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WEEI Voiceover Guy

Pete’s Bits is home to Pete Gustin, the man who does much of the voiceover work and other comedy bits for WEEI.  The man behind the curtain…

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Swing Score is alive

For those of you tuning in to check out the Swing Score project, please check out its new site:  http://www.swingscore.com

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04-03-06, Red Sox at Rangers [Swing Score: Sox +1]

The Red Sox haven’t won a season opener since 2000, and found plenty to be happy about with a solid first win. One of our aces (Schilling) beat their ace (Millwood) in a game that started out sharp and opened … Continue reading

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“Swing Scoring” the 2006 Baseball Season

At some point last year, a New Englander who now covers baseball in another city — I can’t remember exactly who or where, but I think it may have been a Chicago broadcaster — was on the Sox pre-game radio … Continue reading

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Super DragAndGo – but what else do I know?

Thanks to everyone who’s dropped by while searching for the Super DragAndGo plugin. I’ve been online since 1991, variously participating in or hosting every form of discussion forum the Internet (and all its dial-up-and-in predecessors) have offered along the way, … Continue reading

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Gladwell everywhere

Here’s a great email exchange between Gladwell and The Sports Guy, and another dialogue where he compares the U.S. and Canadian health care systems.

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Super DragAndGo for FireFox 1.5+

Super DragAndGo is a terrific plugin for FireFox that allows you to click and drag down on a link (or an image or highlighted text) to open it in a new tab or window.  It hasn’t been certified for v1.5+, … Continue reading

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Quantum physics and intuitive reactions

The study of quantum physics reveals some strange stuff.  Experiments with one of the strangest principles of quantum physics — that a particle can be in more than one place at the same time, but can only appear or be … Continue reading

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Google Local on your mobile device

Google Local, which is a solid directory service integrated with Google’s terrific mapping applications, is available for many cell phones and PDAs. Check out http://local.google.com/glm — on a computer, it’ll give you more information, and on a mobile device, it’ll … Continue reading

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Hot Stove Season becomes Spring (Training) Fever

The national pasttime is back for another season… and not another cold morning too soon. Baseball Musings is one of the best sites around for discussing trade rumors, individual games, and statistical trends, plus it keeps a great list of … Continue reading

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