Links for 2009-05-16
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Halsey Minor still at work on buying bankrupt Magna assets: "I talk to everybody … and I’m hopeful that a solution can be put together that prevents tracks from being put in harm’s way. If I succeed, then obviously that will be great for the sport. And if I fail, it will not be through a lack of effort." [Mention of tech initiatives as something for later near article end.]
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"The Godolphin runners would finish eighth and 14th. Sheikh Mohammed must have looked at these deadpan men, up from the banks of the Rio Grande, and pondered his own, unrequited craving for this prize. Who are those guys?" Chris McGrath reviews the Derby on Preakness eve.
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And with fantasy horse racing: "The ball bearing traveled faster than the marbles, some of which were intentionally nicked to indicate equine fragility and mortality. So the ball bearing became the nearly invincible horse Repulsion, 'King of the Turf,' whose legendary speed and stamina are celebrated in Kerouac’s racing sheets."
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Geolocation patent will also allow targeted advertising.
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A look at NPR’s use of a nifty bit of “backstory” programming to mine their archives for relevant links to tweet. Illustrated with a Derby story.
Posted by Delicious in Miscellany on 05/16/2009 @ 7:00 am / Follow @railbird on Twitter
