspam archives, I've been impressed to see how many of the posted images still work -- only a few here and there have vanished, been removed, been hotlink-blocked, been f'only-ed -- but a good chunk of them are still up. Peruse, should you find yourself in possession of too much time, and may you be blessed so.

However, before we kick off 2007, a retrospective on the dawning of the picspam era. The (half-)year's best, as voted on by arbitrarily ganked out by yours truly. ( 66 pics below.... )

Picspam 2006 Year In Review, part two

From September and October, personal faves. ( 78 pics below.... )

Picspam 2006 Year In Review, part three

Okay, I actually went back and counted the total number of pictures posted in picspams. Guess how many. Go on, guess how many images posted in this LJ since the June 12, 2006 debut of picspam (and ending with the December 30 triptych) and thusly tagged as picspam have been posted. I, being slightly medicated and distracted, went to the trouble of counting (and believe me, you don't want to). Just guess. I will say it's more than you think, unless you're slightly deranged, and a lot more than it should be.

[Poll #900088]

In that spirit, one final look back on 2006, November and December, apparently the month(s) of the cat; sorry about that. ( 96 pics below.... )