Archive for February, 2010
news you can use: the weekend edition
with the exception of logging our 1000th post it was a slow week here at sacred bird. probably because all that snow made us sluggish—there’s only so much you can do indoors before you go stir crazy. speaking of crazy, what about the crazy win those saints made? one ad that didn’t make it on-air [...]
this is why we’re #18
as you may have heard, the u.s.a. used to be the best in secondaryeducation but as of 2008 with the us education system was ranked 18 of 36 countries–we have a 75% high school graduation rate compared much lower than other countries like south korea (their’s is 93%). the result of a less ‘edumacated’ nation [...]
from the archives
so here are my (180s) picks of favorite stories over the past 1000. it was hard to pick a few because frankly, i forget a lot of them but going through the archives brought back some memories. here they are in no particular order.
politics and politicians
who doesn’t like a good joke? this picture of [...]
stephen colbert for abc’s this week?
it’s not a jon steward/brian williams pairing but george stephanopoulos’ visit to the colbert report was amusing. stephanopoulous tells stephen colbert the real reason he left the sunday morning this week news program for good morning america (lady gaga) and side steps the obvious question we already know the answer to of whether gma is [...]
weeeeelllllllllllll….
a group of small business owners bought this billboard outside of wyoming, minnesota “who feel like Washington is against them. They wish to remain anonymous. They thought it was a fun way of getting out their message.” for a few news cycles, there was speculation that the billboard was a fake but bob collin’s [...]
from the archives…
on monday we mentioned that we hit the 1000 mark here at sacred bird. before we leap into the future we thought we’d take an opportunity to look back at some old stories that we liked. today we bring you some from 630’s list.
for valentine’s day – custom dolls featuring your favorite newsie or [...]
did you know?
the u.s. is all abuzz about the ridiculous amount of snow that has fallen this winter. as the midwest begins to recover from the wallop they just got and the east coast braces for another couple feet, i thought it’d be good to find you some news you can use about snow. i googled “where [...]
