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I've updated this with reaction from New York papers overnight.
AP
New England Patriots linebacker Tedy Bruschi smiles as he leaves the field after the Patriots beat the New York Jets, 24-17.
Pats fan, heart still pounding: We should have/could have lost, but got saved by Tedy Bruschi's interception with five seconds left. Tedy's back!
Clock management wasn't too shabby either.
This win over the Jets, 24-17, puts the Pats atop the AFC east.
AP: GOLDBERG on FOOTBALL: the Patriots Do What They're Best at
PatsFan.com: Bob George: Need To Tackle For All Sixty Minutes
N.Y. Times: Pennington Runs Out of Answers Against Brady and New England
Odd cliche: Both the NBC announcers and another Times story refer to "17 unanswered points" by the Pats when the Jets came back from 17-0. Weren't the Jets "answering" the Pats' points, 7 of which stayed unanswered after the final knee?
More: N.Y. Post, Daily News. (You'll find the same "unanswered points" at both.)
Next week, the Pats face Denver on Sunday Night Football on NBC at 8:15 p.m. Denver beat Kansas City today, 9-6. Denver Post: Broncos clip K.C. in overtime
Pattern recognition: White Jigsaw.
Future home of...What if they built a gated community and nobody moved in? Interesting story from the High Springs (Fla.) Herald about Magnolia Meadows, a sold-out development of 23 5-acre lots in north Florida, near the Suwanee River:
...The lawns are mowed to perfection, and the road winding through the area looks as if it was just put down yesterday. There's not a pothole to be seen, not a crack in sight.The plants at the front of the community were chosen for their welcoming image, and an elaborate sprinkler system keeps them and other vegetation in common areas throughout the neighborhood watered.
A keypad sits at one side of the entrance to the neighborhood, allowing only those people who knows its code to open the electric gate.
The roughly $700 in homeowner's association dues that each owner pays goes a long way in keeping this community looking new as the day it was built.
There is only one problem with this 2-year-old neighborhood.
Nobody has moved in. No one.
There are no homes.
While the developer was able to sell every lot with very little effort -- some people bought lots without seeing them -- nobody decided to actually move to the neighborhood.
Farewells: Remembering Ann Richards, above, is an appreciation, a video collage at YouTube, of the former Texas governor who died Sept. 13. Photos of Ann throughout her life play over Willis Alan Ramsey's Northeast Texas Women.
Former Texas Governor Ann Richards is a video of a recent speech that includes, "Fifty years ago we were certain we were going to change the world and we started with Texas."
Funny lady. Feisty, too.
Remembering Ann Richards, by her friend, Texas journalist Molly Ivins.
"Transcript of the keynote address to the Democratic National Convention last night by Ann Richards, the State Treasurer of Texas, as recorded by The New York Times"
-- July 19, 1988
Quotes, assembled by the Times.
Ann Richards on How to Be a Good Republican.
And... Oriana Fallaci died Sept. 15. The N.Y. Times obit: Oriana Fallaci, Incisive Italian Journalist, Is Dead at 77
I was at home, which is in the center of Manhattan. At exactly nine o’clock I had a sensation of danger, of a danger that perhaps would not touch me, but that undoubtedly concerned me. It’s the sensation you feel in war, or rather in combat, when every pore of your skin feels the bullet or the rocket as it approaches, and you perk up your ears and yell at the person next to you: "Down! Get down!" I pushed it away. It’s not like I was in Vietnam. It’s not like I was in one of the many wars, those fucking wars that have tortured my life since World War II. I was in New York for God's sake, on a marvellous September morning in 2001. But the sensation still possessed me, inexplicably. So I did something I never do in the morning and turned on the TV. The audio wasn’t working. The screen was. And on every channel—and here there are almost a hundred—you saw a tower of the World Trade Center burning like a giant match. A short circuit? A small plane gone off course? Or an act of deliberate terrorism? I stayed there almost paralyzed, fixed on that tower, and while I fixed on it, while I asked myself those three questions, another plane appeared on the screen. White, huge. An airliner. It was flying extremely low. Flying low, it turned toward the second tower like a bomber who draws a bead on a target and then hurls himself at it. That’s when I understood. I also understood because in that same moment the audio came back on and transmitted a chorus of primal screams. Repeated and primal. "God! Oh, God! Oh, God, God, God! Gooooooood!" And the plane went into that second tower like a knife going into a stick of butter.
More links at Giselle Fernandez's site:
Oriana Fallaci lost her protracted battle with breast cancer on September 15, 2006."La Fallaci's" Story as told by Oriana
"Unpublished portrait of Oriana Fallaci: the greatest Italian woman writer."
Banish old typos: Doc Searls asks, "Is there a way (or ways) to edit or alter the stuff Firefox's automatic form-filling and auto-complete (or whatever it/they are called)? I've been looking around and missing it."
Here's how: In Firefox, start typing the bad URL in the location field so the dropdown includes your old typo. Scroll to it and hit the Shift and Delete keys simultaneously: Gone forever (or till you make the same mistake again).
In I.E., just use the Delete key.
