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1. Vook. Adding a fresh spin on the centuries old medium of books, Vook is a multimedia hybrid that mashes up text, audio, video, photos and social media into a format tailored for today’s internet browsers, e-readers and mobile devices.
2. Rhodes Scholar and NFL prospect, Myron Rolle’s upcoming NFL draft status is taking a hit because he may be considered too smart for his own good. The thinking goes that the NFL personnel people want players who are focused only on football. Unfortunately for Rolle, his aspirations to become a neurosurgeon if/when his NFL playing days are over may drag his draft value down. A neurosurgeon who plays elite level football? Rolle would be perfect fit for THE GAME.
3. The ultimate database of all the world’s stadiums. The worldstadiums.com database includes over 10,000 stadiums from over 223 countries.
4. Goal Line Blitz is an engrossing new online American football MMORPG that allows you to create and develop players as well as manage a team’s entire operations; from concessions to trading and signing players.
5. Life in the Multiverse. A fascinating article from the January 2010 issue of Scientific American (paywall) examining the theory of a multiverse, multiple universes—each with their own laws of physics and perhaps each with their own forms of life—originating from the same primordial vacuum. Photo courtesy of jurvetson.
