links for 2008-09-19

• Nike Air Flight Lite High - Red / Black - Sneaker Files - Air Jordans - Nike Air Force Ones - SB - Release Dates - Info - News
  (tags: sneakers)
• VIDEO: Singapore GP Preview - Autoblog
  GZE2 - Wish I were there. They were setting all this up when we visited last month.
  (tags: cars singapore)
• Michael J. Totten: Al Qaeda's Defeat in Iraq
  Jennifer Rubin correctly noted that Couric asked Obama why the U.S. has not been attacked, but let’s leave that aside. The notion that “we gave Al Qaeda time to reconstitute itself” is breathtakingly ahistorical.
  (tags: blogs politics waronterror iraq)
• Washington Times - McCain says Fed should stop government bailouts
  The Republican presidential hopeful said the Fed should get back to "its core business of responsibly managing our money supply and inflation" and he laid out several recommendations for stabilizing markets in the financial crisis that has rocked Wall Street and commanded the dialogue in the presidential campaign.
  (tags: politics mccain economics)
• The Hockey News: Headlines: Canucks face lots of questions about offence as they prepare for new season
  The new includes GM Mike Gillis, forwards Pavol Demitra and Steve Bernier and a handful of lesser lights who won't be recognized on the streets of Vancouver anytime soon, even in this hockey mad town.
  (tags: hockey canucks nhl)
• Macs Used To Help Make New Microsoft Ad - Geekologie
  (tags: microsoft apple)
• Starbucks stops serving milk as China crisis snowballs - Yahoo! Singapore News
  Supermarket shelves across the country were emptied of many products made by Chinese dairy giants Mengniu, Yili and Guangming after the government said the chemical melamine had been discovered in some of their regular milk. (GZE2 - We had some in our cupboards)
  (tags: news china)
• Mayor in China fired in baby formula scandal - International Herald Tribune
  Producers trying to cut costs often dilute milk with water, which lowers the nutritional content. But the addition of melamine, which is high in nitrogen, helps the milk appear to meet nutrition standards by artificially raising its protein count.
  (tags: news china)
• Hawks small in size, but big in potential
  Over the past two seasons, the Winter Hawks have scored the WHL’s fewest goals (1.9 per game) and allowed the most (4.4).

  “Offensively, we’re going to be better,” coach Rich Kromm says

  
  
  (tags: hockey winterhawks)