I’m of two minds on the demise of the golden goal. The purist in me likes the return to the traditional form of the game. But I think that it makes the teams complacent. They are too often resigned to penalty kicks.
Since Friday, I have watched the following soccer matches:
In the course of those 9 (or 12 if you count those I have watched twice), I have come to the conclusions that Elias Sports Bureau is a scourge. They provide meaningless statistics that distract from actual commentary. Does it really matter that Miroslav Klose was the first person to have scored a world cup goal on the first day on his birthday? Who cares really? Similarly irrelevant are the facts that Mexico had never scored more than 2 goals in a world cup game or that no game had ever finished 1-0 on an own goal (England : Paraguay). These “statistics” are little more than factoids. They take away from the actual point of the game. Germany scored 4 goals. Klose is a fantastic scorer. Mexico played extremely well in defeating Iran. England won. It was ugly, but they won.
From 20 Things You Won’t Like About Windows Vista:
Everywhere you look, Microsoft has copied things that Apple has offered for quite some time in OS X. The User Account Control features, especially with the Vista Standard log-in, look a lot like Apple’s user interface design. Too bad Microsoft doesn’t let you lock and unlock things (leaving those settings permanent) the way Apple does. More than 15 years later, Microsoft is still following Apple in operating system design and bundled materials. With some notable exceptions (including IE7+, where it copied Mozilla, and the Windows Sidebar, where it bests Apple, Google and everyone in user-interface design), Microsoft is belaboring the point by reinventing the wheel, often with an overall reduction in productivity and usability.
I have no problem with Microsoft copying Apple’s or any other company’s best interface designs. We all win when that happens, and I wish Apple would steal the best things Microsoft does right back. What’s really strange is when a company lifts good ideas and makes them worse, not better.
I’m amazed that people still buy into the festering mess that is Windows.