The Links of our Lives: First week of August

0Josh • 31st Jul 2008 • blog entries, Links • Uncategorized

I enjoyed this feature last month, and there have been a few more things floating around my browser that I thought would be fun to share with you…

Back to The Future Hoverboard up for sale

If you’ve been trolling around ebay for 80s movie memobrialia lately, you might have noticed that for a $30,000 starting bid, you could attempt to purchase one of the hoverboard props from BTTF 2&3.  I’ve never wanted obsene amounts of money more than I do right now… Even though its just a prop, I’m sure that I could get it to really “hover”.

Jeff Dye into Last Comic Finals

During the last “links of our lives” post I mentioned acquaintance Jeff Dye making onto “Last Comic Standing”.  Jeff has now made it into the final five, and has proven to be really, really funny.  If you get a change, vote for this KentWood & Kent area Young Life Alum.

Iditarod 2008 to be featured in Discovery Channel Series

The same guys who produced “Deadliest Catch” and “Iceroad Truckers” spent this last March in Alaska collecting footage for their next big project, telling the story of the Iditarod.  They outfitted a handful of mushers throughout the race with cameras during last years’ race… this production company has done a great job in the past and I’m excited to see what they do with this great event.

Breakthroughs in HIV & Alzheimer’s could be on the way

On the same day, I read articles about potential breakthroughs in the medical field that could lead to a HIV vaccine and another discovery that could lead towards a drug that could reverse the signs of Alzheimer’s.  Its a very encouraging thing to read that we are on our way to fighting some of these very discouraging diseases.

97.3 KBSG to flip formats next month – listen for a KIRO AM simulcast.

In radio nerd news…. 97.3 KBSG has been putting bad commercials on northwest TV for years, and has been putting Beach Boys songs on Seattle radio Airwaves for even longer as the local oldies station… that run is coming to and end about a year after the station was bought, and re-imaged to “B97”.  Another Seattle legacy station off the air.