Links to Help You Kill Time Until the Game Starts

A Flow Chart to Determine which Team You Should Root for in Super Bowl XLV, Holy Taco
Packer's Receivers' Egos take Backseat to Super Production, USA Today
Pittsburgh Steelworkers Warned not to Skip Work for Super Bowl, Shutdown Corner
Super Bowl: Why it will Move to Cable, Hollywood Reporter
Lil Wayne offers Super Bowl Wager to Snoop Dog & Wiz Kahlifa: "Whoever Loses should Cut Their Hair," Hip Hop Dx
Blood Lust and the Super Bowl, New York Review of Books
Highbrow Super Bowl Bet has Museums Wagering Artworks, AOL
Ridiculous Super Bowl Prop Bets, Awful Announcing
Best Non-football Moments ever from Super Bowl Sundays Past, Washington Post
Super Bowl could come down to a few Good Kicks, Washington Post
Woman in charge of 10,000 Super Bowl Volunteers still Smiling, Ft. Worth Star-Telegram
Clay Matthews III to Write his Name in NFL History? Bleacher Report
The Super Bowl is Stupid, The Village Voice
The Super Bowl of Sex, Salon
Entrepreneurial Cheeseheads, Christian Science Monitor
Aggreko Powers Up the Super Bowl, The Telegraph
The Freakonomics of Super Bowl 2011, Wall Street Journal

Super Bowl Ads Link Orgy

100 Greatest Super Bowl Commercials, Bleacher Report
Super Bowl Advertising: By the Numbers, CNBC
The Best Super Bowl Commercial Preview so far, MSNBC
Super Bowl Ad Frenzt Stretches Far beyond the Game, NPR
The Man Behind some of the Super Bowl's most Memorable Commercials, Marketplace
Here's a Look at the Cost of Super Bowl Commercials through the Years, Business Insider
Groupon Buys a Super Bowl Ad, CNNMoney
8 Companies that need Super Bowls Ads, Time
Top Banned Super Bowl Commercials: Jesus hates Obama, Go Daddy, PETA, Bud Lite and more, New York Daily News
GM's $3M Ads a Bargain if Super Bowl meets Record Audience Forecast, Bloomberg
Dallas Ad Agency Plays the Super Bowl Field, NBC Dallas-Fort Worth
Super Bowl Ads Hit Web before the Big Game, PCWorld
Super Bowl 2011 Expected to Break Spending Records, iStockAnalyst
Super Bowl will be a Super Day for Smart Phones, Research Firm Predicts, Internet Retailer
The 50 Worst Commercials in Super Bowl History, Bleacher Report
How an Accidental Reply All Email Spawned a Commercial, Gizmodo
The Geekiest Super Bowl Commercials Ever, Geeks are Sexy
Fallen Stars: the Worst Celeb Super Bowls Ad Moments, MSNBC
How Small As Agencies are like Super Bowl Commercials, Ad Age
Why Super Bowl Ads Should Cost Five Times as Much, Online Video Insider
Super Boring? Super Bowl Ads Fail to Score with Old Excitement, Louisville Courier-Journal
Three Lessons from Pepsi's Super Bowl XLV Ad Campaign, Forbes
15 Sexiest Super Bowl Commercials of All Time (Including 4 Banned Ads), Total Pro Sports
Is $3M Worth it for a Super Bowl Ad? Ask Go Daddy, Washington Post
30 Seconds for Super Sell, Boston Herald
Are Super Bowl Ads Worth the Super-high Price? Yahoo Buzz
Are Super Bowl Commercials Worth it? Not so Much, Lafeyette Journal and Courier
Super Bowl Ads Worth it in the Long Run, Reports Say, Epoch Times
Super Bowl's Premium Ads come at a Price, Newark Star-Ledger
Demand for Super Bowl Ads Spikes in Canada, Toronto Star
VW's Unusual Super Bowl Web Strategy: Move On, Clickz
Top Super Bowl Ads from the Last 10 Years, The Vancouver Province
8 Dot-Coms that Spent Millions on Super Bowl Ads and No Longer Exist, Business Insider

Even More Super Bowl Links

Good New for Packers' Cullen Jenkins: His Father has been Found, Pro Football Talk
Super Bowl Ads don't Pack the Same Punch in Social Media Era, Washington University
For Compulsive Gamblers, Super Bowl Outcome could be Life or Death, LA Times
Six Players that could Change the Game on Super Bowl Sunday, Toronto Star
Who'd Pay $990 to Park at the Super Bowl? Fanhouse
There's Magic in Super Bowl Prop Wagers, Chicago Tribune
Another Super Bowl Custom: Busting Flea Markets Full of Fake Gear, CNN
James Jones, formerly Homeless Super Bowl Star, Gives back to Kids in Need, Huffington Post
The 7 Best Super Bowl Commercials Ever, AOL News
The Packers Modest GM has Lots to Brag About, NY Times
Your Sneak Peak at this Yea's Super Bowl Ads, Huston Chronicle
Super Bowl Player Boasts ties to Ghana, Voice of America
"Green and Yellow:" Lil Wayne Releases Green Bay Packers Anthem, CBS
President Obama's Super Bowl Party to feature Green Bay Beer, Dallas Morning News
Big Chill, Dueling 'Dos, Wall Street Journal
NFL Ref has a Pretty Sweet Set-up, With Leather
LA should Follow the Cheeseheads, LA Times
Keeping Score: Which Stats can Predict a Super Bowl Winner? NY Times
The Super Bowl where Everyone Wins, Slate
Guide to Super Bowl XLV Broadcast, Sports Illustrated
Monkey, Elephant make Super Bowl Predicitions, FOX Sports
A Super Bowl Oddity: No Cheerleaders for Packers or Steelers, USA Today
My Life with the Pittsburgh Steelers and Green bay Packers, Christian Science Monitor
Green bay PackersChase Old Glory in the Super Bowl, The Guardian

Super Bowl Omnibus Reader

The Right Way? The Green Bay Way, Patrick Hruby
There's No Trophy for Being Exciting, Jared Diamond
2011 Super Bowl Odds: Prop Bets to Watch during Packers-Steelers, Andrew Sharp
Packers, Steelers had Similar Super Bowl Blueprint, AP
Troy Palomalu is Defensive Player of the Year, did the Voters get it Right? Shannon Owens
Packers' Dom Capers, Steeler's Dick LaBeau Pioneered the Zone Blitz while on the same Pittsburgh Staff, Mark Maske
Key Super Bowl Match-up: Packer's CBs vs. Steelers WRs, Vinnie Iyer
Keisel's Beard is the 'Scruff of Legand,' John Branch
Super-fans use Different Rituals for the Big Game, Amanda Seef & Bethany Young
Packers, Steelers Fans Beware of Heart Attacks, Brian Floyd
More Pets named for Packers than Steelers, Matt Pepin
Why Green Bay is 'America's Team,' Gene Wojceichowski
Packer's President Labor Perspective, Judy Battista
Steelers, Packers have Quality Leadership, Leonard Shapiro
Steeler's Fans Wave Yellow Towels, Put French Fries in Salad, Eat Ice Balls, David Shribman
A Media Buyer's Primer to the Super Bowl, Toni Fitzgerald
The Super Bowl's most Unlikely Tale comes from the Miami Valley, Tom Archdeacon
Packers, Steelers: Fans that Roar (and Travel), Ken Belson
The Terrible Towel is Terribly Stupid, Clay Travis
Terrible Towel Whips up Cheeseheads, Brian Whitley
Pack Mentality, Rick Reilly
The Myth of America's Team, Emma Carmicheal
Packers at the Podiums; Grilled on Hair, Nicknames, Weather, Mike Tanier
Tim Masthay would be in the Peace Corps if he weren't in the Super Bowl, Michael David Smith
The Packer's Shields found the Answers on the (Flash) Cards, Karen Crouse

Friday Night Link Orgy

The Springfield Nuclear Power Plant baseball team get the Sabermetics treatment.

Democrats are finally hitting back against the ridiculous "no tax" pledge.

"Medicade: A Bargain, not a Burden"

Career suicide via Twitter.

The Dow breaks 11,000.

The old Texas Stadium: Project "Demolicious."

Was the Health Care Reform win based on an appeal to emotions?

Taxes.

Saturday Night Link Orgy

Rawanda's former ambassador to the UN turns up in an Alabama plastics factory after disappearing for the last 16 years.

How St. Paul handled the Church's first pedophilia scandal.

John Rawls on baseball.

Benedict XVI's uninspiring resume.

Using modern information theory to break an ancient Scottish language.

A formula for evaluated a coach's performance.

Thursday Morning Link Orgy

Batter hits his own Mom with a foul ball during spring training game.

Peabody's are announced. [via MC]

Michigan State coach Tom Izzo's high school basketball jersey was amazing -- and looked a lot like Marquette's in the late 1960s.

CFR primer of Chechan terrorism.

Should humanists avoid piling on the Catholic Church during the child abuse scandal?

Victorian Era sex! [via A&LD]

Toby Keith wasn't interviewed by Sarah Palin either ...

Tuesday Afternoon Link Orgy

Mark Bowden on Gen. David Pataeus.

Who is the hottest girl in the history of painting? [via V]

Is the time right for a viable third party? No, says Stu Rothenberg.

School vouchers lose yet another supporter.

One meathead's hilarious account of trying to hook-up with Paris Hilton on Spring Break.

This week's edition of Demography is Destiny.

Dude tries to flee from cops by breaking into ... a prison.

The Sarkozys dine at Ben's Chili Bowl.

Monday Night Link Orgy

David Frum on how the GOP can recover.

Michael Weiss on David Frum.

Thomas Malthus: vindicated ... ish.

Bush/Obama voters.

Hitler as canvass.

Yet another Scott Brown victory post-mortem (but this one's kinda interesting).

The GOP frat boy complex.

Anti-New Atheism

Monday Night Link Orgy

• "Die Hard" and the Architecture of Close Quarters Combat

• Why are so many Climate Change skeptics TV weathermen? [via ND]

• The NFL's final word on the Aaron Rodger's facemask grab

• Sarah Palin and the Jews (with addendum and really strange, um, defense (explanation?) of the phenomenon)

• Eric Rohmer, RIP

• The Vatican did not care for "Avatar"

• More evidence that the Pyramids were built by freemen, not slaves

• Paul Samuelson and the academic origins of the current financial crisis

Wednesday Morning Link Orgy

• Nothing sketchy about Rep. Steve Buyer ... nothing at all.

• Christopher Hitchens on Monty Python.

• The coming economic culture war.

• The lessons of Communism.

• What the Russians can teach us about oil dependency.

• The Club for Growth is on a mission to render the GOP utterly useless.

• "The USS New York, built with tonnes of steel salvaged from the World Trade Centre towers, began its journey to New York today after undocking from a New Orleans-area shipyard."

Monday Night Link Orgy

This dude tries to drink 100 cups of coffee in 2 days. [via PoliBlog]

Life, in calender form.

FaceBook blows.

Stem Cell research is not cloning. Period. (Got that, Eden? Carpenter?)

Chicago turns 100 ... kinda.

"Saying That Cutting Earmarks Will Reduce Spending is a Lie"

Plumber Joe cares not for Michael Steele.

Pimpin' ain't easy -- just ask Nouriel Roubini.

Claims Contrary to Evidence

Take it away, Matthew Continetti:

But today Bush is gone and McCain is back in the Senate. Obama is in charge. And his vision of government has rallied the right. Forget the kerfuffle between Michael Steele and Rush Limbaugh. The fact is that, right now, Steele, Limbaugh, David Brooks, Christopher Buckley, Mike Murphy, and other center-right figures have more in common than not. They share a skepticism of or disappointment in Obama that borders on (or spills over into) outright opposition. And it's reasonable to assume that, as time goes on, the opposition will only grow. Barack Obama is about to accomplish what Bush's second term and McCain's candidacy could not. He's about to reconstitute the right.

And this on a day when:

• Big Business is unhappy with the GOP

• Folks are already calling for the RNC Chair's ouster

• Jobs still need to be filled at GOP HQ

• GOP Congressional leadership is punting

• Once popular consultants are now derided as traitors

• Moderate conservative columnists are revolting

• Columnists who actually agree with Rush are being shunned for not being vehement enough

Oscar Night Morning After Link Orgy

* List of Winners

* Lee Seigel cared not for the Oscars.

* An alternative view on Jackman's night.

* The Progressive drags out the tired Slumdog = Poverty porn argument

* Oscar Noir

* Anyone else catch Will Smith's Boom Goes the Dynamite moment?

* Kate Winslet in Extras

* Val Kilmer for Governor?

Monday Night Link Orgy

• Isreal maybe be an important democracy in the Middle East, but it's internal politics are just as nutty as any other democracy's.

• If your contractors are billing you any more than $15,602,022,489,829,821,422,840,226.94 for the construction of your Death Star, you're getting ripped off.

• Old soviet criminal underground tattoos are as bad-ass as you think they are.

• There are almost as many people working in the Pentagon PR department as there are working in the entire State Department.

• How did the New York Post react to the news of Alex Rodriguez's steroid use? With characteristic elan:

• Seriously, JFK had some serious game when it came to press conferences:

• Very frequently, when I read the American Thinker, I have a difficult time wondering if what is written is serious or satire. Here is a perfect example.

• Will the Kindle do for books what the iPod did for music? Is anyone else uncomfortable with the stange book burning connotation in the product's name? Will the Kindle have this title available:

Hospital Purchase Records Containing Grain Price Information in Fifteenth Century Ghent

Thursday Morning Link Orgy

*** the 10 Worst Predictions of 2008 (thank God no one reads this blog...)

*** 10 Reasons Blago could get all up in Obama's grill

*** The Traditional Media Deathwatch continues

*** 7 Dumbest things ever done by airport security

*** What's a credit default swap?

*** 11 notable Presidential pardons

*** Black hole at the center of the galaxy? Confirmed.

*** Jokes and jokes and jokes ....

*** Can you write an entire innaguration speech using only 6 words? Knock yourself out ...

Sunday Night Link Orgy

*** The prank phone call that almost led to to war between India and Pakistan ... can somebody please get these guys a red phone/hotline?

*** The origins of piracy in Somalia ... and some tough, but reasonable, possible solutions that just so happen to include the best line I've read all day:

Water-skiing playboys in Lamu can stuff it.

*** Isn't an enemies list just a bit too Nixonian even for this administration?

*** Great article on college radio in the New York Times.

*** The financial crisis has pummeled Wall Street, is bearing down on Main Street and is now set to ravage ... horse country!

*** Any bets on what the books are behind the President-elect?
I'm going with either a three volume collection of Lincoln's speeches and letters or the Federalist Papers.

I kind of think it's pretty cool that he's doing these things from a high-rise. Apparently the transition offices are on the 38th floor of the federal building in the Loop. That's a pretty nice western-looking view of the city from that height.

Tuesday Morning Link Orgy

* If you thought the Wisconsin state legislature was going to have a helluva time correcting the $5+ billion dollar budget deficit, well, they'll get to it as soon as they figure out where everyone's offices are going to be

* David Kilcullen, who's theory of counterinsurgency could be described as "battlefield (a-hem) community organizing" is a badass: "Counterinsurgency is armed social work."

* Russians, feeling the economic pinch, stop building their enormous towers and -- most distressing of all -- are cutting down on their vodka consumption

* Two pretentious French literary types lash back at critics and the results are awesome:

* Solving the (institutionalized) Somali piracy problem with an iron fist

* The 101 Dumbest Business Moves of 2008

Friday Link Orgy

* John McCain gets closer to opting for public financing of his presidential campaign while Wall Street puts its money on the Democrats, and even GOP 527s seem to be having a hard time of late, but somehow the RNC is doing better than the DNC.

* The merely mildly amusing web site Stuff White People Like has been getting a lot of flack lately, but it's also getting an outrageous advance for a book deal. We can only hope the infinitely superior Hot Chicks with Douchebags got a better deal.

* Hey, now you too can shill for your blog on the pages of the Washington Post! Chris Cillizza at The Fix is looking to round up the best political blogs in each of the 50 states and I see the folks over at RealDebateWisconsin and the BadgerBloggerAlliance have already dispatched their minions. Sorry, folks that's not what he's looking for. My guess is that WisPolitics.com and/or the Wheeler Report will win.

* Explore a lost city on your lunch break today.

* A brief look at how the war in Iraq is dissuading the next generation of military leadership in the Army and Marines from re-upping.

* Bad news for Obama? I would imagine it would be even worse news for the State Dept.

* Silly drunk people ...

* There is still an ungoldly amount of spying going on in Russia ... even in the private sector.

* Ricky Gervais might be in the middle of making one of the funniest movies of all time ... no pressure.

Sunday Morning Link Orgy

* The London Telegraph tells you how to get to the World's 50 Best Works of Art (some back-breaking travel required).

* DNI Mike McConnell opens up to a group of Johns Hopkins students on the nature of the Intelligence business.

* The Virginia Quarterly Review passes on 27 Reasons Why Short Stories are Rejected (Reason #1: Your story sucks).

* The Clinton campaign and the conference call: a love affair in three acts.

* Has science found a way to end to end the practice of war?

* Did you know Kareem Abdul-Jabbar blogs for the L.A. Times?

* Superdelegates: they could feasibly end the whole nominating process for the Dems right now if they wanted to (but they don't).