Woods tipped for comeback in 2005

From [BBC Sport | Golf | World Edition](http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/0.91/public/-/sport2/hi/golf/default.stm:)

Tiger Woods is set to stage a comeback this season after a lacklustre 2004, according to BBC Sport’s golf experts.

Well, I hope so. At least if he does, it might be an interesting year in golf. Last year was boring (at least if you’re not a fan of Vijay). Still, it’s funny that they talk about a lackluster year. I’d bet that there’s about 100 other golfers on the tour that’d kill for a year like he had.

Stahl: Not In Terminator 4

From [Sci Fi Wire](http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/:)

Nick Stahl, who played John Connor in 2003’s hit Terminator 3:
Rise of the Machines, told SCIFI Wire that neither he nor T3 co-star Claire Danes will appear in a proposed fourth Terminator movie.

Interesting. I wonder what the plot is. Neither of them will be a particular loss, but where will the franchise go? Arnie is getting a little long in the tooth to carry it again.

Those who do not learn from their mistakes…

[1967](http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/nytimes/82602711.html?did=82602711&FMT=ABS&FMTS=AI&date=Sep+4%2C+1967&author=By+PETER+GROSE+Special+to+The+New+York+Times&desc=U.S.+ENCOURAGED+BY+VIETNAM+VOTE:) “United States officials were surprised and heartened today at the size of turnout in South Vietnam’s presidential election despite a Vietcong terrorist campaign to disrupt the voting.”

… are doomed to repeat them.

LIVE 24 UPDATE

From [Dave Barry’s Blog](http://weblog.herald.com/column/davebarry/:)

I think I figured something out: The terrorists took over all the nuclear power plants in the United States by… *installing Windows XP Service Pack 2”. Those heartless ”bastards*.

That’s the only way I can describe some of the dialog…

It’s been a long time since I heard technobabble as funny as that in the show last night. Remember when the Secretary of Defense waved his hand and said he didn’t understand a word of what was said??? I was thinking to myself that I do that stuff for a living, and I didn’t understand it either. OK… it was entertaining, but give us some more credit, OK?!?!!??!

Is it wise to pull the tale of an angry Tiger?

[BBC SPORT | Golf | Els casts doubt on Woods revival](http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/golf/4224863.stm)

South Africa’s Ernie Els has insisted former world number one Tiger Woods will never dominate golf again, despite his recent revival in form

OK Tiger… I’m thinking another 11 win season is in order… and can you add in a couple of majors just for good measure?

I think now that Tiger has his romantic life in order after marrying Ms. Nordigen he’ll be able to get his mind back on golf. Note to Tiger… you’re only half way there.

Even Dave Barry is hooked!!

From [Dave Barry’s Blog](http://weblog.herald.com/column/davebarry/:)

We don’t know how we’re going to get *any” work done today. We might just start sitting in front ot the TV ”right now”, waiting for 9 p.m. Eastern 8 p.m. Central Time, because we are SO NERVOUS about what is going to happen tonight, with the terrorists in possession of the amazing Nuk-Em-All remote-control device — NOT sold in stores — that causes all the nuclear reactors in the United States to melt down and apparently there is NOTHING ANYBODY CAN DO ABOUT IT…So the only hope for humanity, ”again”, is loner rogue agent Jack Bauer, who is not afraid to ”take action* — who has the guts to shoot first and also shoot later on. We personally would not mind if he accidentally shot Secretary of Defense William Devane’s daughter, because she gets on our nerves.

LOL!!! Dave Barry is so funny! But everything he says above is true! The only problem is that it’s all going to be true next week, and the week after that, and so on….

Salon.com Technology | Hallelujah, the Mac is back

From [Salon.com](http://www.salon.com/:)

Weary of spyware, tired of virus attacks, a nation turns its lonely eyes to … Apple?
We’re living, right now, in Apple’s world, a time and place in which the normal rules of commerce no longer seem to apply to the once much-beaten-down firm. Contrary to all expectations, the company has seen a string of huge hits in the past few years. The iPod is bigger than Jesus. Apple is literally selling these things faster than it can make them. Now, for the first time in almost two decades, there’s a good — great — feeling attached to the Apple brand, a haze of optimism that is unlike the sensation we feel for all but the most cherished of consumer tech brands.

Could this be the beginning of Apple becoming what it used to be? Remember way back in the stone age of computing when Apple was **THE** computer to own, only to become the *betamax* of the home computer market? Well, maybe now there’s a chance that they’ll end up getting back that crown. Stay tuned.

Iraqis flock to polls

From [Boston Globe — Front Page](http://www.boston.com/news/globe/pageone:)

BAGHDAD — Iraqis voted yesterday in historic national elections in unexpectedly large numbers, despite insurgent attacks on voters and polling stations that killed at least 35 people and injured at least 171. Nine attackers also died.

Excellent! Give them liberty or give them death.

Million Dollar Baby

Clint Eastwood pulls off another great movie. This is the Rocky story with a decidedly different outcome.

Maggie is a looser. So is Frank. But they’re loosers for different reasons. She’s a looser because her entire life conspired to make her one. He’s a looser because he’s a winner that’s afraid to win.

Frank is a boxing trainer that’s been training for 40 ro 50 years. He’s had a few fighters that were close to being winners, but he’s never been able to take them all the way. For one reason or another, it’s never happened for him. In fact, his current fighter dumps him on the eve of his championship fight because Frank doesn’t have what it takes to take him all the way.

Maggie is a middle-aged woman that’s been fighting on the side to earn some money to make ends meet. She thinks that boxing may be her way out of a trailer trash life.