From ESPN.com: Source: Lance’s team lands sponsor

Radio Shack will be the primary sponsor for Lance Armstrong and Johan Bruyneel’s new cycling team, an industry source told ESPN.com’s Bonnie D. Ford on Thursday.

I was thinking it would be Nike.  What value is there for Radio Shack to sponsor Lance Armstrong?  Sponsorship seems to be one of the least effective forms of marketing.  How will being associated with Lance Armstrong help the Radio Shack brand?

I have actually been watching quite a bit of the Tour de France via live streaming on versus.com.  The athleticism and strategy of the riders is something to behold.  I think that cycling should be more popular than it is.

Team Radio Shack website

RadioShack press release

UPDATE: It seems as if RadioShack is one word instead of two.  Though media outlets seem to be using both one and two words.

If you’re a Battlestar Galactica fan and in San Diego for Comic-Con, make sure you head to the House of Blues for three concerts by Bear McCreary, composer of the music to Battlestar Galactica.

I’m a huge fan of Bear’s music and have been looking forward to these concert for weeks.  According to Bear McCreary’s blog, it’ll be over 3 hours of music with special guest appearances from BSG actors.  I hope to have some pictures from Saturday night’s concert.

Concert information at Battlestar Galactica Orchestra.

From Fake Steve Jobs: I’m really thinking maybe I shouldn’t have yelled at that Chinese guy so much

We
all know that there’s no fucking way in the world we should have
microwave ovens and refrigerators and TV sets and everything else at
the prices we’re paying for them. There’s no way we get all this stuff
and everything is done fair and square and everyone gets treated right.
No way. And don’t be confused — what we’re talking about here is our
way of life. Our standard of living. You want to “fix things in China,”
well, it’s gonna cost you. Because everything you own, it’s all done on
the backs of millions of poor people whose lives are so awful you can’t
even begin to imagine them, people who will do anything to get a life
that is a tiny bit better than the shitty one they were born into,
people who get exploited and treated like shit and, in the worst of all
cases, pay with their lives.

When I first read the post, I thought it was probably a little tasteless for Fake Steve Jobs to be commenting on the suicide of a worker at one of Apple’s contract manufacturers in China, but his take is absolutely spot on.

From CNN.com: Senate rejects additional F-22 funding

The Senate voted Tuesday to block expansion of one of the country’s most controversial and expensive defense programs, the F-22 fighter jet program.
…
With the F-22 being manufactured in or getting supplies from 44 different states, the plane gets broad support from congressmen and senators on both sides of the aisle.

That’s the problem with defense programs.  Once started, they are almost impossible to kill. 

Senators on both sides of the aisle fought to keep the F-22 in production to protect jobs in their states even though the Pentagon wants to halt the program.

For changes to happen, Senators must not just serve their State, but to serve the best interests of the United States on whole.

DailyMail: Massive German motorway pile-up involving 259 cars leaves 60 injured

And I thought Cincinnati drivers are bad in the rain.