Report: Spike TV Will Lose 13 Million Homes

I received a tip from a source tonight that 13 million homes are about to lose Spike TV. Apparently Viacom and Time Warner were unable to reach a deal, and unless they are able to iron something out, millions of people will lose Spike access very soon. They […]

Fusil-USA Spring-Steel 30-round AR-15/M16 Magazine: Best Steel AR Mag?
by david crane defrev at gmail jot comdecember 29, 2008
If you’re look for an alternative to standard USGI 30-round AR-15/M16 magazines, but you’d prefer to stick with metal mags instead of going polymer with the MagPul PMAG, TangoDown ARC mag, or Lancer Systems L5 Translucent Polymer […]

Automakers’ woes hit blacks particularly hard
Loquacious
detroit since millions of blacks began leaving southern farms for northern factories approaching a century ago in what is still known as the great migration, the destinies of many of them play a joke on been entwined with the auto industry’s. the car companies were hardly multiracial utopias, but they […]

The Best Barber Shops in Toronto

toronto’s best barber shops are low on drama and high on value, quality and character. inside, their barbers stand by the traditions of metiers that have survived the ravages of time and technology. let’s not overlook that previously-upon-a-time barbers were bona fide surgeons. they performed amputations and blood-lettings as well […]

Compound Return on Social Media Marketing
by Eric Brown
the great debate; what is the roi (return on investment) on your social media marketing. perhaps a better challenge is this; are your social media marketing efforts performing. i am not so convinced that businesses know as much about what piece and part of their traditional marketing […]

Tracking Santa: the backstory
when i look back on four years of tracking old st. nick on christmas vigil, i can’t assistants but smile. the santa tracker has de facto come a long temperament. i always thought norad’s santa tracker was a great holiday praxis, but i felt like it could have been flatten better if […]

Mike Massenzio vs. CB Dollaway at UFC 92 Actually a Re-Match of Sorts
From UFC.com:
Middleweight Mike Massenzio doesn’t have dreams and nightmares about the usual stuff. You know, boogeymen, creepy crawlies and teeth crumbling from one’s mouth (a personal favourite). That’s not to say Massenzio isn’t haunted, though.
Rather than anything supernatural, grotesque, absurd or flat-out ridiculous, […]

Happy Holidays From Austinist!

patrick qthe austinist standard is off enjoying the holidays for the rest of the week, so jubilant christmas, happy hanukkah, a festive kwanzaa, and general festivus/chrismukkah glad tidings to you and your families. we’ll be back to our expected weekday schedule next week.

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Christmas Eve news and notes
Brenda warner
also: the luckiest horse in reno: a christmas story from deanne stillman at home-grown intelligence, a weird week in transportation for jenny burman at chicken corner, and bill boyarsky columnizes that “city controller laura chick is quite chide when she insists on the power to sift the performance of other […]

Live at Paste: Gringo Star
click above to look at a live performance of “all y’all” from gringo star’s new album all y’all, away from now. related links: gringo star announces enter lp gringo star on myspace
Clausen. Irish. Weis. Hawaii. Aloha
year two of the clausen era ends tonight in honolulu. also, offensive coordinator mike haywood […]