Only the cost of the pipe to the house will change. Most telecom wonks agree that as OTT grows, the Verizons and Comcasts will shore up lost revenue from subscribers simply by jacking up the price of bandwidth, because OTT still requires the pipe (until it doesn’t with ubiquitous access to satellite/wireless…

Five point plan:

You know, it’s simple, but gin and ginger beer is a solid drink on an October night. Light on the ginger beer, because ginger.

Good list, Will. I’m always struck by how much vanilla I get from New Amsterdam, which, as you said, is the only gin at that price that seems to have any sense of adventure. I love Hendricks but I don’t love it so much that I’m happy to shill out $20 extra every time I want some. I wish I did. You should try Wireworks…

The best part is Peter King is outraged:

Been waiting for RWC coverage here and this and the Japan upset of RSA are the only two posts. Too bad. You guys are missing a hell of a tournament.

This one comes up a lot, but it’s not actually true. Terminating the contract is part of the contract that the PA collectively bargained and the player in particular signed on to in his particular legal document. Terminating a contract != not honoring a contract. It’s simply exercising a clause within it that both…

Patriots fan. This is so good. Was worried my expectations would be too high but this did not disappoint. Apologize in advance for the humorless shitbags that are sure to arrive soon—the ones who will inform you that you don’t even spell the accent the right way. But for the record, the snow plow game was awesome…

No worries. You just have to drive north, to Lake Itasca, MN, where the Mighty Mississip is only about 20 feet wide. Throw some boulders in a row and even a soccer mom could get across.

This one time at this one store this one thing happened to me, so 6 million other people within 400 miles are the same exact way.

Had just purged that from my memory. Thank you.

Conversely, this piece was a terrible idea and touching it up with some modulated female scatting makes it much better.

Major violation. In fact it means nothing if the patient does it voluntarily. If records were to become evidence in malpractice suit, the patient leaking it creates major issues It’s not even clear it’s okay for others to republish the documents. One would laugh that the writer of this blog, entrusted with a job that…

In 2011 it was 1.4b vs. 5.8m.

Women’s Tournament Revenue in 2011 was 1/20oth of Men’s.

Accdg. to NYTimes, in 2011, Men’s Tournament netted $1.4b, women’s tournment netted $5.8m, meaning revenue from women’ tournament was about 1/200th of mens (0.05%). So proportional to revenue, the women are paid more. Not to say women shouldn’t be paid more or given better working conditions—they should. But this pay…

Great summary and you're right about the weekend and the fact Deadspin needs to cover this more and more than soccer. How many times can Deadspin marvel that medical assistance takes place during the course of play? One other note: The Wales-Ireland match was also incredible, especially when Wales held Ireland from…

Advanced analytics show that 68-word sentences are 99% of the time a bad idea, and 100% of the time a terrible way to end an already overwritten story. Especially when "The better question is 'have analytics taken the sports out of sports?'" would have made the same point better with 56 fewer words.

Bring on the Six Nations.

This is from page 32 of the report.